Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,308
    Me too.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Read a report about the new Goverment emergency alert scheme then made the mistake of reading the comments below which were basically the deranged, paranoid rantings about the Government being able to control our phones and where will this lead as if they hadn't already been able to do so if they had wanted and would worried about infringing the privacy of the public to that degree.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,891
    Pross said:

    Read a report about the new Goverment emergency alert scheme then made the mistake of reading the comments below which were basically the deranged, paranoid rantings about the Government being able to control our phones and where will this lead as if they hadn't already been able to do so if they had wanted and would worried about infringing the privacy of the public to that degree.

    You can turn them off in settings. I've done that before as some governments rival spambots.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Yeah, the alerts don't bother me it is the conspiracy nutjobs who think the Government are going to take over their phones and control their lives as though this system is suddenly giving them some sort of access they couldn't achieve clandestinely if they wanted to.
  • Munsford0
    Munsford0 Posts: 678
    My concern with this kind of thing is the scammers who will be planning to send fake messages with a link to click
  • bm5
    bm5 Posts: 584
    Tin foil on hand ready!
    Agree re scammers but they will jump on anything.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,145
    TheBigBean said:

    Pross said:

    Read a report about the new Goverment emergency alert scheme then made the mistake of reading the comments below which were basically the deranged, paranoid rantings about the Government being able to control our phones and where will this lead as if they hadn't already been able to do so if they had wanted and would worried about infringing the privacy of the public to that degree.

    You can turn them off in settings. I've done that before as some governments rival spambots.
    But how will you know when to hide under the kitchen table to avoid Putins nuclear apocalypse?
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,537
    webboo said:

    masjer said:

    Small dogs that think they're tougher than they really are.

    We are looking after my daughters dogs who are small, 12 years old. One has very few teeth the other is so stiff in his shoulders he falls over when he is running. Yet they think they can take any other dog who gives then the wrong doggy signal.
    You don’t have put up with this with cats.
    Not strictly true. Ours likes to police his patch vigorously and we have lost count of how many times he has come in without his collar. I have also had to go and separate him from a neighbouring cat in the middle of the road in the middle of the night.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    My mother-in-law's miniature Dachshund terrorises our little cockapoo and also my daughter's very nervous Staffie, she's not aggresive with them just very loud and boisterous. We took my GSD over there when he was still just a pup about 6 months old and she did it with him which he loved as he enjoys a bit of boisterous play. She got a bit panicky when he put her whole head in his mouth and whenever she's seen him since she just roles onto her back and submits before jumping up to hide on someone's lap.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited March 2023
    Old man alert (though it's always been a complaint as I'm a morning person)

    Why do gigs always need to finish so late? Saw underworld last night in London. Was good. But Monday night, finishes at 11, schlep home, kid still wakes up at 5:30 whether I've been out or not.

    Brutal.
    _
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,133
    edited March 2023
    rick_chasey said:

    Old man alert (though it's always been a complaint as I'm a morning person)

    Why do gigs always need to finish so late? Saw underworld last night in London. Was good. But Monday night, finishes at 11, schlep home, kid still wakes up at 5:30 whether I've been out or not.

    Brutal.

    You wish you lived in Kingston.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,314
    Jamie Lee Curtis agrees.

    https://www.unilad.com/music/jamie-lee-curtis-wants-musicians-to-do-matinee-concerts-278648-20230310
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,308
    Dear [Aqua ]

    I'm a daddy now and you boys pway too late and Daddy needs his sleep. It's unfair of you and you are naught naughty naughty for staying up so late.
    Please pway earlier or i'm not going to buy tickets and i'm not going to come so there.
    Mummy also says i'm not allowed to dwink anything but fizzy pop because my head hurts and I don't sleep pwoperly so you shouldn't sell strong stuff that makes you all shouty, dizzy and dribble.
    The trains are being naughty too and it's along way in my pedal car so you can use my mates garage to play stuff. It will be fun but there's no room for you to stay over. Sowwy.

    Wick.
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  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Surprised to hear that. My experience is they do finish earlier than they used to.
    They tend to finish 10-10:30 in most places now to either meet a curfew or get people into public transport.

    Back when I were young, a gig meant a taxi or a walk home as when you got out, public transport had stopped.

    Even Rock City in Nottingham now ends gigs early so they can clear the place out and get a club night in after. A gig would end and then run into a club night as one event back in the day.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,891
    edited March 2023
    kingstongraham said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Old man alert (though it's always been a complaint as I'm a morning person)

    Why do gigs always need to finish so late? Saw underworld last night in London. Was good. But Monday night, finishes at 11, schlep home, kid still wakes up at 5:30 whether I've been out or not.

    Brutal.

    You wish you lived in Kingston.
    https://www.banquetrecords.com/inhaler/pryzm,-5:00pm-(14+)/IN070623

    How times change. You can buy a souvenir ticket now.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,133
    edited March 2023
    TheBigBean said:

    kingstongraham said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Old man alert (though it's always been a complaint as I'm a morning person)

    Why do gigs always need to finish so late? Saw underworld last night in London. Was good. But Monday night, finishes at 11, schlep home, kid still wakes up at 5:30 whether I've been out or not.

    Brutal.

    You wish you lived in Kingston.
    https://www.banquetrecords.com/inhaler/pryzm,-5:00pm-(14+)/IN070623

    How times change. You can buy a souvenir ticket now.
    Only for selected concerts - apparently there is a demand for them.

    You can get one if you got a ticket to see Shania Twain there later this year.
  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,692
    rick_chasey said:

    Old man alert (though it's always been a complaint as I'm a morning person)

    Why do gigs always need to finish so late? Saw underworld last night in London. Was good. But Monday night, finishes at 11, schlep home, kid still wakes up at 5:30 whether I've been out or not.

    Brutal.

    They still exist? As in, Underneath The Radar?

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Indeed, though that's hardly their best known hit...
    _
  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,648
    rick_chasey said:

    Indeed, though that's hardly their best known hit...

    Dinosaur Adventure 3D is the one that I always think of
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,891
    Being vomited on, again. Seems like a specialist skill of mine.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,329
    TheBigBean said:

    Being vomited on, again. Seems like a specialist skill of mine.


    You must be throwing great parties.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,811
    kingstongraham said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Old man alert (though it's always been a complaint as I'm a morning person)

    Why do gigs always need to finish so late? Saw underworld last night in London. Was good. But Monday night, finishes at 11, schlep home, kid still wakes up at 5:30 whether I've been out or not.

    Brutal.

    You wish you lived in Kingston.
    https://www.banquetrecords.com/inhaler/pryzm,-5:00pm-(14+)/IN070623

    We are very lucky in that respect
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    TheBigBean said:

    Being vomited on, again. Seems like a specialist skill of mine.

    https://videosift.com/video/Sir-Clement-Freud-tells-a-hilarious-drinking-joke
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Cannot get over how expensive bikes are now.

    Had a good year, thought I'd treat myself to a new bike after a decade.

    To get a material upgrade I'm looking at a bike that costs more than my car. F*ck that.
    _
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,376
    rick_chasey said:

    Cannot get over how expensive bikes are now.

    Had a good year, thought I'd treat myself to a new bike after a decade.

    To get a material upgrade I'm looking at a bike that costs more than my car. F*ck that.

    Buy a better car first - win win :)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Car £ < Bike £, I always thought?
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,145
    House > car > bike. I've seen some incredible houses with $h1t cars in the drive
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,145
    Vice versa too.

    House
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    rick_chasey said:

    Cannot get over how expensive bikes are now.

    Had a good year, thought I'd treat myself to a new bike after a decade.

    To get a material upgrade I'm looking at a bike that costs more than my car. F*ck that.

    use Cyclescheme and you get 40-60% discount plus the satisfaction of proving laffer correct
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Does that work £14k bikes?
    _

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