That really grinds my gears thread

[JuliusHMarx]

People who post meaningless posts just to steal the thread split for the Morning Tea Society.

[Luckless Pedestrian]

Songs (mainly on adverts these days) where the singer/s just sort of yodel aimlessly. I believe Kings of Leon started it off with that plodding 'Someone Like You' song, and then everyone was at it. Keep an eye out for the current Persil advert, the music on that is the perfect example of what I'm on about.

[Luckless Pedestrian]

Additionally, faux-naive music featuring mandolins and children's xylophones, also usually heard on adverts and TV programmes.

[Luckless Pedestrian]

Also, Lewis Capaldi, Tom Walker, and Rag and f*cking Bone Man.

[navyblueshorts]

My pet hate today is insurers. ****ing leeches.

[TRUSSMAN66]

When you know what people are asking you...Ten minutes before they have beaten around the bush getting to the point..

"You want to borrow my Car don't you !!!"

"Errr Yes"

[rIck_dAgless]

The advert that is using the theme song from the old kids show "Why Don't You" I hated that show and the smug little 5h1ts in it, and it reminds me of that.

[JuliusHMarx]

The advert that is using the theme song from the old kids show "Why Don't You" I hated that show and the smug little 5h1ts in it, and it reminds me of that.

Wasn't the full title "Why don't you stop posting on internet forums and go out and do something less boring instead?"?

[navyblueshorts]

The advert that is using the theme song from the old kids show "Why Don't You" I hated that show and the smug little 5h1ts in it, and it reminds me of that.

With you on this one!

[navyblueshorts]

The advert that is using the theme song from the old kids show "Why Don't You" I hated that show and the smug little 5h1ts in it, and it reminds me of that.

Wasn't the full title "Why don't you stop posting on internet forums and go out and do something less boring instead?"?

[SecretFly]

Net 'help' pages where the question is never remotely answered but 20,000 useless comments show up nonetheless... mostly in my case over the years concerning computer issues.

"Can anyone tell me how to resize a Blender window?"

"Yeah, I can't do it neither."

"I have the same problem"

"That's what I can't do too!!!"

"Did you try looking for an online manual?"

"I tried pressing the green button on the top left corner three times, then rebooting the computer, then typing P in the dialogue box that pops up when you tap Q...... that didn't work either"

"Giraffes!  That's the ones I was thinking about.  That's the ones the zebras rely on to keep a look out for lions at watering holes."

"I love them documentaries where the crocodiles come up and pull the wildebeast in by their nose!!!"

"Yeah, but her second album wasn't that great"

..........


Now that I think about it.... that reminds me of a regular 606 thread

[Derbymanc]

Not getting a reply back from recruiters. I honestly can take it if the position is filled or i'm not suitable but let me frickin know either way

[Luckless Pedestrian]

That's a good one. It would take so little time and effort to send an email to all unsuccessful candidates.

[Derbymanc]

I don't mind the first sift Luck, it's more after getting a phone call, having a chat going through that, being told you sound like a good fit and they'll get back to me in a week or 2 and then nothing. The worst are the ones that then ring back 3 or 4 weeks later and get huffy because you've signed elsewhere.

[Luckless Pedestrian]

It's such an easy fix, which makes it worse.

[SecretFly]

That's a good one. It would take so little time and effort to send an email to all unsuccessful candidates.

You want recruiters to pretend they are caring humans??????  In this high-yield, ultra efficient, self-drive, cold economic logic age?????

Think it's a little late to be trying to cage the golden goose of non-emotional robotic efficiency economic growth.  It's loose.  Cop on lads..... they got no time to be human - time is money, you're just a tool they didn't buy.  

A friendly letter/call to unsuccessful candidates.  yesteryear stuff.

[Luckless Pedestrian]

That's a good one. It would take so little time and effort to send an email to all unsuccessful candidates.

You want recruiters to pretend they are caring humans??????  In this high-yield, ultra efficient, self-drive, cold economic logic age?????

Think it's a little late to be trying to cage the golden goose of non-emotional robotic efficiency economic growth.  It's loose.  Cop on lads..... they got no time to be human - time is money, you're just a tool they didn't buy.  

A friendly letter/call to unsuccessful candidates.  yesteryear stuff.

Not even that!

[Derbymanc]

Who needs friendly, just a text to say, nah sorry you ain't got it.

Wouldn't mind quite so much if some of the worse ones wouldn't get on their high horse if you sign elsewhere

[SecretFly]

Not even that!

I often laugh at my mother. Well on in age now but still savvy enough to be up and about in the real world taking unsolicited calls on the phone etc....

.... but she can't kick the habit of being human. It just is something this new age can't teach her.

So when these guys from India or Eastern Europe call and offer her every service under the sun, she always feels it so necessary to try to explain to them why she's not interested at this time, that someone is at the door, that the dog needs to be put out etc etc.
I just laugh at her innocence and keep trying to tell her to just put the phone down - they won't be offended. They are drones. It's straight on to the next phone number on their list of thousands they have to get through to get their wages. They don't care, Mam. You're a number not a human being. Drop the phone instantly.
The communication is not a human one.

[SecretFly]

Who needs friendly, just a text to say, nah sorry you ain't got it.

Wouldn't mind quite so much if some of the worse ones wouldn't get on their high horse if you sign elsewhere

Maybe the issue I had was with that very word 'sorry'.  Why say it if they don't mean it?  And why want it if they don't mean it?  It's just another business word now if used at all - all meaning sucked from it. Courtesy mimic word.

"We're sorry that at this time we won't be asking you to join us but we do wish you all the best in your future career path"

They don't feel or mean a word of it.

[JuliusHMarx]

Who needs friendly, just a text to say, nah sorry you ain't got it.

Wouldn't mind quite so much if some of the worse ones wouldn't get on their high horse if you sign elsewhere

Maybe the issue I had was with that very word 'sorry'.  Why say it if they don't mean it?  And why want it if they don't mean it?  It's just another business word now if used at all - all meaning sucked from it. Courtesy mimic word.

"We're sorry that at this time we won't be asking you to join us but we do wish you all the best in your future career path"

They don't feel or mean a word of it.

I'm sorry you feel that way.

[SecretFly]

Who needs friendly, just a text to say, nah sorry you ain't got it.

Wouldn't mind quite so much if some of the worse ones wouldn't get on their high horse if you sign elsewhere

Maybe the issue I had was with that very word 'sorry'.  Why say it if they don't mean it?  And why want it if they don't mean it?  It's just another business word now if used at all - all meaning sucked from it. Courtesy mimic word.

"We're sorry that at this time we won't be asking you to join us but we do wish you all the best in your future career path"

They don't feel or mean a word of it.

I'm sorry you feel that way.

PROOF quickly delivered by my good friend, Julius!

Well timed and thank you for the confirmation note

[Derbymanc]

[Luckless Pedestrian]

One Americanism that's starting to creep in here and which really annoys me is people saying 'we reached out to X' instead of 'we contacted X', for comment on a story or whatever. You didn't 'reach out'. It wasn't an act of compassion or support. You contacted them. That's the word to use!

[SecretFly]

Yeah but what about when they want to genuinely reach out to the interconnectedness of the conscious reflective timeline with you in a dimensionally emotional wholesive embrace of contactuality?

I mean it's ain't all bad.........
.....


Sorry, sorry, I'm just being a mischievous divil today. I'll leave you folks to it

[Luckless Pedestrian]

Isn't this just your usual style of posting?

[navyblueshorts]

One Americanism that's starting to creep in here and which really annoys me is people saying 'we reached out to X' instead of 'we contacted X', for comment on a story or whatever. You didn't 'reach out'. It wasn't an act of compassion or support. You contacted them. That's the word to use!

Saying 'reached out' implies they give a schidt as well; which they almost invariably don't.

[Galted]

One Americanism that's starting to creep in here and which really annoys me is people saying 'we reached out to X' instead of 'we contacted X', for comment on a story or whatever. You didn't 'reach out'. It wasn't an act of compassion or support. You contacted them. That's the word to use!

Good call on that one though it's been around for a good few years.  One of my colleagues has it so ingrained that he used it in conversation in the pub after work - kiddie fiddlers in prison put up with less abuse than he deservedly received.

[TRUSSMAN66]

The way everyone sat down at their tables while the Tory Mp manhandled a young girl was probably more depressing than the abuse itself..

Couldn't sit and watch that however much of a nuisance these Protesters can be..

[compelling and rich]

"abuse" "manhandling" jeez truss, up and down the country there rougher treatment by bouncers/stewards etc every single day to people that have more right to be where they are. total non news story if it wasn't a mp and even then it still shouldn't be. its embarrassing

[TRUSSMAN66]

I don't like seeing Women treated like that mate...

[compelling and rich]

I don't like seeing Women treated like that mate...

thought you were the modern day male, equal rights and all that

joking aside it grinds my gears that protesters like this trespass then whinge when being removed. what exactly did they expect to happen? if i ran on a sporting pitch id expect to be rugby tackled and dragged off. i wouldn't be crying about assault afterwards

[SecretFly]

It looked full on.  Looked to me like the guy felt threatened and reacted instinctively.  And what instincts! Security/military/police background?

Supposing he had disarmed/impeded a protester intent in causing bodily damage to anybody in that building?  All sexes can kill and cause injury if intent on doing so.  That rush of fear and adrenaline can make people act in aggressive ways if they feel threatened.

He had quick reactions and I think the right force if he was sincere in thinking the protest had the potential to be a violent one.

Perhaps a hero under other circumstances...but girl unarmed, well, he's unfortunately going to be a villain.

[Pal Joey]

No training of any kind apparently. He just did it off the cuff... or should I say scruff.

[JDizzle]

It was Greenpeace, and they'd been in there for minutes and obviously didn't pose a threat to anyone. This isn't an ISIS sleeper cell. Protestors being annoying and inconveniencing you is kinda the point of protesting - doesn't give you permission to act with impunity.

[compelling and rich]

at worst he's guilty for being slightly over aggressive. storm in a tea cup

[SecretFly]

It was Greenpeace, and they'd been in there for minutes and obviously didn't pose a threat to anyone. This isn't an ISIS sleeper cell. Protestors being annoying and inconveniencing you is kinda the point of protesting - doesn't give you permission to act with impunity.

You're aware of the concept of infiltration?  Just because the poster might say 'Peaceful March on Here', that in no way guarantees the true intention of a protest.

It was Greenpeace.  That's a hindsight declaration to the people in the room who might have feared for their safety.  The men in the group who entered with the women weren't even wearing the 'climate' identifiers.

[No name Bertie]

I don't like seeing Women treated like that mate...

thought you were the modern day male, equal rights and all that

joking aside it grinds my gears that protesters like this trespass then whinge when being removed. what exactly did they expect to happen? if i ran on a sporting pitch id expect to be rugby tackled and dragged off. i wouldn't be crying about assault afterwards

It is part of the activism - send a woman in first, have people behind her video her - then any type of "manhandling" to remove her creates a video to be released by the progressive media.   This angers the forever angry keyboard warriors who immediately head to 606v2 and other outlets raging at the "Tory scum", "Tory c**ts" et cetera.

[SecretFly]

Be careful Bertie, looks like you might have criminally hacked their top secret blueprint of resistance.

Watch out, you might be only a few posts short of being deemed a Russian Bot/collaborator.

[TRUSSMAN66]

I don't like seeing Women treated like that mate...

thought you were the modern day male, equal rights and all that

joking aside it grinds my gears that protesters like this trespass then whinge when being removed. what exactly did they expect to happen? if i ran on a sporting pitch id expect to be rugby tackled and dragged off. i wouldn't be crying about assault afterwards

It is part of the activism - send a woman in first, have people behind her video her - then any type of "manhandling" to remove her creates a video to be released by the progressive media.   This angers the forever angry keyboard warriors who immediately head to 606v2 and other outlets raging at the "Tory scum", "Tory c**ts" et cetera.

Bit of a silly little rant...

No one is arguing she shouldn't have been escorted out...Just the manner of it..

[No name Bertie]

Be careful Bertie, looks like you might have criminally hacked their top secret blueprint of resistance.

Watch out, you might be only a few posts short of being deemed a Russian Bot/collaborator.

It always works.  Mr Field has apologised publicly and is currently suspended.

[MrInvisible]

Wonder if Field will get charged - rumours of a recall petition too being generated by constituents.

[SecretFly]

I see the woman herself, when it was put to her that his reaction might have been informed by politicians having being attacked ...and having been murdered, she said he overreacted.  But she also said: "He panicked".

She seems a decent woman btw.  She was engaging in her protest.  I think she accepts that he was operating under emotional pressure of the situation.  And at least for now, appears to be willing to leave it there.
I think we might see these two in the future meet up and shake hands.

[SecretFly]

Wonder if Field will get charged - rumours of a recall petition too being generated by constituents.

Yeah, well there is always political capital opportunities to be exploited.

[Luckless Pedestrian]

I see the woman herself, when it was put to her that his reaction might have been informed by politicians having being attacked ...and having been murdered, she said he overreacted.  But she also said: "He panicked".

She seems a decent woman btw.  She was engaging in her protest.  I think she accepts that he was operating under emotional pressure of the situation.  And at least for now, appears to be willing to leave it there.
I think we might see these two in the future meet up and shake hands.  

Either that or he'll grab her by the p*ssy.

[TRUSSMAN66]

According to an article in the Times today People that put emojis at the end of their posts have more sex...

Here goes nothing....

[navyblueshorts]

According to an article in the Times today People that put emojis at the end of their posts have more sex...

Here goes nothing....

[TRUSSMAN66]

Mamma Mia and Titanic....Hate both movies with a vengeance and been forced to suffer through both about a million times...

"Your problem is you haven't got a romantic bone in your body"

Wrong I fall in love with the Iceberg every time I see it...

[SecretFly]

We find common ground at last, Truss!

There are supposed classics that I simply and instinctively have never watched, or have tried to watch and couldn't make it through the dross

Mama Mia, I've never needed to see.  Titanic, I've tried snippets of now and then over the years.  But my gut instinct was always that it was crap.

The only movie that cheated my initial instincts so far was The Devil Wears Prada.  Never warmed to the idea of it.  Chick flic stuff in my opinion.  Then one day a niece forced me to watch it with her.  Loved it.  But then again, it did have Emily Blunt in iit .....playing a wonderfully salty bitch.  Her best role to date.

[navyblueshorts]

People who use their mobile/smart phone as if it's a Star Trek communicator when conducting a phone call with the person they're speaking to via speakerphone.

**** off! I'm not even interested in the banalities of your half of the conversation, let alone the nonsense your friend/partner/work colleague is subjecting the rest of us to.
**** off (to the power of 10) as well, if they're conducting a FaceTime/Skype/other video conversation.

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