Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!

[darrsi]

I rarely watch anything that i've not recorded now.
I make a living out of commercials/films, but i'm fucked if i'm gonna sit there and watch ads.
An hour long show is generally around 40 minutes long in reality, i just hit the 2 minute forward button twice on my remote and it cancels them out.
Saves a hell of a lot of timewasting, and i can watch 3 x 1 hour long programmes in just over 2 hours.

[Grahamm]

I rarely watch anything that i've not recorded now.

Yep, the only thing I watch "live" is the News and even then I tend to switch it on, stick it on Live Pause, put the TV on standby and get on with something else for a while before speed-reading the news ticker and seeing if there's actually anything that is of sufficient interest to watch.

Given that so much news these days seems to be vox-pops of people going "oh isn't it terrible that this happened to me" or talking heads given tedious "analysis" that very often adds bugger all to the understanding of the situation, it saves a lot of time!

[fazersharp]

Motorway warning signs that cry wolf. Central reservation signs saying 50 for 4 miles then an overhead sign saying Animals In Road, then 1/4 mile further on End. No sign of any animals and probably never were.

Last night I saw one that made me chuckle, 1st one said Don't Drink And Drive and then a few miles down the road the next one just said End
So Im guessing after that point its ok to drink at the wheel

[Deefer666]

Today's "What gets my goat" is......

Public outpouring of grief over a musician who was only mildly talented but is only famous for surviving as long as he did on a diet of narcotics and alcohol. I read today that he was a "leading light of rock" & a "truly talented musician".... Really??? he had a voice that sounded like a wookie gargling gravel and a guitar that judging by his music only had 3 strings (all of the being G chord).

OK he was famous in the 70's & 80's when most music sucked and anyone who could shout into a microphone could be famous then..... As you can guess I'm not a fan. It's sad that someone has lost their life but don't deify the bloke.

[BBROWN1664]

Car insurance companies

Got rear ended on Sunday night and couldn't get the claim booked until this morning. Spent all morning on the foccin phone and still haven't got a feccin hire car. I must admit, I made it a bit harder for them. I told them I am off to France this weekend and need a similar sized 4x4 to lug all the booze back in safety at 140kmh.

[dazza]

I'm getting pretty fed up with People who knock your door asking for charity donations.I want to tell them to  Fuck off.
Had a woman today asking for a donation for the Local sperm bank.


By God did I give her a mouthful.

[HarryHornby]

:rollin

[joebloggs]

Landlords who don't evict aggressive customers.

Two pissheads out last night looking for trouble, one of the lads was carrying a knife and had pulled it on someone who had been drinking with them. When they left one forgot his coat, rather than wait for them to return I suggested the bar manager (female) take his coat out to him as there was less chance of a confrontation if a woman went out to them.

According to the manager this makes me a pussy, focin idiot couldn't see how a man going out could potentially cause an issue. This lad was pushing people around her bar from the moment he walked in and she had done nothing to try to diffuse the situation, only served them several more beers before they finally went (like that was going to help)

Not focin happy

[Deefer666]

:agree

When I relocated from Newbury to Kettering I took a stop-gap job in a busy village pub, and because I am "of a larger build" than most people that the landlord and landlady used to insist that that I evict the trouble makers (mostly pissed up farm workers). What used to annoy me is that it soon became a game to these idiots and more and more I was constantly "escorting" people out through the fire exit using their heads to open the doors. What pissed me off that the landlord knowing that i would sort the problem started to get really aggressive with the troublemakers and when they kicked off he would be nowhere to be seen only to pop up again like Mr Ben's shopkeeper once the problem had been dealt with.

I got sick of it and when I started demanding that they get a doorman or at least increase my wages to cover what I was having to deal with, I was laid off.... funny that. Last I heard the pub had got so rough and the landlord could not cope and had given up the tenancy. But I really don't get why people go to pubs purely to start trouble as it ruins everyone's evening.

[HarryHornby]

I'll never forget an evening, years ago now.  We had been in our first house for about a year and thought we would give the local pub a go.  Despite living in Sittingbourne all my life I had never been to this pub, but I'd never heard anything bad about it.


We were having a drink, playing some pool when a drunk chap comes out the toilets and rolls across the pool table mid game.  I simply said, "hey mate, no need for that, we're in the middle of a game" and that was it.


He's squaring up, his mates come over (BIG mates, proper BIG mates), my mate stands up and there is lots of "you want it" from the 3 chaps now in front of us.  One other says "leave it lads, we've only just got out, don't want to go back just yet"  I'm shitting it, coz I am far from a fighter and not built to fight plus these guys look battle hardened.


Anyway,  managed to calm it by talking my way out of it and the 4th guy calmed his lot with the prison talk.


The land lord came over but stood well back and not once said anything or did anything.  Once it was all ended he went back behind the bar and not even an apology of any sort.


We never ever went back!

[darrsi]

:agree

When I relocated from Newbury to Kettering I took a stop-gap job in a busy village pub, and because I am "of a larger build" than most people that the landlord and landlady used to insist that that I evict the trouble makers (mostly pissed up farm workers). What used to annoy me is that it soon became a game to these idiots and more and more I was constantly "escorting" people out through the fire exit using their heads to open the doors. What pissed me off that the landlord knowing that i would sort the problem started to get really aggressive with the troublemakers and when they kicked off he would be nowhere to be seen only to pop up again like Mr Ben's shopkeeper once the problem had been dealt with.

I got sick of it and when I started demanding that they get a doorman or at least increase my wages to cover what I was having to deal with, I was laid off.... funny that. Last I heard the pub had got so rough and the landlord could not cope and had given up the tenancy. But I really don't get why people go to pubs purely to start trouble as it ruins everyone's evening.

I've found over the years that it's rarely people who go for just a few beers that mainly start trouble, but the ones who are bugled up to the eyeballs on the devil's dandruff, and then also mix it with booze.
I've seen many a placid man, and woman, turn into complete and utter wankers when they're off their heads.
The even more annoying thing is that they don't even appreciate the fact that they're being complete arseholes either.

It pisses me off as well when I read newspaper articles about people in court that have done heinous crimes but it's always alcohol that gets blamed because it's an easy excuse, but there's hardly ever any mention of drug using.
The criminal liars tend to keep that one as quiet as possible in court to paint a rosier profile of the accused.  :rolleyes

[fazersharp]

For some people alcohol just flips a switch and they turn violent. 

[darrsi]

For some people alcohol just flips a switch and they turn violent.

But people like that are just cnuts in the first place.

[YamFazFan]

Some of the worst are those people who you don't see in the pub for weeks or months, who then turn up one evening having seemingly decided to drink 8 weeks worth in one sitting :rolleyes.

I've packed up going out new years eve now because it attracts all the once a year drinkers who hog the bar and act like they own the place.

[maddog04]

faulty tyre valves

off to a meeting at the ozzy and fuel the bike up, been a while since I've rode so go to put air in the tyres starting with the rear. Puts me little dog leg adapter on and air starts leaking out the tyre......being a daft foccer I think that if the machine can get it in quicker than the valve is letting out then eventually I'll get 42 into the rear.......WRONG :'(

IT KEPT PISSING OUT.

tried the front incase it was a dodgy adapter but inflated to 36 no probs so I decide its the rear valve, cut me losses at 4 psi in the rear, rang the ozzy and said I'll be at least an hour, rode the short distance home (too far to push) at 4 mph keeping an eye on things and got home ok. I'll see if I can fit the car foot pump and get air in that way before shooting down the tyre place to sort a new valve


if I haven't got enough on me plate? :\

[tommyardin]

Agrees with YamFazFan on the headlight bulb replacement issue. my box is a MR2 Spider and I have to anticipate a head lamp failure about 4 months in advance so I can go on a strict diet to lose about 1\2 lbs per finger to get anywhere near the bulb holder let alone release the F-----g thing, and my fingers seem to be about 2 inches shorter that the gangley sod who designed the car.
To replace the side lamp bulbs a Toyota engineer said the easiest way is to remove the front bumper and front panel to get to the bottom headlamp shell fixing screw remove the shell to replace the bulb.
Seems like an easy option Doh! :'(
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[tex]

Agrees with YamFazFan on the headlight bulb replacement issue. my box is a MR2 Spider and I have to anticipate a head lamp failure about 4 months in advance so I can go on a strict diet to lose about 1\2 lbs per finger to get anywhere near the bulb holder let alone release the F-----g thing, and my fingers seem to be about 2 inches shorter that the gangley sod who designed the car.
To replace the side lamp bulbs a Toyota engineer said the easiest way is to remove the front bumper and front panel to get to the bottom headlamp shell fixing screw remove the shell to replace the bulb.
Seems like an easy option Doh! :'(
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  Best swallow  your pride like me and go to halfords :rolleyes

[unfazed]

faulty tyre valves

off to a meeting at the ozzy and fuel the bike up, been a while since I've rode so go to put air in the tyres starting with the rear. Puts me little dog leg adapter on and air starts leaking out the tyre......being a daft foccer I think that if the machine can get it in quicker than the valve is letting out then eventually I'll get 42 into the rear.......WRONG :'(

IT KEPT PISSING OUT.

tried the front incase it was a dodgy adapter but inflated to 36 no probs so I decide its the rear valve, cut me losses at 4 psi in the rear, rang the ozzy and said I'll be at least an hour, rode the short distance home (too far to push) at 4 mph keeping an eye on things and got home ok. I'll see if I can fit the car foot pump and get air in that way before shooting down the tyre place to sort a new valve


if I haven't got enough on me plate? :\

Do you not change the valves every second time or every time you change the tyres?

[Frosties]

Agrees with YamFazFan on the headlight bulb replacement issue. my box is a MR2 Spider and I have to anticipate a head lamp failure about 4 months in advance so I can go on a strict diet to lose about 1\2 lbs per finger to get anywhere near the bulb holder let alone release the F-----g thing, and my fingers seem to be about 2 inches shorter that the gangley sod who designed the car.
To replace the side lamp bulbs a Toyota engineer said the easiest way is to remove the front bumper and front panel to get to the bottom headlamp shell fixing screw remove the shell to replace the bulb.
Seems like an easy option Doh! :'(

It's designed that way because hairdressers never ever work on their own cars  :lol

[maddog04]

new tyres not so long ago, so imagine the dealer fitted new valves...........never had an issue before but today the rear just wouldn't have it