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

[tommyardin]

Russell Brand.

Wrote a book recently called 'My bookywook'
Not quite sue what YamFazFan is drinking but I don't want any.
Halfords Antifreeze I would not mind betting. :lol

[YamFazFan]

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Russell Brand.

Wrote a book recently called 'My bookywook'
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I bet that's a riveting read :lol

[darrsi]

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Entitled fucking women or women who just think their entitled.
Standing in a busy bar where it can take 10 mins or more to get served. A middle aged women comes and stands next to me in an attempt to get served.
The bar staff ask me what I want and I do the gentlemanly thing and point to the lady and say serve the lady first........
Nothing, not even a  fucking acknowledgement or thank you.
Fuck you lady, I will remember your face and never treat you like a lady again. Cunt.

You'll be lucky to get a thank you nowadays dazza :lol . Some people really struggle with please and thank you. It's almost like they feel they're losing face somehow :rolleyes

I foccin hate the randomness of queuing/getting served in busy bars. I think they should have a ticketed system.

Good looking women always get served first, followed by all the rest of the women, then the tallest men and then those blokes who do that hanging half over the bar manoeuvre.

On a similar theme my local chose to rotor the worst barman in Britain to work last night.

This is the only barman I've ever come across who still ignores you when your holding a tenner out in front of him :rolleyes
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The lazy fuckers down my local now order their drinks online, even if they're sitting right next to the bar because for some odd reason the online orders are s'posed to get priority and they also then avoid having to queue at the bar as well.

[YamFazFan]

I'd never heard of ordering drinks like that
That's cheating!.

To be honest it's getting so quiet down my local pubs now that you really don't often struggle to get served.

Not sure if that's a good thing or not.

[Grayo]

I'd never heard of ordering drinks like that
That's cheating!.

I'd never heard of it either until last Saturday. I was in a local Weatherspoons and the Barmaids were walking around with trays of drinks. I asked a mate of mine what they were doing and he told me that you could order your drinks online and have them brought to you.

[tommyardin]

[size=1em]Madness! ordering your drinks on-line, next it will be ordering your Pizza on-line or maybe your weekly shop. :lol

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[size=1em]We are becoming a generation of lazy bastids can't even walk to the bar and carry your own drink to the table. FFS what is it coming to?

You see more and more gyms opening, more and more expensive memberships being taken out, people buying expensive watches that monitor how many steps you have done, your heart, how many calories you have burnt.
120 quid trainers get bought along with the fashionable tee shirts and shorts, not forgetting the white sports socks and their owners never jog or run, or see the inside of the gym.

I know folk who have spent an absolute fortune on training equipment for the conservatories, running machines, rowing machines, weights and there they sit after the first 3 weeks gathering dust and getting in the way by just taking up floor space. 

We are turning into a generation of sedentary people, kids no longer go out and play, but, are generally in isolation sat in front of a monitor in the corner of the lounge or worse still their bedroom, not only does this isolate them from others it also contributes to becoming an overweight unhealthy generation, games controller in one hand, crisps in another, large bottle of coke in another, pizza that they ordered on-line in an other  :eek  foc me this computer game has turned our kids into freaks with four hands.  :lol

I can understand buying/ordering drinks on-line and having them delivered to their table, I mean damn it you don't want to have to stand up and walk all the way over to the bar and get your drink and still have the chore of carrying it all the way back to your table, although it would not be quite so bad if you had remembered those 120 quid trainer that are sat out in the conservatory with the £3,000 worth of training equipment.

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[size=1em]A game of 'Witcher 3' or Counter-Strike Global Offensive is not as healthy as a game of football or going out on your push bikes with 3 or 4 mates.

I am not saying that there is anything wrong with computer games they have certainly advanced home entertainment, but I can think of a couple of mates who's children (Young teenagers) have no social graces or skills what-so-ever they just grunt a greeting back to you without averting their eyes from the screen, you sit down chatting with your mate and then forget they are even in the same room sat playing Global Offensive with noise a cancelling headset on.
I dropped around to one mates place a couple of weeks before Christmas to chat about a bike related problem he was having, we sat in his kitchen mulling over a Haynes manual and drinking tea and coffee, we then spent about 3 hours in his shed chatting and checking stuff out on his bike, Gillian, Stevo's wife brought us out tea and bickkys (No we did not order them on-line) altogether I was at Stevo's for about 4 to 5 hours when I left his boy was still on the computer grunting at people.

Get a fucking life, get some fresh air, get out with friends, talk to someone, go for a ride on your bicycle, do the washing up for your Mum, go to the shops for her, tidy your bedroom you lazy, ignorant, antisocial, unhealthy, fat fucker  :eek 

Do you get the idea I am not really into computer games?
Sure computer games are fun, but not for 7 or 8 hours non stop, come on FFS, they cause frustration and angst, I will get past that river crossing without being blow..... Fuck it  :eek :'( :rolleyes     

That's my end of year rant done with.[/size]

[celticdog]

some pics for you Tommy!

[tommyardin]

some pics for you Tommy!

So so true.  :thumbup

[YamFazFan]

That's my end of year rant done with.[/size][/font]

Thank foc for that.

You very nearly rolled on into 2018 there.

I'm running late now!? lol

[red98]

AMAZON....bought a few things from amazon over thd last month , I gave them my email as easiest form of contact , since them ive been bombarded with amazon emails so I scrolled down to the bottom of the last message an unsubscribed....


what do amazon do  ?.............yep , send me an email to say I have unsubscribed    :wall

[tommyardin]

AMAZON....bought a few things from amazon over thd last month , I gave them my email as easiest form of contact , since them ive been bombarded with amazon emails so I scrolled down to the bottom of the last message an unsubscribed....


what do amazon do  ?.............yep , send me an email to say I have unsubscribed    :wall

The good thing about unsubscribing  :rolleyes  is that it confirms to the perpetrator of the email that the receiving email account is accessed and not just an account used for rubbish. they now know for certain that the address is alive. :'(

[slappy]

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AMAZON....bought a few things from amazon over thd last month , I gave them my email as easiest form of contact , since them ive been bombarded with amazon emails so I scrolled down to the bottom of the last message an unsubscribed....


what do amazon do  ?.............yep , send me an email to say I have unsubscribed    :wall

[size=1em]The good thing about unsubscribing  :rolleyes  is that it confirms to the perpetrator of the email that the receiving email account is accessed and not just an account used for rubbish. they now know for certain that the address is alive.[/size] :'(
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And send you more from companies whose products  might be " of interest to you". :wall

[Hugh Mungus]

Most companies do respect the unsubscribe button - those that don't just get added to my list of spammers and I never see anything from them again. It's quite a long list...

[Flooky]

I hate it all too, bloody tech crap, no one does real stuff anymore, and the e mail thing drives me mad, subscribe to this subscribe to that, and they ask you to fill in a survey before you have even received the goods/service !! I think it will go tits up soon, I think more and more people have had enough.

[pete786.u]

I went into Halfrauds a few weeks ago, got to the checkout and before i`d finished paying  they asked me for my email address. "what do you want that for? Oh I know, so you can flood my inbox with rubbish that is of no iterest to me whatsoever" The guy on the checkout got quite shirty with me because I refused to give it. :finger :foc

[fazersharp]

I went into Halfrauds a few weeks ago, got to the checkout and before i`d finished paying  they asked me for my email address. "what do you want that for? Oh I know, so you can flood my inbox with rubbish that is of no iterest to me whatsoever" The guy on the checkout got quite shirty with me because I refused to give it. :finger :foc

The trick they use is "!would you like us to email you the receipt"
 

[Grahamm]

Most companies do respect the unsubscribe button - those that don't just get added to my list of spammers and I never see anything from them again. It's quite a long list...

I own my own domain name, so any time I sign up for something it's companyname@mydomain which means that if I ever start getting spam, I know a) who has been naughty with my details and b) I can then filter it straight to Junk!

[Hugh Mungus]

The guy on the checkout got quite shirty with me because I refused to give it. :finger :foc

I usually reply with something like... I can't be arsed.
They get the message and I don't give a foc if they get shirty about it.

[Dudeofrude]

Companies and they're unnecessary crap plastic packaging! I finally got round to buying my new indicators yesterday. They are very nice and only about 9cm long yet Oxford in all their wisdom decided the best way to sell them is to vac pac them between 2 (more of less a4 sized) sheets of plastic!? What would have been the problem with a small cardboard box with them both side by side?

This is why it pisses me off with all this plastic in the ocean bollocks and all the shit we get for using too much plastic, it's not us it's the fucking greedy corporations who are far more interested in making their products look pretty and saleable on the cheap than helping look after the planet.
All this crap they give us about plastic bags.... why can't they go back to paper ones? (Cost too much profit money) same with plastic bottles why can't we go back to having glass ones? ( too much profit money). Too much emphasis on profit and sales then they have the cheek to tax us all to try and rectify it

Also with my purchase I read the returns terms from the company I bought them that state's that if I'm not happy with them they can only be returned if the packing is in damaged, so your bolloxed from the word go as theres no way to get into the bludy things without damaging the packaging ??

[Hugh Mungus]

Could of been in a smaller package but it's designed to look pretty on the shelf.