What grinds my gears...

[tom27111]

9 minutes ago, Jattdogg said:

I am honoured  

 

Glad you keep posting. Next time i'm over in Leicester you are one of the lads i'd love to meet  (not meat lol).

 

Although now we are in the championship i might decide to travel elsewhere lol. Want my son to see us in the EPL but maybeeee i cant be too much of a Canadian plastic.

Well I'm in Northampton, in your terms, I'm only down the road. About 40 miles away.

 

If we can't make a City game, I'll take you to watch the Cobblers or the Saints (rugby union, Tigers local rivals)! But you're taking us to an ice hockey game if I'm ever over your way 

[Jattdogg]

2 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

Well I'm in Northampton, in your terms, I'm only down the road. About 40 miles away.

 

If we can't make a City game, I'll take you to watch the Cobblers or the Saints (rugby union, Tigers local rivals)! But you're taking us to an ice hockey game if I'm ever over your way 

40 miles isnt too bad for Canadian standards lol.

 

Worst thing is I'm a montreal canadians fan, hate the local maple leafs. Wont catch me going to a leafs game unless montreal is in town. Getting tickets is next to impossible.

 

When in the UK i usually split time between Chesterfield, Gloucester and Leicester areas. As thats where my  closest family and brother live. Having said that ive been trying to get around england more and see places ive never seen. 

 

[tom27111]

6 minutes ago, Jattdogg said:

40 miles isnt too bad for Canadian standards lol.

 

Worst thing is I'm a montreal canadians fan, hate the local maple leafs. Wont catch me going to a leafs game unless montreal is in town. Getting tickets is next to impossible.

 

When in the UK i usually split time between Chesterfield, Gloucester and Leicester areas. As thats where my  closest family and brother live. Having said that ive been trying to get around england more and see places ive never seen. 

 

Are you originally from the UK?

 

Or just have family over here?

 

You know how to punish yourself with sports teams then! It'd be easy to support the Maple Leafs!

 

Are you a Blue Jays fan?

 

We should probably PM or have our own thread!

 

Sorry everyone 

[kingkisnorbo]

I cannot stand the phrase “Foxes Never Quit.” 

[FoxesDeb]

6 hours ago, kingkisnorbo said:

I cannot stand the phrase “Foxes Never Quit.” 

I didn't mind it when there was a fair enough reason to believe it could be vaguely true. Now I'm with you, and my loathing also for the main forum is growing hour by hour.

[FoyleFox]

5 hours ago, FoxesDeb said:

I didn't mind it when there was a fair enough reason to believe it could be vaguely true. Now I'm with you, and my loathing also for the main forum is growing hour by hour.

Likewise. In the past there was evidence of it, sometimes there was heart and desire but not much quality. We've had some recent periods of both. Now, there's talent but lacking evidence from most, of any heart and spirit. I've been avoiding the main forum for large parts of the season. 

[Sir Shep]

Foxes have quit. 

[Stinkenzo]

People who share their new post on Instagram as a story, to show everyone they have a new post. Why? (besides from showing everyone they have a new post)

[Unabomber]

8 hours ago, Stinky said:

People who share their new post on Instagram as a story, to show everyone they have a new post. Why? (besides from showing everyone they have a new post)

Yeah this really annoys me too. Surely sharing it on the story just means the same people who can see it on your page are now just going to see it again.

[Free Falling Foxes]

8 hours ago, Stinky said:

People who share their new post on Instagram as a story, to show everyone they have a new post. Why? (besides from showing everyone they have a new post)

 

2 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

Yeah this really annoys me too. Surely sharing it on the story just means the same people who can see it on your page are now just going to see it again.

I have absolutely no idea what these are referring to and I've a feeling I should be jolly well glad about that too

 

[HighPeakFox]

54 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

I have absolutely no idea what these are referring to and I've a feeling I should be jolly well glad about that too

I second this. 

[Bordersfox]

10 hours ago, Stinky said:

People who share their new post on Instagram as a story, to show everyone they have a new post. Why? (besides from showing everyone they have a new post)

Blame Instagram.  I hate social media but I do have a business Instagram.  They changed their algorithms, can't remember exactly when, and overnight posts became next to pointless without other forms of engagement.  Apparently this was to encourage more proactive engagement from accounts, more regular stories etc.  Maybe they were losing people to tik tok.

 

As a result I've largely given up as I just can't be arsed constantly spamming and without constantly spamming less and less people see your actual posts.  Wank.  

[Danizen]

On 29/05/2023 at 11:31, kingkisnorbo said:

I cannot stand the phrase “Foxes Never Quit.” 

Anyone that's watched Soumare 'chase' an opponent who's just ghosted past him knows that isn't true. 

[Footballwipe]

I like BBC EMT, it's a really important programme in an age where local news and local journalism is dying.

 

However, PLEASE to the lord above whenever you do a Leicester City feature:

 

A) Stop interviewing random people in the city centre who know nothing about the club/football and are clearly pretending to give a shit

B) Stop wheeling out Peter Soulsby to talk about Leicester City**

 

** This is not an excuse for people who are weirdly anti-SPS to pile in on this. Get back to the Mercury's FB and website comment sections if you want to have a weird rant about him

Edited 31 May 2023 by Footballwipe

[Silebyfox_89]

People who go out with wet hair I.e. to the shops/school run etc... was in Tescos the other day and all I could smell is damp hair & strong conditioner.

[Stinkenzo]

2 hours ago, Silebyfox_89 said:

People who go out with wet hair I.e. to the shops/school run etc... was in Tescos the other day and all I could smell is damp hair & strong conditioner.

Smelling aftershave/perfume on somebody a mile away is a gripe for me 

[Izzy]

12 minutes ago, Stinky said:

Smelling aftershave/perfume on somebody a mile away is a gripe for me 

Ironic username alert 

[The Bear]

42 minutes ago, Stinky said:

Smelling aftershave/perfume on somebody a mile away is a gripe for me 

Yeah the old "you smell like a whores handbag" routine. 

 

I knew a bloke at work who came in like that every day, stinking the place out. Almost worse than people with BO. 

[Stinkenzo]

1 minute ago, The Bear said:

Yeah the old "you smell like a whores handbag" routine. 

 

I knew a bloke at work who came in like that every day, stinking the place out. Almost worse than people with BO. 

I just think it's unnecessary to whack that much on, but I speak as someone who makes the effort to just not smell (yes hi @Izzy) as a bare minimum. 

 

that said I've worked with someone with awful BO, I've no idea how they can walk around without any feeling of guilt 

[String fellow]

On 29/05/2023 at 11:31, kingkisnorbo said:

I cannot stand the phrase “Foxes Never Quit.” 

This phrase feels like it could be developed into a pangram - a short sentence containing every letter of the alphabet. With that in mind, this was the best I could think of, loosely based on the famous 'The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog' pangram:-

Heck - lazy foxes never quit brown dog jump!

[Spudulike]

I always say thank you to the person that steps out into the road as I approach them on a narrowish pavement. Why don't others do that? 

[Daggers]

47 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

I always say thank you to the person that steps out into the road as I approach them on a narrowish pavement. Why don't others do that? 

I'm too busy filming them being hit by a car.

[LiberalFox]

People who use mental health or threats of suicide as a way to avoid taking responsibility. 

[Sampson]

22 minutes ago, LiberalFox said:

People who use mental health or threats of suicide as a way to avoid taking responsibility. 

Couldn’t disagree more and think that’s an incredibly dangerous viewpoint too. Makes me extremely uncomfortable when people say someone acting or exaggerating their mental health issues and/or suicidal thoughts to get sympathy. Playing down people’s mental health struggles and suicidal thoughts and people feeling like they’re not being listened to is exactly what causes people to take their own lives and the reason suicide rates are so high.
 

Part of me even thinks when people say someone is only faking having suicidal thoughts to get attention, that there’s an element of that person trying to “egg on” the person that says it to do it, which I mean, is basically attempted manslaughter. 
 

Regardless of who it is saying it, the number of people I’ve seen publicly state today they’re acting or making it up is making me extremely uncomfortable, and exactly the kind of crap that builds the current culture we have where people’s mental health struggles aren’t taken seriously.

 

I very much doubt there are many people who genuinely fake suicidal thoughts to get sympathy and yes even if they do it for a cry for help that’s kind of the point. 

Not taking someone on their word when they say they have mental health issues or suicidal thoughts is exactly what has caused our terrible culture where people feel like they can’t speak about these things and exactly why suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50.

 

And even if some people *do* fake it for sympathy, is it not infinitely better to give 999 people faking sympathy, than to be cynical of that 1 genuine person who ends up taking their own life because they feel no one is taking them seriously? And let’s be Frank it’s not 999 people faking it for every 1 genuine person, very few people are actually going to fake suicidal thoughts for sympathy. 
 

Ultimately, you have no idea what’s going on inside someone’s head so going into it with a view of “they’re only saying it for sympathy” is an incredibly incredibly shitty and dangerous mindset to have.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Don't mind people taking the odd photo / video at a gig to keep as a memory and I don't want to get finger waggy about it - people can ultimately do whatever they bloody like but this still from a minute long video of Arctics in Manchester earlier is depressing as sin to me, just the deadest crowd