What grinds my gears...

[Parafox]

Radio 2.

 

It seems to have lost it's direction and identity.

 

Boring, repetitive presenters, up it's own arse. I hardly listen anymore. The music isn't that bad. It's the presenters that are ruining for me

 

Unfortunately, Radio 1, 3, 4 and 6 don't fit my listening preferences and the commercial alternatives are even more unbearable.

 

 

 

 

[Parafox]

On 30/11/2023 at 12:30, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

Having to move out of the way of people walking along looking at their phones, totally oblivious to anything happening around them. 

 

The number of responses to your post goes to show how gear-grinding this is.

 

It's bad enough on a crowded street but when you get in a supermarket or almost any large retail outlet, it becomes intensely annoying. 

 

Particularly, AFAIAC, supermarkets. Made even more irritating by those using their phone to check shopping lists, video-calling someone to ask if X product is suitable. That's before I get to those using the scanners to log their purchases, standing in front of the product I want to get to whilst checking their shopping list and then ticking it off. Scan it, put it in your trolley, move on. Please.

 

Someone previously mentioned walking into them. It makes no difference. You're just inviting confrontation.

 

Don't get me started on some of the walking dead I encounter when (If I really have to) I visit Morrison's. The last supermarket before they reach the pearly gates.

 

 

Edited 1 December 2023 by Parafox

[Jon the Hat]

19 hours ago, Daggers said:

Boy is Jon in for a surprise when he finds out meritocracies don’t exist and wealth is amassed through the undervaluation of others and exploitation of their labour.

By people who work hard, are smart and have some pretty special skills.  Else everyone would be doing it.  Caveated again that clearly some have exploited political opportunity and corruption to seize national wealth like the oligarchs.

 

The 2023 Forbes 400 Self-Made Score: From Silver Spooners To Bootstrappers

 

The large majority of US billionaires came from middle class backgrounds. Seems to me quite a few of those who inherited are only second generation wealth like the Waltons.  Yes there are the long term wealthy, but if anything that is reducing as a share of the super rich.  

[Tommy Fresh]

Folk making no attempt to cover a cough or sneeze 

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

14 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

The number of responses to your post goes to show how gear-grinding this is.

 

It's bad enough on a crowded street but when you get in a supermarket or almost any large retail outlet, it becomes intensely annoying. 

 

Particularly, AFAIAC, supermarkets. Made even more irritating by those using their phone to check shopping lists, video-calling someone to ask if X product is suitable. That's before I get to those using the scanners to log their purchases, standing in front of the product I want to get to whilst checking their shopping list and then ticking it off. Scan it, put it in your trolley, move on. Please.

 

Someone previously mentioned walking into them. It makes no difference. You're just inviting confrontation.

 

Don't get me started on some of the walking dead I encounter when (If I really have to) I visit Morrison's. The last supermarket before they reach the pearly gates.

 

 

Dare I say us blokes like to get around the shops as fast as possible, I don’t browse, I know what I need, pick it up and move on, anyone holding me up annoys me, as well as the people you mention I’d add the “day trippers” whom supermarket shopping seems to be a whole day out, walking along at snail pace idly checking out every  item on the shelf whilst blocking the aisle.

[Tommy G]

Mary Earps - has to be one of the most self obsessed footballers there is 

[FoxesDeb]

6 hours ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

Dare I say us blokes like to get around the shops as fast as possible, I don’t browse, I know what I need, pick it up and move on, anyone holding me up annoys me, as well as the people you mention I’d add the “day trippers” whom supermarket shopping seems to be a whole day out, walking along at snail pace idly checking out every  item on the shelf whilst blocking the aisle.

I´ve never understood people who enjoy going shopping just for a look, just browsing as something to do. Shopping for me is a chore, wandering around busy shops with no purpose is my idea of hell, not pleasure. 

[Corky]

7 hours ago, Tommy G said:

Mary Earps - has to be one of the most self obsessed footballers there is 

Women's football still benefitting hugely from it's lower profile but if it grows financially and through more coverage I can see a few high profile players becoming far less popular.

[Andy11111]

Cinema.

It is the most horrible, frustrating, annoying experience ever. Before a film starts some guy says turn off your phone, no talking, enjoy the film.  Why doesn't he mention you stop eating, stop constantly rustling your crisps packet, stop your kid from kicking the chair Infront, FFS, God I can't stand it, shut them all down, stay in and watch a film without all the shit you have to endure during the film, plus you can pause when you need a slash.

[Langston]

I completely appreciate things need to be monetised sometimes but podcast adverts are becoming a bit mad. I love the Socially Distant Sports Bar but you’re 6 minutes in before you get to the opening jingle nowadays!

[leicsmac]

21 minutes ago, Langston said:

I completely appreciate things need to be monetised sometimes but podcast adverts are becoming a bit mad. I love the Socially Distant Sports Bar but you’re 6 minutes in before you get to the opening jingle nowadays!

Yep, rampant commercialism sucks.

[Parafox]

8 hours ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

Dare I say us blokes like to get around the shops as fast as possible, I don’t browse, I know what I need, pick it up and move on, anyone holding me up annoys me, as well as the people you mention I’d add the “day trippers” whom supermarket shopping seems to be a whole day out, walking along at snail pace idly checking out every  item on the shelf whilst blocking the aisle.

 

Then there's the ones that bump into someone they know and haven't seen for a while and stand in the aisle chatting about stuff, completely ignorant of those trying to get on with their shopping.

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

1 minute ago, Parafox said:

 

Then there's the ones that bump into someone they know and haven't seen for a while and stand in the aisle chatting about stuff, completely ignorant of those trying to get on with their shopping.

Haha true however I leant a lesson a while ago whilst at the till, a chatterbox man was putting his shopping through chatting to the woman on the checkout and to the elderly lady in front of me, generally holding things up (in my opinion) when after he finally packed his shopping away he waited and paid for the old lady’s shopping as well, they didn’t know one another and it was such a kind gesture it stopped my grumbling in its tracks. 

[Stinkenzo]

People who obsess over and/or let celebrities run their lives 

[foxy boxing]

4 minutes ago, Stinkenzo said:

People who obsess over and/or let celebrities run their lives 

Sadly we live in a culture of "celebrity worship"  where seemingly anyone can become a "celebrity" or have the ability to influence people. Personally I couldn't care less what so called "celebrities " eat, drink and do in their personal lives.

[Trav Le Bleu]

3 hours ago, foxy boxing said:

Sadly we live in a culture of "celebrity worship"  where seemingly anyone can become a "celebrity" or have the ability to influence people. Personally I couldn't care less what so called "celebrities " eat, drink and do in their personal lives.

People need to worship something and in an increasingly godless society, celebs is what a lot of people turn to. Other alternatives are money, cars, careers, themselves and of course, the reason we're here, sports teams.

[Sampson]

27 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

People need to worship something and in an increasingly godless society, celebs is what a lot of people turn to. Other alternatives are money, cars, careers, themselves and of course, the reason we're here, sports teams.

Yep. As if people can’t see the irony of complaining about celebrities running their lives or obsessing over them on a football forum…

 

We all do exactly the same thing and let some rich men who we don’t know, some of whom are half many of our ages, dictate our happiness and we let their performances on a football field dictate our mood and thoughts.

 

As you said, everyone worships something or needs something to obsess over, it’s kind of build into us evolutionary as pack animals to get us to work together to survive. This discussion always reminds me of that Deus Ex scene  Celebrities are one of the less dangerous things to worship..

 

 

Edited 3 December 2023 by Sampson

[Dunge]

I don’t think of celebrity worship as anything new. It just used to be called society and was about the going of wealthy socialites. Now it’s more about people recognisable from media and better at selling themselves rather than just being of wealth.

 

There’s an argument to say that celebrity is more inclusive now because anyone can be one.

[Zear0]

Snow... 

 

Bah humbug

[leicsmac]

9 hours ago, Sampson said:

Yep. As if people can’t see the irony of complaining about celebrities running their lives or obsessing over them on a football forum…

 

We all do exactly the same thing and let some rich men who we don’t know, some of whom are half many of our ages, dictate our happiness and we let their performances on a football field dictate our mood and thoughts.

 

As you said, everyone worships something or needs something to obsess over, it’s kind of build into us evolutionary as pack animals to get us to work together to survive. This discussion always reminds me of that Deus Ex scene  Celebrities are one of the less dangerous things to worship..

 

 

Whoever wrote this and Kojima writing the last part of MGS2 were incredibly prescient.

[Andy11111]

People who refer to something as 'OMG, that's genius' when it clearly isn't.

[Daggers]

On 02/12/2023 at 02:54, Jon the Hat said:

By people who work hard, are smart and have some pretty special skills. 

You’ve misspelled psychopathology. 

[ozleicester]

That little indent on Margarine tubs for opening the lid.... why is it ALWAYS on the last side you try!

[Jon the Hat]

12 hours ago, Daggers said:

You’ve misspelled psychopathology. 

It's an interesting point, but I guess many things are only negative if directed in the wrong way.

[Jon the Hat]

On 02/12/2023 at 03:09, Parafox said:

Radio 2.

 

It seems to have lost it's direction and identity.

 

Boring, repetitive presenters, up it's own arse. I hardly listen anymore. The music isn't that bad. It's the presenters that are ruining for me

 

Unfortunately, Radio 1, 3, 4 and 6 don't fit my listening preferences and the commercial alternatives are even more unbearable.

My mum, who is in her 70s still thinks Radio 2 should be for her, and Radio 1 is definitely too young for me, and 6 music too sometimes, so not sure where I am supposed to fit into BBC radio land.