Things I don't like (TIDL) thread

old people standing at the end of escalators prattling away so you struggle to get off the damned things.
parents who think "ok kids clear off and run riot just find me at the checkout in an hour" when they are in the supermarket.
Nicola Sturgeon.
 
Seeing people on their phones everywhere. Find it so irritating. I know I'm pointing out nothing new, but going to a restaurant and seeing whole tables on their phones ignoring each other, whole bus stop full of people on their phones, walking down the road on their phones, get in a lift full of people, all on their phones.

I'm guilty of it too to an extent, but since it's really bugged me, I've made a conscious effort to use my phone less and if I'm out with family, I'll turn it off in public places.

To be fair, this thread is pretty bad for me as I'm a hateful person that dislikes most things, it's a wonder I haven't curled up in to a ball of bitterness and anger. But the big thing for me other than phones, are Corbyn supporters. Not Labour voters but just the Corbyn supporters. Most Labour voters with an ounce of common sense know Labour would be better off without him, but alarmingly, there are some that want to see him in No.10
 
Steedie said:
Seeing people on their phones everywhere. Find it so irritating. I know I'm pointing out nothing new, but going to a restaurant and seeing whole tables on their phones ignoring each other, whole bus stop full of people on their phones, walking down the road on their phones, get in a lift full of people, all on their phones.

I'm guilty of it too to an extent, but since it's really bugged me, I've made a conscious effort to use my phone less and if I'm out with family, I'll turn it off in public places.

To be fair, this thread is pretty bad for me as I'm a hateful person that dislikes most things, it's a wonder I haven't curled up in to a ball of bitterness and anger. But the big thing for me other than phones, are Corbyn supporters. Not Labour voters but just the Corbyn supporters. Most Labour voters with an ounce of common sense know Labour would be better off without him, but alarmingly, there are some that want to see him in No.10
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this was happening before widespread mobile phones, now they just act as a reasonb to ignore someone
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Those little tie things they put round the top of a loaf, I can never get them off with just my fingers so have to use scissors.

Oh yeah, and while I'm at it, going out for a meal and the tomato sauce is in little packets that I have to fight with to get the sauce out.
Mrs Poole has just bought me some tiny folding scissors because of my bad language.

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Steedie said:
Seeing people on their phones everywhere. Find it so irritating. I know I'm pointing out nothing new, but going to a restaurant and seeing whole tables on their phones ignoring each other, whole bus stop full of people on their phones, walking down the road on their phones, get in a lift full of people, all on their phones.

I'm guilty of it too to an extent, but since it's really bugged me, I've made a conscious effort to use my phone less and if I'm out with family, I'll turn it off in public places.
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Well, it's either be on my phone or sit there in silence.

And don't even try strike up a conversation with a random person in public, especially if you are male and they are female.

So I rather be on my phone, less likely to be seen as an werid, bored or done for sexually harassment.
 
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ianh said:
Despite lots of research into the area, what to see and do, looking at threats from pick-pockets etc, it wasn't until the Taxi driver told me that I found out prostitution is legal here. Now I'm too old for all that sort of thing but I'm amazed it isn't more widely known/discussed, or maybe I'm just too naive for that sort of stuff?
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Say what now?! Meh, didn't matter anyway :D

Not so black and white:
Despite some sources claiming that prostitution is legal in Spain, the truth is that sex workers exist in a legal vacuum wherein the practice has been decriminalized since 1995 but no public laws have been written regarding the legal status of sex workers.

The workers themselves are not penalized, but instead, the procurers are the ones who are punished by the law. According to a 2009 study by TAMPEP (European Network for HIV/STI Prevention and Health Promotion among Migrant Sex Workers), 90 percent of sex workers in Spain are said to be victims of human trafficking, which violates international law.

Brothels have been illegal in Spain since 1956, but these days, the vast majority of them are loosely disguised as whiskerías or "clubs" and are left to function as normal
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The druggy ****** off about the government in store, because she didn't get paid her benefits on time so she can't afford a box of carlsberg.

Edit: I also remember the time she came into the store I worked at years ago high as a kite on Halloween dressed in her "work wear" in front with her 12 year old son poor kid. So she really grinds my gears.
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Definitely requires pictures!


SexyGreyFox said:
Those little tie things they put round the top of a loaf, I can never get them off with just my fingers so have to use scissors.

Oh yeah, and while I'm at it, going out for a meal and the tomato sauce is in little packets that I have to fight with to get the sauce out.
Mrs Poole has just bought me some tiny folding scissors because of my bad language.

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Hahahahahahaa little ketchup scissors?? :D Oh man, kill me now!
 
malachi said:
Well, it's either be on my phone or sit there in silence.

And don't even try strike up a conversation with a random person in public, especially if you are male and they are female.

So I rather be on my phone, less likely to be seen as an werid, bored or done for sexually harassment.
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Really? I always talk to random strangers. Love it. Last week I met a random guy from Alaska who was super interesting and we ended up chatting for around an hour or more and yes we were standing at a bus stop to get out of the rain. Today I struck up several conversations around a pool with random strangers I've never seen before including, I **** you not, a female in a swimming costume. Call the police already!!

My wife loves it as we meet randomers all the time that perhaps she wouldn't if I didnt end up talking to pretty much everyone. Last year in the Dominican we met a lovely family from Toronto Canada, you guessed it I randomly started chatting to a guy at a bar... we are now visiting Toronto next year.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
It had to be done :(
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Use your teeth like every other man out there.

Vince said:
Really? I always talk to random strangers. Love it. Last week I met a random guy from Alaska who was super interesting and we ended up chatting for around an hour or more and yes we were standing at a bus stop to get out of the rain. Today I struck up several conversations around a pool with random strangers I've never seen before including, I **** you not, a female in a swimming costume. Call the police already!!

My wife loves it as we meet randomers all the time that perhaps she wouldn't if I didnt end up talking to pretty much everyone. Last year in the Dominican we met a lovely family from Toronto Canada, you guessed it I randomly started chatting to a guy at a bar... we are now visiting Toronto next year.
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I am like this. But it's not always a blessing, it's how I met my wife!!
 
malachi said:
Well, it's either be on my phone or sit there in silence.

And don't even try strike up a conversation with a random person in public, especially if you are male and they are female.

So I rather be on my phone, less likely to be seen as an werido or done for sexually harassment.
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If you’re worried about your conversation being considered as sexual harassment, or a weirdo, then you are the problem. Seek help.
 
Ahleckz said:
If you’re worried about your conversation being considered as sexual harassment, or a weirdo, then you are the problem. Seek help.
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Well go and visit Birmingham, try it. You probably notice everyone is miserable as hell and don't want to talk to you but you will it get a lot of beggars trying to talk to you though!

I don't live in the UK anymore so I don't get that problem when I talk to randomers.....especially if they like my accent :)

On a side note, when I used to work in the UK. I spent 9 years working for a police force. The amount of reports we had from women on the London Undergound who reported sexual harassment, just because some random guy started a conservation with them. No joke!
 
The Americanisation of the internet and Americans in general.

Food recipes where people write a 3000 word sonat on what/how/pointless their life before they get to the ingredients, cunningly disguised in aforementioned sonat.
 
SPG said:
The Americanisation of the internet and Americans in general.

Food recipes where people write a 3000 word sonat on what/how/pointless their life before they get to the ingredients, cunningly disguised in aforementioned sonat.
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You've just summarised something I couldn't quite put my finger on, why a recipe for low fat macaroni cheese starts halfway down the page under a coverted blog post. :P Not really arsed about your personal weight struggles just let me see the recipe!
 
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