What grinds my gears...

[Countryfox]

57 minutes ago, Buce said:

 

I'm unfamiliar with the river Nike, mate, but I think it's where my daughter got her trainers from.

 

You must have heard of it Bucey ?? ...   a well travelled man like you ...  it’s a tributary of the river Adidas ....   

[ozleicester]

6 minutes ago, Countryfox said:

 

You must have heard of it Bucey ?? ...   a well travelled man like you ...  it’s a tributary of the river Adidas ....   

empties into the bay of Reebok i believe

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

BBC presenters  sitting outside parliament again, why? I know it’s important news but I don’t understand why they have to be there.

[Buce]

38 minutes ago, Countryfox said:

 

You must have heard of it Bucey ?? ...   a well travelled man like you ...  it’s a tributary of the river Adidas ....   

 

Is that the one that runs through Adidas Ababa in Ethiopia?

 

[Grebfromgrebland]

On 08/03/2019 at 08:26, Steve_Walsh5 said:

People who are blaming knife crime & stabbings on the government, police and lack of youth clubs. 

 

I saw a video of a uk music rapper the other day blaming everything else on knife crime ranging from Poverty, domestic abuse, lack of education, expulsion from school, closing of youth clubs and wealth. 

 

Not once did he mention the parents and the individuals carrying out these attacks. All because a youth club may have closed down the next step isn’t to go out and stab someone to death.

I have to say that you do seem completely clueless and I mean it in the nicest possible way. It just means that your life was never that bad. 

 

Take some time to understand what life is like for a lot of these kids and your heart would break. There's a lot of extreme poverty and their parents don't know how to parent because their parents didn't know. It's a terrible cycle. A world of substance abuse, fear and lack of connection with the rest of society.

 

You can't arrest your way out of this problem. These kids (and parents but it's often to late for them) need to learn and know how to behave, how to respect themselves and how to interact with society.  They don't understand the normal social norms that we move in many of them belong to an underclass which is invisible to the rest of society. When we see them we look down on them.

 

Things like Sure Starts and youth clubs literally save lives and allow a window into a more normal world and integrated society for these people. It also allows for early intervention where needed. 

 

What moves me most about when I moved in those impoverished circles was that many were in awe of me just because I had an education and went to uni and was going to get a decent career. They would've swapped places with me in an instant but deep down they knew they their prospects were limited to getting high, claiming benefits, selling stuff they'd nicked and fighting at the footy and going to prison. Rinse and repeat.

 

I could go on and on but the blame for this knife epidemic sits squarely at the feet of the government for the cut backs for the poorest and most vulnerable in society.

[The Blur]

On 13/03/2019 at 01:52, Countryfox said:

 

Hotel rooms that are too fvckin hot !! ...   aircon doesn’t seem to work so you open the windows and sleep with just a thin sheet on the bed ...   and it’s still too hot !!    They put me in a room like this on purpose ..  b@stards !!     I blame global warming ...  

 

On 13/03/2019 at 01:55, Countryfox said:

 Hotel rooms that are near a busy fvckin road !!! ...   when the windows are open all you hear is traffic noise !!   We should have curfews like wot they had in the good old days ! ...   people should go to sleep at night not drive around streets !! ...   b@stards !

 

On 13/03/2019 at 02:51, Countryfox said:

 

Polce sirens !! ...  what noisy fvckin things they are !!  ...    whoever invented them wants locking up and the key flushed down the toilet ...   unless it was a very large key in which case throw it in a large wide fast flowing river ...   like the Nike or the Ganges.     I was going to say misssisippppi but I can’t spell that. 

 

On 13/03/2019 at 02:55, Countryfox said:

Burglars and other miscreants who go out and do their burglaring and miscreanting during the wee small hours ...  thus causing cops to chase after them !!  ....   b@stards !!   

 

 

I see someone is angling for that 5,000,000 post..... 

[Wymsey]

33 minutes ago, The Blur said:

 

 

 

 

 

I see someone is angling for that 5,000,000 post..... 

Doubt it, as those posts were made yesterday.

[The Blur]

23 minutes ago, Wymeswold fox said:

Doubt it, as those posts were made yesterday.

 

Aye,  it was a bit of a tongue in cheek joke  

 

Unless you are angling for 5,000,000th post yourself by trying to state the obvious  (or the un-obvious considering how well my joke has gone down!)

[murphy]

Claudia Winkleman.

 

Why does she keep turning up on comedy panel shows like Cats Does Countdown?   That OTT grinning shouty routine is about as funny as a migraine.

 

Get in the bin and take Sarah Pascoe with you.

[Stadt]

39 minutes ago, murphy said:

Claudia Winkleman.

 

Why does she keep turning up on comedy panel shows like Cats Does Countdown?   That OTT grinning shouty routine is about as funny as a migraine.

 

Get in the bin and take Sarah Pascoe with you.

It's rare that I find any comedians on tv funny these days, the better ones are that are just relaxed rather than trying to make a wider point about something else. Rob Beckett is a great example as he's definitely not the most intelligent comedian but he's naturally just much funnier than most.

[TheLittleBigMan]

People.

[Otis]

Videos in the funny photo thread.

[Beliall]

People who moan about videos in the pictures thread

[H.a.r.r.y]

probably on here already but: people who refuse to vaccinate their children and insist on "essential oils"

[ealingfox]

People who pretend to be asleep when they're sitting down on a packed tube. Smug twats. 

[the fox]

"Are you asleep? Oh, I thought you were awake" After making it their life's mission to wake you up. 

 

 

An yeah, I said this before but people who edit moaning sounds to a video online with a interesting title like "baby panda makes cute voices *heart-eyes* *heart-eyes*". 

 

 

Edited 19 March 2019 by the fox

[the fox]

Tbf, I think the most irritating thing about those Edits is the fact that I kept falling for the trap.

 

But tell you what? The smug, antagoniste-esque grin i had on my face when I had my earphones plugged whilst letting the video end was........ How to say it? Imagine you are whylie the cayote wielding a hammer, but the top of the hammer is shaped like an anvil, swinging and connecting with a clean hit that sent that stupid "meep meep" goof of an ostrich's brain-matter scattered across the valley. 

Edited 19 March 2019 by the fox

[Stadt]

I’ve read a few times recently that “it’s all David Cameron’s fault” and “he’s our worst ever prime minister”, not a particular fan of the bloke but neither are true. Ignoring a referendum when it was in the Tory’s manifesto was just kicking the can down the road and there was a mandate for it

[Buce]

6 minutes ago, Stadt said:

I’ve read a few times recently that “it’s all David Cameron’s fault” and “he’s our worst ever prime minister”, not a particular fan of the bloke but neither are true. Ignoring a referendum when it was in the Tory’s manifesto was just kicking the can down the road and there was a mandate for it

 

Actually, it is. 

 

The reason it was in the manifesto was to appease the right of the party, the same thing Maybot is doing now. 

 

Both have put party before country, and history - and hopefully the electorate - will judge them for it. 

[Stadt]

Just now, Buce said:

 

Actually, it is. 

 

The reason it was in the manifesto was to appease the right of the party, the same thing Maybot is doing now. 

 

Both have put party before country, and history - and hopefully the electorate - will judge them for it. 

UKIP polled what, 4m in 2014? And 17m voted leave - clearly there was and is an appetite to leave. I voted leave but I’ve long since changed my mind because the leave at any cost brigade are far too dogmatic to be sensible but that narrative wouldn’t have existed if the remain side had won

[theessexfox]

3 hours ago, Stadt said:

I’ve read a few times recently that “it’s all David Cameron’s fault” and “he’s our worst ever prime minister”, not a particular fan of the bloke but neither are true. Ignoring a referendum when it was in the Tory’s manifesto was just kicking the can down the road and there was a mandate for it

The lack of any proper preparation for Leave or any real consideration of what the terms of exit may be was far less forgivable than holding the referendum in the first place imo.

[Alf Bentley]

4 hours ago, Stadt said:

I’ve read a few times recently that “it’s all David Cameron’s fault” and “he’s our worst ever prime minister”, not a particular fan of the bloke but neither are true. Ignoring a referendum when it was in the Tory’s manifesto was just kicking the can down the road and there was a mandate for it

 

It's not ALL Cameron's fault, though some of it certainly is. Plenty of others to blame: May's sheer incompetence and following of Cameron's example in putting party before country; Corbyn's dissembling; dishonest Leave campaign; cynical Remain campaign; years of cowardly UK politicians blaming the EU for their failings; years of the media fomenting anti-EU attitudes; the EU itself for failing to connect with citizens & for implementing austerity policies similar to those employed by Cameron....

 

I wouldn't blame Cameron at all for calling a referendum after promising it. It was the cynical promise of the referendum that was wrong. He called it for "party management" reasons - to keep his Brexiteers sweet - despite opposing it himself. As leader of a governing party with no majority, he cynically promised a referendum in the expectation that his coalition partners (Lib Dems) would get him out of jail....winning a majority in 2015 wasn't part of the plan. Even then, he recklessly thought that he could get a few concessions and scare people into voting Remain with a cynical "Project Fear" Remain campaign, which didn't work after decades of negativity about the EU from all and sundry, including him. He had also presided over 6 years of unnecessary austerity economics, which had left most people worse off and less secure than 8 years earlier - and looking for someone to blame, with the EU taking the rap for the UK's crap (as well as its own).

 

There's then the whole way the referendum was set up - as an open Leave/Remain question, without knowledge of what the Leave terms might be, with no option to confirm/reverse the decision if the terms were controversial and with no minimum percentage required either for victory or for turnout... And there was some historical precedent for the latter: Scottish devolution did not happen in the 70s, despite a referendum vote in favour, because a pre-set percentage of registered voters was not achieved (51.6% in favour, but less than the threshold of 40% of registered voters required).

 

"Our worst ever PM"? Maybe, maybe not. May is probably more habitually incompetent and narrow-minded. I'm sure we've had some other useless PMs that I'm less familiar with. To be even-handed, there's certainly a case for Blair's decision to invade Iraq being the single most damaging decision ever taken by a PM, but most (not all) of that damage has affected other countries. Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler is another candidate, but may not have had that much historical impact in the long run. Cameron's cynical decision to put the referendum in his 2015 manifesto is a strong candidate, though, to be the decision most damaging to the UK that any PM has taken. I'm sure he didn't take that decision alone, but as PM and party leader he played a big part.

 

Admittedly, I quite welcomed the referendum when it was announced, as I naively thought that, after decades of ignorant, ill-informed debate, the people might finally get properly informed and have a proper debate of the pros and cons. I'm officially a fool!

[ozleicester]

Last friday night some sh!tbag threw a bottle through the windscreen of my parked car.

 

This friday night, some sh!t bag scum kicked in the door of my parked car.

 

**** you poxy people.

[Dr The Singh]

1 hour ago, ozleicester said:

Last friday night some sh!tbag threw a bottle through the windscreen of my parked car.

 

This friday night, some sh!t bag scum kicked in the door of my parked car.

 

**** you poxy people.

The racists?

[StanSP]

I find it's mainly Americans that are guilty of this, but the stupid use of the double negative. Was just watching Judge Judy (to kill time, it's a guilty pleasure) and the amount of people on there that used 'I don't know nothing about...'. Technically means you know (everything) about it.