Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

[Ianno87]

Quote Tweeting.

(Great way of presenting one Tweet in a thread totally out of context to make it look ridiculous)

 

[dakta]

one phrase I (try not to) see a lot these days, usually when falling foul of clickbait is 'shut down'

in the context of 'xxyyzz celebrity shut down a twitter member after being critcised for their revealing dress or whatever'

and you go look for this 'shut down' and all it boils down to is a retort of some format by someone clearly 'triggered' by whatever the twitter member said (which is normally because they have a bit of a valid point embedded in the payload of whatever nastiness has been observed), with the end result of absolutely nobody 'shut down' and quite free to remain hating if they wish.

I respect everyone right to be triggered but that's how it should be reported. 'when xxyyzz was criticised on facebook for yyzzxx they made a retort to the member, opinions remained somewhat unchanged and that was pretty much the end of it'

 

[py_megapixel]

Quote Tweeting.

(Great way of presenting one Tweet in a thread totally out of context to make it look ridiculous)

Just ban the whole premise of Twitter. I know the character limit is supposed to encourage people to express their thoughts concisely, but what it actually does is encourage people to talk in over-confident yet meaningless soundbites.

A proper discourse requires discussion with some level of nuance and room for people to provide detailed reasoning. Twitter is not conducive to that in the slightest.

 

[Ianno87]

Just ban the whole premise of Twitter. I know the character limit is supposed to encourage people to express their thoughts concisely, but what it actually does is encourage people to talk in over-confident yet meaningless soundbites.

A proper discourse requires discussion with some level of nuance and room for people to provide detailed reasoning. Twitter is not conducive to that in the slightest.

Seconded, thirded and fourthded from me.

 

[nlogax]

People making a massive deal out of the smallest thing and who then expect everyone else to join the drama bandwagon. Twitter feeds into that of course. Ban it / them all.

 

[scotrail158713]

I'm sure self-service machines have been mentioned previously, but I'd like to give them another mention after my experience in Lidl last night. I'd scan one item and in the time it took me to put it in the bagging area, pick up my next item, find the barcode, and scan it (so approximately 1-2 seconds) it would bark at me "please scan another item or select finish and pay". Given I had around 15 items, so heard this multiple times, it's safe to say I was getting a tad frustrated at it by the end.

 

[alex397]

Just ban the whole premise of Twitter. I know the character limit is supposed to encourage people to express their thoughts concisely, but what it actually does is encourage people to talk in over-confident yet meaningless soundbites.

A proper discourse requires discussion with some level of nuance and room for people to provide detailed reasoning. Twitter is not conducive to that in the slightest.

I mostly agree. A lot of social media just seems very toxic to me.

However I still really enjoy Twitter. Avoid controversial topics such as politics, and it can be a fun and engaging place to me. I follow a lot of Twitterers / Tweeters from the world of transport (many of whom probably familiar to users of this forum), as well as history, rambling, nature, amongst other things. Ive learnt a huge amount that I wouldn’t have otherwise known, and spoken to people I wouldn’t have otherwise.

I mostly think social media should be called anti-social media, and I have concerns about how it is negatively affecting our society and democracy. But if Twitter was gone, I’d miss the more civilised side of it.

 

[birchesgreen]

Yes the rail enthusiast and model railway scenes on twitter are great. I maintain a long list of blocked and muted words like Brexit and Trump to keep my timeline fairly clean.

 

[Ianno87]

Leaving football matches early because your team is losing.

 

[Busaholic]

Leaving football matches early because your team is losing.

If I still attended football matches, that was something I'd never do, for very good reason. The only football matches I've ever been to were in the 1950s with a primary school friend and his father, destination Charlton Athletic's Valley. If we'd left the Charlton v Huddersfield match half an hour early in 1957, with Charlton down to ten men and losing 5-1, we'd have missed one of the most stunning turn-rounds of all time with Charlton winning 7-6, the peerless Johnny Summers scoring five times and been instrumental in the other two of Charlton's goals. I've learned more recently that Huddersfield's manager was one Alex Ferguson, which amuses me no end.

 

[D6968]

Could I please ban one Adele Aitkins? Am I the only person in the world that takes no joy from her music?
Don’t get me wrong the girl has a lovely voice and talent.
I just don’t want hear yet another song about ‘I’ve got a broken heart’ well boo hoo Adele stop being so one dimensional. I appreciate we don’t live in the most cheerful of times but surely there must be something that cheers you up?

 

[Gloster]

Could I please ban one Adele Atkinson? Am I the only person in the world that takes no joy from her music?

Who?

 

[AM9]

The common use of over-dramatic language.

Such as ‘carnage’ to describe something chaotic. Carnage of course means ‘the killing of a large number of people’. I’m not sure that spending half an hour queuing up for petrol is quite the same thing….

Yes, every time I hear that it signals a person with no understanding of the word. Then there's the drama queens who insist on describing every price/cost that they don't like as "eye watering". Pathetic!

Who?

I'd ban people who when posting a whinge about a famous person they dislike think they are clever by using their rarely stated name - then getting it wrong. It is Adele Adkins!

 

[Bevan Price]

All those lists called ‘The ten (*) best songs about armadillos/films about proctologists/TV series set in a car showroom ever.’ They always turn out to be from the last ten to fifteen years and are almost all American made, although usually so obscure that only insomniacs who surf channels at 4 a.m. will ever have heard of them.

* - Some of them have odd totals: nine, seventeen, twenty-two (BINGO!), which suggests some very sloppy journalism.

That usually means that they have run out of ideas and/or have low memory capacity...

As for music - many of my favourites would be regarded as obscure, but that is because most UK media thinks that "music" equates to 3 minute "hit singles" and ignores everything else. (And in my opinion, many recent pop singles are boring, devoid of originality; there has been little of interest since the Britpop era of the 1990s; yes - there are a few talented performers, but their songs are largely derivatives of previous styles.)

 

[D6968]

Yes, every time I hear that it signals a person with no understanding of the word. Then there's the drama queens who insist on describing every price/cost that they don't like as "eye watering". Pathetic!


I'd ban people who when posting a whinge about a famous person they dislike think they are clever by using their rarely stated name - then getting it wrong. It is Adele Adkins!

I blame a 12 and half shift yesterday and auto correct, although I thought it was Aitkins?

Who?

I rather like The Who, Mamas got a squeeze box is one of my favourite tunes.

 

[ABB125]

All those lists called ‘The ten (*) best songs about armadillos/films about proctologists/TV series set in a car showroom ever.’ They always turn out to be from the last ten to fifteen years and are almost all American made, although usually so obscure that only insomniacs who surf channels at 4 a.m. will ever have heard of them.

* - Some of them have odd totals: nine, seventeen, twenty-two (BINGO!), which suggests some very sloppy journalism.

The best one of those I've come across was something like "5 reasons why the M3 is sooooooooo much better than the A3" in something like Hampshire Live. Needless to say, the article content was dire.

On a similar subject, I'd ban all those clickbaity "news" links at the bottom of websites. Things like "all over-50s MUST claim this amazing benefit now before it disappears forever" or "this simple trick will [insert task here]". Usually accompanied by totally irrelevant thumbnail photographs.

 

[Cowley]

Pets getting old.

 

[bspahh]

If I still attended football matches, that was something I'd never do, for very good reason. The only football matches I've ever been to were in the 1950s with a primary school friend and his father, destination Charlton Athletic's Valley. If we'd left the Charlton v Huddersfield match half an hour early in 1957, with Charlton down to ten men and losing 5-1, we'd have missed one of the most stunning turn-rounds of all time with Charlton winning 7-6, the peerless Johnny Summers scoring five times and been instrumental in the other two of Charlton's goals. I've learned more recently that Huddersfield's manager was one Alex Ferguson, which amuses me no end.

Bill Shankly was the Huddersfield manager at the time. Alex Ferguson was 15 years old then

 

[D6968]

Pets getting old.

Vets bill to pay?

 

[Cowley]

Vets bill to pay?

Well a bit of that but more the inevitable decision on the horizon. You know you’ve got to do the correct thing when the time’s right but putting yourself in their erm, paws:
“So four legged loyal friend, would you rather be a bit incontinent at times and have slightly wobbly back legs? Or would you rather be dead..?”

Not easy.

 

[duncanp]

I'm sure self-service machines have been mentioned previously, but I'd like to give them another mention after my experience in Lidl last night. I'd scan one item and in the time it took me to put it in the bagging area, pick up my next item, find the barcode, and scan it (so approximately 1-2 seconds) it would bark at me "please scan another item or select finish and pay". Given I had around 15 items, so heard this multiple times, it's safe to say I was getting a tad frustrated at it by the end.

The ones in Aldi are the same.

They also nag you to "Please take your items" every 10 seconds whilst you are packing your shopping away.

 

[GusB]

The ones in Aldi are the same.

They also nag you to "Please take your items" every 10 seconds whilst you are packing your shopping away.

So they've programmed their self service tills to perform like the staffed ones? Love it!

 

[nlogax]

The ones in Aldi are the same.

You folk with yer posh Aldis. Both my regular ones feature real flesh puppets sitting at the tills

 

[SteveM70]

The use of the word “hack” to describe what is essentially a tip how to do something better

 

[gg1]

Nimbys.

The ones around here have been leafletting the street the past few days advising us a 5G mast is being installed and we should all contact the council planning department to object, the strapline to the leaflet is "Do we really want this eyesore at the entrance to our estate?".

The estate in question is a fairly pleasant but otherwise utterly bog standard 1960s housing estate. Amongst the views this 'eyesore' will obstruct are the HGVs driving along the main road at the entrance to the estate and a McDonalds (complete with obligatory gangs of teenagers hanging around in the evenings) directly opposite.

 

[ABB125]

Nimbys.

The ones around here have been leafletting the street the past few days advising us a 5G mast is being installed and we should all contact the council planning department to object, the strapline to the leaflet is "Do we really want this eyesore at the entrance to our estate?".

The estate in question is a fairly pleasant but otherwise utterly bog standard 1960s housing estate. Amongst the views this 'eyesore' will obstruct are the HGVs driving along the main road at the entrance to the estate and a McDonalds (complete with obligatory gangs of teenagers hanging around in the evenings) directly opposite.

I'm surprised they haven't mentioned the government-control microchips contained in the coronavirus vaccine will be controlled by that 5G mast...

 

[gg1]

I'm surprised they haven't mentioned the government-control microchips contained in the coronavirus vaccine will be controlled by that 5G mast...

tbh I was a little surprised they didn't bring up any 5G conspiracy theories.

 

[Calthrop]

Nimbys.

I confess to a bit of affection (for the expression, anyway) for the Nimby's first cousin, the Shiseby (SHove It in Someone Else's Back Yard).

 

[gg1]

Well a bit of that but more the inevitable decision on the horizon. You know you’ve got to do the correct thing when the time’s right but putting yourself in their erm, paws:
“So four legged loyal friend, would you rather be a bit incontinent at times and have slightly wobbly back legs? Or would you rather be dead..?”

Not easy.

Incredibly difficult to know what to do in that position. One of our old cats had a long term health condition and had been very slowly deteriorating for a year or so. The uncertainty was horrible, from both directions, ie did we let her suffer longer than we should or conversely was she still relatively happy when we made the decision. It's harder to judge with cats than dogs as they're far less likely to show they're in pain or discomfort.

 

[nlogax]

Ban people who don't understand that Gmail addresses are the same whether full stops are in the address or otherwise. This morning I've received someone else's tax return (with all NI and address details intact) and last week I received someone else's hotel stay receipt. Can confirm the Langham in Chicago appears to be pretty pricey...sadly it wasn't me who stayed there.