Trivial things you don't understand/mildly annoy you

[Bennett]

sorry was making a flippant joke - FWIW I agree.

I think civilizations and eras are seen with hindsight as having changed and adapted.
I think it's folly to think that that the UK or Europe should stay a mostly white, mostly christian place (for example).
Perhaps it's western civilization as we know it currently, but there'll be another label for it in the future and they will hold the label of western civilisation.

[Bennett]

Just to unpack my word salad.
The current day is constantly moving, no one from this list thought of themselves as Victorians or Edwardians, or noticed a day to day shift from one to the other*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Periods_in_English_history

*obviously ignoring the dead monarch bit

[Audrey]

Just wondering what news has been buried or overlooked since the Israel/Hamas conflict started.

The Covid inquiry is ongoing and beginning to get published

The government ‘cherry-picked’ and ‘re-wrote’ scientific advice
In a diary entry written by Patrick Vallance, who was the chief scientific adviser to the government at the time, it was revealed that the government “cherry-picked” and even re-wrote scientific advice, only enacting the parts that best suited them. This included the two metre social distancing rule, which Vallance claims was part of wider advice and not intended as a stand-alone measure.

[Bob's Orange]

The govt didn't do a very good job cherry-picking parts to suit them, given the fact they continually kept getting caught breaking the rules/legislation. (whatever it was) Hancock's half hour with his secretary immediately springing to mind.

[fuzzy]

People who are so tied to their mobile phones or think they are too important to follow the rules.

Both directions of our recent flight into and out of Malta, several minutes after the instruction to switch mobiles to flight mode, people are still sending/ receiving texts and notifications about social media content.

I know that some folk think the requirement to switch phones off is outdated but, their house, their rules. If an airline (or any other organisation) says switch it off, do it.

In fact, while I’m at it on phones, phone cameras. I accept that the sign on the fragile artifact in the museum had a picture of a camera with a red cross through it to indicate no photography but, are you so fucking stupid that you don’t understand that includes mobile phone cameras as well? Probably not, just another entitled cunt.

[Bob's Orange]

People who are so tied to their mobile phones or think they are too important to follow the rules.

Both directions of our recent flight into and out of Malta, several minutes after the instruction to switch mobiles to flight mode, people are still sending/ receiving texts and notifications about social media content.

I know that some folk think the requirement to switch phones off is outdated but, their house, their rules. If an airline (or any other organisation) says switch it off, do it.

In fact, while I’m at it on phones, phone cameras. I accept that the sign on the fragile artifact in the museum had a picture of a camera with a red cross through it to indicate no photography but, are you so fucking stupid that you don’t understand that includes mobile phone cameras as well? Probably not, just another entitled cunt.

One of the major issues that I have with commuting to London 3 times a week is mobile phone usage. There are 2 major bug-bears that I have.

1. Since when did people stop having mobile phone conversations in public (say on a packed train carriage) by holding their phone to their ear and revert to either the 'apprentice style', or actually using FaceTime. So instead of now having to listen to 50% of an inane conversation I have no interest in, I have to suffer the whole 9 yards of it. I've often had to move out of the way to avoid someone using Facetime whilst on the move (usually in Canary Wharf) as they have absolutely no awareness of anyone around them.

2. The people that insist on watching movies/tv shows on their phones whilst walking through a packed Euston station causing a backlog. It's a difficult enough place with tourists with suitcases not knowing where they are going half the time at rush hour without plebeians glued to their screens making what should be a simple A to B walk fraught with frustration/anger.

Also, whatever happened to quiet carriages? On my journey home at Northampton about 20 people got on and I swear all of them were on telephone calls. None of them in English however so I was unable to judge if they were inane or not. I know headphones is the answer but I sometimes like to read a book.  

[Nemo]

I came across someone having a speakerphone conversation whilst a public toilet the other day. I took great pleasure in drying my hands with the 10,000 decibel Dyson driers with extreme thoroughness.

[Bob's Orange]

I came across someone having a speakerphone conversation whilst a public toilet the other day. I took great pleasure in drying my hands with the 10,000 decibel Dyson driers with extreme thoroughness.

Top man Nemo

[horlock07]

On the wandering around front I find the best course of action when you can see it is going to happen is just to stop and let numbnuts bowl into you.

People are pricks!

[horlock07]

Wouldn't the easiest thing be to just ban the fucking things? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67081855

[fuzzy]

I came across someone having a speakerphone conversation whilst a public toilet the other day. I took great pleasure in drying my hands with the 10,000 decibel Dyson driers with extreme thoroughness.

Surely that is the time for the comedy traps moment ala Austin Powers I think it was. Guy next to him thinks he is squeezing out a monster when he is in fact fighting off an assassin?

[horlock07]

I came across someone having a speakerphone conversation whilst a public toilet the other day. I took great pleasure in drying my hands with the 10,000 decibel Dyson driers with extreme thoroughness.

What shocks me with those is the conversations people will have with are extremely embarrassing/incriminating without a care in the world.

As an example, on the train back from Carlisle the other week a guy (who was on his way home after a stint on the rigs and I suspect coked off his tits!) proceeded to have several such conversations with various people threatening them and detailing how he was going to physically fuck them up when he caught up with them.

The eye brow raising in the wider carriage was very British!

[4D]

I just need the Homer hedge meme for Horlock 

[Audrey]

I see Bernie Ecclestone has admitted fraud and agreed a settlement with HMRC for £652.6m.

Yowzer!

[Audrey]

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