Things that annoy me (31 Viewers)

[Panzer ace]

Been Cool here in Australia last few weeks with Storms most days, if I had a dog it would have been krapping itself with all the thunder, Fist size hail in some areas, but no Tornadoes...so far. It's Spring here now, Summer starts 1st December ends 28th February, none of that solstice season BS downunder, we like our seasons regular

Ha!

I can’t ever get my mind around the difference in seasons between the US and AU.

My brother goes to Perth for Christmas with pics of his family at the beach. They have have a ficus with lights for a tree.

All I can say is, “ Wait, what the….?”

 

[Combat]

The wind blowing 40 mph and the leaves laying in my yard not moving an inch. As though they are made from concrete while chairs and tables are flying. I was hoping all the leaves blew to China to avoid raking them.

 

[Combat]

It took nearly 30 years for the Goldman family to get a settlement from the OJ Simpson estate. Even then they are unlikely to collect much of the money. I know the legal system is slow but this one seems like a slam dunk. Not sure how they could drag it out this long. It is like something out of Bleak House.

“Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least, but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Scores of persons have deliriously found themselves made parties in Jarndyce and Jarndyce without knowing how or why; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit. The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world. Fair wards of court have faded into mothers and grandmothers; a long procession of Chancellors has come in and gone out; the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality; there are not three Jarndyces left upon the earth perhaps since old Tom Jarndyce in despair blew his brains out at a coffee-house in Chancery Lane; but Jarndyce and Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the court, perennially hopeless.”​

 

[Combat]

The video of Trump telling a female reporter "Quite, piggy" is unreal. Maybe there is some additional context but can't imagine any other public official in history wouldn't be dismissed for that type of conduct. And I say that as someone who voted for him three times. Things have gone so far off the rails there is hardly a mention even by the Trump hating media.

 

[Combat]

The video of Trump telling a female reporter "Quite, piggy" is unreal. Maybe there is some additional context but can't imagine any other public official in history wouldn't be dismissed for that type of conduct. And I say that as someone who voted for him three times. Things have gone so far off the rails there is hardly a mention even by the Trump hating media.

Typo. He said "quiet, piggy."

 

[Warrior]

Typo. He said "quiet, piggy."

He's coming off the rails just like President Pantload did when he started to lose his marbles, Trump literally has no filter, which is common with older people, they just blurt out whatever pops into their head good, bad or insulting.

I'm sure Kimmel will be all over that comment, he's got a severe case of TDS.

 

[OzDigger]

Ha!

I can’t ever get my mind around the difference in seasons between the US and AU.

My brother goes to Perth for Christmas with pics of his family at the beach. They have have a ficus with lights for a tree.

All I can say is, “ Wait, what the….?”

Yes mate, very different countries in many ways, when I first joined this forum in the early 2000's I was amazed at the different climates, house building techniques etc, etc.

At least we both have Christmas around the same time. The 25th December is well into Summer in Australia and temperatures usually into the 30s/90s. As a kid my mother used to prepare the traditional hot meal on Christmas day, usually roast chicken with potatoes, pees etc, then a hot Christmas pudding with cream. We didn't have aircon or even fans when I was a kid, so the hot meals would make us kids sweat even more.

My Father insisted on a Real Christmas tree and used to chop down a small River Oak (Casuarina cunninghamiana) that grew along the adjacent river. Sometimes he would just cut a lower branch off a large River Oak as even the branches were about Ten foot long. Although called River Oaks, their leaves were actually needle shapped and the trees looked a lot like your standard American Pine tree. We all loved the fresh 'piney' smell of the tree as kids, but my Mother wasn't so keen on the dropped needles, or when our Siamese cat decided to climb it, but no squirels here thankfully. I was never keen on the traditional 'British' Hot meal on Christmas day as a child, and when I had kids we adopted the traditional 'Aussie' Christmas meal of Prawns, Oysters etc washed down with Cold Beer and or Champaign.

Here's a video of a large Australian River Oak that I assume was planted in America, based on the guys accent.

 

[Combat]

He's coming off the rails just like President Pantload did when he started to lose his marbles, Trump literally has no filter, which is common with older people, they just blurt out whatever pops into their head good, bad or insulting.

I'm sure Kimmel will be all over that comment, he's got a severe case of TDS.

Quiet, piggy! LOL. I need a t-shirt with that on it with a picture of Arnold from Green Acres. What a weird time that we live in.

 

[gk5717]

Quiet, piggy! LOL. I need a t-shirt with that on it with a picture of Arnold from Green Acres. What a weird time that we live in.

I also liked when nancy pelosi said she is retiring and Trump called her "an evil woman". In a way some of the off the wall things he says is why people like him. I know I do. On another subject. We did some grocery shopping at our local walmart today. And to look at not some but most of the other people in that store you wonder how they ever make it through life. I sorta mocks the saying "all men are created equal". Whoever coined that phrase never stepped foot in a Walmart.

 

[tdubel]

Not defending name calling, but apparently, from the little I read from all sources, there is more to this story.

Also, the Epstein release should be interesting, but let's all get ready for the bs press coverage that will follow it. Nothing will be reported as strictly the facts, there will be a ton of angles galore. Additionally, and I am not playing politics here, but methinks there is going to have to be some sort of embarrassment to a former President in this release as he spent a lot of time and correspondence with Epstein. My heart goes out to the victims here and I am just not sure any of this is going to help them or serve their cause. I said the same thing on the MLK release. Too much time and water passed, most of the time, the only time information is useful is when it is received REAL TIME>

TD

 

[gk5717]

Not defending name calling, but apparently, from the little I read from all sources, there is more to this story.

Also, the Epstein release should be interesting, but let's all get ready for the bs press coverage that will follow it. Nothing will be reported as strictly the facts, there will be a ton of angles galore. Additionally, and I am not playing politics here, but methinks there is going to have to be some sort of embarrassment to a former President in this release as he spent a lot of time and correspondence with Epstein. My heart goes out to the victims here and I am just not sure any of this is going to help them or serve their cause. I said the same thing on the MLK release. Too much time and water passed, most of the time, the only time information is useful is when it is received REAL TIME>

TD

I am sick and tired about this Epstein case. Get over it. If the dems had proof that Trump did something wrong it would have been all over the news during the election run. I may take some heat over this but I really don't feel sorry for these so called female victims in regards to Epstein. Yes they were young and some under age and what Epstein did to them was 100% wrong but these females were not 10 year old girls who new different. I'm sure there initial encounter was not planned but if it was so horrible and devastating as most are now saying why did they go back? Out of all those so called hundreds of girls why was there never a police investigation? Epstein might have been able to squash 1 or 2 police probes but not hundreds. I really don't care what this release brings. I just want to stop hearing about it.

 

[Terp152]

I also liked when nancy pelosi said she is retiring and Trump called her "an evil woman". In a way some of the off the wall things he says is why people like him. I know I do. On another subject. We did some grocery shopping at our local walmart today. And to look at not some but most of the other people in that store you wonder how they ever make it through life. I sorta mocks the saying "all men are created equal". Whoever coined that phrase never stepped foot in a Walmart.

I'm always a little depressed when I come out of Walmart.

 

[Warrior]

I'm always a little depressed when I come out of Walmart.

The next time I go to Walmart will be the first time.

If I want to get robbed and my jeep stolen, there are other places to go do it.

 

[Panzer ace]

Not defending name calling, but apparently, from the little I read from all sources, there is more to this story.

Also, the Epstein release should be interesting, but let's all get ready for the bs press coverage that will follow it. Nothing will be reported as strictly the facts, there will be a ton of angles galore. Additionally, and I am not playing politics here, but methinks there is going to have to be some sort of embarrassment to a former President in this release as he spent a lot of time and correspondence with Epstein. My heart goes out to the victims here and I am just not sure any of this is going to help them or serve their cause. I said the same thing on the MLK release. Too much time and water passed, most of the time, the only time information is useful is when it is received REAL TIME>

TD

Really tired of this story.

The Republicans try to say that any big name Democrats on the list are dirty old men

The Democrats try to say that any big name Republicans on the list are dirty old men

For those in their own party both sides say that boys will be boys.

Wrong. It is just a list of class A perverts no matter what “side” they are on.

 

[Combat]

Really tired of this story.

The Republicans try to say that any big name Democrats on the list are dirty old men

The Democrats try to say that any big name Republicans on the list are dirty old men

For those in their own party both sides say that boys will be boys.

Wrong. It is just a list of class A perverts no matter what “side” they are on.

It's always been that way. The primary difference now is that it is very personal, and some people can't let it go. Politics has become all-consuming of their lives. It's like they are under some type of mind control that is the product of propaganda.

 

[Combat]

The endless pop up adds on almost every website that render it impossible to read anything.

 

[theBaron]

The endless pop up adds on almost every website that render it impossible to read anything.

Do you use a popup blocker? If not, I recommend using one. Or an ad blocker. With the understanding that it could interfere with other browser processing, of course.
Application development and our interaction with operating systems, browsers, and websites and applications, is a continuous arms race. Or maybe a treadmill is a better image. Developers coding ads constantly make updates, and developers coding the blockers, and we who use them, are always a step behind, in reaction mode.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Combat]

People that make left hand turns at a 45-degree angle instead of 90 degrees causing them to cut across the opposing right lane. I see this all the time now. It's particularly dangerous at intersections where the person in the right lane has an obstructed view to the left.

 

[theBaron]

People that make left hand turns at a 45-degree angle instead of 90 degrees causing them to cut across the opposing right lane. I see this all the time now. It's particularly dangerous at intersections where the person in the right lane has an obstructed view to the left.

Or drivers who make the right turn from the left lane. Apparently, depending on where you live, that move is named for the neighboring state. For example, in Kentucky, I think it is, some call that a Tennessee Turn. Though here in the Delaware Valley, I've heard people from either PA or Jersey call it for the other state, or call it a Philadelphia Turn.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Barkmann]

He got in because the voting on the other side was watered down with two candidates, if you combined their two totals, that amount was the majority, this moron didn't get 50% of the vote, yet he gets in.

Best of luck getting any federal funding for projects, not to mention he is clueless as to how things actually work, ie, how much power he has to do some of the beyond idiotic things he is planning.

Best of luck NYC.

He got 50.39% of the vote, when i did maths at school that was over half, these figures are from official, multiple, sources. Plus combining the other 2 candidates figures is meaningless, unless you really think the 146,137 people that voted for Curtis Sliwa would have voted for Andrew Cuomo?

As for 'moron', he arrived in the US in 1998 aged seven and became a citizen in 2018, then in 2025 he becomes mayor of th US largest city. Not bad for a 'moron', he speaks 7 languages and the President, from the meeting they had, thinks he is a great guy.......is he wrong?

All politicians make promises, the current President said the Ukraine war would end on day one and he would bring down prices. Not only in the US but politicans are alike all over the world, make lots of promises and hopefully they think they will deliver enough to survive. Such is life.

'Clueless as to how things actually work' - that seems to be a theme in US politics, one only has to point to the currrent president.

On federal funding, New York provides too much federal funding to the US government not to be listened too. Paying more than the 19 lowest paying states put together. It is where the 'money people' live and/or earn their wealth and we know money talks.

I do not think which invisible friend living in the sky he believes in makes him either good or bad. Something i always admired about the USA was I thought the US was built on what you did and how hard you work, people were given a chance and were judged on their achievement. So give him a chance. i admired this as the US seemed to be above the age old class system which the UK suffers from, where it mattered where you went to school, how you speak and what you parents did.