General Things That Annoy You thread - part 2

ME14addick

Stig said:

Best wishes to you and your husband, Emmy. Fully understand why you'd want the decs up now. Here's hoping that his treatments do their job and you never have to go early again.

Thank you,  we hope so too.

ValleyGary

How does someone get ‘pissed off’ with Christmas, unless you endlessly listen to the radio or watch tv adverts?

gringo

IHow does someone get ‘pissed off’ with Christmas, unless you endlessly listen to the radio or watch tv adverts


I hate happy people, (probably the reason im a CAFC fan), thankfully you dont see a lotkof happy people at christmas.

Arsenetatters

ValleyGary said:

How does someone get ‘pissed off’ with Christmas, unless you endlessly listen to the radio or watch tv adverts?

Because for me it’s a miserable time of year. It reminds me that my Mum and Dad aren’t alive, it’s full of consumerism gone mad while there are people needing food banks. Unless you have young kids or are religious I don’t get what’s so great. Football on Boxing Day is the start of getting it out the way.

LargeAddick

Someone doing the pre match preview before checking there are no new signings to consider 😂😂

LargeAddick

Arsenetatters said:

ValleyGary said:

How does someone get ‘pissed off’ with Christmas, unless you endlessly listen to the radio or watch tv adverts?

Because for me it’s a miserable time of year. It reminds me that my Mum and Dad aren’t alive, it’s full of consumerism gone mad while there are people needing food banks. Unless you have young kids or are religious I don’t get what’s so great. Football on Boxing Day is the start of getting it out the way.

I’m a bit bah humbug about Xmas. Great if you have kids or are a God botherer (no offence intended) but for me, no thanks. Glad when it’s over.

JohnBoyUK

ValleyGary said:

How does someone get ‘pissed off’ with Christmas, unless you endlessly listen to the radio or watch tv adverts?

I dont know about you VG but the Christmas Day's I wasn't able to spend with my daughter were horrible.  I used to get proper down in the run up to it.

I used to hate NYE too, much much more than Christmas.  One NYE (31/12/13) I was totally on my own, so I ended up going for a 16 mile run at 10:30pm, knowing I'd totally miss midnight.  Thankfully that was the last NYE before I met my wife and we proper celebrate it now!
 

O-Randy-Hunt

Christmas is the bollocks. It's the one thing that keeps me going when the dark nights draw in. Booze, plenty of food/chocolate and stoopid games with all the family & friends and more booze and food. Beats the depressing months of Jan/Feb.

ValleyGary

I get the emotional loss, having lost my old man a few years ago. However, it just highlights the amazing christmases we had with him and when we get together we raise a toast and have a fucking great time as a family.

Just my outlook but I completely respect other people are different and send much love.

ValleyGary

On another note, I’ve done a lot of travelling lately with work and a couple of city breaks. The average human when in an airport, or train station turns into a fucking div. Accompanied with a suitcase it’s even worse. People are absolutely  brain dead 

cantersaddick

ValleyGary said:

On another note, I’ve done a lot of travelling lately with work and a couple of city breaks. The average human when in an airport, or train station turns into a fucking div. Accompanied with a suitcase it’s even worse. People are absolutely  brain dead 

I always say "why do I always go to the airport on the day when everyone else there is experiencing their first day on earth". People just standing blocking the entrance to escalators or being unable to read signs or just walking into people. Must be they just get in holiday mode a bit early. 

AFKABartram

ValleyGary said:

On another note, I’ve done a lot of travelling lately with work and a couple of city breaks. The average human when in an airport, or train station turns into a fucking div. Accompanied with a suitcase it’s even worse. People are absolutely  brain dead 

glad to hear the work side of things have worked out well for you @ValleyGary
after the difficulties during the Covid period mate 

ValleyGary

AFKABartram said:

ValleyGary said:

On another note, I’ve done a lot of travelling lately with work and a couple of city breaks. The average human when in an airport, or train station turns into a fucking div. Accompanied with a suitcase it’s even worse. People are absolutely  brain dead 

glad to hear the work side of things have worked out well for you @ValleyGary
after the difficulties during the Covid period mate 

Cheers mate, top man.

Gribbo

Algarveaddick said:

Macronate said:

Can you all take a leaf out of Tesco's book please and stop referring to it as Christmas and, instead, buy one of their 'evergreen trees'.

Gives me the chance to post this again... (Nothing personal Macca)

Well done for picking up on trivial faux outrage, Pezza, while the country is genuinely going to the dogs 👌💪👏

Stig

cantersaddick said:

ValleyGary said:

On another note, I’ve done a lot of travelling lately with work and a couple of city breaks. The average human when in an airport, or train station turns into a fucking div. Accompanied with a suitcase it’s even worse. People are absolutely  brain dead 

I always say "why do I always go to the airport on the day when everyone else there is experiencing their first day on earth". People just standing blocking the entrance to escalators or being unable to read signs or just walking into people. Must be they just get in holiday mode a bit early. 

I'll defend people here and say that airports aren't the easiest things to negotiate. There's a whole load of processes to go through, and unless you're lucky enough to be a frequent flier, those processes change between one journey and the next. People have bags to carry and often have children to look after. Everyone has to find out where they are going from the same cluster of screens. Airlines and their sub-contracted check in 'partners' desperately try to minimise all human forms of assistance. Essential services like toilets and drinking water are often tucked out of the way, the limited space being given over to an enforced Ikea-style route marches where the senses are bombarded with bright lights and a cocktail of disgusting smelling chemicals. Airports are designed to cope with optimum passenger flows, but as soon as one flight is delayed, those flows become sub-optimal. The limited space means that as soon as someone pauses for thought, they become a barrier to someone else's progress, and then that person unwittingly, and quite likely unknowingly, becomes a barrier in someone else's desperate slalom towards the exit gate.

It's not the people who are the problem, but the unfamiliarity and difficulty of the process, the deliberate poor design of airports favouring commercialism over comfort or expediency and the general lack of space that are at issue.

Algarveaddick

Stig said:

cantersaddick said:

ValleyGary said:

On another note, I’ve done a lot of travelling lately with work and a couple of city breaks. The average human when in an airport, or train station turns into a fucking div. Accompanied with a suitcase it’s even worse. People are absolutely  brain dead 

I always say "why do I always go to the airport on the day when everyone else there is experiencing their first day on earth". People just standing blocking the entrance to escalators or being unable to read signs or just walking into people. Must be they just get in holiday mode a bit early. 

I'll defend people here and say that airports aren't the easiest things to negotiate. There's a whole load of processes to go through, and unless you're lucky enough to be a frequent flier, those processes change between one journey and the next. People have bags to carry and often have children to look after. Everyone has to find out where they are going from the same cluster of screens. Airlines and their sub-contracted check in 'partners' desperately try to minimise all human forms of assistance. Essential services like toilets and drinking water are often tucked out of the way, the limited space being given over to an enforced Ikea-style route marches where the senses are bombarded with bright lights and a cocktail of disgusting smelling chemicals. Airports are designed to cope with optimum passenger flows, but as soon as one flight is delayed, those flows become sub-optimal. The limited space means that as soon as someone pauses for thought, they become a barrier to someone else's progress, and then that person unwittingly, and quite likely unknowingly, becomes a barrier in someone else's desperate slalom towards the exit gate.

It's not the people who are the problem, but the unfamiliarity and difficulty of the process, the deliberate poor design of airports favouring commercialism over comfort or expediency and the general lack of space that are at issue.

Yes, but stopping to look around right in front of a bottleneck, when you can walk twenty feet into acres of space to do the same is a bit inconsderate, mate. 

Raith_C_Chattonell

Yes I know Christmas is commercialised every which way, but this dog ugly  'Stranger Things' tree on Waterloo Station is a step too far imo.  Surely a brightly lit tree with a simple message of Happy Christmas would suffice.



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