General Things That Annoy You thread - part 2

arny23394 said:

Old people

arny23394 said:

Old people

Alwaysneil said:

Hire cars (or any car) that has that feature where if you try and cross a white line without indicating eg to overtake to avoid something, or because the camber is shit and there's nothing coming the other way, the car takes over the steering. 

The current one does it so annoyingly i try and go the other way to the way it wants and after a bit of a tusssle this way and that it flashes up in screen 'keep control of the car'.

whats worse is i cant find a way to turn it off. Or the noise it makes when i go 2 km an hour over the apeed limit.

Renault Captur by the way. If a hire company offers you one, beg for something else. Shittest, most annoying thing i have ever had to drive

Covered End said:

The Red Robin said:

No worries - the reality is, some people will want that 30% figure to mean “all non-white immigrants” to suit a certain narrative - when the reality is, it’ll be made up of anyone from white Americans, Australians, Japanese etc. 

Yeah, all those American, Australian and Japanese grooming/rapists are rife in the UK 

Karim_myBagheri said:

arny23394 said:

SporadicAddick said:

arny23394 said:

Old people

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You must have a lot going on in your life to remember that

and you must be going senile in your old age for forgetting you posted that..

Covered End said:

ME14addick said:

LargeAddick said:

ME14addick said:

Fanny Fanackapan said:

ME14addick said:

Fanny Fanackapan said:

LargeAddick said:

I’ll say it again in case anyone is hard of hearing.

I’m not against immigration. Legal immigration. You want to come to the UK then go through the proper channels. If you want to come here, work, pay taxes, be a law abiding citizen and adhere to our laws then great, no problem, you are welcome.

If however you want to come here illegally, take handouts, trash accommodation you are provided with, break our laws including many, many cases of sexual assaults on women and young girls many being raped then no you are not welcome. It’s happening, it can’t be denied. The two 15 year olds raped in Fordingbridge, their ordeal being filmed and shared on social media. A young woman raped by three men on Brighton beach. And we can’t even kick any of them out due to their human rights. I mean what the actual fuck.

Most of the young men coming to this country are doing so because we are a soft touch. Not many disembarking boats are women and children. No they are left benind to fend for themselves. Young men, allegedly from war torn countries, who complain that the hotel they are put up in isn’t good enough but maybe it would be nicer if they didn’t continually trash them. I know this happens. A friend worked as a maintenance man in an Eastbourne hotel housing illegal immigrants. Day after day he was repairing the same items he’d repaired the day before. They were trashing the hotel on a daily basis. You’d have thought they’d be grateful. It was soul destroying for him. In the end he quit. It took him ten months to find another job but at least his mental health was no longer suffering.

If people don’t like what I’m saying, don’t agree then fair enough. But I know that a great many others do and frankly we are sick and tired of it.

Ain't that the truth, Large.

It's a shame that more who agree are concerned about the racist accusation so keep their thoughts to themselves. 

I'm guessing it won't be too long before those mouths are unzipped & the flood gates open as our countrymen & women are further impacted by what's going on around us. 

Another thought for our friend, ME14.

I know that you used to take your dear elderly Dad to home games which was great to hear. 

I'm guessing that he fought in WW2 as did my Dad, a Commando. He was very proud of his country & that he had played a small part in sustaining its freedom but he would be tearful wheen talking about it, especially those dear friends/comrades who didn't make it back to Blighty.

I know without a doubt how he would react to what's happening to his country in 2026. And you wouldn't agree, that's for sure.

What do you think your Dad's thoughts would be ? 

My dad was a tolerant man who, who would be horrified that so many lies are being promoted by those with a vested interest to make people angry and deflect from other issues.

This country fought against Nazism, but the far right are using the same tactics that the Nazis used in Germany. They called Jews rats and blamed them for the problems that Germans were experiencing. They dehumanised and demonised them, as well as the sick, disabled and homosexuals. They kept on telling the people they were bad, until they dehumanised them so much, they were able to send them to detention camps.

We're seeing the far right doing exactly the same today, using the same playbook of demonising, dehumanising and now threatening to round them up and place them in detentions centres. 

The far right use these tactics to rile up their support and deflect from their true aims which are to cut the public spending that the protects the population. Remove the employment and environmental laws that do the same and continue making huge profits from the fossil fuel industries that are are killing the planet.  

Reform is mainly bankrolled by the fossil fuel industries, that are terrified that their ability to make huge profits will be curtailed by the need to reduce carbon emissions. 

I don't have children or grandchildren,  but I'm terrified by the thought of my nieces, nephews and their children living in a world where racism and bigotry win out over tolerance and care for others less fortunate. They will be living in a world of famine because the planet's climate has been wrecked by the drill baby drill ethos.

What happened to the "no need to mention the "p" word " ? 

I'm certain you wouldn't like anyone questioning or, heaven forbid, disparaging/telling  porkies about the party you clearly support so why should you be allowed to clearly name A N Other ? 

Seems to me that you'd rather this thread was closed down....

I wonder why ? 

I hate seeing threads closed down, especially 'p' threads. I am happy to argue against any of the far right views put forward. I was actually a Tory voter for 50 years, used to read the Daily Mail and questioned whether man made climate change was real. I also voted to leave the EU, to my eternal shame.

When the last Government lurched to the right and the lies became too much, I could no longer support them and voted Labour for the first time in my life, at the least election. Anyone who posted on the Politics threads will be able to confirm this. Labour are not perfect and they have made quite a few mistakes, but they are far better for the ordinary person than the billionaire backed populist party.

 The thought of a Reform Government that would introduce an insurance based healthcare system terrifies me. We would all be required to take out expensive insurance cover, with companies whose main aim is to make a profit. If you make too many claims your cover would be stopped or your premiums rise massively, eventually your cover may be stopped, that's what happens in the USA. Over half a million people are made bankrupt each year, citing medical bills as the reason. I dread to think how much my husband's cancer treatment has cost and how we would cope if we had to pay for it. You and I are both pensioners, how would you feel if you were made to take out expensive insurance cover, for something you've paid taxes and NI all your life? Privatisation has been a disaster for this country, with the chickens now coming home to roost.

On the NHS, we already have a two tier system, in my opinion. You can either wait ages to have treatment on the NHS, maybe even die in the process, or you can pay thousands to go privately. The NHS is broken, in my opinion. No one party to blame, it’s been going downhill for years. This isn’t a P post, just an observation of my recent experiences.

My husband had a mini stroke last August and was immediately scanned in A & E. He had a couple more scans very soon after, and one found a mass in his lung. He had other tests very quickly and it was quickly confirmed as lung cancer. He has had numerous scans, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and now immunotherapy. All very expensive, but none that he has had to pay for.

The care he has received from the NHS is exemplary and the staff all amazing. Our own GP surgery gets back to you the same day with the online triage system.  We may be lucky but I can't fault the NHS. 

The NHS isn't broken, that is just another far right piece of propaganda, so that the suggestion of an insurance scheme is accepted. 

Count yourself very lucky from your local NHS point of view and you are very naive by making a judgement based purely on your sole experience.

My GP gets back to me about 3 days later by text if I’m lucky, you can’t get an appointment for days and if you can’t book it online then tough you get no appointment full stop.

I paid for my own cancer treatment as I didn’t want to wait for up to 7 or 8 months for an operation after diagnosis.