I don’t think I’ve ever purposefully assigned someone a gender as an adult. I’ll admit that I joined in with “he’s a fag” insults as a child and it’s something I regret. Passively I might occasionally consider what gender I think someone is, as a random thought but not for any purpose, and certainly not to assign them their gender.

I agree that just because there are labels doesn’t mean we should label people. They also weren’t ‘my’ labels. They were extracted from the article I posted.

The Biden thread is in the politics forum and a debate began and a new thread was started by a mod in the politics forum. It then got deleted.

It’s annoying if that helps? :)

Sealions, I think.

You weren't wrong. ;)

Presumably, the thread was closed due to too many unsavoury comments. I doubt a mod would close another thread if it was created, as long as people remain respectful, which it was before I went to bed.

Was Bollocky Bill posting? Doesn't seem like his sort of conversation.

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. Was Bollocky Bill posting? Doesn't seem like his sort of conversation.[/QUOTE

Well there did seem to be a lot of bollocks spoken, mostly about who had them and who didn't and did having them give one an unfair advantage in the women's shot putt.

[QUOTE=big bad John;16339451]:supergrin:

Two posters locked horns and I think one called the other a keyboard warrior and said something about meeting at the next match, at which point the other posted up his seat number.

Ah, thank you. It must've been tempting to post the seat number of that one obnoxiously annoying fan who always irritates. Two birds, one stone.

Assuming I understand the term correctly, sealioning is the sort of thing that a-a's idiot brother and certain BBSers whose usernames begin with "h" indulge in.

Not of the circus variety I hope?

Laughing like Jimmy Carr? :confused:

Kids cartoons. Nigh on always finish with a character saying something lamely funny or doing something amusing and everyone laughing….cue, end credits.

I make a statement backed up with two scientific papers. You state I’m wrong, the papers are wrong, and i’m a stupid/mad Irishman (in a jovial fashion), I ask you if I’m wrong then what’s right and you sidestep the question. And I’m the one sea lioning? Yeah right, that works. Lol.

To keep the thread on topic a reverse sea Lion is annoying :)

Is this a convoluted way of asking WCB for his seat number?

Not really no. I’d enjoy a beer with him but I don’t fancy him reverse sea lioning me on his seat. It would be far too public and not of my gender.

Mums.

Overrated.

Some new words - gaslighting, for example - add colour and interest to our language.

'Sealioning', by contrast, adds nothing but sadness. As in it's sad to see grown men use kids' argot when better adult words exist. (Which takes us back on-thread).

I dont particularly like the term and wont use it myself having just looked up what it meant, but doesn't it describe a new concept that an already established word does not?

It doesnt seem like kids argot to me reading this as it would require a degree of intelligence to understand it’s application rather than just saying ‘lit’ rather than ‘wizard’ or what ever one said in their day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Garden hose, especially when wound on a tiny reel.
Has anyone invented one that actually unrolls ?

They need to have rollers with a roof to protect them from the sun otherwise the hose just becomes hard and a nightmare to wind back. I gave up with rolling ours back a long time ago. I just bung it in the shed unravelled now and it's much quicker for getting out and putting away when watering the garden in the summer.

My neighbor asked me to water his flowers recently while they were out of town and they had one of those flexible hoses (not sure the technical term is). I was rather skeptical about it, but it was a revelation.

I will definitely get one myself when my current one takes a dump.

https://i.insider.com/603932c205ddb1...jpeg&auto=webp

Apparently they are called expandable hoses.

Yup I got one of them, bloody good they are and save space and all

Takes us back to the gender discussion.

Actually on reflection it was more like this one:

https://www.epicgardening.com/wp-con...ablel-hose.jpg

Looks like an alien. At least you didn't have to water the grass.

Waking at 03.15am for a turnout.

It's better than the alternative.

Driving back from Leeds on the M1 on Saturday - an alarming number of drivers holding and using their mobiles - the giveaway being their cars moving about in their lanes unpredictably and their eyes looking downward. Of course, one or two may have been engaged in other distracting activities but I imagine the majority were texting.

Hearing it on the radio earlier reminded me how much playing 'Chelsea dagger' every ******* match at Selhurst irritates me. Whoever really thinks "Chelsea, Chelsea .." booming out pre-match is a good idea needs stringing up

I'm 100 percent with this. A song that should only be played at Chelsea and liked by Chelsea fans.

I often notice that here in Edinburgh. I keep meaning to count to get an average but lose interest very quickly; but I’d say off the top of my head, it is almost 1 in 15 drivers I notice furtively glancing down at the ‘floor.’

Maybe done before but people standing at zebra crossing on their phones texting. Mive away from the crossing you muppet

Not needing a turnout ?

Todays fly sprays they dont work unless you hit the thing with the can. Worse no newspapers nowdays and struggling in my battle with one fly since Sunday. What is the best thing on the market nowdays

Try a Fly Zapper (cost about £15). It looks like a small plastic tennis racket with a grid of electric mesh that electrocutes using the battery in the handle.

It looks naff but works well because flies see a newspaper coming at them whereas they can 'see through' the mesh on the zapper. and so do not see it as a threat. That way you can get it right over them before they move off.

I also dislike fly spray because I have to believe that spraying presumably toxic gunk around an area that you are living and breathing cannot be good for you.

Oyster card readers on busses. they love my debit card yet half the time fail to recognise an oyster card ffs...

Thanks just ordered one same day delivery on Amazon will let you know how I get on.....

Booked a scratch repair three weeks ago and paid a deposit.


Get there this morning and the company went into administration four days ago. That's annoying.

I thought I read somewhere it was the air being displaced in front of the incoming newspaper that alerted the flies to move before they get squished?

That is fly swatters work... the air moves through the mesh rather than being pushed forward.

Is correct.

My missus bought me one of the battery zappers, but it's the size of a bl00dy tennis racquet ��

Yes, that would be bloody annoying.

Needing a massive piss and being stuck outside the Blackwall tunnel for 3 hours.

About 15 years back, I dropped a bag of laundry into my local laundromat. Used to pay the bit extra for them to do it as they'd fold it nicely instead of lobbing it straight into the bag like I'd do.
Nothing fancy, just loads of work shirts, t-shirts etc. I didn't bother going to pick it up for a few days. When I did, it was Martin luther King Day and it was closed. I thought it unusual that a Chinese laundry would honor that day so left it another few days before returning. Still closed; with no sign to tell you why. Inquired next door and was told they had gone out of business. The phone number on the laundry ticket was disconnected.
It was over a year later when I noticed renovations being done on the store. I was introduced to the new owner and told her my sorrowful story about how much some of those Fruit of the looms meant to me. I was brought to the basement and there was my laundry bag along with about 30 other bags.
When she eventually opened the place about a month later she was kind enough to launder it all for free.

Surely this should be in the "things that make you happy" thread?

See it say it sorted. On southern rail trains. Drives me mad.

I still hear it as 'See it, Say it, sort it' appealing to all the 'Have a go' heroes?

Watching the sweaty NONCE escorting the Queen into Westminster Abbey on the news just now.

The sweaty ******* nonce. She can do one as well if she thinks she’s bringing the pervert back.

First chance she’s had too.

Clocks going forward. I’d just about reset my body clock to wake up at 6.30 since going back to the office regularly but this week I’m struggling to feel awake before 7.30.

I prefer the lighter evenings but I don’t see why we can’t just stick to either GMT or BST for the whole year.

No. Needing a turnout, but not getting up.

You know those people who suddenly become their mother's carer in order to slip in there and get the lion's share of the inheritance? That.

Normally never seen, they basically just sit in their elderly parents' house chatting and having tea made for them.

Having summomed the servants to make the tea, surely?

Edit: Yep - sorry EN, I didn't read your post carefully enough!

'Annoy' is a bit of an understatement, but my car just getting keyed. I'd love to key their face

I hate that too. But, I just learned to treat my car as a way to get from A to B and now I don't care how the outside looks :supergrin:

Dyson

just stop with this utter shite...

https://www.dyson.co.uk/wearables/dy...448383&sl_rid=

is that a couple of days early? It looks like a really shit Cyberman.

Mines arrived I need a bit of practice on my backhand but it is leading 40 love in the first game

I bought a Venus Fly-trap Williams instead. :o

Even the beeb are on it...


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60927032

still looks uber shite....

Designed for the Asian market without a doubt.

Great, so instead of fixing the problem we cause more pollution by manufacturing more plastic crap. Well done Dyson.

I try to think the same, but it's difficult. Does anyone actually TRY to prevent their car doors from hitting the parked car next to them any more? Our car is only 3 years old but suffers from a constant stream of ****wits who seem unable to complete this simple task.
Oh and a daft old bint reversed straight off her driveway into the side of it whilst my wife was in stationary traffic, when the car was only 3 months old.

After a meeting with WCB that was Tense, he informed me that in order to carry out your recommendation, I would have to start a new thread, entitled, "things that Made you happy.";)

Getting your Debit/Cash card cloned and having to get a new card... At least the bank has gates in place to catch its fraudulent use.

Someone tried to use my card clone to buy a shit load of petrol/gas twice.

Pretty sure it was copied at a petrol station cash machine... it's the only place I use it. If only people wouldn't insist on getting paid in cash still I wouldn't even need the damn thing.

LOL how many days after the fact, and you get whooshed by your own joke.

The fact that BMWs still aren't fitted with working indicators.

Not an annoyance, but something I found quite amusing last week.

We had one of our famous live prime time high speed car chases though the streets of Los Angeles last week. The vehicle being chased was a stolen black Mercedes SUV. The guy was driving at very high speeds on freeways and surface streets in rush hour traffic, but something that made me smile was he was indicating his every move... which I found very commendable, as I basically have never seen a Los Angeles Police Department, California Highway Patrol or Los Angeles County Sheriff ever use their turn signal at any time!

I digress...

That is quite a charming way to maximise the fun of playing "chase me, chase me" though. It's miserable if the chasers lose you by accidentally taking a wrong turn

I had a woman driving a jeep effectively park her vehicle against the side of mine last summer.
Then she compounded her failure by reversing it. A right mess. Her insurance got properly f*cked. Idiot.

I drive a silver Toyota now, after years of Renault.
I have lost count of the number of times people have tried to get into the back, assuming I'm their Uber. Doh!

I was looking into leasing a car a few years ago. The guy at the leasing company told me not to get Toyota or everyone would think I was a cab driver!

I had one drunk woman shouting at me that I was late, even after I'd informed her I wasn't an Uber.
Had another swaying moron still asking if I'd take him home anyway.
Happens all the time because I pick one of my kids up from Leicester Square at 1am, after his work shift.

The cracker was a neighbour, who I assumed knew who I was after living in the same street for 30 years, trying to get in when I parked outside our house.

My consent for Cookies on every bloody website.

I was sat in our previous car in a service station whilst on route to our holiday. A rust bucket of a BMW driver tried to drive straight into the space next to me (when anyone with half a brain could see it was too tight). He didn't stop even when I shouted at the dick before he hit us . So we went on holiday with concertinas down the driver's side of the car.

It's amazing you were able to tell in advance which way they were headed, given the indicator problem highlighted above

You can generally see the direction a car is heading in, just by looking at it's movement. HTH.

BBC website asking you periodically if you want to sign in "because the experience is better if you do". And only giving you "Yes" or "Maybe Later" as the options. There should be a law under which they have to give you a "No and do not ask me again" option to such questions.

Leigh Francis in any of his guises.

With you on that one.

Actually, calling it a cookie is really annoying - making it sound nice and homey like you're going to get a cup of tea to go with it.

It's a tracker so just call it a bloody tracker!

Amen to that

On the official Palace web site when doing a report on the Academy games they have photos of players but never say who they are.

Now I appreciate if I was a proper Palace fan I should know who they are without needing their names under their picture, but I'm sorry to say I'm apparently not!

Bit of a catch 22 really... if I knew who they were I wouldn't need their names added, but if I don't know who they are I will never know because there is no name under the picture!

Fully on board, totally think its all total claptrap, but, I did work with him once and he was genuinely lovely.

Olivia Colman. Totally overrated and constantly on the telly. Gurning munter.

Agreed, very annoying.

Micr*s*ft a/holes keep telling me to 'complete my set-up'. I have nothing else to connect to let you track me, you b'stards. Where is the 'decline' option?

And no, I still don't want Windows 11. Just piss off!

Instagram... used to like it, but now just full of irrelevant suggested content and stupid annoying reels :veryangry

Great shag though.

For 2 weeks now we’ve had a blue tit attacking himself in our conservatory windows. Amusing for a day or so but terribly annoying now. Not the sharpest tool in the box.

My bank website forced me to change my password about a week back.

I went to get on there today and had forgotten it had been changed. After 3 failed attempts it locked me out, not I have to go through hoops to get it unlocked.

I usually use the app on the phone and use my fingerprint to access, so rarely use the password... bastards.

I use a particularly strange user name for my Chase bank access, and a very poor but very easy to remember password and have always wondered why the bank a) accepted it in the first place and b) have not asked me to change it.
I have always wondered about the username bit.... I cannot imagine anyone linking my username to me so I assume the password bit is moot.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Am I any safer with a complicated username?

I don't think they care about the username CT. In fact most of mine appear to be my email address. I suppose it doesn't hurt to have a complex one though.

I think I posted on here somewhere last week about my debit card getting cloned. I've watched a few videos as to how they do it. I still find it hard to believe false fronts and overlays are attached to petrol pumps and cash machines so easily in this day and age when everything seems to be videoed.

And I'm still baffled as to how the embedded chip in the cards is supposed to help?

I use a virtual Desktop sometimes for work, and it has recently decided that my keyboard is an AZERTY layout rather than QWERTY. It makes it very difficult to do any typing & coding!

I don't know if this is because our VPN system appears to locate me in Amsterdam according to my IP address, because there's nothing in the settings that looks any different to my main laptop settings

When my work laptop warns me caps lock is on and it absolutely f**king isn't.

Constant company e-mails to provide feedback on ...............

If you can't trust your staff to provide good customer service, then you shouldn't have employed them.

I particularly dislike the "How likely are you to recommend" question.

I am very unlikely to recommend any company, like I will not recommend hotels, restaurants or contractors... rating from 1 to 10 for such a question is never going to happen with me anyway.

It's bad when big brother can take a dislike to your BBS username and shut down your accounts.

Hugely popular survey process I’m afraid to say even though much hated by many https://www.hotjar.com/net-promoter-score/

AZERTY is usually French (or bits of Belgium) - what Virtual Desktop are you using? It should be easy to change locale settings unless they have tied it down (or it is Shitrix) in which case a ticket to your help desk / IT support should do it :)

This new win probability percentage we get given on the TV, total bollocks, I appreciate I can just ignore it but it ****s me off, the beauty of football is that it's unpredictable.