Yeah, with that dysfunctional set of In Laws you can't blame her to be fair.

Easier to blame press intrusion than cause a row, though.

Yeah you can, you just have to be clever about it.

Jogging scum.

Taking my daily air and exercise yesterday, pushing my daughter along a wide path next to a park, and this middle aged jogger, panting and sweating more heavily than a nymph on a porno, ran right past us making no attempt to give us a wide berth. Totally consumed in his own selfish exercise regime. I'm going out with a gun today. These feckers just can't get away with it anymore.

And in one post bubbs became D-FENS.

Obeying keep off the grass rules - phew!

Open carry comes to the U.K did not think it would happen in my life time.:D

Hey Bubbs, I run every day and I always give way to others. But I think there are a lot more joggers out there now, who just don’t know the form. And if they are new to the game, then they are probably in a world of pain. :D. If that’s any consolation.

I've been wondering whether it's illegal for joggers to say thank you when you move out of the way for them.

Sky sport's headline article being “Man United: The 50 Signings That Got Away”

Double wankers. They really are having a disgraceful pandemic.

All the Premier League footballers and managers who have not yet voluntarily taken wage cuts to ensure that the non playing staff at their clubs retain their earnings and jobs.

I am wondering why anyone would give joggers the right of way.

Cyclists are the same

We were on holiday a few years back and there were an awful lot of (I think) Dutch cyclists. We had to dodge each and every one of them in the morning/evening walk to the bus stop. I got more and more incensed with each dodge, and by the end, I gave a few a piece of my mind. Turns out they have right of way out there and I was the ignorant one :o

(I think I may have read that revelation on here though...)

I agree but will add the owners who I suspect aren't short of a bob or two.

CROYDON COUNCIL!!!!!!

But they know to stay 2m away from folk.......

On LinkedIn I really don’t need to see any more screenshots of companies doing their online zoom calls.

If I'm out jogging and I cant get around you then I coming through... politely of course.

Plenty of walkers are the same. Some don't even establish eye contact, almost as if they think a look can pass it on.

And don't get me started on the tosser riding his electric scooter on the pavement up to the Chinese Garage roundabout at about 12.40 today, who brushed my wife's sleeve as he sped past without warning.

Things that annoy you
 

What have they done ? Or what haven’t they done?

Not good enough right now. You might think you're being polite, but Covid-19 isn't. It's a footpath, not a running track.

I've given up saying thank you to people who make way for me. The thing is, if you're on a bike and going faster than anything else on the footpath, I mean bridleway, you pass so many people that it just gets a bit tedious after a while. I've also found that if you slow down to pass pedestrians, they give you both barrels anyway, because the true anti-social cyclist they last encountered was going too fast to hear it so they give it to you instead. Now I just hurtle past, and if I discern a remark being made at me, I make a hand gesture.

Why do people feel the need to get out of the way of cyclists and joggers anyway? Can bikes and joggers only go in straight lines or something? People love to make a scene. I'm sure there are better ways of farming things to talk about with friends and family than screaming at strangers in the countryside and in parks. It's idiotic.

TV ads for life cover. Loads of them at the moment. Typical.

More trivially, sky sports presenters not wearing ties. What's that about?

Many (not all) cyclists and joggers do seem only to go in straight lines in my experience and expect others to give way. Try walking along the Thames path without being nearly run over by some loony speed merchant. Bicycles used to have bells, now it’s often bellends. (Not saying that necessarily applies to you, SB.)

I havent been out running since the outbreak.

I meant back in the olden days when we could go out without infecting each other.

Oh, don't give a toss in 'normal' circumstances :)

In my case yes, I can only go in straight-ish lines. That would be due to the brick wall or wood on one side and a canal on the other side.

A single walker is easy to move around, a group walking two or three abreast.... not happening

Only left the house in the last three weeks for food shopping or the occasional walk where empty streets meaning passing is not an issue.

Me spending hours on my daughter's school project last week as part of home schooling and then it not even getting marked. I should, I mean, SHE should have won that hands down!

Why do joggers love themselves so much? They’re putting one foot in front of the other at a quicker interval than people waking. Big fat hairy deal.

Yeh, but they've got the Lycra, trainers and earphones. I really don't get it with younger people - ruining their ankles, knees and hips on hard pavement, when they should be home shagging or getting spannered. What sort of f*cking dullard have you got to be to go out jogging with your partner, rather than either of the former?

Oh yes, teenage joggers annoy me particularly. I mean come on, stop trying to be 50 before you’re 25....but I fear today’s youngsters see some appeal in this. They do of course, know everything about life already.

The panic buyers who bought all the tins of mushy peas. Bastards.

Dried mushy peas brother, they're amazing.

My wife Part XXVIII:

She is totally obsessed with this Covid-19. She spends most of her day watching CNN and getting worked up either about Trump or the numbers or the advise being bandied about, which she is constantly passing on to me.... "You might want to listen to this" is all I get out of her. I know I'm pissing her off with my lack of concern, so I guess we are even!

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the seriousness of this, and she does have an underlying condition that would probably finish her off if she got it, but God give it a rest!

I'll check out the BBC or CNN (or the BBS) once or twice a day for an update, but damned if I'm going to get sucked into her obsession.

Inwardly, I'm worried, concerned and pissed off about this, but outwardly I guess I'm being too cool about it for her liking.

Watching the TV news isn't going to change anything.


Stay at home, drink booze and keep away from people.


Watch old movies, read books, listen to records and drink even more booze. The chance of a lifetime. Avoid TV news.

It's like talking to a brick wall GB...

What's that old prayer:

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference

And I'm not religious, but I've always tried to follow this logic.

That's every bloody day, regardless. Only those now confined to barracks realise it :D. Go for a policy that has more stars than Sun Life, I reckon :lux: :lux:

Talking of ads, I mute the sound every time that E-Bay "94 seconds" rubbish comes on. Excruciating in the extreme.

Hadn’t heard that one. Nice.

The AA (no, not the car one) adopted it and gave it the title the Serenity Prayer

"We're ramping up ...!"
(Apologies if already done)

Everytime something happens turn to her and say "And what have you little friends on the internet got to say about that?"

Perfect advice.

And avoid the BBS ...Oh!

Why would they? WTF is a tie for anyway? it's the most pointless piece of clothing ever. Usually worn by wankers who have the misguided idea they are somehow important because they sit in an office punching worthless shit into a computer for 40 years.

You can't tie a tie can you. :)

Really needs to be a Windsor Knot :p

Lovely...I bet Sick Bucket is a proper peanut boy.

Google, locking our academy out of Google Classroom because we are not an apt client due to us being profit making...ignoring the fact that Google Classroom is used by all the fee paying schools I know of.

Of course I can, had to wear them at school, always thought they were ridiculous.

Dunno whats a peanut boy?

I know what peanut smuggling is though :)

So what's the point of a tie?

Deffo a peanut boy

Because all the other designs to wear round your neck didn't work:

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Funny you say that, I nearly said that yesterday evening, and bit my tongue just in time.

She is in a group of women that meet/met once a week to practice "mindfulness and self awareness", whenever that is. They text each other all day with God knows what.

Yep, I just found that out myself. Although apparently they change the words slightly. It is also taken from a longer verse called the Serenity Prayer. (Thank you Wikipedia)

More that a lot of companies insist on them still

It’s only in the last 12 months we have become tie less in the office. Still need one if meeting a customer, although if you know your customer doesn’t wear one you can go without

ITS PAYBCK

Really Maz?

Surprised - quite common I think.

And a good philosophy of life.

What's good for the gander is good for the goose in this case. :)

Today's annoyance is the new leaves sprouting on the tress around us are inexplicably losing them... what's that all about (they must be sick). I just go through cleaning up all the autumn fall off.

Oh, and yellow pollen everywhere making my nose run.

The Great British Menu on BBC. Great British Ego Trip more like. Just pretentious bollocks.

So predictable now. Chef Googles the brief and then declares a life long love of whatever is thrown up by the search to provide a dish. “Oh yes, James and the Giant Peach was always my favourite book when I was young (chinny reckon) - “so here’s a peach cobbler” (emphasis on the cobblers)
Don’t forget to bung in a reference to your granny, too.

Whilst we’re on tonight’s TV.....Celebrity Road Trips/Travelogues. The BBC’s lawyers should really look into a second series of this ridiculous ITV rip off of Top Gear’s “specials” tonight. British TV gets an idea and hammers it into the ground so much. We’re only a Rizla paper’s width away from Youth Hosteling with Chris Eubank and the executives don’t even realise it.

The use of the word bracing on the news. As in "Australians are bracing for an increase in Covid19" or Bracing for a "Steep rise in the price of petrol" I don't sit leaned forward with my head between my knees, unless I am in a plane which is about to crash.

John Carson DUP councillor, who reckons COVID 19 is God’s punishment for allowing abortions and same sex marriage. [emoji35]

Excessive media time given to Nicola Sturgeon whilst Mark Drakeford and Arlene Kelly reduced to fleeting cameo roles :veryangry

There lies the problem. CNN is as bad as Fox News. They are both full of political propaganda that makes their viewers ready to attack anyone wearing a " MAGA" hat, sporting a lumberjack beard or someone fondling the local apple tree. All politics are local. Stick to your local news.

They must be well pleased with all things Cuomo atm.

He's bluffed the nation with his smart tongue. Most New Yorkers think he's a wanker.

Exactly! I've been telling my wife to just watch the Newsom and Garcetti news conferences if she must... they will tell us all we need to know, and all that effects our day to day circumstances.

I think the poster is referring to Chris Cuomo (CNN Presenter and Andrew's brother) who has the virus.

But two peas in a pod and all that...

Funny how women are always in a better mood after watching a few re-runs of 'Murder she Wrote,' than after viewing the National weather or some obscure politicians view point on the National news.

Was referring to the Governor albeit today it became a double act of mutual brotherly back-slapping which I guess was to be expected? The missus is most definitely taken in and hanging on his every word!

Mine too. She was talking about voting for him (Cuomo) as a write-in come election day, if Trump doesn't cancel it.

I do quite like Chris Cuomo on CNN, and hate to say it, but him getting the virus can only be good for ratings, although I don't believe there is any skullduggery involved.

hmm .. this is politics Hedge and US politics at that?

Re-runs of Murder She Wrote should be an alternative to Community Service..

Dog owner c*nts who think they own the whole park that they're walking their shit c*nt mutt in. Not the dogs fault but doesn't help when you're being harassed by the bastards when trying to walk peacefully. Keep them on a lead or train them properly.

For some God-unknown reason, American politics is excluded from the politics forum.

I heard somewhere that the NY Mayor and him said basically the same things and Cuomo was given hero status whilst the mayor was vilified.

Listening to smug, Over paid arrogant, responsibility free Journalists from the media, sitting in their cosy offices at home criticising, asking banal and irrelevant questions of experts and playing politics with Corona virus.

Armchair experts like Peston, who was firmly put in his place today by an expert Professor who politely pointed out that he has thirty years experience of studying viruses, this is obviously considerably more than the couple of weeks Peston has been at it, but despite that Peston felt the need to argue the toss. The problem is, Peston is not alone, each night there are an Army of them. Another this evening asked the Minister of state for Health during the evening update on Corona Virus a question on Footballers Pay cuts. It beggars belief that in a crisis like this we allow this sort of time wasting of a group of people who are under tremendous pressure in a time of crisis. Transparency is one thing, but these time wasters, are doing the country an injustice and taking up the time of serious men with their mostly ignorant and repetitive questioning. Surely they can get together, agree a sensible set of questions and take turns each day to pose them, rather than 16 or so asking the same questions over and over.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xcQaQIB1fSk

It is a useful word when used correctly. For instance, in Scotland, it is a main phrase used in foreplay, as in 'brace yerself, Margot'.

Agree 100%. We can no longer rely on journalists to ask the important questions, just the ones that generate clicks/views. never been so disappointed with the 'serious' press who have become cartoon like.

...‘We need to start thinking about both how we minimise the harms from the virus, and those of the economic and social effects of the shutdown. Testing and contact tracing is part of the armoury’ – Global Public Health Professor David McCoy

The latest First 4 Lawyers ad, using The Thieving Magpie as background music. Did they really think that one through?

So it's my turn to be at work today, and i see one of managers has taken the liberty of arranging a video meeting from his sofa.

At 16:30.


****.

So pleased you posted this.
I can't stand those doom-monger feckers and have given up with the daily briefing.
Frankly, if I was Boris and friends I'd have lamped one of them by now. Setting all allegiance to one side, the PM/Cabinet member plus 2 others get up and say what they are doing to meet the immediate and long term problems during a crisis but all those pretentious media c*ckwombles are interested in is getting their mush and conspicuously arranged back drop on the TV - ideally while appearing incredulous as to how another human being hasn't solved this immediately.

Well I feel better now anyway.

Skegness is quite bracing? But to be fair there's quite a few people on a Summer's Saturday night in Skeggy with their head between their knees!

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The fact that builders seem to not be included in the lockdown. Stay home save lives unless your a builder knocking up an extension for someone.

The fact that journalists are getting panned on here.

It’s a fundamental and important function of democracy ... unlike in China for example.

That all depends on the quality of the journalism

Quite frankly I hope The Sun, Star, Mirror, Mail and Guardian (just on the basis of some of the shit they’ve come up with in the last few weeks) go bust and never print another word again

Bracing would be one word for it.

There are plenty of others that describe it far better

We need a balanced spectrum of reporters.

The idea that we can function without mass media is dangerous.

Edit... and because this is the things that annoy you thread I’m annoyed that you missed off the Express and the ******* Daily Telegraph. Wankers.

Big old show offs like Peston, not the trade itself.

:p

See post #31990.

That pretty much sums it up

Who else would keep the memory of the People's Princess alive if the Express went? Is that what you want? It would be like she never shone her light in the world.

I’d muddle through ....just

That an iPhone can’t multitask :(
I want to listen to YouTube live streams and do other stuff but no it’s like the dark ages of one thing at a time.