RANT!

[ivoralljack]

Jeremy Clarkson is not my favourite person but he often talks sense and in a humorous way. Here's something from the Sun for which newspaper he writes.

As we know, the most diverse and woke place on Earth is to be found in the commercial breaks on television.
You have a black father and his white wife with their Chinese and Indian children going to the supermarket in their electric car to buy vegan snacks from a transgender checkout person.......

Here's another piece from the same article:

According to the statistics, the Welsh seaside resort of Aberystwyth is among the top ten dangerous small towns in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There's a smorgasbord of violent crime, drugs, theft, burglary and shoplifting - so you'd imagine the police are pretty busy.
Well yes, but they're not so busy that they don't have the time and resources to investigate a note that's been left outside someone's house inviting them to go back to Birmingham. This, according to Plod, is a hate crime.
So, if you've been beaten up or burgled, I'm afraid you'll have to wait until the scoundrel who wrote this vile message is found, prosecuted and jailed for life.

I've said before that I'm sick and tired of being dictated to by the screeching woke, PC and tokenism brigade. It's MY life and I'll make my own decisions as to what I consider to be right and wrong. I don't need these mouthy cretins forcing their radical views on me thank you very much. By the way, have you noticed on television thrillers and police dramas, that men in authority have become an endangered species? In the police force the top brass is fast heading for female exclusivity. All I seem to hear these days from male police officers is, "Yes, ma'am, no ma'am, three bags full ma'am." It's "ma'am this" or "ma'am" that....... I mean, can anyone remember the days when it was sir?

Don't misunderstand me, I fully appreciate that there are many extremely capable women not only in the police force but in all walks of life, who fully deserve their high profile positions. But I also know that many enjoy this status purely as a form of tokensism rather than ability. And it's time it stopped.

 

[ivoralljack]

Here's a couple of light-hearted rants, or rather things I've noted that puzzle me.

How come you seem to get through 90% of your toothpaste in a week or so then the other 10% takes a couple of months?
Who's responsible for ensuring that toilet and kitchen rolls always seem to tear diagonally at the bottom instead of evenly across the perforation?
Why is it that, when I become aware of a fellow customer when I'm shopping in a supermarket, they are ALWAYS in front of me at the checkout?

Mysteries of life, eh?

 

[KVetch]

I get it, I don't know if it's more blatant to an older crowd. We grew up in a different time, I wonder if younger people see it as normal. I cringe at commercials that try to be perfect, they care more about pandering to everyone they forget to sell the product.

 

[ivoralljack]

Is it me or are today's plastic surgery obssessed female generation getting uglier as a result of it? Look at the lips on some of them. It looks like someone has glued a set of Dunlop innertubes on their faces!

 

[Yankee_Jack]

It's getting pretty fugly.

 

[The Blobster]

I can't believe they pay for the botox treatment that totally disfigures them, instead of enhancement they get unnecessary enlargement. UGH !

 

[Behindthegoal]

Sleep safe guys! It’s not you they’re trying to attract!

 

[ivoralljack]

Nearly cut my fingers off last night trying to open a packet of ham! You must have all noticed that hopeful legend "peel here" on the corners of plastic film-covered containers of food. You grip the tiny piece of film they've left available between finger and thumb and then you tug... and you tug... and you tug. You'd have more success opening a can of beans with your teeth!! And all because some character, hell bent on taking revenge on the human race, has decided to spot-weld that piece of film to the container. That's my theory anyway. I was finally reduced to hacking at the film with a knife, which slipped and raked across my fingers.

Not in the best of moods, I later contacted customer service regarding an appliance I'd bought that staunchly resisted all my efforts to get it to work. After 10 minutes of getting absolutely nowhere because they didn't have a fucking clue, is there anything more annoying when they ask if there's anything else they can do for you when they haven't done the one thing you've asked them to do!

 

[Yankee_Jack]

Falls under the heading of "Smart Fucker's Best Idea of the Year" ....

BBC Football removing their score and table panel from the main web page

Microsoft reconfiguring the user interface of Excel with the Ribbon in 2007 (ish), rendering millions of accountants that could play Excel like Chopin played the piano into fumbling idiots overnight.

Martin's Madness ... with 3+2 and FIsher in goal ... says it all.

 

[ivoralljack]

From my newly acquired Book of Rants:

You buy a new shirt and the first thing you want to do when you get home is try it on. This is easier said than done! First you have to remove 37 pins from various points around the shirt, two strips of clear plastic from under the collar, pieces of cardboard from the collar and the back and, sometimes, even plastic clips on the cuffs. By the time you've done all this the shirt has gone out of fashion! And there's always one pin that you miss, only realising the oversight when it jabs into your ribs the first time you wear it! Did I buy a shirt or a fucking pincushion?

 

[Behindthegoal]

Charity shops have a good range of shirts ready to wear, better quality and cheaper price.

 

[ivoralljack]

I see that Eurosport commentator, Bob Ballard has been dismissed for making a 'shameful' comment during the Olympic swimming competition. The Aussie team for the 4 x 100 relay were exiting the pool when Ballard said, "Well, the women are just finishing up. You know what women are like..... hanging around, doing their make-up." And this banter was described as being shameful???????? Further, his co-commentator Lizzie Simmonds called it 'outrageous'. What the fuck is this dimwit talking about? Outrageous?? This was harmless fun, gentle banter. What's going on in the Middle East and the Ukraine is 'outrageous'. Get a life, woman, for pity's sake. I'm sick and tired of seeing/hearing things like this. The very noisy minority in the form of the woke/PC brigade are dictating how the rest of us live our lives and I've had enough. Ordinary, sensible folk will soon be too afraid to open their mouths about anything at all in case a self-important twat jumps all over them claiming they've been insulted in one way or another.

But these types had better beware. People can only take so much of such unadulterated shit and I can see the time coming when the response to such whining will be a sharp slap in the mouth accompanied by the advice to get a fucking life.

 

[The Blobster]

Dodgy reffing in the Olympics boxing ring ! Welsh girl robbed by judges , opponent spent 3 rounds running away and hardly threw a punch and even had a point deducted in last round for constantly pulling her opponents head down ,but she got through on a split decision ! This was yesterday but I'm still fuming !

 

[KVetch]

Refereeing across every sport seems to have declined in the past few years

 

[JackBarSteward]

Roman Empire - Expansion, Decline, Legacy history is repeating itself (for the western world at least) and unfortunately we are living in the fall.

 

[ivoralljack]

Refereeing across every sport seems to have declined in the past few years

A cynic might say that officials see the amount of money footballers etc earn and they've decided to jump on the gravy train by whatever means they can.

 

[ivoralljack]

Right, the US election is over and it seems the Madman has triumphed over the Halfwit. Obviously I don't have first hand knowledge of life in America, so I can only form opinions based on what I see and hear in the media and read in the press. Equally obviously such opinions are heavily biased depending on your source of information. The BBC, for instance, has become totally useless. Once a reliable source respected world-wide, it is now seemingly infested with a glut of woke/PC/leftwing prats so I've decided to ignore it as a source of credible, unbiased news reporting. As have most others.

Without delving too heavily into politics, which is an absolute no-no on here, I wonder if @Yankee_Jack can give us some sort of feedback on the state of play over there as he lives and breathes it every day. Just some general observations will be fine, Yankee, as we don't want to erupt into a civil war on the site. Things such as who would have been better for UK/US relations etc

 

[CroJack]

 

[Yankee_Jack]

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Unfortunately, it is not for general amusement, but a place for shock and horror.

 

[Yankee_Jack]

Generally speaking, i am still numb.

It is difficult to fathom how Harris, a relatively clean rank and file politician but with two prejudicial attributes (female and black), could be beaten by a geriatric person with phases of dementia, so void of values, a convicted felon, an indicted seditionist, an indicted violator of top secret documents and obstructor of justice …. excluded for brevity … and a civilly liable and sanctioned rapist. These are all facts. Not even in a hollywood script could such a plot be written, but it has come to pass.

A person that has declared to the masses his state of mind and agenda and has still gathered a winning count in the electoral college and the popular vote. Voting against best interest barely scratches the surface.

i have yet to see a cogent and complete analysis of who failed to vote, or who voted for who as to understand what exactly went off course. The female and black attributes factored into it I think. The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision apparently not so much.

Economically speaking, if a fraction of his agenda comes to pass, it’s going to be a shit show for the lower tiers of the economic pyramid. The foreign policy ramifications are also too broad and harmful to contemplate. Ukraine has until Jan 20 to win or they are fucked or so close to it that hospice will be all that is left.

There are now 4 years of what came before but with somebody who has been granted immunity from criminal prosecution by the Supreme Court and who is wiser about the system and how to work through it, around it, change it and with fewer barriers, checks and balances in place.

IMHO, The USA is about to enter its own equivalent of Brexit or worse.

People voted for a person they would never marry, date, have teach their children, have look after their children, take religious sacraments from, or employ in their business or want as a colleague or as a trusted comrade in arms in a fox hole. But apparently would grant virtually absolute power