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.