101 Things that get on our tits but don't actually matter in the slightest. - The Bear and Badger

cockbeard

Kow wrote:

Quornt

Ergo Plato etc etc

Escape

Talking of clean...

— Athletes who accuse others of doping

Murray's been criticising Sharapova, and there he is in a photo with Anthony ‘Greens’ Joshua. He's also mates with David ‘Spinach’ Haye. And probably on the gear himself. Schippers wants world records prior to 2005 erased, while Radcliffe obviously doesn't agree. Ennis has also been quite vocal about ‘cheats’. I hope that people look more charitably upon Chambers one day for at least having the balls to own up.

PEDs are as good as mandatory in track, boxing, baseball, and MMA. They're used in football for stamina and cricket for injury prevention and hastened healing; ageing bowlers face back and shoulder problems. They're all over the tennis lawn, but brushed under its tarp.

I'm not in favour of legalising PEDs in sport because that's like allowing anorexia in a dieting competition, but it rankles that so many people are oblivious to its mighty prevalence.

Hodge360

Council have cut the grass in our local playing pitches and green spaces. Now my back garden is covered in what must be thousands of dandelion seeds. Looks like clumps of cotton wool all over the place.

pantyfire

Torch it.

Hodge360

The council?

superflyninja

People who wear tshirts with political slogans. Fuck.Off.
Repeal the 8th my hole. Fuck you thats why.
Disclaimer : Content of the slogan matters not.

Same with the likes of Greenday and their shit political songs. Yeah they are probably doing God's work but ruining otherwise halfway servicable songs int the process. Stick to singing about traps and drinking and Limp Bizkit.

[Deleted User]

App designers who think their keyboard is better than the system keyboard. You know, the one which has had significantly more testing, and which the users are already very familiar with.

Cunts.

GooberTheHat

Which apps have keyboards that override the default? That's just daft.

HawBawJaws

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

Working night shift and then having my down time between shifts be filled with construction noise and contructors yelling at each other. Shut uuuuuuup I wanna watch some stuff without distractions.
Doesn't help that they also work on weekends.

https://youtu.be/enrF8-AEQtc

[Deleted User]

GooberTheHat wrote:

Which apps have keyboards that override the default? That's just daft.

Most TV on demand apps on phones and consoles. Loads of games.

In my experience, more use their own than use the system one. They are uniformly shite.

Yossarian

Andy wrote:

Most TV on demand apps on phones and consoles. Loads of games.

In my experience, more use their own than use the system one. They are uniformly shite.

*Android phones. Custom keyboards weren't allowed on iOS devices until a year or two ago, almost nothing has a custom keyboard.

Diluted Dante

Doesn't Andy have an iPhone?

Yossarian

I just tried the 4 TVOD apps I have on my iPhone, not a custom keyboard between them.

Dark Soldier

Dante! Did The Evil Within turn up the other week?

Diluted Dante

Oh shit, yes, I meant to PM you, cheers. Actually arrived on my birthday, which was a nice bonus, although there was a distinct lack of tranny porn in the box with it.

[Deleted User]

Yossarian wrote:

Andy wrote:

Most TV on demand apps on phones and consoles. Loads of games. In my experience, more use their own than use the system one. They are uniformly shite.

*Android phones. Custom keyboards weren't allowed on iOS devices until a year or two ago, almost nothing has a custom keyboard.

Apologies, yup. Clearly my brain is conflating console memories with iOS ones. Sorry.

The console ones drive me mad enough to affect everything I interact with.

Dark Soldier

Diluted Dante wrote:

Oh shit, yes, I meant to PM you, cheers. Actually arrived on my birthday, which was a nice bonus, although there was a distinct lack of tranny porn in the box with it.

Next time, promise.

GooberTheHat

Yossarian wrote:

Andy wrote:

Most TV on demand apps on phones and consoles. Loads of games.

In my experience, more use their own than use the system one. They are uniformly shite.

*Android phones. Custom keyboards weren't allowed on iOS devices until a year or two ago, almost nothing has a custom keyboard.

Pretty sure none of my phone apps use anything other than the keyboard app I've selected as my default.

Yossarian

It seems quite possible that none on any phones do.

cockbeard

I can see why tv remotes would, it's extra branding plus they want it to look like their remote

ShabbyMcCrabby

HawBawJaws wrote:

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

Working night shift and then having my down time between shifts be filled with construction noise and contructors yelling at each other. Shut uuuuuuup I wanna watch some stuff without distractions.
Doesn't help that they also work on weekends.

https://youtu.be/enrF8-AEQtc

Pretty much

HawBawJaws

Was the same when I worked nightshift in the casino.

My mrs at the time couldn't understand why i didn't want to eat dinner with her, failing to realise that I'd just woken up and wanted cornflakes, not a full dinner.

[Deleted User]

I find that my body is inconsistent with it. Sometimes I'll wake up and want breakfast, other times I'm hungry for dinner.

cockbeard

Yours rotate though, I always found rotating shifts like that take more effort, to realign with a new pattern every four days, Definitely not good for the body

Escape

Aye, some nurses do 12-hour shifts on a four-day rotation. One of those off days is pretty much lost in transition.

Escape

— BT's ads

‘Our super-reliable Wi-Fi’ — you can't guarantee that! Someone who lives out on the middle of a moor's gonna get a much better home connection than anyone who lives in a city, regardless of router quality.

And they've an ad that screams ‘marketing agency’, where the music changes from a-bit-of-bass-for-the-boys-and-dads to tweedily-dee for the mums. And then repeats. Some dandy wee agency charged a small fortune for that ‘targeted insight’.

[Deleted User]

Escape wrote:

Aye, some nurses do 12-hour shifts on a four-day rotation. One of those off days is pretty much lost in transition.

Different job but my Dad has done similar pretty much my entire life.

It used to be 4 days, 4 off, 4 nights, 4 off.
Now it is 2 days, 2 nights, 4 off.

Either way he was always a zombie on the first day off.
It is far from ideal and the amount of time off on paper is flattering.

Seemed like the blocks of 4 were better but hard to say as he was also a lot younger. 60 is too old for that shit.

Escape

Liveinadive wrote:

the amount of time off on paper is flattering.

Exactly that. My mum didn't do days, but she worked four nights in a care home, and it destroys the quality of your sleep after a while. She got by on 4.5 hours for years, and although she was able to catch up a bit on her days off, her body clock became accustomed.

Tell you what, though: the GP wife of one of her cousins is paid a grand per night in her hospital. And he's also wealthy, so she works part-time. I wouldn't mind nights under those conditions. (Apart from the GP thing.)

[Deleted User]

My Dad always suffered, you could see it. Especially during summer, the light, noise and hayfever meant he got very little sleep.
It is dangerous really, night shifts should be lighter on hours. Not sure what your Mum did (guessing Nurse) but lives can be lost. My Dad was signing off engineering work on commercial airlines.

Escape

Fewer hours and representative pay, yeah.

My sister works in an ITU ward and took a degree conversion to allow her to administer certain meds. Sleep deprivation's especially dangerous there because patients are at the mercy of monitors.

Her salary's below £30k, by the way, so it bugs me when people dismiss nurses as comfortably-off professionals. She could double her wage by moving into management, but she hates the idea. I've seen a lot of nurse-bashing by Tory-voters lately, so that's going into 101.

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