>>23185 People looking shocked at my answers to their questions about what I will be doing on weekends. I like to stay at home. I like my home. I like wasting my time on my laptop and watching whatever sports is on TV. Why is there this pressure to always go out and maybe do something? Why can't they leave me alone? Why make me feel shitty about what I'm doing? Fucking cunts.
"Oh what are you doing this weekend??"
FUCKING NOTHING.
Segment on Theresa May in Harrogate. First shot is of a milliners. ONE HAT LEFT IN THE RING. Followed by shitloads of vox pop.
Segment on Theresa May in Great Yarmouth. First shot is of a land train. IS EVERYBODY ON BOARD? Followed by shitloads of vox pop, because I really care about the opinion of some bint who works in a chippy and wears plastic hoop earrings. Shots of kids making sandcastles. SHAPING THE FUTURE.
>>23200 >Recruitment consultants.
Fuck yes. I will die happy if I never, ever have to deal with these people ever again. I know I'm the product rather than the customer, but is it too much to ask for there to be at least one agency out there that aren't complete fucking time-wasters? No, you can't have a Word document. My CV is a finely-crafted instrument, I am not letting you fuck with it. No, I already told you I don't own a car so no, I can't work in the middle of fucking nowhere. Yes, I know that company sounds interesting but no, their hiring policy of "email only, anyone that phones us uninvited will be rejected" tells me they're hiding something. No, I'm not going to interview for a company that states right there in the advert that they won't cover travel expenses. No, I'm not going to interview for a company that says they want a DBS but want me to pay for it. No, I'm not going to bite on your "confidential" lead. I don't do blind dates, so tell me who you're pitching for first.
Cunts who decide to smoke while waiting for the bus but rather than taking note of the wind direction, stand against the wind so the smoke blows through the shelter/stop.
I'd never really watched it before yesterday morning, but then Derbyshire herself was asking questions like "would Theresa May have had some champagne after knowing she'd be the next PM?", and there was this daft obsession with what people on Twitter thought. Well, perhaps "thought" is putting a little strongly, but they'd definitely said it.
My mobile phone company has a nifty little feature that still allows you to view their website even if you don't have any data (I assume they all do this). Unfortunately the geniuses at this particular provider have failed to realise that it doesn't actually allow you to log in and/or purchase more data thus making the feature completely and totally useless unless you're willing to ask a random stranger on the bus to turn on his hotspot for 30 seconds.
I don't know why this makes me so angry. It's obviously a result of incompetence rather than actual malice, and you can always just call them anyway, but Jesus Christ it makes me want to scream.
I only just noticed, on probably my fourth viewing of the film, that the scene in Shaun of the Dead where Shaun and three other people are all trying to fire the same gun is obviously inspired by four people trying to play a Playstation or Xbox or whatever but only having the one controller.
I feel dense, but I'm obviously brighter than I was on past viewings, so that's a positive.
I applied for an Irish passport and on the application form it had a number.
You put that number in on the Irish embassy website and it tells you exactly when your application was received, what stage it is at, what the expected time of completion and delivery is and how long it expects the current stage to take.
It's bloody clever, yet simple and nice to know. Why can't we have something like that with ours?
I'm gonna ask because I'm almost certain I wasn't in the wrong, but thought anonymous, neutral input might help me decide if I overreacted.
I was taking my dog for a walk, it's quite a small dog but it's friendly enough and usually will sniff other dogs that sniff it or just casually walk past and I've always had a dog as a pet throughout my life, so I'm quite a dog fan/ have been walking a dog since I was little.
As I was walking today there were three people with what must have been about 10 different dogs blocking the path and so I put my dog on a lead as it is a good dog, but you never know around large groups how they might react if they panic.
As I got close, about 5 of the dogs started running towards us and barking aggressively. As I said, I've always been a dog person so a barking dog doesn't really bother me, but even I was a bit nervous when they started running and barking so fast. They were medium to large sized and surrounded my dog barking and growling at it. So I picked my dog up in my arm in case one of them took a bite and because my dog was having a bit of a mini-meltdown.
As I picked up my dog the other people started trying to call their dogs back but their dogs weren't interested and started jumping up at me. I firmly but calmly told a dog 'DOWN' and pointed with my hand but it didn't listen, by this point it was jumping up, with others, trying to get my dog and was caked in mud, covering me in mud at the same time.
It wouldn't get down a second time of asking so I firmly, but not in anyway that would harm the dog pushed its body away and to the ground.
I said to the people, again, slightly miffed I was covered in mud but nice enough 'please don't let your dog off a lead near others if you can't control it, it shouldn't be jumping or baking at other dogs like that.'
One of them stopped and said 'it's your fault, you're making your dog scared by picking it up and if you pick it up dogs are only going to jump up at you.'
This annoyed me a bit because they acted as if
A) I have no right to remove my dog from danger and carry it if I so wish
B) Their dogs had the right to jump up uncontrolled and cover me in mud (and I didn't know them, so potentially attack me)
I lost my temper and said that was a rude attitude and that if they can't control them they should have them on a lead and that they shouldn't be jumping up once again and then one, who had walked far enough way not to be in my immediate area then started shouting abuse saying I had a bad attitude and that it was my fault for picking up my dog and that if I didn't like it I was gonna have a bad time walking my dog in this area (which I've lived in all my life and walked dogs on for 20 something years and is a public green space/walkway).
I told them once again to keep their dogs they cna't control on a lead but now I'm second guessing myself.
They were two middle aged women and a fat man and I'm a young man. I could have taken them, I will give them that, I don't think it was a 'don't walk your dog around here again or I'll knife you' type thing.
I'm just wondering how some people can justify their dogs acting aggressively and accosting people and covering them in shit and then act as if angry people are the ones that are out of place/ being unreasonable.
>>23226 Not unless you're missing out some key piece of information, like that when you first saw them you started shouting at them they they're cunts and you're going to stab them then fuck the wounds.
You didn't over-react, you under reacted. Those are the sorts of situations where I find it hard not to punch people; those times where someone is clearly the one in the wrong yet act as if they are not only oblivious, but have the audacity to accuse you of being the instigator.
I'm guessing you're either a southerner or a woman, because I'm imagining you getting flustered and going "Well I think you're being quite rude!" instead of the more appropriate "LEARN TO CONTROL YOUR MUTT YOU FUCKING INBRED WANKER".
Normally I fuck up, but this is pretty much what happened. I was surprisingly calm considering a load of rude cunts thought their dog had the right to cover me in shit.
>>23231 Sadly I'm not, it really was a case of me going 'Get your dog on a lead if you can't control it' back and forth.
It really infuriates me people will go home thinking how they were in the right in that situation. Maybe my northerness wasn't strong enough to convey just how pissed I was.
My security question for my Blizzard account is "What make was your first car?".
Apparently "I've never owned a car what the fuck is wrong with you" is not the right answer.
>>23234 That's an improvement on simply asking for your mother's maiden name. In Wales you could probably brute-force it for half the population in under five guesses.
>>23240 I hate that bollocks. I've never had to use the security question for years on any of my accounts, but I recently discovered that Microsoft in particular love locking you out if you sign in from a different country. Did I remember any answers to questions I made 5+ years ago that I never had to use? No. It took me a month to be able to change my security info and get back into my accounts.
I once had to tell someone my 'mother's maiden name' over the phone.
I no longer use quite such rude words when filling in stuff, neither of us needed that level of awkwardness - I was only ever expecting to need to type it.
>>23226 Those dogs sound like they are badly socialised and trained; they shouldn't be picking on other dogs or jumping up once told firmly to stop it. Medium to large dogs, or even small yappy ones, should not be allowed to go mad with jumping on people as dogs are stupid and don't always tell the difference between jumping on a grown adult and a 4 foot child. The fact that they didn't respond to being called back also indicates they're poorly trained. Also, when you have that many dogs being walked how do you even cope without at least a few of them on leads? The fact that you remained fairly polite and calm in the face of being threatened indicates that they were being more cunty than you were.