I hate

Because trees are the responsibility of a tenant so someone plants one then moves out and the next tenant inherits a £1000 problem they ain’t going to fix.
(There is a 8meter cherry about 50cm from my boundary)

Sycamores are fucking weeds. There are a few in my garden allowed to grow by the previous lazy owners and our neighbour that are just too big for me to deal with solo. All they do is make anything underneath them manky and drop their bastard spinny seeds everywhere so more of the fuckers spring up.

Ah. The "Anti Anti-Fascists."

Reduce your fraction and see who you really are.

Could we have a list of these canceled companies and people?

+1

What are we, like 10yrs into cancel culture now?

There must be tens of thousands of examples.

If it's the sort of thing that gets your goat I reckon you'd be able to easily list at least 10 people who've had their livelihood reduced to a pittance, or companies forced into administration.

I'm not that up on it, so the only one I can think of is the Dixie Chicks.

Just chicks now I think

Not so much a hate as a strong irk: selling something as ‘brand new’, and then saying it’s only been used N amount or whatever.

An item can’t be brand new and used. Selling a not-unused or lightly used item and calling it brand new makes me think the seller, a) can’t be bothered with listing something correctly; b) doesn’t know what they’re talking about; or c) has no issue with trying to mislead buyers. None of those inspire confidence.

My GF has one towering over her garden. She lives in a C19th terrace and it’s in next doors garden barely 10ft from the back of their property and 20ft from hers. Not surprisingly she has had trouble with her drains not clearing and the neighbours are being total s**ts about allowing access to the Southwest Water engineers who have positively identified a high spot in the pipe work under their garden. They know fine well the tree is to blame and removing it would cost them dear. Wondering if the water company has the power to force them to fell the tree on the grounds of basic sanitation.

removing it would cost them dear

Presumably they’re thinking of leaving before it becomes a major problem? Wouldn’t it cost them more, and be far more unpleasant, if something happened to the pipe or the system?

You just have to look at who benefits from branding anti fascists as hypocrites or extremists. Do you find yourself agreeing with lots of Trump and other far right politicians' views?

I would guess their plumbing is downstream of the offending tree root. My GF is new to the area, her neighbours have been there for years. Their response (which sounds well rehearsed) is that they are not affected, it’s someone else’s problem even though it’s their negligence that has caused it. But that can’t be proved without first entering the house then digging up the garden and, well, you know what you can do with that idea, matey.

You can get any decent drain company to fo a camera survey. They’ll identify the problem easily and for about £250.

The upturn in the drain has been identified and the location too. What can’t be ascertained is the reason for this as the camera can only see inside the pipe.

“Millennials are mean,” said Emily Gorcenski, a data scientist and activist. “We’re mean because we’ve been raised to live in a world that doesn’t exist, and it doesn’t exist because the people who raised us for that world ensured it doesn’t exist. And we process our anger through all sorts of channels, from sarcasm to pure hatred and rage.” But because there is no organized forum for this anger, it can fire off at random and at whatever target happens to be closest. Often, it is directed toward people with perceived and proximal power: You have more followers than me, you have a blue check, your tweet is viral — thus you must be held accountable. (“Oppressing small accounts with my big account,” as the writer and Big Twitter Account Harron Walker once joked.)

https://www.curbed.com/2021/08/p-e-moskowitz-parallel-parking.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

Interesting read that, thanks!

Two things.

1. Defrosting the freezer. I have a fancy steamer permanently on loan and it makes this job a joy. However, every time it needs doing it's because I've left it too long and needs to be done right away otherwise the freezer won't close. Added to this my OH is prang about the kids food defrosting so I'm under this immense time pressure and can never do a thorough job or enjoy slicing through ice and creating bellowing clouds of steam.
   
2. My home printer. Everyone has experienced the bullshittery of a rarely used domestic printer so I won't waste the keystrokes describing the usual hour long process to get four wonky pages.
   

i actually tackled this last week. a work colleague said 'i will move this meeting to next week' and I said no, make a new one.

i also find that on my version of outlook if an original meeting in the past is moved the reminder doesn't automatically pop-up so it is doubly annoying

How is that still a thing? That wasn't necessary in my fridge 20 years ago and isn't now, only
had this in a rental place but that is to be expected that they install garbage.

Freezer.

And your mum too.

But yeah it came with the house so could well be that old.

Don't slice the ice! Concentrate on warming the exposed metal tubes containing the coolant - Soon to be 'warmlant' - to defrost the deepest parts quicker.

And when storing the frozen food, cold air drops, so put the freezer bags into a plastic crate, creating a cold trap around the base for the cold air to pool into - and put most vulnerable food on bottom, and all sacrificial (ie ice cubes, freezer packs) on the very top!

I'm afraid physics can't help with with the printer.

Appropriate user name is appropriate.

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The game is up!

Disproportionately emotive language

An example (from some time back so reheated hate at best) - I had a decision to make at work. I decided to run it by a colleague who wasn’t accountable for the decision but whose perspective I thought would be useful in making sure all angles were covered. I listened, thought about what they said but ultimately decided to stick with the original decision. I thanked them for their input and explained why I was taking the course of action. They reported to colleagues that they’d offered their views but been ‘shouted down’.

See also ‘smashing it’ for riding to the shops for milk

Of course this may be zeitgeisty irony, in which case as you were, it’s myself I hate

Things people call chargers that aren't chargers. For example the mains adapter for your mobile phone or the high current socket for your EV.