I hate

First thing I thought was someone was smoking a cigarillo but then turned around to see some blokes sucking on cigars instead.

Waking up from a really sweet dream

Instagram, who's paying £5 a month for Instagram content?

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Yes, they were cigarettes that smelt like cigars. Max strength!!

Cycling around to the sound of shotgun blasts. If you want to be a wanker, just go and jerk each other off in the shooting lodge. It would be cheaper, more pleasurable, less environmentally damaging, and you could still eat what you’d caught at the end of the day if you wanted to.

TV shows where the premise seems to be just about someone making horrific choices.

I hate those people. Don’t advertise it and glorify it.

Have you seen Don't Tell The Bride though? An absolute master class in fucking your life up. Great telly.

It would be cheaper, more pleasurable, less environmentally damaging, and you could still eat what you’d caught at the end of the day if you wanted to.

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True crime industry...doing it's best to keep everyone scared and believe all your neighbours are paedos or murderers

English football fans. Honestly what were they thinking.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/25/exclusive-england-fans-knight-fancy-dress-accused-muslim-killers/

hilarious that they think the qataris are woke

"it's just banter" won't wash with Qatari police.

A few times Arsenal have played away in Germany some of the Arsenal fans brought paper and foam Lancaster bomber gliders to fly around the stadiums. Pretty brain dead in cities where tens of thousands of people were killed by the RAF. Those incidents were always explained away as "just banter".

On the plus side the Dortmund/Munich/Cologne fans I talk to found it quite amysing. Amusing in a "how funny that this pond life has no idea how much they're embarrassing themselves" kind of way.

The German CEO of a company I once worked for was bought a birthday gift every year by one of the investors. One year a model tiger tank, another a spitfire and then wine from the Wittmann winery (Wittman was a WW2 SS tank ace).

Two world wars and one world cup! Lads, lads lads!

Tinsel. I really hate tinsel. it looks shit. It's out for 1 month of the year, yet the scraps of this environmental disaster of a product hang around the house for the another 3.

Related, but why does my partner insist on buying a new set of fairy lights every christmas? Why do they all come with some unnecessarily massive awkward plug - Ah, they come with an inbuilt timer of course! - nope.

Mini mince pies get me surprisingly angry

@Scrabble

fairy lights

I hate the way the extension cable bit before the lights start is so short.

TBH all the reasons above are probably why your partner gets a new set every year.

The real question is why she doesn't buy a really good set with all the bells and whistles.

Ah, they come with an inbuilt timer of course!

Don't forget the 17 different flash settings, all designed to induce a slightly different headache/flickering vision of madness. Only solid on should be allowed in my opinion, just like bike lights.

just like bike lights

This. Flashy bike lights are only used by the very worst in society

Fairy lights on bikes are very good though

Really? As both a driver (for a living) and cyclist, I appreciate them.

I thought a steady state was better from a driver's POV but happy to be corrected.

Feel happy! Eyesight uses saccades. Flashing is better.

https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2019/06/26/things-you-should-learn-about-bike-safety-from-a-royal-air-force-pilot/

https://www.londoncyclist.co.uk/raf-pilot-teach-cyclists/

Cyclists and motorcyclists:

Recognise the risk of being in a saccade. High contrast clothing and lights help. In particular, flashing LED’s (front and rear) are especially effective for cyclists as they create contrast and the on-off flashing attracts the peripheral vision in the same manner that movement does. There’s nothing wrong with leaving these on during the day. (Especially if they are rechargeable)

Both is best. And eye searing misaligned bright lights (especially rear lights) are a really bad idea unless you want to be rear-ended by several tonnes of vehicle who's driver can't see properly (especially in wet conditions where droplets on the windscreen make it worse) because they can't see properly.

Flashing lights get more attention than a solid light. But you can't easily judge the distance of a flashing light, hence the idea to have both.

I used to prefer the Cateye TL-LD1100 lights as you could have one row steady and one row flashing, but it's probably better to have them separated a bit more to increase visibility and reduce the single point of failure.

Also, your perception of time changes during/after saccade movements. If you ever look at a clock and think it's felt like longer than a second for the hand to move that's because for your brain it has.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982202007078