I hate

Tiny sample from a fat large population.

Who can just stop at a sample though...

Really sad if so :(

Educationally, computing is one of those fields that suffers particularly from "Those who can...", the gap between industry and academic wages and resources being so huge. There are some centres of real excellence and a lot of mediocrity. The range of people choosing to study/work in computing is much broader and more diverse than it used to be, which ought to help improve the creativity and variety in teaching as well. Counterbalancing that, though, is pressure on the universities/colleges to prioritise practical modules on industry-standard tech. I know one place that had some really inspiring educators on the staff, but their very engaging and creative content was steadily marginalised or removed; getting practical things done in Python displacing original thinking about computing fundamentals. So it goes.

Bike brand sites are the worst. Loads of massive images that you have to scroll through in order to get to a button that says 'see the bikes'. Why else would I fucking be on the site? I couldn't give a shit about some bad lifestyle photos and faux design sketches of the frame.

Elite Tennis, Wimbledon particularly, but also those players who can't play without making the Wilhelm Scream with every shot. Should be a dq offence instantly.

Tennis in general tho, really. For so many reasons.

Whatsapp groups with lots of parents. For something where attendance isn't compulsory, and you don't really need to let people know your child won't make it.

The first "<x> can't make it tonight. So sorry!" prompts a load more, and then you get the escalating reasons game:

"<b> can't make it as she is away at a week long <sport> camp."
"<j> can't make it as she playing for her school in the regional finals."
"<z> can't make it as she has an audience with the President of the US and the King."

FUCK OFF. NO-ONE CARES ABOUT WHETHER YOUR CHILD CAN MAKE IT OR NOT.

I much preferred it when these Whatsapp groups only allowed admins to post. That way they could let us know whether training was on or not and you wouldn't get any of this other unimportant shite.

(I can't mute the group as I need to know whether the training is on this evening or not.)

Fees that back to the group admin. It's probably too late for this cohort now but they can do it differently for the next lot.

Putting up a tent when absolutely wankered.

Rookie mistake. Put the tent up, get wankered in the tent.

Amateurs
Get wankered, let someone else bother with the tent

You're assuming that putting up a tent was part of the plan before they got wankered.

Get so wankered you don’t need a tent

Never get wankered enough to consider camping in a tent

Get so wankered you spend the night in someone else’s tent.

Eat tent sleep in bottle.

Use tent as a sleeping bag

Absolutely. Admins posts something, then there's ding, ding & ding during work as the parents wade in. I was thinking this yesterday and wondering where this behaviour comes from, particularly the unnecessary explanation of what they are doing. I can only assume other social media parading? I just cannot understand why I would feel the need to share this information with other parents, 95% of whom I've never spoken to. We've even had holiday photos creep into the U14 basketball group.

Disagree. Putting up my tent, and then mates tents as they arrived in a storm that flooded the festival, while I was battered was almost the highlight of the festival for me.

My mate recently had a whatsapp group for an event and had himself as the only one able to post. Absolute game changer. I guess the admin probably gets bombarded with direct messages tho.

Re: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/17047425/

Umpire is on here? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/66204024

^ I'm sure if you analysed the time between ball contact and the shout you'll find that particular point was an outlier. The ball was over the net when the bulk of the noise came out. Can't see how he could complain about being called on that.

I watched it on tv and my first thought was ‘what an oddly delayed grunt’ or maybe the stadium acoustics. Then the umpire made the call, and Djokodick and the crowd reacted like the umpire had thrown JSO confetti across the net. Glad I’m not an umpire.

Yeah, at the end of the day it's just elite sport and therefore, by very definition, nothing really important, but some people have to have their thing I suppose.

If JSO happens at an event I'm present at hopefully I'll have the presence of mind to stand up and clap/cheer them on.

When you order a flat white and they automatically put in oat milk!