Pet Peeves

[Caomhaoin]

Blessed relief sometimes though.

[astfgyl]

Ah yeah it generally improves things as a result

[Carnage]

It's like when you have a turbohypermegadump - the absolute relief garnered from just empttying yourself, godlike.

[astfgyl]

This new Scromiting bug really has me worried. It sounds far worse than monkeypox

[Giggles]

Being downwind from and inhaling other people's cigarettes or berry flavoured vapes.

Smokers who toss their butts onto the ground like it's somehow not littering. Especially when they're standing beside a fucking bin/wall mounted ashtray, designed and installed specifically for that purpose!

Trying to operate a touchscreen phone in the rain.

[Carnage]

Going to the dentist. Or rather the consequences of putting it on the long finger for too long.

[astfgyl]

I'm very bad for avoiding the dentist until I'm in actual pain and every time I swear I'm going to be better next time.

I've a peeve about how things are set up in this country in that unless you're on the serious bucks, working doesn't really pay. Like every time you get up in the money there's some extra tax or hike in some essential service to bring you back down to where you were at beforehand. And if you have young kids, the costs of childcare make it almost a waste of time going to work just to pay someone else to raise your kids and then rents/mortgages are so pricey that it often feels like selling the hours of your life for basically fuck all. That's a couple of peeves in one I suppose but they're all connected

[hellfire]

I've been feeling like that lately and started to develop disdain for the long term unemployed. Although they mumbled something about a tax break for workers I'll believe it when I see it. I have no problem with pensioners or the disabled getting all they deserve, but I do not owe some lazy bastard the right to sit around smoking joints while on the PlayStation. I'd be more inclined to accept the "I can't get a job" bit if it hadn't been for decades of Eastern European lads coming over and managing to get a job with ten words of English.

[astfgyl]

Sometimes I feel like that and then other times I think lads are right not to bother getting a job with the way things are set up. Like, faced with the choice of giving 40 hours a week to working or having the same or better lifestyle for not bothering it sounds like a no-brainer to me, except for some reason I'm one of the eejits who still chooses to head out 5 days a week to work. It's a silly system but I don't blame lads for taking advantage of it. Needs reform though because for a lot of people, working doesn't actually pay.

[hellfire]

Yeah, there's a lot that could be done and it wouldn't take more than five years. People on welfare shouldn't have the same or better standard of living as a lad who is turning up at seven every morning to open a petrol station or a barman who is listening to shit until 2am every night. A combination of lower to middle income workers getting tax breaks and even allowances added to reducing the income and side benefits of the dole would help. You'd have to throw in a way for people leaving the dole to access work too. Even with the cost of education and training it would still balance out.

[astfgyl]

That's it in a nutshell, it wouldn't be difficult to improve things for a lot of people but for some reason the political will isn't there. Seeing how taxpayer's money is wasted in this country I don't believe that we can't afford it in the slightest.

[astfgyl]

Here's a real Pet peeve of mine. Trying to watch the telly here while the little terrier beside me continuously slurps at his pipe. Well actually not continuously exactly, he takes the odd break to lick his lips as if he has cottonmouth but then it's straight back to the pipe licking. Drives me fuckin mad

[Mower Liberation Front]

Hermes/Evri.

"We're sorry that our driver delivered your package to a set of flats two doors down from the large electrical shop where it was actually addressed to, but we're not actually going to do nothing about it. We suggest you go after the seller instead. Bye!"

[Caomhaoin]

Irelands Call. I hate that song with a passion.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

With you on that. Phil Coulter is such a West Brit, the highest notes on his piano are in Chelsea.