Pet Peeves

[nukeabuse]

They recently brought tap and go for debit cards on metro buses in Belfast and it's a game changer. No more running to the bank machine before the bus and tryna explain why your braking a score for a £1.30 fair cuz the ATM had nothing smaller.

[Eoin McLove]

The only thing more spasticated than seeing stupid cunts wandering around in public, very blatantly taking selfie videos for social media is seeing their scrotumless boyfriends walking in front of them taking the video for them.

[Bürggermeister]

I think they're gas. The diva and her puppy dog boyfriend, invariably spending ages trying to take pictures which look spontaneous. She spends ages getting her hair right, does her pose, he takes the picture, they check picture and then repeat the process until it's time to move on to the next tourist landmark on the checklist, ignoring everything, both human and scenic, around them.

Such a pathetic existence is it's own punishment.

[StoutAndAle]

The only thing more spasticated than seeing stupid cunts wandering around in public, very blatantly taking selfie videos for social media is seeing their scrotumless boyfriends walking in front of them taking the video for them.

I think they're gas. The diva and her puppy dog boyfriend, invariably spending ages trying to take pictures which look spontaneous. She spends ages getting her hair right, does her pose, he takes the picture, they check picture and then repeat the process until it's time to move on to the next tourist landmark on the checklist, ignoring everything, both human and scenic, around them.

Such a pathetic existence is it's own punishment.

Yep. I was on holiday over Christmas and there was an American wan by the pool taking endless selfies of herself or getting her tiny fella to do them. Moving sun loungers and other shit too. Then she made the poor sap walk around the entire pool, get in and take a few shots of her from there while she fired a water pistol at him - they had brought this with them.

Next thing I heard was her dopey, LOUD Like, uhmahgawd! accent.

"Hey fam, Excellence Club level - you know how we do! Work hard, play hard!"

The god of shithousery shone his benevolent light down upon the situation though.

The pool concierge copped them and went over "Are you a member of the Excellence Club?"

"Yeah!"

"May I ask your room number?"

"Why?"

"This is a peaceful pool. All club members are made aware of that on check-in of their stay. You are making far too much noise."

She huffs and ignores him. He asks again. Her midget boyfriend calls out a room number.

"I'm afraid that is not an Excellence Club room and I sorry but you must leave or buy a pool pass for $35 per person."

They refused - so I guess that "work hard, play hard" has a price-cap of $35.

They had to pick up all their shit while everyone that they annoyed (by seeking attention in the first place) looked on. Walking in one direction before the concierge called out - "That's the private beach - you must go the other way. The way that you came in." and they had to trundle back past all of us again.



The amount of people that I saw at that resort making what, I assume, were YouTube videos was crazy.

"Check dis out! Like the video and finesse that subscribe button, y'all!"

Can't a pasty portly Irish lad just read his WWII book with a blue cocktail in peace?

[Eoin McLove]

Muppetry of unsurpassed/unsurpassable proportions. I return to an earlier question. When every dense, culture averse cunt is an influencer, who exactly is being influenced?

[StoutAndAle]

Muppetry of unsurpassed/unsurpassable proportions. I return to an earlier question. When every dense, culture averse cunt is an influencer, who exactly is being influenced?

You'd be amazed, man. I have two nieces - one just 18 and the other in her early-20s.

Both of them talk about Instagram/YouTube people like you and I would talk about - I dunno - Martin Scorsese or Jimmy Page {insert your own choice here}. These people are living completely contrived lives - all artifice - and making a fortune doing it.

Architectural Digest did an article on an Instagram influencer who bought a fucking massive house - a McMansion admittedly but you'd get my house into it 5 times over - and by the end of the article I couldn't figure out what tangible thing this lady had created bar posting photos of stuff she liked. 

Take the lad, Andrew Rea - AKA Binging With Babish - a man who cooks things on a static camera - not a trained chef. Pulled in over $8 million dollars last year - $3 million of it in advertising revenue alone - has a few books out and his own cookware range now.

Or the lad Bored Of Lunch on Instagram - he does 30 second videos of slow-cooker meals. Just wrote a book of recipes - pre-orders are through the roof, the yoke is on some best-seller list! Slow-cooker recipes! Put the stuff in the CrockPot - turn on - go out - come home... how much more could it be?

Some people must be being influenced.

[Eoin McLove]

At least they are cooking I suppose, but yeah, so much of it seems so utterly banal to me. I was listening to Lex Fridman interview The Beast (who?) and he's a youtube video maker who has reached 100,000,000 subscribers. I'm so far out of touch. I feel a hundred years old.

[StoutAndAle]

My nieces talk in an Instagram vernacular now.

The older one who just finished college now works in a job that pays double what I earn. We had coffee the other day. 

"How was Christmas?"

"We just, like, vibed in Dublin? Lived our best lives, you know? Totally chill for the most part."

She grew up out in a semi-rural part of Cork. Vibed, me hole!

I also feel 100 years old. Sometimes I think that maybe I was the same way as these kids when I was 20. Albeit with a different set of distractions.

I also believe that I was probably less self-involved and more engaged with the things happening around me. There's a weird detachment now - younger people don't seem to fully enjoy a situation until the see how many people have seen them enjoy said situation.

[Carnage]

They've grown up with an online presence that's as important and real to them as actual real life interaction, if not more so. Sad really.

[Necro Red]

I reckon people will have to go on courses to actually learn how to speak to each other in a few years because of this. Is it me or do younger people have this kind of American arrogant way of speaking? Like everything is beneath them. I don't get it it all, too much time spent listening to influencers?

[astfgyl]

There's a local lad round here that I'll have to find a link to. Puts up self shot videos of himself going to the church and shit but that description does no justice to the carry on of him

[astfgyl]

younger people don't seem to fully enjoy a situation until the see how many people have seen them enjoy said situation.

Nail on the head

[91/30]

There's a local lad round here that I'll have to find a link to. Puts up self shot videos of himself going to the church and shit but that description does no justice to the carry on of him

That sounds mighty, post up the link.  That'd be the channel for me, some buck firing silage in too a feeder out of a wheelbarrow and talking to the bullocks

[Despondent_Soul2]

Big, bad, shittalking Pagan/Black/BlackThrash/Satan folk with initials and funny names that still go get their children confirmed/christened/cursed as soon as they are told

[Giggles]

3 Arena charging €7.60 for a pint and they don't accept cash