The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

[Stormbringer]

these workers are made redundant, and are left jobless and disorientated. 

They are basically unemployed, homeless people asking for some spare change.

[Hatredsheart]

these workers are made redundant, and are left jobless and disorientated. 

They are basically unemployed, homeless people asking for some spare change.

Spare some change guvnor? Queen and 2,000 hungry larvae to support....

[arqueturus]

This kind of attitude:

Brexiters, a bunch of inbred ingnorant cunts that don't understand the tinniest amount about the complexity of the world around them. Fucktards. I'd like to sit down with a bunch of them in a locked room and take a baseball bat to each on of the ignorant cunts.

Seriously. You live in a democracy, which means you don't always get what you want. But you think the answer is to blame it all on people you don't know, lumping them all together -- people's grandmothers, grandfathers, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles -- calling them "inbred" and "ignorant", not understanding the "complexities" of the world -- and you think the answer is to...bash them over the head with a club?

That is the most savage, primitive, barbaric and idiotic method of problem-solving. It is cave-dweller philosophy. You, and people who come out with similiar homicidal statements, are the real problem.

Who said I don't know them?

And what I'd like wouldn't solve any problems, other than the punishment fitting the crime. As a country we're on an actual precipice - rushing head first towwards the edge and ruin. We live in a democracy where they're suspending Parliment to avoid democracy happening? I find that arguement lacking to say the least.

[Stormbringer]

My point is that I hate it when people start blaming their dissatisfaction with democratic politics on the people they don't agree with, and suggest the solution is killing them.

[Wrathbone]

While I agree with you in principal, I still think catapulting Michael Gove into the sun would be for the greater good.

[Mantis]

Exchange the catapult for a rocket and we could load it up with most of the current cabinet. Their Randian philosophy and the pretty flagrant disregard for the non-rich is actually quite scary. And to think that a large swathe of society votes for them.

I know we, as a nation, are many steps ahead of other countries in terms of how progressive we are, but we are slipping down a dangerous slope towards authoritarianism and right wing populism; thirty years of it is pushing us dangerously close to the brink. It makes me thoroughly ashamed to be British, and yes I am exposed to a lot of Brexit supporters beliefs on a routine basis so I have had a taste first hand of how serious it is. I love Europe and the nation's I have visited there, I will never understand the illogical and passionate hatred that so many here seem to have for the continent; though I suspect that a lot of it is down to an ignorant population which has slowly been brainwashed by a corrupt media for the last few decades.

Regardless of your views on the matter, keep it civil with each other in here please. Nobody has said anything out of line yet but I know how easy it is to get worked up over political discussion.

[Stormbringer]

we are slipping down a dangerous slope towards authoritarianism

And any talk of killing people as punishment for voting the "wrong" way, or holding the "wrong" view is exactly that.

[Mantis]

I don't think he necessarily suggested killing them, just a good old beating with a bat. And I tell you, a good beating as a child always set me straight. -_-

Anyway, this is a thread for people to have a moan, it is probably worth anticipating somewhat exaggerated language being used. As much as I understand the frustration that Arqueturus is likely feeling towards Brexit supporters, I suspect that in reality he would not actually advocate stoving all their heads in.

[Alan]

I don’t want them killed I want them moved to Ireland and the Irish move into England and we can all have a Celtic love in while they can be nice and isolated like they want. Everyone’s happy!

[Stormbringer]

Anyway, this is a thread for people to have a moan, it is probably worth anticipating somewhat exaggerated language being used. As much as I understand the frustration that Arqueturus is likely feeling towards Brexit supporters, I suspect that in reality he would not actually advocate stoving all their heads in.

Well, this is my official moan: that such language, whether meant or exaggerated, is unpleasant, unhealthy, causes further rifts and animosity, helps the situation in no way at all, and is the exact kind of verbal intolerance that the left likes to imagine it is opposed to.

[Rusty]

I was hoping this forum was a safe place to air weird/sarcastic views possibly for comedic effect. If I want serious debates about stuff it wouldn't be in the room 101 thread.

It can be elsewhere and then I'm free to engage or ignore.

[arqueturus]

I was hoping this forum was a safe place to air weird/sarcastic views possibly for comedic effect. If I want serious debates about stuff it wouldn't be in the room 101 thread.

It can be elsewhere and then I'm free to engage or ignore.

Bingo.

[arqueturus]

Anyway, this is a thread for people to have a moan, it is probably worth anticipating somewhat exaggerated language being used. As much as I understand the frustration that Arqueturus is likely feeling towards Brexit supporters, I suspect that in reality he would not actually advocate stoving all their heads in.

Well, this is my official moan: that such language, whether meant or exaggerated, is unpleasant, unhealthy, causes further rifts and animosity, helps the situation in no way at all, and is the exact kind of verbal intolerance that the left likes to imagine it is opposed to.

It's the 101 thread. The language is embellished but not the sentiment behind them.

helps the situation in no way at all

Highlighting this in particular as I can scarcley beleive I've read it. The situation is so far beyond help we've moved into the realms of fantasy.

I'm basing my opinions on some family members, some aqquaintances and every fucking Brexiteer or whatever they're called I read about ever.

[Stormbringer]

Yes, well, while most people in this thread so far have provided examples of minor inconveniences of modern life, which are actually funny, you've said you hate Brexiteers (50% of this country) and would like to injure or kill them, which changes the tone a bit.

However, I suppose it is the "things you hate" thread, so is legit... but then so is my hating that kind of attitude, which is, I would say, a much worse position to hold than wanting the UK to leave the EU.

Sorry to spoil your light-hearted vitriol, though, carry on!

[Stormbringer]

Right, here's another one:

People on trains. Ugh!

Background: we don't own a car, and we don't go on holidays abroad (apart from our annual Christmas family gathering in Tennessee), so our family summer getaways are often a series of day trips with the kids to places that we can get to and home again on public transport within an eight-hour window. Northumberland has become a favourite haunt of late, so the forty-minute train journey between Edinburgh and Berwick-Upon-Tweed has become a regular one for us.

However, it's rare these days that I get to travel on a train without some truly AWFUL behaviour eminating from some nearby passenger.

A couple of weeks ago it was a fat, very ugly Scottish woman who was talking at the top of her voice into her mobile, who had apparently been drinking heavily since she got on the train. This was at 8:00 in the morning. She was shouting such delightful phrases as: "THEY CAN SUCK MY FUCKIN' ARSE!" and "AYE, WE FUCKIN' DID IT, BUT I DIDNAE GET ANY PLEASURE FROM IT. SHE DID, BUT I DIDNAE. I'M TOTALLY FUCKIN' DRUNK BY THE WAY!"

Today, it was a family of Londoners -- two adults, three kids and a dog -- who at first were sprawled across the seats we had reserved. Thankfully, they did seem to be willing to move when we mentioned we'd reserved the seats, but with some feet-dragging. All three kids then crammed into two seats across from us and started bickering the whole way. One of them was a teenage girl, possibly a physically mature 12-year-old, or an emotionally immature 16-year-old, and while she was the greatest menace, all three of them whined at each other the whole way in their delightful Londony accents. It all kicked off when the youngest of the kids, a boy of perhaps 9 years of age, decided to repeatedly squeeze a plastic water bottle, which made a plasticy-crunching sound whenever he compressed it. This seemed to really wind up his mother (assuming she was his mother) and he was told to stop. He refused, so then the whole family erupted into chaos, with the teenage girl acting the worst; storming around and acting like a total brat.

Also, no offense intended, but, British regional accents, no matter the county, are dreadful. ¬_¬