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

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

Post by Sly Boots » Mon Dec 09, 2024 8:14 am

Sorry dude :cry:

My little guy is still only 3 and every so often I get pre-emptively upset at the thought of when he goes.

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Post by Alan » Mon Dec 09, 2024 8:54 am

My boys about to turn 13 and I can say I’ve consistently done that for 12 and a half years now.
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Post by Animalmother » Mon Dec 09, 2024 10:24 am

Thanks. He's been gone 7 months now and I'm not sure why it's hitting me so hard lately.

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Post by eny » Mon Dec 09, 2024 12:05 pm

I lost my Alfie on my 50th birthday 6 years ago, and still get waves. Every now and again he pops up in my dreams like nothing has happened, and there is nearly always a point of panic that I've let his water go dry...
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Post by Snowy » Mon Dec 09, 2024 3:56 pm

Oof that's a bitter pill.

I still miss Taz, our first Border Collie, and she has been gone 10 years now. For most of that time we have had Misty, who is a lovely pooch, but it doesn't make losing other pets any easier to take.
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Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

Post by Raid » Sat Dec 14, 2024 5:16 pm

Any and all websites that present you with a static view that changes when you scroll. I don't understand why these things are so common, they're terrible user experiences because you get no feedback on when to stop scrolling, and then you need to scroll back "up" to read the actual content. The BBC website just put up a gallery of fantastic photos from this year's F1 season, and I just don't understand why someone thinks this is an appropriate format to display a gallery of static images.

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Post by Snowy » Mon Dec 16, 2024 7:45 am

Agree completely, I would much rather have had a slide-show with some contextual text on each photo to the side.

This looks a lot like it was made using Sway, which I am having to use more at work these days. Possibly the worst, least intuitive presentation format I have ever come across to actually create content in, and I detest the scrolling mess that results from it.
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Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

Post by Sly Boots » Mon Dec 16, 2024 8:10 am

Oh... yes, that is bad. That's the first time I've seen anything like that honestly, it's garbage.

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

Post by Snowy » Mon Dec 16, 2024 2:33 pm

Proof once more, were it needed (it isn't) that technologically just because you can doesn't mean you should.
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Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

Post by Snowy » Thu Dec 26, 2024 12:03 am

I would like to nominate these fucking shows that only seem to be aired at Xmas (and which my wife has a habit of watching) that show clips of stuff with a cast of utter z-list cretins telling you why each is funny, or how hilarious they found watching it. Viral net bollocks, limp old comedy TV bollocks, whatever the bollocks whether amusing or not you have to sit through these irrelevant cunts flapping their gums telling you why it is a good thing. Utter shite of the lowest order, the entire show's content could be run through in around 3 minutes without the drivelling cock-dribbles and we could all be on our way, but no.

Merry Xmas one and all :twisted:
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Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

Post by Rusty » Thu Dec 26, 2024 12:07 am

Yup, that's channel 5 through and through.

15 minutes of actual content and 2 hours of people explaining what you've just watched. Thanks. I just watched it.
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