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

[Sly Boots]

Sorry dude

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

[Alan]

My boys about to turn 13 and I can say I’ve consistently done that for 12 and a half years now.

[Animalmother]

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

[eny]

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...

[Snowy]

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.

[Raid]

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.

[Snowy]

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.

[Sly Boots]

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

[Snowy]

Proof once more, were it needed (it isn't) that technologically just because you can doesn't mean you should.

[Snowy]

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

[Rusty]

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.

[Tommy]

Migraines.

Why appear only after fun stuff and at inopportune times.

I should be allowed to eat cheese and crackers (at Christmas no less), without having to spend half the night lying in bed like I’ve had a minor stroke.

On the subject of those rubbish Christmas clip shows - what I don’t follow is the financial incentive to make new versions of them. If it’s the same clip when Cheryl Fergison tells me about it, it’s the same clip when Shaun Williamson tells me about it. Why not just re-run them in perpetuity?!

[Sly Boots]

I don't think we're the target market for these clip shows, it's for people's nans who just want to stay sat down after the king's speech and have a chuckle for the 1000th time over Morecambe & Wise and Del Boy falling through the bar, and think about the good old days...

[Tommy]

I don't think we're the target market for these clip shows, it's for people's nans who just want to stay sat down after the king's speech and have a chuckle for the 1000th time over Morecambe & Wise and Del Boy falling through the bar, and think about the good old days...

Exactly, so why is a new version necessary that has a YouTuber’s analysis instead of Crazy Frog or some other shite?!

[Alan]

I have two Corair K63's. One on my desk and one in their lapboard for using on the couch. Good keyboards and having the same model on my desk and on my lapboard means I have no excuse for the typos I still make. So the other day I picked up my lapboard and felt a jab on my thumb and on putting my board down I noticed this....



...and then I looked at my thumb to have the thin metal S embedded in my skin, halfway buried. I tried to get it out and it broke apart leaving a decent third of it stuck in there beyond tweezer range. I figured I'd ignore it for a day or so and it would work its way out (the dumb man method) but nope! Trying to push it from the other side didnt really work either so I ended up having to pick off a layer or two of skin and finally yank it out. It was unpleasant but I seem to have got it all.

Stabbed by a logo, whatever next?