Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[Taipan]

I'm all for Halloween. Wish we made as much as it as the yanks do. It can be a real community thing and we need more of that. We get a couple of bags of choccie bars and hand them out to the kids in their outfits. Lovely to see their outfits and each year we see more effort going into it an the houses get decorated a bit better each year too. More festivals please!

[KungFooBob]

Ban it!

I hate to see people having fun, especially children.

[ChrisW]

Trick or treat. AKA demanding money with menaces?

You miserable old bugger!

We get a small percentage of irksome older teens but in the main it's primary school kids with happy parents standing a couple of metres back.

I much prefer it to Christmas.

[Horse]

Trick or treat. AKA demanding money with menaces?

You miserable old bugger!

I was brought up with Nov 5th being the important day, 'penny for the Guy's, etc. Ok, it might not be too PC now, but at least making a Guy involved some effort.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Screws, punctures, and fancy foam lined Pireillis which cost £275.

For anyone who saw my "where my tyre pressure at?" thread in the mechanics section, this was the other front wheel

[Skub]

We no longer get kids doing 'Halloween Rhyming' as it used to be know here. Mrs.Skub used to buy a load of sweets n' schitt for the callers,but the patents must be too scared of stranger danger to let them out now.

It's just another retail event these days.

[KungFooBob]

We no longer get kids doing 'Halloween Rhyming' as it used to be know here. Mrs.Skub used to buy a load of sweets n' schitt for the callers,but the patents must be too scared of stranger danger to let them out now.

It's just another retail event these days.

Yeah, it's really been cut back here too, strangely after the year I injected all the milky ways with bleach.

[ChrisW]

Trick or treat. AKA demanding money with menaces?

You miserable old bugger!

I was brought up with Nov 5th being the important day, 'penny for the Guy's, etc. Ok, it might not be too PC now, but at least making a Guy involved some effort.

Yep, you've got a point there. I still enjoy it though!

[Count Steer]

Trick or treat. AKA demanding money with menaces?

You miserable old bugger!

I was brought up with Nov 5th being the important day, 'penny for the Guy's, etc. Ok, it might not be too PC now, but at least making a Guy involved some effort.

We were old school and had 'Mischievous Night' - knocking on doors was involved but no demands for treats/money...we ran away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischief_Night

We did do 'penny for the guy' too but that didn't involve any bothering of people in their homes, just standard ragamuffin begging type activity.

[demographic]

More of less insignificant but a minor irritation is People Cutting Onions Up RONG!
And while I'm I'm on the subject, when they complain about onions causing tears whilst cutting and not understanding that a properly sharp knife greatly lessens the spray of teargas the onion chucks out.
Fuckwits are probably cutting against a glass chopping board as well.

[Taipan]

Prime Video. FFS I pay to have this and yet most films I want to see are £3.49 on top!

[Horse]

More of less insignificant but a minor irritation is People Cutting Onions Up RONG!

Hint?

I didn't know there was a right or wrong.

[Druid]

More of less insignificant but a minor irritation is People Cutting Onions Up RONG!

Hint?

I didn't know there was a right or wrong.

Apparently the way I do it is wrong, and the way my wife does it is right

[MrLongbeard]

Prime Video. FFS I pay to have this and yet most films I want to see are £3.49 on top!

I have a long list of films & series in my watchlist on Prime, nothing on regular telly last night so went to see if there was anything worth watching on Amazon, and blow me if 75% of the stuff I'd bookmarked wasn't now pay per view

[Rockburner]

Prime Video. FFS I pay to have this and yet most films I want to see are £3.49 on top!

I have a long list of films & series in my watchlist on Prime, nothing on regular telly last night so went to see if there was anything worth watching on Amazon, and blow me if 75% of the stuff I'd bookmarked wasn't now pay per view

Yep. The enshitification of Amazon continues apace.

[Skub]

Apparently the way I do it is wrong, and the way my wife does it is right

Yeahbutt,that'll be everything you do anyway.

[Mussels]

More of less insignificant but a minor irritation is People Cutting Onions Up RONG!
And while I'm I'm on the subject, when they complain about onions causing tears whilst cutting and not understanding that a properly sharp knife greatly lessens the spray of teargas the onion chucks out.
Fuckwits are probably cutting against a glass chopping board as well.

I have wondered why onions haven't caused my eyes to water for many years, I'm a bit fussy about keeping knives sharp.

[Mussels]

Amazon have been told by the US courts to stop their sharp practices on subscriptions so expect them to be looking for other areas to rip people off.

[Count Steer]

Amazon have been told by the US courts to stop their sharp practices on subscriptions so expect them to be looking for other areas to rip people off.

They're going a bit further than just Amazon on sharp subscription practises. It's a damn fine idea - I hope we get the same legislation.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07nlvmyl05o

[weeksy]

I'd love to think a lot of these comments are in jest, but sadly I don't think so