What annoys you the most ?

[chip]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

Who's wallets seem to be getting thicker and thicker
Not with cash but the amount of crap in them now

I used to be able to get in a car and drive with my wallet still on my jeans, now I gotta take it out ..... and when I leave the car forget it's not in my jeans done that a few times lately.

1 debit card
1 credit card
2 licences
1 medicare card (rarely used}
2 fuel cards
1 work security card
1 parking pass card
1 public transport card (rarely used)
1 Store gift card

I remember only having a card for ATM's years back.

The ever expanding wallet-o-crap has plagued mankind since....well at least the mid 1990s as evidenced by the following clip:

Seinfeld: Costanza's Wallet

A quick inventory of my wallet reveals:
-several credit cards
-a fuel card [another credit card actually]
-Ventra Card, same as Trailmaster [for when I'm in Chicago]
-diabetic supplies discount card
-pharmacy prescription savings card
-drivers license
-fishing license
-various business cards for things like my doctor, auto mechanic, insurance agent, various friends businesses and so forth.
-insurance cards for the car
-discount card for Moes Southwest Grill, get so many punches on it, and I get free queso/cheese dip, which is like liquid crack cocaine.
-receipts that have probably faded to the point of being unreadable
-plus a random assortment of scraps of paper with phone numbers and bits of info.
-some other useless cards that serve only to take up space
-and two guitar picks.

Normally I have a couple of picks in my pocket as part of my EDC. But on occasion I forget them. Should I find myself in the vicinity of a guitar I want to play, I always have the backups in the wallet.

I do suppose that I could transfer all of the miscellaneous info and even the business card info onto my phone and lighten the load. However I'm old school, and have been known to forget my phone when I leave the house. But I can count on one hand how many times in the last 25 years I've forgotten my wallet, and still have fingers left over.

Conspicuously absent from my list above is cash. I never carry cash in my wallet. I carry it in my front pocket via money-clip.

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[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by chip

-discount card for Moes Southwest Grill, get so many punches on it, and I get free queso/cheese dip, which is like liquid crack cocaine.

Throw everything else out and keep that one

[cuzzyman927]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

Who's wallets seem to be getting thicker and thicker
Not with cash but the amount of crap in them now

I used to be able to get in a car and drive with my wallet still on my jeans, now I gotta take it out ..... and when I leave the car forget it's not in my jeans done that a few times lately.

1 debit card
1 credit card
2 licences
1 medicare card (rarely used}
2 fuel cards
1 work security card
1 parking pass card
1 public transport card (rarely used)
1 Store gift card

I remember only having a card for ATM's years back.

I never carry a wallet. I don't like the way they feel in my pocket or when I sit down, and they are easy to pickpocket.

I keep my paper money in my left front pocket, my keys and accumulating change in my right front pocket, which gets put in a tin can when I get home, my driver's license is in my right rear pocket, and I carry a comb in my left rear pocket, to comb the remaining hairs that I have.
Been doing it that way for years with no incidents thus far.

[bp666]

Porn image sets!

These used to be numbered in the range of 30-100 ish images.

Now the image sets published are anything from 300 to 1000+ images. If you flick through the image set in order you get a sort of animated gif effect.

If I wanted to watch a video of the image set I'd download that, not flicking through hundreds of still images to produce a poor representation of a movie.

Come on photographers, curate your picture sets.

[buttsie]

Originally Posted by bp666

Porn image sets!

These used to be numbered in the range of 30-100 ish images.

Now the image sets published are anything from 300 to 1000+ images. If you flick through the image set in order you get a sort of animated gif effect.

If I wanted to watch a video of the image set I'd download that, not flicking through hundreds of still images to produce a poor representation of a movie.

Come on photographers, curate your picture sets.

Its the way they do things today to give the impression your getting more

The sheer weight of numbers is overkill

200 large soft sets is bordering on banal but plenty of Models have done it

Just like clips that go on and on and on that last 40 minutes

The worst example i've seen is this edging - pov bjs that go for 40 minutes
They divide it int 2 clips for sale direct to the public
The cumshot is in the 2nd.

I read theres one particular bg video studio / site that put a camera in the corner and it snaps at 30 second intervals everything happening on set = 1800 pics

As has always been the case , find those that are attempting to make a quality product with no padding and forget following those that dont.

Large sets are nothing more than a collection of stock photos
- for the diehard fans of the model/pornstar who want everything

PS

VEF with restrictions on filehosts and relatively few restrictions on imagehosts
up to 150 pics per post has positioned itself for large image posts - it is what it is.

I use a chrome extension called fast image blocker for over populated threads
where i might need to visit to edit any of my existing posts.

In an ideal world the full sets , like full magazine scans would all be in a seperate section
be it under websites or categories.

The models / pornstars threads left for the content that doesnt have its own section
and cross linked and you would have the best of both worlds

[Reclaimedwg]

Almost every day including a Saturday and a Sunday for 2 weeks now, I get a call between 5 pm to 7 pm from a phone # that has the same area code as my phone # and the same first 2 numbers of the exchange number as the one in my phone #.

I know these asshole robocallers and telemarketers have technology that can make any number show up on your caller ID, including your own phone # which they have done so many times before, in the hope that someone sees their own phone # or a phone # similar to their own on the caller ID, they will answer without thinking.

I don't answer any phone calls that do not show up on my caller ID as a name or business that's already saved in my contact list.

If they have something really important and legitimate to talk to me about, they will either leave a voice mail and call back or not leave a voice mail but call back again and next time, leave a voice mail.

The # is a different # each time and I have blocked it each time after first doing a GOOGLE search or BING search on it to see if anyone has received a call from the same # and then reported it online on many available websites to identify it as a telemarketer or as a legitimate business.

[Blue126]

This is what really bugs me:

NHS- The conserveratives bugger it up and then want us to pay for there incompetence!

Look,
if we go on holiday to a foreign country we have to take out insurance ? yes, but we let any Tom, Dick or Mary have ours for free! do the sums. Unfortunately, I have to go more than I care for to hospitals and its quite alarming what our NHS is going through. Are super hospitals as they where roled out, about 15 years ago when they closed our local hospitals to accomodate these so called super hospitals, they never ever thought of the great influx from over sea's, our hospitals can not cope. But these MP's want us the British tax payer want us to pay the bill for there blind incompetence! We have mug's tattoo'ed on our heads.

Brexit- Just get on with it for f-ck sake, the reason we want out was all of above. If we do not get out as per the valid opion by the majority, this Country will open a box they wished they had not opened. The Scots will want another referendum.

Talk of conscription- Who the f-ck are you gonner conscript? So all the British are going to get conscripted? and the foreign Guys? So are Lads go and fight and come back to no Jobs and no homes, that goes on now!
We can't get lads in the services now! god help us if we ever go to war.

Retirement- The Government claim it is not a right! My local cemetery say's it is. Thanks to the national lottery cleaning up head stones and replacing broken ones it's very humbling what very young lads gave their lives for. I will leave it at that. But I wish MP's actually visited these long forgotten true brave men and women, before they voted against the working class of the UK. Shame on you!! They are just rubbing salt in our wounds, we know why you want us to die in work, someone has to pay for gross incompetence of MP's .

[rupertramjet]

NHS- The conserveratives bugger it up and then want us to pay for there incompetence!

Actually they inherited a debt from Labour of £420 Billion, a huge number of hospitals, health centres and other facilities put into private management for up to fifty years, with water tight contracts which despite Corbyn,s rhetoric, can not be got out of. Foreigners are charged for using the NHS , however the policy is to save lives first and worry about the money later, rightly in my view.

Brexit- Just get on with it for f-ck sake,

I think they would love to! Unfortunately so many opposition MPs are ignoring the will of the electorate and making it as hard as possible, allied to a hostile press, led by the BBC who are spreading lies and fear with their bullshit stories.

Talk of conscription

Eh? As a fairly recently retired senior officers, news to me! Why conscript when the Armed Forces have been actively against it since the sixties, and the armed forces are actually being reduced.

Retirement

The retirement age was increased under Blair, and it actually makes sense, because the old gits like me are on the increase, due to the NHS helping us to live longer, keeping us fitter, and to be honest we are quite capable of carrying on. I do not get the comment about the headstones, none of my comrades died to make it easier to retire, they died to keep the freedoms we take for granted, except under the Blair regime, where they died to make a small man feel big.

[LiamA]

People's attitudes when I'm reading on the bus. I'll have people say, "So you like to read. There's nothing wrong with that", as if there is something wrong with it.

[Grouchy]

Quote:

NHS- The conserveratives bugger it up and then want us to pay for there incompetence!

Actually they inherited a debt from Labour of £420 Billion...

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That may well be true but this current shower of s**t have been in power too long for that to be used as an excuse.

The tories want to privatise the NHS. They are doing it by the backdoor anyway.

An example: I recently had to attend a local walk in clinic at my local hospital to have a minor problem looked at.
There is no longer an A&E or a minor injuries unit here (a town of 60,000+ people with a holiday population that swells that figure considerably).

The nearest such unit is twenty miles away... The replacement "clinic" doesn't offer any accident or emergency services - it just exists to provide general care to folks with minor complaints such as a rash or minor sprains...

Couldn't get an appointment with my GP for a couple of weeks so went to the "walk in" clinic. No complaints about the treatment. I was looked after by a "nurse practitioner" who sorted me out. In conversation I find out that this chap doesn't work for the NHS (despite his uniform being covered in "NHS" badges and logo's). He had previously been trained by, and worked for the NHS.

Turns out he works for a private company based forty miles away that now has the contract to supply services to the areas hospitals. No mention of this in any of the glossy literature that was circulated to every house in the town recently.

Also, I recently found out that all specialist services for disabilty care such as assessments for wheelchairs, walking aids etc., have been taken away from the specialist unit in Hull and handed over to a private company.

As I say - privatisation by the back door.