What annoys you the most ?

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by trailmaster

Aren't there public showers where you live that you could use on a day like today? These are very popular in American cities.

I suppose I could use one down at the gym, but no actual public showers, plus having a bad cold last 7 days, I've only left the house a few times

But, water is back on and have had one since

[bloke57]

Not sure if it annoys me or amuses me but today's observation is of the bell ringing behaviour on London's buses.

For those who don't live here, if you want the bus to stop, you press a button which rings a bell and alerts the driver. At the same time a big sign lights up saying "bus stopping".

First you get the nervous ringer who presses just as the bus has left the last stop - even if there may well be more than a half a mile to the next stop. Then, despite the audible clue...and the illuminated sign, 20 other people then keep pressing the button having been paying no attention at all.

Add to that some obvious stops are not even "request" stops - the bus will stop there anyway. Take for instance our local bus station - erm! clue in the name there. Yet, of course, the usual regiment of the gormless press that button as if the driver were determined to smash its way through all the other buses and mow down every pedestrian in a mad dash to its destination.

[Roubignol]

I am annoyed that children and teenagers can't vote on energetic and environmental management.
Old assholes destroy all their resources.

I am 100% sure that if we carefully explained to them the challenge they will face, they could radically change the way our societies function with the right to participate democratically.

Children don't need to travel all around the world, don't need big cars, don't need speculation.
They need a ball to play soccer, an old teddy bear to eat its ears, an interesting education to open their minds and good friends. Nothing more.

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by xyzde69

I am annoyed that children and teenagers can't vote on energetic and environmental management.
Old assholes destroy all their resources.

Reality check, children and teenagers can be far to impressionable by any side of an opposing view, the reason you want that is that you'd love to push an issue into their heads, I think

The reason I wouldn't want children and teenagers to vote at all on anything is to let their minds develop and let them do their thinking for themselves instead of being told what to think to get an outcome

But, that's just my opinion

[Roubignol]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

Reality check, children and teenagers can be far to impressionable by any side of an opposing view, the reason you want that is that you'd love to push an issue into their heads, I think

The reason I wouldn't want children and teenagers to vote at all on anything is to let their minds develop and let them do their thinking for themselves instead of being told what to think to get an outcome

But, that's just my opinion

Because you didn't think by yourself when you were 13 years old?
We only need to explain all the facts realistically and then give them the right to vote, but old dictators do not want that the new generations obtain all the facts and fear to listen: "Hey old assholes, why do you destroy all my future?"

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by xyzde69

Because you didn't think by yourself when you were 13 years old?

When I was 13 I was still interested cracking barb wire over a snake, jumping mounds on a BMX bike, girls hadn't even entered my mind, getting away with playing truancy at school, who could fart the loudest .... kid stuff

Does that seem a mature mind ???

Originally Posted by xyzde69

We only need to explain all the facts realistically and then give them the right to vote, but old dictators do not want that the new generations obtain all the facts and fear to listen: "Hey old assholes, why do you destroy all my future?"

Question,
Would you allow a scientist who is on the opposing side of the climate change debate explain their reasons on why it might not be happening ???

[Reclaimedwg]

SPAM!

Every day I get a couple of dozens of them!

Sure most of them go straight into the SPAM folder but still fucking annoying!

[cuzzyman927]

Originally Posted by wildtig2013

SPAM!

Every day I get a couple of dozens of them!

Sure most of them go straight into the SPAM folder but still fucking annoying!

Between spam and telemarketers I get enough of both to fill an Olympic size swimming pool!
I've tried using the key word, phrases and email address blocking in my Spam settings, but they always seem to manage to get around it by changing a word or two the next time they send it.

As for telemarketers, I've added their phone numb(s) to my block call list, but because most all telemarketers now have multiple phone numbers/lines and they simply call back using one of their other dozen phone numbers.

I've found the war on Spam and telemarketers to have become a losing battle!

[cuzzyman927]

Originally Posted by xyzde69

I am annoyed that children and teenagers can't vote on energetic and environmental management.
Old assholes destroy all their resources.

Originally Posted by Estreeter

Reality check, children and teenagers can be far to impressionable by any side of an opposing view, the reason you want that is that you'd love to push an issue into their heads, I think

The reason I wouldn't want children and teenagers to vote at all on anything is to let their minds develop and let them do their thinking for themselves instead of being told what to think to get an outcome

But, that's just my opinion

I'm not taking sides, but just my observations of today's youths ...

When I see, hear and read about some of the brainless, dumb, and idiotic things most of today's children and teenagers do these days I would not allow them to do anything, let alone vote!
I don't see how their brains and grey matter can fully develop when schools are now allowing computers, calculators and other electronic gizmos into the classrooms to do their work and thinking for them!

[Roubignol]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

When I was 13 I was still interested cracking barb wire over a snake, jumping mounds on a BMX bike, girls hadn't even entered my mind, getting away with playing truancy at school, who could fart the loudest .... kid stuff

Does that seem a mature mind ???

Just put that back in the context. When you were young, these questions were rarely discussed. Today you are old... almost very old. Your game is over.
That's why I think that old people like you and me have to share the power WITH the next generations.
We have to know their opinions and respect them.

Originally Posted by Estreeter

Question,
Would you allow a scientist who is on the opposing side of the climate change debate explain their reasons on why it might not be happening ???

For sure. I even listened dozen of them.

I can tell you that I do not care about climate change myself, when I still cared a lot in a recent past.

20'000 years ago, there were no villages and cities where I live today. There was a massive glacier. It was impossible to live there.

You will rarely read me on global warming or climate change.
I'll publish here or there some pictures of glaciers in my area that will close the mouth of climate change deniers.

But topics on which you will read me are:

1) Environmental destruction (destruction of biodiversity)
2) Waste of non-renewable energy resources.

That's almost all.

Originally Posted by cuzzyman927

When I see, hear and read about some of the brainless, dumb, and idiotic things most of today's children and teenagers do these days I would not allow them to do anything, let alone vote!
I don't see how their brains and grey matter can fully develop when schools are now allowing computers, calculators and other electronic gizmos into the classrooms to do their work and thinking for them!

Does it mean that our educational systems have failed or were we too stupid to transmit them good knowledges and philosophies?

Did only stupid people reproduce themselves in a recent past?

My grandmother was used to say: "We are what we eat!"
I'd extend that to : "We intellectually are, what we learn!"

If parents and collectivity teach craps to children, we don't have to hope a good youth. Isn't it?