[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#3151709 24-Oct-2023 11:50

Rikkitic:

It annoys me that our media keep presenting rugby as a news item. A thousand dead Israelis is news. A deadlocked US House pf representatives is news. Ram raids are news. Rugby is not news. It belongs in the sports section. It does not qualify as news.

The media's job is not to present news. It's to generate maximum return for their shareholders/board/owners and they do this by publishing material that generates the most advertising revenue.

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#3151741 24-Oct-2023 13:29

floydbloke:

The media's job is not to present news. It's to generate maximum return for their shareholders/board/owners and they do this by publishing material that generates the most advertising revenue.

It is called One News. There is a separate segment for sports, which is where the sports news belongs. It does not belong in the main news. It is not headline news. It is not important at all, regardless of what some may think. This polluting of serious stuff with entertainment is something small that really annoys me.

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#3151744 24-Oct-2023 13:34

Rikkitic:

It annoys me that our media keep presenting rugby as a news item. A thousand dead Israelis is news. A deadlocked US House pf representatives is news. Ram raids are news. Rugby is not news. It belongs in the sports section. It does not qualify as news.

You may have noticed that is this country rugby is more than a sport! 😂

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#3151751 24-Oct-2023 14:02

Rikkitic:

floydbloke:

The media's job is not to present news. It's to generate maximum return for their shareholders/board/owners and they do this by publishing material that generates the most advertising revenue.

It is called One News. There is a separate segment for sports, which is where the sports news belongs. It does not belong in the main news. It is not headline news. It is not important at all, regardless of what some may think. This polluting of serious stuff with entertainment is something small that really annoys me.

I was, of course, being facetious, but do you not have the ability to record it? This is really the only way we tolerate it in our household, fast-forward through any and all bits that don't interest us as well as the ads. A very efficient use of time, usually start watching at about 6.30 or just after and will typically catch up to 'live' when Dan the weatherman comes on.

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#3151755 24-Oct-2023 14:28

We have a skip bin on our driveway. Apparently it's a communal receptacle. Went back to our place in the weekend to pick some stuff up and noticed the skip on the driveway for the builders to dispose of their waste.

There's a lot more than just the builders' waste from our site in that bin! And the cheeky gits have dumped a couple of old doors on the driveway next to the bin because they wouldn't fit! They weren't ours and when I messaged the builder he said they weren't his either...

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#3151759 24-Oct-2023 14:36

floydbloke:

I was, of course, being facetious, but do you not have the ability to record it? This is really the only way we tolerate it in our household, fast-forward through any and all bits that don't interest us as well as the ads. A very efficient use of time, usually start watching at about 6.30 or just after and will typically catch up to 'live' when Dan the weatherman comes on.

I find it easy enough just to mute the ads and other crap and read my email while they are on. It is the principle of the thing. Rugby is given way too much attention here. It has a place, like everything. The place is not everything.

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#3151765 24-Oct-2023 14:50

Handsomedan:

We have a skip bin on our driveway. Apparently it's a communal receptacle. Went back to our place in the weekend to pick some stuff up and noticed the skip on the driveway for the builders to dispose of their waste.

There's a lot more than just the builders' waste from our site in that bin! And the cheeky gits have dumped a couple of old doors on the driveway next to the bin because they wouldn't fit! They weren't ours and when I messaged the builder he said they weren't his either...

I saw something from the States where someone had dumped all their household rubbish in someone's skip. The skip owner found an addressed letter in there, so returned all the "extra" stuff to the offender's front lawn!

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#3151768 24-Oct-2023 14:52

Handsomedan:

We have a skip bin on our driveway. Apparently it's a communal receptacle. Went back to our place in the weekend to pick some stuff up and noticed the skip on the driveway for the builders to dispose of their waste.

There's a lot more than just the builders' waste from our site in that bin! And the cheeky gits have dumped a couple of old doors on the driveway next to the bin because they wouldn't fit! They weren't ours and when I messaged the builder he said they weren't his either...

We had this problem when renovating. Half the contents of the skip ended up not being ours. To top it off someone dumped a bathtub in. Our house didn't even have room for a bathtub! End of the day, nothing we could do really.

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#3151837 24-Oct-2023 15:57

cddt:

Handsomedan:

We have a skip bin on our driveway. Apparently it's a communal receptacle. Went back to our place in the weekend to pick some stuff up and noticed the skip on the driveway for the builders to dispose of their waste.

There's a lot more than just the builders' waste from our site in that bin! And the cheeky gits have dumped a couple of old doors on the driveway next to the bin because they wouldn't fit! They weren't ours and when I messaged the builder he said they weren't his either...

We had this problem when renovating. Half the contents of the skip ended up not being ours. To top it off someone dumped a bathtub in. Our house didn't even have room for a bathtub! End of the day, nothing we could do really.

Tipping fees are so high these days this is happening all the time.

Need to set up a motion detection camera somewhere to catch the bastards.

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#3151844 24-Oct-2023 16:12

You can get them with a lockable lid, but obviously you need to think of that before the fact.

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#3151859 24-Oct-2023 16:43

johno1234:

Tipping fees are so high these days this is happening all the time.

Need to set up a motion detection camera somewhere to catch the bastards.

Even if you could get some identifying details, the chance of any authority following up on a complaint of this nature would be about 1%, and the chance of any punishment being more than a wet bus ticket would be about 1% of 1%...

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#3151863 24-Oct-2023 17:00

We do have some ring cameras around our house. Some of the new models have a Motion Warning - it just yells "You are now being recorded" when a person is detected.

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#3151868 24-Oct-2023 17:12

Rikkitic:

floydbloke:

The media's job is not to present news. It's to generate maximum return for their shareholders/board/owners and they do this by publishing material that generates the most advertising revenue.

It is called One News. There is a separate segment for sports, which is where the sports news belongs. It does not belong in the main news. It is not headline news. It is not important at all, regardless of what some may think. This polluting of serious stuff with entertainment is something small that really annoys me.

Sports on news bulletins are appropriate. By definition "information or reports about recent events" Cambridge Dictionary.

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#3151885 24-Oct-2023 17:44

MikeB4:

Sports on news bulletins are appropriate. By definition "information or reports about recent events" Cambridge Dictionary.

I prefer Collins as my authority. It defines event as something unusual or important. Rugby is neither.

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#3151890 24-Oct-2023 18:09

Re: the rubbish - take it out of the bin if you need the space and put it on the grass verge. Call your council and they’ll collect the flytipping.

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