Things you don't get.

[Bangkok Hibby]

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I’m sure I’ll be in the minority with this one but I don’t get why people have such a problem with folk peeing in public places...... if they do it discreetly?!

There was a story in the paper the other week with a guy wanting a run cancelled as some runners were having to go to the toilet in the park, would this guy rather they pissed themselves? Same happened to me before hampden when we won the cup, I had a long walk between the bowling club and the ground and found myself bursting on a piss so I found a bit waste ground, went to the corner and took a piss behind a bush, one of the local residents saw me and went daft, With no public toilets near by wtf was I meant to do? I’d rather go to a toilet as well but sometimes needs must!

Some men of a certain age have significant bladder issues and peeing outside if no suitable toilet is available is their only option. I have no problem with it as long it's done discretely.

[lord bunberry]

I don’t get how when you hear your favourite song on the radio it sounds better than if you just put it on yourself.

[GlesgaeHibby]

Love island. Morally bankrupt show giving wannabe nobodies a shot at 'fame'.

[Pretty Boy]

Not sure if this belongs here or in Pet Peeves but....

The way some people have no sympathy or empathy for people in their own community with issues possibly caused by relatable issues but when a celebrity has a similar problem they appear genuinely upset and concerned.

I have a couple of women in my work who know a lady who is an alcoholic. They seem to have no sympathy whatsoever and 'just an alkie' seems the go to phrase. Yet this week it was in the news that Demi Lovato (a singer for those who don't know) had overdosed on heroin and they were both on Facebook commenting on links saying they 'hope she gets the help she needs' and that she 'need help to beat her demons'. In the office it was all 'well she has a problem and we should have some sympathy'.

Same 2 are a right pair of gossips and when an ex colleague got done for drink driving they were all over it with their judgemental pish. When whatever one of Ant and Dec it was who got caught doing the same it was all 'it's nobody else's business really' and 'he obviously has problems and needs help'.

****ing hypocrites.

[Scouse Hibee]

People who just can’t mind their own business at work.

Recently moved from a private office with just two of us to an open plan office with up to 12 people and finding it really hard.Too many people listen to your phone conversations, shout an opinion about your conversation, interrupt when I am speaking to guy next to me, offer an opinion about a particular problem they here me dealing with, interfere when they know nothing about it. The list is endless,it’s driving me crazy.

[pollution]

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I don’t get how when you hear your favourite song on the radio it sounds better than if you just put it on yourself.

Spot on. Even worse when an adult requests a song to be played just to hear their name on the radio.

I can understand the excitement for children but for Matthew driving from Godalming to Exeter to see his mummy??

[snooky]

I've never got .....
1) Simple Minds
2) the Big Dipper
3) fly fishing
4) cricket
5) horse racing
6) camping

[WeeRussell]

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I don’t get how when you hear your favourite song on the radio it sounds better than if you just put it on yourself.

Brilliant. It's the same with TV and film, even though you have the DVD.

In fact, even Fawlty Towers or Only Fools appearing on council TV (when on all the time on Gold, which I have) is different!

[snooky]

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Brilliant. It's the same with TV and film, even though you have the DVD.

In fact, even Fawlty Towers or Only Fools appearing on council TV (when on all the time on Gold, which I have) is different!

A bit like meeting up with some past casual acquaintences when they are back in town yet you probably hardly (if ever) saw them when they actually lived here.

[Scouse Hibee]

I see more and more of these combination locked key boxes fixed to the wall at the front of houses. No way I would leave a set of my house keys in a box on the wall at my house, just asking for trouble.

[lapsedhibee]

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I see more and more of these combination locked key boxes fixed to the wall at the front of houses. No way I would leave a set of my house keys in a box on the wall at my house, just asking for trouble.

Mostly AirBnB operators. Owners want strangers in their houses.

[Pretty Boy]

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Mostly AirBnB operators. Owners want strangers in their houses.

Also used by elderly people who have carers going in and don't have the mobility to get to the door.

[lapsedhibee]

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Also used by elderly people who have carers going in and don't have the mobility to get to the door.

Indeed. But there's been an explosion in the number of keysafes visible recently and not that many people have suddenly got old/infirm!

[Pretty Boy]

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Indeed. But there's been an explosion in the number of keysafes visible recently and not that many people have suddenly got old/infirm!

Yep. One of the guys in my old stair got rumbled subletting because of it.

Social housing, letting it on AirBnB, key safe wouldn't work so someone buzzed a neighbour for help and she promptly grassed him. No sympathy from me either, folk are desperate for affordable housing in Edinburgh and he was abusing it.

[snooky]

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Indeed. But there's been an explosion in the number of keysafes visible recently and not that many people have suddenly got old/infirm!

First wave of the Baby Boomers are in their 70's now.

[matty_f]

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Not sure if this belongs here or in Pet Peeves but....

The way some people have no sympathy or empathy for people in their own community with issues possibly caused by relatable issues but when a celebrity has a similar problem they appear genuinely upset and concerned.

I have a couple of women in my work who know a lady who is an alcoholic. They seem to have no sympathy whatsoever and 'just an alkie' seems the go to phrase. Yet this week it was in the news that Demi Lovato (a singer for those who don't know) had overdosed on heroin and they were both on Facebook commenting on links saying they 'hope she gets the help she needs' and that she 'need help to beat her demons'. In the office it was all 'well she has a problem and we should have some sympathy'.

Same 2 are a right pair of gossips and when an ex colleague got done for drink driving they were all over it with their judgemental pish. When whatever one of Ant and Dec it was who got caught doing the same it was all 'it's nobody else's business really' and 'he obviously has problems and needs help'.

****ing hypocrites.

Totally agree, but what I don't get is how done folk challenge that point of view by getting torn into the celebrity, like they don't deserve sympathy or empathy because Joe Bloggs gets called a junkie when they are in that situation.

It's like they don't consider that the empathetic approach is the right one, and that what needs to change is not the attitudes to the celebrities, but to the ordinary folk.

[Just Alf]

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Mostly AirBnB operators. Owners want strangers in their houses.

Becoming a problem with tenements in Edinburgh. So many are being installed on communal property without permission from the property owners.

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[lapsedhibee]

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Becoming a problem with tenements in Edinburgh. So many are being installed on communal property without permission from the property owners.

An utter blight.

[Hibrandenburg]

Love Island. Why do people idolize deadbeats whose only claim to fame is getting through a casting process. Gone are the days when role models had to actually achieve something before being granted celebrity status, now they're being worshipped for being thick. No wonder our world is ****ed up!

[Jay]

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Love Island. Why do people idolize deadbeats whose only claim to fame is getting through a casting process. Gone are the days when role models had to actually achieve something before being granted celebrity status, now they're being worshipped for being thick. No wonder our world is ****ed up!

I agree. It saddens me that our teens idolise people who think brexit means we would have no trees, so called beautiful people.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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Also used by elderly people who have carers going in and don't have the mobility to get to the door.

Thats the situation my mum finds herself in.

[danhibees1875]

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I agree. It saddens me that our teens idolise people who think brexit means we would have no trees, so called beautiful people.

I was so sure she said cheese at the time - I'd be prepared to let her have that one.

I was going to argue that noone really "idolises" them, but you're probably actually right. Everyone is an idol these days.

I did enjoy the show though - was good entertainment.

[Jay]

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I was so sure she said cheese at the time - I'd be prepared to let her have that one.

I was going to argue that noone really "idolises" them, but you're probably actually right. Everyone is an idol these days.

I did enjoy the show though - was good entertainment.

I never saw it other than clips i couldnt avoid. Im delighted to say none of my kids watched it either. They are idolised, ive seen my teens facebook page and teenage girls in particular want to be these people.

[WeeRussell]

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Love Island. Why do people idolize deadbeats whose only claim to fame is getting through a casting process. Gone are the days when role models had to actually achieve something before being granted celebrity status, now they're being worshipped for being thick. No wonder our world is ****ed up!

The amount of grown men and women who watched it religiously And I'M the odd one out for refusing to watch it. 10 seconds of it told me it was, as suspected, utter pish containing so many character traits that I despise in life.

I can't believe how much discussion and social airtime this got during the time of a football world cup!!!

[Pretty Boy]

The thing about Love Island or other reality TV stars is to an extent I don't blame the 'stars' or other people who want to be like them.

Why study for 5 years to be a Doctor or teacher or take a job earning, in real terms, less than your parents or in some cases even grandparents when you can piss about on TV for a few weeks and potentially make a million? Love Island et al are a symptom of the problem rather than the problem itself.

[CropleyWasGod]

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The thing about Love Island or other reality TV stars is to an extent I don't blame the 'stars' or other people who want to be like them.

Why study for 5 years to be a Doctor or teacher or take a job earning, in real terms, less than your parents or in some cases even grandparents when you can piss about on TV for a few weeks and potentially make a million? Love Island et al are a symptom of the problem rather than the problem itself.

The Truman Show was pretty well on the mark.

We, as a society, have created the situation where such careers are a possibility. The only way we can avoid that is for everyone to ignore these programmes. And that isn't going to happen; soap-operas (which is what they are, in truth) are easy on the eye and brain. They're also relatively cheap to make.

Like you, I have no real problem with people "making it" as a so-called reality star. The market is there, just as it is for doctors, software developers and porn actors. If people want to take advantage of the opportunity, so be it.

And the upside is that, if the TV companies can make a lot of money off these programmes, they can direct it into the kind of stuff that I like.

[lord bunberry]

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The thing about Love Island or other reality TV stars is to an extent I don't blame the 'stars' or other people who want to be like them.

Why study for 5 years to be a Doctor or teacher or take a job earning, in real terms, less than your parents or in some cases even grandparents when you can piss about on TV for a few weeks and potentially make a million? Love Island et al are a symptom of the problem rather than the problem itself.

The problem is that it’s a tiny minority that actually make it onto these shows and the rest are left to go through life with no skills. I would be worried if my daughter was looking at these people and thinking it was a viable way of making a career for herself.

[danhibees1875]

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The problem is that it’s a tiny minority that actually make it onto these shows and the rest are left to go through life with no skills. I would be worried if my daughter was looking at these people and thinking it was a viable way of making a career for herself.

Surely no one is aiming for "reality TV star" as a career aspiration though? Maybe I'm just too out of touch to know for sure. But I think it's very easy to spout hyperbole/exaggerate on social media, and so when someone says "OMG, I want to be like Meg" they're probably doing it after finishing their maths homework with no actual desire to make themselves anything like the contestants.

I think a lot of the people who go on are part-time models already and it just helps boost their profile/CV really and they come out of it with some kind of relevant job/more appearances to raise their profile. Heck, you might even get 1 or 2 who are genuinely looking for love.

[lord bunberry]

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Surely no one is aiming for "reality TV star" as a career aspiration though? Maybe I'm just too out of touch to know for sure. But I think it's very easy to spout hyperbole/exaggerate on social media, and so when someone says "OMG, I want to be like Meg" they're probably doing it after finishing their maths homework with no actual desire to make themselves anything like the contestants.

I think a lot of the people who go on are part-time models already and it just helps boost their profile/CV really and they come out of it with some kind of relevant job/more appearances to raise their profile. Heck, you might even get 1 or 2 who are genuinely looking for love.

I don’t know if people see it as a career choice, but it certainly wouldn’t surprise me. If young people are looking up to them, then they are seen as role models surely? My post was more in response to the notion that people will think that they don’t have to get a good education as a career in reality tv is an easier option.

[Pretty Boy]

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The problem is that it’s a tiny minority that actually make it onto these shows and the rest are left to go through life with no skills. I would be worried if my daughter was looking at these people and thinking it was a viable way of making a career for herself.

Of course. I certainly won't ve pushing it as a career path for my own daughter. I can see why there is an appeal to some though.