Things We Hate

[Pagnell]

More importantly, did the imaginary post have the same boosting effect on your perpetually low feelings of self-esteem?

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

why can't you just leave me alone

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A thing I hate:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/2...dividual-judgment-not-institutional-bias.html

Facebook Trending Topic-Gate.

I did a somewhat related job for a few months, for a third party company providing services for a notable search engine (not that one, but a notable one). I was a freelancer, working from home, paid about 8-9 quid an hour depending on the exchange rate, and one day I was let go with about 18 hours notice for no particular reason I could discern. Me and one (completely fucking demented if our [unpaid] e-conference sessions were anything to judge by) Canadian chap were entirely responsible for the Red Hot Trending Topic Content™ that went 'live' on the UK version of their homepage.

Everything was measured by a big clock in the top corner, so we had to submit x amount of Approvals or Rejections per minute to ensure we weren't getting paid for taking a shit (NB. I did masturbate whilst logged in the interim between the short notice firing and my account being closed, and it was one the most satisfying wanks I've ever had, and I've had a lot). Some of it was basic box ticking and bug finding. The content aggregating process was not able to distinguish between a story pertaining to Newcastle UK and Newcastle Australia, for example. But a lot of it actually did involve exercising some sort of editorial oversight. Judging newsworthiness and topicality. Deciding what constituted reportage and what constituted editorial comment. Assessing the day's topics en masse to ensure some sort of 'balance' and 'variety'. The job of an actual news outlet editor with decades of experience and a pension plan, basically.

They were a shit, vile, moronic company, who held us wee serfs to a standard of work they were transparently incapable of meeting on their own end, and I despised it/them/(myself) throughout, so acted accordingly. 90% of the Daily Mail stuff (whose digital Zika virus constituted about 90% of the aggregated content in the first place) went directly in the bin. Anything Hopkins related had no chance. I always put through bike race stories, cos cycling is totes ace and obv deserves a wider audience. And so on. And the pleasant but basically hapless and overworked jamoke responsible for overseeing us at the third party company never uttered a word of censure or correction. A part of the UK facing frontage of a ginormous trillion dollar company was more or less the exclusive playground of me and a lunatic Canuck. It was beyond absurd.

So suffice to say that was a lot more fucking #tinpot than anything going on at Facebook HQ. The mewling shits at the NY Times et al have entirely no clue how the world now functions, so far as I can tell.

In short, I hope the planet is destroyed by an asteroid.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Old people at service stations. The coach pulls up and a sea of grey appears, waddling along at a snail's pace. They then proceed to take up every available space chatting to each other. They all go for a piss and then the long, grey line waddles it's way back to the coach.

It's like a day out for them.

 

[RavenBish]

I got stuck behind 7 old people at a service station Subway a few months ago and I know exactly how that bloke in that film 127 Hours felt.

 

[Stevencc]

Old people at service stations. The coach pulls up and a sea of grey appears, waddling along at a snail's pace. They then proceed to take up every available space chatting to each other. They all go for a piss and then the long, grey line waddles it's way back to the coach.

It's like a day out for them.

Well it more than likely is part of a day out, you know?

 

[sl1k]

It'll be funny if I still read communications of you people decades from now as ya'll transition from 'I hate old people, they're so slow' to 'I hate young people, always in a rush'.

Ahh the cycle of life.

 

[Stevencc]

That's deep, man.

 

[sl1k]

Yeah I think it's the spliff mate, getting me all reflective and shit

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

People who microwave fish for lunch at work. The lowest of the low. Just glad my desk is no where near the kitchen.

 

[Pagnell]

Flash floods. Milton Keynes is like a swimming pool at the moment. Just had a couple of quality aquaslides in the car.

 

[spireite]

BT fucking Openreach

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Flash floods. Milton Keynes is like a swimming pool at the moment. Just had a couple of quality aquaslides in the car.

*aquaplane

 

[Pagnell]

Yeah, a couple of those too.

 

[Meadow]

My grandaughter's name. I still can't come to terms with Skyla.

She's a cute little thing, mind.

 

[Pagnell]

Breaking Bad fans I assume.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

It'll be funny if I still read communications of you people decades from now as ya'll transition from 'I hate old people, they're so slow' to 'I hate young people, always in a rush'.

Ahh the cycle of life.

It's not so much the slowness of them, it's more their lack of awareness of anything. I was at Cambridge services and they are doing renovations so there's a small scaffold tunnel thing for an entrance. A group of them walked through and stood at the end to have a chat. It's a tunnel about 6ft wide and 20 old people standing at the end of it. Move away Doris and let me have a piss and a pie.

 

[blade1889]

When you decide to have a lie-in but a marching band comes past your house at 615 in the morning

 

[mnb089mnb]

It's not so much the slowness of them, it's more their lack of awareness of anything. I was at Cambridge services and they are doing renovations so there's a small scaffold tunnel thing for an entrance. A group of them walked through and stood at the end to have a chat. It's a tunnel about 6ft wide and 20 old people standing at the end of it. Move away Doris and let me have a piss and a pie.

I used to have respect for older people, but some of these newer ones didn't even fight in a war! Twats

 

[Abertawe]

People who microwave fish for lunch at work. The lowest of the low. Just glad my desk is no where near the kitchen.

And they always seem surprised when someone makes a comment regarding the smell.

"I'm only eating my dinner"

"Yeah but you've destroyed the office you selfish prick"

 

[Pagnell]

*makes a note to cook more fish in the office.

 

[Veggie Legs]

Use of the word 'wife' as a verb.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Use of the word 'wife' as a verb.

An example?

 

[Veggie Legs]

https://twitter.com/LiveLoveGameday/status/733504355203055620

 

[SALTIRE]

Twitter, just what is the point...

 

[lordofthepies]

Twitter, just what is the point...

information, news, humour, conversation among other things

 

[mistermagic]

Twitter pisses all over Facebook.

 

[G.B]

information, news, humour, conversation among other things

all over rated

 

[mnb089mnb]

Twitter pisses all over Facebook.

Facebook shits all over Twitter.

 

[mistermagic]

Who wins in a piss vs shit battle though? I vote piss.

 

[Max]

Coronation Street. Fucking dire.