The word "hack" used to describe inane and common sense "tips" or words of advice relating to a particular topic. For example: "5 travel hacks to make your holiday more stress-free"; "10 kitchen hacks to make cooking a lasagne a painless chore"; "3 top bedroom hacks to make you a better ******* lover".

And the annoyingly patronising term used in today's "dumbed-down" media referring to recent sporting events: "[x] things we learned from [y]." Why are you telling me what I should have ******* learned from watching a game of bloody football, you condescending pricks?! I'm not in school any longer, thank you very goddamn much!!

Tiredness

Namely Wetherspoons with a mate of mine.

I haven't heard lots of people pronounce it that way but I do know a few who do.


I'm with you on that! Life hacks, food hacks, shopping hacks...ugh.

Just watching the Comedy Gala on Channel 4 and it reminded me of a story

We went to Tatton Park, Knutsford years ago for an open air Classical Concert/gig

Everyone had hampers with booze and food and a blanket

We walked right to the back of the field and set ourselves up with no-one around.
Then we went off to the Portaloos.

When we came back, another group had not only set up next to us (the area was still mostly deserted) but their blankert overlapped ours by a couple of inches.

Weird.

What happened?

Feeling so tired all the time

He jokingly said to one of the bar staff, because of very slow poor service, 'Do you have be dead in here to get attention'. It was obviously a joke and proves that Wetherspoon staff there have had a sense of humour bypass.

Train companies cancelling trains and then the next few being absolutely rammed little cattle!!!

That can be very stressful and definitely not trivial!

Intrusive browser pop-ups that inform me I am now viewing in full-screen mode. Well thanks for stating the bleeding obvious.

The way the video screen flickers every few seconds when in full screen mode.

It's subtle enough not to be that noticeable, but frequent enough to be that noticeable and irritating.

I work alongside two middle-aged women who are afforded the luxury of working part-time thanks to their husbands being relative high-flers and earning a decent wage.

They're also on more money than I am because of reasons.

I find it really hard to engage in conversation with them because they're rather middle-class and mostly chat about the best time to take their skiing holidays or if they should extend their home or simply move to another 5 bedroom detached cottage in the country.

It's hard to not feel a bit inferior when I just about scraped some cash together to buy a flat let alone a house and had to replace a door on my 15 year old car myself because I couldn't afford the couple of hundred quid to have the garage do it whilst deciding between a new Audi or BMW is to them as trivial as choosing between a Twix or a Kit-Kat.

I'm not sure what the trivial complaint is other that I'm poor and they're not : |

The reporting of the current issue surround Mo Farah's coach, Mr Salazar.

Salazar is being implicated in doping with one of his athletes who is training partner of Mo's & every single time the story is brought up, they have to mention Farah & preface it with, "there is no suggestion that Farah was involved in doping"!

I get that they probably have to say it for legal reasons, but it's so tiresome to continually hear.

Mo might as well change his name to that by deed poll!

I used to work with similar people, they would complain about the long week when they only worked Monday to Thursday. Such a hard life

They're lovely people but sometimes I don't think they realise we're not all on a household income of 70k +

Sorry for laughing, but I felt somewhat similar about a friend who paid over a cool million for a truly spacious flat on Bury Place.

She deserves it, actually, as she's worked her arse off since she was a teen. Not only she and her younger brother grew up in the care, she founded her business with something like £36 per week for two years - as part of a business scheme by the Prince’s Trust - when she was 18. She hasn't stopped working since. No proper social life, no holiday and no car. Her priority was always for her 'baby brother' and her own son. Once she was convinced that both are settled well, she bought that flat as a present to herself for her 45th birthday.

Even so, when she talks about decorating this or that for her flat, the green-eyed monster in me rears its head a little. This makes me feel really ****ing awful.

I mean, I'm honestly happy and thrilled for her, but man, I can't help but wish I had that kind of money to buy a place like that. Quite daft as I know we all are capable of making it happen, but only some of us are willing to work hard for it. Evidently, I'm not one of them.

When they start on about whether they should extend or move, or go skiing in November or January, just say "first world problems". It will really annoy them.

I don't think I'd mind so much if it was like your friend above, but they're working part time essentially to kill time as they could quite happily survive on their husbands' wages whereas I'm just about getting by doing the same job full time.

I do get slight digs in every now and then. I remember being passively aggressive about the time one of them got a dog from a breeder for a couple of hundred quid, especially as the dog is a total dick now whereas the cat I got free from Cats Protection is absolutely gorgeous (see the gallery in the Pets forum) and generally good as gold.

Cats are better than dogs anyway.

**runs off quick**

One thing that annoys me is the search function on DS being screwed so it never finds your most recent posts properly anymore, either the ones from the thread you're currently in, or really old ones

People whistling and humming at work. And eating loud food.

When you have some alcoholic drinks at night and the next day your mouth/throat is all dry and sore.
And I've tried the thing where you drink a glass of water before bed. Doesn't seem to help much.

People who go through a checkout whilst having a phone conversation....

Pay a ****ing tention....