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2026-05-03 21:55:05 GMT

Barman here. I don't know who started this "queueing single-file at the pub" business but it needs to end. You're not actually getting served any quicker. They wouldn't have designed bars to be long and wide if they intended on people forming a fucking queue.

2026-04-16 14:55:05 GMT

If AI was genuinely useful your employees would choose to use it, you wouldn't have to mandate its use.

2026-04-07 10:55:06 GMT

Sending me an email asking me if I want an email about Mother's / Father's Day is actually an email about Mother's/ Father's Day.

2026-03-15 08:55:05 GMT

Yes, we have some serious problems in the UK, but at least we didn't make Jimmy Savile Prime Minister after he'd attempted a coup against the state and then let him appoint all his creepy mates to plum government jobs before attempting to destroy the international political order

2026-02-24 11:55:06 GMT

One the oft over looked great things about Wikipedia is that is looked the same for years. You don't have to keep learning new features or enduring horrible new designs. Looking at you Liquid Glass.

2026-01-15 23:55:06 GMT

Not an opinion as such, more of a genuine top tip. I always set my VPN to Afghanistan, Iran or Venezuela - it's like a working adblocker again and makes Youtube usable. Venezuela isn't always 100% ad-free, when it becomes so, the Orange Peril must have invaded.

2026-01-08 22:55:06 GMT

If we're going to ban social media and mobile phones for kids, then we need to ban Facebook and the Daily Mail for boomers. For the exact same fucking reasons.

2026-01-06 18:55:07 GMT

The fact that calculators and computer keyboard numeric keypads have 789 across the top, while phone number keys have 123 at the top, is one of the greatest user interface design failures of all time.

2026-01-06 14:55:05 GMT

If you accept a knighthood, you should have to participate in at least one jousting tournament a year. The tournaments should be televised.

2026-01-05 16:55:05 GMT

The best hip hop is French. If you're going to have someone jibbering over four repeated bars of the world's most simple music, it might as well be in a mellifluous language.

2026-01-05 11:55:06 GMT

People who claim to like sprouts when they're fried up with bacon and/or chestnuts should stop kidding themselves

2026-01-04 21:55:06 GMT

Saying LLM's will lead to AGI means you fundamentally misunderstand how the technology works.

2026-01-04 19:55:06 GMT

Websites need to realise that no one ever, ever wants the site to be able to send them notifications.

2026-01-04 13:55:07 GMT

One of the absolute worst things about social media is those fucking ASMR cooking videos. We know it's fucking crispy so stop dragging your fucking knife across it you fucking weirdo.

2026-01-03 21:55:06 GMT

Somebody should tell James Cameron the world doesn't need anymore frigging Avatar movies.

2025-12-29 09:55:06 GMT

Having a 1 hour+ commute is never worth it. I don't care how much extra money you earn or how many podcasts you listen to on the way. Spending such a significant portion of your life simply going to and from work is a waste of life.

2025-12-28 21:55:07 GMT

Saturday afternoon wrestling on ITV was a weekend highlight for everyone I knew. We need a return to watching two enormously fat men in silly nylon costumes slamming each other around the ring on national TV. Let's normalise athletic obesity again.

2025-12-28 11:55:06 GMT

Messaging apps need to standardise whether pressing "enter" creates a new line or just sends the fucking unfinished message.

2025-12-28 10:55:06 GMT

We are all dead. We died of Covid in 2020 and are now in hell. It's the only possible way to explain why everything in the world is so fucked up now.

2025-12-27 21:55:06 GMT

Paying a bit more in return for knowing that Bezos is getting none of my money is worth every fucking penny

2025-12-27 20:55:05 GMT

The 'Pro' monicker on products has got out of hand. I recently saw 'Pro' label on a fucking doorbell. What makes you a professional door opener?

2025-12-27 13:55:05 GMT

Buying a car seat, 97% say it's bad & it will kill your baby. 3% say it's amazing, just ignore the negative reviews. These reviews are written by people who make a buck selling car seats and have paid a lot for review visibility. That's what's happening climate change.

2025-12-26 23:55:05 GMT

Everything went to shit once the soviet union collapsed. The ruling elite used to be terrified of communism doing well and turning heads so they'd throw the plebs a few bones (health care, public services, etc) to keep us sweet.

2025-12-26 17:55:06 GMT

Brian Blessed's guest-host episode of Have I Got News For You wasn't that good. They just gave him some fairly stereotypical lines to read and got him to shout a bit. Bruce Forsyth's, on the other hand, was magical.

2025-12-26 08:55:06 GMT

One of the worst things about being in your 40s is seeing the media constantly refer to 34 year old footballers with a sense of hushed awe that these ancient, decrepit old men are still able to run and kick a ball.

2025-12-24 16:55:05 GMT

No, your post won't "break the internet" you narcissistic arsehole. Leave that to Cloudflare.

2025-12-24 15:55:07 GMT

Keir Starmer genuinely does not seem to be aware that he has a 400+ seat majority in parliament. You can pass anything you like with that many seats. Fucking do something.

2025-12-23 23:55:06 GMT

History is full of examples of regimes that seem invincible and eternal but which suddenly and unpredictably disappear literally overnight. Kingdoms, ideologies, dictatorships. Can and has happened anywhere and everywhere. Gives you hope doesn't it?

2025-12-23 10:55:06 GMT

My Lovely Horse is better than most of Irelands recent Eurovision songs.

2025-12-23 08:55:06 GMT

A spider isn't a web designer, it's a web developer. All spiders within a species use the same design.

2025-12-21 11:55:07 GMT

If you choose to buy an SUV/4x4 to drive in the city, you have prioritised your own desires over the environment or the safety of others. That's fine - just ensure you fully understand what that says about you. Don't go around thinking you're a nice person.

2025-12-21 08:55:05 GMT

When supermarkets give you the option to round up your shopping "for charity" they are using your donation as a tax write-off. Just donate directly instead.

2025-12-20 19:55:06 GMT

Multiple exclamation marks make you look a bit batty. Multiple commas make you look criminally dangerous.

2025-12-20 18:55:06 GMT

Car manufacturers should be forced to publish the amount of time it would take an average untrained person to change both headlight bulbs. Easiest way to tell if a car is well designed.

2025-12-19 14:55:11 GMT

On University Challenge I hate it when the camera shows the two teams side-by-side. It kills the illusion that one team is above the other.

2025-12-18 23:55:06 GMT

I actively seek out podcasts hosted by nobodies. Celebrities turning their hand to expensive, slickly produced podcasts make me fucking sick. Entitlement. Nepotism. Pollution of a once grass roots medium. Haven't you greedy cunts slapped your name on enough stuff?

2025-12-17 20:55:05 GMT

It's a sure sign that someone is a cunt if they don't put the "next customer" bar behind their shopping on the supermarket checkout conveyor.

2025-12-17 19:55:06 GMT

The UK should try submitting a Eurovision entry in Welsh to sidestep the usual anti English sentiment amongst continental voters. Worth a try surely?

2025-12-17 11:55:06 GMT

Dear scriptwriters, not everything has to be about the end of the world. I know you want to raise the stakes, but if you've done a decent job of making us care about the characters then it's fine if things only affect them

2025-12-17 10:55:06 GMT

They should stop filming podcasts, the whole point is it's supposed to be an audio media, too many are unlistenable now because they have to describe what's going on for the audio listeners.

2025-12-16 23:55:07 GMT

Frogger should be up there with Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders and all the great pioneering classics of the video games age. But it rarely is.

2025-12-16 15:55:06 GMT

Just seen the second Bridget Jones film. First Four Weddings, now this. Why do all British films need to include a scene where a pack of utterly repulsive posh arseholes sit a vintage car, braying out of the window like a bunch of twats who genuinely deserve to crash?

2025-12-15 16:55:05 GMT

If the county where you lived changed in 1974. Then that's your county. Yes you in Wigan, Oldham and Bury. Your county is Greater Manchester not Lancashire. Same with Stockport you're not Cheshire. You are in Greater Manchester not Cheshire.

2025-12-14 21:55:05 GMT

Every funeral should have a section where a hypocrites list is read out of people who never cared or visited when the dead person was alive.

2025-12-13 18:55:06 GMT

We should stop using euphemisms for death. My father wasn't "lost", I know exactly where he is. If my mother had "gone to a better place" I'd visit her in Cheshire.

2025-12-12 19:55:06 GMT

Nothing has radicalised me more than seeing how the government completely elimimated homelessness during the pandemic and yet after it was done we were right back to pretending it was impossible.

2025-12-12 17:55:07 GMT

We should have a different word for a dead spouse. When they die, the marriage is over, so you can't really continue calling them "my wife". And "ex-wife" has already been claimed by the divorced. The person left behind has a noun, be it "widow" or "widower", but not the dead.

2025-12-12 16:55:05 GMT

You can't finish with someone once you've hit the 20th November. It's too late. You'll have to wait until the 10th of January, but do it quickly or you'll miss the window before Valentine's Day, and before you know it you'll be planning a June wedding.

2025-12-11 17:55:06 GMT

One of the most revolutionary things in lettering in comics was when 2000ad decided to make speech bubbles from robots into rectangles with chamfered corners. Such a simple but effective change that it's lasted nearly 50 years.

2025-12-11 16:55:05 GMT

Ahead of Christmas please can we all agree that orange or strawberry creme flavoured chocolate in selection boxes are vile and have to go.

2025-12-11 15:55:06 GMT

Alcohol shouldn't be served at airports or on planes. If you can't get through a few hours without a drink you have a problem. Other passengers and staff shouldn't have to deal with abusive and obnoxious people who have been drinking since the early hours

2025-12-11 11:55:07 GMT

Catchphrase is the shittest game show because nothing on there is actually a catchphrase. You can't just take any old sentence and call it a catchphrase.

2025-12-10 20:55:07 GMT

Supermarkets were the first to realise data has value so initially offered free stuff (via points) for giving them data. Then they realised people are thick and give data to other companies for free so they changed it to 'we will punish you if you don't give us the data'.

2025-12-09 23:55:06 GMT

Strong end-of-the-world vibes at the moment

2025-12-08 23:55:07 GMT

For a guy who lived and worked in the back of a lorry, Devon from Knight Rider had immaculate tailoring.

2025-12-08 14:55:07 GMT

It's only been five years, but it's amazing how quickly we've forgotten that the people who really affect ours lives positively are medics, farmers, shop workers, etc, and not entrepreneurs, billionaires, etc

2025-12-07 20:55:06 GMT

Never trust a man who knows the names of actually porn stars. That's creepy and gross.

2025-12-07 13:55:06 GMT

Brexit was in Russia's interests. Not Britain's.

2025-12-07 08:55:06 GMT

The only television documentaries worth a damn are the definitive classics from the 1960s/70s: Cosmos, The World at War, Civilisation, The Ascent of Man.

2025-12-04 14:55:06 GMT

At what point do Starmer, the Tory advisors he's surrounded himself with, and his cabinet of cowards look at the polls and realise that keeping Daily Mail readers' obsessions and talking points in the headlines every day has been a fucking disaster?

2025-12-03 08:55:05 GMT

British MPs must be the cheapest politicians in the world to buy out. Millions of contracts handed out based on taking them out for a meal or a few thousand quid of donations. No self respect.

2025-12-02 17:55:06 GMT

Anyone who watches videos or listens to music out loud on public transport should receive an automatic fine. Get some earphones or learn to live without an Instagram reel for 10 minutes, twats.

2025-12-02 09:55:05 GMT

Recently introduced to the concept of "fan fiction" by a young colleague. I ended up reading a few out of curiosity & think I've found the holy grail of sex tips for men, honestly, written mostly by women & absolute filth. If you want to know what they really want, get reading.

2025-12-01 22:55:05 GMT

When the conductor announces the list of stations the train will be stopping at, everyone should cheer when their station is called out

2025-12-01 17:55:05 GMT

Youtube should have a block feature so we can block low level ai slop.

2025-11-30 21:55:06 GMT

If you boil broccoli, you might as well not bother eating it. You're throwing away pretty much all the nutrients with the water. Steam it, or cook it in a sauce.

2025-11-30 15:55:06 GMT

Kids getting free school meals are often bullied. The correct solution is that school cafeterias shouldn't have a till. Everyone should get a nutritious three course meal. And we should all pay for this through our taxes.

2025-11-28 15:55:06 GMT

If divorced dads whose kids don't see them could go back to dressing up in superhero outfits and climbing up buildings instead of ushering in fascism I think we'd all be better off quite frankly.

2025-11-28 14:55:06 GMT

It's not the vaping companies fault their brightly packaged, multi flavoured, product is being abused by children rather than being used for its medical purpose of managed tobacco withdrawal in adults, but what can they do?

2025-11-28 09:55:07 GMT

If a British person responds to your opinion with a jaunty 'Fair enough!' then the conversation is over and they think you're a prick.

2025-11-28 08:55:05 GMT

Look, I think Starmer's as much of a prat as the next guy but we can all take solace in the fact that we can call him that without risking the FBI at our door, and that he's not a senile, deranged, convicted sex offender right? Things could definitely be worse.

2025-11-26 20:55:05 GMT

If you want to stop doom scrolling on an evening watch subtitled foreign TV programmes, often much better than a lot of the current English language dross being served up and reading the subs means you can't read your phone at the same time.

2025-11-25 17:55:05 GMT

Even if there was any sort of academic benefit to homeschooling (there isn't), it would be completely offset by the social damage of being raised that way. School isn't just learning academic subjects, it's learning how to leave your home and participate in society.

2025-11-25 13:55:06 GMT

Nothing shows the bloatification of car sizes more than the Ford Ka and the Nissan Micra. The new models are fucking huge. Stop building American sized cars for our tiny British roads. They. Don't. Fucking. Fit.

2025-11-25 08:55:06 GMT

I will boycott any supermarket that offers lower prices if you have a loyalty card, even if it means paying a little more elsewhere. I just want to buy some milk, I don't owe you any loyalty and I won't join your stupid club. Fuck off.

2025-11-24 22:55:06 GMT

A Telecaster with humbuckers is not a Telecaster.

2025-11-22 18:55:06 GMT

It's a real shame that no-one publishes a 3D map of our cities that shows the underground as well as the surface. Seeing the tunnels used by pedestrians, trains, roads, clean water, sewage, gas and electricity would be great. Hidden infrastructure that needs to be seen.

2025-11-22 15:55:05 GMT

Products that are possibly dangerous, defective, or compromised are pulled from sale all the time, and yet AI chatbots are left to continue chatting shit to suicidal teens. The double standards of accountability due to rich cunts wanting a return on investment boils my piss.

2025-11-21 23:55:07 GMT

I'm not some misty-eyed nostalgist and there's been a lot of great movies since the switch to digital cameras, but visually, it remains a big downgrade and cinema has certainly lost some of its allure and glamour with the death of film.

2025-11-21 20:55:05 GMT

I used to be pessimistic and think that people would only demand serious climate action after some tragedy. In retrospect I think that was actually optimistic

2025-11-21 08:55:07 GMT

Bruce Springsteen is unbelievably overrated. He only wrote a handful of half decent tunes, but ruins even those by singing flat. The E Street Band play sloppily, as if drunk, and their version of Santa Claus is Coming to Town in excruciating. Sorry Bruce.

2025-11-20 23:55:06 GMT

The Roman Empire prospered due to open borders, mass immigration and diversity then fell because of huge wealth inequality and corrupt leadership. I just thought I'd mention it.

2025-11-20 22:55:06 GMT

When we had billionaires like Gates that funded charity we were relaxed about them. But some of us warned you: it's still just one man's whim. He could defund the work instantly. Musk proves the point. The way to ensure billionaires' money isn't used for ill is through taxation

2025-11-19 20:55:06 GMT

I use a Kindle because it makes the letters bigger. I've asked the council, my bank, and others to send me letter in a 24pt font. Will they? Of course not. We should have a legal right to legible text in official correspondence.

2025-11-19 17:55:06 GMT

If the UK government was really serious about online safety they would have banned Twitter/X instead of implementing the Online Safety Act. That would've removed a major source of extremist hate but preserved small website communities and forums that offer safe aid and advice.

2025-11-19 09:55:06 GMT

Well, I for one am delighted that there's Formula One on BBC radio, because that really works, doesn't it, and that so much quality local BBC radio programming has been permanently axed in a 'cost-cutting drive'.

2025-11-18 09:55:06 GMT

The best destination you will ever see on the front of a bus is "North Finchley Tally Ho!" on the 134 from Euston. Nothing been beat it, I will accept no other options.

2025-11-17 21:55:06 GMT

It's so funny when I see people be nostalgic about 2016. I DISTINCTLY remember people saying it was the "worst year ever" cos of the amount of celebrities that died.

2025-11-17 15:55:06 GMT

The most hilarious thing about the far right is how afraid they are of imaginary things. They're all "Grr I'm an alpha male but London is so scary tho" "1000 hobbits will descend on your village" Or some nonsense.

2025-11-17 12:55:06 GMT

Songs should all have a unique digital identifier, like an ISBN, so that playlists etc would be interchangeable between all the different streaming services.

2025-11-16 22:55:06 GMT

Bryan Johnson is 48. Spends millions. Looks older than 48 if you ask me. He genuinely doesn't look like her enjoys what he's doing.He could get hit by a bus tomorrow and it would have been for fuck all.

2025-11-16 18:55:07 GMT

Including the sheep's tongue in the mix makes for a superior haggis.

2025-11-16 16:55:06 GMT

The number of UK people who have an opinion on the New York mayoral election as a proxy for their own bullshit but could not name you a single bill in front of the House of Commons at present is indicative of the fundamentally unserious nature of "political" social media.

2025-11-16 11:55:06 GMT

Every council should have to commission create a place to show a work of public art at least once a year. The artist should always be someone living in the council's territory.

2025-11-15 12:55:07 GMT

All fireworks displays should be set to classical music and not modern music. It just works better.

2025-11-14 15:55:05 GMT

A Sodastream lager syrup would outsell all the other flavours combined.

2025-11-14 12:55:06 GMT

One of the major snack brands must hold or have access to the Brannigans name and recipes. Why aren't they reviving it and giving us the roast beef and mustard flavour we so desperately want to throw our money at?

2025-11-13 19:55:06 GMT

The most dangerous people in the world are broke, lonely young men & we are creating millions of them.

2025-11-13 09:55:05 GMT

If you are doing a TV advert and need to introduce yourself with your name you can't actually be a celebrity. You're saying your name because people only have a vague idea of who you might be.

2025-11-12 16:55:05 GMT

Petrol stations should be legally required to display the price per 50 litres on their big signs, not price per litre. I want to know whether it'll cost me £60 or £75 to fill my tank there, not how many pence a juice carton of it would be.