Little Things That Irk You IX

[briareos_kerensky]

I didn't sleep in my bed, just on it for months because the temperature even after midnight was often still over 80°C.

It's not a surprise you wouldn't sleep well while dead, with a room temperature of 80°C.

[Anpanman]

I'm old enough to remember well the summer of '76.

Me as well, we went on a luxury holiday that year to Newquay, it was usually a week in Blackpool, we were roasted alive. We were lucky in that back at home we didn't have standpipes but there was a hosepipe ban.
Aye bottled water didn't exist then. I also slept on top of the bed at night for weeks, my bedroom was south facing so had the heat all day - winter was a different matter, double glazing or central heating didn't exist either as far as we were concerned and in winter I usually woke up to ice on the inside of the windows and being able to see my breath in my room.

We've had crap weather this year up until this week, today has been extremely humid, my tomatoes were mostly green due to the poor weather, this week thankfully a few of them are turning red. I think the temperature might hold for a few more days which will help.

[huxley]

I was six in 1976 and the only thing I really remember was my mother making lots of ice pops with orange squash.
It’s a shame she didn’t realise half the neighbours kids were sensitive to e number colourings.

Lots of happy memories

[fallenangle]

Oops, typo since corrected to 80°F of course.

[importaku]

Sat in my room & saw something from the corner of my eye next thing a super fat squirrel just casually walks into my bloody bedroom. Commence trying to shoo the damn thing to an open window, starts freaking out in the living room and jumped on my head as it trys to vault off me to the curtains so now i'm covered in slash marks all over my face like a bloody freddy keruger attack. Damn tree rats, looks like i need to leave the windows closed way closer from now on.

Probably wouldn't have left any marks if it wasn't such a fat little ****.

[CMcK]

Has someone in your house been feeding it?

[importaku]

Has someone in your house been feeding it?

Nope neither of us feed them for this very reason doesn’t seem to have put them off getting brave. Think I need to buy one of those gloves that people use when handling birds of prey so I can grab the next one. Or a tennis racket to punt them out lol.

[fallenangle]

I hate squirrels too.

Had a similar thing whilst I was hanging up some washing with my back to the garage wall; I heard something behind me and started to turn around and out of the corner of my eye I was surprised to see a squirrel literally only a couple of feet up on the edge of the garage roof.

It seemed surprised to see me too and in an effort to get away 'decided' to jump from the roof half onto my shoulder and head, then immediately, from there jumped to the fence about eight feet away which it ran along and disappeared. I didn't think much of it but later when I looked in a mirror I found I had a scratch on the side of my head from where it had jumped off me to the fence.

Over the years squirrel damage to my roof have cost me and my neighbour probably £2000 additional costs to fix. On one occasion I had a squirrel in the loft space, not the first or the last, but this one jumped down the open hatch and I spent 5 minutes chasing it around the house and finally got it down the stairs and out of the front door.

Hate them, hate them.

[Anpanman]

Assume you mean the grey ones, yes they are American invading scumbags.

[charlesr]

Ingrowing bit of fingernail got infected. Even the fascinating effort of pushing the puss out of it doesn't make up for the constant pain. Especially while typing

[dataDave]

Just how ****ing **** wrestling has become. I've been on a real trip reliving the 1986-2001 eras of WWF wrestling, but decided to dip into the modern stuff to see what it's like.

This Slipknot-looking fella just recently passed away who everybody apparently loved, so naturally I'm directed to one of his "masterpieces".



Seriously.. WTF is this? A Masterpiece? A master piece of ****, more like. How is this so popular? This is WRESTLEMANIA-calibre? WTF!?

[Neon Ignition]

I used to watch it as a kid on TV but very quickly drifted off for the same reasons I have no time for as an adult. It's not only blatantly staged and fake but it's also done so in an incredibly poor quality way. That's before you even get near the absolute god awful practices and goings on behind the scenes that the fanbase know about but are happy to ignore in order to preserve something CITV would be ashamed to put out.

[Dogg Thang]

I have never been into wrestling but, last year, I got to see a lucha libre match in Mexico City and it was honestly the best fun I’ve had in ages. Yes it’s ridiculous but the atmosphere is just so pumped up and I can see how it’s so popular. It’s like a soap playing out with stupid fighting moves.

[dataDave]

I used to watch it as a kid on TV but very quickly drifted off for the same reasons I have no time for as an adult. It's not only blatantly staged and fake but it's also done so in an incredibly poor quality way. That's before you even get near the absolute god awful practices and goings on behind the scenes that the fanbase know about but are happy to ignore in order to preserve something CITV would be ashamed to put out.

Staged, yes. Fake, no. For the same reasons Hollywood stunts aren’t fake.

I don’t know when you watched, but the real magic happened back in the 80s when it really was questionable if it was staged or not. Even after you knew it was staged it was still incredibly entertaining to watch throughout the 90s.

[Asura]

I have never been into wrestling but, last year, I got to see a lucha libre match in Mexico City and it was honestly the best fun I’ve had in ages. Yes it’s ridiculous but the atmosphere is just so pumped up and I can see how it’s so popular. It’s like a soap playing out with stupid fighting moves.

Live wrestling is fantastic. But it's fantastic in the way a really, really good Panto or Kyogen Theatre is. Physicality, comedy. Cheer for the hero, boo for the villain. Great fun.