Minor Annoyances (Vol 2)

[wordsfromlee]

13 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Didn't realise my youngest had joined the forum. 

What can I say - I’m down with the youth of today. I presume your kid is also mainly watching videos about gardening and people restoring old bit of rusty tat, right?

[SuperBacon]

5 minutes ago, wordsfromlee said:

What can I say - I’m down with the youth of today. I presume your kid is also mainly watching videos about gardening and people restoring old bit of rusty tat, right?

Well she is my child so yeah probably.

Her latest obsession with them are the ones that show horrific Sunday league tackles

[DavidB6937]

My kids love "funny" videos on YouTube. I'm all for it. I always found You've Been Framed hilarious. I'm pretty basic.

BUT they're all edited with horrific noises and clips from shows etc. If I have to watch one more that has that stupid Arrested Development quote over it.

[FLips]

Privacy and Cookie settings on every single website or app you visit. Do you want 1000 3rd parties to have your information? No? Well manually untick all these boxes and try not to confuse the save button with the Accept All button. 
Here’s a Reject All button but only on some websites, hidden away at the bottom.

Some websites don’t even let you visit them unless you accept all or you have to pay to read them?!?

Not that the internet is that fun anyway these days but fuck me, just basic browsing is being made miserable. I’m feeling closer and closer to just fucking the whole thing off completely.

[tiger_rick]

15 minutes ago, FLips said:

Privacy and Cookie settings on every single website or app you visit. 

Oh yes. I'd have voted for Brexit if they'd got rid of this message. Every bastard time too. How about you remember that I said allow cookies, you lemons? Maybe store it in a fucking cookie.

Edited July 18, 2025 by tiger_rick

[wordsfromlee]

You can get web browser extensions that auto-reject cookies for you. Or you can use a VPN.

[FLips]

I have the auto-reject thing on my PC but the majority of my browsing is during work hours on my phone and I’m not sure you can do anything like that on iPhone. 

[wordsfromlee]

2 minutes ago, FLips said:

I have the auto-reject thing on my PC but the majority of my browsing is during work hours on my phone and I’m not sure you can do anything like that on iPhone. 

A VPN should be able to do it. I know SurfShark has a cookie popup blocker for Chrome, Firefox and Edge called CleanWeb as part of their VPN plan.

[Chest Rockwell]

I have a paid VPN app and had no idea it had that feature until this conversation made me go check. Sweet. 

[wordsfromlee]

When people refer to things as 'timeless' when they actual just mean 'old'.

I saw someone call the movie Police Academy a 'timeless classic'.

[johnnyboy]

1 hour ago, wordsfromlee said:

I saw someone call the movie Police Academy a 'timeless classic'.

That is absolutely the correct use of the term.

[Browser Brady]

Caught a glimpse of myself in a mirror today……….and i’m looking old….

44 and looking every bit of it. 
I’ve gone from looking relatively young for my age to looking very old for my age in about 2 years…

 

Oh well.

[Chest Rockwell]

Not old, timeless...

[Cannibal Man]

Police Academy - timeless

Police Academy II - full of time, too much of it if anything

Police Academy 3 - timeless

Police Academy 4 - the clock by which all time is measured

[DavidB6937]

People who have fucking wishlists that they get their followers to buy shit, even though they've got a billion followers and brand deals and god knows what else. Twats.