Y'know what really grinds my gears?

[The Legendary Shark]

Goddam bloody bleedin' friggin' daylight saving time bullshit.

A pointless and anachronistic pain in the arse.

grumble mutter moan 

[JohnW]

If it helps us beat the Kaiser then I'm prepared to put up with it.

[The Legendary Shark]

How dare you threaten the eldest grandchild of good old Queen Victoria, you utter cad you.

[paddykafka]

Links to three articles that illustrate how fucked up the housing situation is, here in the Emerald Isle.

I am so screwed!

https://www.thejournal.ie/hap-properties-available-march-6032375-Mar2023/

https://www.thejournal.ie/evictions-ireland-leo-varadkar-6032311-Mar2023/

https://www.thejournal.ie/sinn-fein-eviction-ban-bill-vote-6032249-Mar2023/

[JohnW]

Summer's here! – and that means fellas jacking up their car stereos and rolling down the windows as they drive by.
Gangsta rap, classic rock, even good ol' country and western – it doesn't matter so long as it's loud and it invades my living room while they're briefly stopped in traffic.
I've asked the council about digging an anti-tank ditch at the top of my street, or at the very least strewing the road with little steel spikes, but you know what municipal bureaucracy is like.

[sheridan]

Summer's here! – and that means fellas jacking up their car stereos and rolling down the windows as they drive by.
Gangsta rap, classic rock, even good ol' country and western – it doesn't matter so long as it's loud and it invades my living room while they're briefly stopped in traffic.
I've asked the council about digging an anti-tank ditch at the top of my street, or at the very least strewing the road with little steel spikes, but you know what municipal bureaucracy is like.

Just wait for pot holes instead, it'll take less time.

[JohnW]

Just wait for pot holes instead, it'll take less time.

That won't stop them when they upgrade to all-terrain vehicles.
You know – the ones with 2cm armour plating, .50-calibre machine-guns, and really MASSIVE stereo speakers.

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

Summer's here! – and that means fellas jacking up their car stereos and rolling down the windows as they drive by.
Gangsta rap, classic rock, even good ol' country and western – it doesn't matter so long as it's loud and it invades my living room while they're briefly stopped in traffic.
I've asked the council about digging an anti-tank ditch at the top of my street, or at the very least strewing the road with little steel spikes, but you know what municipal bureaucracy is like.

There's a guy that tears around my area in his Toyota Corolla blaring Madness's cover of "Cecelia". It like a an ice cream van jingle, but for drugs.

[Barrington Boots]

Back when I lived in Birmingham, and a grim bit of Birmingham at that, this was a serious Summer problem. Not just people in cars either: there was barely a day when the sun wasn't out when I couldn't hear Bob Marley blasting out of someones house at Godzilla-esque volumes. My neighbour used to just whack their stereo up to max in the house and then go in the garden to sunbathe with the back door open. I was working at home 100% in those days and people would sometimes ask me on the phone if I could turn 'my' music down on the phone.

That won't stop them when they upgrade to all-terrain vehicles.
You know – the ones with 2cm armour plating, .50-calibre machine-guns, and really MASSIVE stereo speakers.

This will be just my luck. Chased down by some Mad Max dudes for petrol and / or cannibalism reasons, whilst they're blaring Britney Spears unironically across the wastelands.

[Hawkmumbler]

Back when I lived in Birmingham, and a grim bit of Birmingham at that, this was a serious Summer problem. Not just people in cars either: there was barely a day when the sun wasn't out when I couldn't hear Bob Marley blasting out of someones house at Godzilla-esque volumes.

A 'Bobzilla' if you will.

[JohnW]

There's a guy that tears around my area in his Toyota Corolla blaring Madness's cover of "Cecelia". It like a an ice cream van jingle, but for drugs.

There used to be an ice-cream van that came round my way playing your standard ice-cream jingles, but at strange hours.
Innocent that I was, I always wondered why anyone was trying to sell ice cream in an inner-city neighbourhood on wet winter nights.

[The Legendary Shark]

Back when I lived in Birmingham, and a grim bit of Birmingham at that, this was a serious Summer problem. Not just people in cars either: there was barely a day when the sun wasn't out when I couldn't hear Bob Marley blasting out of someones house at Godzilla-esque volumes.

Their volume dial went all the way up to Ebirah.

It's okay, I never even took me coat off for that one.

[Dandontdare]

Japanese porn

yeah, I'm not clicking on that. If I want Japanese porn, I know how to find it myself thank you very much

[The Legendary Shark]

Japanese porn

yeah, I'm not clicking on that. If I want Japanese porn, I know how to find it myself thank you very much

Me too, and not just your common filth, either. I like my filth a little more respectable...

Tagata Jinja Phallic Festival – An ema – votive plaque – depicting a male member

[paulcrilley]

Load shedding. 6-8 hours without electricity every single day (and that's us being lucky. In-laws go 10-12 without) because the ANC spent the last fifteen years stealing everything the could and giving contracts and tenders to front companies so no maintenance was done. And now it's out fault for... you know... wanting to use electricity that we pay for. Add in sabotage to disable units so specific companies get to come fix it and we're heading toward a shitshow we've never seen before. Total grid collapse will take over two weeks to restart. The riots we had here a year or so ago will look like kid's playing in a park. BBC recently did a piece on it.