Tag: Grinding my gears

Trying to listen to Supertramp albums on YouTube Music — some of my favourite ever albums — and half the songs are unavailable.

Most likely this is down to some stupid fucking copyright issue that only occurs to certain songs or somet.

You can see from the screenshots below that half the songs — arguably the best ones — are greyed out unavailable.

This is why music streaming — aka renting — cannot be relied upon.

Buy your favourite albums and keep the physical copies for yourself.

The Flies are re-grouping

It’s warm.

Really fecking warm.

The kind of warm that when you take your t-shirt off, you get that really uncomfortable heat surrounding your head as you take the t-shirt off over your head.

It’s also the kind of warmth that throws up the signs outside of every open window — “Flies, inside this way”.

I managed to destroy the previous wave with one of those electrified tennis rackets that shock and kill the flies.

Then the weather cooled.

But now the heat has returned. And with it, the second battalion of airborne pests.

So now I wander the halls* of my home like Negan, looking for fly skulls to bash in.

So if you hear the sound of electric shocks and/or cupboards being hit with cheap plastic, don’t worry. It’s just me working the perimeter.

Enjoy the weather.

*header image generated with Gemini AI

Hospitals and Supermarkets

What do hospitals and supermarkets have in common?

Go on – take a moment to think about it.

Got it?

No? Well, I’ll tell you.

Both are places where absolute fucking plebs congregate right outside the front doors, smoking.

Smoking is an individual choice, regardless of how completely dumb it is, but Christ if I don’t wish they would bugger off 100 metres away.

And the complete hypocrisy of a hospital placing one of their smoking areas directly outside their cancer wards. *smh*

Walking through a cloud of nicotine fog is not something I want to be doing.

Go away smokers.

Go away.

These “End of Year” wrap ups are getting ridiculous. Like most Internet fads.

Now my banking app has decided to show me a “wrap up”.

Like “Here you go David – here’s how much you spend living this year and a reminder of why you can’t afford a new boiler yet”.

You know what? Fuck Google. Just when I think I couldn’t hate them more. Exporting my previous uploaded music (about 100gb worth) from their Play Music service. Do they put the songs into Artist / Album folders?

Nope.

Instead they package it up into 54 zipped folders and stick random songs along with loads of csv files with dumb stats in.

Seriously.

Now I’ll have to write a little script to read the song meta data and organise into folders myself.

I’ll share the script once it’s done and tested.

Are you being a fucking idiot?

(Originally pasted into facebook)

I don’t often stick long posts on this god-awful surveillance website, but after hearing about some friends and family suffering, I didn’t want to hold back.

If you’re going into shops etc without a mask on when you should wear one, you’re a fucking idiot.
If you’re holding personal gatherings when you shouldn’t, you’re a fucking idiot.
If you’re reading this and about to dispute it because of some dumb ass reason because “well kids mix at school so what’s the difference”, you’re a fucking idiot.

There are people who are actually suffering, whether through loneliness, loss or struggling to battle this thing.

Boredom != Suffering.

Acting like a fucking idiot, thinking the rules don’t apply to you, whilst people fight to get rid of this virus, is no different to locking the front door with 50 locks whilst some prick leaves a window open.

Yes the government are inept and more concerned with profits over people’s lives. But you can’t use their stupidity as an excuse for your own fuckwittery.

Open your eyes and realise you live in a society.

Opportunist racism of my morning commute

Yesterday morning I was witness to a bit of casual racism which really got me annoyed and ready to rage at the dickhead who uttered it. There were no bad words used but, nonetheless, his confused intent got to me.

The Setup

The train was pulling into the station as I was waiting to board it with my fellow commuters. I have come to recognise a few of the people who are regulars on my train. One of which is a young lady I tend to notice, as she also gets off at the same station as me at the other end.

As we were boarding, another lady squeezed herself and her travel bag between the first lady and the train in order to get on quicker. The affected lady didn’t seem bothered as she wasn’t barged or anything.

However, a man stood just behind me decided to pipe up and make his thoughts heard.

The utterings of the opportunist racist

Man to lady : “I think she wants to get on there.”

The lady smiled politely.

Man to lady : “She must be important as she’s got her bags.”

Again, the lady acknowledged him but didn’t reply.

Man to lady : “You can tell she’s not British”.

You can tell she’s not British. Like… What the fuck? The lady who squeezed ahead didn’t say a word and to be honest, didn’t seem phased at all by his comments. And while I don’t condone squeezing past people in order to get their seat on a train, I condone even less any excuse for racism.

Firstly there was nothing about the woman to indicate she wasn’t British (whether she actually was or not is completely irrelevant). Secondly, I don’t even know if this idiot knew what he meant by the term “British”. I can guess what he thinks it means though.

In Closing

It really annoys me when people who could otherwise be smart, have this unfounded ideas of “us and them”. The seeds of which are usually planted by the mainstream media or in people’s filter bubbles in Facebook, twitter et al.

We as a people can solve so many complex ideas and theories, we can put people on the moon, but we can’t all get along in an open and friendly manner.