Complaints Box: post your daily moans...

[Lolalee1]

Today is very sad day for me.The Yes vote for a voice for our First Nation People was defeated by the of false information the No campaign the lies and bullshite was disgusting.Racism in this “so called lucky country” is alive and well. I am sad and bloody mad.

[Lencoboy]

Today is very sad day for me.The Yes vote for a voice for our First Nation People was defeated by the of false information the No campaign the lies and bullshite was disgusting.Racism in this “so called lucky country” is alive and well. I am sad and bloody mad.

Very symptomatic of our so-called 'walk on by' society and general 'have it your way' appeasement culture pretty much the world over and not forgetting those who simply can't be bothered to get off their lazy backsides and down to polling stations on election/referendum days then complain about the results several days, weeks or months later, but sadly the horses have long bolted years ago.

Sounds like a bit of Brexit deja vu all over again.

Here in Blighty right now I'm disgusted at certain elements of the media who are milking the current situation in Israel/Gaza to death (pardon the pun) and inadvertently whipping certain factions of our society up into a frenzy (who seem to have been gagging for Britain to turn into a state of mass anarchy), with Jews suddenly becoming the latest in a long line of 'scapegoats'.

[Lencoboy]

Whenever I turn on my laptop whenever it's online it often wants to start updating at random every other day, which seems to take ages and can be a real hindrance at times, especially when I'm doing non-online activities like printing.

It's as if the darned things have a will of their own at times and don't care about what the user/owner really wants to do with them in the moment.

A real unnecessary intrusion, and indeed an inconvenience IMO that really gets on my wick! I feel like I'm basically 'owned' and possessed by the likes of Microsoft, etc, on occasions, and they're out to get us!

BTW, most of my posts on here are via an Android smartphone; while more fiddly when typing, it doesn't seem to have those issues (touch wood).

[Lencoboy]

Welcome to the modern world of comfort and convenience.

If you really want to avoid all that updating malarkey, there are ways and means of turning it off (all preceded by dire warnings against doing so - trawl the internet if you're still keen).

Discomfort and inconvenience more like!

As these updates are generally free, it's not like Microsoft, etc, are out to make money from us in these particular instances, at least not directly.

[Lencoboy]

Another thing really doing my nut in lately is whenever I go onto YouTube and scroll down the list of latest and currently popular videos, there seems to be a lot of Britain-bashing vids (which I avoid like the plague) often telling us that this country is doomed (especially our economy) and also videos about 'crap towns', etc, whose vids I also avoid like the plague.

Some of these video creators/authors still seem to be stuck in a bit of a 2008 timewarp, and seem to revel in so-called 'declinism'. And in fairness it's probably people on both the Left and the Right with some kind of agenda.

Yes I know things are going through a bit of a rough time ATM, both in this country and pretty much the world over, but I just don't get this kicks many seem to get out of 'crisis porn'.

Surely even if Labour win next year's election, this time next year they will be 'public enemy number one' and getting it in the neck non-stop about the state of the economy, the NHS, the COL crisis, etc, and people yearning for the 'good old days' of the Tories with their rapidly gaining in the opinion polls by then, etc. Mark my words.

Not that I don't personally have any faith in the Labour Party, but as politics in general is an increasingly fickle business, and the 'blame culture' that seems to be evermore prevalant, this country sadly seems to be stuck in this rut of self-loathing and revelling in declinism, no matter what.

Same old same old.

[Lencoboy]

There's this one client at my day centre, who is generally quite able, but at the same time can be a bit absent-minded on occasions, and has a bit of a habit of deflection when being informed of a mistake/error that he's made.

He never seems to lock the door whenever he goes to the toilet, and I've opened the toilet door at my day centre on several occasions when I was bursting to go myself, and there he was either sitting there on the loo in mid-flight 'writing his will' (metaphorically not literally) or stood dawdling at the wash basin gawping into the mirror just above it for absolutely ages, while the rest of us make clients are platting our legs!

Last week I opened the toilet door there and he was in there with the door unlocked for the umpteenth time, but had just finished washing his hands and I said to him 'Why don't you ever lock the door when you go to the toilet' and he replied with 'I'm voting for the Red Party this year', and I replied back 'What the hell's the forthcoming General Election got to do with you never locking the toilet door when you go?', and he just completely ignored me and walked off, still rabbiting on about stuff totally irrelevant to the immediate situation, including football as well which is another one of his favourite subjects.

I try to be as tolerant as possible of other clients' respective foibles but these foibles of this particular client really get on my wick even at the best of times. And it's not as though the lock mechanism on said toilet door is faulty either, plus said door can also be unlocked from the outside by means of a slim straight object in case of some emergency situation, which I think is a standard safety measure for such establishments.

[BlueIris]

Please don't disable updates on your computers? It's opening yourself up to cyber attacks.

[Lencoboy]

Sunak referring to protests as 'mob rule'.

Perhaps he should take a trip to, say, Paris and/or other major French cities to get a taste of real 'mob rule' protests, often bordering on out-and-out riots.

Whatever 'protests' we have had here in Britain over recent years (for the most part) have been relatively tame by comparison.

And before I get shot down in flames and accused of Francophobia and France/French-bashing, I know full well that not all French people are militant knuckledraggers who revel in dust-ups over pretty much anything and everything.

[Carnation]

People have a right to protest and its normally over something​ very important.
I agree Lencoboy , the UK protests have been extremely tame compared with other European countries.

[Lencoboy]

People have a right to protest and its normally over something​ very important.
I agree Lencoboy , the UK protests have been extremely tame compared with other European countries.

That's exactly my point Carnation.

I personally think our PM is overreacting to a relative non-issue (and especially in comparison to certain other countries); no doubt in part because he and his party are currently lower in the opinion polls and he's probably trying to 'big up' both himself as PM and the Tory Party/govt in a desperate attempt to be seen to be doing something about proverbial 'Broken Britain' with the vain hope of regaining votes at the not-far-off GE, whose date is still yet to be officially confirmed.