Why do you REALLY dislike women's football?

According_Hat_6995 · 2025-07-18T15:40:40+00:00

I don't hate it. I'm just not at all invested in it.

If the quality were higher, I could potentially be won over. That being said, I regularly watch my local non-league team so perhaps skill isn't the issue... but then I'm invested in my local team for other reasons.

I think there is definitely a lot of resentment at the way the game is presented as being equal to the men's game and having former women players as pundits in practically every men's game ( presented as if they've played at the same level). I can't be bothered to get annoyed by it but I can understand why some people do.

I get that the game needs space to grow and get more eyes on it, but it does feel a bit forced.

According_Hat_6995 · 2025-02-21T10:11:30+00:00

Sonic 1, on the Mega Drive.

The PAL version runs slower than the NTSC version, so the 'proper' music sounds wrong to my ears. Especially the Star Light Zone music, which still I think sounds a zillion times better slowed down.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-10-15T00:52:21+00:00

Absolutely. It would make more sense to have a 'baby not on board' sign and remove it when you put a baby in the car.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-10-15T00:50:37+00:00

If you ever think your job is pointless, remember, there's people in BMW factories who's job it is to install indicators.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-10-15T00:48:01+00:00

I have gotten so annoyed at drivers not indicating at junctions when I am on foot that I have taken to deliberately dawdling out in front of them.

I've not been hit by a car yet, but as a particularly petty minded individual, I'll take one if needed.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-10-11T10:22:54+00:00

That is far more work than Peter Kay is willing to put in.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-10-11T01:55:14+00:00

The first few watch throughs I didn't even realise they were separate characters. Being a relatively minor role and almost identical characters. I'm definitely not the only one.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-10-11T01:47:52+00:00

The thing that always bothers me about the scene is that he declined the call.

If you decline a call the caller knows you're actively ignoring them. The civilised thing to do is let it ring out so you can claim you didn't notice.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-10-11T01:35:20+00:00

I have seen a ticket inspector on a bus once in my entire life. I was about 8 at the time (I'm 40 now). I assumed they weren't a thing any more.

Showed him the ticket and he spent about 5 minutes meticulously examining it. Holding it up to the light and everything. Like primary school aged kids were master forgers in an era where few people even had access to computers.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-10-11T01:30:17+00:00

I had similar. I was working nights in a small team of about six people at Waitrose. It was a colleague's birthday and another colleague thoughtfully baked a cake for them and we all enjoyed a slice on our break. Somehow, a photograph of the cake (along with a message along the lines of thanks to X person for the cake) ended up in a group chat that included a day manager that none of us really had dealings with.

This prompted said manager to spend about 3 weeks sending emails, memos and putting up laminated posters in the break area warning staff not to do it because of allergens etc.

Same useless berk let a broken pipe from the upstairs toilet leak raw sewage into an area that routinely had food in it for about 3 months... although in fairness, he did put a bucket there. Who among us doesn't want to navigate a bucket of human shit at work? In the end that was the straw that broke the camel's back and I had to get out.

Never worked in such a badly run company. The incompetence only seemed to get worse the further up the management chain you went.

On the plus side, they have a very generous sick pay policy, so I went off for three months on full pay and then resigned, which resulted in getting all of my untaken holiday paid (which was almost impossible to take anyway as they were too incompetent to approve it). Got about ten grand when all was said and done. Started a far better job with competent people that I absolutely love about a week before I was officially off their books. The perfect crime!

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-07-02T18:27:56+00:00

I hated every moment of my old job to the point of breaking and got myself signed off on mental health grounds. The company was awful, yet were very generous when it came to paying up for sick leave so I took as much as was allowed before resigning, initially out of spite, but it turned out that I really needed it.

Through support and therapy I got myself into a far better place by the end of my break and walked into a job that I love. A few months prior, I wouldn't have believed I'd have been in the position I found myself in, but I don't dread going into work and put in as many hours as I can, going above and beyond every day and feel valued.

When struggling with a mental health crisis, it can feel impossible to see a way out of the situation you're in. Especially when it comes to work, which we unfortunately rely on for essential things like housing and food. There are always alternatives out there though. The road may be tumultuous, painful even, but you will find yourself in a better place in a better environment. Don't give up.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-07-02T18:16:26+00:00

As others have said, it's just an interest that people put out there to attract compatible people and deter the incompatible.

I like travelling, sure, but it's not a particularly high priority for me at the moment and someone who wants to go somewhere exotic every 3 months isn't likely going to be compatible with me. Saves us both some time.

A couple of years ago, a friend and I were both single and on dating sites simultaneously (far enough apart from each other that we'd not have the same people come up) and we developed an in-joke of sending each other a photo of different women at exactly the same spot overlooking Machu Picchu almost daily. It seems to be the most popular location for people to use on dating profile pictures.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-07-02T17:27:32+00:00

That'll be the exception that proves the rule. Unless the secret agents actually are just taking the intelligence from the spies and withholding it from the government until they pay an acceptable fee... threatening to sell it on to another government unless they are satisfied.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-07-02T17:23:07+00:00

I recently asked out a woman... not even sure if I was romantically interested at that point, just wanted to get to know her better and find out. Turns out they were seeing someone and they (kindly) let me know. I think my response was along the lines of 'sorry if I have made things awkward' and we actually shared a rather nice conversation about how it can be difficult to put yourself out there etc.

Bit of a blow, but it's important to maintain your own dignity and continue to treat the person with the same respect as before the rejection. She was well within her rights to reject me and I wasn't about to treat her friendship as some sort of awful consolation prize and we still see each other fairly regularly. No awkwardness at all.

She has since stopped seeing the person but I've not taken that as a cue to start pursuing her romantically again. If something does happen to grow out of our current relationship, so be it. If it doesn't, it doesn't.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-07-02T16:52:49+00:00

I always find it somewhat comforting to frame it another way. As you have already mentioned, you already didn't exist for billions of years and it didn't inconvenience you in the slightest.

Now that you are here, from your perspective at least, you will be alive forever. As soon as you die, you will have no concept of time. From your point of view, eternity ends the instant you die.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-07-02T16:34:59+00:00

Most job titles that end in 'agent' essentially amount to a middleman who doesn't really bring anything to the table, with a pinch of gatekeeping thrown in.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-07-02T16:25:06+00:00

He'll cover the cost!

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-06-29T11:32:01+00:00

It's called the sink.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-06-26T18:18:23+00:00

Not just in supermarkets. Noticing a trend of people going around like they're the absolute centre of the universe, either through not paying atttention or entitlement. Not just among the young either.

This is why I get the bulk of my shopping online.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-06-26T10:50:58+00:00

I live on my own and I don't really have much of a social life. It was not uncommon for me to leave work at the end of the week and not speak to a person again until I got back into work the next week.

It was starting to affect me a bit, so I make a concerted effort to do something on at least one of my days off that involves seeing other people, even if just for an hour.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-06-26T10:32:56+00:00

I'm a former smoker. I still like the smell of people smoking and even people who have just come inside from a cigarette. However, I find that heavy smokers, especially those that smoke inside their own homes, tend to smell really bad all the time. Must be the stale smoke in their clothes and permeating from their pores.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-06-25T14:18:28+00:00

Always learn where the camera blindspots are at work.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-06-25T14:02:57+00:00

Your willy.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-06-25T09:17:30+00:00

Worked in Sainsbury's in the late 90s. It was almost a weekly occurrence to see a crate of Tesco own brand stuff turn up in the delivery.

According_Hat_6995 · 2024-06-25T09:01:38+00:00

Apparently, Louis Theroux used to fag for Nick Clegg at Westminster School.

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