What really grinds your gears?

1 lurker | 179 watchers

LindsD 10 Sep 11:18am, 10 Sep 2024 69,678 posts	0 LindsD Yeah, and 'when the fun stops, stop' fundamentally misunderstands/misrepresents the nature of addiction.
XB 10 Sep 12:35pm, 10 Sep 2024 18,371 posts	0 XB X and its adverts I frequently click "don't like this ad" especially for gambling ads, I also block a ton of advertisers, but yet they target me for stuff that is so inappropriate. And a fair few of them are for services that I've never heard of nor understand.
JamieKai chameleon 10 Sep 1:31pm, 10 Sep 2024 19,124 posts	0 JamieKai chameleon [There's an easy fix somewhere, that also stops funding Musk...]
Raemondo 10 Sep 1:36pm, 10 Sep 2024 12,078 posts	0 Raemondo People who never suggest ideas themselves meeting every suggestion from anyone else with negativity. It's no wonder nothing ever end up actually happening.
Eynsham Red 10 Sep 7:32pm, 10 Sep 2024 11,322 posts	0 Eynsham Red Motorway service shops pricing. A medium size bag of liquorice allsorts £3.49 at Taunton Dean North Bound. £2 less at my local Spar for the same size bag!
cackleberry 10 Sep 9:09pm, 10 Sep 2024 4,033 posts	0 cackleberry Eynsham Red wrote:Motorway service shops pricing. A medium size bag of liquorice allsorts £3.49 at Taunton Dean North Bound. £2 less at my local Spar for the same size bag! Top gear grinding that. Pure greed, taking advantage of a captive audience.
3M 10 Sep 9:12pm, 10 Sep 2024 24,724 posts	0 3M Same deal for motorway fuel prices.
Seratonin 10 Sep 9:21pm, 10 Sep 2024 52,120 posts	0 Seratonin I have no sympathy for idiots who rely on motorway fuel deserve what they get. It doesn't take much planning to get non-motorway fuel.
3M 10 Sep 10:03pm, 10 Sep 2024 24,729 posts	0 3M True - but it shouldn't need to be that much more expensive. Not like there's no good transport links or something to justify it.
stilldreaming 11 Sep 11:07am, 11 Sep 2024 1,460 posts	0 stilldreaming Though cheaper than motorway services, we live only a few miles from a large fuel terminal and our fuel is always more expensive than in Cumbria. Makes me wonder if we are subsidising rural areas?