Random Rants (for Rob the Robber but I have beef anyway)

I think this is the best ever and it’s tough competition.

Declare yourself non-binary, discrimination action, BAM, Rhaegyr can retire.

The song has the word suicide in the lyrics and it got flagged by auto-content bot that doesn’t examine context. Mystery solved.

Exactly, I get why it happened it's just fucking annoying that this is the way the world works now. Additionally System of a Down's label probably kicked up more of a stink to avoid it on their song.

If you have Explicit content blocked, why can't spotify be smart enough to swap out Explicit songs with the clean versions when available??!

Also, looking at the UK charts, like 70% of the songs have an Explicit tag.

I doubt it really matters tbh, but I did the good parent thing and turned off explicit songs on my kids account, and now they can't play anything. But a lot of the songs *do* have clean versions on there, if you can be bothered to find them.

I'm probably gonna end up just turning it off. 

Given how obscure some song meanings are, putting detailed content warnings on them seems like it'd cause more troubel than it'd be worth. Hey, that cute song about a girl flying through the sky is actually about drugs!!!

Yeah, had to turn all that off eventually too. Even asking for the radio edit doesn't help.

Wireless Application Protocol? What is this, the nineties?

Depends when you actually started the course. Everything changed in 98 so I have peers who are just about to get their student loans written off who started in 97' and have hit the 25 year age out and some who are going to have to defer until they hit their pension who started in 98.

The government sold student loan company loans to predatory loan companies in the 2000s and one of my friends, a SAHM, is getting increasingly desperate letter from Erudio student loans offering her smaller and smaller settlement fees as the loan is due to expire this year. 'Come on, 10p in the pound, can't say fairer than that, right?'.

That's where the government site is useless then as the only date given is before 2006 (I think.. it's 2000 and something)
I believe I started the HND in sept 97 ending the second year in July 99

My wife had hers written off this year. But then another that she had completely forgotten about land on her doorstep. That one is 65 I think.

Sunday trading laws are fucking stupid. Make every day the fucking same already.

My parents (and a few uncles and aunts) have organised and booked a holiday to Florida/Disneyworld in a villa for next year and didn't ask me and my fiancee if we wanted to go (only found out when my cousin asked if I was going). They've invited my brother, his missus and their two kids.

I went off on my mum who said "you wouldn't have gone anyway as it's a couple of months before your wedding" which is probably true but if we'd been involved from the start we would've tried to move it a little earlier or until after the wedding if it didn't inconvenience anyone - I would've loved a big family holiday, haven't done it in about 15 years and my parents are both nearing 70. Mum's texted me an apology but it feels a little insincere as it's only come after we found out from someone else and kicked off.

Not sure how mad I'm meant to be or if it's me who's being a mardy ass. Partner is visibly more upset than I am. Generally it always feels like we're always left out of things because we don't have kids - they're at my brothers every other day whereas I'm lucky if they nip up to ours once every 3-4 months (we're a five minute drive away and I go to their house once a week). We always try to include them in most things we do too such as trips out, going for meals etc.

Seem to be posting in this thread a lot lately - worried I'm the problem!

I don’t know what it is about parents who treat their kids differently if they don’t have grandchildren. I’ve been in that exact situation before and it was like my relationship wasn’t validated in their eyes because we’d not had any kids.

And when you do get invited to these things, you’re somehow also treated like a child or teenager. Bizarre behaviour.

I missed a wedding based on a family arguement in which my partner’s mother suggested her daughter was a lesbian. Even though we were 4 years into our relationship at the time. Probably because of the lack of the children. Or maybe she correctly predicted our relationship would only last another 6 years.