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

I would chalk that down to a narrow escape, my experience of Currys is terrible. Their Facebook page is hilarious/sad, so many similar complaints. Why someone wanted to buy them out recently is a mystery.

Why are parental controls universally unreliable or shit??!

Nintendo Switch: Can't set separate time limits for separate kids, meaning it leads to more fights rather than less.

Google Family Link: For some reason thinks we're all in different countries so won't allow my wife to access the parents section and she can't access it from her phone.

Amazon Kids: Has recently just stopped working entirely, so that even with a 45 minute limit they can just watch infinite youtube on the fireTv.
(plus, even when it's actually working, doesn't let you set different time limits for different apps, so even if you have educational apps and games/youtube, they all have to be part of the same time limit)

I swear I've spent more time trying to get these things set up and working than it'd have taken to code my own bloody solution!

I don't have an xbox, and I've had minimal contact with Microsoft's parental controls.

But that's partly because a few months after I'd set them up on my PC they decided to make almost all the functionality work in Edge only.. which I don't use.
So that can go on the list as well!

We had a colleague who was nicknamed Chomper (not to his face) on account as to how loud he ate an apple.

I suspect most of the noise is originating from his mouth.

People who masticate with their mouths open are awful.

I get the murderous rage feeling. Mouth slappers while eating, open mouth chewers and people biting their nails are my main triggers. Even my daughter when she'd have a bottle would trigger it, it's horrible.

And there's no real treatment for it.

You'd have loved the slurpy guy who used to piss me off at lunchtimes- close your mouth when eating you mouth breathing freak!

I swear that eejit used to deliberately choose the most moist/slurpy/sappy food to double my displeasure with it.


I don't have misophonia, but even I was close to murdering that noisy eating oik.

I have to make sure I have my headphones with me at all times for cunts like this.

Remember being on a packed train once and I'd forgotten them guy infront was chewing gum like a horse trying to eat an apple through a letterbox. The poor lady next to me must have thought she was sat next to a nutter as I was basically rocking back and forth.

Yep sniffing is a REAL peeve for me. Daughter is terrible for it. Root cause is not wanting to tear herself away from fun to get a tissue. And packets and crinkling/crackling - the Mrs makes SUCH a racket doing anything in the kitchen or handling post or parcels.

Any general eating sounds and ESPECIALLY talking with food in the mouth. Have watched a few TV dramas with this happening recently so it’s no wonder it’s becoming normalised. Anybody else have colleagues that insist on bringing packets of crisps to meetings and stuff?

The horror of seeing my parents age to the point hey get worse and worse with it. My mum was always a perfectly pleasant eater but unfortunately got a virus that basically killed one ear. So I get that she can’t hear it but I don’t get why the loss of a functional ear means you don’t know there’s food in the gob before you talk Because that’s a new one. The old man has always been bad but now actively seems to deliberately fill his mouth with food before speaking a sentence. It sounds fucking minging.

I actually think he’s partly the cause of it - sniffing, horrid eating and open mouth coughing/sneezing a giant bio cloud into a whole room. I/we would always try to point it all out and he’d fly into a rage - which I now think worsens the ‘phonia because I try to repress it due to an unconcious fear of that level of conflict with anybody.

The real curse of misophonia is that in today’s society you are the bad person for expressing displeasure rather than the perps for creating it.

Bus wanker eh?

Chewing food with your mouth open makes it taste nicer. It aerates the food.

WTF! Is that a new thing?

I can say with almost absolute certainty that if that happened where I love they'd be told to turn it off or asked to leave.

That is absolutely mental