Fade and Die
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How so?
Random Irritations
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Crazyface
Tour Winner
Pensions, and trying to get the bluddy money. You'd think it was theirs!!!!
Crazyface
Tour Winner
I would ask the question. Be interested what they said.Dunno if this is really an irritation or something I should be happy about but anyway... I took my car in for MOT today. I only just noticed that last year the same garage gave me an advisory on a brake pad which I'd done nothing about. So fully expecting the MOT to be a fail and that I'd need them to get that fixed.
Well they've just called me and said it's passed with two advisories - neither of them to do with a brake pad. Ok, good then.. I guess? Have they missed it or did they just make it up last time?? Only been driving 3 years now so this MOT stuff is still a mystery to me.
Paperboy
Mini Cam
Surely it doesn’t matter, I think someone posted the same after all I posted was ‘Denis Villeneuve’
bobmac
Major Champion
It's my irritation, I don't have to justify it to anyone.
Fade and Die
Medal Winner
Very true Bob, but as it seemed a bit open ended I was asking for clarity rather than justification.
I had never heard of her before so I read an article (in the guardian) and I wondered what element of her actions irritated you?
Tbh it reads like a lot of sensationalism to me…
Kristi Noem calls dog shooting report ‘fake news’ but insists on need to kill animal | Republicans | The Guardian
‘Dog lover’ South Dakota governor said 14-month-old hound was ‘extremely dangerous’ but failed to mention slowly killing a goat
Very true Bob, but as it seemed a bit open ended I was asking for clarity rather than justification.
I had never heard of her before so I read an article (in the guardian) and I wondered what element of her actions irritated you?
Tbh it reads like a lot of sensationalism to me…
Kristi Noem calls dog shooting report ‘fake news’ but insists on need to kill animal | Republicans | The Guardian
‘Dog lover’ South Dakota governor said 14-month-old hound was ‘extremely dangerous’ but failed to mention slowly killing a goatamp.theguardian.com
If you look at her history, not just the Guardian article, wow! Some of the things she purported to have done on so many different levels… there’s either a whole host of sensational journalism going on or she’s frighteningly crazy with way too much power.
Fade and Die
Medal Winner
I’ll have to do a bit more digging as the first 2 pages of my search are about her latest book… but I’m betting it’s more sensational journalism, probably with a whiff of misogyny, her being a woman with “way too much power” probably ruffles the establishment.
There’s plenty of nepotism in there from her.
Fade and Die
Medal Winner
Lol… where isn’t there?
Robster59
Tour Rookie
Yes, I do need to change the temperature as the external temperature changes and the sun comes out and suddenly the car is a lot hotter (or colder if it goes in), and if I want to change from listening to a podcast from the radio, or visa versa, then I also have to go into the touch screen. You can't do that from the steering wheel.
It is not a problem at all with the controls on my Skoda Superb, part of the same group, so why have VW done this with the Golf?
Not only that. the screen is pretty unresponsive and you sometimes finishing up pressing it twice as you don't think it's worked the first time.
It's not just me, just look on the internet. It's such an issue with owners that VW are now looking to change it in future models.
VW admits touch controls have frustrated customers, fix is on the way
VW shakes up infotainment touchscreen UX to fix mistakes of the past
Robster59
Tour Rookie
If you ever find that, please, PLEASE, let me know!Yes. The mute functionwish the self appointed driving instructor (wife) had that
Robster59
Tour Rookie
I found exactly the same issue in the Golf.
GreiginFife
Money List Winner
I think with people like Noem you could border in to politics with your irritation. But with Noem specifically, you don't have to. Yes she is yet another conspiracy theorist MAGA nut job that has basically sold any (minute) credibility she had to the RNC and Ttump (he can't even spell his own name!)
But, the article isn't sensationalism, it merely pointing out the facts that she herself has put in a book that's meant to make her look "strong and decisive" but to anyone outside of MAGA-ville, just makes her look and sound like a horrible specimen of a human being. And to use the Putin/Trump model of deflection is just straight out of their playbook. It's not fake news if you openly admit to something. Remember the Don saying (and being recorded) saying he could shoot someone and people would still vote for him and then decried it as fake news... They're on another planet.
Ok, the dog was dangerous, let's say we believe that. Then take it to an animal shelter to let them try and train or re-home it or to a vet so that it can humanely be put to sleep. Shooting it in a gravel pit is an absolute red-neck inbred cracker move. Same with the goat, have it humanely destroyed for smelling and acting like a goat.
Now, how you view her will probably be coloured by your own stance, right wingers will probably agree with her "rights", left wingers will be outraged and incandescent, but even centrists like myself find her actions repulsive when given the options she had available to her and the fact she's used something so grotesque as a means to show her "strength and political character".
Mods, none of the above is written from a political stance, purely a character one, it's unavoidable that her political stance is brought in momentarily as it's a decisive factor in her behaviour.
Robster59
Tour Rookie
In Glasgow, other terms of frustrtaion are available.
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
In Glasgow, other terms of frustrtaion are available.
I have enough infraction points
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
I found doing something to get the silent treatment works for a while
Beezerk
Money List Winner
When I was making shortlists for cars last year the reviews on Golf’s (and VW’s in general) were amazing cars but what moron designed the touchscreen and heating controls
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Robster59
Tour Rookie
Until that moment when the silent treatment stops and the volume goes up to 11!
