Pet Hates........or FFS

[TheFlash]

Mobile devices that announce themselves at the end of each message delivered. 'sent from my................' It's bollocks!!!

That's usually just a default signature which can changed.

Note to self: must do something about this Tapatalk one!


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[walpurgis]

Tesco crusty bread! Why is it so horrible?

Hard, tasteless bagettes that are almost white, starchy inside and too dry outside. Bloomers that taste as though they were baked the previous day (and probably were). They simply have nothing acceptable.

I think an effort was made when they went from the overpriced franchised counter to an inhouse operation again, at which time the bread was actually quite nice..........for all of two weeks and then reverted to the usual horrible stuff.

Sainsbury and Waitrose offer decent enough bread, as do LIDL these days (theirs used to be dire). Yet Tesco just don't seem capable.

[struth]

Agree Tesco in house is not great.. their Scottish morning rolls are good though you might not get good ones in Engerland.
Morrisons bread is ok, but they have inhous bakers with bags of flour etc. Ive seen them. I make my own when in mood, and sometimes use bread machine if lazy

[Macca]

Sainsbury bread not up to much either. Although when we had a 'French Market' in town (the only thing that was French about it was that one of the traders had a Renault van) one enterprising bloke went into the Sainsburys, which was adjacent to the market, bought a few dozen of their baguettes (about 50p each) and then flogged them on his stall as genuine French bread for 2 quid a pop. So they can't be that bad.

[Pierre De Grenoble]

If you'd like to try a really hideous "French Stick" try the Co-Op.

Pale disgusting heavy solid lump things

[Macca]

Their ring doughnuts are good, though. For any type of cake product avoid Morrison, Aldi or Asda as they are all cack. People bring them in to work. Like eating Styrofoam covered in pretend chocolate. Tesco and Sainsbury much better.

[walpurgis]

The American presenter Roma Downey of It's a Miracle on 'truTV' for having the phoniest Irish accent ever!

[Pharos]

People who do not talk precisely and clearly, most especially when they are 'media personalities'.

This has been bothering me increasingly for decades, and is now de rigour on R4 in which the 'intelligencia and literati' are discussing something, and we are to listen to be educated.

It occurred to me this evening that we, as audiophiles have all heard 'lifeless' systems, those in which dynamics clarity and detail are missing, and I think we all loathe and avoid that. It is because the whole communication has resultantly lost impact.

The parallel with much spoken word could not be clearer to me, the talkers lacking even correct pronunciation, often missing whole phonemes and using ridiculous intonations and inflexions; they are not trying to express themselves to maximise the message received by their audience.

I call it 'slalem speech' because it is parallel to he way in which some skiers do not go fully round the course, but cut off some of it by going over the posts.

The causes are I think; dumbing down of the population culturally, laziness, self ingratiation with their peers in an exclusive group which seems to be more important than any audience, and of course criticism of what they are saying is made much more difficult, which protects them and their position.

[Macca]

While we are on the subject of standards in broadcasting that scruffy bloke who presents Newsnight needs to have a shave before he comes in to work. And buy a couple of ties since he doesn't seem to own one. He's presenting the BBC's flagship news programme and it looks like he has slept in his clothes.

If anyone reading this works at the BBC please would you pass this on to him? Thanks.

[Pharos]

I wasted four years of my life with them, the only benefit really was hearing what at that time were world leading loudspeakers.