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Using a degauss disc is an art on old colour sets. They were a bitch to get right. Newer ones had better self degaussing inbuilt and were easier to trim off
Ninanina
30-09-2016, 21:15
People getting too close to you at supermarket checkouts.... getting too close when you enter your PIN number into machine... I hate that.... happened to me today :mental:
walpurgis
30-09-2016, 21:30
People getting too close to you at supermarket checkouts.... getting too close when you enter your PIN number into machine... I hate that.... happened to me today :mental:
Supermarket security guys can be a pain.
Several times I've walked out of the entrance with other people leaving as I do, but if the alarm sounds, they always stop me. Which a mistake on their part, because I'm the most bloody mindedly awkward and difficult person to be dealing with.
I had one a week or two back when the alarm went. He jogged over and said "can you come back inside", to which I of course said 'NO'! He said "can I see your receipt?" Answer again, 'NO'! Then, "I need to look in your bags". I said, 'the contents of the bags are my property. I paid for them' and walked off. He didn't come after me.
I think he was running a scam. The person who really set the alarm going was a dodgy looking female with a trolley of shopping who left as I did. She'd been hanging about just inside until I left and she went out as I did. The alarm went and he had to stop somebody (me) to make it look good. I bet he knew the scruffy girl.
probably Geoff. A lot of them are more crooked than the crooks.
Ninanina
30-09-2016, 21:37
Supermarket security guys can be a pain.
Several times I've walked out of the entrance with other people leaving as I do, but if the alarm sounds, they always stop me. Which a mistake on their part, because I'm the most bloody mindedly awkward and difficult person to be dealing with.
I had one a week or two back when the alarm went. He jogged over and said "can you come back inside", to which I of course said 'NO'! He said "can I see your receipt?" Answer again, 'NO'! Then, "I need to look in your bags". I said, 'the contents of the bags are my property. I paid for them' and walked off. He didn't come after me.
I think he was running a scam. The person who really set the alarm going was a dodgy looking female with a trolley of shopping who left as I did. She'd been hanging about just inside until I left and she went out as I did. The alarm went and he had to stop somebody (me) to make it look good. I bet he knew the scruffy girl.
I think I'm right in saying unless they actually 'see' you stealing something they have absolutely no right in stopping you as you walk out of the shop
Dodgy looking scruffy girls are a pain... plenty in North End, Portsmouth.... I like to think I'm not one of them :lol:
walpurgis
30-09-2016, 21:47
I think I'm right in saying unless they actually 'see' you stealing something they have absolutely no right in stopping you as you walk out of the shop
Well they'll certainly find it 'entertaining' if they ever physically try to stop me. It's not happened yet, despite several confrontations.
People getting too close to you at supermarket checkouts.... getting too close when you enter your PIN number into machine... I hate that.... happened to me today :mental:
They think that the closer they stand to you the quicker the queue will move. I turn round and with a snarling face say "you breathing down my neck will not make the queue move any quicker".
walpurgis
01-10-2016, 10:51
They think that the closer they stand to you the quicker the queue will move. I turn round and with a snarling face say "you breathing down my neck will not make the queue move any quicker".
I deliberately move back towards people who crowd me and slow right down in what I'm doing. :mad:
walpurgis
01-10-2016, 10:57
I was in a very busy LIDL and behind a customer who changed their mind about the potted plant they'd selected and the till girl went to change it. I'd been queuing for about ten minutes as it was, so after waiting to be served for another couple of minutes, I lost patience and walked out, leaving a week's worth of shopping on the conveyor. I told the security guy 'you lot can sort that out'! Getting served in LIDL is always bad. Too few staff!
Aye lidl can be bad. Aldi is much quicker, with a full belt vanishing in seconds. Mind you, lidl is quicker than Morrisons ...they are bloody dead slow and stop.
I deliberately move back towards people who crowd me and slow right down in what I'm doing. :mad:
I usually break wind... that shifts them :D
walpurgis
01-10-2016, 11:05
Mind you, lidl is quicker than Morrisons ...they are bloody dead slow and stop.
Not been in a Morrisons for about twenty years. I stopped using them back then as the quality of food was diabolical.
Avinunca1
01-10-2016, 11:34
I hate being dazzled by bright brake lights waiting at traffic lights after dark. I was taught to use my handbrake when stopped for more than a few seconds at junctions. It's laughable to see people holding their position using their clutch on an incline. Must be a good earner for clutch fitters though.
walpurgis
01-10-2016, 11:41
A good many cars here have one or no brake lights or one headlight and rear light. You just don't see police stopping dodgy motors. They're probably occupied parking near burger joints and eating in the car. A sight you do see.
I have bought cars with worn clutches, but never worn one out myself. People seem to think they can use the clutch as a torque converter. Foolishness.
A lot of folk use clutch pedal to rest foot on. That wears it out fast, and produces smoke .. ok it clutch has a lot of travel but not recommended. Only worn out a few clutches but all had long hard milage on them, as i used to do over 400 miles a day
Polis stop you here if a light is out... they are pernickety buggers
The vast amounts of ads these days with talking animals in it. Starting to become an epidemic
Traffic. Getting ridiculous around here now in the rush hour. So many roadworks have cropped up all at once. Took me an hour to get home from work the other day. It's only six miles. I can walk it in an hour and a quarter.
Pierre De Grenoble
02-10-2016, 13:16
Councils that think its great for the Civic image to have bike fests / marathons that involve shutting 3/4s of a towns roads so that you can't get anywhere or do anything for most of the day..
If I was paying business rates I'd be wanting to sue them... :wanker:s
walpurgis
09-10-2016, 18:35
Body piercings, masses of tattoos and daft haircuts.
I'm sure I'm being unfair, but when dealing with somebody with the foregoing, I tend to switch off a bit, as I assume the person afflicted is seriously lacking in judgement.
Now I've probably pissed off a few members. Never mind :D!
When watching automatic gates or shutters trundle open do you find it impossible not to start singing the Thunderbirds theme tune?
Found myself the other day watching a large shutter open up and started singing it and the people with me all joined in.
Not really a pet hate but I forgot what that thread for posting complete crap was called.
Arkless Electronics
10-10-2016, 13:06
Body piercings, masses of tattoos and daft haircuts.
I'm sure I'm being unfair, but when dealing with somebody with the foregoing, I tend to switch off a bit, as I assume the person afflicted is seriously lacking in judgement.
Now I've probably pissed off a few members. Never mind :D!
I feel the same way about anyone looking "normal" :D
Arkless Electronics
10-10-2016, 13:07
No mention of Trump yet? I'll raise a glass to whichever hero assassinates him:)
Arkless Electronics
10-10-2016, 13:23
While I'm at it... Michael Buble. Worse still, whilst debating the god like genius of one F. A. Sinatra a member on this very website said something like "as a big Sinatra fan I am am also naturally a fan of Buble" :steam: This to me is akin to saying "as a scholar of Mozart's early works I'm also naturally a huge fan of the Spice Girls"...
walpurgis
10-10-2016, 14:08
I feel the same way about anyone looking "normal" :D
Define normal.
While I'm at it... Michael Buble. Worse still, whilst debating the god like genius of one F. A. Sinatra a member on this very website said something like "as a big Sinatra fan I am am also naturally a fan of Buble" :steam: This to me is akin to saying "as a scholar of Mozart's early works I'm also naturally a huge fan of the Spice Girls"...
Or 'As a big fan of Fillet Mignon I'm also a fan of this dead rat I found down the side of the freezer in the garage'.
jollyfix
10-10-2016, 16:29
I feel the same way about anyone looking "normal" :D
Same here for many years. Anyone in a suit was to be avoided. Then after the Knob Rot bikers bash late 80's , i bumped into a few guys i met there in suits, all their tats covered etc. This was the time when bikers were cutting their hair short, maybe a rats tail here and there. I have never assumed anything about a person by the way they dress since. I was sporting the Wild man. dragged through a hedge backwards catweazel look at the time, green oil jeans and a blue spiked goats beard.
walpurgis
10-10-2016, 16:33
Were you (are you) a biker? I know Jez talks about biking.
jollyfix
10-10-2016, 16:53
Not a full on Biker, as i never owned a bike, just pillion for many years.
Most of my mates were. Some gang members , some just bike club, others just bikers. The days when bikes were bikes.
Kind of stopped when a few mates passed away ( i was there for 2 crashes). Then one summer on back of my mates bike 2 miles from home winding country road, came round a bend, there was a sheep and 2 yearlings crossing the road, mate started to break, but could see we were not going to stop in time, so opened up .avoided 2, cut the other in half ( almost) the bike all over the place, cheese wire fence to our left, stone wall to our right, idiots as we were that day with open faced lids on ,but all fine after many wobbles... Biked for the rest of the year but never felt the same after that.
Many years later would catch a lift on back of bike for a few months, was ok, around 67 miles each way trip, but was not as in tune with the guy riding as my old mate, didn't enjoy it at all.
Firebottle
10-10-2016, 16:55
The thing I can't stick is people following 'fashion'. For a start it must cost a fortune, get some individuality.
Arkless Electronics
10-10-2016, 17:36
Same here for many years. Anyone in a suit was to be avoided. Then after the Knob Rot bikers bash late 80's , i bumped into a few guys i met there in suits, all their tats covered etc. This was the time when bikers were cutting their hair short, maybe a rats tail here and there. I have never assumed anything about a person by the way they dress since. I was sporting the Wild man. dragged through a hedge backwards catweazel look at the time, green oil jeans and a blue spiked goats beard.
Sounds like we have a similar background.... hung round with many 1% clubs but never fancied prospecting... still got a few mates in such clubs now.... was a London dispatch rider for a while... a new age traveller.... still have dreadlocks down to me arse and a big.... motorbike.... :D Unfortunately off the road until some day when I can afford to buy new tyres and chain+sprocket set...plus insurance etc... Bugger!
Is that normal enough Geoff?:D
jollyfix
10-10-2016, 19:08
Only a few mates left with dreads these days. Gutted when one of my best mates cut his off ( charity thing), down to the bag of his knees ( bees wax ends), long dread beard, and only 4'9" tall. Looked like cousin IT from the Addams family.
Still have many traveller mates, from all over the UK.
Many tails to tell with those mates....
Back in the 90's myself and Scouse ( aka Wango Reily of the travelling stage fame) were working for Hawkwind, just finished the gig and leaving London for Scotland as we were working for T in the park .
Both in Scouses old Panama bus, drove about 15 miles then bus broke down. Scouse found out it was to do with the lift pump, and fashioned a new part for it out of an old spanner and some bolt crops. That lasted another 20 miles.
Ended up industrial twine on the manual lift pump with me one end pumping the fuel all the way to Scotland, the odd engine bleed now and again. I had Popeye arm. the worse was never got fixed and i had to do the same from Scotland down to Stratford upon Avon for the Phoenix fest.
walpurgis
10-10-2016, 20:02
Saw Hawkwind many times around London up to the nineties. Might even have bumped into you.
Most memorable was at (what was) Ealing Tech college in the seventies. Well, I say memorable, but I was somewhat obliterated on some interesting mind altering material :D. Great session, blew my brain!
jollyfix
10-10-2016, 20:14
Last time i worked for them was around 97. Been down to the South West to Dave's place a few times for a bash. I was a huge Hawk fan back in the day, but feel they lost their way a bit, well a lot. I see Nik about the place too, well who doesn't the man never stops gigging. Just a shame they don't get on and all the other shit....
The London gig i mentioned was at Brixton with the Ozrics and a few other bands. Good gig.
walpurgis
10-10-2016, 20:25
Ah yes. Ozrics. I've got a load of their stuff and Eat Static too. Not seen them though. Like a bit of Shpongle these days and the like.
Arkless Electronics
10-10-2016, 20:52
Only a few mates left with dreads these days. Gutted when one of my best mates cut his off ( charity thing), down to the bag of his knees ( bees wax ends), long dread beard, and only 4'9" tall. Looked like cousin IT from the Addams family.
Still have many traveller mates, from all over the UK.
Many tails to tell with those mates....
Back in the 90's myself and Scouse ( aka Wango Reily of the travelling stage fame) were working for Hawkwind, just finished the gig and leaving London for Scotland as we were working for T in the park .
Both in Scouses old Panama bus, drove about 15 miles then bus broke down. Scouse found out it was to do with the lift pump, and fashioned a new part for it out of an old spanner and some bolt crops. That lasted another 20 miles.
Ended up industrial twine on the manual lift pump with me one end pumping the fuel all the way to Scotland, the odd engine bleed now and again. I had Popeye arm. the worse was never got fixed and i had to do the same from Scotland down to Stratford upon Avon for the Phoenix fest.
:):)
Bet we could reminisce for hours! Here's a similar one I was involved in... Me mate Tarn had got hold of a Dodge box van for conversion to living vehicle and had trouble with it on way back from collecting it. He managed to get it parked up at a mate of his house. Next day on site he asks me for a lift up on my bike (hyper tuned RD250 I still had when travelling) with my tools and mechanical knowledge to help get said van back to site. Surprisingly it starts and seems to be running ok so off we set with me following behind on bike.... well we got about 3 miles when it conked out... after trying alsorts it decided to go again.. for 3 miles... we then started looking into the problem a bit deeper... by the light of candles (:eek:) we deduced that petrol was not getting through in more than the odd spurt and deduced a knackered fuel pump. So... I had a long length of plastic tubing in me bag we end up with this connected from the vans carburettor to the fuel tank of my bike (running on 20:1 pre-mix) and me sat on the bike in the back of the van holding the brakes on whilst we laid a smoke screen back to the site:D Turned out to be a blocked fuel filter that would allow a bit through until it picked up some more muck and blocked again...
seen Hawkwind several times... can't remember any of them... had to inform NiK Turner and the Allstars that there place had been given to a local heavy metal band at one free festival as they had turned up 2 hours late. I was on the mixing desk and they were fine about it and rolled several phat ones:eyebrows:
Then there was the Ozrics and a carrier bag of billy....
Eee I could rant on all night about it... but I won't.... funny, I never did develop any interest in golf and canapés:D
Idiotic train announcements where the staff think they're the next Peter Kay or Alan Carr.
Please, it's 7am. Just give me the necessary information and some peace n quiet.
jollyfix
25-10-2016, 08:58
Idiotic train announcements where the staff think they're the next Peter Kay or Alan Carr.
Please, it's 7am. Just give me the necessary information and some peace n quiet.
Yep, same with coach travel. Needed to go back to London for a few hours yesterday. Caught the cheap coach from just down the road from me, as not worth the drive etc. Almost every town we passed we had a limerick by the conductor guy, and bad ones too. All recited over an over loud bad bus PA. The bus was great leather bucket seats ,every seat had a table and loads of room,not like the coaches i remember, but that Conductor guy.........
Yep, same with coach travel. Needed to go back to London for a few hours yesterday. Caught the cheap coach from just down the road from me, as not worth the drive etc. Almost every town we passed we had a limerick by the conductor guy, and bad ones too. All recited over an over loud bad bus PA. The bus was great leather bucket seats ,every seat had a table and loads of room,not like the coaches i remember, but that Conductor guy.........
I'm not sure what irks me more Dave, these people either doing it to brighten up their working day or their management who've told them they have to behave like contestants on Opportunity Knocks as that's what the customer expects.
Yep, same with coach travel. Needed to go back to London for a few hours yesterday. Caught the cheap coach from just down the road from me, as not worth the drive etc. Almost every town we passed we had a limerick by the conductor guy, and bad ones too. All recited over an over loud bad bus PA. The bus was great leather bucket seats ,every seat had a table and loads of room,not like the coaches i remember, but that Conductor guy.........
I remember years back getting a coach to Swansea from London at xmas and early on the driver came on the PA saying he was from Glasgow and had been contracted in by National Express to cover the holidays, and consequently if anyone knew where the bus station was in Swansea if they could come and tell him that woudl be a great help, to much laughter on the bus.
When we were finally approaching Swansea, he came on again saying "aye well I wasnae kidding earlier so if any of yous do know where the bus station is if yous coudl come up noo and guide me in that would be great"
Did anyone help him? Or did you just cruise round Swansea?
There's a tradition here of thanking the bus driver (or buzz driver as they say in these parts) when you get off. I adopted it too, but never encountered it anywhere else I've been or lived. Not absolutely everyone doing it, anyway.
Did anyone help him? Or did you just cruise round Swansea?
There's a tradition here of thanking the bus driver (or buzz driver as they say in these parts) when you get off. I adopted it too, but never encountered it anywhere else I've been or lived. Not absolutely everyone doing it, anyway.
It seems to be a recent phenomenon - but a "thank you" costs nothing and the bus driver replies in kind. I do it now.
Did anyone help him? Or did you just cruise round Swansea?
There's a tradition here of thanking the bus driver (or buzz driver as they say in these parts) when you get off. I adopted it too, but never encountered it anywhere else I've been or lived. Not absolutely everyone doing it, anyway.
Very common here. Everyone thanks the bus driver. Been that way since I was a lad and probably before. The older generation did it and we learned it from them.
Thankfully I've not been on any form of UK public transport for about 15 years, and from what I'm reading here, I won't be starting again anytime soon! :rolleyes:
I avoid mixing with the 'great unwashed' as much as possible, simply because when travelling somewhere, I enjoy having my own personal space [and bus routes going in and out of depressing looking housing estates, taking a long-cut for a shortcut and adding unnecessary miles onto the journey, frustrates me beyond belief], as well as being in control of the times that I travel, which is why for me the car is king! ;)
Freedom to do what I want, when I want, is very important to me. However, I realise that for others, particularly those working in towns and city centres, there is little option but to use public transport. They have my sympathies.
Marco.
jollyfix
25-10-2016, 19:13
I always thank the driver, taught that as a child.
Interesting to know it happens elsewhere. It isn't recent here, they were already doing it when I arrived in '87. But I rarely saw it in Liverpool or Nottingham.
Don't catch the bus much anymore. It is so expensive now a taxi is not much more. Less if you share. It can be entertaining though, you see some funny carry-ons sometimes.
It seems to be a recent phenomenon - but a "thank you" costs nothing and the bus driver replies in kind. I do it now.
Not that I'm on busses much and not been for long time now as I doubt I could get on one now, but it was customary to say thanks to driver. and the occasional reprimand if he was a shit driver;)
walpurgis
25-10-2016, 21:40
Public transport is horrendous, so I don't use it. Must be 25 years since I had to. I dare say bus drivers say little to passengers, for fear of getting a clump. London is a lovely place (not).
Ninanina
25-10-2016, 21:49
My pet hate is liars....
I can't understand why people lie...
I think most liars are sad people that have done nothing with their lives so they just make it up instead to 'fit in'...
walpurgis
25-10-2016, 21:59
My pet hate is liars....
I agree. Life is a lot less complicated for people who speak the truth. You don't have to keep rehashing stories. If in doubt say nothing, don't bullshit or cover up!!
I've actually taken to catching the bus more often as a cheap and convenient means of getting into town if I'm having a night out. It comes from the end of my street and drops me right in the town centre. Peak hours would be awful though but on a Friday or Saturday evening it's quite handy and reasonably cheap which of course means more beer and record money.
My pet hate is liars....
I can't understand why people lie...
I think most liars are sad people that have done nothing with their lives so they just make it up instead to 'fit in'...
Love liars my self ;) na, I was fibbing:D
walpurgis
25-10-2016, 22:25
Not sure I'd believe you if you said you were lying Grant. ;) :)
Ninanina
25-10-2016, 22:25
Love liars my self ;) na, I was fibbing:D
:rfl::rfl:
Ninanina
25-10-2016, 22:26
The other thing I hate is people saying 'pacific' (as in ocean) when they mean 'specific'... really gets me :mental:
Could you be more pacific please.... Del boy :lol:
Not sure I'd believe you if you said you were lying Grant. ;) :)
Believe I can, and Your half way there . Believe I cant, and you'll find your the other half way there.
walpurgis
25-10-2016, 22:36
Too deep for me mate. :)
Little white lies are told all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through the day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes, or we would likely go MAD!!!:D
Ninanina
25-10-2016, 22:49
I don't even tell white ones... as per my profile name.. :)
Oh, gotta tell white ones or you might hurt folk, or give the game away. Lots of occasions where it is essential. especially with ill folk and kids. Might not like doing it, but needs sometimes must . Sorry, we shall have to disagree.:)
Cheaper to get the bus into Romford than drive in and park (it'll be free for me in a few years) & they run every 7 minutes almost from my front door. They're often quicker than driving as well thanks to bus lanes (& you can have a pint or three ;) )
Hate the nights drawing in...
Ninanina
25-10-2016, 23:07
Hate the nights drawing in...
You and me both... I get quite depressed during winter and only get better about March time..:(
My pet hate is liars....
I can't understand why people lie...
I think most liars are sad people that have done nothing with their lives so they just make it up instead to 'fit in'...
That's a bit black and white. The Biblical sanction is against 'bearing false witness' (perjury) rather than simply telling an untruth. I can think of a few occasions in my youth where a polite untruth would have been less hurtful than the unvarnished truth that I actually told, and I learnt that a white lie might be harmless and indeed helpful.
The liars you are talking about are basically Walter Mitty types, and as long as no-one is conned out of money by them, or otherwise hurt by them, I see no real problem. Usually their lies are so transparent that no-one believes them after a while.
The worst types of liars are those who lie maliciously to hurt people, and those who lie to con people out of their possessions, either directly or indirectly.
walpurgis
26-10-2016, 08:14
The Biblical sanction is against 'bearing false witness' (perjury) rather than simply telling an untruth.
Things 'Biblical' are not likely to be the truth.
On contrary, the basic tenets of bible are pretty much the laws most of us live with. Many of the sories themselves are or have become, just that, but can be a good read. Just not the boring bits like all the begattings
Pieoftheday
29-10-2016, 13:33
Bed frame update:steam: well I relisted and resold it, this buyer hasn't paid and won't respond,i mite chop it up and let my mate have it for his wood burner!
good news on the bed front, i donated the bed frame to the british heart foundation, they raised £143 from the sale.result!!!:cool:
Bought a pair of nice trousers in matalan shop for £25 and liked them so decided to go online and see if they had my size(shop only had one pair) found them and surprise, they are £16 online. Very same trousers same label but different price. £9 difference is huge. Postage was under £4. That kinda takes the piss as it cost me petrol to go there and back. No wonder shops are going out of fashion
walpurgis
31-10-2016, 16:33
Bought a pair of nice trousers in matalan shop for £25 and liked them so decided to go online and see if they had my size(shop only had one pair) found them and surprise, they are £16 online. Very same trousers same label but different price. £9 difference is huge. Postage was under £4. That kinda takes the piss as it cost me petrol to go there and back. No wonder shops are going out of fashion
That's handy to know. I also recently bought a pair of trousers from Matalan and can't find another pair in my size. I'll look online.
Rugged camo fatigues they are. Just my sort of thing! :)
walpurgis
31-10-2016, 16:51
Great! I just found exactly what I was after and ordered them. Cheers Grant.
Great! I just found exactly what I was after and ordered them. Cheers Grant.
Good stuff.. i like matalan as they do trousers for shorty legs like me :eyebrows: they last well too, or used to.
walpurgis
01-11-2016, 11:00
People that can't pack stuff properly for dispatch.
I received a used wheel trim for my Suzuki car this morning. It arrived in a carrier bag covered in a black bin liner, no cardboard or padding of any kind around it. Miraculously it got here undamaged, but that was sheer luck. I've bought wheel trims in the past and several have been broken in transit even when packed well.
Packing for carriage really is just common sense. Hefty items require some thought obviously. Ever tried packaging a heavy turntable with acrylic lid?
I received a MiniDisc deck in the post one day, rattling about in an oversized thin cardboard box and no padding around it. By pure providence, that too survived. But I have had several items damaged due to poor packaging, last one was a Lenco GL75 that was pretty comprehensively trashed.
It's not bloody rocket science! Get it right!!
Young bloke on Mastermind just, didn't know who commanded the Dambusters.
Bloke on Eggheads the other day, history teacher, was unfamiliar with the word 'Matchlock.'
Some connection?
walpurgis
16-12-2016, 20:36
Young bloke on Mastermind just, didn't know who commanded the Dambusters.
Bloke on Eggheads the other day, history teacher, was unfamiliar with the word 'Matchlock.'
Some connection?
Dunno.
Was the first Guy Gibson?
The second was a forerunner to the flintlock.
No. I haven't Googled.
Young bloke on Mastermind just, didn't know who commanded the Dambusters.
Bloke on Eggheads the other day, history teacher, was unfamiliar with the word 'Matchlock.'
Some connection?
Dunno. Were they father and son maybe?
Dunno. Were they father and son maybe?
Teacher and pupil. Was my inference. But you knew that.
I was obliquely making the wider gripe that History does not appear to be taught much, or well, in schools today and it's a shame. I'm not basing that opinion on this one bit of evidence mind.
Black socks, which when you take them off have semi disintegrated and leave black fluff everywhere your bare feet walk...
bastards!
Black socks, which when you take them off have semi disintegrated and leave black fluff everywhere your bare feet walk...
bastards!
ok if youve a black carpet :D
Teacher and pupil. Was my inference. But you knew that.
I was obliquely making the wider gripe that History does not appear to be taught much, or well, in schools today and it's a shame. I'm not basing that opinion on this one bit of evidence mind.
I'd have known what a matchlock was, but the dambusters questions would have had me stumped. Even in my day, we were taught some periods of history exhaustively, and others not at all. I'm OK on the 18th/19th centuries, but ask me a question about the 100 Years War and, unless the answer is Agincourt, I'd be at a loss.
I don't watch Mastermind, but do sometimes look in on University Challenge. I'm fine on literature and classical music, but anything science-y and it's down to lucky guesses.
I'd have known what a matchlock was, but the dambusters questions would have had me stumped. Even in my day, we were taught some periods of history exhaustively, and others not at all. I'm OK on the 18th/19th centuries, but ask me a question about the 100 Years War and, unless the answer is Agincourt, I'd be at a loss.
I don't watch Mastermind, but do sometimes look in on University Challenge. I'm fine on literature and classical music, but anything science-y and it's down to lucky guesses.
Being a ww2 film buff and to a point, history of main points of the 1939/45 conflict with Germany, know all about Guy Gibson. Dad knew him a bit in war. Flintlocks and matchlocks i knew about probably more so because of timeteam
Being a ww2 film buff and to a point, history of main points of the 1939/45 conflict with Germany, know all about Guy Gibson.
My father was in the Navy, so I know a bit about U-Boats and naval convoys. I do know who invented the bouncing bomb, because he went to the same school as my wife, and her best friend there was on a scholarship he founded.
I work with some very bright younger people but they have no knowledge of history at all. Not even WW2. They are aware it was an event, but not sure when it happened, how it happened or what happened.
I accept that they can't teach everything but I think a compulsory year in secondary education spent studying the Second World War and its effect on today's world would be highly beneficial. Its importance as an event cannot be over-estimated. It would at least give them an idea of the context of where we are now. These children will become the future decision-makers, and those who forget (or don't even know about) the mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat them.
And first war too as both are entwined somewhat. I know the eu doesnt like it much coz Britain won and thats more of a reason to continue teaching it. Its a complex subject and a year isnt enough, but at least ground folk in the facts etc. If it get forgotten it makes it easier to reoccur
walpurgis
17-12-2016, 12:44
Being a ww2 film buff and to a point, history of main points of the 1939/45 conflict with Germany, know all about Guy Gibson. Dad knew him a bit in war. Flintlocks and matchlocks i knew about probably more so because of timeteam
Got a feeling the old man flew with Gibson once or twice. I've got his WW2 flight log somehere. I'll have a look. It probably wouldn't have been bombing, it would have more likely have been radar research tests.
People who can't, or won't, use the correct spellings of:
Their, There, They're.
Their is the possessive form indicating belonging to them. You should only use this when you are indicating possession to a group. Look at the examples below.
The children all ate their sandwiches.
The soldiers polished their rifles.
The Greek people are justifiably proud of their beautiful country.
The passengers complained that the airline had lost their luggage.
There is the place, i.e. not here.
It is also used when saying 'there is' and 'there are'.
Put those books over there please.
I found the old shoes in there.
There are thousands of stars visible from Earth.
There is soot all over the new carpet.
They're is the contracted form of "they are". Remember that abbreviations like this should not be used in essays and other formal writing. They are fine in reported speech.
'They're all going to the cinema this evening,' said Paul's mum.
'I can't see where they're coming from!' he yelled.
'They're waiting for you in the interview room.'
'Do you know where they're going to be this afternoon?'
I get accused of snobbery when I pull people up on this, but it is really elementary English and if you can't be bothered to use the words properly then I can't really be expected to take what you say seriously.
walpurgis
29-12-2016, 11:05
Your making a good point their. :)
Your making a good point their. :)
:steam:
Audio Al
29-12-2016, 11:12
WTF :scratch:
I suffer from
To
Too
Two :(
walpurgis
29-12-2016, 11:15
:steam:
:lolsign:
WTF :scratch:
I suffer from
To
Too
Two :(
I'm from Newcastle and therefore English is a second language to me and I can still get it right.
Ah divvent nar why the daint tark propa English like the was lernt wen the was bairns.
Bags that have 'I'm recyclable' written on them. What is wrong with just 'Recyclable'? Part of a wider trend, regrettably.
An inanimate object cannot refer to itself, except maybe in a nursery story where teapots and things come to life. The vast majority of people are not child-like morons, why do marketing think they are? This sort of strategy surely pisses off far more people than it impresses. So why do it?
Firebottle
29-12-2016, 12:20
....... but it is really elementary English and if you can't be bothered to use the words properly then I can't really be expected to take what you say seriously.
I'm with you there Rich.
It f***s me off big time with the proliferation of younger people dropping their 'G's. Presenters and teachers are all at it so what hope do we have? :steam:
Bags that have 'I'm recyclable' written on them. What is wrong with just 'Recyclable'? Part of a wider trend, regrettably.
An inanimate object cannot refer to itself, except maybe in a nursery story where teapots and things come to life. The vast majority of people are not child-like morons, why do marketing think they are? This sort of strategy surely pisses off far more people than it impresses. So why do it?
Yes they are.
Shops insisting their staff come to work while contagious, thus infecting others and customers, who then infect every other bugger. Supermarkets being the worst offenders
walpurgis
29-12-2016, 12:40
Yes they are.
Definitely.
This knowledge comes with maturity Martin. :lol:
Gordon Steadman
29-12-2016, 12:42
I'm with you there Rich.
It f***s me off big time with the proliferation of younger people dropping their 'G's. Presenters and teachers are all at it so what hope do we have? :steam:
Absolutely! If we get cut do we bleed, if we get dropped do we bruise?
Barstards:eyebrows:
Yes they are.
Okay point taken. But if you ask anyone 'Are you a child-like moron' they will say 'No'. Or give you a smack in the mouth. Or both. So if nobody considers themselves to be a child-like moron, why assume they are happy being treated like one?
I hate all this corporate bullshit with a vengeance and I'm convinced it doesn't work. They had a big overhaul of the supermarket by me recently. Big billboards around the contractor's huts in the car park, a close-up of an attractive young woman and a banner along the lines of 'Making Your Store Even Better'.
A more truthful version would feature a picture of some scrote in their bathrobe and slippers buying 20 Rothmans and some scratch cards with the tagline 'Rearranging Our Store In A Desperate Attempt To Increase Profits And Reduce Shoplifting To Manageable Levels'
Okay point taken. But if you ask anyone 'Are you a child-like moron' they will say 'No'. Or give you a smack in the mouth. Or both. So if nobody considers themselves to be a child-like moron, why assume they are happy being treated like one?
Bad grammar doesn't bother me too much, but if someone says they hate Shakespeare, I suspect them of not being entirely human.
As far as 'most' people being morons, I doubt that's true. Of course, there are some dumb people around, but most people are bright in some ways, dim in others. For instance, I'm quite sharp when it comes to things arty and literary, but the mechanical and science-y side of things slides past me. Confronted with anything more complicated than a fork, I'm like a medieval peasant suspecting that some sort of magic makes these things work. It's a safe bet that others' minds work in the opposite way; they can fix almost anything, but literature, art and any music more complex than Guns 'n Roses leaves them cold.
Like, Shakespeare, hate Shakespeare, good at science, bad at science, I really don't see that it matters to the central point; which is who, exactly, is impressed by an anthropomorphic carrier bag?
Like, Shakespeare, hate Shakespeare, good at science, bad at science, I really don't see that it matters to the central point; which is who, exactly, is impressed by an anthropomorphic carrier bag?
Someone who likes Toy Story, Cars and similar films which endow inanimate objects with minds and feelings?
As I said, nursery stories. Why bring that into the world of plastic bags?
Although I suppose there is precedent:
http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac233/Macca_photos_2009/viz-37-black-bag_1.jpg (http://s903.photobucket.com/user/Macca_photos_2009/media/viz-37-black-bag_1.jpg.html)
Badly behaved and unruly children. Usually the spawn of semi-literate I'll-mannered slob parents. Far too many of them wherever you go these days. Worse still when going anywhere near an airport lounge or plane journey.
Badly behaved and unruly children. Usually the spawn of semi-literate I'll-mannered slob parents. Far too many of them wherever you go these days.
Hear, hear - they're a bloody menace to society! Mongrels breeding mongrels... Controlled human procreation is the only answer.
Marco.
People who can't, or won't, use the correct spellings of:
Their, There, They're.
They're is the contracted form of "they are". Remember that abbreviations like this should not be used in essays and other formal writing. They are fine in reported speech.
'They're all going to the cinema this evening,' said Paul's mum.
'I can't see where they're coming from!' he yelled.
'They're waiting for you in the interview room.'
'Do you know where they're going to be this afternoon?'
I get accused of snobbery when I pull people up on this, but it is really elementary English and if you can't be bothered to use the words properly then I can't really be expected to take what you say seriously.
Do Forum posts count as "formal writing"?
Gordon Steadman
29-12-2016, 19:34
Do Forum posts count as "formal writing"?
Nah, it's just that we speak English here - mostly :eyebrows:
Do Forum posts count as "formal writing"?
Only on Three Words Daily ;)
Marco.
Pet hates? Folk with too much to say for themselves, who don't know when to shut the fuck up back off.
Marco.
Do Forum posts count as "formal writing"?
I wasn't really getting at forum posts, most of which are reasonably well written.
I often comment on news threads at the Guardian, Independent and Torygraph websites and this is where I find the greatest crimes against written English.
Don't get me started on social media, their grammar is beyond redemption.
I often comment on news threads at the Guardian, Independent and Torygraph websites and this is where I find the greatest crimes against written English.
I'd be too asleep with boredom, reading that pish, to notice the bad grammar! ;)
Marco.
I wasn't really getting at forum posts, most of which are reasonably well written.
I often comment on news threads at the Guardian, Independent and Torygraph websites and this is where I find the greatest crimes against written English.
Don't get me started on social media, their grammar is beyond redemption.
I must admit I'm not exactly keen on social media. This idea that everyone has to be a mini celebrity and live in the public eye is frankly tragic.
I'd be too asleep with boredom, reading that pish, to notice the bad grammar! ;)
Marco.
In this age of fake news and opinion masquerading as fact, good quality journalism is becoming a rare commodity. It is still possible to find some of it on these sites. It has become practically impossible on social media.
Moreover, there are still some people on their comments sections who welcome a well put argument without acting like spoiled children when their opinions are challenged. This is becoming rare elsewhere too.
I must admit I'm not exactly keen on social media. This idea that everyone has to be a mini celebrity and live in the public eye is frankly tragic.
Social media can be individually empowering, sadly it is collectively powerless.
walpurgis
29-12-2016, 20:41
I must admit I'm not exactly keen on social media. This idea that everyone has to be a mini celebrity and live in the public eye is frankly tragic.
This is social media. But I'd sooner be notorious than a celebrity! ;)
In this age of fake news and opinion masquerading as fact, good quality journalism is becoming a rare commodity. It is still possible to find some of it on these sites. It has become practically impossible on social media.
Moreover, there are still some people on their comments sections who welcome a well put argument without acting like spoiled children when their opinions are challenged. This is becoming rare elsewhere too.
Fair enough dude, and I understand where you're coming from, just not my bag. I haven't read a newspaper since 2010.
Oh, and I don't do social media [Farcebook or Twatter].
Marco.
Arkless Electronics
29-12-2016, 21:12
I wouldn't go near social media personally but I'm often found browsing the guardian or new statesmen web sites...
walpurgis
14-01-2017, 09:58
The rubbish circulars etc., that keep being posted through my letter box!
I get a mountain of it. Plus letters for the previous occupants. They moved out in 1998, they still get more post than I do.
walpurgis
14-01-2017, 10:14
I get more circulars than proper mail!
I get a mountain of it. Plus letters for the previous occupants. They moved out in 1998, they still get more post than I do.
Have you informed the respective companies sending you the mail that those occupants no longer live there?
Marco.
No it just goes in the bin. That's their problem not mine. When I first moved I they were still getting 3 or 4 a day. I had no way to contact them but kept it all, a massive stack after a few months. Then I found out they had been back to visit a neighbour. You'd think they would knock in and ask if there was any post for them but they didn't bother so I binned it all.
No it just goes in the bin. That's their problem not mine. When I first moved I they were still getting 3 or 4 a day. I had no way to contact them but kept it all, a massive stack after a few months. Then I found out they had been back to visit a neighbour. You'd think they would knock in and ask if there was any post for them but they didn't bother so I binned it all.
I hear ya, and sounds like the previous tenants were tossers, *but* the reason why you're still getting their mail is because you haven't informed the relevant companies sending then it that they no longer live there. So their shite will continue to come until you do something about it....
Therefore, daftee, it's YOUR problem, NOT theirs, as they obviously don't give a fuck! So there's not much point in moaning, if you don't get off yer arse and DO something about it! :ner:;)
Marco.
Yes it is just that simple, you send it back and super efficient company/organization immediately take your address off their mailing list.
Not.
I much prefer the 'chuck it in the bin whilst complaining about it' option. It's more suited to my lifestyle.
jollyfix
14-01-2017, 20:07
I much prefer the 'chuck it in the bin whilst complaining about it' option. It's more suited to my lifestyle.
:lol::exactly:
I hear ya, and sounds like the previous tenants were tossers, *but* the reason why you're still getting their mail is because you haven't informed the relevant companies sending then it that they no longer live there. So their shite will continue to come until you do something about it....
Therefore, daftee, it's YOUR problem, NOT theirs, as they obviously don't give a fuck! So there's not much point in moaning, if you don't get off yer arse and DO something about it! :ner:;)
Marco.
Dunno, my boys been getting calls and letters re a debt from the last tenant... now he has been telling them the guy left for about 10 years, and they say, ok we will note it, but all they do is sell the debt to someone else I think for you to go through it all again, to point now he just tells them to F off
Yes it is just that simple, you send it back and super efficient company/organization immediately take your address off their mailing list.
Not.
I much prefer the 'chuck it in the bin whilst complaining about it' option. It's more suited to my lifestyle.
Lol!
Well, it's worked for me whenever I've phoned them up. Guess I must just have a convincing voice! ;)
Marco.
You can be arsed to call them? I'd rather stick pins in my eyes.
Ha - I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than get shed-loads of junk mail! :mental::D
Nah, of course not, but I minimise the amount of junk mail I get as far as possible, and calling them worked! Between that, and opting for as much 'paperless billing' as possible (we do almost everything online), sometimes many days can pass before any physical mail is delivered here...
Marco.
I'm keeping the posty in a job, look at it that way.
Junk mail's no bother really; far more of a nuisance is the flyers for takeaways/taxi firms/odd job men that get shoved through the letterbox. We do very occasionally get a piece of junk mail addressed to the previous owners, who moved out 25 years ago!
I'm keeping the posty in a job, look at it that way.
Aye! Now, here's the thing, do you recycle all your junk mail (paper) properly, by putting it into the correct receptacle, for the refuse collectors to take away? Your answer will determine how 'green' you are! ;)
Del is super-fastidious about all aspects of recycling.
Marco.
...far more of a nuisance is the flyers for takeaways/taxi firms/odd job men that get shoved through the letterbox.
Nah - they're no bother either... You simply save them up, then shove them inside one of the prepaid envelopes that the junk mail companies send you, post it off, and let the fuckers 'enjoy' 10% off deliveries from 'Abdul Spice' or whatever...! :D
Marco.
I used to send all the stuff back so it cost them money, but it didnt seem to deter them so it gets binned in blue bin now
Me too, mostly, but occasionally there's a certain amount of satisfaction in imagining what the face will be like on the person, from said junk-mail company, opening up the envelope only to find a bunch of takeaway menus and taxi firm leaflets inside....
Sometimes, I pop another little 'surprise' in there, too! :eyebrows:
Marco.
Clifford.T Ward
15-01-2017, 13:57
When I take the record off the turntable and the turntable mat sticks to the record.
Aye! Now, here's the thing, do you recycle all your junk mail (paper) properly, by putting it into the correct receptacle, for the refuse collectors to take away?
Marco.
As if.
:eyebrows::eyebrows:
Somehow that doesn't surprise me!
Marco.
Not being able to spread some radiation about in the shoe shop with the flouroscope :D. I mean how crazy were those things...
Aye! Now, here's the thing, do you recycle all your junk mail (paper) properly, by putting it into the correct receptacle, for the refuse collectors to take away? Your answer will determine how 'green' you are! ;)
Del is super-fastidious about all aspects of recycling.
Marco.
Yes, I do. :)
walpurgis
18-02-2017, 11:00
Extortionate bills. The water rate demand has arrived. I'd like to know why I'm being asked to pay 50% more than two years ago.
Because they are rob dogs, that's why.
walpurgis
18-02-2017, 11:23
Because they are rob dogs, that's why.
No doubt!
I'd renationalise it. Run it at cost plus investment, cut out the shareholders. Senior management all on 2 year fixed term contracts so you can get rid of the useless ones at no cost. The bill payers get to vote on the CEO's performance once a year. Less than 50% approval and he's out.
You can't introduce competition to supplying water or power. I'm sure they only privatised water and power in the first place to give pension companies a safe bet.
walpurgis
18-02-2017, 11:47
It really gets me that essential services are in private hands. They should be run by the government and contracted out if need be. At least then some sort of control over charges could be maintained.
What constitutes 'essential services' is another bugbear of mine. A basic government provided option should be offered for things like, legal services, car and other insurances and house sales, for instance. If you want to go private do so, but there should be state run alternatives.
I wish governments would work out that these false markets don't work. I have nothing against competition - but it is only one of a number of solutions to a problem.
Artificially creating a market doesn't work. There is one water mains network, one telephone network, one electricity supply network, and one gas supply network. It does not make sense to trying to add competition to these markets because a supplier isn't going to offer an alternative product - its the same service delivered over the same medium.
If alternative products can be delivered independently by a number of suppliers - then a competitive market makes sense and should be encouraged (and regulated to avoid dominance by cartels or monopolies). Where this isn't the case, then don't create artificial markets and pretend that the result is a competitive market place.
It really gets me that essential services are in private hands. They should be run by the government and contracted out if need be. At least then some sort of control over charges could be maintained.
What constitutes 'essential services' is another bugbear of mine. A basic government provided option should be offered for things like, legal services, car and other insurances and house sales, for instance. If you want to go private do so, but there should be state run alternatives.
Didn't they try this sort of thing in Russia, as I remember it didn't end well.
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Didn't they try this sort of thing in Russia, as I remember it didn't end well.
They've tried a lot of things in Russia and none of them ever ended well for them. Except WW2 an even that looked iffy for a while.
We aint Ruskies though. :D
Pete The Cat
26-02-2017, 09:16
To the original question - people who open their car doors into the side of your car, and don't bat an eyelid, never mind not apologising. Complete lack of respect. :steam:
Pete
Pete The Cat
26-02-2017, 13:33
...and, people who write on record sleeves and labels. A bit of wear and tear is part of the charm but it puts me right off to find someone's name or random doodling :(
Pete
I wish governments would work out that these false markets don't work. I have nothing against competition - but it is only one of a number of solutions to a problem.
Artificially creating a market doesn't work. There is one water mains network, one telephone network, one electricity supply network, and one gas supply network. It does not make sense to trying to add competition to these markets because a supplier isn't going to offer an alternative product - its the same service delivered over the same medium.
If alternative products can be delivered independently by a number of suppliers - then a competitive market makes sense and should be encouraged (and regulated to avoid dominance by cartels or monopolies). Where this isn't the case, then don't create artificial markets and pretend that the result is a competitive market place.
You're absolutely right - except for the telephone network!!!
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People who come on my TV and talk about existential threats, existential anything in fact, it just sounds completely twattish and pretentious.
walpurgis
01-03-2017, 21:33
Cynical companies advertising bloody 'funeral plans' on the box all bleedin' day!! There's loads of these adverts.
they are a waste of money to 99% of folk as well
Cynical companies advertising bloody 'funeral plans' on the box all bleedin' day!! There's loads of these adverts.
And PPI crap, and 'were you involved in an accident' crap, and bazillion percent payday loan ads, and and and...
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dimkasta
02-03-2017, 10:02
I really hate what is passed for democracy and free market these days...
You're absolutely right - except for the telephone network!!!
I was talking about landlines. The vast majority of these are provided by BT (or whichever incarnation of BT it is that is currently pretending it's not BT). BT sell access to the lines via wholesale packages. If you have a BT line, all the providers who offer you deals are just reselling one of these BT wholesale packages.
However, mobile is worth discussing. Does it really make sense to have multiple suppliers providing the same service. Why should it depend on which provider I use, as to whether I get a good signal in my home. Also competition tends to lead to less populated areas getting poor coverage.
I really hate what is passed for democracy and free market these days...
free market ..... free to be dominated by a small number of large multinationals
I was talking about landlines. The vast majority of these are provided by BT (or whichever incarnation of BT it is that is currently pretending it's not BT). BT sell access to the lines via wholesale packages. If you have a BT line, all the providers who offer you deals are just reselling one of these BT wholesale packages.
However, mobile is worth discussing. Does it really make sense to have multiple suppliers providing the same service. Why should it depend on which provider I use, as to whether I get a good signal in my home. Also competition tends to lead to less populated areas getting poor coverage.
Not so. The Cable TV companies (of which there were MANY back in the '90s, all now are regional parts of Virgin Media) have an entirely separate network to BT. I worked for BT for 12 years from 1980 to 1992, then moved to (what was LCL Cable in Leicester), where I installed and commissioned a brand new fibre optic transmission network while my colleagues commissioned a brand new telephone exchange (switch).
Up and down the country these networks are all joined together, and all join BT at numerous locations.
There is absolutely no shared infrastructure, no shared cabling etc from the exchange to the customer's house/business.
Stay Away From the Guard Rails!
walpurgis
03-03-2017, 20:24
Media professionals who can't spell. There have been a couple of instances of unexploded WW2 bombs being found lately and on each occasion these have been reported as apparently being 'diffused'. Why can't these people get it into their heads that the word is defused! Dozy bastards!! :steam:
walpurgis
19-03-2017, 20:07
Mobile devices that announce themselves at the end of each message delivered. 'sent from my................' It's bollocks!!!:steam:
Yeah, that roasts my tits too, in a major way! Surely that annoying wank can be turned off by the user??
Marco.
walpurgis
20-03-2017, 15:25
Cynical companies advertising bloody 'funeral plans' on the box all bleedin' day!! There's loads of these adverts.
This crap is never ending. I must have seen half a dozen of these stupid bloody ads on the box so far and I've only had the TV on a couple of hours today!
Used to be Parky with his free pen, the cynical old bastard, now it's even worse.
What I have to laugh at with those adverts is how it's a 50 and over plan - lumping us (still relatively young) folk in with all the coffin dodgers!! :rolleyes:
In reality, with folk generally living much longer now, 50 is feck all. 50 is the new 40, 40 is the new 30, etc. In general, people are living around 10 years longer than they used to, and that fact should be reflected in these daft adverts.
Plus, in all honesty, I feel the same now (in some ways even better), as I did when I was 30, and don't look a heck of a lot different either, so I'm more concerned with enjoying life than planning my fooking funeral!!
"The 65 and over plan", these days, would be more apt!
:exactly:
Marco.
stairpost
04-04-2017, 11:09
This one irked me no end.
I put a for sale ad on gumtree for an amp, collection only. Some guy from London rings and says he really wants it and would I consider posting, he says he can't drive and is partially disabled. He was the type that won't take notice of when it's time to end the conversation, every call lasted 30 minutes (there were several calls over the course of 2 or 3 days) while he told me all about his past, semi-famous friends and musical history. I agreed to post it (my fault I know), he wanted an invoice as he has to account for his spending due to being on incapacity benefit, I find a template for Word and email the invoice as requested. I boxed the amp up ready to send as soon as payment comes through, while waiting for payment I get a text from him saying he has decided not to buy it as he now thinks he should buy from ebay where he has paypal buyer protection.
Now I do realise I brought this on myself by agreeing to post, but somehow getting messed about while trying to do something helpful for someone was incredibly annoying.
'A good deed never goes unpunished' - Oscar Wilde
He needed an invoice because he receives incapacity benefit? That doesn't sound right at all.
walpurgis
04-04-2017, 11:19
A right 'messer'! I hope he's not a member here. :)
This one irked me no end.
I put a for sale ad on gumtree for an amp, collection only. Some guy from London rings and says he really wants it and would I consider posting, he says he can't drive and is partially disabled. He was the type that won't take notice of when it's time to end the conversation, every call lasted 30 minutes (there were several calls over the course of 2 or 3 days) while he told me all about his past, semi-famous friends and musical history. I agreed to post it (my fault I know), he wanted an invoice as he has to account for his spending due to being on incapacity benefit, I find a template for Word and email the invoice as requested. I boxed the amp up ready to send as soon as payment comes through, while waiting for payment I get a text from him saying he has decided not to buy it as he now thinks he should buy from ebay where he has paypal buyer protection.
Now I do realise I brought this on myself by agreeing to post, but somehow getting messed about while trying to do something helpful for someone was incredibly annoying.
PITA :(
Pierre De Grenoble
04-04-2017, 18:33
This one irked me no end.
while waiting for payment I get a text from him saying he has decided not to buy it as he now thinks he should buy from ebay where he has paypal buyer protection.
Now I do realise I brought this on myself by agreeing to post, but somehow getting messed about while trying to do something helpful for someone was incredibly annoying.
Tell the arsewipe that if you send him a paypal invoice for goods (not friends & family) that he still has full paypal protection.
He still won't buy it because he is still an arsewipe (use once & flush)
TheFlash
05-04-2017, 11:11
Mobile devices that announce themselves at the end of each message delivered. 'sent from my................' It's bollocks!!!:steam:
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
08-04-2017, 10:29
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.
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
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
08-04-2017, 13:04
If you'd like to try a really hideous "French Stick" try the Co-Op.
Pale disgusting heavy solid lump things
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
08-04-2017, 17:44
The American presenter Roma Downey of It's a Miracle on 'truTV' for having the phoniest Irish accent ever!
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.
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.
I wasted four years of my life with them, the only benefit really was hearing what at that time were world leading loudspeakers.
I like the idea -in principle - of a gold standard broadcaster, publically funded so they don't need to chase ratings. In practice 90% of their output is an embarrassment to all those involved. And I don't mean it all has to be high-brow programme hardly anyone is interested in. That has its place. I never listen to R3 or R4 but I'm glad they exist. There is just too much of the opposite extreme; BBC1 is like a children's channel now, both in content and the way it is presented. BBC2 is going the same way. In fact if you put some of the educational children's programmes from the 1970s up against their current offerings for adults they would look high brow in comparison.
I always wonder why the breakfast show presenters (BBC1 and ITV) wear suits, shirts and ties. Do they really need to wear suits be taken seriously? Or is it because they talk so much Bollox that wearing a suit makes anything they say come over as intelligent and reasoned comment? I couldn't care less if they were wearing shell suits, come to that I wouldn't care if I never saw another breakfast show again.....however Mrs Puffin feels the need to be "educated" every morning....oh and it has to be ITV!!!.....Shoot Me Now!!!!
Never seen breakfast TV but I'm quite surprised to learn that the presenters don't wear shell suits.
I did watch a daytime news show on ITV once, it was indistinguishable from an episode of 'Brass Eye.'
Pierre De Grenoble
09-04-2017, 15:46
I like the idea -in principle - of a gold standard broadcaster, publically funded so they don't need to chase ratings. In practice 90% of their output is an embarrassment to all those involved. And I don't mean it all has to be high-brow programme hardly anyone is interested in. That has its place. I never listen to R3 or R4 but I'm glad they exist. There is just too much of the opposite extreme; BBC1 is like a children's channel now, both in content and the way it is presented. BBC2 is going the same way. In fact if you put some of the educational children's programmes from the 1970s up against their current offerings for adults they would look high brow in comparison.
If you ever chose to watch some of the 1st black & white episodes of Dr. Who you'll find they are full off 5/6 syllable vocab. I was 8/9 when I first shit myself over the Daleks but I understood every word. Far too much dumbing down these decades....
If you ever chose to watch some of the 1st black & white episodes of Dr. Who you'll find they are full off 5/6 syllable vocab. I was 8/9 when I first shit myself over the Daleks but I understood every word. Far too much dumbing down these decades....
I have seen them and agree. Today the adult material is akin to the children's material back then, and the children's material now, from what I have seen when at my brother's, is awful pap-combined-with-dubious-social-engineering. Thankfully the children seem to have lost interest by the time the opening credits finish
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.
I think you'll find it's 'de rigueur'.
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.
I think you'll find it's 'slalom'.
I dunno; kids today, what do they teach them at school, back when I were a lad [cont'd p.94].
I think you'll find it's 'de riguer'.
Lol - if you're going to correct someone, then make sure you're right! In actuality, it's 'de rigueur', or at least that's the word any French person would use ;)
Marco [resident linguist].
think its de rigueur actually
Beat you to it! :ner:
Marco.
This sort of mindless drivel, and the vacuous cretins predisposed to watching it: https://www.hayu.com/discover/latest
Marco.
Firebottle
10-04-2017, 08:22
Reality (as in TV):
Rubbish
Entertainment
Actually
Ludicrous
Inbred
Theatrical
Yobbos.
Apart from the Yesterday channel i dont really watch tv bar the occasional film. Got a program on about beaver at mo :eyebrows:
Reality (as in TV):
Rubbish
Entertainment
Actually
Ludicrous
Inbred
Theatrical
Yobbos.
:lolsign:
Very apt indeed! Or:
Rank
Empty-headed
Anally retentive
Laughably
Idiotic
Tosh
Yearly
:D
Marco.
Apart from the Yesterday channel i dont really watch tv bar the occasional film. Got a program on about beaver at mo :eyebrows:
Aye, ye cannae whack a bit of beaver, especially the baldy kind! :eyebrows:
Marco.
Aye, ye cannae whack a bit of beaver, especially the baldy kind! :eyebrows:
Marco.
Are you talking about 'split beaver' by any chance?
'Leave It To Beaver' I think....
Are you talking about 'split beaver' by any chance?
Yesh, the one with a 'slit' at the front, for some naughty man to poke his 'thingy' into.... :eyebrows:
Marco.
Spectral Morn
10-04-2017, 12:58
:doh:
Ive a beaver hat. True, it isnt beaver pelt but made by the beaver hat company.
:doh:
Wot? It's a kind of 'furry animal' (sometimes), innit? And it can bite, too!! :D
Marco.
I never did get on with this hat so ive over the years been destroying it to fix others. You wouldnt wear it now.. it was a damn expensive hat but cowboy style and i dont do cowboy :D. Yeaha!
Ive actually been making one of my hats smaller and another bigger. It had a lot to do with steam and a big pair os shears
Pieoftheday
18-04-2017, 15:10
Northern power sent me a text earlier to say they were working hard to get my power back on,it wasn't off, a bit later I got a text saying they'd got it back on and as read the text my power went of:lol: FFS
rigger67
18-04-2017, 17:30
Northern power sent me a text earlier to say they were working hard to get my power back on,it wasn't off, a bit later I got a text saying they'd got it back on and as read the text my power went of:lol: FFS
That made me LOL properly :D
Arkless Electronics
18-04-2017, 17:41
News websites having videos for so many items boils my piss!! If I wanted to watch a video of a news item I would go to a catch up TV site rather than a news site.
I can read and don't want to tie up my PC for 2 mins while it downloads some video content I don't even want to watch and all 'cos I've clicked on "election called early" or "nutter made so called president" or whatever.
If you want to transfer a few quid from what used to be called building societies or banks these days you have to register and have an online account. I tried online banking for my current account......you would think that having to have an ONLINE account would mean that everything, including glitches when trying to get it up and running would be done ONLINE....errr No.....I had to phone up 3 times because it didn't work (and i'm no numpty around a computer) and each time it took 30 mins, after the 3rd time I gave up. Our local branch closes in June:D
Today I tried to register for the Halifax to withdraw £2/19/11pence farthing......get all the way through and was told your registration was successful.....click this link to complete....."Click"......."Sorry there is a problem....Please phone.........AARRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Pieoftheday
21-04-2017, 14:34
I love my little Yorkie to bits but he gets very cross at some TV ads and launches himself at the av unit when they come on, my 2 month old Yamaha amp is now nicely scratched, FFS:steam:
I love my little Yorkie to bits but he gets very cross at some TV ads and launches himself at the av unit when they come on, my 2 month old Yamaha amp is now nicely scratched, FFS:steam:
Have a work colleague with a similar creature who also has that issue. She claims the animal is also racist although I am not sure how that manifests itself.
Another has a cat that likes wildlife docs. Seen a pic of him just sat on his own in the room watching Attenborough. They have just today discovered that he has a cache of decapitated rats hidden under the barbeque.
Pieoftheday
21-04-2017, 19:04
Have a work colleague with a similar creature who also has that issue. She claims the animal is also racist although I am not sure how that manifests itself.
Another has a cat that likes wildlife docs. Seen a pic of him just sat on his own in the room watching Attenborough. They have just today discovered that he has a cache of decapitated rats hidden under the barbeque.
Haha! I dont think hes racist, at least i hope not!
Bigman80
21-04-2017, 19:36
I always wondered why frisbees look bigger the closer they get ........ then it hit me !
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Pieoftheday
21-04-2017, 19:41
I always wondered why frisbees look bigger the closer they get ........ then it hit me !
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Bum bum!
Bigman80
21-04-2017, 20:11
Bum bum!
Im here all week.
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Modern(ised) Pubs - Had the misfortune to visit one a week or so ago. Outside painted in some drab, flat, military surplus paint of a horrible grey or swampy green/brown hue. Most disgusting! Almost blown back out by a wall of (pre-programmed) sound blasting out at number 11. People sitting at the same table shouting and gesticulating madly at each other over the noise. Sadly it was a ghastly-pub so had to share the table with someone's left over pie and chips congealed on the plate which no-one had bothered to clear up. Clear glass windows floor to ceiling so everyone passing has a good gawp at what you're doing and who you're with. Now contrast this with the pubs of yore - frosted Windows start 4 feet off the ground and only the top inch and a half is clear, maybe a juke box where you can make your own music selection at a reasonable volume, no food mess except perhaps on a weekend when the landlord puts on a few cheese and onion rolls as a special treat for the regulars. OK, you might get the odd dart in your pint but that's a small price to pay for visiting a place of such intrigue and mystery, where plans can be hatched, secret liaisons and rendezvous made, cocktails and other such nonsense are unknown and a relaxing time can be had in the company of friends.
Agree that have killed the whole game except for a few places that are more like restaurants than pubs and have food at restaurant prices.
I used to be fascinated by pubs as a child; as you say the frosted windows made it impossible to see in, plus there would be a small vestibule so you couldn't look in through the door when someone came out either. The smell of tobacco smoke and stale beer, old boys in 3 piece suits and flat caps going in and out.
Places of wonder and mystery.
Now they are like greenhouses, smell of disinfectant and have awful people's awful children running around shouting.
Underground drinking dens are where it is at now. They don't need the brewery, just bottles and cans from the cash n carry. No kids and no stupid smoking ban either :)
No interest in boozers now. Dont drink much andwhen i do I prefer my own company to the loonies in a pub. as said they used to be decent dank dumps but losing the dank finished them off.
Aye the dank. Remember what happened to Moe when he got rid of the dank?
Everything is so sterile and soulless these days.
Aye the dank. Remember what happened to Moe when he got rid of the dank?
Everything is so sterile and soulless these days.
:lol: “Everybody is going to family restaurants these days. Seems nobody wants to hang out in a dank pit no more.” – Moe
“You ain’t thinking of getting rid of the dank, are you, Moe?” – Carl
“Ah, maybe I am.” – Moe
“Oh but, Moe, the dank! The dank!” – Carl
walpurgis
30-04-2017, 16:57
Slow drivers. I was stuck behind some old git (probably younger than me :)) along country lanes at between 9 mph and 15 mph for miles this afternoon. Being careful or cautious is fine but this was bloody ridiculous! :steam:
Those folk shouldnt have licences tbh.
I pull over for people in the tractor ,or on the side . I have put myself out.
They drive past as if you were not there , or you have witnesssed royalty or simply ,they have a look as if to say you should not even be on this
road !! Not a flicker or a wave.
T*****s
:lol: “Everybody is going to family restaurants these days. Seems nobody wants to hang out in a dank pit no more.” – Moe
“You ain’t thinking of getting rid of the dank, are you, Moe?” – Carl
“Ah, maybe I am.” – Moe
“Oh but, Moe, the dank! The dank!” – Carl
:scratch: :scratch:
Soz, don't have a scooby-doo what the above refers to!
Marco.
It's a reference to a (very old) episode of 'The Simpsons'
Ah, that'll explain it, then!
I don't think I've watched more than about 30 seconds of that pish since its inception... ;)
Marco.
walpurgis
04-05-2017, 22:48
Slow drivers. I was stuck behind some old git (probably younger than me :)) along country lanes at between 9 mph and 15 mph for miles this afternoon. Being careful or cautious is fine but this was bloody ridiculous! :steam:
Yes. Slow drivers again. Yesterday, I was in a long single file contraflow section on the A30. The posted speed limit was a low 40mph, but some clown in a camper a few cars ahead of me felt it was OK to drift along at 25 to 30mph for mile after mile, regardless of the dozens of cars baulked by him and tailing back.
No sooner than I'd left the contraflow, I passed him and cruised at around 75mph. Next thing, his old heap came flying past me at around 90mph. So much for his observance of speed limits. What an arsehole!! :steam:
Nightmare... I think some of these assholes actually *enjoy* being a nuisance! Thankfully, that kind of stuff doesn't happen too often here (as country lanes are largely deserted), but when it does, and I eventually pass them, I, shall we say, 'express my displeasure' in no uncertain terms.... ;)
The worst culprits here are at roundabouts on main roads, where their level of indecisiveness, before they eventually shift, sometimes has to be seen to be believed! :wanker::rolleyes:
Marco.
People who confuse 'The Prisoner' with 'Prisoner: Cell Block H'.
People who confuse 'The Prisoner' with 'Prisoner: Cell Block H'.
Who does that?
Haha... Are these folk allowed out on their own, unaccompanied?
Marco.
Pieoftheday
14-06-2017, 18:34
British Gas,do you want a smart meter? Me, no, British gas,why not? Me, I just don't and I don't have to, British Gas, oh yes you have to by law come 2020,me,no I don't,i know for a fact ,ask citizens advice, British Gas,pause, is there anything else I can help you with? Me no...it even says on their website it isn't a legal obligation, FFS:steam:
Yes you can tell them to sod off, already did it twice. Had an engineer round to fit one, my house is 1970s so there is a brick enclosure around the area where the gas metre is, with a hinged wooden top on it. I show him this and he says 'No access mate, you will have to take all that brickwork out before I can fit it.'
so I said fine, don't fit it, watch me stay awake at night fretting about it.
They then call me six months later saying they are coming to fit it. Told them they already tried that and there is no 'access'.
'You have to have one by 2020 you know?'
Yeah. Good luck with that.
Oh I forgot. The other option is to have one put outside instead but I have to pay a grand myself. What planet are these people from?
Pieoftheday
14-06-2017, 19:12
Oh I forgot. The other option is to have one put outside instead but I have to pay a grand myself. What planet are these people from?
Bunch o tossers, only just swapped to them 3 month since, I'll be fookin changing again once this bill is paid, can't do with fibbers
Pierre De Grenoble
14-06-2017, 19:21
Bunch o tossers, only just swapped to them 3 month since, I'll be fookin changing again once this bill is paid, can't do with fibbers
This shite about installing smart meters is a con payed for by a levy on everybodies power bills.
Some of these installed smart meters do not work with other suppliers so they feck up your chances of a switch.
tread carefully and google properly. The power companies are not installing these out of the kindness of their hearts for your benefit!!...... :wanker:
Bunch o tossers, only just swapped to them 3 month since, I'll be fookin changing again once this bill is paid, can't do with fibbers
I'm with Npower so I suspect they are all the same.
Part of a wider scheme to push green power. The long term plan was to have no conventional power and rely on wind and a little solar, backed up with fields full of diesel generators. The smart meters will allow them to cut your power selectively when demand is too high.
Probably.
Pieoftheday
14-06-2017, 19:41
If the law said I had to have one I still no wouldn't want it cos I don t see the point, I'm not going to switch of the telly or lower the heating if it's looking pricey, but the fact the woman said it was the law come 2020 when it ain't, ooh ,!!!!
If the law said I had to have one I still no wouldn't want it cos I do t see the point, I'm not going to switch of the telly or lower the heating if it's looking pricey, but the fact the woman said it was the law come 2020 when it ain't, ooh ,!!!!
I know. They are looking to do you around every corner. Must think we are soft touches or something. My rule is: If someone tells you it is raining, always go straight to the window and check. ;)
Pieoftheday
14-06-2017, 19:56
Not using a comparison site when I move either, they're up to no good too:steam:
'Eat well for less' on BBC1. Are the general public really so thick they need 4 series of this claptrap to tell them that takeaways and branded food are more expensive than freshly prepared food and supermarket own brands?
And do we really need that smug self satisfied know nothing ex-greengrocer *expletive* Greg Wallace to tell us?
Pieoftheday
14-06-2017, 20:20
'Eat well for less' on BBC1. Are the general public really so thick they need 4 series of this claptrap to tell them that takeaways and branded food are more expensive than freshly prepared food and supermarket own brands?
And do we really need that smug self satisfied no nothing ex-greengrocer *expletive* Greg Wallace to tell us?
Haha yeah just been watching that, do like me Heinz beans but I'm happy to try cheaper stuff , cheaper certainly isn't always better or even as good and of course there's always the farmer/ producer to think of, I mean 2 litres of milk for a quid? That's great for me but surely can't go on for the farmer?
+ 1 and failing to indicate and indicating when turning and not before , STOPPING at roundabouts ... I live in Milton Keynes!!!!
Ebay buyers going silent for days on end ( twats )
Cushions on bed [emoji35]
Bad tradesmen, greedy tradesmen, untidy tradesmen.
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walpurgis
14-06-2017, 20:36
People who feel obliged to bellow everything they say, instead of talking normally.
walpurgis
14-06-2017, 20:46
Deaf or daft? :D
Not using a comparison site when I move either, they're up to no good too:steam:
I moved to Npower from Encon or Enrip or something similar. First bill was for six grand. After some negotiation turned out that actually they owed me £800 which I got refunded to my bank account in the end. Just ridiculous. Have not bothered to change since. Not worth the aggravation.
I SEEM TO CHANGE EVERY YEAR.:doh: theykeep putting my bill up every month even thou Im i paying enough. So After my deal comes close to ending uswitch tell me and offer me the best deals for the next year. if its worth movig I move.
+ 1 and failing to indicate and indicating when turning and not before , STOPPING at roundabouts ... I live in Milton Keynes!!!!
Ebay buyers going silent for days on end ( twats )
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Yeah get it all out in one go. Feels better don't it? ;)
southall-1998
14-06-2017, 21:24
Looks like I'm morphing into a miserable sod :D
Not very much keen, on the warm sunny weathers. Serves the people right, for getting bad sunburn and moaning about it!!
Give me a cool, grey overcast weather any time!!
S.
Yeah get it all out in one go. Feels better don't it? ;)
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Pierre De Grenoble
15-06-2017, 17:47
I moved to Npower from Encon or Enrip or something similar. First bill was for six grand. After some negotiation turned out that actually they owed me £800 which I got refunded to my bank account in the end. Just ridiculous. Have not bothered to change since. Not worth the aggravation.
I'm amazed at that..
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