Wolfie

9 minutes ago, reveldevil said:

There's research Budge, then there's clairvoyancy, seeing as I posted that 10 months ago!

Tbh, I'm amazed a Tesla driver hasn't died from sheer smugness by now.

lol, I was thinking that myself. There's one near me that I see quite regularly and he makes us Beemer drivers seem like shrinking violets.

They are quick, though. Mine is a quick car but another one left me for dead on the A1 a few weeks back. If I hadn't had my daughter in the car I just might have put my foot down. Mind you, he went off so quick, he probably only made it to the next services for a recharge!.

Cosmetics/Toiletries/Household cleaning products TV ads which are badly dubbed into English.

If 65m population isn't a big enough market for you to spend a few quid getting English speaking actors to play the roles, then I'm not going to give you any of my cash!. It's just lazy and insulting of the manufacturers, who must think we don't notice or we do notice but they don't care. Either way it's annoying.

One of my colleages says "I'm not even kidding" in virtually every sentence. It's driving me insane today.......

15 hours ago, jono said:

So true Paul .. Language evolves and once something as accepted by the majority in common usage it becomes right virtually by definition. 

my gripe isn't old words, forms or even new ones .. It's the ones that don't make sense .. Things like "Could of" and the mixing of their and there .. This sort of thing, when used in the wrong, way can lead to misunderstanding and therefore inaccurate communication. The other thing about correct forms is that it can be a clue to sniffing out Cowboys in a commercial sense. Phishing emails .. If the English is bad then it's a clue to potential wrong uns .. So maintaining a standard form is a type of protection and security. 

Don't get me started on people saying "off of" instead of "from"......

Re-sealable bags of pasta/rice which always rip when you try to open them and therefore cannot re-seal.

There's somebody in my company whose diet must consist of sh/t and fortnight old roadside badger if their poo stink is anything to go by. They are remakably regular, though, so I avoid the bogs between 10 and 11am.

OK I'm on my TV news rant again but last night on BBC news, the story about the kids missing in Wales was "More than 20 children have gone missing in Wales". There were 26 kids. That was a fact.

Why do they have to say "more than 20" when everyone knew the number was 26. It's not even quicker to say.

Why pretend you don't know how many there are?

Must have had a power surge yesterday morning. The main TV popped & smelt of burning circuit board, before I went to work. Came home & greeted by the news that the desktop PC looks f@@@@@d as well.

Bloody hell!!!!!!

16 minutes ago, HenriDCFC said:

I was on here when I did my GCSE's

 

 

 

 

 

 

I got 1 C and a BTEC

I'm glad we didn't have the internet when I did mine. Mind you, I do remember one "revision day" when I watched the film "Clue" 4 times.

56 minutes ago, Phoenix said:

Brown cars.

Mmmmmmmm Austin Maxi

They were always shitt brown, which is ironic......

Cotton buds?. WTF is wrong with bog roll?

Appallingly cringeworthy & meaningless job titles/roles.

Ones I've seen recently on LinkedIn:

• Opinion Leader.
• Thought Leader.
• Brand Defender
• Accounting Ninja
• Frangipan Tuddlemerkin
• Influencer.
• Changemaker.

*I made one of those up. Only one, mind.

Battle of Los Angeles

That "of" is very important. Flicking round the channels yesterday I stumbled across this gem on Syfy and after about 6 seconds worked out that it wasn't in fact Battle: Los Angeles - you know, the pretty duff but big budget SciFi Alien attack film from 2011. This one is a made-for-tv rip off which aired the day before the big budget version hit the cinemas (apparently).

Rubbish film-making at it's best & firmly in "so bad it's good" territory, complete with inexplicable ninja MILF and time travelling WW2 fighter pilot, shooting down alien ships with one revolver bullet.

1/10 obviously but if you're in that right frame of mind: 8/10 for the giggles.

32 minutes ago, jono said:

Agree with you there wolfie .. But the nice side to it for me was one of the pictures in the paper of the front of the bus .. All the Leicester boys smiling laughing with phones as usual but bottom right .. Dunno which player But just resting his arms on the front bathing in the moment without an electronic device in sight .. You can see in his eyes .. Boy this is a moment and my cerebral cortex is is going to remember this way better than any flash card 

tried to like your post but it says I can't ? .. Glitch or are you on a black list 

According to my screen, you have liked it, so thanks

People who video important events on their mobile rather than actually experiencing them.

The Leicester City parade thing was on the TV's at the gym last night & I found myself getting irritated by the number of players walking around the stage filming it and then standing there tapping away on the phones, presumably updating Twitter or whatever. I'm sure the same would have happened regardless of which club it was & it happens everywhere now.

Just put the phone down!. It's on TV. Thousands of fans have come to see you and you're typing on your phone. Stupid.

It was the same with the athletes at the Olympics opening ceremony. This is maybe the biggest thing they are ever going to do and highlight of their career and instead of taking in the moment, they're experiencing it through their cameras.

A couple of work gripes:

People at work who are unable to make a cup of tea unless it's really milky. Even when I ask them to just put a drop in.

People who leave the sinks full of pots or just dirty from washing their hands & the kitchen area a mess generally. There are 15 of us in the company and no daily cleaner - who exactly do they think is going to clean the mess up?. Basically it's selfishness and thoughtlessness and that winds me up wherever I see it.

7 minutes ago, ramsbottom said:

Your cut from the same cloth as me from the sounds of it.  I take it a step further by ordering my items by which bags I'll put them into.  Veg first followed by tins, bottles, frozen and finally squashable/breakable stuff.  That way I know what's in each bag when I get home to unpack...  I know that sounds OCD but it saves plenty of time.

I can't stand fookers who have a entire conveyer belt full of stuff but won't let you nip ahead of them cus all you've got is a bag of crisps.  I happily let folk like that go, but that's because I'm not an ignorant c***

Same here & I think it's related to the dishwasher thing as well. Just trying to be efficient.

55 minutes ago, jono said:

Dangerous ground Wolfie, very dangerous .. Mentioning this might engender the "well you do it then" response 

I do do it, most of the time. Emptying it is a job I hate, so if the system is followed it makes it quicker and easier to empty.

It's not rockect science. Just put all the same items together, so they can be easily grabbed and put back in the cupboards with the minimum fuss. But no, that's too hard for some people who would rather mix plates of different sizes and mix up the cutlery.

Of course now she does it for a lark just to annoy me. She's so funny.

People (but in my experience this is women) who can't load the dishwasher properly.

17 minutes ago, SaintRam said:

I've always been surprised Chesterfield aren't covered as much as Burton are, even before I knew Burton's in Staffordshire. We should petition. 

It's just geography surely.

Chesterfield FC is normally covered on Radio Sheffield - presumably due to the geographical proximity and Burton is the closest other league team to Derby (ignoring Nottingham, obviously). Stoke is probably closer than Chesterfield and we wouldn't want them on RD.

Also, it's radio Derby, not Derbyshire.

11 hours ago, G-Ram said:

The local 'powerlifting teams' that got to the gym... These powerlifting teams usually consists of three or four 18year olds in river island vests wearing a pair if toms all round one machine lifting weights my nan could lift whilst playing on their phones/ taking pictures on each other 

i hope they drop a weight on their foot 

And they all always "skip leg day". Some of them at my gym look ridiculous 

Americanisms:

Saying May 6 instead of 6th May or May the 6th. Especially bad on film & Sport adverts

When did TV series' become seasons instead?. I hate that rather a lot.

Black Friday - for being a pointless American shopping import that just ***** up Christmas for the retailers and a stupid "brand" again.

34 minutes ago, JoetheRam said:

Oh yes! No longer do I have to confine my ire to the Tony Pulis' hat thread.

- Music being whittled down to 'the top 50 tracks of all time', 'the top 100 songs of the last 20 years', '30 riffs by Eric Clapton that influenced music in the 90's' type lists. Revisionist, look how cool I am b*llocks.

- People, good friends, co-workers who like really rubbish films. I mean yes we could go and watch the Fast and the Furious 17 or we could watch the new Scorsese.

- Being in a group of people, usually on holiday, that can't decide where to go for dinner and end up walking around for half an hour. No, I don't want to go to Rome and have a McDonalds.

- Preachy vegans... otherwise known as 99% of vegans.

- 'So called Islamic State'. What the f**k is that cop out? Just say Islamic State, it's definitely a legitimate organisation at this point in time. The BBC trying to pretend it isn't, isn't going to change things.

- When Redcar became Redka to all news correspondents. Another victim of Matt Smith disease.

- People who don't even try and pronounce long words/names correctly. Saying 'whatever that word is' makes you sound more of a moron .

- The housing crisis. Seriously. Stop building 4 bed semis for £380,000 and build some nice 1 bed apartments and 2 bed houses for less than £110,000. Buy-to-letters can die a horrible syphilis-ridden death as well.

- The five team acca becoming some sort of pillar of culture. When did wasting £10 twice a week become acceptable? You know nothing about Swindon Town, why did you put them down to win away?

- Gym people/fun run addicts. Ok, so I'm glad people are getting fitter, but going to the gym 4 nights a week or running a 10k around Tamworth or some such Northern wasteland every weekend makes talking to you so very boring. Kale and pomegranate flavour protein shakes are not an interesting conversational topic.

- T-shirts worn by aforementioned gym freaks that are 2 sizes too small to show off their biceps. Usually paired with a massive beard, beanie hat, skinny jeans and hi-top trainers.

And breathe...

Bravo. Feel better I hope?

......following on from the annoying people thread

Why does everything nowadays have to be "dubbed as" something.

Just reading on BBC News that today has been "dubbed as 'Super Thursday'" because of the elections. Why?. By Whom?. Why do we need everything to effectively have a Brand?

Don't get me started on why every scandal has to be .....gate?

I realise it's lowest-common-demonator stuff dreamed up by a lazy media copying a USA format but it does my head in.

Zombieland (2009)

Not sure how this one escaped me until last Saturday but I enjoyed it. A good cast (Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg) and entertaining zombie road trip storyline with a very good cameo apppearance from Bill Murray thrown in.

9/10