Bridgford Ram

11 hours ago, ketteringram said:

It annoys me...... When I go to open a door that opens towards me, and someone on the other side opens it at the same time, unknowingly smashing the handle into my hand. It's not that which annoys me as such. It's that I then always seem to apologise to the other person! 

Something annoying happened to me at a door near my desk at work a couple of weeks ago.  I went through and a bloke was coming the other way, a little bit too far away for me to hold it, but I did anyway.  Firstly he didn't make any effort to speed up - I realise there is no obligation on his part to do so, but secondly as he went through the door he made no effort to take the holding of the door off me - just walked through clean.  No thank you either.

I have to admit to hearing myself mutter the c-word.

19 hours ago, LesterRam said:

took my daughter to have her ear pierced, one piercing £33, are they having a giraffe?

Jesus, was thinking of having one in my cock end - might reconsider at those sorts of prices.

4 minutes ago, StivePesley said:

Yes it's the rules apparently. As the refs can add further time on at their discretion (most commonly for timewasting in stoppage time). So the rules are that you can't show added time in case it goes over and the players, and the crowd start questioning the ref's discretion

Same reason they can replay goals on the big screen, but they can't replay contentious decisions like offsides, handballs  red cards etc

Basically nothing that can undermine the authority of the ref's decisions

 

Thanks for the explanation but surely it is the showing of the board giving the minutes added rather than the counting on a scoreboard that risks undermining the ref?

Also, international breaks.  No proper football for a week - and I am not a 24/7 football fan.

If it were up to me I'd get rid of all the international breaks, shorted the season by 8 weeks (or whatever it'd save) and then have the qualifying groups as short tournaments at the end of the season in odd number years.

The fact that the scoreboard clocks in football grounds all stop at 90, rather than count through added time.  Who are they protecting?  The refs?

Forgetting to run the toothpaste on your toothbrush under the tap before you start brushing.

Someone might be able to resolve this for me but it is something that has bothered me for a while.  For some reason a few months ago my iPad started slowly opening the Wikipedia app when I click on a wiki link in safari (rather than just opening a web version of the page).  1st world problem I know but it is annoying.

Watched T2: Trainspotting today.  Loved it.  Lots of references to the original without relying on it.  If you liked the original, you'll love it. 8/10.

3 hours ago, mrdave85 said:

I'm currently working through The Witcher 3 again (GOTY edition was on sale before Xmas), great in short bursts but quickly becomes repetitive. 

Resident Evil 7 has reviewed well it seems, I'm still gutted Silent Hills got cancelled.

I got the Witcher 3 for Christmas  but not played it yet as I am still working through Watchdogs 2.

On 4 January 2017 at 17:26, Paul71 said:

I used to think exactly the same, until I went for a kindle, at first because I always read about 10 books when I go on holiday and it was a pain packing them.

I admit it doesn't quite feel the same downloading a new book as going and buying but it is so convenient and as normally happens to me I fall to sleep reading you don't lose your place like you can with a book.

I read loads more now I have a kindle than I did before.

I'm the same, I used to love books but now I have a kindle I read three times as much.  I must admit though I used to love get books and CDs and DVDs wrapped up at Christmas, doesn't really work now though.

45 minutes ago, eddie said:

Yes, so far I have had 45 years employed and 1 year sick - and the year off sick was preferable to some of the periods of employment, but there you go.

Assuming you went up the chimneys at 6 years old I think I have calculated your age at 51 Eddie.

Getting invited to a wedding.  Bad enough at the best of times but when it is bang in the middle of when you hoped to go on holiday it makes it worse.

1 hour ago, r4derby said:

Same, although none of the same games...let me know how these play, although I doubt I'll be buying anymore games for a while.

I got Batman Arkham Knight, Destiny Complete Edition, FIFA 17, Lego Avengers. Now waiting for my birthday next week so I can get an external hard drive to actually play them all...

Only played Watchdogs 2 so far (at my age I can only play one game at a time due to the control differences).  I've not played this as much as I'd have liked as my boy is playing it too.  It seems really good and is basically a differently themed Grand Theft Auto.

I got a number of games for Christmas, 

Watchdogs 2

Far Cry 4

Mad Max

The Witcher

On the subject of toilets, people who can't aim really annoy me.  Twice I have used a cubicle at work this week (they have got rid of the urinals now) we what I can only assume is pee on the floor.  Now I ain't cleaning it up but on both occasions someone was waiting for the cubicle as I left it.  Obviously they will be thinking I left the puddle.

16 hours ago, Tony Le Mesmer said:

Christmas telly.

Just had a rifle through the tv guide and it's truly shocking.

Hundreds of channels and still nowt worth watching.

Like that most nights really.

Anyone seen anything they will be not missing on telly this Christmas? If so please do enlighten me and if I'm swayed I may give it a try.

Similar to this but this years Christmas Radio Times started on 17/12 and ends on 30/12.  Doesn't even reach new year!

Something that annoys me at this time of the year is when people are talking about their time off over Christmas and say something along the lines of, 'I have only had to book 3 days off this year and I am off for 10 days, its fell really well this year'.

It works like that every year (if you work a 5 day week).  5 days take away 2 bank holidays = 3 day.

Stupid people.

7 hours ago, Wolfie said:

"East Midlands woman upset by Berlin lorry attack" First headline on East Midlands today this morning.

Local news looking for any tenous link to a major news story so they can jump on the bandwagon and tell you exactly what you've just seen once already on the national news.

That bothers me as well.  If East Midlands today can't see a news item out of the window of their studios they just take the approach of creating a Nottingham link to an international new story.

'The plane that crashed in [insert far away country] once flew over Nottingham.'

'Man who committed [insert heinous crime] in [insert far away country] once watched Robin of Sherwood on the TV.

Are probable examples of this.

10 hours ago, Tony Le Mesmer said:

Ran the usual gauntlet of chuggers in Chesterfield town centre today.

One particularly from talk talk.

"Who is your broadband with sir? How much are you paying?"

NONE OF YOUR F*&%#@G BUSINESS!!!

I mumbled some sort of apology for my foul language outburst as i passed but seriously.

I agree, EE collared me twice in Argos yesterday and the AA do it a lot at supermarkets.  These are massive brands but I think the approach leaves them looking amateurish and desperate.

12 hours ago, ramsbottom said:

Your missus complaining she doesn't know the way home from somewhere despite the fact she's been there a dozen times!!!

 

Why has she only been home a dozen times?

11 minutes ago, Chester40 said:

My Doctor's receptionists who have started to ask 'ok..and what is the problem' when I try to book an appointment!  .

How would I know? That's what I'm seeing the Doctor for you cretin!!...

Or am I'm really supposed to say 'well I've got a weird lump and some discharge on my Johnson I need looking at...'

For years I thought all doctor's receptionists were the worse type of jumped up Hitlers known to man.  But in fairness my current doctors seem to have really good receptionists.

6 hours ago, Mostyn6 said:

When you need a dump and it's peak dumping time and you spend twenty minutes walking around the various bogs at work looking for an empty trap to drop the kids off.

We are suffering with this at work at the moment.  Two big offices have merged into one and they are refurbing all the facilities.  The result being that you can now try 4 or 5 different toilets (all with multiple toilets in them), across 3 floors before finding somewhere to make use of the facilities.

It gets quite embarrassing wandering round seeing other blokes in the same predicament.

16 minutes ago, Tony Le Mesmer said:

Have you thought about seeing a doctor about this Bridgford?

If you saw my doctor you'd see her about anything you could :-)

I mixed it up a bit today and did some sprints rather than just distance.  Hopefully next week I'll be able to start cycling to work again (they have been refurbing the showers at work) so I can get back to running 10k a day (I am only doing 5k at the moment).

27 minutes ago, Tony Le Mesmer said:

Getting up when it's cold and dark.

I always go for a run just after 6am and prefer the cold and dark for that.

Documentaries - and Channel 4 are bad for this - that repeatedly show the same clips, especially after a break.  We are not stupid and now days when people fast forward through the adverts its not like we are going to forget what was said 10 seconds ago.