jono

2 hours ago, ilkleyram said:

Oi jono. What about the Romans?

Never did like the way they played football. Eboracum City .. Lower league team stuff, very negative 

On 24 August 2016 at 11:26, Wolfie said:

Having seen local news from most regions, there's definitely something annoying and embarrasing about how Yorkshire presents itself.

What is it with the Yorkshire superiority complex?. Constantly banging on about "God's own county". It can't just have come from Geoff Boycott.

I think it is just a mask to cover their basic insecurity as a people and as a place that has been invaded or visited by more people than anywhere also. Scots, Angles, Saxons Jutes, Vikings, Norsemen, Indians, Pakistanis and Mancunians. Nowhere else in the UK has been so prone to different influences. They are a melting pot and have yet to find their identity hence their overt regionalism and lack of a decent Football club.

My wonderful fun loving dog that insists on digging a hole in the grass right at the top of the steps. 4th piece of home made turf this year. And the little minx won't let me sweep up without biting the brush and barking till I'm half deaf 

6 hours ago, ramsbottom said:

Being overtaken by a Toyota Prius....

I've just realised that particular model is called a Prius .. And there was me thinking it was a Pious 

Lol Paul .. The other delight is .. Wanting you to make the decision .. But woe betide if 

isnt the one that you should have made. 

2 hours ago, Ewetube said:

I much preferred Green Shield Stamps.

I still have a 12v car battery charger that I got with green shield stamps .. And it still works. 

Daft loyalty schemes credit card companies and retailers

save your points, log on remember password "cash in your points for just what you ant"

= a "discount" voucher for something you don't want at a price that you can probably get somewhere else. 

They just want information about your habits in order to sell you something else. I would happily provide this if the "reward" was something useful like .. Money !

Add to that the BS that comes from building societies .. All the introductory rates that vanish very quickly and then they put you on a rate that just about compares with what you would get if you left it under your own bed. Then they send you a letter about this as part of a "promise" to be fair ... so you then go through all the rigmarole role of opening yet another account which involves talking to several eager young people who have all been through the training course and make you listen to all the regulatory stuff several times over. All while addressing you as if you no knowledge of business or commerce and have probably just escaped from a home for the intellectually challenged. I mean, you sit in front of them with a iPhone, their records tell them you have an email address but they still have to ask if you've got internet access ?  They then give you 2 kilos of brochures with all the regulatory stuff repeated again. Look deeper and you see that they have several different current accounts and so many savings accounts that can or cannot be applied for, depending on what account you have or what socks you wear on Tuesdays.

These are money shops they sell money to you at a price or pay interest on money you lend to them. It isn't that complicated. Peoples needs and wants would be much better served by simplicity, clarity and fair dealing .. But like the enegergy companies  there is, in the middle/upper managing level, a self preserving crowd of twerps that need to make it difficult to trade in order to justify their existence. Their Machiavellian games make the lives of the ordinary employees and customers a pain in the neck.  Rant over ...... For now ....

3 minutes ago, G STAR RAM said:

People who believe putting your hazard lights on makes you exempt from the highway code.

But they do 

And on packets of smoked salmon ( no not him ) "warning - contains fish" 

19 hours ago, Phoenix said:

Directions for use etc., printed in unreadably small lettering, in white on a very pale background. On bottles or containers of potentially dangerous contents, you'd think they'd make the effort.

Perhaps not.

The instruction and electrical CE compliance manuals you get with every appliance .. A great thick book with the same instructions in 12 different languages. 

I keep getting calls from an ambulance chasing legal firm. Recorded message which says "we have heard about the accident you was in" .. 

1 hour ago, MB (Wolfie) said:

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

Or "can I get a" 

10 hours ago, Paul71 said:

Ha - i have noticed on here people can get quite upset by criticism of grammar, so it is a bit odd to be criticised for using correct grammar, but yes you are correct while and whilst and generally interchangable, unless of course its written by our american cousins who will never use the word whilst.

I am sure in years to come people will criticise me for using the word 'you' when 'u' has become perfectly fine too.

 

 

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. 

"Innit" 

"aks" as in aks me a question

The Australian interrogative. I.e.  making every statement sound like a question

Metalwork in Functional parts of the body. .. All those snotty nose rings ewwww and how on earth do you kiss with studs and loops in your lips and doesn't your beer leak out of your cheeks when you've got a hole in it ? 

Yeah I know .. I've turned in to my Dad 

LOL Eweram ... I remember an English teacher who used to go barmy if anyone used "at this moment in time"

"you mean NOW boy"

1 hour ago, ramsbottom said:

When someone (ok my wife) texts someone for the answer to a question you require the answer to in the next 5 mins, but will urgently call someone to query if they're doing something in 6 months time!!!

Women who drive with their chest 3 inches from the steering wheel

What about blokes who recline the seat so far they are almost lying horizontal and can barely see through the windscreen .. arms outstretched .. They think they are driving an F1 car that needs a half turn lock to lock, when in fact it's a 2002 Vauxhall corsa 

Naaa don't bother with books when there are plenty walls to express myself on for free. I was very disappointed about the closure of the spot .. Great texture on the walls there, gave real depth to artwork. 

(Message to intercepts dept at GCHQ This is a joke .. I don't do it honest ) 

5 hours ago, Paul71 said:

What you are not telling us, she is only 4.

Nothing wrong with setting them out on the right path at an early age. 

Oh hello darling .. I was just writing a witty post on the dcfc fans page... Now there's no need for violence .. Owch 

My favourite grump at the moment is vouchers, loyalty cards and all the guff retailers give you in the hope that you'll keep coming. Trouble is you have to have them because it all adds up but blooming eck .. nectar, garden centre, fuel points, quad, and even the banks do it. To get a reasonable ISA they want you to have a bank account with another card and with just about everything you have to have passwords, ID, memorable words, secret questions and then when you buy online they want you to "create and account" .. I buy a filter for my fridge .. And I need a password ! .. Lord save me from the OCD data collectors 

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 

1 hour ago, Ewe Ram said:

People who's music tastes are stuck in the past ^^^

Terrible isn't it .. I mean why all that old stuff when you can have that nice young girl Dusty Springfield or those two Americam boys Simon and Garfunkle. 

1 hour ago, Wolfie20 said:

On the tea theme - cafes which give you teapots that no matter how slowly you pour, still dribble down the outside of the spout and half your cuppa ends up as a lake in the middle of the table!

Oh Yes ! That gets me too .. We've been to the moon and can transmit pictures across the globe and we've been making tea in pots for 300 years and haven't sorted out dribbling spouts ! ... Reminds me of a fab monologue by a Brummy comedian some years ago .. He said .."remember in the 70's when package tours got going .. Everyone at the airport lugging their suitcases until someone finally thought it would be a good idea to put wheels on them ? .. Odd that we had a fully functional spaceship before we had wheels on suitcases "

Customer satisfaction surveys ! Box ticking excercises to ask you to answer questions you don't have so they can pat themselves on the back, while remaining resolutely deaf to the issues you do have.

All this mind numbing and obsessive collection of data. It depersonalises trade and makes us all in to numbers. 

52 minutes ago, Wolfie said:

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

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

Thats very funny Revildevil  ... But have some sympathy for us having to have so many cards !

i've got nectar, quad, and garden centre points thing ... and they are all purple 

then there's Boots cos Mrs Jono needs to have points for beauty products .. Then there's credit card normal one, then a bank card, then the other one for my work stuff, then the one for the bank account that you don't want but is good cos they actually pay some interest. Then the building soc bank account that you have to have to get an online ISA that pays more than 0.001% ..  Then my season ticket, driving licence, blood donor NHS euro travel card thing ... I think I am being defined by being a plastic card and I haven't got a single store card either !