Things you hate III

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by Otter, Dec 11, 2015.

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  1. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Is it just the BBC that does it then?
     
  2. Maninblack

    Maninblack Reservist

    Probably not, but I don't expect it from the BBC.

     
  3. Maninblack

    Maninblack Reservist

    And another thing! BBC Sport's Mike Bushell. You know, the short-arsed 'look at me trying all these weird sports' wannabe.

    Oy Bushell, it's not about you being patronising and rubbish at these things, it's about giving publicity to those who do these sports properly and regularly. Now get on a tin tray and slide down the skeleton run without any practice. Watching him fall off at 90mph, screaming like a baby, that'd be something I wouldn't mind seeing!
     
  4. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Why do you think the BBC are going overboard (no pun intended) about the W Olympics ? Because they are showing it on the BBC. No-one else gives a s*** about a bunch of people p****** about in the snow and ice !
     
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  5. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    I think if you are expecting BBC Breakfast to exhibit Reithian standards of objectivity and journalism, then you are inevitably going to be disappointed. It’s entertainment really, not news.
     
  6. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Chinese New Year.
     
  7. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

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  8. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Interviewing with such vapid questions:

    "How important is the team behind you in supporting you in the Olympics."

    I'd have respected him if he said "A trained monkey could do any of their jobs. They're all easily replaceable and will all soon be replaced by automation. I won this bronze medal on my own and they can cling on someone else's coat tails"
     
  9. zztop

    zztop Eurovision Winner 2015

    Totally agree. The BBC should report the facts and let others decide opinions.

    And that phone to the medal winner was hilarious. The reporter was dead embarrassed when the medal winner let the cat out the bag "She's only 100 yards away over there!

    Equally annoying is the intrepid reporter in his wellies who has to stand in a bit of water to report on a region being flooded. Or out in the wind, when a storm is approaching, holding his/her hat.

    Or that intrepid and brave BBC reporter stood on the roof of the Baghdad building during the Gulf War. Dressed in fatigues, tin helmet, armoured flak jacket and heavy combat boots -nervously looking around ready to dodge a bullet or bomb at any moment. I turned it over to Sky News, whose reporter was also in Baghdad, standing in his shorts and tee-shirt doing his bit in front of the camera. The camera pans back to "survey the scene", to show other media types, sitting around having a chat on fold away deck chairs under sun umbrellas with waiters serving the drinks. It was the roof of a hotel. And there, in the background, standing in from of a camera being held by a bloke in shorts and tee-shirt, was our brave intrepid BBC reporter in all his protective gear, dodging the bullets and bombs.

    Give him £200k a year, he deserves it.
     
  10. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    My favourite is the inane interviewer at full time who asks: “How disappointing was it to miss that penalty?”, or conversely: “Just how delighted were you to score the winning goal in the last minute?” English players normally give a stock answer like: “Yeah, I was well pleased, Geoff, to be fair.”, while the more intelligent foreign player has the decency to look slightly puzzled before giving a polite answer, although he’s really thinking: “What, you want me to rate it on a scale of 1 to 10 or something?”

    I just wish one of them would say: “Well, in my view it was no more than moderately pleasing, given that we were playing Rochdale and expected to win comfortably, but since it completed my hat trick I would rate it as slightly more delightful than the header I scored against Stoke last week which, frankly, was no more than a run of the mill experience. Geoff.”
     
  11. nascot

    nascot First Team

    My office has recently had a gender neutral toilet put in. I don't think it's been used yet...
     
  12. nascot

    nascot First Team

    People that take forever in petrol stations. Fill up, pay and f**k off.
     
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  13. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    Baby on board stickers and worse still the Prince/princess on board stickers, even worse than that the baby image dressed up like some Liam Gallagher chav in sunglasses. Drive properly, stop getting distracted by chit chatting to the pampered little brat in the back and we’ll all get to our destinations safely.
     
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  14. Hornpete

    Hornpete Squad Player

    Just wait 10 seconds for me to sort out my kids, open the drink I took 10 seconds to buy and move my wallet out pockets (cant drive with stuff in pockets).

    The horn honk makes me go slower.

    If you're the person who drives into the space ahead of the people still paying, thus blocking everyone in. You're going to hell.
     
  15. nascot

    nascot First Team

    I hate myself for liking a 'flat white'. Don't like poncy
    That's hardly taking forever. It's the berks that do a weekly shop, go to the toilet and make a coffee etc.
     
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  16. Meh!

    Meh! Pre-Dictator

    I'm sure I read somewhere that the baby on board stickers were initially introduced to let emergency services know if there was a baby in the vehicle in case of an accident.

    Think somewhere along the line it's usefulness got lost.
     
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  17. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    ITV's coverage of boxing. Holy cr*p, who ever though fatboy prince Naseem Hamid would be anything but a car crash? Tips Eubank for the fight then says he should retire straight afterwards.
     
  18. NorthHarrowHornet

    NorthHarrowHornet Academy Graduate

    On a particular note, whilst there are several mediums trying to manufacture emotions for the masses, I can't stand decent movies that have an overriding dramatic "score" to determine whether we laugh or cry. Do we suddenly have Hans Zimmer playing whilst we plough through a bloody cornfield in real life?
     
  19. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Smoking in films. Are the tobacco industry still paying them to promote that sh*t?
     
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  20. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    I have noticed a lot more of it recently and a lot on TV.
     
  21. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    I think it’s now a general appeal not to tailgate on the basis of you may not give a **** about me but please bear in mind my kids.

    People who tailgate within a 2 or three metres at high speed, trying to force drivers in front to go faster or get out of the way should get instant bans imo.
     
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  22. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    I think that it correct,our first aid trainer told us this.
    My particular dislike is being included in the 'Nifty Fifties' what's app group for a county team.
    Yesterday whilst I was on court I received 15 messages from those who could,could not,might or might not attend a practice at Goblin at 4pm.
    Drivel.
     
  23. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    I think you can leave the group. Or reduce / mute / stop the notifications from said group
     
  24. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    Thanks.
    I may well consider it.
    It's not as if we don't communicate via email.
    I use a group chat for a few of my coaching groups but this one seems to be populated by St Albans and Harpenden women talking nonsense about whether they may or may not make a practice with a coach who should have failed his Level 4 exam, but for his influential parent intervening on his behalf.
    The captain also sends me endless emails about what tops she'd like me to order for the teams from Babolat.
    In truth,I think she and some of the team are the problem!
     
  25. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    I think they were first introduced in California as part of "earthquake" response measures in the case of buried cars - something to do with the fact that if left in a dark enclosed space a baby will fall into a very deep sleep.
     
  26. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Calling vile murdering Islamic State terrorists ‘the Beatles’. It’s a wholly inappropriate and distasteful name for them.
     
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  27. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

    For who? The Beatles or the terrorists?
     
  28. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Ha, I thought someone might do that one :)

    I doubt whether many people under 30 actually get what point the association is trying to make about the London IS fighters infamy. It's simply not a good one and why should the remaining Beatles, their fans or their legacy have to even be mentioned in the same breath as these repellant individuals? It's wrong on every level for the band that wrote that 'love is all you need'.
     
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  29. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Snowboarders. W*****s the lot of them. There, I've said it.
     
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  30. Sting

    Sting Squad Player

    Not surprising. There are not many neutral gender people about are there? Could double as a store room.
     
  31. wimbornet

    wimbornet Reservist

    Eh? Inconceivable!
     
  32. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    As a snowboarder you are probably right. Like posh cyclists
     
  33. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    People trying to join a motorway from a slip road at 30mph.

    People rejoining the motorway from the hard shoulder and not getting up to speed first.

    People sitting in the centre lane doing 50.

    All should have a hefty fine and a 3 month driving ban.

    Lorries waiting for a hill to overtake thereby slowing the whole motorway down as they pass the other lorry at about half a mile an hour.
     
  34. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Passwords that require at least one letter, one number, one lower case letter, one upper case letter and one ******* special character! I’ve got a perfectly secure password that I use everywhere but some sites now insist on me introducing a ‘special character’ to the equation. Obviously because I’m lazy it’s always the @ symbol because it’s the first one I think of and it’s easy to find on the keyboard.

    The websites who insist on the ‘special character’ don’t however advertise this on the login screen, so you try your normal password, this doesn’t work. Then you try the same password with a capital letter at the start, this still doesn’t work. It then dawns on you that you might need a special character, so you then try your same password with an @ symbol at the start, at the end, with a capital letter, without a capital letter... it still doesn’t work so you have to reset it but you then have to choose a password even harder to remember than your first one.

    Three months later you go to login again.....
     
  35. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

    a19tgg isn't as secure as you think!
     
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