Things you hate IV

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by hornmeister, Jun 25, 2019.

  1. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    It’s only four. :D

    A sad reflection now, maybe, but surely initially far preferable to have something so avowedly non-commercial and charitable over the Simon Cowell manufactured crap. No longer true, I agree.

    But now I’m clueless: there are videos other than the songs?
     
  2. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    I actually don’t agree. The charity stuff seems to be a Trojan Horse for this guy’s horrific ego. I’d rather the record companies did their worst and let proper artists like RATM shoot them down.
     
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  3. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

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  4. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Ladies and gentlemen! A very rare and precious treat and not at all like any other year you can remember. Please give a big hand for Ruby Turner joining me for some boogie-woogie where I’ll play the same chords I always do whatever the band plays! Hootenanny!

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  5. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Resign ourselves to a bit of Jools Holland?

    No, not the Hootenanny. Never the Hootenanny. We're better than that.
     
  6. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    I'd rather sit with no TV, lights or music of any kind than watch that repeated and utterly sh*t offering ever again, (Jules Holland).
     
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  7. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Very intersecting @ThomasNar, have you got a link?
     
  8. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    I’ve heard The Kunts are on the Hootenanny tonight.

    With backing from Miss Ruby Turner.
     
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  9. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    What did I tell you? Ruby Turner straight in there…
     
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  10. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Surely most of his orchestra ought to be shielding?

    Ken Bruce on bass.
     
  11. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Happy New Year - “is that it?” is apparently the London motto for this year.

    (For Sky News at least, who usually cover it well but somehow missed the lot this year)
     
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  12. CarlosKickaballs

    CarlosKickaballs Forum Picarso

    I also have not heard of ladbaby and assumed it was a renaming of the corporate media friendly YouTuber that turns short news politics clips into rap songs. Or the unfunny footballer impressionist Sky Sports and gambling companies love to bring in.
     
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  13. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Jools Holland/Eastenders crossover?
     
  14. Heidar

    Heidar Squad Player

    Sir Tony Blair
     
  15. Sahorn

    Sahorn Reservist

    I also had genuinely not heard of Ladbaby before reading this thread.
    Missed any ‘headlines’ in the media, or didn’t register/no interest in who is ‘number 1’.

    Even the name sounds a bit iffy, more like something associated with Thailand’s nightlife..
     
  16. miked2006

    miked2006 Premiership Prediction League Proprietor

    Perhaps hate is a bit strong. But why is Emma Raducanu getting so many accolades?

    It was a fantastic achievement to win as a qualifier, but it was a single tournament without facing anyone relatively difficult, and she’s now getting honours left right and centre. Give her honours when she’s proved it wasn’t a fluke.
     
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  17. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    We can’t help ourselves in this country, it’s the old classic build em up quickly then knock em down. Give it a year or so and the newspapers will be full of stories about her private life, and how she’s upset her neighbours because she wants to put a swimming pool in her garden or something.
     
  18. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    Tennis court, surely?
     
  19. Happy bunny

    Happy bunny Cheered up a bit

    I'm not keen on the way she fired her coaches as soon as she'd achieved something, and then didn't do so well without them. Maybe if she'd upgraded a bit more gradually she wouldn't have reminded me so much of Gino.
     
  20. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    I believe the coaches she had were just allocated for the tournaments rather than long term. What she achieved in that one major tournament was astonishing and unprecedented.
     
  21. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Not everyone likes to take their work home with them.
     
  22. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    But she didn’t…
     
  23. Happy bunny

    Happy bunny Cheered up a bit

    Certainly my impression was that the person who coached her to the Open was promptly binned. If I'm wrong, I'm delighted.

    As you may have guessed, I don't follow tennis, though I did watch that final.
     
  24. Davy Crockett

    Davy Crockett Reservist

    If it wasn't for Tyson Fury's opinions then I'm sure the white liberal Marxists would have awarded him a gong by now given his heritage . Box ticking and all that .
     
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  25. Hornpete

    Hornpete Squad Player

    "Safe standing" at football.

    Very trendy. But not really that good is it?

    Each row is fenced off from the next, allocated ticket numbers. I'm all for safety at football, but generally there wasnt anything wrong with an old terrace until it got fenced in and overfilled.
     
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  26. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    They showed the one at Chelsea yesterday, and yeah, you still have an allocated seat that flips up, the only difference is a railing in front of you. So in reality it’s just allowing a section of fans to legally do what they probably did previously anyway.
     
  27. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    As someone who spent their teenage years on the Vicarage Rd terraces (Red Lion Corner) I look back and don't fondly remember the surges (a couple of times I was caught up crushed against the, too few in number, barriers) and I'm certain that there only reason there was never a major incident on them was the 'lo-fi' construction methods of the things (concrete steps, open to the elements and huge doors that were opened 15 min(?) to final whistle. Looking back, I can honestly say that I would have never allowed any of my teenage children to attend matches on their own if facilities were that dire/unsafe.
     
  28. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    The away fans were also there and crowd control was somewhat rudimentary. Often a line of tape separating fans that then dissolved into chaos.
     
  29. Maninblack

    Maninblack Reservist

    Agreed. Since grounds became all seater, when has standing at your seat been particularly unsafe anyway? I think it's a big pointless fuss over nothing. Most who want to stand already do (eg. in the 1881 section and most people at away games) and those who want to sit already do. A railing in front of each person doesn't achieve anything except gives them somewhere to lean and blocks the view of kids. Why not just say 'If you want to stand, book a ticket for these sections, if you don't, book those sections'? It's not as if we're going back to the bad old days of terracing.

    Anyway, it'll put those who make a living making 'Persistent standing is not allowed' signs out of a job.
     
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  30. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    Standing at your seat is of course unsafe as soon as something exciting happens, like a goal. Everyone leaps in the air and the very presence of a seat in front provides an obstacle to trip over. I welcome the arrival of rail seating, providing people with the option to stand or sit, although I still don’t see how people in other parts of a stadium can be forced to sit. It’s been impossible to sit at a Watford away game for about 10 years.
     
  31. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    Mrs Cthulhu once had to do an emergency wee outside the gates of his house after a friends wedding. He was not happy
     
  32. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    Was he expecting her to "curl one out" as well?
     
  33. Maninblack

    Maninblack Reservist

    Potentially yes, but people leap up rather than forward, if they leap in the first place. I can't say I've ever seen or heard of someone injured by being so excited they've tripped over the seat in front, or indeed been pushed forward by someone behind tripping on to them but interested to hear otherwise.

    I don't think rail seating gives the option to stand or sit - either everyone sits and anyone who stands will be told to 'siddddaaaahhnnn', or everyone stands and anyone who sits can't see. Thus the same as usual. The added problem of rail seating (albeit for tall gits like me!) is if we are all sitting - which I accept is less likely - there is nowhere to put my knees! I've experienced that at Spurs in their away end rail seating.

    PS. Can you imagine Luton putting in rail seating in their away end?! You'd have to literally be a stick to get past anyone!
     
  34. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    Sorry, I didn’t mean giving the choice of standing or sitting in the rail seat area but rather the choice of where to go in the ground to stand or sit.
     
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  35. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    We were at Leicester Royal yesterday for a three month baby scan, while my wife was waiting to check in at reception I could hear a commotion behind me down the corridor. A woman was kicking off because she hadn’t turned up with any of the paperwork she needed and she was either going to have to fill out some forms and wait for her scan or rearrange.

    I had to wait outside in the freezing cold (poor me) to be called in to watch the scan but my wife told me that said woman was asking nurses in the waiting room if they’d come and get her from outside because she wanted to smoke.

    There were a good 7 or 8 pregnant women smoking outside the doors to the maternity building at one point. It was ******* terrifying.
     

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