Things you hate IV

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

  1. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

    Jetlag
     
  2. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

  3. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Weren’t Stoy Hayward the dodgy ones?
     
  4. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Quaint, almost Edwardian pursuits, it would seem.

    These days, young people much prefer to occupy themselves with sitting on the stairs.
     
  5. Sting

    Sting Squad Player

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  6. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Andersens of course were the very dodgy outfit who went under as a result of a number of failed audits and forced the renaming of their consultancy business to Accenture so as not to be tarred with the same brush.
    I'm used to debating how i plan to treat a contentious matter in the accounts with my auditors. Deloitte won't engage and just point me to 150 page IAS technical docs. We are a bit small for them but one of our investors insisted on a big 4 firm, so I'm a nuisance to them rather than an important client they need to butter up. I am getting round this by telling them I am going to do X, they say they would qualify, so I say OK I will do Y, they say they will qualify, so I say OK I will do Z, they say they won't qualify. Why they can't just say "its probably best to do Z" in the first is apparently because they lose their independence if they give accounting advice...but we end up in the same place by a convoluted route...knobs !
     
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  7. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Is TuT a young person?
     
  8. Happy bunny

    Happy bunny Cheered up a bit

    Points progress 2019/20
     
  9. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    My mother considers me to still be young.
     
  10. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Relatively speaking, he is.
     
  11. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Well I'm older than some of my relatives and younger than others.
     
  12. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Our back 4 appear to have adopted this approach this season.
     
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  13. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Odd indeed if the whole Truth clan were the same age.

    Potentially proof of spontaneous generation.
     
  14. Sting

    Sting Squad Player

    I am older than I once was. And younger than I'll be. But that's not unusual.
     
  15. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Arthur Anderson were pretty terrible.

    I like PwC.
     
  16. HornetMan

    HornetMan Academy Graduate

    Lewis Capaldi. What the f is he about? Bang average music that sounds like a bootleg Adele, and he seems to think he's the funniest person to have ever existed.

    Moron
     
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  17. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    Who he?
     
  18. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    That contrived singing style, like someone straining for a **** seems to be very popular at the minute. Every so often a trend in pop music comes along and that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. While it’s not stuff that I ever go out of my way to listen to I get why artists like Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Beyoncé etc are popular (or rather get played on the radio constantly and mentioned in articles 10 times a second and so become popular) but Lewis Capaldi? Really? Are we supposed to be impressed that he’s ugly and can’t sing? Because there’s plenty of ugly blokes who can’t sing making fantastic, original music. Every song I’ve heard him lending his **** vocals sounds identical and has the same lame ‘my wee little heart is broken’ sentiment.

    Not a fan.
     
  19. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    And while we’re on the subject I can’t believe that Ed Sheeran is still getting away with copying pop songs that were popular 12 months ago.

    I can’t come up with specific examples but every time I hear a snippet of one of his songs I’m convinced that I’ve heard it before, before realising that it was someone else and now Ed Sheeran has made a rip off of it.
     
  20. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    I’m ambivalent to ginger Ed. On the one hand bit of a ****, but on the other encourages speeding around the old country roads around Framlingham which is fun
     
  21. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    Commuting into London, what a bitch
     
  22. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

    The handful of times I have to do it per year makes me thankful I don't have to endure it daily.
     
  23. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Worked in London for 3 years and vowed to never work there again.
    Many more jobs, much better pay, but not interested.
    My working day now ends the minute I walk out of the office, get in the car and stick some music/5 live on.
    Working in London the day starts and ends when the commute starts/ends. Walking in the rain to get onto horrible slow, late, trains, with no standing room, full of wet commuters, sweating profusely under their soaked raincoats.
    Never again.
    And one day there will be a major terrorist incident at one of the main train stations in rush hour. Think of the carnage a machine gun could do in front of those boards at Euston ? I don't want to be there at the time....
     
  24. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    I've done it for 13 year - the first 4 years from St Albans then Leighton Buzzard since then. I don't mind it - usually get a seat and a chance to read, organise my life or (most often) sleep.

    Commuted from St Albans to Watford by car for a few years before that and hated it. The traffic jams, parking and the fact that some people turn into complete arseholes when they get behind a wheel make it far worse in my opinion. On the train and tube people don't hide in their metal box and are generally polite.
     
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  25. miked2006

    miked2006 Premiership Prediction League Proprietor

    I cannot explain to you how much more likely you are to die mangled in some horrible car incident than in a terrorist event at a London station.

    It's probably akin to refusing to go outside because you could be hit by thunder.
     
  26. miked2006

    miked2006 Premiership Prediction League Proprietor

    To be fair though, I do take your point about waiting under the boards. I was tempted to move to Tring, but I didn't want to do the whole waiting and mass scrum at Euston every day.

    I've actually lived in London for the last 7 years and will be moving out to Beaconsfield in a few weeks time, so I'll experience the commute for the first time. I'm dreading it (especially the early mornings) but hopefully it's not as bad as it sounds. At least the Chiltern Line looks reliable.
     
  27. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    It really isn't. At some point in the next 2-3 years something will happen at one of these stations. The density of people passing through will demand it. If it does it will happen in evening rush hour when there are most people waiting for trains. Anyone travelling through every night in rush hour will have an enhanced risk of being there at the time. Ok there are 4 or 5 stations that it could happen at, if not all at the same time. It's not a primary reason to avoid commuting but for me it is yet another consideration. Just walk through Euston and think how much damage 3-4 men with machine guns would be able to do before they were stopped, and how on earth you'd prevent it. I'm not talking about a one-off trip to London or a randon explosion on a random bus, I'm talking about being there in peak time every night.
     
  28. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    A lot depends on what happens either side of the train journey. A 5 min journey to the station and a walk or quick 4 stops on the tube from Euston and it's not too bad. Having to change tube trains and a 20 mins journey to the station and the hassle goes up a few notches....
     
  29. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    He was Malcolm Tucker in the Thick of It and was the previous Doctor Who.
     
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  30. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    I hate this thing that people do, which seems to involve singing in some sort of fake foreign accent, or having that really throaty, forced type of voice. If you ever watch the end of Sunday Brunch they tend to have some millennial pop star doing an acoustic set, with all the fake gravitas and forlorn expression on their faces.

    This guy - I don't hate this song particularly, but I bet he doesn't naturally speak in whatever accent he's singing in here.

     
  31. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Thundercunt.
     
  32. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    From bean to cup, you **** up.
     
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  33. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Yes, one of the more controversial Dr Who characters.
     
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  34. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    Good example, that. Rag and bone man too. He just sounds like a big fat bloke. I can recreate his singing voice by just pressing my chin down into my chest and singing jibberish in as deep a voice as I can manage.
     
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  35. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    When I get shot up whilst waiting for a train home and I drop to the floor, life ebbing away by the second, I will at have your voice in my head saying "told you so".

    P.S. What does your voice sound like? I'll need to know.
     
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