Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,866
    rick_chasey said:

    Things that annoy me - this forum seemingly randomly massively reduces the resolution of some pictures but not others.

    Delete this post - I assumed your blurry graph about vision was a good joke
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,459
    Pross said:

    kingstongraham said:

    You can get a new 50 inch TV for under £300. Seems like a good use of limited resources to me.

    It would be better spent on insuring your home though.
    Do both.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,459
    surrey_commuter said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Things that annoy me - this forum seemingly randomly massively reduces the resolution of some pictures but not others.

    Delete this post - I assumed your blurry graph about vision was a good joke
    Assuming that Rick is cracking a joke puts you on shaky ground from the outset.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,479
    Stevo_666 said:

    Pross said:

    kingstongraham said:

    You can get a new 50 inch TV for under £300. Seems like a good use of limited resources to me.

    It would be better spent on insuring your home though.
    Do both.
    Well yes, but we were talking about if you have limited means.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,321
    TheBigBean said:

    kingstongraham said:

    It's going to be the final straw for cinemas when people realise there's absolutely no difference to holding their phone up close to their face.

    What about the gloriously stupid aspect ratio of cinemas? Although obviously a letter box view on a mobile should suffice.
    Some black tape?
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,459
    Pross said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    Pross said:

    kingstongraham said:

    You can get a new 50 inch TV for under £300. Seems like a good use of limited resources to me.

    It would be better spent on insuring your home though.
    Do both.
    Well yes, but we were talking about if you have limited means.
    If your means are that limited then you have to choose. That's life.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • parryman
    parryman Posts: 153
    People who do not tie a full Windsor knot in a tie.
    Anything else look wrong to me.
    (Bow ties excluded)
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,586
    parryman said:

    People who do not tie a full Windsor knot in a tie.
    Anything else look wrong to me.
    (Bow ties excluded)

    This should go in unpopular opinions.

    Not everyone has a fat neck. Half windsor is better for slim people.
    _
  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    edited August 2020
    People who wear clip on bow ties. Tying a bow tie is no more difficult than a normal tie with the added benefit that you can pull off the Rat Pack look when you have it unfastened later in the evening.

  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,321
    Can you? I can't. I just look like a rat.
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  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    pinno said:

    Can you? I can't. I just look like a rat.

    My wife says I look good in a tux but that's probably because she wants me to buy her something expensive.
  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,561
    pinno said:

    Can you? I can't. I just look like a rat.

    Some of us have *it*... :-)

    I used to wear one often, and if you can tie shoelaces, you should be able to manage a bow tie.

    Clip-on are just hideous.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,479
    shortfall said:

    People who wear clip on bow ties. Tying a bow tie is no more difficult than a normal tie with the added benefit that you can pull off the Rat Pack look when you have it unfastened later in the evening.

    I used to go to black tie events a couple of times a year with my wife's friend and her then husband. He used to use a ready tied one and take a self-tie to wear undone after the meal but then he was a complete d1ck. It can be a bit fiddly doing one until you get used to it but ultimately it's just tying a shoe lace on your neck and looks so much better.
  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    Pross said:

    shortfall said:

    People who wear clip on bow ties. Tying a bow tie is no more difficult than a normal tie with the added benefit that you can pull off the Rat Pack look when you have it unfastened later in the evening.

    I used to go to black tie events a couple of times a year with my wife's friend and her then husband. He used to use a ready tied one and take a self-tie to wear undone after the meal but then he was a complete d1ck. It can be a bit fiddly doing one until you get used to it but ultimately it's just tying a shoe lace on your neck and looks so much better.
    I think it's because most kids have to wear a tie at school and their dad (usually) teaches them how to do it and it stays with them forever, whereas bow ties are something most of us only wear occasionally and never get shown the technique. I had to watch YouTube to learn and admittedly it helps to have a mirror to get it looking just right, but they just look so much better than a clip on.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    We were watching Line of Duty and Hastings removed his clip-on tie.

    Miss6899 pauses it, turns to me: "He's wearing a clip-on tie!?"

    To which I explained, of course he is. It prevents Dan the Dagger Man from Dagenham from garotting the police officer with his own clothing.
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  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,385
    Pross said:

    shortfall said:

    People who wear clip on bow ties. Tying a bow tie is no more difficult than a normal tie with the added benefit that you can pull off the Rat Pack look when you have it unfastened later in the evening.

    I used to go to black tie events a couple of times a year with my wife's friend and her then husband. He used to use a ready tied one and take a self-tie to wear undone after the meal but then he was a complete d1ck. It can be a bit fiddly doing one until you get used to it but ultimately it's just tying a shoe lace on your neck and looks so much better.
    I tie my own and always have. It is the one and only time I ever get pins and needles in my arms/hands when tying a bow tie . . .

    It really is just tying a bow
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  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    The "canned" applause being played during the BBC snooker world championship coverage. Stop it, it's sh.it and adds nothing to the atmosphere.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,321
    I don't get that on Eurosport.
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  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    pinno said:

    I don't get that on Eurosport.

    I prefer the BBC commentary so I'll just have to live with it I suppose. The consolation is they have that fit bird in the studio 😉
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,321
    She is.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,623
    rick_chasey said:

    orraloon said:

    rick_chasey said:

    People who think Flemish is different to Dutch.

    Bzzzt. Cultural appropriation alert. Bring in the Thought Police.

    Anyway, language pronunciation is different. Innit.
    Yeah not many people say people up North speak a different language to English however.
    Scots is a language, according to some scholars... in Scotland.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,738
    First.Aspect said:

    rick_chasey said:

    orraloon said:

    rick_chasey said:

    People who think Flemish is different to Dutch.

    Bzzzt. Cultural appropriation alert. Bring in the Thought Police.

    Anyway, language pronunciation is different. Innit.
    Yeah not many people say people up North speak a different language to English however.
    Scots is a language, according to some scholars... in Scotland.
    Visit some farm workers in Aberdeenshire and I challenge you to call it English. 😉
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  • thistle_
    thistle_ Posts: 7,144
    shortfall said:

    mrfpb said:

    parryman said:

    Massive televisions.

    If you _need_ a 70" TV in your lounge, you actually need to look in the mirror and have a word with yourself.

    If it has a built in camera, you can have a really, really good look at yourself.
    If it has a built in camera be careful if you're having a wa.nk whilst watching porn on your smart TV.
    Like the person in Blackpool with their massive 70 inch TV facing their massive first floor windows and the curtains/blinds open so everyone could see what a big TV they had, but watching 50 shades on it :blush:


  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    thistle_(mbnw) said:

    shortfall said:

    mrfpb said:

    parryman said:

    Massive televisions.

    If you _need_ a 70" TV in your lounge, you actually need to look in the mirror and have a word with yourself.

    If it has a built in camera, you can have a really, really good look at yourself.
    If it has a built in camera be careful if you're having a wa.nk whilst watching porn on your smart TV.
    Like the person in Blackpool with their massive 70 inch TV facing their massive first floor windows and the curtains/blinds open so everyone could see what a big TV they had, but watching 50 shades on it :blush:


    Haha! There's something similar doing the rounds on WhatsApp where a bloke thinks he's logged out of a zoom meeting and proceeds to pleasure himself as his shocked colleagues look on 😀
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,623
    pblakeney said:

    First.Aspect said:

    rick_chasey said:

    orraloon said:

    rick_chasey said:

    People who think Flemish is different to Dutch.

    Bzzzt. Cultural appropriation alert. Bring in the Thought Police.

    Anyway, language pronunciation is different. Innit.
    Yeah not many people say people up North speak a different language to English however.
    Scots is a language, according to some scholars... in Scotland.
    Visit some farm workers in Aberdeenshire and I challenge you to call it English. 😉
    https://doriccolumns.wordpress.com/welcome/doric-dialect/
    The clue is in the name there though. "Dialect".

    There is a similar debate over Amerindian creoles. If you've ever had that spoken to you (which I have, briefly) it is extremely disconcerting - a bit like listening to Les Dawson play the piano (same notes, just not the right order). Hard to argue that it isn't another language, but it isn't apparently.

    Any more so than Scots, which the mainstream regards as a pretty much dead dialect (spoken only on Burn's night in a misguided attempt to celebrate Vogon poetry).
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    thistle_(mbnw) said:

    shortfall said:

    mrfpb said:

    parryman said:

    Massive televisions.

    If you _need_ a 70" TV in your lounge, you actually need to look in the mirror and have a word with yourself.

    If it has a built in camera, you can have a really, really good look at yourself.
    If it has a built in camera be careful if you're having a wa.nk whilst watching porn on your smart TV.
    Like the person in Blackpool with their massive 70 inch TV facing their massive first floor windows and the curtains/blinds open so everyone could see what a big TV they had, but watching 50 shades on it :blush:


    Slight tangent, but this reminded me that there's a front room in Primrose Hill ("living quarters" generally on 1st floor)... if you look up, after dark and they happen to have the curtains open/lights on, you can quite clearly see that they're huge* fans of Mao Zedong.

    *one of the largest painted portraits I've seen
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    pblakeney said:

    First.Aspect said:

    rick_chasey said:

    orraloon said:

    rick_chasey said:

    People who think Flemish is different to Dutch.

    Bzzzt. Cultural appropriation alert. Bring in the Thought Police.

    Anyway, language pronunciation is different. Innit.
    Yeah not many people say people up North speak a different language to English however.
    Scots is a language, according to some scholars... in Scotland.
    Visit some farm workers in Aberdeenshire and I challenge you to call it English. 😉
    https://doriccolumns.wordpress.com/welcome/doric-dialect/
    Fit ur ye an aboot?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,738
    bompington said:

    pblakeney said:

    First.Aspect said:

    rick_chasey said:

    orraloon said:

    rick_chasey said:

    People who think Flemish is different to Dutch.

    Bzzzt. Cultural appropriation alert. Bring in the Thought Police.

    Anyway, language pronunciation is different. Innit.
    Yeah not many people say people up North speak a different language to English however.
    Scots is a language, according to some scholars... in Scotland.
    Visit some farm workers in Aberdeenshire and I challenge you to call it English. 😉
    https://doriccolumns.wordpress.com/welcome/doric-dialect/
    Fit ur ye an aboot?
    I should have added, in a hotel bar, and they were drunk. 🧐
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  • FreddieVonRost
    FreddieVonRost Posts: 261
    bompington said:

    pblakeney said:

    First.Aspect said:

    rick_chasey said:

    orraloon said:

    rick_chasey said:

    People who think Flemish is different to Dutch.

    Bzzzt. Cultural appropriation alert. Bring in the Thought Police.

    Anyway, language pronunciation is different. Innit.
    Yeah not many people say people up North speak a different language to English however.
    Scots is a language, according to some scholars... in Scotland.
    Visit some farm workers in Aberdeenshire and I challenge you to call it English. 😉
    https://doriccolumns.wordpress.com/welcome/doric-dialect/
    Fit ur ye an aboot?
    Que?
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,623
    FreddieVonRost said:

    bompington said:

    pblakeney said:

    First.Aspect said:

    rick_chasey said:

    orraloon said:

    rick_chasey said:

    People who think Flemish is different to Dutch.

    Bzzzt. Cultural appropriation alert. Bring in the Thought Police.

    Anyway, language pronunciation is different. Innit.
    Yeah not many people say people up North speak a different language to English however.
    Scots is a language, according to some scholars... in Scotland.
    Visit some farm workers in Aberdeenshire and I challenge you to call it English. 😉
    https://doriccolumns.wordpress.com/welcome/doric-dialect/
    Fit ur ye an aboot?
    Que?
    What are you on about.

    Dinnae ken.

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