Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Anyone above school age who calls the game 'Footy'. It's football, talk like a grown up please.
  • Pituophis
    Pituophis Posts: 1,025
    Anyone above school age who calls the game 'Footy'. It's football, talk like a grown up please.
    Yeah, its football now but not for much longer. You should start thinking about soccer. :shock:

    And while I'm on the subject, why despite selecting English - UK on my laptop, does it still try to make me spell everything the US way!? :evil:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Pituophis wrote:
    Anyone above school age who calls the game 'Footy'. It's football, talk like a grown up please.
    Yeah, its football now but not for much longer. You should start thinking about soccer. :shock:

    And while I'm on the subject, why despite selecting English - UK on my laptop, does it still try to make me spell everything the US way!? :evil:

    When you change your computer to English UK you are only changing the key map. If you want the programmes to be in English then you need to tell the programme that. Ie Windows office word/excel etc.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Pituophis wrote:
    Anyone above school age who calls the game 'Footy'. It's football, talk like a grown up please.
    Yeah, its football now but not for much longer. You should start thinking about soccer. :shock:

    And while I'm on the subject, why despite selecting English - UK on my laptop, does it still try to make me spell everything the US way!? :evil:

    When you change your computer to English UK you are only changing the key map. If you want the programmes to be in English then you need to tell the programme that. Ie Windows office word/excel etc.
    Whoa, shockingly off topic!

    We are supposed to be grumbling about the world here, we're really not interested in fixing it.
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,548
    Anyone above school age who calls the game 'Footy'. It's football, talk like a grown up please.

    In a similar vein, the use of the word "poo" by anyone over the age of about 8.

    A completely infantile term the use of which should be restricted to the continence training of the very young. I've even heard it being used on supposedly serious natural history programmes (and Springwatch). Droppings, faeces, dung, ordure, even cr@p or sh!t are preferable.
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  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    laurentian wrote:
    Anyone above school age who calls the game 'Footy'. It's football, talk like a grown up please.

    In a similar vein, the use of the word "poo" by anyone over the age of about 8.

    A completely infantile term the use of which should be restricted to the continence training of the very young. I've even heard it being used on supposedly serious natural history programmes (and Springwatch). Droppings, faeces, dung, ordure, even cr@p or sh!t are preferable.


    You're talking out of your ar*e, it's poop. :D
  • graham.
    graham. Posts: 862
    laurentian wrote:
    Anyone above school age who calls the game 'Footy'. It's football, talk like a grown up please.

    In a similar vein, the use of the word "poo" by anyone over the age of about 8.

    A completely infantile term the use of which should be restricted to the continence training of the very young. I've even heard it being used on supposedly serious natural history programmes (and Springwatch). Droppings, faeces, dung, ordure, even cr@p or sh!t are preferable.


    You're talking out of your ar*e, it's poop. :D

    NO IT'S NOT! "Poo" or "Pooh" never "Poop"! :evil:
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Graham. wrote:
    laurentian wrote:
    Anyone above school age who calls the game 'Footy'. It's football, talk like a grown up please.

    In a similar vein, the use of the word "poo" by anyone over the age of about 8.

    A completely infantile term the use of which should be restricted to the continence training of the very young. I've even heard it being used on supposedly serious natural history programmes (and Springwatch). Droppings, faeces, dung, ordure, even cr@p or sh!t are preferable.


    You're talking out of your ar*e, it's poop. :D

    NO IT'S NOT! "Poo" or "Pooh" never "Poop"! :evil:
    NO IT'S NOT! Pooh is a fictional bear, Poop is some irrelevant American stuff, it has to be POO.
  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    bompington wrote:
    Graham. wrote:
    laurentian wrote:
    Anyone above school age who calls the game 'Footy'. It's football, talk like a grown up please.

    In a similar vein, the use of the word "poo" by anyone over the age of about 8.

    A completely infantile term the use of which should be restricted to the continence training of the very young. I've even heard it being used on supposedly serious natural history programmes (and Springwatch). Droppings, faeces, dung, ordure, even cr@p or sh!t are preferable.


    You're talking out of your ar*e, it's poop. :D

    NO IT'S NOT! "Poo" or "Pooh" never "Poop"! :evil:
    NO IT'S NOT! Pooh is a fictional bear, Poop is some irrelevant American stuff, it has to be POO.

    Not American at all. It comes from Middle English (poupen) and was originally used as a word for breaking wind, rather than defecate. Presuming something is American is just lazy, no wonder our language is going down the can. :wink:
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Just because the Americans have preserved an archaic form doesn't mean they're right (see "gotten")
  • Manc33
    Manc33 Posts: 2,157
    "American pie" was invented in France. :lol:

    "American Football" was copied from the game "Rugby" (+padding +advertising) :lol:

    Here's something annoying... people complaining about Jihadi John "getting so much airtime" then posting a thread about.... him. :roll:

    Watching the news before I said "This is just one guy, right?".

    Yep. :roll: Unless Jihadi John is cloning himself and handing out cloned AK's don't tell me this bullcrap!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,318
    On the subjetc of Pooh and in the vein of this thread:

    The bastardisation of the classics by Disney and the Ilk. B*stards.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,815
    Romeo and sodding Juliet. Saw a bit of a programme by Portillo and he visited Verona. A couple of arty shots of the town and the rest of the piece was about a fictitious couple and the house she never lived in with a balcony made in the 1930's.
  • slowmart
    slowmart Posts: 4,516
    Losing a six pointer to Bournemouth.

    It shouldn't matter but it does.
    “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring”

    Desmond Tutu
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,815
    Instructions. I bought a Thompson stem and the front of the instruction sheet says that I have to read them completely before fitting. The English and Italian bits are fine, the French and Spanish I can have a reasonable stab at, the German I could try and do a silly voice for. But how the hell do I cope with the Chinese? I guess it's Mandarin but can't be sure.
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Slowmart wrote:
    Losing a six pointer to Bournemouth.

    It shouldn't matter but it does.
    It's wendyball so actually it doesn't matter!! :wink:
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Slowmart wrote:
    Bournemouth.

    And Poole
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  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    After My last post it said

    Return to the forum last visited

    But it didn't take me to Retrobike forum it brought me here!
    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    People who drive but don't understand traffic lights. For example, twice this week I've been turning right at junctions where the signal head is a traditional red, amber, green with a right turn arrow. The (main) green was lit and oncoming traffic had cleared but the driver in front stayed behind the stop line waiting for the arrow which in one case didn't appear as it needed a waiting vehicle on the loop in front of the stop line to trigger it. The arrow is only there to give right turners an unopposed turn if there are no breaks in the oncoming traffic.

    At the other end of the scale there are junctions where signs have to be put up telling drivers to turn left only on filter arrow as they appear unable to work out that an ahead arrow doesn't allow them to turn left!
  • Manc33
    Manc33 Posts: 2,157
    eBay sending these messages every single day to a guy that has never failed to sell one single item...

    http://i.imgur.com/AiDpypp.png

    Dummies that are struggling should get sent these messages, they have no rhyme or reason to it and just have their usual cookie cutter approach of "it applies to everyone" lol.

    Nope, I am afraid human beings are individual, each one as individual and unique as the next.

    These big companies take it upon themselves to pretend everyone is the same, hey, you do that... but then that is on a par with a religious belief, where they adamantly believe it, but it isn't necessarily the case.

    Treating your customers like five year olds, great business plan. When companies have a monopoly this is what they start doing. :roll:

    Put this in your title... when you have a fantastically detailed title and can't even fit more characters in. :? How come its all the biggest companies that are stuck in the dark ages when it comes to this stuff?

    Same today when I tried to pay for something on Parcelforce, wouldn't accept the card. This same card has been used to pay for stuff on eBay, Amazon, buying contact lenses, even Spa Cycles accepts the card... but not Parcelforce? Right O................K that makes sense.
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    The wind, the bloody wind
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  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    Manc33 wrote:
    eBay sending these messages every single day to a guy that has never failed to sell one single item...

    http://i.imgur.com/AiDpypp.png

    Dummies that are struggling should get sent these messages, they have no rhyme or reason to it and just have their usual cookie cutter approach of "it applies to everyone" lol.

    Nope, I am afraid human beings are individual, each one as individual and unique as the next.

    These big companies take it upon themselves to pretend everyone is the same, hey, you do that... but then that is on a par with a religious belief, where they adamantly believe it, but it isn't necessarily the case.

    Treating your customers like five year olds, great business plan. When companies have a monopoly this is what they start doing. :roll:

    Put this in your title... when you have a fantastically detailed title and can't even fit more characters in. :? How come its all the biggest companies that are stuck in the dark ages when it comes to this stuff?

    Same today when I tried to pay for something on Parcelforce, wouldn't accept the card. This same card has been used to pay for stuff on eBay, Amazon, buying contact lenses, even Spa Cycles accepts the card... but not Parcelforce? Right O................K that makes sense.

    It's how marketing works (i'm not saying it is right) they could spend loads coming up with clever personalised messages and 2,000,000 different campaigns and offers but at the end of the day blanket marketing everyone with the same message probably gets very similar results in half the time and cost
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    And you can always set your mailing preferences... it's easier than fixing a broken chain
  • Manc33
    Manc33 Posts: 2,157
    As if eBay has "mailing preferences". What sort of a fantasy world is that!

    All they have to do is not send "selling tips" messages to anyone that has sold 10 items or more, or if they fail to sell more than three items out of ten. Thats it, two stipulations, no other marketing is needed. I am talking about not sending messages, it shouldn't be hard for them.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    At the end of some "dramatic" episode of any soap the voice over says,"Anyone who has been affected by tonight's storyline..."
    FFS!!!!!!!
  • Manc33
    Manc33 Posts: 2,157
    Ballysmate wrote:
    At the end of some "dramatic" episode of any soap the voice over says,"Anyone who has been affected by tonight's storyline..."
    FFS!!!!!!!

    In some countries you could look out of your window and see a lion ripping a gazelle apart. Fortunately those countries aren't likely to be receiving a broadcast of our "dramatic" television, so they are safe from it.

    Having every natural instinct we have got left bred out of us is par for the course. :roll:
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  • Manc33
    Manc33 Posts: 2,157
    The news just now talking about tackling "extremism" in the UK. :roll:

    Ranting on about how Iran might get nuclear weapons while we are the allies of the only country to have actually dropped a nuke on civilians - is extremism itself.

    I guess we just do it as a defence mechanism because we dropped a nuke and Muslims never have?

    So we have to try to brush over our own actions and point the finger at anyone that might do what we have already done in the past ourselves. Nice.

    I think Iran has a far stronger case to ask us to disarm than we could possibly ever have in dissuading them to develop nuclear weapons. Anyway its not really any of our business if Iran obtains nukes, or not.

    How come when a guy writes a book about Israel having nuclear weapons he is jailed for 18 years? This wasn't some Palestinian they were dehumanizing (daily routine in Israel and never reported on) he was a Jewish Israeli guy.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu

    "...lured to Italy by a Mossad agent, where he was drugged and abducted by Israeli intelligence agents. He was transported to Israel and ultimately convicted in a trial that was held behind closed doors. Vanunu spent 18 years in prison, including more than 11 in solitary confinement."

    He still can't leave Israel or give interviews, I bet he can't!

    Give that man a cigar, seriously.

    Certain countries can't ever be allowed nuclear weapons but other countries have had them secretly for years? How is that OK if we are all supposed to be equals and you can't be racist anymore and so on? You can't have it both ways and that's exactly why these guys have taken things too far now and people are noticing how one sided it all is.

    Its high time we started treating Muslims like the human beings they are.

    Wake up folks. We're living in a one-sided world and barely anyone knows it. :shock: Yeah because you're not a Muslim, most of them are clued up about this stuff, we just pussyfoot around giggling at it because we can't handle it. People just watch the news and firmly believe whatever it says. Muslims are extremists now? No problem. Iran might get nukes even though we have them ourselves, its OK mental gymnastics and omitting logic entirely is a good thing.
  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    I think you've misunderstood the nature of this thread.
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    DesWeller wrote:
    I think you've misunderstood the nature of this thread.

    I think he misunderstands a lot of things. :lol: