Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,079
    rick_chasey said:

    I have my favourites but I don’t have the Hornby-esq need to rank everything.

    Except WvA.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Gotta set the stall for a thread.

    If I said he’s my favourite, people would just go “ok”
    _
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,590
    skyblueamateur said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    rick_chasey said:

    ugh, spare me the "great man" chat.

    he took two unfashionable teams to (what you would call) Premier League Champions and with Forest won the big one (twice) and in his spare time helped fvck up Dirty Leeds.
    Back to back European Cups when you either had to be champions of your league or the holders. Two leg ties and straight knock out. We’ll never see his like again.
    . . . whenever I hear people talk about Brian Clough I have to mention that I met him twice in the early 80s . . . he was certainly a one-off
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,183
    laurentian said:

    skyblueamateur said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    rick_chasey said:

    ugh, spare me the "great man" chat.

    he took two unfashionable teams to (what you would call) Premier League Champions and with Forest won the big one (twice) and in his spare time helped fvck up Dirty Leeds.
    Back to back European Cups when you either had to be champions of your league or the holders. Two leg ties and straight knock out. We’ll never see his like again.
    . . . whenever I hear people talk about Brian Clough I have to mention that I met him twice in the early 80s . . . he was certainly a one-off
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,079
    rick_chasey said:

    Gotta set the stall for a thread.

    If I said he’s my favourite, people would just go “ok”

    Other people may do the same thing. Plus, the basis of sport is ranking people. A bike race where everyone is a winner isn't really the same.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Sure. Ranking between eras is a little pointless.
    _
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,079
    But you like to rank between different types of terrain in cycling?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    TheBigBean said:

    But you like to rank between different types of terrain in cycling?

    Ha yes. You gotta draw the arbitrary line in the sand.
    _
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    rick_chasey said:

    Sure. Ranking between eras is a little pointless.

    If I was ranking rankings then that would be one of the maddest things I had ever heard.

    eg - who is the current best heavyweight boxer? everybody knows and there i so argument

    now who is the best ever is far more interesting
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,079
    surrey_commuter said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Sure. Ranking between eras is a little pointless.

    If I was ranking rankings then that would be one of the maddest things I had ever heard.

    eg - who is the current best heavyweight boxer? everybody knows and there i so argument

    now who is the best ever is far more interesting
    Do they? Aren't there two contenders to the claim?
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,895
    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Sure. Ranking between eras is a little pointless.

    If I was ranking rankings then that would be one of the maddest things I had ever heard.

    eg - who is the current best heavyweight boxer? everybody knows and there i so argument

    now who is the best ever is far more interesting
    Do they? Aren't there two contenders to the claim?
    There's a pretty easy way to find out which is best out of the two then.

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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,183
    surrey_commuter said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Sure. Ranking between eras is a little pointless.

    If I was ranking rankings then that would be one of the maddest things I had ever heard.

    eg - who is the current best heavyweight boxer? everybody knows and there i so argument

    now who is the best ever is far more interesting
    That's easy to answer. Who would you least want to be smacked in the chops by?

    Clearly that's Mike Tyson.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,079
    focuszing723 said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Sure. Ranking between eras is a little pointless.

    If I was ranking rankings then that would be one of the maddest things I had ever heard.

    eg - who is the current best heavyweight boxer? everybody knows and there i so argument

    now who is the best ever is far more interesting
    That's easy to answer. Who would you least want to be smacked in the chops by?

    Clearly that's Mike Tyson.
    I know little about boxing, but that Wilder chap would be my pick based on your question.
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    focuszing723 said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Sure. Ranking between eras is a little pointless.

    If I was ranking rankings then that would be one of the maddest things I had ever heard.

    eg - who is the current best heavyweight boxer? everybody knows and there i so argument

    now who is the best ever is far more interesting
    That's easy to answer. Who would you least want to be smacked in the chops by?

    Clearly that's Mike Tyson.
    when asked the same question Tyson said Ali
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited September 2022
    surrey_commuter said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Sure. Ranking between eras is a little pointless.

    If I was ranking rankings then that would be one of the maddest things I had ever heard.

    eg - who is the current best heavyweight boxer? everybody knows and there i so argument

    now who is the best ever is far more interesting
    Is it though?

    Like Merckx obviously has the best palmares, but put him in today's peloton and his palmares looks very different.

    Sports move on and what was relevant then isn't now.

    Would Armstrong be a (former) 6 time TDF winner in this era, where the margins for EPO doping are different?

    It's all so contextual it's pointless.

    My grandfather got called up to play football for Holland but he'd get utterly rinsed by a League One side today if he was in his early 20s.
    _
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,590
    surrey_commuter said:

    focuszing723 said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Sure. Ranking between eras is a little pointless.

    If I was ranking rankings then that would be one of the maddest things I had ever heard.

    eg - who is the current best heavyweight boxer? everybody knows and there i so argument

    now who is the best ever is far more interesting
    That's easy to answer. Who would you least want to be smacked in the chops by?

    Clearly that's Mike Tyson.
    when asked the same question Tyson said Ali
    when asked the same question Ali said Ali
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,183
    I've thought about it again taking your comments into consideration...

    Yep, still mike Tyson.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,465
    focuszing723 said:

    I've thought about it again taking your comments into consideration...

    Yep, still mike Tyson.

    Thing about getting in a scrap with Tyson is that he could get bitey. That would bother me most.

  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,931
    Queen Elizabeth is *dead*. She hasn't 'passed' (US) or 'passed on', been 'lost' ("sounds careless", as my godmother remarked), or 'gone to sleep'.

    She's dead.

    At least the French come to the point in such matters... headlines normally read
    "[xxxx] est morte." To the point, and factual.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,465
    Are you sure she's not just resting?
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,931
    People who can't resist referring to Norwegian Blue Parrots at any mention of 'dead'.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,465
    briantrumpet said:

    People who can't resist referring to Norwegian Blue Parrots at any mention of 'dead'.

    Harsh.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,931
    First.Aspect said:

    briantrumpet said:

    People who can't resist referring to Norwegian Blue Parrots at any mention of 'dead'.

    Harsh.

    Do you want an argument about it?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,682
    Piriformis syndrome - it's a literal PITA. Can't run, can't cycle, can barely walk and it's disrupting my sleep. I wouldn't even class it as an injury but it is really annoying.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,960
    edited September 2022
    Pross said:

    Piriformis syndrome - it's a literal PITA. Can't run, can't cycle, can barely walk and it's disrupting my sleep. I wouldn't even class it as an injury but it is really annoying.

    Sounds like a real pain in the ar$e...
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,465
    Pross said:

    Piriformis syndrome - it's a literal PITA. Can't run, can't cycle, can barely walk and it's disrupting my sleep. I wouldn't even class it as an injury but it is really annoying.

    I have this, probably. It is really, really hard to find exactly the right stretch to target it, without also dislocating your knee.

    Although I am still getting pain induced by using a concept 2, I've managed to get it under control for cycling.

    My non dislocating stretch is ankle across thigh, upright seating position with some hefty lumbar support.

    The one lying flat on back with knees to one side and ankle tucked behind opposite calf didn't do it for me.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,465
    briantrumpet said:

    First.Aspect said:

    briantrumpet said:

    People who can't resist referring to Norwegian Blue Parrots at any mention of 'dead'.

    Harsh.

    Do you want an argument about it?
    I've told you once.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,931
    First.Aspect said:

    briantrumpet said:

    First.Aspect said:

    briantrumpet said:

    People who can't resist referring to Norwegian Blue Parrots at any mention of 'dead'.

    Harsh.

    Do you want an argument about it?
    I've told you once.
    I charge by the minute, BTW. Do you want to carry on?
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,931
    Thinking there's a new post to read, only to find


    ...
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    Reading about 'the great Brian Clough' has reminded me now bloody annoying it is that a man who invents the MRI machine in Nottingham is honoured locally by having his name on a tram and most people won't know who he was.


    But if you manage a couple of football teams and drink yourself into an early grave, they put up your statue and name a major road after you.


    The older I get, the better I was.

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