Things you hate IV

On a random note, I've recently started reading your posts in a broad Leicester accent in my head. Is that the case in reality?

My wife's from Derby and her sister lives in East Leake near Loughborough, so I've had many years of enjoying the East Midlands accent and repeating it back to them.

 

Yeah I’m Loughborough and I am indeed cursed a loveleh Luffbra accent me duck.

 

Do you say "shoo-ut!" when Vardy gets a goal scoring opportunity?

 

At least with the Derby accent, like your good lady wife, you’re approaching the lovely, soothing tones of the Yorkshire accent. Proper Leicester is just a mixture of estuary and brummie and it’s a bloody nightmare. It makes you (one) sound thick, it’s probably why there’s not that many famous people from Leicester.

Things I hate? My accent.

I do love Leicester and Leicestershire though, it’s an underrated county.

 

People who don't invert the z axis on computer games are backwards.

 

Sports personality of the year. The whole concept to start with, then the ******* montages with what passes for almost slam poetry over the top "a summer game, two teams, mighty warriors, a field of green, bowlers and batsmen...."
Lineker and Gabby speaking to some ****, minority sportsperson whose event has a following in double digits, just for inclusivity.

The whole debacle is just awful.

 

Sports Personality of the Year (never SPOTY) used to be great years ago when the BBC could afford to cover all the major sporting events and then some. Now it’s just pointless. I even forgot it was on yesterday.

 

Christmas songs in the office, eurgh.

 

‘Ready for Christmas?!’

**** off.

 

Exactly. It’s not for another four days yet.

 

Spending £40 on a console game and then you have to spend more money online to access more features. It makes the board game Monopoly look like a communist's game in comparison.

 

Working on Boxing Day

 

What I hate more than this is the sad acts that buy those add ons, making it viable for the business model to prosper.

 

I thought it was bad enough with mobile games. I don't have a console, but it used to be that you could either get a slimmed down game with loads of adverts for free or pay a one off to own one. Nowadays you run out of coins, jewels or need to buy power ups to proceed. I don't want to play an RPG where I create my own character and develop them, I just want to play a golf game on the toilet or the train.

 

Yes yes yes. This.
What does "sports personality" actually mean ? It's basically a BBC award for the sports person you like the most. Utterly pointless and meaningless yet the BBC treat it like it's the pinnacle of any sportspersons' career with the tension of their build up. I'd love to see someone "win" it and then tell them to stick their trophy up their a*se. Really, who gives a s*** who wins such an award ?

 

Golf Clash?

 

The disappearance of the news embargo. "Today the PM will say that...."

Unlike Jez, I didn't watch the Queen's Speech but the reports I've read were pretty much the same as the trailers I saw the day before.

 

Christmas telly. The usual shyte, only more of it.

Crap films, crap end-of-year reviews and crap Christmas 'specials' of most other programmes (read: extended episodes with less quality, crap Christmas-related storylines and lots of padding. Even Gavin & Stacey had a five minute rendition of 'Fairy Tale of New York' by the cast halfway through that added nothing.

Got all of those 'end-of-the-decade' reviews in the next week or so to look forward to. Great.

 

Mmmm, not necessarily. Because we speak in decades as the 90's, 80's etc, we could/should end decades at the year ending in 9.

https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/decade.html

 

Trust a Cambridge man to make a pedantic mathematical point.

 

It was true to the characters but didn't add anything to the story. I agree that it was the only decent thing on.

As for when a decade begins & ends, 2019 is the end of this decade. If we refer to the 80s for example, 1980 itself is not part of the 70s, thus 1979 was the last year of that decade. I seem to remember similar discussion about when the new millenium began!

 

I've always found Gavin and Stacey to be amongst the weakest comedy around. Like Miranda, but the thing is sentimentality rather than falling over.

Emperor's new clothes.

 

Totally agree. What's occurin? **** off.

 

Yes of course it is. There are 10 years in a decade, the first of which is the one that ends with a zero and the other 9 are the ones that end 1-9, 2010-2019, 2020-2029 etc.

 

Wednesday is the start of the 20s.

But there’s still a year to go until the end of the 202nd decade. The first decade can’t have started with 0, as there was no Year 0.

 

Technically correct, but in reality nobody treats it like that.

 

អ្នកកុហកជនក្បត់!

 

Agreed.

 

Is that one to try or to avoid?

 

I like it. You play against other people 1v1 or in tournaments

 

I believe the next decade technically starts on 17th February. Except in Madagascar where it's 21st Feb.

 

Those packets of sauce that come with a fajitas or ribs etc. They make the pack just a bit wider than the gap between your fingers, meaning you can't get all the sauce out with two hands.

 

New Year's Eve celebrations. Overrated & pointless.