Things you hate III

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by Otter, Dec 11, 2015.

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  1. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Dear oh dear.
     
  2. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    Yeah not my cup of tea.
     
  3. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    My TV in the kitchen conservatory area, it’s often left on and eventually switches itself off, when you turn it back on a massive box appears on the screen saying ‘TV was put into standby mode due to lack of activity’ or something along those lines. I use the sky remote to turn it on and off so to get rid of this stupid box I have to hunt around for the TV remote, or just leave it in the screen until it disappears about 30 minutes later.

    *Why do I need to be told why the TV turned itself off, and why does this pointless message have to remain on the screen for so long?

    There is also another box that pops up when you turn it on that you also have to close down, that says something totally pointless like ‘devices connected by HDMI will be controlled when the remote is pointed at them”

    This comes up every time you turn it on and covers half the screen, again I’ve then got to find the remote to get rid of it. Why do I need to be told this everyone I turn the TV on and aren’t the designers aware that this will be incredibly annoying?

    *I’m aware I could probably turn power saving mode off somehow but I need to find the remote first.
     
  4. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    Is it time for a separate ‘First World problems’ thread?
     
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  5. Smudger

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    Clubs spending a fortune on changing badges much like the pointless rebrands of companies to TUI and their nauseating adverts or Aviva. FC Barcelona are the latest to try and do so. Despite the protestations of their socios. And don't forget these clubs pay graphic consultants and the like fortunes to do so. It just highlights the stupid superficial nature of modern day society as far as I am concerned.


    What utter guff from the club. Modern technology makes reproducing the old badge just as easy in terms of manufacture. Surely everyone remembers the comedy gold produced by Leeds United's new nut job owner trying to rebrand the club.
    https://www.dezeen.com/2018/01/31/s...ds-football-juventus-rb-leipzig-leeds-united/

    How people and clubs end up with the final product.
    https://weareraw.co.uk/work/wolves-brand-refresh
     
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  6. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    I've only just moved up here and any journey is like Wacky Races. The only place they could probably squeeze a by pass in is towards Watermead and Buckingham Park area.

    Another thing about Aylesbury is the lack of decent pubs in the entire township.
     
  7. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    I understand this might be a bit of a niche one but... people who moan about the Foreign Office/government not getting their loved ones released or providing legal advice when they get locked up abroad.

    Whatever the truth of this case:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-45968506

    This comment from his wife is nonsense:

    How are they supposed to 'ensure his freedom'? Send in the SAS? Sanction UAE? Declare war?

    It not just this case either. There's that dozy drug smuggling woman in Egypt and a couple of others in recent years. People seem to think they can just waive their British passport or something and a man from the embassy will turn up and put them on the next plane home. They're crackers.
     
  8. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    A friend of mine who travels extensively worldwide for work got into the habit of always asking the local Embassy/Diplomatic mission about Brits in the local nick, whether he could visit them and is it OK to take them some magazines/newspapers etc. He says that a usual standard response from the diplomats is "...there are x number of prisoners in there and we're certain that [he/she] is getting much more than 1/x of the authority's attention..."
     
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  9. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Paloma Faith. That awful, throaty, fake thing she does with her voice to sound all jazzy. It looks painful, sounds awful and she's the most non genuine person, though I doubt she even realises.
     
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  10. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    I don't think you can be accidentally 'non-genuine'. It has to be deliberate.
     
  11. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Those cartoon strips in certain papers that are simply not funny or humorous in any way, ever. An example:

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    People are getting paid to produce that.
     
  12. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    Alternatively, "producers" crowd-funding to get paid to "produce something" which they will presumably sell and get paid for...

    WTF do I mean - take Jonathan Meades, someone whose work- literary and TV -I admire enormously has a new book idea - but "we" have to pay for him to write it before he can sell it to us...
     
  13. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

    You hate that? Sounds like something I wish I'd thought of.
     
  14. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    The medium must be tough. I mean, I think this particular strip is always unfunny, but with the best will in the world, coming up with a suitable gag, every single day in 3 or 4 panels must be terrifically difficult.
     
  15. YouTube videos that just turn out to be some computerised voice over a string of still pictures.

    The last 5 videos I've watched over the past week have literally all been this type of video.
     
  16. The cost of craft beer advent calendars.
     
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  17. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    The fact that this is a thing
     
  18. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Curl in your beard camra boy. Ale was 2009. This is the era of the craft IPA
     
  19. Hornpete

    Hornpete Squad Player

    Roast beef, but no horseradish in the house, hang on there might be a pot in the fridge... Yes, yes there is you beauty! Oh hang on its tartare sauce.

    Fish dinner, but no tartare sauce in the house, hang on there might be some in the fridge... Yes, yes there is you beauty! Goddammit, horseradish.
     
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  20. EnjoytheGame

    EnjoytheGame Reservist

    I don't know about this particular case but if it is a book being done by Unbound the payment you pledge usually gets you a copy of the book. A pledge of a tenner may get you a copy of the book and anything above that is just helping the project on its way. Sometimes you get a 'thank you' in the book too. In the case of films, you might get your name in the credits or be invited to a screening or whatever if you pay a certain amount.

    Usually it isn't a case of paying for someone to produce something and then paying to buy it.
     
  21. What's your source?
     
  22. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    There are various things available dependent upon funding but in this case it's not even a new work just a collection of his previous writings...
     
  23. bedmond_hornet

    bedmond_hornet First Year Pro

    Last few baked beans left in the can!
     
  24. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    I like the one in the black dress. I think i will dream about her tonight.
     
  25. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    I know I've gotten old because I've started to think to myself - who buys this **** (various music, mags, clothes etc.)? Anyhooooo - who's buying this ****?
     
  26. Smudger

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    Halloween adverts and the way it is being turned into another needless exercise in unwanted consumerism. Thankfully after today that should be the end of them until next year. Also the way companies and have been shown up once again this week trying to exploit young children into using pester power on parents. These companies have no shame. If only politicians were tougher and not in bed with some of these same companies. Let young children grow up without the need to be classified by labels or the feelings they insert into their minds that they have to buy useless labels in order to fit in and feel worthy as young as five years of age.
     
  27. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    I’m with @Meister. Craft beer is ****. Yes, I REALLY want my beer to taste of borage and peppermint essence, you pointy bearded hipster ****..

    Still, I suppose it is better than “alcopops”. Remember that? Two Dogs? Two *****, more like.
     
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  28. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    You've obviously not tried enough. The Squirrel place in Amersham is great
     
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  29. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Although I’ve noticed the xmas adverts have started today, so it’s just swapping one for another unfortunately.

    But yeah, I’ve noticed Halloween seems to have been going on for at least a couple of weeks beforehand with all the TV adverts. I really don’t get why it’s been such a big thing apart from the obvious which is a way for supermarkets etc to try and make money.
     
  30. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    The American IPAs are undrinkable.

    8% & so sour as to strip your teeth.

    King’s new clothes.
     
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  31. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    The FCO has a policy of non colloboration even in serious cases.

    French, Italians, Nordics, it’s all pay to make it happen, get ‘em out, questions for later.

    Horribly apparent in the McCarthy/Waite case.
     
  32. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    There’s one in Harpenden now. Not sure how it will go down with the locals. Is craft beer a rugger thing at all?
     
  33. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Pretty sure they'll drink anything as long as someone has pissed in it or dunked their balls
     
  34. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    That rings bells. Back in the late 90's when my group were doing stag weekends we spent a whole Saturday on nothing but alcopops, (it was one of those stupid rules the best man makes up), I think we were in Torquay. Mid afternoon I started getting very bad guts, by the evening I couldn't eat then spent the night puking and other fun stuff. It ****ed me up so badly that I only just made the wedding 2 weeks later. Evil evil stuff.
     
  35. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    Is it possible, in retrospect that it may have been alcohol poisoning? It does sound like it. Not denying they are horrid drinks

    You sound like a person who says their drink has been “spiked” because they were basically more drunk than they thought they were ;-)
     
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