Things you hate IV

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by hornmeister, Jun 25, 2019.

  1. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    Have been looking at Wales, actually - thought zip world might appease the 15 yr old.
     
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  2. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Or, a really cold manzanilla or fino sherry. Mmmm.
     
  3. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Does s/he like zips, then?

    Chacun a son gout, as they say in Powys.
     
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  4. Maninblack

    Maninblack Reservist

    Pub meals where the items are piled on top of each other, eg. Fish 'artfully' served on top of the chips, which have been arranged on top of a 'smear' of mushy peas. All served on a bread board for some reason.

    You'd think they'd spent lockdown time concluding 'This is all a bit poncey, after all we're not a Michelin-starred restaurant. Let's just put stuff on proper plates with the items arranged simply next to each other'. But they haven't.

    And don't get me started on chips in a ******* bucket....
     
  5. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    I've posted this before, but it bears repeating:

    http://wewantplates.com/
     
  6. Where's Wally

    Where's Wally Academy Graduate

    Use of a superfluous “what”

    “it’s better than what I thought”
     
  7. Ybotcoombes

    Ybotcoombes Justworkedouthowtochange

  8. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    Yes...try keeping the vinegar from running off onto the table...
     
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  9. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    u shore that isnt a NMA fans take out lunch m8
     
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  10. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    They would fly off the shelves at any festival NMA were doing. :)
     
  11. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    People who drive (often in reverse) using the palm of their hand. I would stereotype these people as those who think they are excellent drivers (Dustin Hoffman?) but who may as well write the word ‘co.ck’ on their foreheads (have never seen a woman do it).

    Is it too obvious to point out there must inevitability be less grip on the steering wheel and that this has the potential to be risky?
     
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  12. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    You're wrong about the Levellers being good, but very accurate here.

    It's amazing just how many people drive like utter tools. Driving seems to bring to the fore the rage people feel with as a result of the grievances they have with their personal life and / or standing in the world, resulting in attention seeking, dangerous driving; taking angry offence at anyone challenging them in any way.

    It's pathetic to watch people showcasing their inadequacy so publicly and dangerously.
     
  13. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Dogs that try to shag your leg.

    Apparently there is one at Downing Street who will try to shag any object in sight. Dilyn, Carrie’s dog isn’t much better behaved either.
     
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  14. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    There is a fantastic place in Brighton run by an elderly couple that does freshly smoked kippers in tiger bread rolls. Absolutely heavenly.
     
  15. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    I got served fish and chips like that in Cornwall once. The chips were thick and very regular shaped arranged like the game Jenga. The fish was balanced on top with. There was tartare and peas smeared as you say.

    As ridiculous as it looked, I can honestly say it was sensational. Just perfect.
     
  16. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    People putting two spaces after a full stop. Let it go FFS.
     
  17. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Instant reaction from WFC Forums legal eagles. Older lawyers love a double space.
     
  18. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

    Why do you hate it? It doesn't cause global warming or anything like that. I find it looks neater unless it's a fix-width typeface, in which it does look too spread out.
     
  19. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    I think it goes with a bit of mad-level pedantry. I often ask lawyers for comments on what I write. I sometimes get the text back double spaced. I’ve then got to eliminate those spaces so I’m not presenting the organisation to the World as a den of nerds. Some seem to miss that I’m seeking legal rather than grammar advice.

    In a digital age, it’s plain wrong to introduce unnecessary space.

    I can understand that habits taught at certain schools in the 1960s are hard for some to drop. I mean I still like to turn the plugs off at night as if the mere rotation of the Earth will be enough to cause a conflagration.
     
  20. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    It's a typewriter thing isn't it? Makes no sense at all for people using computers with word processing software. Where I work I quality review my team's written work and it's people of a certain age or professional background who love the double spacing.
     
  21. Maninblack

    Maninblack Reservist

    Some even leave a double space between every word! Heathens.

    My pet hate is the random capitalising Nouns in the Middle of Sentences. It's found more on Facebook and Twitter than forums like this. I know it is the norm in German and in American media headlines, but why do others do it? Is it an automatic feature on some phones? If not, surely it takes more effort to press an extra key?
     
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  22. Ybotcoombes

    Ybotcoombes Justworkedouthowtochange

    I think I have moaned about it before

    why the **** take a perfectly good song and turn it into a hit moody ballad , watching black widow , opening song nirvana smells like teen spirit at 25% speed, with a mournful woman destroying the lyrics - bunch of ****s
     
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  23. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Population hypocrisy.

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  24. FromDiv4

    FromDiv4 Reservist

    Indeed. Population growth is the biggest threat to everything.
     
  25. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Has slowed a great deal. This fantastic documentary explains.

     
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  26. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    It’s an interesting presentation, which I watched some years ago. As I remember, the flaw in his argument is that the one continent which WILL have a huge population increase, due to it being the last to develop, is Africa - the one that is least able to cope with it.
     
  27. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    It’s not really a flaw though. He’s simply saying that once people have access to healthcare, contraception and the means to live, most people will restrict how many children they have. Infant mortality and lack of family planning drive high birth rates.

    It’s happened in Bangladesh, so why not across Africa?

    The only place it seems impossible to reach is the Cabinet of the UK Government.
     
  28. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    I haven’t watched it again, but I thought his own forecast showed a big increase in Africa, so that the world as a whole would stabilise but it would take Africa some time to develop those attitudes.
     
  29. Ybotcoombes

    Ybotcoombes Justworkedouthowtochange

    Don’t worry I understand Covid 20 is a mix of covid 19 and Ebola , planned to take out 3/4 of the population of the world by next Christmas, ordered by the rosicrucians
     
  30. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    He never argues that the problem is solved, only that it can be and is going that way. It’s optimistic, but never unrealistic.

    Rates of birth are still highest in Africa, but have dropped considerably since the 1980s. On the way to four, when it used to be seven.

    They need help to live more secure and healthy lives and it will continue to drop.
     
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  31. The Voice of Reason

    The Voice of Reason First Team Captain

    Watford's current recruitment policy :mad:
     
  32. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    It's a bit meh for sure, but I'm looking forward to seeing what some of them, Dennis, King, Rose, Louza, Etebo, Cucho and Baah can do.

    Survive this year and we can start throwing it around again. And the recruiting is unlikely to be over yet. We just need a few out of the door.
     
  33. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    Ain’t that the truth!
     
  34. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    People banging on about how they are having a 'staycation' this year, when what they mean is a holiday in the UK. A holiday in the UK is a perfectly good holiday. Calling this a 'staycation' is a bit spoilt imo.

    A staycation is surely time off in your own home, with maybe a trip or two?
     
  35. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

    Good point. It's almost as if having a holiday in the UK doesn't count. I am looking forward to our upcoming stay in what looks like a small wooden garden shed on a bleak, desolate beach in Suffolk just as much as I would if we were off to a decent hotel somewhere more exotic. I am... I really am... honestly... it's going to be great
     

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