Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[Yorick]

Eating

It's always been simple. Knives n forks.
Use them to pick up food and move to gob.

But in last 6 months it's changed.
Pick up food on fork. Put arm on table.
Peck forward like a bird to pick food from fork.

A while ago I saw a lad in Brit pub, have his whole forearm on table and head pecking down to eat

If he had any long hair, it would have been in the food.

Strange

[Felix]

Soundbars. LG what had good sound but had limited connectivity so got made redundant and is now in the loft. Bought a Samsung with built in Alexa. This was a mistake. £500 soundbar reduced due to being grey got it for 200. Alexa was way to sensitive and would kick on on any word rather than saying Alexa. Samsung support is fucking wank. Changed ISP and the huffy Alexa could not recognise Virgin Media. That got made Redundant and also relegated to the loft. Bought some non branded one with a wireless Sub Woofer. The bastard is playing up and loosing signal to the woofer FFS. Its next to the bloody bar. No happy.

[Ian]

But in last 6 months it's changed.
Pick up food on fork. Put arm on table.
Peck forward like a bird to pick food from fork.

I am a common person but I always thought etiquette was sit upright and food moves to mouth not mouth moves to food.
And elbows on the table would have got my arse tanned as a kid.

Parents seem to assume teacher's are responsible for teaching manners, they're not and many parents are uncouth. I also blame TV, kids watch Americans cut it all up and start picking and pecking. I'm sure Americans don't all eat that way but it's better for continuing dialogue in a TV script

Don't get me started on talking with your mouth full. I talk while I eat but I don't stuff so much into my mouth that I cannot wait until I swallow before speaking

[Mr. Dazzle]

Yeah yanks do actually eat like that, it's just how they are. You can spot 'em from miles away in the canteen

[Horse]

Parents seem to assume teacher's are responsible for teaching manners, they're not

There are kids arriving at school, age 5, who are not toilet trained, unable to tie laces, can't use a knife and fork. Some can't even talk properly!

[Yorick]

Parents seem to assume teacher's are responsible for teaching manners, they're not

There are kids arriving at school, age 5, who are not toilet trained, unable to tie laces, can't use a knife and fork. Some can't even talk properly!

When Penny was teaching, kids often came in wearing nappies

[Count Steer]

The RAC. 'Because of energy and fuel price increases we've had to increase our insurance cover prices slightly'. Yeah, like +38% slightly. £266!

Been an RAC member since the 80s but that's it, finito. Every year it's the same routine, get on the phone, 'Oh, we can do better than that sir'.

'em.

[Taipan]

I was told today I should try battered chips as they are next level! I had to google it as I didn't believe it, but they are indeed a thing.

Just when you think it can't get worse and apparently you can get individual strips of donner meat battered as well!

[Mr. Dazzle]

The RAC. 'Because of energy and fuel price increases we've had to increase our insurance cover prices slightly'. Yeah, like +38% slightly. £266!

Been an RAC member since the 80s but that's it, finito. Every year it's the same routine, get on the phone, 'Oh, we can do better than that sir'.

'em.

Mrs D was born in an RAC van.

Every time we renew she calls em up and spins that (true) yarn, then we get a discount

[David]

My Uncle David (for who I was named) had a part in the original "very nice man" AA advert on telly. He was the hen pecked guy in the broken down car.
He had Thelma Barlow staying with him a while after that (they were very good friends, in fact at one time in the seventies a head line in the Sun read "who is the mystery man with our Rita".it was uncle David, which no-one in the garage canteen believed.......she was working rep in Bristol, but had an interview in London for a late night chat show for ITV...she initially declined as she was working that night, but they said they would send a car. It arrived...a stretch Granny auto .
Ninetree hill is a very steep hill, so the car pulls up, Thelma gets in, and the car won't come out of Park.
David gets the AA out on his membership, another car is procured, and off goes Thelma. Eventually the AA turn up and sort the car (jack up one wheel, out of Park, apply handbrake. Going through the paper work, the AA guy keeps looking at Uncle and is convinced he knows him. David says no, but he persists. Eventually David confesses his role in the ad.
Within 10 minutes, every AA van in Brizzle is on Ninetree hill, all asking for autographs.
Maybe I should ask for a discount and swap from the RAC.

[weeksy]

"next time on.... "

If i'm watching the fucking program at the end of it, WTF makes you think i need to know half the twatting plot of the next episode before you get to it... Just let me watch the fucking thing.

Then you're watching a prog which has an ad break in it, and advertises the fucking thing you're sitting watching !!!

[636mick]

"next time on.... "

If i'm watching the fucking program at the end of it, WTF makes you think i need to know half the twatting plot of the next episode before you get to it... Just let me watch the fucking thing.

Then you're watching a prog which has an ad break in it, and advertises the fucking thing you're sitting watching !!!

Is that like the weather man/woman who spends half their bit telling you what the weather has been that day,I assume it’s in case you live in a bunker so haven’t seen it! Then they spend 20 seconds on what the weeks weather will be, I’m only really interested in tomorrow’s weather FFS!!

[McNab]

"next time on.... "

If i'm watching the fucking program at the end of it, WTF makes you think i need to know half the twatting plot of the next episode before you get to it... Just let me watch the fucking thing.

Then you're watching a prog which has an ad break in it, and advertises the fucking thing you're sitting watching !!!

Even worse when they do it in-show just before an ad break, and then summarise what you just watched when the break is over. Kitchen nightmares does that a lot. So does Dragons Den, and that doesn't even have any ad breaks!

[Mr. Dazzle]

Loads of BBC programmes are structured to have ad breaks because they do on BBC America or on Dave etc.

That's the reason they made QI XL 45 mins long, so it fills an hour on Dave.

[weeksy]

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The fact I built and maintain this forum and the most active thread is this one

What a fucking waste of my life

[gremlin]

viewtopic.php?t=8492

The fact I built and maintain this forum and the most active thread is this one

What a fucking waste of my life

I like that thread.
No matter how bad my day has been, no matter the stress of modern life and pressure of the daily grind, I can log on, read a few of the posts and think, 'Well, at least I'm re-posting bat-shit crazy conspiracy theories lifted from Twitter and claiming them as proven fact and then arguing to the nth degree about a minor point of grammar that may or may not prove the point you made four pages back'.

Embrace it.

[gremlin]

Those blisters you get on the roof of your mouth from eating food you really knew was too hot but we're too hungry to wait to eat.

Damn you, meatballs!

[weeksy]

viewtopic.php?t=8492

The fact I built and maintain this forum and the most active thread is this one

What a fucking waste of my life

I like that thread.
No matter how bad my day has been, no matter the stress of modern life and pressure of the daily grind, I can log on, read a few of the posts and think, 'Well, at least I'm re-posting bat-shit crazy conspiracy theories lifted from Twitter and claiming them as proven fact and then arguing to the nth degree about a minor point of grammar that may or may not prove the point you made four pages back'.

Embrace it.

Nah, sorry... i'm not feeling it. It's pathetic, like on a scale i can't even comprehend. Oh i wish for the ability to ignore threads.

[Yorick]

viewtopic.php?t=8492

The fact I built and maintain this forum and the most active thread is this one

What a fucking waste of my life

It's comedy genius. Muppets arguing to the death about something 95% of us members don't give a shit about

[Taipan]

viewtopic.php?t=8492

The fact I built and maintain this forum and the most active thread is this one

What a fucking waste of my life

I like that thread.
No matter how bad my day has been, no matter the stress of modern life and pressure of the daily grind, I can log on, read a few of the posts and think, 'Well, at least I'm re-posting bat-shit crazy conspiracy theories lifted from Twitter and claiming them as proven fact and then arguing to the nth degree about a minor point of grammar that may or may not prove the point you made four pages back'.

Embrace it.

Nah, sorry... i'm not feeling it. It's pathetic, like on a scale i can't even comprehend. Oh i wish for the ability to ignore threads.

Delete the thread if it bothers you that much? I started the thread and certainly wouldn't be bothered if you did. Delete the whole section if you want. I found out that nice people up here got sensitive and shouty down there! First time i've ever used the ignore function! I never used to even venture down here but it gets quiet up here at times, so I went to see what the fuss was all about!

Mrs Taipan always says to never discuss politics and money...