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The way radio current affairs programs constantly lose lines to guests. I don't mean a line to war torn Ukraine or some bloke studying penguins sitting on an ice flow in Antarctica, I mean to an MP in Dorking or as in Today today when they lost the line to Bernie Sanders in their flippin Manchester studio....I mean how difficult can it be to get a solid telephone line sorted in 2024, they've been around since the 1870s, its not exactly new technology.
The way radio current affairs programs constantly lose lines to guests. I don’t mean a line to war torn Ukraine or some bloke studying penguins sitting on an ice flow in Antarctica, I mean to an MP in Dorking or as in Today today when they lost the line to Bernie Sanders in their flippin Manchester studio….I mean how difficult can it be to get a solid telephone line sorted in 2024, they’ve been around since the 1870s, its not exactly new technology.
In a similar way, but even less professionally done because they are only on for a few sentances, but the standard radio call-in-er. they are never the right volume.
the producer is sitting in front of a console with more buttons than Houston mission control. surely one of those buttons is "external input volume up"?
I mean how difficult can it be to get a solid telephone line sorted in 2024, they’ve been around since the 1870s, its not exactly new technology.
Ha! We’ve been refused a telephone line in the past because “we don’t have any capacity in your area.”
Just rebuilt our house and the building code or whatever says we had to have provision for a landline, so there’s cable into the house for something we will never ever use.
I've currently got labyrinthitis, any noise is making me irrationally angry, very angry. Combined this with the prospect of being stuff in a Butlins chalet with my in laws for a weeks and I think I'm about to go all falling down.
I came here to post "irrationally cross."
When I woke up this morning I lay there for a couple of minutes being cross about a bloke stole who something from me, and going over what I could've/should've done instead... in a dream I'd just had.
Probably been covered before but the use of obviously as a filler word when speaking. If it was obvious then you wouldn't be explaining it would you?
Radio 6. That background music that fades in and out as the host chats away, namely Steve lemacq etc. Does my head in! Must be getting old.
The fact I'm acting up to a "leadership role" (the term is a whole other post) I've been doing it for a year. Not one person thinks I've done a bad job, in fact I'm hearing really positive things from people who aren't in my dept. Yet tomorrow I find out if our previous ineffectual boss drop back into post which means we go back to trundling along under disillusioned leadership.
Chuffing raging.
The use of do / doing / done as a lazy word in a sentence. "Have you done Coed y Brenin?" Have I done what to it? Have a I ridden at? Have I visited?
People vaping especially grown men. It makes the 'vaper' look ridiculous with all the plumes of whatever it is they exhale. To me they look like giant babies sucking on a pacifier.
Gone are the days of Cary Grant-esque men charming ladies in Monte Carlo whist smoking.....somehow telling an Austrian beauty that your vape is Bubble Gum flavour just isn't quite the same! 😀
I'm with @NickC on other peoples dogs. It's not that i'm anti dog, i just don't want them jumping up on my usually clean clothes!
Honestly, whilst "not at all" would be my first choice, I'd rather accidentally get a faceful of someone else's dewberry steam than cigarette smoke. Considerably less litter (though non-zero) tossed onto the floor as well.
I'd question the litter point Cougar. I see plenty of disposable vapes dumped on the street. All that plastic with a battery in it just thrown on the ground. Plus the foil wrapper it originally came in along with the cardboard outer box. Ridiculously wasteful.
We've had two fires in bins at school from vapes, one inside that was dampened by home ec scones someone binned. One outside dampened by dog shit bags that landed on it. Both got to the level of making a lot of smoke.
Zwifts forced updates.
You get ready to ride. Open Zwift...Zwift needs to update before you can continue. 20 mins later...
Referring to 17,18 and 19 years olds as "teens".
The term "teen" in general.
Thank goodness it was not in general use when The Adverts were about.
I’d question the litter point Cougar. I see plenty of disposable vapes dumped on the street.
As I said, it's non-zero, yes. I've seen plenty of vape parts dumped on the floor also, but they pale into insignificance compared with cigarette butts. I'm nipping to the shop shortly, I'll do a count.
We’ve had two fires in bins at school from vapes,
Fires in the ashtray hopper thing in the smoking shelter at my old workplace were a common occurrence. I used to go out with a jug of water to extinguish it maybe once a month. Some halfwit would have jammed an empty cig carton or a tissue in there, then people would be walking through the office casually going "looks like the smoking shelter's on fire again." WTF?
I've nothing against smoking in general, what people do to themselves is their own concern. I was opposed the smoking ban in pubs because whilst it benefitted me personally it felt to me like the pub was the one place where you should be able to do something mildly illicit like drinking, gambling or smoking.
But inconsiderate smokers make me cross in a way that I cannot truthfully describe as disproportionate and there's a lot of them. They ping a butt across the pavement, it's "just one tiny little butt," amirite? But they smoke 20 a day and so do all their mates, we're going to need a calculator. Use a bin, use an ashtray, if you're out in the sticks then take something to put them in. An ex was a smoker, she carried an empty fag packet to put the dog ends into. This shouldn't be difficult for grown-ass adults.
People that squeeze the tea bag.
Thanks a lot. You've just made my tea undrinkable.
Maniacs 😡
It's probably been mentioned already but people who drive like maniacs round car parks, like the twonk who came screaming round the corner in Lidl earlier and had to do a full emergency stop procedure so as not to wipe out me and my trolley, I nearly jumped out of my skin, git.
Bastard toilet seats. Both of them in our house specifically. Stay fitted properly for a week, then a slowly increasing wobble until it slides sideways spectacularly. But not enough to actually break and need replacing. Then the refit/tighten-up cycle starts again.
If anyone has a recommendation for one that stays put I'd be grateful.
"If anyone has a recommendation for one that stays put I’d be grateful."
PTFE tape or some sort of thread lock on the threads?
If anyone has a recommendation for one that stays put I’d be grateful.
Asian or African squat hole.
HTH.
Or just stop with the wiggly bum?
"packet to put the dog ends into. This shouldn’t be difficult for grown-ass adults"
Chap I used to climb with some years ago, kept a 35mm film canister in his pocket for precisely that reason. I think he's given up smoking since, and probably buying 35mm film too, to be honest
Edit - the quote bit has gone AWOL now, ffs
"some sort of thread lock on the threads?"
Forum moderator?
Gareth Wyn Jones being the UK media's go to voice of Wales and Welsh farming
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If anyone has a recommendation for one that stays put I’d be grateful.
I put two of the IKEA Kullarna ones in ours some years ago. They’ve been the best of a bad bunch.
Referrals to people as "young people".
You are either a child or an adult.
Frying pans without lids.
No bloody use at all.
When on the motorway people who when overtaking you come to within three feet of your bumper, then slink around you like a cat brushing past, I tell you what, why not just pull out a sensible distance behind me, pass me and pull in when you're a sensible distance in front of me and not two foot from my ****ing bonnet.
Simon Caldwell.
Wins awards for stating the bleeding obvious and gets wheeled out every time some non event happens to air travel.
Is there really no one else?
Yes, I mentioned Simon a while back.
He grates me badly.
Not completely sure why.
People who use screws outside that aren't rust resistant. I really love removing 10 screws above my head from rotten fibreboard with heads that have rusted out.
You'd be better off using a screwdriver.
Can't believe this thread has dropped to the bottom of page 3, you lot are getting far too tolerant. Mine for today.
Cafes and restaurants that think having a plate of cold cooked food on display, complete with congealed grease will make you think 'nom nom, I'm having that!
I'm sat bored in Lisbon airport departures and just glimpsed a fine example of the genre whilst grabbing a coffee. The glistening, cold fried egg in particular on a hideous looking breakfast made me do a mini retch. In what world is that a good marketing strategy?
People who have zero spatial awareness.
We have been going through weeks of roadworks here as they replace all the gas mains in the area, moving in stages around the local roads. Driving around during the school run is even more infuriatingly mind-boggling than usual 😡
Someone with a tiny Aygo or something sitting there clogging up the entire road because they can't fit their car through the gap... FFS you could fit a bus through there, sideways!
Actually I'm going to stop here because if I type everything frustrating about local drivers then STW's servers will probably crash and Google will run out of drive space.
Oh ok one more... where they're working on a small section of the cycle lane at the edge of the main road and have put up "cyclists dismount" signs.
Stupid, pointless and even dangerous IMO. What, instead of moving slightly to the right and joining the traffic (there's plenty of space, plus any normal cyclist would be there anyway due to potholes in the cycle lane but that's another story) then cyclists should get of and wheel the bike through the narrow gap left for pedestrians, blocking the entire pathway? The entire section closed is probably less than 10m long anyway, on a clear stretch of road!
This probably is not even disproportionate... y'know if it's still there I think I'll take a photo and complain to the council or Cadent, whoever did this particular one.
People who have zero spatial awareness.
This, but on foot. I genuinely don't understand how people can reach the age they do and be totally oblivious to the world around them. Unless you've actually got a disability, how hard can it be to walk in a ****ing straight line? Two people on a pavement / towpath / shopping aisle three metres wide and I'm doing the Ministry of Silly Walks trying to get past the docile bastards.
Two people on a pavement / towpath / shopping aisle three metres wide and I’m doing the Ministry of Silly Walks trying to get past the docile bastards.
When I rule the world they'll need walking licenses. Gits.
I’ll just drop this in here…
Report it. Thats illegal.
the absolute throbber that sits a few feet away from me, who starts to inhale when his mug of tea is around 5 or 6 inches away from his mouth, until it makes contact, which then produces a horrible slurping noise. Rinse and repeat until the mug is empty.
Thankfully he only has around 8 mugs a day...... some ****in people..... grrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaahhhhhhyouidiot.
Thats in between picking his nose and wiping it on the thigh of his trousers. Burn in hell pal, burn in hell.