You always struck me as the sort of person who enjoyed the odd pint in the Saloon bar of your local, while us plebs sampled our poison in the Public after taking the tradesman's entrance.

What about, "running out of gas" and "taking their foot off the gas"? I've heard it a few times on commentary lately.

Are they thinking it's Natural gas, or petrol?

'Overtime' is being used.

My internal jury is still out on the use of "coming off the bench" or "on the bench".

Not sure what an alternative would be, but it just sounds very "American" to me.

Used it not be " in the dug-out?"

People moaning about Americanisms or breaking so-called "rules" of British English. Chill the f~ck out, biyatchez.

Don't worry when we win the Cup this year all the players will medal, then podium to celebrate.

.

All of these should be fineable offences.

Sadly in 30 years living in America I have never come across a Yank who supports us. I did see a boy at my daughter's school with a Wolves hat on the other day, and congratulated him on supporting a regular club. I've met a WBA fan, a Coventry fan, and a Leicester fan. But the rest are all top six glory-hunters

Gedd -da****outtaheeya:hmph:

You can relax, there was a comic strip in the 70s - Scorcher and Score I believe - that was called Sub - He's Always On The Bench.

I remember talking to one of our colonial brothers one night, who had a fairly impressive knowledge of football. That was until he told me he supports Chelsea --- and Liverpool. As any good News of the World reporter would say, "I made my excuses and left."

No, I dont agree with that.
To be benched though... definitely.

Not any breaking rules on their part, the Americans are just an awful sort. Their terms are an absolute shower.

When I flew back to London for the 2016 Cup Final I was sitting next to a young American couple. And as is like me, we didn't say a word to each other until we were on the final into London and you could see Wembley out of the window. He starts explaining to his girlfriend about the Cup Final being played the next day... I couldn't resist and pulled my Palace cap out of my backpack and showed them This got him all excited and he starts giving me a bad time about Pardew - was calling him Pardo-do or something like that.... I say to myself, here we go a Manchester United fan.

Turns out he as his girlfriend were was keen Newcastle fans, and I have to admit he knew a hell of a lot about them, he digs out his phone and is showing me all these Newcastle fan site he is on, and their disdain for Pardew.

Apparently he had never seen them in the flesh so to speak, and they were on their way to Rome, not Newcastle!

I also worked with a young man who was really into Arsenal. He made a pilgrimage over to see them play Spurs when we worked together - I felt sorry for him as the game ended 0-0. Again was very knowledgeable, and we had many a good old chin wag about both teams.

I've found American fans of English teams are very knowledgeable of their teams, but understandably it all sounds like it is from a book... all players names and their history and their statistics. Very much like Baseball box scores.

Example, the Arsenal guy... Monday morning he would say something like, "Did you see Zaha had a 75 pass rating on Saturday?" I usually would shake my head and humor him and say something like, "Arsenal scraped a draw I see". It's a whole different mindset.

Whevs, bro:

That reminds me of a great line by Martin Amis, who was covering a party at Hugh Hefner's: "I made my excuses and stayed"

Yes I have encountered that. Of course I see more of it on these boards these days, and some of it seems to be quite illuminating. But in the end I always think that you need to develop a feel for the game by watching it live; I remember when I first saw John Humphries play for us; you could immediately see that he 'had it.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Humphries_(baseball) ?

14 days of continual rain. There is a poem that starts " I love a sunburnt country" **** off it aint here at the moment.

and another system incoming :(

Could be worse I could live in Lismore ,which has virtually dissappeared.

Pain in the arse, isn't it.

In Englush generally.

One of the very good BBC commentators (might be John Murray) always talks about ‘centrefield’ instead of ‘midfield’.

FFS, no English person should ever say ‘centrefield’ when talking about football.

Not only have you knocked a song from one of my favourite albums, but you have taken 26 years to do it?

It came up on a ‘Women at the BBC’ show at the weekend. Luckily i’d live paused during an earlier performance. After I got really annoyed, I couldn’t fast-forward x30 quick enough.

Much better than forest fires.

BBS obsession with Wordle.


What's next - What's Your highest Monopoly bank balance?

Thanks, Maidstoned.

My highest balance is whatever you start with. Hate that game.

Since you asked.

We keep our microwave oven in a cupboard in the utility. The cupboard is on the right hand side of the room, the doors open left to right on a right side hinge, when open they are parallel to the wall on the right side.

By contrast the microwave door opens right to left on a left side hinge. There is not a great deal of room to stand directly in front of the microwave, particularly if the utility door is left open, and therefore you have to do a fairly awkward reach across over the top of the open microwave door to put stuff in or take stuff out of it. There is a more convoluted option involving closing the utility door, opening the microwave door, putting your item in or taking it out, closing the microwave door, then finally opening the utility door to escape from this labyrinthine nightmare, but who can be bothered with that?

Are you still awake? Then I'll continue.

I have been moaning about this on and off for around five years, generally blaming my wife for buying a microwave with the wrong door opening configuration. Today I decided to put a stop to this nonsense once and for all and purchase a correctly configured device, so that my microwave interactions may be more speedy and convenient. I have lost count of the number of times that I've inadvertently knocked an item against the open door when trying to reach over it and ended up with milk or whatever it is flying everywhere.

Imagine my shock and disgust to discover that 'left handed microwaves' as they are known for some inexplicable reason are not actually produced by anyone - all microwaves open right to left on a left side hinge apart from a small number with some sort of weird top to bottom opening door (which wouldn't help solve my predicament).

So first, why would a microwave with the door opening the other way be called a 'left handed' microwave - why the **** does it matter whether you are right or left handed, it's just a ******* door - and second, why does no ****** make the ******* things?

Could you put the microwave in the kitchen? :angel:

Move house...

You can get microwaves where the door hinges at the bottom.

Repetition on my part.

Spooky and Gala are wonderful albums!

Thanks yes, I mentioned that in my post which I appreciate was long and boring.

Oops sorry I am recovering from hinge orientation blindness syndrome after installing my IKEA bathroom cabinets recently!

Television celebrities who want a bigger house so they get a tv company involved to watch them paint a wall, plant a garden or start a farm whilst they then make more money by bringing out a book about how the painted the wall, planted the garden or bought a new tractor.
Name check Dick Strawbridge, Sarah Beeny, Marcus Wareing, Jeremy Clarkson, Matt Baker, Katie Price, Kate Humble.

Lush were magnificent in the early stages of their career. I think Breeze and Starlust are amongst my top 15 songs of all time. Etheriel is another classic. Not so enamoured with their Britpop phase, but Carmen is a cracker from that era. And Single Girl is a lot better than AM makes out.

Saw them in concert over here in 1990 with another great group, Pale Saints. Those were the days!

Pale Saints - Sight of You. I think I have it on one of those freebie CDs (probably from the NME) with To Kill a Slow Girl Walking by The Telescopes, Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode & something (can’t remember which track) by Inspiral Carpets..

A mate of mine at Uni had a massive crush on Miki from Lush…

Not sure you'd be able to post in the BBS if you were.

I'm in Pottsville and the level of destruction in Lismore, Mullumbimby an Murwillumbah is heartbreaking, not to mention the rural areas which are still barely accessible

You have my sympathy. Down in Sydney it is a pain in the arse, up there it is a disaster.

The Comforts of Madness is a remarkably good album - I once had a letter published in the NME where I extolled the virtues of the Pale Saints. In Ribbons was also pretty good, but they lost their edge once Ian Masters left.

Very lucky where I am and the community response gas been incredible.

So far, the next band of storms has been far lighter than forecast but everyone is looking at the skies nervously

What about tv shows with smug millionaires getting a specailist to instll a fantasy swimming pool or tree house that costs more than your entire house. Or fiding a dream property in some haven. The pool always seems to need some fixture that involves going out in the wilderess and sourcing a or several large rocks.

Insurance companies that set-up auto renewal on your policy and don't make it easy to cancel that auto renewal. Why should I have to pick up the phone or use webchat to tell you that you renewal is not competitive, then answer a barrage of questions on who I am going with instead and how much they're charging me? (rhetorical question, I'm sure that data is very important to them). Just let me cancel with a button click please.

You had me at "Insurance companies".

I had this last year with my public liability. In fairness I was a bit slack by not checking, but almost doubling the policy cost is outrageous. I managed to get some back when I complained. Didn't stop them trying to sell me another policy in the same email.

Today's annoyance for me would be smug, two faced lying estate agents who, even when they are shown proof of their falsehoods, deny any wrongdoing. I'd probably have to add myself to the annoyance, for losing my cool.

My shit baking

Cake in the oven, burnt at the top, not set inside, put an extra egg in there like a ****

Raisins

They can get to ****

Green stuff in sandwiches

I just want tuna and sweetcorn and mayo, why is there ******* lettuce and cucumber?

HMRC

Changing my address with them was lie the Krypton Factor

DVLA

I dont drive but even there envelopes are threatening, tax it or lose it it says, **** off, don't need to be told.

Spam Emails

Usually amusing, but I had one today that said Meet Ukranian Women, made me sad.. exploitative ***** bollocks

:)

They also played the Crystal Palace bowl around then too. The Cure headlined, with James, Lush, and All About Eve. Lovely day, very hot.

I was waiting for you latest grumpy post :)

One thing i'm proud of myself in my older age is not accepting these rip-off renewal quotes. They must inform you before the renewal so its on to 'Comparemyconfusedmeerkat.com' and and if they can't beat that quote they're gone. I've noticed that the insurance companies don't care so much now if you leave them as like the phone companies they lose you but will likely gain one from somewhere else. I'ts still annoying that some companies have a one click 'sorry to see you go' cancellation method while others force you to listen to an operator pitch worse deals at you before giving up,

I just wish they'd offer a competitive quote to start with to save me the hassle (yes my insurance is up for renewal)

Private car park- yeah you ******* Harvester *****

No signs, snotty letter, just paid it to get it done, why should you register your details just to have a meal out?

Car Park owners, can get in the sea

Delivery drivers wanting to take a photograph of item

Never mind the David Bailey, gimme the ******* parcel

Agencies

Voicemail- I seen your CV on Reed blah blah

I've not applied for a job with you, leave me alone..

Ant is right, I'm a grumpy bugger these days

Try as you might you are never going to out Hedgehog , on this thread. He is the master,:supergrin:

It has actually made its place in the dictionary “hedgehoging” to moan and grumble, see getting old

I thik it is because HH's posts portray a sense of confusion as well as annoyance.

Crap arses who claim "Lord Sugar is making a big mistake"...

The latest council tax bill yet another hike in price.
Emails from jobsites, they are non stop and pointless.

His biggest mistake was the vaunted GX4000 console

We bought one brand new for £100, within 3 months they were £30

The Ratner's of game console..

I do miss my old CPC6128, now that was a machine

These days?

People wearing tracksuit bottoms with shorts over the top. Why??

People (older Chilean women mostly) who are simply unable to speak without shouting.


yes, I'm listening to you dear neighbour.

Trying to watch something on Youtube. Its 1:27 long ....

2 adverts to sit through... and a ******* banner across the screen when the file actually starts playing.

That the governments of this world have to resort to ******* Tik Tok "influencers" ffs.
The online equivalent of the bloke down the pub.

Wanna be Superman ?

The Apprentice, despite being filmed in the height of summer with trees in full greenery, flowers out and people in short sleeves sweating. The fact that the sacked ones are forced to walk to the cab in a winter coat with a scarf on.:lux:

"Game Week"

F right off with the pathetic need to turn everything into a US style stat for people used to watching sports where nothing happens, and whether it fits or not (usually not but games in hand is probably too difficult a concept). If people can't understand what the first column in the league table means they should probably just give up on soccerball anyway.

(I know this has been moaned about before but "they" are still using it so the battle continues)

It's obviously a Latino thing as they do it here all the time...and usually without listening to each other. Probably telling each other their wordle score and how clever they are.

The irony of it. Nearest 4 branches of Santander have closed down over the last few years. Wife has eventually given in and trying to register for online/mobile banking with them and has been asked to take photo ID into her local branch!!!!

:supergrin: Our 2 local branches in Beckenham and West Wickham have also closed.

Why is this annoying? Makes complete sense to me.

You see similar in a lot of ITV made Victorian dramas, usually at 8 or 9 pm on a Sunday night. The cast, all walking around in great overcoats and gloves, yet the trees are all in full bloom.

And when the phone rings someone runs down the stairs to answer. Why don't they put the phone upstairs ? Also who knows a woman who can get all glammed up in 30 minutes ?

Putin

There is a solution to this, if you have VLC Media Player installed.

Right click the video and select Copy video URL at current time.

Open VLC, Click on the Media tab, then Open Network Stream. Paste the YouTube URL into the dialogue box and click Play.

Pause video when it starts, Click on the Tools tab and then Codec Information.

At the very bottom of this dialogue box (next to Location: ) is the actual video address. Right click it and choose Select All. Right click it again and choose Copy.

Open an internet browser window/new tab, right click in the address bar at the top and choose Paste and Go (or whatever similar option your browser gives you).

When the video loads, right click and choose Save Video As, and wait while the video downloads.

Watch video at your leisure.

That will no doubt read like a bit of a faf, but in reality it's really quite quick and simple. :)

Yup. I download any content I want watch to avoid the adverts. There are a few websites to put URL in and it makes the video downloadable. You do sometimes run into copyright protection but then another website usually does the job.

Particularly useful for 4k60fps content for me as playing that through a browser becomes a little choppy but then plays perfectly with VLC player. (my CPU only just supports 4k playback).

TKs, but not sure if i can be arsed to go through that rigmarole just to watch a minute and a half of something.

That is makes complete sense is annoying too.

Which is why I have given up on YouTube.

Probably worth doing, I suspect you'd never go back to normal youtube streams once you've got this easily sussed.

Copying and pasting and giving it a go later as I like to watch a lot of specific local Aus Travellers videos.

Thanks for the info, something I'd never thought about getting around.


Doesn't it record the ad's ? do you fast forward those?

Haha. I read your post as one hour 27 minutes, which is why I posted. I wouldn't bother for 87 seconds worth either. :)

Nope, you will only download the raw video. :p

Forgetting how to turn the clock in the car forward (they change here tonight). Once you work it out, 6 months is the perfect interval for it to be completely erased from your mind.

Me too.

I really can’t be arsed with the work arounds out there, I’m really not that desperate to watch anything on YouTube.

If it’s something important I’m sure it will be uploaded elsewhere.

I use Firefox with Adblocker. Haven't seen a YouTube ad in years.

McDonald’s in Paddington station being no more.

I haven’t had a McMuffin in ages but really fancied one today before heading out to the ye olde time country, but no dice.

The two bastard Spanish bints in the seat in front of me. They’ve been jabbering away nonstop in their heathen tongue since Paddington and I’m not sure they’ve paused for breath yet.

I used it religiously on my last laptop on pop-ups etc, for some reason I totally overlooked or dismissed the idea it could ever work on YouTube. I've reinstated ad blocker on my newest laptop for chrome and it works a treat... Earlier today I tried the VLC method and that works great as well.

Mate of mine commutes. Same train, same seat, Mon-Fri and apparently there was a guy in his carriage who in similar scenarios would start to read his newspaper out loud :D

Board member of the Chelsea Supporters’ Trust Dan Silver has been speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live about the Trusts' hopes for Chelsea's future: "This is one of the most important moments in our history moving forward.”

They have a BK still don't they (not the same I know)

I'd recomend going up the escalators to the old bishop and bear pub, a decent boozer whilst waiting for a train, good booze and food

Tesco delivery missing items (I know get of ya lazy ass ya ****)

Having to put shopping away

Youtube ads, being a cheap bastard and not downloading ad block doobery

being cheap and lazy

**** me it ain't the bleedin moon landings

Is that an oxymoron then, or just a moron?