I'm slightly in awe of Costa Coffee Baristas, it has to be said. I love the way they never seem to run out of utensils and can make so many coffees in such a small, confined space.

I know that but I can't remember seeing a great big sign outside Heathrow saying LHR. It's pretentious bollocks!

http://premierparkingusa.com/images/...s/lax-sign.jpg

LA International should suffice as that's it's 'proper' name. :)

If we're revisiting LA(X), I still think the full 'Los Angeles' is more polite and humble, and becoming of someone not born there; 'LA' sounds puffed up and pretentious.

When is Crawley International going to get a second operative runway?

Nice clip Chocky :)

How things have changed in a relatively short period of time, I bet there's not an office party in the country now where you can smoke.

W H Smith - generally overpriced, then when you arrive at the counter they try to sell you a slab of chocolate the size of Liechtenstein

well, it does...

James Corden

Er... James Corden OBE

It's handball NOT hamball

Unless you've got really pudgy hands.

Not according to the head of Ofsted it doesn't. Heat milk in vessel with thermometer to tell you it is right temperature (often eyesight must fail as it is scalding hot), then place ground coffee in cup on end of handle, click in place and allow boiling water to run through into cup, pour milk in. Ask if you want chocolate on top. Seriously, if you think that is any kind of a skill that is annoying. :D

And they scan a voucher you do not want or have any interest in. I make a point of shoving it back in their hand

BBC for not making another series of The Trip, but carrying on with stuff like The Voice, Murder In Paradise, Casualty and Holby City.

Annoy me.

Somebody calling my Dad a prick, when he is not here to defend himself. I know my Father would not need me to defend him.

I will not forget what was said, or who by.

There really are some wankers out there!! :veryangry

That was poor - I almost commented on that thread

Who said what?

He's just one of a number of trolling ***** that have joined in recent times.

EFA

And the cherry on top is if he gets banned, he'll be back in a different guise soon enough.

Not nice at all Mick. Some real tossers about on here these days.

'Bring your kids to work' days.

Had one of these in our office on Friday - it was absolute hell.

I'm not a fan but credit where it's due for losing all that weight and making the Liverpool goalkeeper's position his own.

sigh...

Ripping people off in railway stations is the only thing that keeps it alive.

How English people say "Los Angeles" and "California" [emoji6]

Pussys on here that have more front than Sainsburys.

Isn't that where the big jet engines roar?

Making a good coffee with skill is a delight.

People gawping on holiday. Fvck off.

How Americans say "Los Angeles" and "California" :D;)

Then again they are Cities within their own country so my point is not really valid.

I haven't been annoyed by it recently but...
the way all the small towns in America call themselves cities.

Nosey bloody animal rights fetishists.I was sitting on a train from London Bridge,i happened to be wearing a leather coat,some skinny spotty vegetarian woman pipes up with"Do you know that an animal was murdered to make your coat",when i replied that i wasnt aware that i had left any witnesses alive,she got very huffy indeed.A better answer might have been,p1ss off and mind your own business.

"Hi, my name is Mike and I come from L" How stupid does that sound? Why do we let the LA lot get away with it?

I take it you didn't see the second series then .... :D

Deli Alli

He is a right twat, needs a good smash from Jedinak to put him in his place :p

Wrong thread. You should have posted on the 'Pretenious pricks who are also *****' thread.

And suburbs too. In the US Penge would probably a city.

Inverness IS a city and you can walk from one end to the other in 15 mins.

London Taxi drivers. The venerable, rough diamond, man of the people, honest to goodness, there when Jack the Hat got shot, competition loathing Cabbie!

For a long time I have been a strong advocate of black cabs, but I got bitten this weekend and now will take my trade elsewhere.

£40 from Victoria to Tower Bridge!

Given the much vaunted "knowledge" and claims to know the best routes, my man still waited until £15 was on the clock, a mile up Victoria Street, just outside 1VS in fact to suggest he might try another route. So we skipped around Whitehall, but down Northumberland Ave on to Embankment. There we processed in the roadwork infested snail paced jam until Tower Hill. Those road-works on VS and Embankment did not spring up that morning and he knew full well it was the longest route. I hope the extras he made from me justify the loss from his colleague, from now on.

Apparently it was Boris' fault. I didn’t realise he had shut every single road in London, except the one which takes the longest and permits arrogant cab drivers to trouser the benefit.

Addison Lee, it turns out, would have been £15 with pick-up from the public car park at the Gatwick Express gate / Victoria Place, next to the very taxi rank I used. This experience led me to try Uber and I see with the Hackney Carriage’s days are numbered.

Circle line would have cost you just over 2 quid and taken about 10 mins :D

Yes, that's a whole other entry on this thread, but will save that for another day.

It used to be if the place had a cathedral then it was a city but don't know if that is still the case?

Boris Johnson. I don't live in London any more, why am I still hearing about this ****?

You should have got his number and reported him for that surely.

They would have built one in Croydon years ago if that was still the case, they have been trying to get city status for decades:D

:D Yes, after I posted I remembered that godless hell hole called Brighton.

Are you a slow walker?

Yes you are right and regret not taking the badge number. The red mist had descended.

I have had a look on the PCO website and there is a line about devious routes. While the route taken was direct, it was not the quickest option at all and the issues wre not spontaneous.

This is the first time I have had poor service, and fundamentally have accepted the slight premium in cost for ease of use and trust in their proffession.

Apparently on the south coast they believe you can join two towns together and call it a city

People who don't know that Jack McVitie was stabbed to death, not shot. Now where to guv? Don't go South the river by the way.

More people claim to have been in the Blind Beggar on that infamous night than were at the Palace-Burnley game.

I was in the Blind Beggar.

Admittedly, that was in about 1999, so well after Jack the Hat was stabbed.

I don't give a monkey's mate. This is supposed to be all about me and being turned over by the nasty man. And I'll tell you another thing......oi, where's your lights....'kin Uber, I'll tell you about Uber!

The level of ignorance on this thread about east-end villains.

Anyone in the know as we say in this manor could tell you that Jack The Hat ended up brown bread (I couldn't find the correct rhyming slang for stabbed) some other place innit. It was George Cornell what was shot down The Blind Beggar know-what-I-mean guv.

BP have now got M&S shops in them. I didn't notice until last week.

Now, for one, the prices are M&S prices, so are a bit high. I would hate to see their store wastage.

On the other flip-side, I can see the above becoming a problem during the day.

When the M&S first opened years ago in the BP in Selsdon, I tried to help by moving my car from the petrol pump to a parking space in front on the concourse whilst I did a quick shop.

When I reached the till about 5 mins later, they were about to report my car as having driven off without paying, even though you could still see it 20 feet away from the window!

Won't be doing that again.

There are already fewer petrol stations around here than 20 years ago, so I now take the view that if these little shops help keep the remaining stations profitable, then that's preferable to more closing and then we all have to drive further to fewer sites.

Revisionism.

ie People claiming the Krays were alright as soon as they died, despite the evidence suggesting they were violent mockney twats.

In short, I have a job interview with them.

I was told that fuel is making them money, and the stuff in shops is often seen as pricey so it didn't do so well either, so they approached M&S and a partnership was born.

When I popped in to the one on Godstone Road, Whyteleafe, last week, it was very quiet, although this was at 1am. The stuff they have in there is very supermarket-esque, so they clearly want it to run like a convenience shop, but I wondered how much wastage they must have, and could see that, if people did buy their shopping there, it could indeed cause a problem outside.

Also, I did think, not everyone can afford M&S prices. That being siad, they had some nice stuff in there. I bought some Davidstow Cheddar and bacon topped sausage rolls. They were delicious and very nourish.

I am inclined to know what other people think.

time to assume a new identity- 21st century east end mobsters with respect for their heritage track these boards

Sodom and Gomorrah?

He was Doner Kebabed in Stoke Newington.

I stop at the pubs :D

Jack wasn't stabbed in the Blind Beggar, George Cornwell was shot in there.

Pah, beat to it.

I thought Jack the Hat overdosed on digestives

I remember the days when women could leave their back doors open.

People who breathe loudly through their noses

Has anyone said my boss? If not, my boss.

His boss.

Phew. Not just me then.

Could be her boss.

Sexists annoy me

Definitely cockney rather than mockney.......

Definitely twats

Definitely loved their Mum.

Could have stopped at breathe

I preferred the popular 80s duo Renee and Renato.

Carthaginians, I fcuking hate em.

The Bourne Trilogy on ITV2 - yet again.

:moo: :S: :S: :S: :S: :S: :S: :S: :S: :S:

I did not know that. Thank you, you complete and utter Berkeley.

Berkshire, surely?

:)

I didn't even know he'd been mixed grilled.

Yep. Didn't even live long enough to claim his mis apprehension.

The 300+ promotional letters from that crap company Virgin. I have received over 5yrs despite contacting them several times to stop sending them .

Alan Scullery

People constantly flogging stuff on Facebook. They then recruit other people & all post the same bollocks, each making out they really do think 'wow, I never thought it would be this good'. Please piss off.

Facebook in general.

Unbrowned sausages which look like Duncan Goodhew's wanger

Women who breathe loudly through their noses. Slappers.

Still not seen them :D Are they good for a first time watcher?

Crossrail to be called 'The Elizabeth Line'. 10 out of 10 for originality to the fawning sycophant who came up with that one.

I like it :)

Easily pleased. What was wrong with Crossrail?

The lack of civic pride in Britain today.

Bland.

So it will be referred to as 'the Liz Line'.