This is very minor in the grand scheme of things, but.
Cafe's and restaurants that don't spread butter/margarine over the whole slice of bread/toast or roll.
It seems that the majority, leave about a half inch of dry border from the edge.

How many of these effin new outlet centre places does London need? We had one recently built at the Dome, one at the coalyards at the back of Kings Cross and now one at Battersea. Staggered there isn’t one in Croydon to be honest.

Sounds harsh, it's hard to make a living these days,once you have paid out for this licence,this transport, this new course, these tools,you could be better off getting a minimum wage job near home,walk to work and end up better off, I'm a London taxi driver and did just that with no financial difference,well, I'm working less,no stress no paying out

Taxi driving is very well paid at the moment..

Is that so you don't get greasy fingers when you pick it up? Very thoughtful of them :)

Yes, at the moment ,but wit for the recession to hit, a new electric taxi,after 4 years payments,is over £84000, that's a lot of lolly or £350 a week to rent,once you take those loans out you end up working 7 days a week,or 14 hour days over 6 days, it's no picnic.its kipper season in January and you will be lucky to cover your cab rent.

:)

Radio commentators in Qatar that gush about the world cup and the opening ceremony then every 15 minutes or so say 'well we know this place has its problems' then gush for another 15 minutes. You weren't ever not going were you?

This!

They can do that by not booking me, and yet they still do.....

The one or two threads that you are interesting not progressing in repeat visits to the BBS. Its great when you come on and there are several new pages to read.

Just like Sticky Vicky.

My grandmother many many moons ago used to call them 'Lyons slices' after the famous old teashops who were notoriously skimpy/stingy with their butter.

Do you do Beetles covers?

Asking for a friend.

Can someone please set off Tim's house alarm - just to piss him off.

Radio presenters who constantly refer to "the Footy". Zoe Ball just shut up!

Writing that mixes LoWer caSE with caPital letteRs ... as showcased on the back of the current England shirts

I read on Fakebook that those England shirts are 115 quid is that right?

75 in Sports Direct but that's still a fair lump.

That's heavy. It's a no from me.

Multiple commentators saying ‘Bellingham… 19…. 19’

I was at the San Siro last week, AC Milan shirt €125

Yep..they can all keep those.

Especially before long they will be slagging him off. He is one of MOTD’s go-to talking points now along with the response to head injuries during matches. They campaigned for VAR and now seem to be building towards campaigning for its removal.

Also seemed to be trying to argue that offside shouldn’t count when it’s close but still offside when ‘we’ want to see the goal stand but count to the mm when ‘we’ don’t. Ref’s can be poor at times but nowhere as daft as the MOTD collective. Closer to the balcony guys from the muppets these days than real pundits with insight. Shame.

You could stop there, really.

Most of them just witter on like starry-eyed fanboys with the "big" teams and players (Messi today and Bale last night).

Come back Barry Davies!

Interesting, very interesting.

Funnily enough the band does, yes.

That the two biggest stories on the BBC news front page both concern Moan Utd.

One isn't a news story and the other hardly qualifies.


BBC wankers.

Barry Davies was the best. All commentators spend their time at the mic stoking their cadences for their own ears. They talk in staccato in an attempt to sound imperious, it’s all so phoney and it ruins the experience for me. I would love whimsical Davies just enjoying himself out there. Tylesley changed commentary in the late 90s for the worst.

The thing is it’s just dished up to the audience without choice, maybe we would all enjoy something abit less forced? Be great if a station that gets football for the first time, rather than change up the half time format (remember when BT or what ever it was had the football re-enactments? God awful) they made a stab at mixing up the commentary for something less sensational and less arrogant.

The first TV station that enables the often-inane commentary to be turned off will be a champion in my eyes.

Brian Moore was the best - FACT!

There is a volume button on your remote.

I want to hear the crowd / "ambience" just not the commentary. As you well know. :supergrin:

Amazon Prime do this, albeit their commentary is actually quite good usually

Martin Tyler is well past his sell by date. When you refer to Messi as the Messiah I think its done.

Cancer - horrendous illness.

Covid - it’s still about.

Inflation and the cost of stuff, such as fuel, food, energy.

Noisy neighbours.

Opening a tasty multipack of crisps , you pull out your fav bag and it’s slightly popped and you get a mouthful of stale crisps.

Seeds in yoghurt and drinks.

Overpacked items - multiple wraps, boxes or huge oversized boxes for items.

Rip off Black Friday items that were artificially priced high for a few days earlier in the year then put down to their normal price or slightly higher, actually ripping off the public and not giving the amazing deal they think they’re getting.

Banks not giving us enough interest on savings accounts despite inflation and everything else.

Billionaires and the richest getting richer and asset stripping companies or cost cutting, whilst normal ppl have to strike to fight to get a decent wage increase.

EVRI - not a great delivery company.

Clothing sizes - one size with one company is completely different with another.

Being given a badly made cup of tea.

Shrinkflation.

My suggestion works well if the game is at Arsenal.

Also I recommend learning a little Spanish and trying to find an ESPN feed with Argie commentators. Much more knowledgeable, and they have a song list for most PL scorers.

I commend you for saving up your annoyances and putting them in list form.

I'm sure BBC and Sky had that as a red button option years ago.

I believe that’s been a pretty common nickname for him in Argentina over the years, for example:

https://www.espn.co.uk/football/club...-for-world-cup

I’m not watching the World Cup, but he didn’t sound like the Messiah against Saudi Arabia though.

Hahaha. Yea, I love this thread. Always good to have a rant every now and then.

The amount of injury time in WC games - specifically people who get all smart-arsey about it.

'Peter Walton, referee expert, explain to us why there is so much stoppage time?'

'Well to most people it should be obvious, this is the actual amount time that should be added on. To those in the game its clearly the correct way to manage game time.'

Ok Peter, you dick, how come its 2022 and this is only just happening now? if its so obvious, have you and the other 'experts' just been ignoring it for the last 100 years and if so why?

So what have they been adding on up until now if not the actual time? :confused:

Its a reasonable question . May be we should be careful what we wish for as this is more than likely to feed into the Premier league. Still my be therel'l be less blatant time-wasting as a result

He's not the Messiah - he's just a naughty boy.

I commented elsewhere that I thought it quite telling that the BBC TV live feed of games shows an invitation to 'press the Red Button' and get Radio 5 Live radio commentary :D Mind you, it's probably just switching bullshit for bullshit.

well exactly! Its the condescending tone that implies 'well OBVIOUSLY this is how stoppage time should be tracked, its really not that hard to understand'

They add arbitrary time for selected events:
For example:
Goal - 30 seconds
Sub - 30 seconds

Well it used to be, always was bollox, Ive personally been calling for stop clock since it was an option on Fifa ‘98 Road to World Cup video game.

Depends who's playing and what the score is.

School photos. A couple of awkward pics of my kid and they want £20 for a digital copy! Plus they get all sales-pressurey and start giving 'YOU MUST ORDER BY THIS DATE' kind of nonsensical deadlines.

Then I feel guilty for not paying it because I'm missing the chance to own memories of my son and hes not going to be this age ever again etc.

Just take a picture of your child with your phone.

Digital? You can't beat the cellophane and BIG cardboard surround. That oval shape can't just be cut out by anyone.
(And half a dozen little versions that never see the light of day once they go in the drawer)

Yep. They never get looked at anway. Spent a fortune over the years - the uni ones are the worst rip-off.

Uni photos of your kids in their graduation gowns are de-rigour Xmas pressies for the oldies.
Also pride of place on the mantlepiece i'll have you know.

I'll grant you the cost is a rip-off.

Again, take your own photos. If you need anything to look a bit posh, use Snapfish.

I was going to post the same yesterday - I normally don't cough up, but I have 3 in the same school for this year only and the group photo was not bad (the 3 of them had their eyes open and were looking at the camera, which is quite rare). I'll print them off as gifts for every relative I know (and maybe even some strangers I don't know), in order to try and make it feel better value.

The cost I begrudgingly accept through gritted teeth...it always seems extortionate, but I suppose there's a lot of work other than taking the actual photo. I do get annoyed by the rubbish options available e.g. 3 photos on a memory stick for £45, but if I want 4 photos, I have to buy the 4th photo separately for £20. Daft.

I'd just take some photos yourself and send them off to boots or whatever, to be honest. Get your kids mates in the playground and take a group picture after school ;)

It's a borderline scam along with all the other crap like "you kid has had a poem selected to be published in a poetry book that costs £30" - yeah, and so has every other kid who wrote anything resembling a poem.

One of my daughter's dance schools was 'specially selected' to appear in the parade at Disneyland Paris.... yeah it turns out that the Disney marketing people just go around every dance school in Europe telling them the same story to try and drum up business for their overpriced shite. Naturally my daughter still thinks I am a c*** for not paying for us all to go. Thanks Disney.

Both iPlayer and ITV Hub.

It's not much to ask is it, watching a live game on iplayer or itv hub?
Just useless. I'm sick of black picture with sound, frozen picture with sound, buffering, and nothing close to HD when I do get a picture... But wait, maybe it's the VPN I'm using that throttling the data? Yet I can quickly switch app to Youtube and watch a 4K quality live channel without any trouble.

I'm sure that with ITV Hub you could drag the slider back to any point if you'd missed something... now (since it became ITV X) it appears you can't?

ITV X is absolute dog shite

I just watched it here and it’s fine.

They're free aren't they?

Not if you're subhuman ex pat scum living in a 3rd world barrio* with PeterH




*I've actually heard Chile is very nice.

Not really. You pay a licence fee that goes towards iplayer. ITVX is paid for by sitting through loads of adverts, same as YouTube, but yep you get the app free. Iplayer works well, would love a 10 second Fast forward or back.ITVX is a bug ridden monster. Works on apps but on a laptop it’s horrible with loads of black screening

Hmmm.


How much do you think iPlayer costs you?

No idea how much it costs to stream the content. The front end iplayer app isn’t the has a cost to develop funded by the fee and it’s all the stuff behind that costs the £ again funded by the fee. I think it’s great value.

If you have a TV Licence (which is paid for), it's an additional service at no extra cost. The same way Sky allow you to use Sky Go / Sports, for no extra cost...

Which I presume is how they see it. They're (probably begrudgingly) having to keep up with the way that consumers prefer to access their services now. At least Sky appear to have grasped the nettle, with their (rather substandard) Sky Glass offering.

:hi:

It's not really the point is it? Both ITV and the BBC are big professional organizations. You'd think they could make a stable platform that works.

As for my experience with both platforms this week, trying to watch the football has been poor. Now I'm using a VPN and some of the problem may lie with that but I suspect not. Today the ITV hub was totally useless for the 1st half of the game, however the second half was stable and in a decent definition. I have no idea why I would have such a polar experience. (Someone suggested that viewers in droves had switched off in disgust (very likely) thus lowering the load on the servers). I might add that it's not only live streaming that is bad, I have had bad experiences when streaming from the catalogue too.
I have experimented with multiple streaming sites and its only iPlayer and ITV Hub that perform so badly over a VPN.

Is there some way you could get access to Fox Sports?

It's how I've been watching games on the Internet, and it's basically flawless. A couple of very minor and short freezes, but that's it.

Only downside is a) I guess you need some kind of cable or satellite subscription, and b) you have to put up with overly excitable and verbose American commentators and in-studio analysis.

Along with others who have replied, I didn't have any issues whatsoever (newest Amazon FireTV; NordVPN; over WIFI; not too far from the router).

I've been using this set-up for a couple of years, and it works for me >99% of the time!

There are many variables you need to check through as to why it's not working for you, but the iPlayer/ITV etc can work over VPN with the right setup.

Youtube also is ‘free’ but works.

Doenst mean it should be shit service. Plus there is a TV licence to pay, which you cant watch them without regardless whether you have astandard TV or not.

They get to farm your data like every other online service unlike standard tv.

Can you not get a Firestick with iptv installed?

Ok being really annoyed today,on uni visits with my daugthers. Firstly trued to park 2 clueless muppets from a private parking company telling where to park and i have to pay but have no idea why.
Sevondly the state of some of the idiots here, i worry for the next generation.

Huzzah! Solidarity, bruvvah - me neither. Well done us; we're SO much better than everyone else, aren't we? (Nah. We DEFINITELY are a BIT better though.)

Where do you stand on congregating? Been invited to gatherings but have said I'm not engaging. Then it occured I could attend providing I show zero interest in the game, keep my back exclusively turned to the tv and maybe periodically hum loudly. (As much to get right on my friends' tits and ruin things for everyone else as for any moral imperative.) Or is that cheating?

Also, isn't it SO much more fun rubbishing England's chances and mocking the widespread hope when you're not emotionally invested? I haven't enjoyed a World Cup this much since '94. (Yeah, yeah, I know. Trust me.) Turns out there's almost nothing I like less than football.

I feel your pain.
With one now doing her Masters, and another a first year undergrad, we've done all the rounds.
One more to go next September.

Parking charges are just the beginning of it - if you earn anything like an average salary, the maintenance loans are pitiful, not even covering accommodation.
Thank God they both have a decent work ethic, and have reasonably paying jobs.
But we're still continually topping them up.
Good luck. Where they hoping to go?

Where's the TV guide? I can find it on itv.com but not itvx.

Today we have done Winchester and Bounemouth

Wordle

The number of Brighton players at the World Cup- there’s too many

On the plus side they may be knackered by the time they get back...

There I was thinking it was only Battersea Power Station shopping centre that allowed dogs. Today, they were all over John Lewis in Oxford Street. Please can we keep some places free of dogs. Not everyone loves the smelly, leg cocking, bottom smelling, pavement smearing, whimpering animals.

Some idiot today tried to take his dog into the local bakery, when they asked him to wait outside he bleated about no sign.

Don't know who I hate more, the people who take their dogs on the tube or the fellow passengers that simper all over them.

We live in a 50s property that due to the build suffers badly from condensation, which can only be controlled during winter by using a dehumidifier.

So to my wife explaining for the umpteenth ******* time, that me running the dehumidifier for a couple of hours to help does no ******* good when she then opens the windows when it has been pissing down and is 85+ humidity outside.

I mean Jesus Christ it's not a difficult concept to grasp. But if course it's not her having to go over the ceiling with white vinegar and repainting when necessary....

Commentators / pundits saying the empty phrase:

“Clearing his lines”

The simperers. Often the owners are starring off into the distance, the activity unwanted.

There seems to be an attitude amongst dog owners now that they can take them anywhere and let them off their fricking leads absolutely anywhere where there is open ground, even when there are sign e.g. at nature reserves that say they mustn't. ****wits

Save money and use it for all your Christmas cards - everyone will love you :D

Christmas

Not really annoying, but is anyone going to start an FA Cup 3rd round who do you want, who will we get thread. Or have I missed it? I could but don’t feel it’s my place :frown:

That Iceland chant. It was good when Icelandic fans did it but Iceland didn't qualify for the World Cup and now it appears that every single country is copying them.

Palace club shop being unable to take orders during Black Friday offer weekend

Phil Foden's 'fringe'.

Too right. :wallbash: