Unfortunately it happens whenever there is an exceptional sporting success. Ian Thorpe was injected with human growth hormones at the age of 9 apparently, Usain Bolt can't be that good, whole Jamaican team systematically doping etc etc.

Problem is, there is so much doping that a great all round performance will always be another persons suspected drug cheat.

After so many of the GB team have pushed/trained themselves to excellence, it's getting annoying to watch so many of our athletes under-achieving.

Just watched loads of our hurdlers bomb out, followed by self-piteous interviews about how they're not happy with what they've done.

I've no problem with athletes running their personal best (or close to it) and being beaten...that's world sport sometimes.

It's the number who have been well short of their PB, gone out in the heats and just been mildly disappointed. Some seem to be on a public-funded holiday to Rio.

A realisation building in me that Newcastle fans were right.

Weird work / different cultures thing. My team insist on calling me sir, no matter how much I ask/plead with them not to. It's massively weird and uncomfortable.

Wouldn't happen if you worked for the BBS. Get them to read your posts :)

German TV is actually full of praise for what Team GB is achieving. We moan much more about the Germans when we lose to them at footy!!

I might be imagining it but I'm sure you've mentioned this before...would you like us to start calling you Sir too?

The number of advert breaks during each (recorded) episode of "Wayward Pines", each one started by Freddie Mercury screaming "MAGIC!" on a furniture ad. Trying to watch a couple of back to back episodes and they're being ruined.

That does come across like the the answer to the interview question;

'What is your greatest fault?'

A: 'I am too modest'


btw If your team hold you in such in high esteem, why are they ignoring your instructions to them?'

Do you think that maybe, just a tad, they are taking the piss?

Maybe that is why you find it uncomfortable?

Vuelling Airline. Complete and utter joke.

Apparently they excel
at loosing luggage.

it's not a UK based team or I would entirely agree with you as they'd definitely be taking the piss. It's a cultural thing, it happens to other people here as well.

I experienced this with blokes from the southern states. Texans do it a lot.

Ok if I bring you down to earth and call you a ****?

its sounds better if you follow the **** with sir.

Could you buy one of those peerages? They'd have to call you Sir Sir then.

Good point.

Ok.

So maybe similar to being up here and being called 'big man', a common expression that is used, to which I initially hear as a term of respect, then when I get in front of a mirror realise they are having a pop.

Ok not similar at all.

BT Internet

No, Lord Sir.

The proliferation of serving beer in jars.
What's wrong with a pint glass?

Is this just an American thing?

Twitter being used as a source in the Transfer Forum. Its only slightly more reliable than some journalists admittedly but people believing any old sods post has taken the gullibility levels on here to new heights.

You mean like Jam Jars?

Must be a Connecticut thing. Probably spread from Vermont.

Yes jam jars.
They even make them now, specifically for use in bars.
Drives me nuts - the lip of the "glass" has a thread!!

No "trendy" places in Sydney have them as well.

Season tickets that still haven't turned up.

There would be a full scale riot in my boozer if they tried any of that shit

Alan Pardew's press conferences... full of bullshit

The way he bigged-up West Brom after the err game was cringeworthy.

The shock from the middle aged women in my office that a child looks like their dad

Skyscanner/trainline websites that wait until you click on them before moving and loading a page you have no interest in instead. Wankers.

Sky Sports News constant arselicking of the Top 4...... THERE ARE OTHER FOOTBALL CLUBS IN EXISTENCE!

Incompetent idiots who get above themselves. Stupid people generally. I'm sick of having to deal with them.

Three calls to India to reset our account password so that I could submit an application for a child's Oyster Card.

Are the commentators on commission? They must have said "The Brownley Brothers" about 50 times already. Sounds like something from Enid Blyton's The Famous Five

You may be interested in the work of these two people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnin...3Kruger_effect

Very informative.

Explains so much :supergrin:

:)

:D

The theory of evolution seems to eventually ensure their removal from the gene pool:

http://www.darwinawards.com/

Ironic.

Deliciously.

Jar as in a mason jar you put pickles in? What on earth...

I've already put 3 bars on the **** off list

******* useless iPad keyboard boats and auto-correct (boats FFS???? Where the future cooperation did that come from??? I rest my case)

EDIT: hang on... future cooperation???? I typed ****!!!!!! How can a mistype of **** be corrected to future cooperation???
I give in :frown:

****ed up sleep patterns that mean I have to go without so I fall asleep at the right time

:lux::lux::lux:

People - particularly sports presenters on the radio who are paid to talk for a living - who pronounce triathlon as 'triathalon'

James Corden.

It's bad enough that media darlings fawn all over him because he does some television talk show that nobody in America watches, let alone over here.

Now he's doing his shtick on some advert where he's supposed to be somebody's driver. He's like the irritating bloke in the office who thinks he's funny but you just wish would belt up, just for five minutes. The Paloma Faith of overweight actors.

People pulling out from buying a property 24 hours before exchange after 4 months of stress and negotiation.

Shocking that this kind of behaviour is allowed/legal.

Know the feeling. Was dire.

That is a thread all of its own, surely.
Bad and/or developing use of language is one thing : mispronouncing is just un-a-set-able as a briefly famous child's nanny used to say, a lot,on tv.

Agree totally. There should be some kind of penalty charge.

Apple don't like no potty mouth ;)

I know how that feels, happend to me many years ago.
The whole buying a property business needs a kick up the rear?

People who step out of a doorway, like from a shop or a tube train, stop and look straight at you walking towards and about to pass in front of them, who then take one more step forward and stop again, causing you to take emergency "swerve the spatially challenged idiot" action

Finishing work early and sitting down at the pc to watch the press conference only to find a hardback copy of Roy Keane's 'The Second Half' perched smugly in front of the keyboard. When I asked the Mrs how the sickening abomination came to be there, she said 'John from down the road dropped it in for you because he knows you like football'. Hold on, it's not over yet, this is the really disgusting part... 'You'd better thank him'!

The media fawning over Usain Bolt.I get it,he's quick and has a personality,but is there any need to have a countdown clock with #Boltdown on the BBC every time he races.They treat us all like we're 5.

Bolt can now officially be referred to as The Great Usain Bolt by Bbc commentators unlike the rest of the unknown African middle and long distance runners awarded the same accolade by foster and cram.

Drivers who can't stay in lane around Park Lane/Fairfield roadabout in Croydon

To be fair, they are a bit confusing when you come out of the underpass heading towards South Croydon.

You weren't the chap in the blue Focus making obscene gestures?

Just be sure to thank him while you are beating him to death with said book.

Overheard by me on the train this morning, a middleaged guy on his phone:
"Maybe you have a fear of living on your own. There is agoraphobia you know, maybe you have homophobia."?

Talksports overuse of the word "numpty".
In fact just talk sport generally.

The BBC's medals per day table 2012 v 2016 Who though red and dark red as a good contrast on a bar graph? muppets

That'll be the BBC

:jerkit:

That's them not you

:D He's in his early 80's and meant well. Probably picked it up with the remains of his pension from a charity shop. I did thank him though, which showed true courage.

But did you have your fingers crossed when you said it?

sky plus recordings cutting off before the f*ckingvend. Got first pen in hockey shootout before it ended. sh*t c*nt nonce Murdoch.

Seagulls - arguably the worst species of any animal in the world. Nothing makes me more angry than having to fend off these shit ***** while trying to enjoy lunch.

Also, the apple music app on my iPad for crashing constantly while trying to enjoy Frank Ocean.

People who take the passion out of the word passionate by excessive use in the least passionate of scenarios. Starting off a tedious and pompous description of your entire career with 'For my sins..' when stuck in a crowded and broken down lift.

^

Rupert Murdoch.

Ha ha it wasnt me but i do have a focus...it isnt blue though.

Its quite easy to stay in lane by steering rather than cutting infront of people....

...i do have sympathy for people who havent driven around croydon before though gotta admit.

Andy "Motormouth" Hinchcliffe's commentary. Keep thinking hes going for the "most words spoken in a minute" world record.

Going into my loft, and finding the light on, then asking the current Mrs Mushroom when was the last time she went into the loft?
She replies "at Christmas, when I put the decorations up there"

That made me spit tea, haha!

The birds can be a pain as well.

The current mrs mushroom? Do they come with a best by date?

The ridiculously small size of Snickers bars, and putting them in a large wrapper doesn't make them any bigger.

Which is quite ironic bearing in mind your user name

The marathon bar has gone from 62.5g to 48g.....http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/...DM_468x308.jpg

Hotel restaurant reviewers who describe the food as 'plentiful'. Listen, you fat f*cks, some idea of the quality might be a good idea, not the quantity you can stuff in your flabby holes.

Noble being interviewed by Sky after the Wet Sham game today when he started every reply with the words " Look, listen.........."

You irritating twat, Noble.

"IMHO"

What's the point.

The chubby bearded estate agent guy from the Purple Bricks advert is now a postman.
He was never an estate agent all along.
Grrr!

The one where he likes the painting of the other estate agent on a unicorn is my favourite advert.

That'll be the Brazil twat.
:wallbash:

Trouble with getting older. Convincing them that " it was bigger when I was younger":D

and people want him playing for England

Being home sick and the phone keeps ringing.

Edit... that is not home sick, but sick at home.

My need to be irrationally early to places. Normally I wouldn't mind, but I've rocked up to a uni lecture 40 minutes early and I live just across the road.

Were you hoping to meet the course swot to copy his/her homework before class started?

Negative, it's just the thought of being late to places makes me horribly anxious so I'm pretty much forced to rock up annoyingly early to places otherwise I'd probably have a mental breakdown, particularly given my lack of sleep last night.

It's bad enough that most Aussies can't pronounce the word maroon (they say "mar-own", to which I reply that if "oo" was meant to be pronounced in that moronic way, then one of the animals on their badge should be called a kangarow.) When their State of Origin thugby league nonsense is on, it's every other feckin' word.

But JJ really went ballistic during the 'lympics when they started talking about "slalom" re the canoeing, and pronounced it "slay-lom". I thought it was just one idiot doing it, only then the next day for someone else to do it. Ignorant f***wits.

I love how you think being early was the major fault here.

Thameslink trains that have the automated announcements of all 50 stations the train is calling at between sutton and Luton. By the time it finishes we have left the next station and it starts again. What's even more annoying is the woman they got to read out the stations reads them all in the exact same irritating tone.

Anyone who counts down to an event using 'how many sleep's it is' until said event occurs.

Is this a 'why did the chicken cross the road' joke for shrinks ?

Relegation threads
Going backwards thread
Pardew out threads
Not buying enough players threads

Jesus

Yep. Very narcolepticist.