You know that you can filter out the results you get (select it under the tools bit) i.e last day, week, month etc etc

People who orchestrate adverts / pop-ups I can't avoid... satan's sperm I tell you! :moo2:

The ones I hate are the ones that follow you when you scroll blocking up half the screen

Google has got shit and full 1000s of sponsored
Links first before you fine what you searched for

Miriam Margolyes says **** on Radio 4 and parts of the twitterati are hailing it like the second coming.

I've heard she is a queue-jumper with a sense of entitlement as well as a foul mouth.

Google has got shit and full 1000s of sponsored Links first before you find what you searched for

Sounds like an unlikely Venn diagram, Radio 4 listeners | Twitter [ab]users (overlap are probably Conservative MPs)..

Not if you use proper search parameters

But "sponsored links" are like the big chunks in a septic tank - they float to the top. What search parameters will stop that?

That tinpot “you’re shit aaaahhh” chant that Leicester fans are infatuated with.

Leicester's pretend HF copy

https://i.imgur.com/LQUtXse.jpg

That is pretty poor.

File under "Things I've learnt today". I gave it a try and helps. Just wish you didn't have to set it every time you go into Google.

Understand what you mean but they already filter on what they expect to be the most relevant responses based on other users and your own usage I think. So most of the time it will probably be what you need but not always. I always filter the youtube searches I do on players but with everything else it varies.

Time is the filter/Tool I use the most but I have found the image size/resolution filters useful on the image searches also handy.

Two and a half hours to get through US immigration at JFK airport. 1,000 arrivals queing, four officials processing. Everytime I come here ...

Why are they using the Nirvana smiley face emblem ?

Not an annoyance as such, more of an observation.

Why as it seemingly become acceptable to advertise women's self-pleasuring products on cable TV. Not on obscure channels, but the breaks between movies.

Is this some idea of promoting strong, independent women who shouldn't be ashamed, but should be proud, of having a wank?

Where are the adverts for rubber dolls of varying quality or just the rubber vag and butthole contraption for the strong, independent man? Or are we to accept the sexist idea that a man pleasuring himself this way is the worst kind of sex-case slimey creep.

I am sure there are a few BBSers that can walk this bilnd man through this particular minefield, and help me better understand why my thinking is wrong and old-fashioned on this issue.

Maybe we could start Peter by figuring out what made you blind.

Did you give the staff some verbal abuse?

The BA and Jet Blue terminals at JFK tend to be quicker. But overall it’s pretty grim most days.

Maybe they were getting team spirit and teen spirit mixed up?

No way, they carry guns and have a high level of self importance. Small mercies, but to be fair the guy who processed me was very polite.

Rule no.1 on entering America - do not give any official with a gun any type of abuse whatsoever!

And that would have helped how? :confused:

You may have to swap jobs :)

Mind you in my experience, the UK border force staff are way more polite and nice compared to US CBP and many other countries.

Might have enhanced the experience and Aki would have tasted some US hospitality at JFK. :)

Hand dryers in public toilets, do they ever work?

Maybe it's just me but 9 times out of 10 I wave and wiggle my hands under them for a few seconds, nothing happens so I give up and leave with wet hands.

I imagine I have said this before but lighting in virtually all hotel rooms. It’s atrocious. There must be a point to it being so bad as everyone does it, but not sure what it is.

There seems to a recent fad to put cold white light (blue) rather than warm white light in hotel rooms, when the former isnt a relaxing light as it is it proven that adsorbing the light before bed will more likely keep you awake (iphone changing the light on phone for night mode)

I’ve never seen that in the UK. Guess Chile is leaving us behind in the sexual liberation stakes.

Fans nicking the warm up balls from the oppo when it goes in the crowd. I know Prem clubs have loads of money but its still stealing!

Sign up to Global Entry - avoid the queues.

You will find this in the continent too. I remember watching telly in Berlin in my hotel room, and the ad comes up about dildo’s. It was funny (well I found it funny)

I'm not sure what channels Peter is watching but I too am as surprised as you. I've never seen such ads here... mind you I haven't watched much late night commercial tv.

Back in the late 80s, when I was over there visiting relatives, we crossed the border from Canada to the US. Whilst we were queuing through passport control my brother spotted a massive portrait of Ronnie Reagan. He pointed at it, laughed out loud, and shouted "Look at that idiot!".

Given that I actually wanted to enter the US, I pretended not to know him. He did get through, but I later suggested to him that there was a time and a place for political statements.

Maybe the lack of adverse reaction proved his point?

That I just noticed my toothpaste is made in China. Why can’t we make toothpaste here or Europe even. Why China. I’m changing brands. Local toothpaste for local people.

A few BBSers really slagged her off before on here if I remember her correctly.

I saw her on the Graham Norton Show this year. Stephen Fry had his tongue so firmly up her arse, it was cringeworthy.

I think she is being marketed as some kind of national treasure.

Sightless in my incel way of thinking.

When it next appears, I will note down the product and see if the advert is replicated on YouTube.

It appears on my Direct TV, and, NO, I don't subscrive to the porn channels.

Get with the programme Granddad.

He can only do that if you tell him what channel you are watching.

He can't. He has dumped cable and even national TV. Too much dross and too many adverts.

He needs to save money to fund his expensive gin habit.

I think it might possibly be the “Feliz Ano” channel.

(Tilde deliberately omitted)

Wrexham Football Club. Ever since a couple of actors took over there has been so much fawning over them. Hope Bromley beat them to promotion.

Thanks swissroll, I'll have a look into that :p

Priorities :p

It is the switches that drive me bonkers, every time you want to turn a light on or off you end up walking round the room trying every switch going

Easier just to leave the mini-bar fridge door open...

Prostitutes don't look good in the light.

Everything has to be so complicated. All I want is a shower, where one tap is hot, the other cold and in between a mixer. In nearly every hotel I've been in of late the shower seems to have been designed by some little German git of probably 19 years, who has a masters degree in how to confuse the feck out of every person over the age of 20, who just want a quick shower without having to get out and look up the instructions.
Forget televisions in the room. What happened to just switching it on and pressing a number on the remote. Now there's about six gadgets with various codes that the lads at Bletchley Park would have a job deciphering.:confused:

.....and then you move on to accessing the hotel's wi-fi.
(and whatever new place for the fixed bottle opener the designer has dreamed up)

Their fans are proper neanderthals

Especially after Bromley beat them at Wembley in the FA Trophy Final.

Still don't know if this was covered in the documentary about them that was out. Only saw a few episodes, so don't know. Would have been worth watching if it was!

Edit: I assume it was covered in the October 12th episode: "Hollywood stars and Wrexham residents descend on London for the Red Dragons' big match at legendary Wembley Stadium".

It does depend on the class of prostitute I guess.

I saw one who turned up via a cab at a rather exclusive hotel in London and it was obvious she wasn't there to meet hubby for drinks and supper.

Did you get a receipt?

Did some searching around and found this episode and just watched it.

All a bit (well a lot) cringeworthy. Bromley might as well not been there, but I guess that is understandable.

Certainly not in a rush to watch anymore, although I guess seeing them fail in the play-offs might be fun - talk about fans and entitlement...

I watched the matches in those playoffs (not the docs) and they looked a good side and played some good football. Young tall lad (McAtee?) played in the 10 slot for them and added the class and he was backed up by a hard working, ball winning midfielder sitting behind him and they made the difference. Can’t remember who they lost to now but felt like one match too many, too soon.

Mercedes drivers, specifically on the A1, heading South, in the 40 mph section, in torrential rain, yesterday.
Do these people become twats when handed the keys to their new car or were they twats beforehand?

Annoyed that I've gone over on my ankle and inflicted some as yet undefined damage. Possibly ligaments. Hurts like hell. Ended up flat on my back and unable to get up.
Driving to the Isle of Wight tomorrow might be a challenge..

I’m going in The other direction we can wave as the ferries pass each other :hi:

I've just recovered from 3 months of that. Realizing I don't think I will find the energy to start running again in this heat.

Bearing in mind our age, check that your stretched foot / ankle ligament hasn't pulled and broken a metatarsal. Extensive bruising if so

No external bruising at all, so hopefully it settles down.
But thank you for the tip,Timbo.

‘Straight into his work’.

Get straight into fvck.

Not sure driving is your best idea. Depends which foot and if you have an automatic I guess. Even then, you will probably end up with a nicely swollen ankle, so take it easy.

Getting a package from Amazon and the item inside being broken.

A somewhat fragile item that could be thrown around in the box during transit due to lack of packing material (actually none).

Already arranged return and re-ordered... but still annoying - I already took it over the UPS store only to find it closed on Sundays, adding to the annoyance.

Bruising can take days to appear.

Frank Lampard.

Haven't read it but just seen on the home page here article where Lampard says ‘It had everything'

Not just a couple of flukey goals this time then Frank?

Especially as its across The Solent.

Don’t worry about Frank, he is just going through a fairly good spell that almost all Everton managers achieve before failing to reach expectations and getting sacked. He will last longer than my original prediction of christmas, but he will be gone within a year

I spent a chunk of my youth trying to persuade bar staff that I was over 18 and could be served in pubs. At the other end of my life now and I was hoping that I didn't look quite as old as I obviously do. I went to watch Beckenham Town v Dagenham and Redbridge and was going to take advantage of the over 60 £5 concession. I even took my 60+ Oyster card as proof. I went through the turnstile and handed over my £5 and got waved through. I was expecting at least a "are you sure that you're over 60?". :D

The endemic use of the phrase "fever dream"

I feel your pain.

6 years back (51 years old), a young student type offered me his seat on the metro. That was a crashing reality check.

...not sure I should tell you this, but at 64 I'm still getting jaw drops, sceptical looks and told "I thought you were early to mid 50s"... and asked for my Senior Railcard at the ticket office...

... but then I bought my first home at 26 and was asked by a door-to-door canvasser soon afterwards "Is your Mum in?"...to which I replied "Hang on, I'll ring her and see" :supergrin:

being told to "check my ring" everyday by my phone and not being able to switch it off. I know i sit down at work most of the day but my "ring" is fine thank you very much

Bit of an inconvinence ,but probably better than getting someone else to check your Ring.

I'm not sure I've ever heard/read this.

Apropos of nothing really, but Fevre Dream was a novel by George R. R. Martin (Game of Thrones) - about vampires on a Mississippi steam boat.

Probably outing myself as a proper pedantic and misogynistic dick here; but clicking onto the BBC’s football fixture page to check out today’s games, and finding the women’s champions league and League Cup matches taking priority in the list to a League One game at Sheff W.

I’m all for highlighting the women’s game; think it’s emergence is a fantastic thing; but all feels so force fed and actually unfair on men’s lower league clubs. Notice it on radio sport bulletins and match reports now too where the women’s game takes hierarchy over men’s games outside the Premier League.

Sheff W average 25,000 home gates, yet our sporting media are telling us that a league that averages attendance of 1,000 should take precedence in interest. It’s just weird, annoying and actually really disrespectful to men’s football and their fans outside the Prem.

^ I was thinking the same yesterday.

Also, the women’s rugby World Cup seems to be getting a lot of BBC coverage. Heck probably a year ago I didn’t even know women played rugby… but that’s probably me.

Not really sure how popular the sport is.

Fully agree.

What I find even more annoying is that they proritise foreign football over the loser British leagues.

Spot on. My little girl plays 3 times a week and seems to have come into it at an amazing time for the womens game but even my mum thinks the situation as you have described it, is utterly ridiculous. It’s like us blokes playing footie for say Liverpool University, fantacising that we play for Liverpool and then actually being treated like we did play for Liverpool. It’s incredible and pretty depressing that it is allowed to happen. The womens product is an entirely different sport really, if it was treated as such I could respect it more, certainly enjoy it more, I resent being told I have to pretend. Whatever the reasons for it, I partly watched an U15’s girls game the other week and I enjoyed it just as I would have, probably, an U15’s boys game. I get it.

The state of the M25 between the A3 and junction 10, the have long grooves in the road (presumably from a previous repair etc) can be quite unsettling as you drive through it as it does catch your wheels, imho dangerous at speed

It could be in a bad state deliberately? They do that in places to create uneven, noisy rides to slow traffic down, as it lessens/disappears at lower speeds. (I haven't driven in years, but it used to be so).

Or they are just crap at resurfacing...... :D

Is this the fairly long section which sounds like you have a puncture? Been like that for years. I hate it

There's no need to be like that.

I would say in this country, all women's sport is getting a lot more coverage than before.

I thought that but it could be a typo and should read lower leagues?

The other day, right in among the, "Villa get new boss," or "Tottenham are doomed," headlines there was one that was something like, "New mum (can't remember name) scores in thriller."
Whatever next? "Seven month preggers Lil drops one in her goalmouth."

;)

Does it / do you mean your pooper?

I get pissed of at the A league coverage being 6 pages from the back page, even when it's the local derby of MV v Melbourne City and a sell-out with horse racing and women's netball taking precedence.

At least the flares aren't making headlines in national TV news and front pages anymore.


Biggest piss off though is local Euro snobs

There will be plenty of people about to do that labeling for you Bubbs. That's probably the saddest part of it. You cannot express a perfectly valid opinion or objection without the risk of being called out as something you clearly aren't.

Cheers Polak He knows what I mean:o

Football reporting and broad casting is hope less over here. The Murdoch rags don't report it because they have so much invested in NRL and AFL. The ABC are useless . Mind you the FFA deserve all they get rang amateurs when compared to the other codes, with probably the exception of the chaps game.

I think he worded it very well and avoided the usual bigoted and sexist rhetoric usually spouted about this subject. That's probably why his point of view has been treated with respect and spoken about accordingly.

Ah, the Tommy Robinson approach.

yes the bad surface generally is bad enough but the long ruts are plain stupid