Michael Vaughan talking shit about England cricket team rotation policy. You've made your point you boring git. Now find something else to talk about. The idiot seems to ignore effect of having to live in a covid bubble in order to play. Sooner he's involved in some sort of controversy that results in him losing his BBC contract the better.

:supergrin: If only! Sadly our gun laws are mega tight.. don't know why? :bash:
There is, of course, always (allegedly) alternative sources

I can remember the time when merely being totally toilet used to be sufficient.

This should be on the "Stupid things that people say" thread, but the other day there was yet another fking programme about Cornwall on TV and the Mrs said "i've loved going to Cornwall on holiday as a child, the beaches were lovely and it was always downhill to the beach".

Tom Rosenthal - he’s been on House Of Games this week and he’s quite irritating

Complete ****head neighbours that continue to have people round through the whole of lockdown

:D:D

You gotta luv 'em!

:supergrin::supergrin:

You gotta luv 'em!

We heard from the neighbours that the dog had a relapse and passed away yesterday.

One less I suppose. I guess in 'survival of the fittest' it wasn't getting its own share of the food. Could be a number of factors.

Nice to finally meet you.

There is a thread for the fairer sex and their pearls of wisdom.

Liverpool football shirts look like they jave put them on backwards

Does that account for the fact they don't know if they're coming or going?

I’m sure they will blame somebody else for that.

When you send an email to someone you don't know and sign it "Robert" at the end.

Five minutes later they reply to you by opening with "Bob".

I'm not fussed what you call me really, and this is not unusual, but seems a bit of a liberty making the assumption I go by Bob to everyone. I've know some Robert's that get really pissed off if you call them Bob.

Yeah. Wankers.

Mike Read - comes across as unpleasant and smug

What do go by Bobby?

:)

George actually... :rolleyes:

Surely not George? Shirley?

He is a complete wanker, had a run in with him when I was working for a radio station over here.

Bob(y) George?

Haha

Sorry will stop :)

That for a while we were above the Wankers, West Ham and Arsenal and now look at us. Fully expect to be beaten by Brighton, all positivity seems to have been drained out of me and I'm annoyed about that as well!

Back when we lived in Sussex, we used to host local school visits for them to learn about the countryside and its ways.

On the feedback forms from the teachers, the commonest question was why are field gates invariably placed in the muddiest corner of a field. :D

Cheap looking power cables on 180 quid DAB radios.

Not something worth getting annnoyed about...we keep doing it...no point having any expectations above 15th..

Seems Roy, SP etc...don't....so why get annoyed by it anymore.

We would win our first 15 games...and then drop out the top 4...

The DJ who got Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Relax banned which then helped make it no. 1 and one of the biggest sellers of all time. Idiot.

Good point! :D

Interesting, I just got a response from a website I contacted for information stating my name was Robert.

This time they wrote back calling me Rob!

That's a new one. It's not annoying per se, just find it odd. I assume it is an over abundance of trying to appear friendly.

:lux:

That would be a good way to lose my business.

I presume this has been posted before so I guess this is going to annoy someone but I no longer give a shit.

Over 50s life cover.

A f*cking deluge of adverts - it's relentless.

F*ck off and die because I will without over 50s life cover.

C*nts

Wait until you're 65+ and on Medicare. (Are you still in the States?)

Every year between September and January you get inundated with literature, emails and phone calls for supplemental medical insurance.

And why is that?

Because all farmers are bastards?

[without your teacher’s mortar board getting in the way of your brain, I’m sure you know exactly why:)]

A lot of them just try to stile it out.

Why farmers are bastards?

What a post.

The c*nts asking questions on the Covid Update - f*ck off trying to make yourselves look clever.

Why don’t you ask some?

:supergrin:

Google translate?

Shrinkflation. No longer even subtle.

It’s gone mad, I bought some Cadbury’s chocolate bars in a 4 pack that I swear would fit into one of those 1 penny vending machines you always wanted to get for Christmas from Woolies ( I know there will be some of you thinking wtf is he talking about but others of a certain age will be nodding sagely)

Multipack bags of Wotsits. A disgrace.

Cadburys mini eggs lucky if the bag is half full

I got one of those off my Dad for Christmas. He bought my cousins Escape from Colditz.

:D

Wonderful

Equity release. It’s still borrowing whatever you call it, but just secured. But it’s a con, given all the charges and fees. I’m surprised the FCA haven’t come down on it already.
Also, people slate investment bankers, but it’s really retail banking that rips off the public. Retail banks are making billions on the interest rate they charge on mortgages whilst borrowing the cash for next to nothing.

Well apparently Elementary schools are open again here. I went to the market today as I do every Wednesday at about 8:00am.

There was an abundance of young mothers there today with very young children (2 to 5) in tow. In the year I've been doing the shopping there has been mainly old folk like me, and mostly men. I assume these mothers have dropped their older kids off at school and think they may as well get the shopping done now their out.

The annoying bit is these young mothers need to involve there little urchins in the shopping process while oblivious to other shoppers. "So Johnny, this is an avocado, we need 4, can you pick me out 4? 1, 2, 3, 4 very good. Now lets weigh them [why I don't know]. What number is that... yes one... well done, now lets get a bag, can you pull one off for me" etc., etc...

Another has her cart strewn across the aisle while she reads every ******* label on all the yogurts, again oblivious to the needs of others, while little Charlotte sits in the cart spreading her germs everywhere.

You can tell I don't have kids right?

:eek::eek::eek: Christ, I know Californian women are very liberated and open minded but saying that to your young son. Hope you called social services Hedgehog.

I don’t know if this annoys me or not but couldn’t think of anywhere else to post it.

The Numan advert for erectile distinction, where it throws out about 40 names for your Johnson (which is one of them, perhaps quite apt).

Now I’m all for adverts highlighting such things, but at 6.30?

Literally just as we were all sitting down to sausage and mash........

Come on.

Is that when you get an A+ for a hard on?

My Apple ID. I am of a certain age I accept. I take careful note, but next time I log in its bloody wrong.
Oh and my iPad it appears is too old for Netflix or Twitter. There are no updates available and cannot download latest browsers. Wife the same. More bloody expense if we want to keep up. Did I mention that Waitrose have no Rose Harissa.

Along similar lines, I talk to my cousin in England using FaceTime on our iPads quite a lot.

It used to work fine, then suddenly it started cutting us off (or losing connection) about every 10 minutes or so.

My iPad is pretty old now and cannot be updated to latest iOS revision. My wife has a pretty new iPad so we called my cousin using hers. Everything went great with no disconnects.

I did some Googling and found out it is a problem when an old iPad is used to connect to a new iPad (my cousin's iPad is also new and the problem started when she got it). But new to new is fine, and old to old is fine, just not old to new or new to old.

To compound the issue there is no WhatsApp available for iPads, which was my Plan B.

I know there are other options, but annoying none the less.

Tried Skype or Telegram?

Thanks. I'm sure they would work fine. Just trying to get my cousin to use them might be a problem.

Anyway there is not an issue if we use my wife's new iPad.

The annoyance is more that my old iPad is basically being put out to grass by Apple not supporting it, which I think is Oldtown Eagle's complaint also.

Kevin Pietersen & especially Mark Nicholas on the Test Match coverage on TalkSport.

Had to put up with Mark Nicholas for years over here, thankfully Ch9 lost the rights and so ta ta Mark.

The fact that adverts are so well targeted these days.

They seem to be able to pinpoint their target audience with distinction.

Hmmm.

If I buy something expensive, like a computer, say, I am then bombarded with adverts from companies that think "oh, he buys computers, he must want more of them". The funny thing is that once I bought a computer, guess what? I no longer need a computer, at least not for a while.

The other thing is that if I buy something that turns out to be shite, and even if I review it somewhere and say that it is shite, I still get targeted with adverts for more of the same stuff. Look, if your product's garbage, I'm not going to buy it again, am I? Actually this still happens even if I return the product and get my money back. I mean FFS.

It's like this.

https://assets.amuniversal.com/838f9...80001dd8b71c47

A fine example of how Apple's business model works, which is basically to trap you in a world of proprietary standards so that you can only ever use Apple stuff and then they stick a nozzle into your bank account and switch on the vacuum pump.

Google / Chrome is more open that that but their game is to make you put your personal information in the cloud where they can grab it and sell it. Linux still isn't ready for mobile devices and touch screens, unfortunately, and Windoze is simply a pile of bloated excrement with outrageous hardware demands that make it run like a pig on anything small. Android is the lesser of the various evils on these gadgets IMHO.

When I bought my new car in 2018 (Ford) I almost immediately started getting adverts/offers from Ford to buy a new vehicle. To this day I still get them, but now they seem obsessed with me trading it in for a new one (which makes more sense I guess).

Laughable really.

When I look round outside the house not a single deciduous tree has a leaf on it, yet every day a new number of dead leaves turns up in the drains and gutters.

Man who uses to Google to impress, not impressed with Google selling him things.

Oh and in a large organisation about one in a million employees takes decisions about whom to get things like recruitment, training, advertising and software from; and that person invariably sets up framework contracts so that they can be procured at predictable rates and service levels over a period of time, and what's more they select the suppliers using tendering processes. Any idiot knows this.

Yet every day I and all my colleagues are bombarded with E-mail advertising all these things and more by tinpot organisations who wouldn't even prequalify and carefully designed to dodge our spam filters.

Possibly because the vast number of companies in this country are not large organisations.

Google got it wrong? :sob:

Same as at home. We have got uPVC double glazing. Ok it's a few years old but a look at the house shows it's in decent nick but we still get salesmen knocking asking if we want new.

Just log into WhatsApp from Safari.

I was taking the piss out of Workdonkey.

Too subtle obviously.;)

You spread the net too far and started a google storm. You and your "agendas".

I've just spent a significant amount on money on a new office chair. I use it all day every day and the last one I bought lasted me 15 years, so I reckon it's something I'm happy to spend a lot on to get something decent.

Now all I see is ads for expensive office chairs.

Unless I am being whooshed, I should note that 'agenda' is already a plural and can't therefore be further pluralised.


WCB will be proud of me.

We paid a massive sum for one from John Lewis. A few years later and its leather arms have been shredded to buggery by the cats.

Specifically not gone for leather for that reason. Plus I'll be shutting the office door when I'm not at work. :)

Very good :D

EFA.

I’d get the leather chair and get rid of the cat.

Win win.

If one has an agenda and one has more than one then it is several agendas.

Only if one's grasp of the beauty of our language has been bastardised by watching too much American telly.

My boss, who has a teaching degree in the English language and is no more American than you or I agreed with me.

Anyway I'm sure someone will google it and prove one of us wrong.

You wouldn't have tried that defence with Alf...


Yes ; it will be one of their agenda.

Agendi

Cat sack brick river, then order the chair.

Or keep the cat outside where it belongs.

4 cats and a dog. I prefer them (usually) to my children. :D

I'll check it out again, but I didn't think you could do video links using the WhatsApp website.

Kier Starmer - Labour Party Leader.

CR and Latvian sitting in a tree.....

The bank dragging its feet, and then surprising me with a sting in the tail bit of extra thievery in paying off my mortgage as part of a property sale.

Basically, they have notified me of some additional charges that I must cover to proceed that just about knocks on the head the trip back to the UK that I had budgeted for.

A nice debate on the phone yesterday,and a trip to Santiago today to chat in person.

I particularly enjoyed the chap telling me that banks weren't in the business of giving money away.

I asked him if there was a school where they taught upcoming thieves in suits. I also said that I felt like I was a victim of an assault and was being treated by a copper who then proceeded to steal my phone.

Them just making sure they squeeze out their final pint of blood, I suppose.

I wonder whether it is just a Chilean thing or is universal. I did point out that banking staff seem to be living on a completely different plane of existence to the rest of people. I said that I knew that it was his job to defend his bank's policies to clients, but whereas while most regular people would see their charges and costs as excessive or abusive, they feel, supported by the law, that all is normal. I asked him, that considering we are in a pandemic and that I am officially drawing unemployment benefit, if he thought that surprising someone with a previously unnotified request for almost 2 grand to proceed, is something that most regular clients can easily take with a pinch of salt. I got a blank stare on that one.

The word I am looking for is - intransigent.

I even tried the old lawyers or superintendant of banks line, but he said it was my choice, but I would just accrue more charges over time and have lawyers fees on top.
I sometimes feel that people are laughing at me as they dip their hands into my pocket.

I will probably get about a grand of that back. I seemingly have to pay a guarantee of the next three mortgage dividends should the sale be overly delayed. Notwithstanding that the paers were signed in the notaria and the bank dragged their feet for a month.

The portion that pays off the bank is including in the cheque left at the notaria, so these three future dividends are some sort of double accounting.

Is this the same in the UK or USA?

Oh and I make Maidstoned right and Maz stuck in the past of his fuddy duddy Oxbridge training..

Originally agenda was the plural of agendum, meaning ‘a thing to be done’. However, it became applied to a list of things to be done, and in this, the most usual modern sense, it has become firmly singular, with the plural agendas.

https://www.lexico.com/explore/is-ag...ular-or-plural

It s a single source, but it is powered by Oxford.

They both have a point. I have to admit I can get a bit Mazzy about "data".

It should of course be "datodes".

(Do you have the same issues with the likes of "candelabra" and "media"?)

The Star Trek character?

Spanish banks are just as bad.

And they charge for everything....and since Brexit have gleefully started charging for processing payments in from the UK.

Nah Hope Sandoval....

Good footballer back in the day, he was at Grasshoppers Zurich wasn't he.

England losing the Test Match in two days thus spoiling my plans to watch live cricket at the weekend