Savannah is on one of my to go lists, just a drive away

Well worth a visit. I was lucky enough to have to go there on biz quite frequently.

Sorry you mis understood my post, no problem with the Irish or indeed the Irish celebrating St Patrick's day. As I said its the plastic idiots I have no time for.

My irish mates hate it as the pubs are full of "amateur drinkers".

I think he was sticking up for you as opposed to the people who desperately claim Irish heritage, dance around in Guiness hats and throw up after 5 pints.

You're entirely right.


I certainly wasn't expecting such an aggressive response! Must be the Guinness.

Which half :)

Does anyone else annoyingly spend too much time trying to guess what insult/words have been replaced by asterisks?
It's pretty obvious when its the 4 asterisk favorites **** or ****... but the longer ones?

I think it's getting more difficult because while I've always known **** is blocked out, I was pretty sure shit was ok, but wasn't sure about ****

I'm 100% non plastic (but have lived here 37 years) and tbh have never really bothered with the day, but if people want to go out and get rat arsed then why not. Its a holiday in the Republic and i think it might even be one in the six counties too. Though i can't imagine the orange lot celebrating it.
Personally, i enjoy the few pints pre Palace on a Saturday afternoon much more craic.

The use of the word 'curated' in anything than than an art context.

This tipped me off the edge today

"coffee subscription services have tried to stand out by offering curated roasts by experts"

I don't think there's anything wrong with "curated" in terms of usage there, but "roasts" are joints of meat; the grammar leaves something to desired because an agentive phrase should immediately follow the past participle in a passive clause.

"Coffee subscription services have tried to stand out by offering roasted beans curated by experts".

Stop press: apparently the OED thinks the use of "roast" on its own to refer to a kind of coffee is usual. Ho hum.

Sitting through 5 minutes of adverts then remembering you’re watching a recorded program

Ahh that will be those Indonesian Civets :)

:supergrin:

:p

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pr...HHH69Mn3HRJj48

He never is! :eek:

Yup :D

F**k me, imagine what the rest of the subscribers to the site are like, if old soppy bollocks is considered Gauleiter material.

I think they view him as rather left-wing…

:lux:

Foxes walking through my farm screaming, at two in the morning.

My dogs barking at screaming foxes at five past two in the morning.

Are you sure they're not shagging? Christ what a racket that is

Had a couple of nights there. I loved it. Charleston, South Carolina, too.

Socially distanced hugs.

Neighbours complaining about shotgun blasts at ten past two in the morning.

:D

Can we now ban everything related to Beatles????



Asking for a friend of course :)

He does a great job....though they still can't work out who I am on there....which is something. :D

Companies foisting DocuSign upon you without a by your leave.

Have to agree with that, Savannah and Charleston are two of the nicest places I have been to.

Sorry, forgot this is the things that annoy you thread, back on topic.

Peter H annoys me.

Having moved from the edge of the New Forest to Poole I thought I had heard the last of the night time foxes. As has been said the mating noises of foxes is unbelievable not sure whether its the Vixen or Reynard.
But nope middle of town and Reynard is out on the prowl every night happy in his search for food. Think he might come from the nearby heath. My own fault the road round the corner is called Foxholes Road think it should of given ne a clue. Like moving into Flood Lane and being surprised when it flooded.

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Presuming you got by with a little help! from them?!

TBF I annoy myself.

Why are most hotels (here at least) allowing dogs to stay in their rooms?

Don't get me wrong I love dogs, but that doesn't mean I want to stay in a room that previously had a dog in there, or has one in the room next door yapping.

I even saw a review on Trip Advisor recently where someone said they were surprised how clean their room was and there was no evidence that a dog had stayed in the room previously... she had a dog with her!

Don't get me started on this new phenomenon of taking dogs on planes.... Service dog my arse!

Poole - Do you ever run into Tone or 'arry?

'Influencers'. Who?why? What the F**k?

They existed when we were young; they just didn’t enjoy the same breath of coverage.

What did we call them then? Trendsetters?
And what is it that gives their opinions authority now? Is it simply about clicks?

Them and youtubers, why??

The Fyre festival documentaries are fun to watch if you want to see influencers getting quite upset.

I've been meaning to give one of those a spin. I'm saving it for when I am feeling particularly in need of cheering up. Thank you for reminding me, Vince.

I preferred one of them much more than the other, but can't remember which one. HTH

Yes and yes.

It's worth seeing :)

The movie length one?

No response on the TV thread, so I'll try my luck with the cantankerous population of this one.
I can't be the only person aghast at the idea of the Ipcress File being remade as a TV miniseries? And using Liverpool as the filming location, representing 60s London.

Yes. Brilliant watching people get fooled by their own self importance.

Well.......I am outraged and my hast is well and truly agged.

Maybe they're using it for the Albania bit.

Point of order. There is no 'Albania bit'. ;)

The Prince Phillip discourse on social media is enough to turn one into a royalist. A load of 35 yr old blokes who all look 50 are flabbergasted that a 99 yr old looks 102.

The Great British Menu. Such utterly pointless poncy food.

Not enough mini Kievs?

That’s a bit poncy too tbh. What’s the point of a mini Kiev?
If you want finger food then chicken wings, vol au vents and cheese and pineapple on a stick is the way to go.

Oh I just watched it on Netflix.

The Palace website demanding that I accept targeting cookies before it will let me see certain news item videos.

Any website asking iou to accept cookies.

Don't they know I'm diabetic? :D Barstewards, I love choc and nut cookies.

The various wealthy celebrities recounting how hard lockdown has been for them. Their PRs busting a gut to try to render their clients relevant. Show some self-awareness, and f**k right off.

Yes, that is something the world could do without.

Well it actually made me laugh, an example from this evening's edition of the CEO's Weekly Bulletin...

I think he's been on the sniff again.

While they sip vino by their pool as a semi-clad z-list bint strolls casually by in the background, after a work out in his in- house gymnasium.

Getting surveys from my bank after having to deal with them on the phone that start with: Based on your recent interaction with the [Insert Bank name here] Fraud Department, how likely are you to recommend [Insert Bank name here] to a friend or colleague?

I for the life of me cannot think of a scenario where I would suggest a bank to a friend or colleague based on a phone conversation with India! (sorry... I should say "with a representative of their bank")

Did you not see the cringe worthy ,much ridiculed , Imagine clip. Done by said celebrities from their L.A and N.Y mansions. :jerkit: the lot of them . Chris O'Dowd went to zero from that.

During the day I piss like Shergar, but the one I have at 4am takes 10 mins,

Does it take you that long to find the toilet in your field at that time of the morning ?

How does a horse thats been missing, presumed dead, for almost 40 years, piss?

I did not. And I am glad I did not.

Oh ok, Tiger Roll. :D

Chris O’Dowd did a podcast with Louis Theroux where he admitted it was awful and in his defence said when recording it he didn’t realise what it was properly for. Is a good podcast series.

Never knew that. O.K . He has gone back up in my opinion :D . I'm so shallow.

Should I know this guy? I actually had to look him up?

Never seen the I.T crowd ?

I don't think it's beyond the realms of possibility that he hasn't. We aren't all glued to the Satan Box.

Maybe he turns it off and on again

I know this has been mentioned before, but the way Windows change your settings willy-nilly when ever they do an update that as far as I can tell I didn't authorize.

Latest one was I noticed that I wasn't getting asked to enter my PIN when waking the screen after being inactive. It took a bit of Googling, but found out finally the setting I needed to fix the issue. There is no way in hell I accidentally changed it as it is pretty deep in the settings minutia.

Having said that, I actually quite like not having to enter my PIN to wake the computer up and will turn the feature off again, but that's not the point...

Sign language on tv programmes.wtf are subtitles for? At least they are central to the screen. Surely if you're watching that annoying fecker in the bottom right of your screen you can't be watching the programme anyway.

People who can't read, probably.

Or, according to someone on reddit; "Most programmes have subtitles, the news in the UK often have sign language interpreted segments. Some have interpreters overlaid on repeats (early morning / late night). Generally only the BBC in my experience.

It is many deaf people's first or preferred language, that is why they do it. The BBC are non-commercial so it is an accessibility reasoning rather than a commercial or practical decision necessarily."

Aren't these only only on at silly hours? It seems a bit petty.

That said they often had a women which looked like she had wet hair all the time and had got dressed in 10seconds flat- she was annoying!

It annoys me that people get annoyed about this sort of thing.

It helps so many people with disabilities connect with what is going on.

I think the BBS should have a Braille option.

I'm with you. Having said that, with the capability and capacity of digital TV broadcasting, it really should be possible to offer all programmes on all channels both with and with sign language interpreters

I use subtitles all the time even though I'm not hearing impaired. It seems to be far easier to follow dialogue with them as well as audio, especially with noisy children about. I've kind of got used to it now so feels wrong without them. They're shite for anything live though like football commentary so have to turn them off for that.

It's important to realise that sign is a gestural language - not just a somatic alphabet used for transcription (it can do that, but to spell everything out as letters in sign is very verbose and inappropriate - it would be like writing Japanese without using the kanji "picture" characters). I don't think you could interpret spoken English into sign at speaking speed using just transliteration, not that I've tried. It's treated as a separate official language in many jurisdictions.

I learnt to sign a long time ago, and my daughter has learnt more recently. Not because we needed to but we wanted to. Her signing is so much different to how I was taught 50 years ago.

I have an Indonesian friend who signs on TV and she was also involved in the Para Games here. Her signing of the Indonesian National Anthem was something to behold.

It's a fascinating thing to learn and it was great to be able to communicate with others at the Para Games.

Thank god, another non deaf subtitles fan. Most people seem to think I'm nuts

Not just assistance with comprehension, but it tells you what songs are playing, reminds you what the characters are called etc...

Whole new world

I watched The Wire with the subtitles on.

Before Wikipedia

After Wikipedia

Trainspotting on Netflix had automatic subtitles in some parts lol

It does annoy me that audio quality on many programmes and movies is so poor. That 'Jamaica Inn' production was particularly bad.

That would be a matter of cost, rather than capability.

Should be an option to get rid of the signer , i find it bloody annoying .

This, with bells on.
This never used to be a thing. What's going on? Is the sound being mashed up because of something in the digitalization process? Is it something in the hardware? My sound bar has a "smart sound" option that softens sudden increases in volume (background (ha! that's a laugh) music, or things like huge explosions), that quite frankly, for some movies/shows, if it's not selected the movie dialogue is totally unintelligible. "Smart sound" was never a thing before? Why do we need it now?

My eldest daughter (17) does this too. I thought she was alone in this freakish behaviour but obviously not :D

Yes, and a cost that should be borne to make broadcasts accessible to all.

Who should pay this (significant) cost?

Same here. It is particularly useful for mumbly Yanks.

It's about prioritisation. Broadcasters seem happy - for example - to broadcast football matches both with or without artificial crowd noises.

That’s because those broadcasters have deep pockets. Not all do.

Well, let's start with all channels from the BBC, ITV and Sky then.