I guess they are both Las Vegas lounge singers launched to superstardom.

Yes, that's absolutely correct apart from the fact that it's utter bollocks, and I'm not a massive fan of either of them.

You're right. One of them was a mafia stoogie as well.

And I like their music.

Funny how they spent their later years just playing shows at Vegas rather than putting themselves out there. Some might call it resting on ones laurels.

Having a power cut this morning, and having to go around resetting 5 digital clocks only for the power to go out again this afternoon.

On the plus side, I'm getting pretty quick at doing it.

Don't forget the analogue clocks too! They might be electric.

Batteries are a wonderful thing...

People who just throw their face masks and ppe gloves on the ground when they get in their cars
UTTER PIGS

I'm sure that you've mentioned that before on this thread.

Mentioned that before, all over the place in Basildon.Wankers:veryangry

10 cars getting a parking ticket next to a carpark that was badly sign posted in a country area.

We are all trying to just go for a ******* walk away from people in town.

Sinatra didn't, he was still doing world tours.

Utter pigs is the best way of describing them.

You can't reason with these types without getting a punch in the face for your efforts.

The usual....excuse me, I think you dropped something, and continue walking would be the way to go.

In mafia run casinos in Cuba?

Yes, wtf is going on in their heads.

I’m sure I’ve said it before but people who “ignore” and don’t clean up their dogs mess. Absolute arseholes.

About 7 weeks ago I saw a few discarded here. I have only seen a couple in the last few weeks. And Chileans are generally massive litterers.

Maybe we might see a sea change of attitude in littering here...

I pick up mine, which is why I was confused by a BBSer asking why I counted the number of dollops my pooch makes.

Saying that, it seems somewhat pointless here at times as we have so many street dogs. I am generally not going to clean up the other four or five turds they have left near the same spot - every time.

Oh I know, most people are good owners and always clean up after their dogs, as usual it’s the handful of arseholes that ruin it. As for people discarding masks, where I’ve seen them most is in the local parks, and especially the car parks nearby.

My bathroom scales :( Half a stone in 6 weeks :sob:

Mine are fine.Going in the opposite direction to yours:lux::lux::lux:

Fair play to you. I'm walking 3-4 miles a day but snacking/portion control is my problem. Plus,as someone who never drank indoors, a couple of beers at night seems to have become the norm. :(

When watching catch up TV, having to constantly click that I am over a certain age. If there were kids in my house I would put a lock on, why can't I click something once to say we are all over age and that be it?

IT's even more annoying on sites like Steam or IGN where you actually have to put your DOB to prove you are over 18.

Right arse-ache.

I'm out with the dog for roughly 5 miles a day and the beer is virtually non existent. Same as you on the grub front.The booze does it for me,and trying not to eat the shit I did before. It's not an easy process :(

Probably... I moan every time the clocks go back or forward!

This was a bonus moan... :rolleyes:

People who schedule a work call for 50 minutes & then assume they can take the whole hour. If you want to meet for an hour, schedule the call for a ******* hour!

Quancast and others, constantly asking if I want to opt out of their advertising......

I will make the moan valid....

...I have virtual classes here. Our system has its server in The US. The set up of start and end time of classes is still screwed by the change of hour in The US from threee weeks back.

Thus for a 90 minute class I have to set the thing up for about 3 hours or late arriving students get locked out.. I get bothered in mid flow by students telling me that this or that student is blocked out of the class, and then I have to interupt what I was explaining to change time settings. Then, after the class I get emails from other students saying the couldn't enter the class etc..

You expect this crap for a week when the hours change...but this has continued for getting on for a month.

Then they would take up 70 minutes of your time.

The phrase being rolled out on football threads: “when safe to do so”

Makes sense, just bored of reading the same phrase time and time again.

Crikey, a 90 minute virtual class sounds tough. You must be a very engaging teacher to hold their attention for so long.

My son’s remote lessons are 50 mins long. It’s fine with the most lively and interesting teachers, but a couple of them have quite monotonous voices. It’s much harder to keep your attention on them when you’re receiving a virtual lesson in comparison to a classroom one. Especially if it’s an audio only lesson.

Record the sound of your doorbell on your mobile.

Play it after 52 mins, ‘sorry, got to go now and receive an important courier package re work, bye, speak again tomorrow/next week’.

End call.

Maybe it's me, but "when save to do so" doesn't seem to make a lot of sense

It's a computer thing - bloody Microsoft. :D

The presential class is 90 minutes. I video about 50 minutes to an hour with them just at this time. Some good class go a bit longer than that.

These are young adults.

Our system allows us to share videos, have an online whiteboard. Chat on audio or on a chat type screen. We can work with an online PPT, word, excel.

It’s the new normal.

(Typo corrected)

American’s doing instructional videos on You Tube.

Just want to know quickly and clearly how to fix the sticky breaks on my bike. I don’t need a preamble of verbal diarrhoea that lasts 5 mins beforehand and then using 100 words in your explanation when five would suffice. And stop the condescending tone too - I’m not in kindergarten!

:lux::lux::lux:

Happens all over YouTube, people trying to reach 10 minutes for that ad revenue.

People who walk their dogs off lead

A rah of advertisments where the tone of the (usually female ) voiceover is that of a nursey school teacher reading the daily story to class of 3 and 4 year olds. So bloody patronising

(other)

EFA

And you cant evn throwsomething at their heads to get their attentiomn back!:D

People who have discovered that putting one foot infront of the other slightly faster than normal equates to something called jogging, but then doing it on the f****** road whilst the pavement is clear.
I have enjoyed looking at their faces as I drive just a little too close to them for their liking as though I am not allowed to use the road.

TOSSERS

:D

Obviously this is for your signature not this actual post which deserves a yellow smiley at best, and that is being generous

My wife who has to take forever to get herself together to do anything

Doesn't annoy we as much as make me curious.

Has the UK become a bastion for fitness freaks or has the exception of exercise proved to be a convenient excuse for many people to break isolation?

Still, more people getting exercise can only be a good thing.

I am cynical of the public at the best of times but I think it’s case of both intrinsically linked; from positive motivations.

It gives people a reason to get themselves together and get out side. When something is denied it seems more desirable also people want to make the most of themselves in a tough time. In life there is a lot of distractions but now the options have been filtered down a bit.

I personally think there are many ways of dealing with this and we all shift day to day. The spectrum is nihilism - drinking too much / eating too much / thinking what is the point, to over production - working too much / putting too much pressure on oneself to make the most of a bad time. Ive moved between both extremes at different points depending on mood.

Thats because the majority of people theyre trying to attract have the brain capacity of 3-4 year olds.

If they start the vid with "hey guys" I switch off.

It's the young couples, who should be at home shagging, drinking and drugging, that do my head in. If you can't do that shit when you're in your twenties, when can you? What a tragic waste of life.

I feel your pain... you will be happy to know it gets worse as they get older.

Universal Credit. You would be astounded at the loophole I discovered today that is being both exploited and ignored by HMG. Kinell.

If it's a government benefit system then no I would not be astounded at any loopholes, flaws, weaknesses etc until fraudsters have rinsed the system. And I include the DWP/HMRC in fraudsters.

Pray tell.

Ain’t that the truth.

When my dear mother used to stay we learned from experience that we shouldn’t tell her the correct time we needed to leave the house. My father used to adopt the same tactic.

Tell her a time that has at least 30 mins extra built in and we might actually arrive on time. A small lie that pays dividends.

“In App Purchases” Borderline criminal. About 10 years ago I’m sure the App Store used to give you a fair price for the full game, no ads etc. Usually about £9.99. Just been perusing a game entitled “Real Boxing 2” where you can get the “Max Coins Pack” for £84.99!! For a mobile game? I should bleedin coco.

Can't. It's so easy to exploit you'll all be doing it tomorrow morning.

£15.8b that computer system has cost as well.

Downloading anything from sky, fast forwarding and trying avoid watching the adverts.

When you make a cup of tea, but for some reason it tastes like crap and you have to start again.

Especially when it is the just got out of bed cuppa.

Dropping my new phone and craking the screen less than a week after i purchased it. I was just in the process of ordering a screen protector as well. 😭

This is definitely up there.

Pretty sure they're deliberately made to be slip-out-of-your-hands-able. Since getting a cover I've never once dropped mine.

Click bait. Its just shit i dont give a **** about stacey soloman and joe squash

You are Iain Dowie and I claim my £5.;)

This brilliant marketing email from BT

Feel supported.
Get enhanced broadband at no extra cost.
Get enhanced broadband for just £5 extra a month. Simply call us on 0800 169 5077 for this exclusive upgrade.

I upgraded my broadband the other week to a superfast all singing and dancing whatever fibre optic shenanigans. I now can't get my printer to work with it. The online instructions might as well be written in Chinese.

If it's a branded one get the manufacturer app on your phone, set-up is pretty easy from then on.

If you got a new wireless router with the upgrade you'll have to join (password etc) the printer to it.

That Nationwide advert.

"HOW ARE YOU!?"

Feel like they've sneakily edited out the "you cunt" from it.

Or use WPS if that’s easier

All the cheap adverts on the telly with the public using webcams.

Adverts on TV where multi nationals keep telling me , We're all in this together ,or, we're here for you. **** off I don't want to buy a Toyota or open a Westpac account.

that way your lips and mouth get "burnt" from binging on twiglets... like when you eat too much pineapple

You'll be receiving a pineapple up your butt if you've touched my twiglets....

They need to replace the gold standard with a twiglet index...

:D

Reading the side splitting ‘they will have an advantage’ joke regarding a team playing in an empty stadium. It’s every 3 posts for the last 6 weeks on the two Covid-19 football threads.

Stop cracking it then.

Voke.

And the 'Bum, Hips, Heart' woman. Who exactly has a fridge full of just different-coloured peppers?

When you’ve got a headache and open the paracetamol / ibuprofen packet. There’s always that little piece of paper (instructions) that’s wrapped around the tablets.

Always annoys me.

These days I can't form an opinion until someone with a bookcase behind them tells me what to think.

Price gouging. Thought my little boy might like to play a bit of video game bowling or tennis so had a look for a cheap used Nintendo wii. CEX has them for sale for £16 in March, prices now up to £90.

On a related note (not annoying) I had noticed in the Dougie Freedman videos he had an English Dictionary behind him.

I was glad to hear Chris pick on him about that also (in tandem with the Aki story).

Yep. Not that I was seriously in the market, but the consoles are 40% more expensive here compared to 3 months ago. And that is everywhere. We have a strict recent law about collusion in price fixing - I might send a complaint to the consumer body. And this is taking advantage

This is for stock they are already had in their warehouses. PS4 for example is a last sell off hurrah before the PS5 comes out and is timed for The Last of Us II release.

I had a look because there was a lot of cheap offers on PS4 games. But they want 400 quid plus for the console compared to 270 quid a few months back.

The games are the same, but I can understand that it is difficult to replace that stock atm.

The supermarkets have been fine here, though. They seem cheaper than normal TBF. And like the UK they are discounting a lot of stuff near their expiry date.

I'm not so sure about that Peter. Admittedly I've been using Tottus rather then the usual Jumbo so it could be just that, but the weekly shop is more expensive .

And consoles - I got a email from Paris (I think it was them) yesterday with upto 30% off PS4's (with the Cencosud card)

Websites that become unreadable due to moving whilst loading, and then pop ups asking about cookies.

I don't get it, as soon as I find a website like that I escape never to return, don't they know it's ******* annoying and won't promote traffic?

Not much of an offer if they have increased the price by 40% compared to January.

You can do them the favour of paying 10% more for a soon to be replaced machine. LOL

Same here, until I retrained myself to open the packet from the bottom. :p

The dickheads in Andalucia who flouted the relaxed rules of lockdown leading to an increase in people contracting the virus and keeping the rest of us from entering phase 1 off the lockdown decrease.

The problem here is that you are right-handed.
If you hold the packet with the writing facing you the inside paperwork is always bent around the flap at the right end of the box.
I guarantee if you try this I am right.
Open the left end for instant access to your drugs.

Yes, exactly this. I work in the pharma industry - those PILs (Patient Information Leaflet) are a requirement according to local Health Authority regulations.

And I was only thinking the other day that they are inserted that way because most people are right-handed, thus maximising the chance that the user will encounter - and potentially read - the PIL.

Annoys me too.

I was about to post something similar, all these heart-wrenching ads cashing in on Coronavirus, as if Nationwide bank or whoever are the cornerstone of the community, **** off!

Supermarket trolleys that don’t have a brake, so as you are unloading your bags into the back of the car the trolley always makes a run for it towards some other car’s paintwork.

Seems like all the puppies & kitty's have been snapped up from shelters
to have a pet to spend time with during lockdown.
How many have put any thought into putting the same amount of time
into the animal when things are back to normal.
Hasn't happened yet so I guess I'm jumping the gun
but I'm anticipating society's stupidity.

Another thing for the 'Things that will be up for sale after the lockdown' upcoming thread?

Yep. ‘Here’s to the XXX and the YYY, but most of all the ZZZ’ And TV shows with celebs doing things at home on their webcams. It’s all getting old fast and I’m surprised marketing and tv execs haven’t realised that and are still churning them out.

Yes, late evening here at least 3 of the 5 channels offer this as their entertainment.

Thank feck for YouTube and Netflix.

The same is going to happen here.

Yep.

More and more people just doing what they want, that's the trouble with our so called lockdown.