You’re racist to Alexa?

Tv show directors who film scenes in no or very low lighting - we all have flat screen TVs nowadays and don’t sit in the dark to watch a show (or never watch your show in the daytime) so all we can see is the room reflection on your no doubt excellently well directed scenes.

I would add mumbling speech, or background effect music too loud so you can't understand what the actors are saying, despite me having a sound bar and turned up bloody loud and my hearing aids in and turned up to full volume.

Drives me crazy. TBH it can be even worse on a projector which have some advantages but low light scenes isn't one of them. Watched the Courier (an excellent movie) but some of the key scenes are hard work because you can barely make them out. It's easier on a TV.

Also agree with Hedgehog's comments re mumbled dialogue and over-loud backing music. I still have pretty good hearing but there are many TV series these days that are littered by one of the people in the room saying what did he/she say due to some poorly mixed (levels) audio track.

People that can park within their lines.
I’ve got someone special who seems to think their ok to park over my line every day.
Really helpful when you’re trying to load your boot.

Sounds like they've overstepped their mark

They can’t park, takes a lot not to boot their car.

That might be crossing the line...

Makes it hard to.snort it too

We have the subtitles running for most movies or tv series.

I thought mumbling incoherence was meant to be 'arty'? The words are probably irrelevant - it's the mood what does it.

Totally agree - Brian Cox's "Universe" being a case in point.
I'm a sucker for any space subject documentary, and by far the most important elements of such are the commentary and the images. Instead you got this continual soaring "majestic" music which totally obscured what he was saying. I had to put the sub-titles on. I don't know what the director/producers were thinking.

You get a ticket in our street if you're over the lines in a bay.
It's a pleasure to see so many Range Rovers getting a a fine.

My wife hates Alexa.
She is convinced the bot has it in for her. Ignores all her requests.

You could try switching off all of the "auto" audio settings your TV has.

And for the Brian Cox dissers, send him a message and let him know. Things can only get better...

My wife too. To be fair I see her point. Alexa will ignore her but when I ask the same thing it will do it.

I wonder to what extent they tested and voice trained Alexa to female voices.

Alexa is a preprogrammed marriage breaker

She thinks that if she follows up by getting angry and shouting it will work.

Fog light wankers. My farts create more fog than there was around this morning and yet I'm met with blinding fog lights everywhere that will probably be left on till next year. :jerkit:

A few years back when on a trip to England I rented a car and turned on what I thought was the rear window defroster (we don't have rear fog light here).

I stopped at a traffic light and a guy pulls up beside he and indicates to open my window... he proceeds to give me a verbal dressing down along the lines of, "Turn your ******* fog light off"... news to me it was on, but figured it out.

Carry on....

Can you fine a lump of metal and plastic you vehicularly bigoted chap, you?

You know what Hedge the more of your posts I read the more I think of you as the BBS Frank Spencer :D:D

Ummmmmmm....

D:Ream on….

:p

Shouldn't that be: "oooooooooh Betty" :)

No-one needs a Range Rover in London.

Let’s go on-roading !

100% this.

I think you will find that middle class people need a range rover to ensure the rest of us know they have money

A notification on my phone that tells me I’ve just restarted it……:wallbash::wallbash::wallbash:

https://i.ibb.co/xLw8Fnc/D5-CC1175-3...B0-A8818-E.jpg :D

If it was a bloke on a motorbike it might've been me.

"Needs" no, wants ...oh yes please.

I think I prefer the new Defender. Or maybe even the Ineos Grenadier. Would need to have a look at them in the flesh

No, although I did have another encounter with a guy on a bike.

I was going to be doing a right turn into a garden center, and wasn't sure where the entrance was, so had my right turn indicator on, and was sort of slowing down looking for the entrance.

Guy on a rice rocket pulls up on along side me my left side and shouts, "turn if you are ******* going to"!

Seemed a bit out of order to me... pretty sure he wanted to haul arse past me on the right but was afraid I would turn right in front of him. I told myself it was his problem, no mine.

Which side of the road were you driving on?

I was being an outside lane wanker...

Buying a part online that cost $14.00 and it cost $10 to ship. Very small part to boot.

Not even from Palace's club shop!

Part for £4, cost 15 to ship from UK, took a month to get here.

Saw one in the flesh the other day. Boy is it an ugly duck.

I do like to the look and philosophy behind the Grenadier though.

When people use “literally” in a sentence incorrectly

I think that having a Tesla is the new middle class car de jour.

"Hey look at me, I'm an eco-warrior."

Wankers who probably support the wankers too.

Brexit eh ! Cer :rolleyes:

Additional wanker points for an abundance of illegal fully tinted windscreen and driver/passengers side windows, plus no license plate on the front (also illegal).

No sure how they get away with it.

OK, you win! :eek:

Now you're just being a twat, BE :D

"Now"?

How many fires will that put out, or is it just one of the LFB's diversity vehicles which goes around telling the yoot of London how much they love LGBQWERTY+ types?

https://i.ibb.co/1s0q9kg/BA36-F0-A6-...-DBE02-FE9.jpg

Any better? :supergrin:

Hermes couriers - lying incompetent wankers.

Also, so-called "druids". Beardy nonce twats.

You must really hate the Druid Invocation to Hermes then. :D

Oh Great One, Swift fleet footed herald of the gods,
You who are the son of the great Zeus and the blessed nymph Maia,
Smiling Lord of shepherds and merchants,
We call to you!


Master of travel, roads seen and unseen,
You who ushers the living after death into the realm of Hades,
Lord of time and space between the worlds,
We call you!


Most cunning and shrewd among the immortals,
God of balanced energies and esoteric magics,
Walker among the dreams of mortals,
We call to you!


Might Hermes,
Come to you at this time of magic,
When life is at its peak and death has waned,
We make offerings to you and ask that you be with us now!


Blessed Hermes accept our offerings!

WTAF is that utter bollocks drivel?

It’s a beardy nonce twat’s invocation to the lying incompetent wankers.

http://adruidsviewpoint.blogspot.com...to-hermes.html

Do they drive Range Rovers?

What an absolute pile of c~nt. You sicken me.

edit - not that anybody knows what druids actually did, but it's a fair bet that it had less than f~ck all to do with a Greek god

Hermes response

We tried to deliver your parcel but you were out
We have left the parcel in a safe place
That safe place is the rubbish bin belonging to Number 30 down the road
Honestly the parcel hadn't been torn apart
And half the contents hadn't been stolen already
When we left it there

I thought you’d ‘enjoy’ that. :supergrin:

Not in London, no.

FOC/GYAC.

Just eat cyclists. Ride on the pavement at speed and expect you to get out of the way.

People who throw rubbish on the floors when they’re very close to a bin

One way of getting rid of the ****s

A cyclista will be along soon to tell you it's ok because car drivers do it too.

There seems to be a growing tendency to adopt Australian or US intonation when speaking particularly when giving presentations. At the end of a sentence a speakers voice will rise in pitch indicating a question.
Drives me bloody mad....

However this is one of the benefits of attending meetings via Teams. You can turn off the volume.....a facility I will greatly miss when we go back to meetings on a face to face basis

Been driving me nuts for years. Could understand if it's just a young people's "fad" but it's not.

A sweaty tutting runnerista will be along as well. And possibly a mobilityscooterista.

It's only safe inside the pub, a barista if you like

I had two glasses of red wine last night (really nice stuff a customer gave me) and I've resorted to paracetamol. I was quite proud of myself for putting the cork back in half a bottle, and this is the reward I get. Humbug!

Drives me bloody mad and I live here

Can I get some more information on that?

That’s a bit of a drastic solution to the cycling problem.

We are in the middle of a drought and have had one day of mild rain in the last "x" months. We are finally going away for a couple of days, and guess what... forecast is 95% chance of rain the two days we are away down the coast. Day with come home is forecast for sunny and warm.

Hopefully the bar is open and not closed due to COVID...

Sainsburys click and collect - 1st time I’ve used it. They don’t bag anything. An entire Xmas shop for 8 people rolling around in the boot of my car.

Tells you in the email. Like all the Ryanair moaners. Just do what you're asked to do and it's easy innit bruv?

That is a question, though.

It’s been around for years. Especially people on the radio, who do it when being interviewed. It’s almost like they need to add more conviction to what their saying by going up at the end of their sentences.

MFBias will be on here soon to explain “Vocal Fry”….

Yes, I totally know what you mean?

‘This…is what…LOVE smells like’

Oh do **** off

People of social media proudly boasting that they've just finished their last day of work for the year

People looking for sympathy by proudly announcing on social media that they’ve got covid with a photo of their test result, almost feels like a badge of honour with some of them

The old bored retired fella opposite with his noisy leaf blower!! It’s fookin useless, he’ll be out their for an hour or two chasing this pile of leaves around and it’s a constant high pitched droning noise

Then he’ll spend four hours jet washing his drive, similar sort of droning noise!! He’s just one of these ***** who’s got to have every gadget you can buy:wallbash:

A gardener is cheaper than a gazillion garden gadgets, takes up less space, and takes all the leaves / detritus away afterwards.

I have someone outside right now trimming all the hedges.
What a time to be alive.

Maybe his wife wanted a neatly trimmed bush for Christmas?

Googling contact HRMC for a contact number and having adverts looking like HMRC that you use to Connect you with Tiny writing saying it will cost £3.60 A MINUTE to connect when the direct number is a couple of adds down. Fking scam artists must sucker loads as there is so many of them

Just an addition to that but similar scam where advertisers charge a higher cost to help renew licences or obtain services. Came across that when looking at passport renewal.

People at th supermarket tills, especially this time of year, who cannot be arsed to place their items into the conveyor belt efficiently and with consideration for the person behind them, instead chucking stuff on willy-nilly with huge gaps in between so that they leave no room for the next person to work with.

I cannot understand the mentality of people like that who clearly just could not give a **** about anybody else.

I do it deliberately. It buys extra time in the bagging area and avoids people behind having to wait while I pack.

I can understand how immigrants to this country feel that they are not represented by TV radio and advertising to such an extent that the reverse has now happened.

This has resulted in one particular person pronouncing artist without using the middle T, I speak less than perfect English myself but for some daft reason I find this annoying beyond common sense!!!!!!!

Mine all involve shop/ cafe doors.
People , who for some reason, grind to a halt in a doorway, usually you have to say” excuse me, please” a few times to budge them.
Born in a barn merchants who leave doors open when entering shops

I had the same problem here when looking for some sample driving test questions. I had Googled DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) and got many hits mostly from sites that were either DMV.com or DMV.net or some variable on that theme. The official one is DMV.gov.

Like you, all the "unofficial" ones wanted money to buy there sample tests, and looked very official. Would be very easy to fall for their tricks.

YouTube has decided that I’m a Man Utd fan. Most of my recommended videos are about Roy Keane, Ronaldo, Rednose and Man Utd

David Walliams....what an absolute cock !!

Gemma Collins- not the sharpest tool in the box, is she?

Price of gas and electricity on big upward trend,
Concerning !

To add to the annoyance... the part arrived today and it's the wrong part.

Not sure if the part number I was given was wrong or the wrong part was pulled off the shelf to ship.

:wallbash: :wallbash: :wallbash:

Getting up at 7 to go to the gym in the pouring rain...gym closed as it's Christmas Eve, go to café for a coffee, full of old ***** smoking inside because it's raining. Go back to the car, steering pump is ****ed.

Christmas can **** right off.

I fully understand your pain. My neighbour to my right is constantly outside fixing lawnmowers , revving them up etc. He loves a jet hose too. To my left the neighbour is continually doing DIY. He pisses me off more because he will start drilling at 8 pm on a Sunday night.
He built a garden shed this year, started in May and finished in Sept. every fking day and evening we heard some sort of machinery going. One Sunday afternoon at about 4 pm my missus asked him to stop. He didn’t reply to her, just threw his drill down and stormed off in to his house.

That must be one heck of a big shed!!

How about those bellends who’ve got a patch of grass the size of a postage stamp, yet they’ve got a bloody great big noisy petrol mower?? I bet when the whole world has got an electric car or lorry in the future, my sad arse neighbour will still be using his petrol mower!!:wallbash: