Stupid little things that bug you

[give it to gordon]

Drivers who put their mobile phone/ satnav on the windscreen right in front of their eyes. Blocking their view ahead

 

[Marklr]

Toasters. Why don't they make the slots slightly bigger, so standard sized bread slices actually fit in without have to turn them around halfway through? What's the fcking point in them?

 

[Protein Junkie]

Toasters. Why don't they make the slots slightly bigger, so standard sized bread slices actually fit in without have to turn them around halfway through? What's the fcking point in them?

Toaster ? Stop showing off you posh Bar steward :-)

 

[Marklr]

Toaster ? Stop showing off you posh Bar steward :-)

Yeah...and it matches the kettle. I have to be careful not to get them mixed up. Morphey Hobbs or something ;)

 

[Protein Junkie]

Yeah...and it matches the kettle. I have to be careful not to get them mixed up. Morphey Hobbs or something ;)

You have a kettle that makes toast ?
F*cling wow Marklers matey !
It’s Russell Richards you daft twonk

 

[Marklr]

You have a kettle that makes toast ?
F*cling wow Marklers matey !
It’s Russell Richards you daft twonk

Didn't he play for City at some point? Probably when Brian Horton was manager.

 

[Barcon]

Toasters. Why don't they make the slots slightly bigger, so standard sized bread slices actually fit in without have to turn them around halfway through? What's the fcking point in them?

Pain in the fucking arse. The wife buys rye bread that needs to be cut in half to go in the toaster.
A 4 slice toaster does 2 slices of bread ffs.

 

[Dial M 4 Mercer]

People on quiz shows who instead of just giving the answer to a question decide to give the whole backstory as to why they know the answer.

 

[2smokinberyls smockfrocks]

the seemingly arbitrary changes made to some foreign place-names...

who decided to do it?
when?
and why?
was it one individual who did it?
or was it some pissed up aristocrats or politicians one evening who got out a map of the world and randomly selected some cities or countries they didn't like the name of?

"Brasil! fuck that, let's change it to Brazil."
"Roma! fuck that, let's change it to Rome."
"Wien! fuck that, let's change it to Vienna"

frankly, it does my head in and makes no sense at all.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

A self cleaning nozzle on a tube of Gorilla wood glue.....15 minutes to try and get it to flow and bearing in mind I have a garage full of shite so know my way round a ' tube of glue '. Seriously considering taking it back and making myself look a twat on the trade counter of our local builders merchant when all of a sudden and for some unexplained reason out came the glue, job done, on the shelf for another 7 years.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

the seemingly arbitrary changes made to some foreign place-names...

who decided to do it?
when?
and why?
was it one individual who did it?
or was it some pissed up aristocrats or politicians one evening who got out a map of the world and randomly selected some cities or countries they didn't like the name of?

"Brasil! fuck that, let's change it to Brazil."
"Roma! fuck that, let's change it to Rome."
"Wien! fuck that, let's change it to Vienna"

frankly, it does my head in and makes no sense at all.

Some twats justifying their wages in the various government departments, usually in an windowless office at the end of the corridor, 3rd on the right. Quite probably single and living at home with their mum.

 

[Blue Mist]

the seemingly arbitrary changes made to some foreign place-names...

who decided to do it?
when?
and why?
was it one individual who did it?
or was it some pissed up aristocrats or politicians one evening who got out a map of the world and randomly selected some cities or countries they didn't like the name of?

"Brasil! fuck that, let's change it to Brazil."
"Roma! fuck that, let's change it to Rome."
"Wien! fuck that, let's change it to Vienna"

frankly, it does my head in and makes no sense at all.

Before you get all het up think history. It wasn't pissed up aristocrats or politicians but merchant's, sailors and explorers. A white man lands in China and is told by a local the town in called Bejing. Bearing in mind ol' whitey doesn't speak Cantonese, by the time he's told the ships captain who takes 6 months to sail home before he can tell someone where he got all the silk from, by then in his memory its Peking.
The same happened with Mumbai.

 

[Blue Mist]

Some twats justifying their wages in the various government departments, usually in an windowless office at the end of the corridor, 3rd on the right. Quite probably single and living at home with their mum.

Brilliant

 

[Tuearts right boot]

the seemingly arbitrary changes made to some foreign place-names...

who decided to do it?
when?
and why?
was it one individual who did it?
or was it some pissed up aristocrats or politicians one evening who got out a map of the world and randomly selected some cities or countries they didn't like the name of?

"Brasil! fuck that, let's change it to Brazil."
"Roma! fuck that, let's change it to Rome."
"Wien! fuck that, let's change it to Vienna"

frankly, it does my head in and makes no sense at all.

Thinking about it, we, the Brits, discovered, conquered, pillaged and owned most of the world and seeing as over half the worlds population speaks English we therefore have the right to call these places what we dammed well want.

 

[Grassland Blue]

Before you get all het up think history. It wasn't pissed up aristocrats or politicians but merchant's, sailors and explorers. A white man lands in China and is told by a local the town in called Bejing. Bearing in mind ol' whitey doesn't speak Cantonese, by the time he's told the ships captain who takes 6 months to sail home before he can tell someone where he got all the silk from, by then in his memory its Peking.
The same happened with Mumbai.

This explains some differences but what about Constantinople - Istanbul or Slaithwaite - Slowit.....

 

[Blue Mist]

This explains some differences but what about Constantinople - Istanbul or Slaithwaite - Slowit.....

Don't know about the first 2 but isn't the third just because they are thick Yorkshire bastards ?

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

Thinking about it, we, the Brits, discovered, conquered, pillaged and owned most of the world and seeing as over half the worlds population speaks English we therefore have the right to call these places what we dammed well want.

I can never figure out why BBC news readers will some times pronounce foreign place names and persons in a local accent and other times not.
For example. they do their best to say Macron as Frenchy as possible but no flowery Italian for Berlusconi.
Kiev is Keeev, but Paris is not Pareee.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Thinking about it, we, the Brits, discovered, conquered, pillaged and owned most of the world and seeing as over half the worlds population speaks English we therefore have the right to call these places what we dammed well want.

Did we ever conquer Brazil?

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Did we ever conquer Brazil?

Probably....

 

[kaz7]

I can never figure out why BBC news readers will some times pronounce foreign place names and persons in a local accent and other times not.
For example. they do their best to say Macron as Frenchy as possible but no flowery Italian for Berlusconi.
Kiev is Keeev, but Paris is not Pareee.

What annoys me is that the uk media have always pronnounced Obama's first name wrong , we all saw him standing there taking his oath and saying his own name , the media call him an army barrack instead of his proper name, it is not even complicated , grrrr