Stupid little things that bug you

Fiftyyearsandcounting said:
I accept that our language changes over time, we would be hard pressed to have a conversation with Geoffrey Chaucer. Bad enough (to me anyway) to hear wudda', shudda', cudda' spoken, but now it's appearing in written form as well and, I dare say, in time, will also appear in the OED.
Apparently, it known as connected speech or fast English
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I thought fast English was a baseball pitch.
 
More things fuck me as I get older.
Influencers and celebrities.
Robbie williams.
Southern rags .
Rags in general.
Footballers
That's today's list
 
BrianW said:
Stood behind a woman at a cash machine where you pay in as well as take out.

She pushed all the relevant buttons, but seemed amazed when the machine told her to pay her notes in. It was as if this was a totally unexpected order, like it asking you to take your shoes off. The said notes had then to be extracted from some obscure crevice in her bag, and it took what seemed like ages. Then she had to re-sort the notes to get them all in one direction, as the machine requires.

Call me Mr Efficiency of 2025, but when I pay in, I have the notes in my hand ready before I push the first button.
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Like when people in front of me at the checkout have to wait until they’re told the price of the goods before even considering to reach for their purse. And then when said purse is dug out of the fucking handbag, they then start the rooting round process to get to the notes. Come on man, have it ready why don’t you or better still tap a card ffs.
 
Councils who would rather allow a building to rot than allow someone to do them up and use them, the verbiage from these bunch of clowns proves what absolute arseholes they are.

Public servant doesn't even register with them.

A council spokesperson said: "We don't comment on ongoing legal discussions and don't intend to elaborate on previous statements we have made on this subject."
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www.bbc.co.uk

Hopwood DePree: US film-maker in legal battle with Rochdale council over 'Downton Shabby'

Hopwood DePree takes Rochdale council to the High Court over control of his ancestral stately home.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
Kinkladze 1 said:
Like when people in front of me at the checkout have to wait until they’re told the price of the goods before even considering to reach for their purse. And then when said purse is dug out of the fucking handbag, they then start the rooting round process to get to the notes. Come on man, have it ready why don’t you or better still tap a card ffs.
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Then there are club cards and vouchers to deal with.....
 
Kinkladze 1 said:
Like when people in front of me at the checkout have to wait until they’re told the price of the goods before even considering to reach for their purse. And then when said purse is dug out of the fucking handbag, they then start the rooting round process to get to the notes. Come on man, have it ready why don’t you or better still tap a card ffs.
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I now drive buses for my sins. No one ever has pass/money/card ready until they get to the cab. Even if there are 50 in the queue they all have to wait until they approach you.
 
People that say we FOC ‘had it easy’. Easy mortgage, easy jobs etc. I was born in 1949 in Hulme. No inside bog or bathroom, no central heating, no local playground. When it was pulled down in 58 we moved upmarket to Moss Side, indoor bog and bathroom here but still no central heating. Left school without a single qualification (earned all mine - including my degree whilst working as well). Got a job but no cars in those days, bike or bus. Joined up, 23 years in the army as a mechanic working all the hours god sent (lost count of the days we worked all night), got a good pension at the end but f..king hell we worked for it. Became a teacher another real ‘easy’ job if you’ve never done it. Yeh, a real easy life living through mortgage rates into double figures, travelling back and forth every weekend, working until 9 o’clock at night to get lessons planned and work marked. I think I have earned my retirement, thank you very much. Now they talk about taking more of my pension pot because I have too much.

Rant over.
 
Fred_Quimby said:
People that say we FOC ‘had it easy’. Easy mortgage, easy jobs etc. I was born in 1949 in Hulme. No inside bog or bathroom, no central heating, no local playground. When it was pulled down in 58 we moved upmarket to Moss Side, indoor bog and bathroom here but still no central heating. Left school without a single qualification (earned all mine - including my degree whilst working as well). Got a job but no cars in those days, bike or bus. Joined up, 23 years in the army as a mechanic working all the hours god sent (lost count of the days we worked all night), got a good pension at the end but f..king hell we worked for it. Became a teacher another real ‘easy’ job if you’ve never done it. Yeh, a real easy life living through mortgage rates into double figures, travelling back and forth every weekend, working until 9 o’clock at night to get lessons planned and work marked. I think I have earned my retirement, thank you very much. Now they talk about taking more of my pension pot because I have too much.

Rant over.
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Totally agree. I very rarely drink 'pop' or eat sweets. The reason is simple, as a kid I never had them so now i dont think about them. We never went to restaurants as we couldn't afford them.
I'm not doing the Monty Python 4 Yorkshire men, I'm just saying we had nowt, didn't moan or blame someone we just accepted it. We learnt to graft and save and yet now we are the bad guys
 
Blue Mist said:
Totally agree. I very rarely drink 'pop' or eat sweets. The reason is simple, as a kid I never had them so now i dont think about them. We never went to restaurants as we couldn't afford them.
I'm not doing the Monty Python 4 Yorkshire men, I'm just saying we had nowt, didn't moan or blame someone we just accepted it. We learnt to graft and save and yet now we are the bad guys
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It's incredible how much money you can save by just not being a greedy ,grabby , needy arsehole.
 
mexico1970 said:
Councils who would rather allow a building to rot than allow someone to do them up and use them, the verbiage from these bunch of clowns proves what absolute arseholes they are.

Public servant doesn't even register with them.



www.bbc.co.uk

Hopwood DePree: US film-maker in legal battle with Rochdale council over 'Downton Shabby'

Hopwood DePree takes Rochdale council to the High Court over control of his ancestral stately home.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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There's going to be 'some plans' for the land isn't there?
 
Fred_Quimby said:
People that say we FOC ‘had it easy’. Easy mortgage, easy jobs etc. I was born in 1949 in Hulme. No inside bog or bathroom, no central heating, no local playground. When it was pulled down in 58 we moved upmarket to Moss Side, indoor bog and bathroom here but still no central heating. Left school without a single qualification (earned all mine - including my degree whilst working as well). Got a job but no cars in those days, bike or bus. Joined up, 23 years in the army as a mechanic working all the hours god sent (lost count of the days we worked all night), got a good pension at the end but f..king hell we worked for it. Became a teacher another real ‘easy’ job if you’ve never done it. Yeh, a real easy life living through mortgage rates into double figures, travelling back and forth every weekend, working until 9 o’clock at night to get lessons planned and work marked. I think I have earned my retirement, thank you very much. Now they talk about taking more of my pension pot because I have too much.

Rant over.
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