Stupid little things that bug you

The bbc have just banned phone voting for Strictly Come Dancing.
Disgraceful.
Authoritarian
Something else

How very dare they, that's my Saturday night ruined. Saves £35 voting for the fat woman dancing with a C list celebrity but come on.



Yes I'm in the pub.
 
Train from Manchester yesterday was hammered and a heavily pregnant woman was stood up with nobody (Including lots of other women) wanting to offer her a seat. I asked her if she wanted to sit down but she declined but that would have been normal behaviour at one time.
 
Chat shows that have a cup positioned to show the name of the show, like it's some big deal they had a couple of cups made.

I mean wtf ?

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Pointless on TV. They never leave anything long enough on screen to be able to read. They also edit it so they make the most basic contestants look like masterminds. FFS, I am getting old if that is what bugs me.
 
give it to gordon said:
Traffic lights that turn red as you approach. You wait about a minute or so with no vehicle in sight. Yours turn back to green and of you go.
Why stop me when I'm the only vehicle on the road ?
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I'm sure some junctions used to use pressure pads to avoid this, then just switch to timed during busy periods - perfect for rush-hour turnings that are otherwise quiet.

Unless that's just some crap my brother 'taught' me :-)
 
noseve said:
I'm sure some junctions used to use pressure pads to avoid this, then just switch to timed during busy periods - perfect for rush-hour turnings that are otherwise quiet.

Unless that's just some crap my brother 'taught' me :-)
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There used to be two pressure pad strips at some traffic lights to tell the system a vehicle was waiting, presumably on roads with little traffic exiting them. As a kid it was fun to try and jump on them to see if you could get the lights to change.

Simpler days …
 
The stupid YouTube algorithm that means anybody wanting their content to show up in search results has to exaggerate the title with totally unjustified superlatives.

If my current sidebar is anything to go by, 'The World' must be permanently STUNNED by some mundane occurrence or other.
 
Players who have double-barrel Surnames/three initials (Rayan Ait-Nouri, for example) being called by their initials (RAN)… Wright-Phillips was SWP, Santa Cruz was RSC, De Bruyne was KDB.

Yet that never happens for anyone with just one Surname (Foden is never referred to as PF or Stones as JS) or anyone with more names (David Josué Jiménez Silva wasn’t referred to as DJJS and Sergio Leonel Agüero del Castillo wasn’t referred to as SLAdC). So why the three-initial players?

People who call the main City shareholder, Mansour bin Zayed, ‘HRH’.
 
.db. said:
Players who have double-barrel Surnames/three initials (Rayan Ait-Nouri, for example) being called by their initials (RAN)… Wright-Phillips was SWP, Santa Cruz was SHITE, De Bruyne was KDB.

Yet that never happens for anyone with just one Surname (Foden is never referred to as PF or Stones as JS) or anyone with more names (David Josué Jiménez Silva wasn’t referred to as DJJS and Sergio Leonel Agüero del Castillo wasn’t referred to as SLAdC). So why the three-initial players?

People who call the main City shareholder, Mansour bin Zayed, ‘HRH’.
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Fixed that for you
 
mexico1970 said:
In 1970 a quid was worth £19.77.

Fish and chips were 25p

So about a fiver in todays money.

People opt for the chicken and chips now.
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To be fair to chippies, fish was about £1.50 a stone at Smithfield in 1970 its now about £70. Energy prices in 1970 were massively lower in 1970 and rates/council tax. Enjoy the mass produced hormone and water injected chicken I will stick to the wild fish from the chippie, not the anti biotic loaded farm shite ;-)
 
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