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A certain Edinburgh South MP has an ongoing campaign to get Scotland matches (and The Open) back on free to air TVQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
The Sky deal is a good one though so I can't see either the SFA or the governments budging. At the end of the day ITV and it's sibsidiaries are a commercial enterprise and will only bid what they think the rights to a certain set of fixtures are worth.
When someone calls you and they don’t get good phone signal. Rather than waiting until later and are in a better area for phone calls or look for an alternative like a text or email they just keep calling over and over again.
Even more annoying when they start to get nippy that you can’t hear them.
No they didn’t do it ‘instead’ they simply didn’t have the rights to show the Scotland game, Sky do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
I suppose they could have put on a re-run of a 1970’s James Bond movie rather than show the England game like they used to do [emoji23]
The term 'bravehearts' when describing a Scottish sporting performance.
It's just so easy. Prior to 1995 journos must have had to work a little bit harder to find a descriptor.
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Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Ian Crocker is the absolute worst for this.
"It's time for bravehearts" ...every...single...****ing...time..
Oh for the days of Montford, Crampsey and even Archie. Proper journalists.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
My 12 year old was invited to a St Pauli football camp a couple of years back and got labelled with the nickname Braveheart, he hated it.Quote:
Originally Posted by CloudSquall
Forum posters getting fully involved in a debate and then announcing “it’s not a hill worth dying on” for them, when they decide they can’t win, were wrong, or have had enough.
Or posters asking others if it’s a hill they’re going to die on.
Aye just that totally unnecessary phrase that seems to be a new one.
The use of the word "insane" currently fashionable on the internet to describe anything a bit good, a bit exciting, a bit profitable etc.
I've no objection to it's use on mental health grounds. I'm certainly not offended on others behalf. I just think it's ****ing stupid.
“Sick” was always a strange word for meaning ‘really good’ as well...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
Some f****ing folk
I think it started with "bad" in the States.Quote:
Originally Posted by WeeRussell
The French equivalent is "terrible" which does actually cause confusion.
When the price for postage and packing is more than the item itself, I need a small rubber O-ring its a special size and not readily available so have to go to a specialist supplier. The item costs £2.00, however p+p £2.95 I don’t see how that can be justified.
Maybe it's a seasonal thing? :dunno:Quote:
Originally Posted by WeeRussell
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Originally Posted by WeeRussell
Or when a number of posters have made a counter argument to the one they made, said poster then goes in the huff and says there's no point posting if there's going to to be a 'pile on'.
Though on a similar vein, anybody that disagrees with anything I post is one of my biggest pet peeves...
I've just noticed your location underneath your username and avatar and burst out laughing again. Who would have known that Hearts losing would cause laughter a full week after the game? :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
Not a hill I would choose to die on, but posters who respect the:rules: inasmuch as they self-censor their swearywords by asterixing out part of the words, but then miscount the number of asterixes required. It's f****ing insane.
Ha ha! Thats had me as well... scratchin' ma heid trying to work it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Mind you, if they have the 1st and last letter you can work it out... all asterisks and I'm flummoxed :greengrin
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Surely you mean you're f******ed"?Quote:
Originally Posted by Just Alf
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Originally Posted by Northernhibee
You're welcome
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Originally Posted by Peevemor
I cannot read anything that has asterisks in the headline.
It's the visual equivalent to nails down a, well, white (?) board.
Yodel. Ordered a scarifier, after two weeks of painful chasing, they admitted they have lost it and I’ve been refunded. The scarifier I had bought is now sold out, great!
Same happened to me with amazon, I suspect they just realised they can get more money from elsewhere because of demand.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
Screwfix £59.99Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
https://www.screwfix.com/p/wr6002-15...230-240v/296fg
"While you're here....follow me on insta"Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Get that crap directly tae F..
The women at work “sending virtual hugs” every time one of them faces a minor inconvenience in their day and choose to share it with everyone.
My girlfriend’s way of loading the dishwasher. All the heavy duty stuff (pots, pans) on the top shelf and all the glassware and mugs, etc. on the bottom.
Updates that make things worse and online technical support determined to blame anything other than their update.
I’ve noticed more recently that a lot of mail I receive and also text on some web pages are using grey as opposed to black for the colour of the text which with my dodgy eyesight I find difficult to read. Got a letter the other day and the paper was a very pale grey colour with the text on it a slightly darker grey which was completely illegible to me even with glasses. Why???
Change for changes sake. Microsoft teams did an update and moved all the buttons around and they’ve made it worse
Spam e-mails. I look after the "contact" email address for my work, purely since when it was set up 15 years ago there were only 2 of us - the other being my boss (now retired) who wasn't at all computer/email oriented.
I can understand why spammers want to advertise viagra, or get you to click on links for whatever dodgy reason, but recently I've been inundated with emails from made up addresses with fake latin "lorem ipsum" text and nothing else.
What's the point? is there one?