Immune? :dunno:Quote:
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Immune? :dunno:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Sarf
I'm sure the letters un will be included.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
The ever increasing posts on social media saying " my friends Dad is a clinical director/scientist/surgeon/consultant/disease specialist etc etc etc" every man and his dog seems to be in contact with an expert of some form that predicts we are all doomed!
If the main topic in the world was something happening in outer space all of these clowns would claim to know an astronaut, ****wits the lot of them
This and other terms previously unheard until spoken by some politician then slavishly repeated by the media. 2 others that immediately spring to mind are "kicking the can down the road" and "tranche" a word few had heard before a politician used it.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Immune?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Sarf
The phrase ' rocking up ' somewhere.
As if you have tumbled down a mountain and landed somewhere fortuitously. Utter nonsense.
**** stories on the news, that are in no way "news" or important to the public interest.
Basically utter nonsense filler.
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There seems to be a determination by the BBC, along with others, to 'cheer us up' by devoting time to self professed 'characters'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Just_Jimmy
There was a woman sitting on a toy elephant playing a xylophone the other day and then another family singing a song they wrote from their living room. Not only that they now have a full interview with them. The Dad genuinely sees to think he is a superstar.
All that ***** makes me want to do is go outside so I don't have to watch it.
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Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Oh no, I missed that. Is it available on iPlayer?
BBC Breakfast is horrendous. This morning after the latest coronavirus update it was "Now let's see what Justin Beiber is up to, hee hee hee". Then these idiots expect to be taken seriously when interviewing politicians and science/medical experts. Naga Munchetty....don't get me started :fuming:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Words you can’t spell. “Bureau”, is one if mine. I tie myself in knots second and third guessing myself whenever I now try to type it.
Probably already been mentioned, but insurance/breakdown renewal quotes should be investigated, how many people just agree with their figures and renew? Got my renewal from Green Flag for my breakdown cover, their quote was £119 for the year. Did a comparison quote and was able to get the exact same cover for as cheap as £28, ended up going for one that was £35, purely because it was a company I had heard of before.
It should be illegal what these companies are doing.
Easy in German. Buro.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
People wearing disposable vinyl gloves in supermarkets and so on. The clue is in the name - disposable. In a medical setting a nurse or doctor uses gloves to attend to a patient, removes them when the task is complete, washes their hands then regloves to deal with the next patient.
The other day I watched a couple get out their car in blue gloves, repeatedly touch their phones whilst waiting outside the supermarket to get in, handle various goods whilst inside, use the self checkout and then get back in their car still wearing the gloves. What purpose did the gloves serve? In what way was that better than not wearing gloves and washing your hands as soon as you get home? If anything it probably encourages a false sense of security.
Yes I have questioned many people on the same type of thing in food establishments. People wear them and think they are doing the right thing without thinking it through. Hardly anyone uses them correctly, wash yor hands, you don’t need gloves.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Agree but there are circumstances where wearing one glove can make sense. Effectively operating a 'dirty' hand/clean hand system. Nip in to supermarket for a pint of milk, lift it with gloved hand, press touchscreen buttons with gloved hand, take credit card out of pocket with ungloved hand and pay contactless, open car door with ungloved hand, place milk in cardboard box in car, dispose of glove, drive to the Peak District with clean hands for some exercise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Don't get me started on the "inspiring" famous women "being brave" during quarantine by posing without make-up on social media, the hard hitting reporting that we all need to get through this..Quote:
Originally Posted by Just_Jimmy
Been out walking round and about Redford and Colinton Road for my hours walk most nights. Amazed at how many drivers are tearing about driving well above the speed limit because the roads are so quiet. Seen a couple in particular on Redford Road going onto Dreghorn Link, obviously going for a 'spin' on the Bypass. Mental.
Naga is ripping Matt Hancock a new one live. Yes she can be annoying but she knows how to interview a flawed politician. Better of with Tony HancockQuote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
I somehow managed to sit through half of that. I know he's a useless Tory prick etc but I still have to switch off every time I hear her patronising tone.Quote:
Originally Posted by wpj
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Originally Posted by Peanut Shaz
As someone who lives close to the bypass these petrol heads are fair cashing in on the quiet traffic.
Typically, they involve small neat little motors with extended exhaust kit making the most noise possible.
They are generally not bad drivers and can handle their aircraft well. Just selfish children.
I forgot how to spell "who" last week when trying to write a note. Thought that was the decline starting early :greengrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
I also cant say "regularly" without making an erse of myself. I just change it to "on a regular basis".
All the adults on my time line who have signed up for tik tok and think they are being wacky and fun, unfriend
I struggle with typing certain words with repetitive vowels- my brain just can't handle it. In 2014 I probably typed "independence referendum" about 5-10 times a day and never nailed it first time or without having to stop and think about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
I've been listening to the radio more. Less childish banter. The BBC World Service is good. It reminds you it's a global problem. Not so much happy clapping either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
Some folk need that, mind. Each to their own.
I have that on the odd ocassion. Or is it occasion?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
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Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
"So....my dad discovered Tik Tok....and THIS happened...."
Get directly tae **** with that *****.
People that read a couple of articles about the coronavirus and then act on social media as if they are qualified to be on the board of the WHO.
Spending a week trimming a 25m long hedge (Leyland Cypress) from 5m down to 2.5m using a hedge trimmer and hand saw, then tidying up your shed afterwards and finding a chainsaw you'd completely forgotten about. :doh:
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Originally Posted by CloudSquall
Filled some time though 😀Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Aye, there is that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibby Bairn
When cameras cut to the audience when showing comedy acts on stage. Why do we need to see them laughing? Just don't get it.
I'd guess that part of the experience that makes live acts desirable is that it's a shared experience. Same probably applies for canned laughter used in sitcoms.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peanut Shaz
Possibly but I personally just find it a bit cringey. 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
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Originally Posted by CloudSquall
Agreed,Roger Daltrey would never stand for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by CloudSquall
[emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787] Could have done with one of those fighting the thorns over the weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
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LinkedIn, specifically the dullards who follow and continually quote that <swear word> richard branson. As if they're being insightful and at cutting edge of business by quoting a man who would happily extract their internal organs and sell them if he could.
Two LinkedIn quotes that get right on my tits currently,Quote:
Originally Posted by Mixu62
"Create your personal brand"
"Post insightful original content"
And the latest fad,
"So far during lockdown I've learned Japanese, gained 200 new clients, lost 10 stone in weight, gained a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and taught myself how to play the piano and harp, what skills are you coming out of lockdown with?!"
I have to keep myself off it now, people talk about how toxic Instagram etc can be but for me it's LinkedIn, without exaggeration it just makes me hate everyone and anyone that works in an office.
If I see one more ******' screen shot of an on-line team meeting, or a kid/dog/both sitting on their parents lap while they work......Quote:
Originally Posted by CloudSquall
I was on a conference call yesterday with a very senior director of my work and one of the participants before anyone else could speak said and I quote "before we start I don't think we should be calling these things catch-up sessions, how about a virtual coffee or virtual beer"Quote:
Originally Posted by Mixu62
One of those pricks that was clearly thinking to himself I will make this director remember me, aye remember you for being a total David Brent ****
I was raging
When people generalise about an entire generation to score petty points. There is a post doing the rounds on social media with a picture of Captain Tom Moore on his, absolutely outstanding, charity walk next to a picture of Sam Smith crying about being in lockdown with a 'this is the difference between generations' type message.
It's absolute bollocks. Sam Smith is 27 years old. How many nurses, junior doctors, porters, cleaners, delivery drivers, retail workers, social workers, carers and so on are between 25 and 35? Why is a singer more representative of an entire generation than any of those people as individuals? If I posted a picture of 2 elderly people chatting in the street and said 'this is the people we are supposed to be protecting, old people are stupid' would that be acceptable?
I didn’t realise how much I get annoyed by dogs barking. Maybe it’s just a Covid Pet Peeve (no pun intended).
Really gets on my nerves.
Dog owners should be ensuring that their pets don't go anywhere near other people when they're out walking. CV19 can be on pets' fur. Not all owners are doing this.
Mine’s a shopping one, I’m not really in any mad rush when I’m shopping in a supermarket in these times but I really want to get in and out as efficiently as possible and obey social distancing guidelines. I’m also very aware that other people don’t want to come within two metres so I am very conscious of not hogging the displays, I pick what I want and move to my next item fairly quickly so someone else can then move to the same items. Today I literally stood for 2 minutes at several intervals waiting while selfish individuals lingered blocking the displays with their trolley length and staring whilst the queue of us obeying the distance rule waited for them to move off. Some people have absolutely no spatial awareness, ffs if you’re at the tinned beans take your tins and ****** move off.
Similar to yours, I was in a rage on Sunday when I last went shopping, the amount of people standing right in the middle of aisles while they look at the shelves. The whole aisle is pretty much off limits because you can’t pass them while observing social distancing. Can they not keep to the sides so people can pass?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Oh this made me laugh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
So much of that going on it’s just not funny.
Still count yourself lucky that you’ve not been invited to a Lean Coffee.
For those fortunate enough to have never had the joy these are described as follows:
Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking. Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated.
I mean who the **** comes up with this stuff!!!
I would have thought that would have the opposite effect. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by RyeSloan
Well quite and why anyone thinks democracy of agendas for meetings was a pressing point to solve for humanity is beyond me [emoji14]Quote:
Originally Posted by Future17
I couldn't live with myself if I thought that up.Quote:
Originally Posted by RyeSloan
Supermarkets have become the théâtres de nos jours. And not in a good way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Similar with me but I pulled a couple up for squeezing about 7 or 8 loaves of bread before taking one. They weren't happy when I drew an assistants attention to their behaviour but **** them. The remaining loaves in that section were taken away but don't know what happened after that. Maybe a quick wipe down and back on the shelf?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Grown men on skateboards.
You don't look like Tony Hawk. You look like a 35 year old who has never had sexual intercourse.
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Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
we all know you've been bullied most of your adult life PB 😉😁Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
The amount of people who are now giving Piers Morgan a free pass as he's questioning government, still the same guy that was the editor of a newspaper hacking people's phones and ruining lives, ****
We've got one on our street [emoji1787]Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
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I didn't previously use Twitter much but I've started to use it more in the last couple of weeks. I was pretty concerned inntially when I found myself agreeing with the vast majority of what he has to say at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4
I'm not sure if that counts as giving him a free pass to something. :dunno:
I think it's a balancing act.Quote:
Originally Posted by danhibees1875
I've found myself grudgingly impressed that he seems to be the only TV interviewer (Channel 4 excepted) not letting ministers away with half answers and deflection. He's asking the questions more serious journalists should be asking.
I balance that by still maintaining a healthy belief that he is an insufferable ****.
I’m the same. He’s been talking sense a lot recently, but he is and always will be one of the biggest ********s around. I can’t even bring myself to watch the TV when he’s on.Quote:
Originally Posted by danhibees1875
Why in almost every TV interview at the moment with MP'S, Reporters, Dr's etc they all have huge bookcases behind them? Is it to make us feel more confident that they are intelligent and know what they're talking about?
I only feel fully confident in what they're saying if I can make out that at least some of the books are written in Latin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peanut Shaz
Is it not more a case of interviews being done in their home offices, which is a likely place to put a bookshelf?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peanut Shaz
I'm sure it is. I was being a bit flippant. It's just a thing in our house now. Most interviews start with us saying "bookcase". Childish , I know but it's been a long few weeks. 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
The royal mail depot changing their opening times but not communicating this on their card. Surely a sticker with "by the way, we shut at 9am now" could have been attached?
3 mile walk for nothing - at least it was a nice morning for it!
Maybe just a punishment for those stupid enough to miss a delivery during a lockdown period. :greengrin
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Originally Posted by Peanut Shaz
Yes that's exactly why
The questions from the journalists after the daily briefings by the government.
Either the journalists are thick as **** and can't understand the information that's just been relayed to them, or they decide the question before they go in and just ask it anyway.
No matter what the subject, the place, the experience, the method, the guy that always says he has been there, done that, tried that, used that, blah blah blah.
On a similar level, folk in meetings who always think they are the smart erse by challenging a point even though the point has been proved beyond doubt in that same meeting with evidence and data to back it up.
Best way I've ever heard that being described is that if you've been to Tenerife then they've been to Elevenerife :faf:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
All the bored isolators that think it’s time to pressure wash their drive...thus washing all the crap and sand onto the pavement and half way down the street before sitting back and admiring their nice clean drive while leaving all the **** for people to walk through / avoid.
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Originally Posted by Peanut Shaz
From Private Eye...
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Haha Ive recently seen this advert and the voice of the actress in it annoys me to the extend I need to switch it over!Quote:
Originally Posted by easty
The coverage given to the fact that Charles & Camiila and William and Kate clapped the NHS last night. Stage managed appearances for the sake of the media coverage mean nothing.
When somebody poses a question in a Facebook group/page and hundreds of people all give the same answer.
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To be fair, your picture seems to imply that most of them posted at the same time. So perhaps when they started typing there wasn't already a list of the same answers already there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
More than 100 people have given the same answer over the last 40 minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by grunt
They looked like they’d never clapped before. Bizarre stuff, as if to say “oooh, we’re still here!”Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
To be honest, and I fully accept I’m probably in the vast minority, but I find the whole applause for the NHS cringeworthy. The sentiment behind it is spot on, but it’s largely a symptom of the social media age where people are more interested in doing it for reasons of vanity and self image, as opposed to because of a desire to appreciate the NHS, IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
My neighbour is a physical therapist for the NHS and has been pitching In over and above in various roles within the NHS during this crisis. I’ve told her how grateful folk are for the people doing as she is but I’m not going out to applaud her or random people I don’t know.
I tend to agree with your sentiments, but the 8pm Thursday evening clapping seems to have galvanised neighbourhoods and lifts people’s spirits locally so I can’t criticise it too much, it’s almost become a thing people do for themselves rather than the NHS if you get what I mean.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
I like it, no matter what people’s reasons are for doing it, from my house just off the shore last night, I could hear ship horns, church bells and a piper as well as people clapping and cheering. It’s bringing everyone together for a few minutes each week, and I think that’s a good thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
From where I'm looking, which on a Thursday night (or any other night these days) is normally my living room window, it's all about NHS support, but, community interaction should not go underrated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
On most programmes, Newsnight etc, bookcases win against other backgrounds 4 2. Not that I take score!Quote:
Originally Posted by Peanut Shaz
I wouldn't agree at all that you're in the vast minority. The majority of people I speak to understand the sentiment but also feel it's now become a nice but somewhat cringeworthy episode. As has been said in other comments here, if it brings communities together for 5 minutes a week that's all good but even then social media is now awash with "look at me playing the bagpipes" type posts.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Modfather
Edit: Does anyone actually believe that NHS workers, tired beyond belief, scared, their faces red raw with wearing masks all day take any comfort or joy from Charles and Camilla giving them a wee clap.
Excellent - 493 people have answered now - all saying the same thing. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by grunt
I know it can happen any time but really pisses me off that several cars in my street were opened with no sign of damage so probably electronically on Wed night and ransacked looking for valuables.
When the George foreman is not wiped down whilst still hot!! 😠
Mrs decided out of nowhere that she was weeding the garden today, asked if i wanted to help, i said no because, honestly, i hate doing the garden.
Getting grief for not doing something i don’t want to do now, which is apparently different from when i have to phone for takeaway, get the door, go and see what that noise was, unblock a sink, build something, sort out insurance, stuff with the bank, go to parents nights etc, because she hates doing them.
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Originally Posted by matty_f
I hate gardening. It's just a chore. And a money pit. We have quite a big garden out the back and another wee bit at the front. When I was working I spent half my leisure hours in one or the other. And because I'm the world's worse gardener it never looks any better. Wish i was back in a flat in the toon.
I feel your pain. A classic trap.Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
My wife has been cleaning out a spare room for the last hour or so. Just started doing it. I’m sitting in the sun. Nothing said. But it will be in a while. No point in now asking if she needs help because it will be rebuffed with a comment around “bit late now” or “no you just away and top up your tan” 😂.
I miss normal Saturdays. It is Saturday isn’t it?
Going mental here, got my daughter here and can't log onto Netflix or iplayer it's like logging onto NASSA Netflix asking me so many questions. Apparently my log on details are wrong. I pay monthly, why log me out? I he a had a Derick and Clive session sorting it out.
Or logging on to Netflix and finding you're on the Pakistani Netflix because your wife had been watching Outlander or Doc Martin before and you then have to change the VPN and reboot Netflix.Quote:
Originally Posted by wpj
Seriously if I didn't have Prime I would have chucked the telly out. Maybe tomorrow I will regain my patience.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
I know you live in Germany and have lots of kinder programmes on at the weekend to keep you happy 😃
I'm clapping for the NHS with the exception of the receptionist at our local surgery. Her "customer service skills" need updating. There's no call for the rudeness she displays towards young and old alike.
There are many dozens of people interviewed for one reason or another on tv every week just now. The amount who answer questions with a sentence starting with the word "well" is truly amazing. If it was a written answer nobody would use this word first. So common now it seems to be ingrained in the language. We weren't taught this at school.
Well it's better than starting with 'so'!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
I'm more aware of folk saying "So" before any sentence commences. I don't know how it started although I'm blaming the Americans. It's usually their fault.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
The unwanted abuse of the words incredible and incredibly.
So it is!Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee