whelk Posted February 20 Author Posted February 20 Commentator’s seeming to think it is psychological genius to have a player other than the penalty taker hold the ball beforehand. Yeah no way Salah is taking this penalty as Curtis Jones is holding the ball……there’s a shock.
tdmickey3 Posted February 20 Posted February 20 On 20/02/2025 at 11:30, whelk said: Commentator’s seeming to think it is psychological genius to have a player other than the penalty taker hold the ball beforehand. Yeah no way Salah is taking this penalty as Curtis Jones is holding the ball……there’s a shock. Expand Its all part of the Liverpool love in 🤮 There will be a Sky Sports Liverpool soon, its virtually that now 1
badgerx16 Posted February 20 Posted February 20 Adverts where trhe product does '...up to..." a percentage performance; "Up to 100%" is as likely to be 0% as it is 100%. Also, those with user suveys of 49 people being uised as statistical proof of user satisfaction. 1
Lighthouse Posted February 21 Posted February 21 Overtaking a lorry at 58mph about half a mile from your exit off a dual-carriageway and you're stuck behind somebody doing 59mph in the right hand lane. 'Annoy' might be an understatement, it's a special kind of hatred like no other.
trousers Posted February 21 Posted February 21 This sort of thing genuinely makes me want to throw bricks at the TV screen.... 1
Gloucester Saint Posted February 21 Posted February 21 (edited) On 21/02/2025 at 19:17, trousers said: This sort of thing genuinely makes me want to throw bricks at the TV screen.... Expand Surely not? She didn’t actually answer with that? Edited February 21 by Gloucester Saint
trousers Posted February 21 Posted February 21 On 21/02/2025 at 20:00, Gloucester Saint said: Surely not? She didn’t actually answer with that? Expand Yup. She'd never heard of The Rhine and reckoned it "sounded more Asian than European". I despair. 1
Gloucester Saint Posted February 21 Posted February 21 (edited) On 21/02/2025 at 22:19, trousers said: Yup. She'd never heard of The Rhine and reckoned it "sounded more Asian than European". I despair. Expand I feel a need for one of those McInnes facepalm emojis. ‘Sounded more Asian than European’ 😂😂😂 I bet that appears in the next Private Eye. Edited February 21 by Gloucester Saint
revolution saint Posted February 22 Posted February 22 On 21/02/2025 at 19:17, trousers said: This sort of thing genuinely makes me want to throw bricks at the TV screen.... Expand Someone not knowing about a river makes you want to throw rocks at a tv? Bit of an over reaction, not least because you’d waste a presumably good tv. Save the scorn for people intentionally stupid
Holmes_and_Watson Posted February 22 Posted February 22 On 22/02/2025 at 00:37, revolution saint said: Someone not knowing about a river makes you want to throw rocks at a tv? Bit of an over reaction, not least because you’d waste a presumably good tv. Save the scorn for people intentionally stupid Expand It's easily done. I keep a small pile of keep sake river bed stones, from my travels, in the TV room. Last week, I was so angry I nearly threw one from the South American Danube at it. 1
Whitey Grandad Posted February 22 Posted February 22 On 22/02/2025 at 00:37, revolution saint said: Someone not knowing about a river makes you want to throw rocks at a tv? Bit of an over reaction, not least because you’d waste a presumably good tv. Save the scorn for people intentionally stupid Expand This sort of person is intentionally stupid. Or ignorant at the least. There is no excuse for not taking an interest in the world around you. 1
Lighthouse Posted February 22 Posted February 22 Surely she remembers Lothar Matthaus' hit single, 'The Fog on the Rhine'? 2
revolution saint Posted February 22 Posted February 22 On 22/02/2025 at 09:04, Whitey Grandad said: This sort of person is intentionally stupid. Or ignorant at the least. There is no excuse for not taking an interest in the world around you. Expand Oh come on, you don't know anything about her, where she lives, what kind of education she had or anything else. Get over yourself. 1
Challenger Posted February 22 Posted February 22 On 21/02/2025 at 19:17, trousers said: This sort of thing genuinely makes me want to throw bricks at the TV screen.... Expand The irony is that she actually knocked out two other contestants to get to that stage.
Whitey Grandad Posted February 22 Posted February 22 On 22/02/2025 at 10:48, revolution saint said: Oh come on, you don't know anything about her, where she lives, what kind of education she had or anything else. Get over yourself. Expand That answer tells me all I need to know.
Whitey Grandad Posted February 22 Posted February 22 On 22/02/2025 at 10:48, revolution saint said: Oh come on, you don't know anything about her, where she lives, what kind of education she had or anything else. Get over yourself. Expand Your approach to education illustrates why the public are so uneducated. Libraries are free and it is up to the individual to educate themselves.
trousers Posted February 22 Posted February 22 (edited) On 22/02/2025 at 00:37, revolution saint said: Someone not knowing about a river makes you want to throw rocks at a tv? Bit of an over reaction, not least because you’d waste a presumably good tv. Save the scorn for people intentionally stupid Expand Nah, I've got more pent up scorn in my body that I know what to do with. I reserve the right to liberally scatter my scorn as I see fit P.s. it's bricks, not rocks. I reserve the later for those that design impossible to open crumpet packets Next... People that lecture others on how to deploy their scorn.... 😁 Edited February 22 by trousers
badgerx16 Posted February 22 Posted February 22 On 21/02/2025 at 19:17, trousers said: This sort of thing genuinely makes me want to throw bricks at the TV screen.... Expand Not as bad as when QI or University Challenge have an incorrect 'right' answer to a question. You come to expect idiocy and ignorance from day time game shows, the contestants are specially selected. 1
revolution saint Posted February 22 Posted February 22 On 22/02/2025 at 12:46, Whitey Grandad said: Your approach to education illustrates why the public are so uneducated. Libraries are free and it is up to the individual to educate themselves. Expand Pretty quick to rush to judgements on people you have no idea about, aren't you? Might be an idea to pop down to your library and see if they have a book that might help you.
Whitey Grandad Posted February 22 Posted February 22 (edited) On 22/02/2025 at 13:46, revolution saint said: Pretty quick to rush to judgements on people you have no idea about, aren't you? Might be an idea to pop down to your library and see if they have a book that might help you. Expand As I said, her answer tells me everything I need to know. Would you employ her? Edited February 22 by Whitey Grandad
Whitey Grandad Posted February 22 Posted February 22 On 22/02/2025 at 13:16, badgerx16 said: Not as bad as when QI or University Challenge have an incorrect 'right' answer to a question. You come to expect idiocy and ignorance from day time game shows, the contestants are specially selected. Expand Yeah, that really is annoying.
revolution saint Posted February 22 Posted February 22 On 22/02/2025 at 14:45, Whitey Grandad said: As I said, her answer tells me everything I need to know. Would you employ her? Expand Not sure, unlike you I’d probably need to find out a bit more. Doubt I’d employ you though
whelk Posted February 22 Author Posted February 22 I was thinking of going on Dragon’s Den with a pitch that I want to set up an agency for anyone who has questions about rivers. Aiming at an audience that have turned their backs on the internet. Given me an idea for one of the interview questions
Whitey Grandad Posted February 23 Posted February 23 On 22/02/2025 at 15:50, revolution saint said: Not sure, unlike you I’d probably need to find out a bit more. Doubt I’d employ you though Expand I wouldn't work for you. I've had my own business for 43 years and I shall never work for anyone else ever again.
rallyboy Posted March 8 Posted March 8 People, mainly under thirty, who can't hold cutlery properly and get greedy at the buffet. You see them stabbing around gripping the fucking handles the wrong way in their chubby fists, piling up the food of the buffet then leaving half of it because they can't transport it from the plate to their face. And hold the spoon at the thin end you fucking morons, no....with the dish bit pointing up.. 2 1
cloggy saint Posted March 8 Posted March 8 Videos on news outlets that we are warned "contain distressing images" and then don't contain anything even mildly distressing.
trousers Posted March 8 Posted March 8 On 08/03/2025 at 08:28, rallyboy said: People, mainly under thirty, who can't hold cutlery properly and get greedy at the buffet. You see them stabbing around gripping the fucking handles the wrong way in their chubby fists, piling up the food of the buffet then leaving half of it because they can't transport it from the plate to their face. And hold the spoon at the thin end you fucking morons, no....with the dish bit pointing up.. Expand I did warn you about attending wedding receptions in Portsmouth to be fair... 2
badgerx16 Posted March 8 Posted March 8 On 08/03/2025 at 14:44, rallyboy said: Why use cutlery when you have so many spare fingers... Expand And they are webbed, great for the soup course. 1
sadoldgit Posted March 19 Posted March 19 F***ing potholes! We have already had to replace 3 tyres and a wheel and lost another tyre the other day. There aren’t many A roads around here so we mostly have to use B roads. Most of them look like something from the Gaza Strip.
whelk Posted March 19 Author Posted March 19 On 19/03/2025 at 15:00, sadoldgit said: Most of them look like something from the Gaza Strip. Expand Guess you think it’s ok to make light of innocent Muslims being killed? 3
trousers Posted April 1 Posted April 1 Twats that post "April Fools!" on social media threads as if they're somehow clever for pointing out what is usually the bleedin' obvious (and also giving the game away on any decent ones). Twats.
badgerx16 Posted April 1 Posted April 1 (edited) On 01/04/2025 at 17:36, trousers said: Twats that post "April Fools!" on social media threads as if they're somehow clever for pointing out what is usually the bleedin' obvious (and also giving the game away on any decent ones). Twats. Expand I have just watched a video where somebody who had published an April Fool story a few years ago, has had to explain that although it has become part of some established texts, it remains a hoax. The problem has been that the original was published on 01/04/2014, which Americans have subsequently taken as January 4th, and they persist in telling him his story is fact.. Edited April 1 by badgerx16
Whitey Grandad Posted April 2 Posted April 2 On 02/04/2025 at 21:53, cloggy saint said: People who refer to Tesco as Tescos. Expand What if there’s more than one?
cloggy saint Posted April 3 Posted April 3 On 02/04/2025 at 23:12, Whitey Grandad said: What if there’s more than one? Expand That is obviously acceptable but in the majority of cases there is just one. 1
trousers Posted April 3 Posted April 3 (edited) People who refer to Sainsbury's as Sainsbury or Sainsburys. Thick twats. Edited April 3 by trousers
badgerx16 Posted April 3 Posted April 3 On 13/09/2024 at 10:10, trousers said: People that put an 's' on the end of Tesco. Twats. Expand On 02/04/2025 at 21:53, cloggy saint said: People who refer to Tesco as Tescos. Expand It's like deja-vu all over again.
Whitey Grandad Posted April 3 Posted April 3 On 03/04/2025 at 14:56, cloggy saint said: That is obviously acceptable but in the majority of cases there is just one. Expand Shouldn’t the Latin plural be Tesci?
badgerx16 Posted April 3 Posted April 3 On 03/04/2025 at 22:44, Whitey Grandad said: Shouldn’t the Latin plural be Tesci? Expand Tesco would be dative, and therefore the plural would be Tescis.
Whitey Grandad Posted April 3 Posted April 3 On 03/04/2025 at 23:00, badgerx16 said: Tesco would be dative, and therefore the plural would be Tescis. Expand Troo dat. My Latin O level was back in 1965 which is, gulp, 60 years ago. Unless Tesco is the first person present tense of Tescare, to “rip off” in which case (!) the plural might be Tescamus, “we rip off”.
The Kraken Posted April 4 Posted April 4 On 03/04/2025 at 15:18, trousers said: People who refer to Sainsbury's as Sainsbury or Sainsburys. Thick twats. Expand I just call them Sainos. As well as Tescos, Asdas, Aldis, Lidls, and Morrisons’s. 1
Turkish Posted April 4 Posted April 4 On 19/03/2025 at 15:06, whelk said: Guess you think it’s ok to make light of innocent Muslims being killed? Expand I guess it's okay to compare leafy B roads around Romney Marsh to a war zone with thousands of innocent people being killed daily when it suits your agenda, right?
sadoldgit Posted April 4 Posted April 4 On 19/03/2025 at 15:06, whelk said: Guess you think it’s ok to make light of innocent Muslims being killed? Expand I compared a pile of rubble with a pile of rubble. You on the other hand said it was ok to kill innocent Palestinians because they were all complicit for the actions of a minority. A tad hypocritical to call me out when your comment actually did more than “make light of innocent Muslims being killed”. 2
Turkish Posted April 4 Posted April 4 On 04/04/2025 at 08:16, sadoldgit said: I compared a pile of rubble with a pile of rubble. You on the other hand said it was ok to kill innocent Palestinians because they were all complicit for the actions of a minority. A tad hypocritical to call me out when your comment actually did more than “make light of innocent Muslims being killed”. Expand A war zone with thousands dead is not comparable with a few pot holes in Kent FFS!!
Holmes_and_Watson Posted April 4 Posted April 4 On 03/04/2025 at 23:23, Whitey Grandad said: Troo dat. My Latin O level was back in 1965 which is, gulp, 60 years ago. Unless Tesco is the first person present tense of Tescare, to “rip off” in which case (!) the plural might be Tescamus, “we rip off”. Expand Shame. I was hoping Veni, vidi, tesci would be I came, I saw, I shopped. 1
whelk Posted April 4 Author Posted April 4 On 04/04/2025 at 08:16, sadoldgit said: You on the other hand said it was ok to kill innocent Palestinians because they were all complicit for the actions of a minority. A Expand I said that did I? anyway don’t want to derail another thread this is a lighter topic. its Tessie’s - I look to my scouse great great great grandma Cilla Whelk (RIP)
Turkish Posted April 4 Posted April 4 fashionable injuries that the same people get ie - When everyone got shin splints in the 90s, in 00s everyone broke their metatarsals, now its a meniscus tear, the fashionable injury of the 2020s.
Weston Super Saint Posted April 4 Posted April 4 On 04/04/2025 at 19:38, Turkish said: fashionable injuries that the same people get ie - When everyone got shin splints in the 90s, in 00s everyone broke their metatarsals, now its a meniscus tear, the fashionable injury of the 2020s. Expand I had that. Mine didn't tear though. It looked perfect on a glass of port before I drank it.
Turkish Posted April 4 Posted April 4 On 04/04/2025 at 20:02, Weston Super Saint said: I had that. Mine didn't tear though. It looked perfect on a glass of port before I drank it. Expand Do people still get ME? It was all the rage 25 years ago but dont hear about it anymore.
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