Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]
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JonRB said:
Europa1 said:
A personal bugbear is people on the F1 forums who speak in "TV graphics" eg "If HAM does X...", or "when MSC did Y...", "ALO must be getting frustrated...", "VET is getting the better of RAI...".
Why? Just why?
Because it's less typing when posting during a live race where posts are time sensitive?Why? Just why?
I don't do it myself, but it doesn't particularly bother me when other people do it because I know who they are referring to as it's same as the letters being used on the TV screen and the Live Timing and I have an IQ that is in triple figures.
cookmysock said:
Stickyfinger said:
Willy Nilly said:
Rugby.
It hates football with a passion and its whole reason for being is to be better than football. Tell someone you don't like rugby and their reply is always "yer, but it's better than football". We're not talking about football, we're talking about rugby. Such is their dislike of football that their competition involving what few countries actually play it has almost exactly the same format as the game they so dislike.
Football.....because its played by Nancey boys who FAKE it and cheat like fIt hates football with a passion and its whole reason for being is to be better than football. Tell someone you don't like rugby and their reply is always "yer, but it's better than football". We're not talking about football, we're talking about rugby. Such is their dislike of football that their competition involving what few countries actually play it has almost exactly the same format as the game they so dislike.
k even on camera at the World Cup.Oh my knee! .....roll on floor like you have been shot !....
rugby - 80 minutes pretending you're not.
It's not like rugby players don't cheat either. Say what you like about football players, they don't take props onto the field of play to con the referee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodgate
Rugby player undoubtedly do get hurt, but as a runner, the types of stretching and ligament injuries that footballers get make me cringe.
Stickyfinger said:
Question: Do ANY footballers have an education above primary school ?....just asking
Edited by Stickyfinger on Sunday 20th September 22:49
Willy Nilly said:
Once again, rugby is using the failing of another, unrelated sport, to justify its own existence.
It's not like rugby players don't cheat either. Say what you like about football players, they don't take props onto the field of play to con the referee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodgate
Rugby player undoubtedly do get hurt, but as a runner, the types of stretching and ligament injuries that footballers get make me cringe.
No, your the one doing that.....funny that YOU raised that question, Rugby has zero need to compare with Soccer except for the laughs it gives that is..It's not like rugby players don't cheat either. Say what you like about football players, they don't take props onto the field of play to con the referee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodgate
Rugby player undoubtedly do get hurt, but as a runner, the types of stretching and ligament injuries that footballers get make me cringe.
We all fall like that don't we
When Rugby players/staff are caught, they get banned....footballers become role models.
Education ?.....don't need it Miss, what to be a footballer when I grow up (99,999% go directly to MacDonalds)
Willy Nilly said:
Why does it matter what education a footballer has and how does that help him play football and what has that got to do with rugby?
It's probably better for a footballer to be, shall we say, somewhat un-intellectual? When the ball is anywhere near the opposition's goal, then there isn't time to weigh up options and choose the best one in the way in which an intelligent person would, it's time to slam it in the direction of the goal and hope it goes in.Stickyfinger said:
No, your the one doing that.....funny that YOU raised that question, Rugby has zero need to compare with Soccer except for the laughs it gives that is..
We all fall like that don't we
When Rugby players/staff are caught, they get banned....footballers become role models.
Education ?.....don't need it Miss, what to be a footballer when I grow up (99,999% go directly to MacDonalds)
McDonalds, you muppet. We all fall like that don't we
When Rugby players/staff are caught, they get banned....footballers become role models.
Education ?.....don't need it Miss, what to be a footballer when I grow up (99,999% go directly to MacDonalds)
I play and watch both. They are different sports, get the f
k over it. The drug abuse in rugby is ridiculously high, the sport is full of scandal. (I'm not saying football isn't, I just have first hand experience of rugby's secrets)
Busterhighmen said:
McDonalds, you muppet.
I play and watch both. They are different sports, get the fk over it. The drug abuse in rugby is ridiculously high, the sport is full of scandal.
(I'm not saying football isn't, I just have first hand experience of rugby's secrets)
Attitude of a footballer it seems....feeling inadequate ? (quite glad that by default I miss the spelling of the "burger chain")I play and watch both. They are different sports, get the f
k over it. The drug abuse in rugby is ridiculously high, the sport is full of scandal. (I'm not saying football isn't, I just have first hand experience of rugby's secrets)
You bring up a subject, talk angry and try to make a limited connection into a bigger one, yes there is connection and comparisons CAN be made, as there is between Tennis and Squash as example.....Ball/Field/Finance/Team Sports.
I have to say other than laughing at them and the normal "Team Supporter" discussions, not much is said about Soccer down in our club bar...work,women,drinking and cars when not Rugby, like most men we are limited.
Hooli said:
mikal83 said:
Its come to a head............again BUT from all the TV yak, you'd think the Royal Air Farce won the entire war single handed.
They DID win the BoB single handed, hence all the stuff on TV.JonRB said:
Anyway, back on topic - something that annoys me beyond reason is people who take over a thread with a lengthy discussion that belongs in its own thread.
Not having a scroll wheel on a mouse....geeze that gets me. That, and being legally bound to read every post in a thread.
Hooli said:
mikal83 said:
Its come to a head............again BUT from all the TV yak, you'd think the Royal Air Farce won the entire war single handed.
They DID win the BoB single handed, hence all the stuff on TV.mikal83 said:
Guess the Fleet Air Arm were in stealth mode then.....oh and the Poles/Frogs etc etc.
Fleet Air Arm had very limited aircraft ATT, thus were not really part of it as a unit, pilots were seconded to RAF units however. Poles and French, US, Canadian, Aussie etc were also seconded or enlisted into RAF.
Stickyfinger said:
mikal83 said:
Guess the Fleet Air Arm were in stealth mode then.....oh and the Poles/Frogs etc etc.
Fleet Air Arm had very limited aircraft ATT, thus were not really part of it as a unit, pilots were seconded to RAF units however. Poles and French, US, Canadian, Aussie etc were also seconded or enlisted into RAF.nicanary said:
Hooli said:
mikal83 said:
Its come to a head............again BUT from all the TV yak, you'd think the Royal Air Farce won the entire war single handed.
They DID win the BoB single handed, hence all the stuff on TV.Still, an amazing feat, given that most pilots were 18-20 odd.
The bombers always had my admiration, night after night going out, freezing cold, for hours and hours, knowing that 1/3 wouldn't return, people you ate and slept with. My dad can still remember watching them form up and leave, an entire net covering the sky, and early dawn, seeing them return with huge gaps.
FourWheelDrift said:
Driving instructors who choose the most stupid places to make their learner do a 3 point turn, or the reversing into a junction manoeuvre. Locations that no driver with a choice (and brain) would choose.
I had this the other day "But why dont you just turn up there, reverse out and go the other way?" Because there's a perfectly good roundabout 1/4 mile up the road that doesnt involve crossing 2 lanes of heavy traffic then trying to get back out again?Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff