Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]

Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]

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Munter

31,319 posts

240 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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jr6yam said:
MartG said:
yes

A new PC is a blank canvas wink
If only that were true...
Yep. A new PC is a blank canvas that HP/Dell/ASUS/whoever has decided to scrawl all over, because they have been paid to do so and can make more profit that way.

That said. It's never been a real problem to turn off/uninstall those bit's of software.

The real problems are click happy users who install all sorts of junk "without realising".

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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People who can not pronounce "Betws-y-Coed"

Issi

1,782 posts

149 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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droopsnoot said:
Einion Yrth said:
Issi said:
People who use this site as some kind of weird version of Google.

'How much do kitchen tiles cost?'

'Who was the actor in XXXXXXX?'

'Looking for a pub in East Dribbling?'

Here's an idea - try finding the answer for yourself?
They are finding the answer, by using this weird version of google.
It's probably because Google is so over-run with junk placed by people whose sole purpose seems to be to get their product to the top of Google. Like searching for anything on eBay - pages and pages of junk to wade through before you get close to anything worthwhile. With particular ire reserved for those who add the prefix "not" just to get their items into unrelated searches, as in "Ford Escort Mk1 front wing, not Viva, Avenger, Saturn V, Liberator".
I agree with you to a point, but nowadays it seems that people won't do anything without asking the great and good of PH for advice.



james_tigerwoods

16,287 posts

196 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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pablo said:
People who can not pronounce "Betws-y-Coed"
Ambiwlans !

rohrl

8,711 posts

144 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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pablo said:
People who can not pronounce "Betws-y-Coed"
You ought to hear my grandmother attempt "Llanelli".

Winky151

1,267 posts

140 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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When my biscuit falls in my tea. fks me right off. Can't fish it out, have to throw the tea away & make a fresh one swearing & cursing.

MartG

20,620 posts

203 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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Winky151 said:
When my biscuit falls in my tea. fks me right off. Can't fish it out, have to throw the tea away & make a fresh one swearing & cursing.
Use a straw to suck it out like a suction dredger wink

fatboy18

18,930 posts

210 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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pablo said:
People who can not pronounce "Betws-y-Coed"
I can, fkin st place ....see its easy wink

Full of people who have no wish to be part of the United Kingdom, Good for you put up a berlin style wall for all I care, I will never set foot in Wales again tongue out



Edited by fatboy18 on Wednesday 28th October 18:36

rohrl

8,711 posts

144 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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fatboy18 said:
pablo said:
People who can not pronounce "Betws-y-Coed"
I can, fkin st place ....see its easy wink

Full of people who have no wish to be part of the United Kingdom, Good for you put up a berlin style wall for all I care, I will never set foot in Wales again :P
You what? Betws-Y-Coed is a nice place. I think you might have mixed it up with Blaenau Ffestioniog.

The Welsh actually had a referendum a few years ago and rejected the idea of independence, but don't let your ignorance of the facts restrict you from stating your opinion. You seem not to be a very pleasant person anyway, I don't think you'll be missed much.

leigh1050

2,372 posts

164 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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pablo said:
People who can not pronounce "Betws-y-Coed"
Who'd want to apart from someone in Wales.confused

popeyewhite

19,622 posts

119 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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rohrl said:
You what? Betws-Y-Coed is a nice place. I think you might have mixed it up with Blaenau Ffestioniog.

The Welsh actually had a referendum a few years ago and rejected the idea of independence, but don't let your ignorance of the facts restrict you from stating your opinion. You seem not to be a very pleasant person anyway, I don't think you'll be missed much.
Can the Welsh not speak English? Why else do roadsigns/directions etc have to be in two languages?

rohrl

8,711 posts

144 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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popeyewhite said:
Can the Welsh not speak English? Why else do roadsigns/directions etc have to be in two languages?
Why shouldn't they be in Welsh too? Many Welsh taxpayers speak Welsh, an indigenous British language predating English, as their first language.

I live in Wales and I'm Anglophile but it is no skin off my nose whatsoever that signage is bilingual. It doesn't negatively affect me in any way at all.

popeyewhite

19,622 posts

119 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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rohrl said:
popeyewhite said:
Can the Welsh not speak English? Why else do roadsigns/directions etc have to be in two languages?
Why shouldn't they be in Welsh too?
Because for most of the year the majority of people in Wales are English

rohrl said:
Many Welsh taxpayers speak Welsh, an indigenous British language predating English, as their first language.
Oh well in that case let's have all UK roadsigns in ancient Anglo-Saxon shall we? Actually the Welsh langauge didn't develop 'til the middle ages IIRC... .

rohrl said:
I live in Wales and I'm Anglophile but it is no skin off my nose whatsoever that signage is bilingual. It doesn't negatively affect me in any way at all.
You're too close to the subject matter and therefore can't see objectively. Try living somewhere you have easily and quickly decipherable roadsigns and you'll soon understand the benefit.

aka_kerrly

12,415 posts

209 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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rohrl said:
Why shouldn't they be in Welsh too? Many Welsh taxpayers speak Welsh.
That is something that annoys a lot of Welsh people especially tax payers as the Welsh assembly spends masses of money translating and forcing Welsh on people.

As it stands according to the latest census nearly 75% of Welsh people cannot speak any Welsh, more people in Wales speak Urdu than Welsh.

If Welsh wasn't made compulsory in 1990 thus giving kids no choice to avoid it the percentage of people who for the purpose of a census and the nature of the questioning can answer that they can read/write in Welsh would be considerably smaller.




Stickyfinger

8,429 posts

104 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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aka_kerrly said:
That is something that annoys a lot of Welsh people especially tax payers as the Welsh assembly spends masses of money translating and forcing Welsh on people.

As it stands according to the latest census nearly 75% of Welsh people cannot speak any Welsh, more people in Wales speak Urdu than Welsh.

If Welsh wasn't made compulsory in 1990 thus giving kids no choice to avoid it the percentage of people who for the purpose of a census and the nature of the questioning can answer that they can read/write in Welsh would be considerably smaller.
I like it, I am also all for the support of the Welsh Heritage & Identity and that includes the language.


And I am not Welsh

Tyre Tread

10,525 posts

215 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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I've just moved to Wales.

This Welsh language thing is a pain in the bum.

No benefits and plenty of drawbacks.

Bluedot

3,573 posts

106 months

Thursday 29th October 2015
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All that jazz

7,632 posts

145 months

Thursday 29th October 2015
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rohrl said:
pablo said:
People who can not pronounce "Betws-y-Coed"
You ought to hear my grandmother attempt "Llanelli".
Bettusu-coyd.
Thlaneh-li.

yes

Hwyl!

FourWheelDrift

88,375 posts

283 months

Thursday 29th October 2015
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Vaping. You look stupid.

nicanary

9,749 posts

145 months

Thursday 29th October 2015
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The Welsh introduced the English to the longbow. Nuff said, Oh....and what about Rorke's Drift, and cheese on toast?
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