Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
Discussion
kennydies said:
It seems to be the whole thing.
Coming up in the program you are just about to watch....
Coming up after the ads in the program you are already watching.
Previously (before the ads) in the program you had already watched!!
At least when you have the show recorded, you can watch any American 1 hour show in about 30 minutes by forwarding through all those bits and the adverts, saving you plenty of time to do other things.. Coming up in the program you are just about to watch....
Coming up after the ads in the program you are already watching.
Previously (before the ads) in the program you had already watched!!
opieoilman said:
Postman pat makes Hermes look like a good delivery company and has a fleet of expensive vehicles for delivering 2 parcels a day.
What do you mean? 
Postman Pat is awesome!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nHy1PH3MuBM
opieoilman said:
Skii said:
Paw Patrol
Most Kids TV I don't have a problem with, some of it is great and has my 5 year old son adding, subtracting, spelling and learning some great stuff, some stuff is plain funny and entertaining, but Paw Patrol, oh for the love of god.
Christ it's irritating. The voice cast consists of budding Cynthia Young stage school pupils, who as they are playing "puppies" burst into regular yipping and barking. and then there is the sailor who needs to be rescued every other day because he's either crashed or fallen off his boat, of the mayor of the town with her shrill irritating voice who needs her pet chicken rescuing presumably on the other days when captain d
head isn't crashing or falling off his boat.
Oh and don't get me started on Fireman Sam..
My son loves it and while I'm fine with an episode or two of it, after that I struggle. You're right, it's the voices.Most Kids TV I don't have a problem with, some of it is great and has my 5 year old son adding, subtracting, spelling and learning some great stuff, some stuff is plain funny and entertaining, but Paw Patrol, oh for the love of god.
Christ it's irritating. The voice cast consists of budding Cynthia Young stage school pupils, who as they are playing "puppies" burst into regular yipping and barking. and then there is the sailor who needs to be rescued every other day because he's either crashed or fallen off his boat, of the mayor of the town with her shrill irritating voice who needs her pet chicken rescuing presumably on the other days when captain d
head isn't crashing or falling off his boat.Oh and don't get me started on Fireman Sam..
Fireman Sam is truly awful and basically everything in it is a problem caused by that Norman kid (again, irritating voice) with the useless mum. I think by now, the rest of the village would have given him a sufficient beating that he won't cause any more problems.
Postman pat makes Hermes look like a good delivery company and has a fleet of expensive vehicles for delivering 2 parcels a day.
Don't let your kids go on Netflix and watch Word Party, probably the most irritating of the lot.
We're probably a bit too soft on him with TV and he gets a lot of his choices, but there are limits and I end up putting rugby/football on for a bit of sanity.
Weird.
Skii said:
Paw Patrol
Most Kids TV I don't have a problem with, some of it is great and has my 5 year old son adding, subtracting, spelling and learning some great stuff, some stuff is plain funny and entertaining, but Paw Patrol, oh for the love of god.
Christ it's irritating. The voice cast consists of budding Cynthia Young stage school pupils, who as they are playing "puppies" burst into regular yipping and barking. and then there is the sailor who needs to be rescued every other day because he's either crashed or fallen off his boat, of the mayor of the town with her shrill irritating voice who needs her pet chicken rescuing presumably on the other days when captain dhead isn't crashing or falling off his boat.
Oh and don't get me started on Fireman Sam..
You're doing it all wrong, just play him Family Guy, then once he gets to seven or eight you can introduce South Park. Most Kids TV I don't have a problem with, some of it is great and has my 5 year old son adding, subtracting, spelling and learning some great stuff, some stuff is plain funny and entertaining, but Paw Patrol, oh for the love of god.
Christ it's irritating. The voice cast consists of budding Cynthia Young stage school pupils, who as they are playing "puppies" burst into regular yipping and barking. and then there is the sailor who needs to be rescued every other day because he's either crashed or fallen off his boat, of the mayor of the town with her shrill irritating voice who needs her pet chicken rescuing presumably on the other days when captain d
head isn't crashing or falling off his boat.Oh and don't get me started on Fireman Sam..
He'll then be well ahead of his peers and will probably understand more about this world than his teachers.
Note from local council
"Due to the current poor weather conditions, please could residents retrieve empty bins/boxes as soon as possible following collection as they can become quite hazardous to pedestrians and road users due to being blown about by the wind. Thank you"
It would help if their bin collectors returned the bins into people's driveways instead of abandoning them in the middle of the fking pavement where the wind can easily blow them into the road 
"Due to the current poor weather conditions, please could residents retrieve empty bins/boxes as soon as possible following collection as they can become quite hazardous to pedestrians and road users due to being blown about by the wind. Thank you"
It would help if their bin collectors returned the bins into people's driveways instead of abandoning them in the middle of the f
king pavement where the wind can easily blow them into the road Skii said:
Paw Patrol
Most Kids TV I don't have a problem with, some of it is great and has my 5 year old son adding, subtracting, spelling and learning some great stuff, some stuff is plain funny and entertaining, but Paw Patrol, oh for the love of god.
Christ it's irritating. The voice cast consists of budding Cynthia Young stage school pupils, who as they are playing "puppies" burst into regular yipping and barking. and then there is the sailor who needs to be rescued every other day because he's either crashed or fallen off his boat, of the mayor of the town with her shrill irritating voice who needs her pet chicken rescuing presumably on the other days when captain dhead isn't crashing or falling off his boat.
Oh and don't get me started on Fireman Sam..
My niece was watching this on YouTube. The voices were American - Watch them. You'll be happy with the British version after that, I can tell you...Most Kids TV I don't have a problem with, some of it is great and has my 5 year old son adding, subtracting, spelling and learning some great stuff, some stuff is plain funny and entertaining, but Paw Patrol, oh for the love of god.
Christ it's irritating. The voice cast consists of budding Cynthia Young stage school pupils, who as they are playing "puppies" burst into regular yipping and barking. and then there is the sailor who needs to be rescued every other day because he's either crashed or fallen off his boat, of the mayor of the town with her shrill irritating voice who needs her pet chicken rescuing presumably on the other days when captain d
head isn't crashing or falling off his boat.Oh and don't get me started on Fireman Sam..
Power Rangers though. My 5 year old son loves it. It's a whole other level of shire.
My electricity fixed tariff expired 11 days ago and the standard tariff my supplier has put me on would more than double my electricity costs! Quite disgusting really. I've switched supplier this evening, but it takes two weeks to go through and I have already been on it 11 days. I'll have almost a month of double electricity costs now. In January.... And I use storage heaters...
Dr Murdoch said:
People calling me 'Sir'.
I'm not a 'Sir' and I find incredibly demeaning to the person calling me 'Sir', annoys me that companies expect their staff to address me (and others) in this way.
Nothing wrong with Sir or Madam. It's just old fashioned courtesy. "Mister" would sound like an 1880s street urchin. I don't mind being called "mate", but it's not very professional.I'm not a 'Sir' and I find incredibly demeaning to the person calling me 'Sir', annoys me that companies expect their staff to address me (and others) in this way.
MartG said:
Note from local council
"Due to the current poor weather conditions, please could residents retrieve empty bins/boxes as soon as possible following collection as they can become quite hazardous to pedestrians and road users due to being blown about by the wind. Thank you"
It would help if their bin collectors returned the bins into people's driveways instead of abandoning them in the middle of the fking pavement where the wind can easily blow them into the road
I wish my neighbours got prompted like this. I was up at 4am moving empty bins that were blowing into my cars. By lunchtime I'd ratchet strapped my immediate neighbours three bins to a tree and collected all their recycling from my garden. All the while other neighbours just looked at all the bins flying around and ignored them. "Due to the current poor weather conditions, please could residents retrieve empty bins/boxes as soon as possible following collection as they can become quite hazardous to pedestrians and road users due to being blown about by the wind. Thank you"
It would help if their bin collectors returned the bins into people's driveways instead of abandoning them in the middle of the f
king pavement where the wind can easily blow them into the road Dr Murdoch said:
People calling me 'Sir'.
I'm not a 'Sir' and I find incredibly demeaning to the person calling me 'Sir', annoys me that companies expect their staff to address me (and others) in this way.
It's professional and respectful and how it should be done imho, particularly in any customer service role. You should always be addressed as Mr. [insert surname] or Sir until such a time comes where you give them permission to use your first name. I can't remember which company it was but I remember some years ago I had a problem with a device which necessitated ringing them for help and I was addressed by my first name by someone who sounded about 18 years old. I don't expect to be treated/addressed like a mate by a company to whom I'm paying considerable money to every month for a service they're failing to provide I'm not a 'Sir' and I find incredibly demeaning to the person calling me 'Sir', annoys me that companies expect their staff to address me (and others) in this way.
.All that jazz said:
Dr Murdoch said:
People calling me 'Sir'.
I'm not a 'Sir' and I find incredibly demeaning to the person calling me 'Sir', annoys me that companies expect their staff to address me (and others) in this way.
It's professional and respectful and how it should be done imho, particularly in any customer service role. You should always be addressed as Mr. [insert surname] or Sir until such a time comes where you give them permission to use your first name. I can't remember which company it was but I remember some years ago I had a problem with a device which necessitated ringing them for help and I was addressed by my first name by someone who sounded about 18 years old. I don't expect to be treated/addressed like a mate by a company to whom I'm paying considerable money to every month for a service they're failing to provide I'm not a 'Sir' and I find incredibly demeaning to the person calling me 'Sir', annoys me that companies expect their staff to address me (and others) in this way.
.Or would sir prefer to be addressed as mate?
With the forecast of snow, it is now the time of year for people to start complaining that "Oh look, a few flakes of snow and everyone forgets how to drive"
I find this not to be the case, in snow, everyone remembers that they have to drive more slowly, and leave more space, and as such, journeys take longer, and traffic builds up. This isn't the same as "everyone forgetting to drive" but yes, there are those who probably didn't know how to drive in the first place who go ahead and have accidents.
Since we aren't guaranteed to get snow every season, it is hardly surprising that many people are not accustomed to the practice, though...
I find this not to be the case, in snow, everyone remembers that they have to drive more slowly, and leave more space, and as such, journeys take longer, and traffic builds up. This isn't the same as "everyone forgetting to drive" but yes, there are those who probably didn't know how to drive in the first place who go ahead and have accidents.
Since we aren't guaranteed to get snow every season, it is hardly surprising that many people are not accustomed to the practice, though...
bristolracer said:
Agreed
Or would sir prefer to be addressed as mate?
Neither, just an 'excuse me' to get my attention if needed.Or would sir prefer to be addressed as mate?
Edited to add, on reflection I think I would prefer 'mate', at least it has a sense of honesty about it.
'Sir' is so false, you know its false, they know its false, just seems a pointless charade to me.
Edited by Dr Murdoch on Thursday 12th January 12:20
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