Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)
Discussion
SGirl said:
And since I'm here and on the subject - noisy eating. Especially the kind accompanied by vocalised expressions of enjoyment. "Om nom"? Get out!! 
There's an advert for a dog treat at the moment where the voiceover goes:Voiceover said:
Nom nom non nom (ad infinitum)
Followed by the following strapline:Marketing b
ks said:
ks said: It goes on and nom and nom
How old is the marketing tt? 5? 
dro said:
said: Probably way out on a limb with this one, Those adverts for thick chocolate covered ice creams lollies and the camera comes right in close to a mouth biting into it and the noise of the cracking chocolate amplified to the max, that noise for me is........ aaarrrrrgggggghhhhhhhh
Maybe the adverts aren't aimed at those whose 23rd pair of chromosomes are XY... They are over the top though.Similarly Greek-style yoghurt adverts with Nicole Shirtswinger or supposedly 'funny' (but actually contain a creamery's worth of cheese) adverts for fatless yoghurt with a man posing as a sculptor's model
Edited by AppleJuice on Tuesday 19th December 15:52
yellowjack said:
AppleJuice said:
Roofless Toothless said:
Women with long, thin, cold, bony hands.
Visiting the retirement village again?
The retirement village stuff reminded me of an old (Jewish) joke.
Manny was getting on a bit and his kids find him a place in a home. He was not at all pleased at the prospect, but they insisted it was a really good place, the food was excellent and he would have plenty of company.
Reluctantly he packed his bags an went along with it. On entering the common room, he was surprised to notice that there were very few other men there, and those were mostly pretty ga-ga. Nearly all women, and some quite attractive to his eyes. Being always the alert businessman, he got back to his room, found a sheet of paper and wrote on it "Sex for sale. Enquire within," and stuck it on his door.
Ten minutes had not passed, when the door opened and Mrs Goldbloom came in. She pointed at the notice and said, "How much?"
"£5 on the floor, £10 on the settee and £20 on the bed," he replied.
Mrs Goldbloom rummaged in her handbag for a while and pulled out a £20 note.
"Ah, you want it on the bed?" said Manny.
"No," answered Mrs Goldbloom. "Four - on the floor!"
Roofless Toothless said:
"No," answered Mrs Goldbloom. "Four - on the floor!"
Good joke, but I couldn't help thinking that Mrs. Goldbloom must have had a competition clutch as per the Beach Boys "Little Deuce Coup". 
After all, this is PistonHeads.
"Well I'm not braggin' babe, so don't bring me down, but I've got the fastest set of wheels in town...." 
When I read a perfectly sensible, or humorous, or informative post, maybe it’ll have a typo, or a their for they’re, but so what, I can get the gist of it, but then they use an expression that is in everyday English, but get it wrong, causing me to silently grimace, when the thread may be an interesting one.
e.g. oh fait, instead of au fait, Bet noire for bête noire, here here for hear hear, visa vis for vis à vis, and the doozy, the pièce de résistance, per say for per se.
e.g. oh fait, instead of au fait, Bet noire for bête noire, here here for hear hear, visa vis for vis à vis, and the doozy, the pièce de résistance, per say for per se.
Frank7 said:
When I read a perfectly sensible, or humorous, or informative post, maybe it’ll have a typo, or a their for they’re, but so what, I can get the gist of it, but then they use an expression that is in everyday English, but get it wrong, causing me to silently grimace, when the thread may be an interesting one.
e.g. oh fait, instead of au fait, Bet noire for bête noire, here here for hear hear, visa vis for vis à vis, and the doozy, the pièce de résistance, per say for per se.
Surely you mean "pierce de résistance" e.g. oh fait, instead of au fait, Bet noire for bête noire, here here for hear hear, visa vis for vis à vis, and the doozy, the pièce de résistance, per say for per se.
OddCat said:
Frank7 said:
When I read a perfectly sensible, or humorous, or informative post, maybe it’ll have a typo, or a their for they’re, but so what, I can get the gist of it, but then they use an expression that is in everyday English, but get it wrong, causing me to silently grimace, when the thread may be an interesting one.
e.g. oh fait, instead of au fait, Bet noire for bête noire, here here for hear hear, visa vis for vis à vis, and the doozy, the pièce de résistance, per say for per se.
Surely you mean "pierce de résistance" e.g. oh fait, instead of au fait, Bet noire for bête noire, here here for hear hear, visa vis for vis à vis, and the doozy, the pièce de résistance, per say for per se.
Edited by Frank7 on Wednesday 20th December 20:24
The stupid sound effects on the menus on my parents' Virgin TiVo box are currently annoying me beyond reason.
I'm sure the sound effects could be disabled but it's not really my place, as a visitor, to just go changing their settings. So instead I'll just have a little moan about it on an internet forum.
I'm sure the sound effects could be disabled but it's not really my place, as a visitor, to just go changing their settings. So instead I'll just have a little moan about it on an internet forum.
Clockwork Cupcake said:
The stupid sound effects on the menus on my parents' Virgin TiVo box are currently annoying me beyond reason.
I'm sure the sound effects could be disabled but it's not really my place, as a visitor, to just go changing their settings. So instead I'll just have a little moan about it on an internet forum.
I stayed in a hotel earlier in the year - and it had a startup and shutdown sound effect.I'm sure the sound effects could be disabled but it's not really my place, as a visitor, to just go changing their settings. So instead I'll just have a little moan about it on an internet forum.
The thing is - the volume of this sound effect was completely independent of the TV volume - so despite having the TV on very quiet at night because the wife was asleep - as soon as you went to turn it off, it played a really loud shutdown jingle!
WHY!
Clockwork Cupcake said:
I'm sure the sound effects could be disabled but it's not really my place, as a visitor, to just go changing their settings.
That's part of the fun of the festive period, one to do is always TV system settings/accessibility/timer/setup "on" at 4am channel whatever free to air pron channel is on their TV, volume loud. After you have left.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff