Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)

[FourWheelDrift]

Doh.

[V8mate]

Shakermaker said:

YouTube adverts in kids TV stuff

We found a great YouTube channel called "Baby Relax Channel" which has hundreds of videos all of which are calming, glockenspiel versions of Mozart, Beethoven et al compositions on a 2-3 hour loop. When our daughter was not sleeping so well this was something we found amazing - put the iPad in the corner with one of these playing and she'd drift off in my arms/on my shoulder

But then inevitably, this calm, relaxing 3 hour loop would be broken with "PADDYPOWER BETFRED ON THE WORLD CUP YEAH FOOTBALL ACCAS GOALS GOALS GOALS WIN LOADS OF DOSH PLEASE GAMBLE RESPONSIBLY!!!!"

To be followed by another 20 minutes of crying

Brave, FTW!

[Drew106]

Shakermaker said:

YouTube adverts in kids TV stuff

We found a great YouTube channel called "Baby Relax Channel" which has hundreds of videos all of which are calming, glockenspiel versions of Mozart, Beethoven et al compositions on a 2-3 hour loop. When our daughter was not sleeping so well this was something we found amazing - put the iPad in the corner with one of these playing and she'd drift off in my arms/on my shoulder

But then inevitably, this calm, relaxing 3 hour loop would be broken with "PADDYPOWER BETFRED ON THE WORLD CUP YEAH FOOTBALL ACCAS GOALS GOALS GOALS WIN LOADS OF DOSH PLEASE GAMBLE RESPONSIBLY!!!!"

To be followed by another 20 minutes of crying

You need to download the 'YouTube Kids' app.

Shouldn't use YouTube for kids stuff, some seriously sick puppies out there think it's entertaining to traumatize kids!

Think there's still adds, but more appropriate.

[yellowjack]

FourWheelDrift said:

Just switched on the D-Day 75 on BBC1.

Two things, the decision for an British actor to read out the German diaries in an Allo Allo style German accent, not really needed. And did the actor playing Eisenhower really say "fking hurricane" at 12:20am on BBC1?

I didn't mind either of those things, but just what the juddering f**k was Sheridan Smith doing with her "offer the mic toward the crowd and cup her ear" thing? That whole "sing it back to me" shtick pisses me off enough at festivals and concerts (I've paid to hear you sing, you Muppet, so bloody-well sing to me, not the other way around) but here at a D-Day commemoration it had no place whatsoever. I rarely cringe at anything, but this was just ridiculous. And those camp dancers too, jumping and jiving to 'The Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy...' Some of the veterans looked suitably less than impressed with that shower too, especially the Royal Marine veteran in the front row who looked like he'd come expecting an act of Remembrance, not a Royal Variety Performance.

Other than that? Hugh Edwards wittering on inanely. And those poor ratings in the Royal Navy section of the Honour Guard. I'm assuming the RAF sent The Queen's Colour Squadron, the Army sent the Welsh Guards ceremonial battalion, but the RN got to make do with a bunch of kids whose only experience beyond the gates of HMS Collingwood was leaving there on a Friday to start Honour Guard rehearsals on the following Monday. And sadly they marched like a shower of st too. Can't blame them for the decision really, and it was quite appropriate given the commemoration of D-Day as a lot of ratings (and soldiers and airmen too) taking part in Overlord would have been fresh out of the factory, so to speak.

[yellowjack]

funkyrobot said:

Etypephil said:

Shakermaker said:

at least back when I was a teenager myself, said shoulder-riding teens/young women would have the decency to whap out their baps in the hope of getting them up on the big screen

Liam Gallagher actively encouraged it when I saw Oasis

Can't do that these days...

Why not?

Oasis don't tour anymore.

This really deserves a

[Cupramax]

FourWheelDrift said:

Just switched on the D-Day 75 on BBC1.

Two things, the decision for an British actor to read out the German diaries in an Allo Allo style German accent, not really needed.

I was half expecting officer Crabtree to appear.

[FourWheelDrift]

yellowjack said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Just switched on the D-Day 75 on BBC1.

Two things, the decision for an British actor to read out the German diaries in an Allo Allo style German accent, not really needed. And did the actor playing Eisenhower really say "fking hurricane" at 12:20am on BBC1?

I didn't mind either of those things, but just what the juddering f**k was Sheridan Smith doing with her "offer the mic toward the crowd and cup her ear" thing? That whole "sing it back to me" shtick pisses me off enough at festivals and concerts (I've paid to hear you sing, you Muppet, so bloody-well sing to me, not the other way around) but here at a D-Day commemoration it had no place whatsoever. I rarely cringe at anything, but this was just ridiculous. And those camp dancers too, jumping and jiving to 'The Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy...' Some of the veterans looked suitably less than impressed with that shower too, especially the Royal Marine veteran in the front row who looked like he'd come expecting an act of Remembrance, not a Royal Variety Performance.

Other than that? Hugh Edwards wittering on inanely. And those poor ratings in the Royal Navy section of the Honour Guard. I'm assuming the RAF sent The Queen's Colour Squadron, the Army sent the Welsh Guards ceremonial battalion, but the RN got to make do with a bunch of kids whose only experience beyond the gates of HMS Collingwood was leaving there on a Friday to start Honour Guard rehearsals on the following Monday. And sadly they marched like a shower of st too. Can't blame them for the decision really, and it was quite appropriate given the commemoration of D-Day as a lot of ratings (and soldiers and airmen too) taking part in Overlord would have been fresh out of the factory, so to speak.

I didn't see any of that, I saw the end of the dramatisation, when I came back into the room an old soldier was coming out to perform a speech, the Queen made a speech and then "We'll meet again" started and I turned if off. Sheridan Smith would have had me reaching for something heavy to throw at something else.

[Shakermaker]

Drew106 said:

You need to download the 'YouTube Kids' app.

Shouldn't use YouTube for kids stuff, some seriously sick puppies out there think it's entertaining to traumatize kids!

Think there's still adds, but more appropriate.

Sounds sensible, I'll do that.

I know, I've seen the warnings but the official channels are fine, its those with non-official handles that I'd steer clear of anyway

[talksthetorque]

People who drink Aperol Spritz.

[nonsequitur]

jet_noise said:

nonsequitur said:

What has happened to socks?

Purchased a pack of summer type socks from Next in April and already my toes are poking through. It could be my size twelve feet, but either way not good enough. Now I have to purchase one of those mushroom shaped thingys and start darning.

Cut your toenails more often?

I have Hobbit feet, but have never had socks fail so quickly before.

[jet_noise]

nonsequitur said:

jet_noise said:

nonsequitur said:

What has happened to socks?

Purchased a pack of summer type socks from Next in April and already my toes are poking through. It could be my size twelve feet, but either way not good enough. Now I have to purchase one of those mushroom shaped thingys and start darning.

Cut your toenails more often?

I have Hobbit feet, but have never had socks fail so quickly before.

[yellowjack]

talksthetorque said:

People who drink Aperol Spritz.

I didn't even know what one of those was. And I'll probably never order one now that I do.

Annoying me is the current trend for Gin drinking. All manner of "botanicals" get added to it, and everyone and their dog seems to have been swept up in the craze. I've tasted a couple of gins, but never found myself desiring a full measure. I just don't get it. Whiskey, yes, Rum too. But I can't understand the fuss about gin, and so gin drinkers bores annoy me beyond reason...

[Mark-C]

FourWheelDrift said:

I didn't see any of that, I saw the end of the dramatisation, when I came back into the room an old soldier was coming out to perform a speech, the Queen made a speech and then "We'll meet again" started and I turned if off. Sheridan Smith would have had me reaching for something heavy to throw at something else.

Something else? Why would you not throw it at Sheridan Smith?

[talksthetorque]

yellowjack said:

I didn't even know what one of those was. And I'll probably never order one now that I do.

Annoying me is the current trend for Gin drinking. All manner of "botanicals" get added to it, and everyone and their dog seems to have been swept up in the craze. I've tasted a couple of gins, but never found myself desiring a full measure. I just don't get it. Whiskey, yes, Rum too. But I can't understand the fuss about gin, and so gin drinkers bores annoy me beyond reason...

Aperol spritz is the latest fad drink. What they want you to think happens.


What happens.

[ElectricSoup]

yellowjack said:

talksthetorque said:

People who drink Aperol Spritz.

I didn't even know what one of those was. And I'll probably never order one now that I do.

Annoying me is the current trend for Gin drinking. All manner of "botanicals" get added to it, and everyone and their dog seems to have been swept up in the craze. I've tasted a couple of gins, but never found myself desiring a full measure. I just don't get it. Whiskey, yes, Rum too. But I can't understand the fuss about gin, and so gin drinkers bores annoy me beyond reason...

Yep. And you have to put tonic in gin. Once that's in, it just tastes of tonic, whatever fancy schmancy botanicals are in the 20ml of gin, which has now been drowned. Spot on.

[anonymous-user]

yellowjack said:

I didn't even know what one of those was. And I'll probably never order one now that I do.

Annoying me is the current trend for Gin drinking. All manner of "botanicals" get added to it, and everyone and their dog seems to have been swept up in the craze. I've tasted a couple of gins, but never found myself desiring a full measure. I just don't get it. Whiskey, yes, Rum too. But I can't understand the fuss about gin, and so gin drinkers bores annoy me beyond reason...

I was in our local garden centre at the weekend. I swear they had more bottles of gin than plants. The stuff was everywhere !

[j_4m]

ElectricSoup said:

yellowjack said:

talksthetorque said:

People who drink Aperol Spritz.

I didn't even know what one of those was. And I'll probably never order one now that I do.

Annoying me is the current trend for Gin drinking. All manner of "botanicals" get added to it, and everyone and their dog seems to have been swept up in the craze. I've tasted a couple of gins, but never found myself desiring a full measure. I just don't get it. Whiskey, yes, Rum too. But I can't understand the fuss about gin, and so gin drinkers bores annoy me beyond reason...

Yep. And you have to put tonic in gin. Once that's in, it just tastes of tonic, whatever fancy schmancy botanicals are in the 20ml of gin, which has now been drowned. Spot on.

Don't put so much tonic in?

I like a G+T. It's a simple, unfussy dry thing. It's annoying that current trends have turned it into yet another over sweetened fruit flavoured syrup for adults that never grew out of coke.

[Shakermaker]

j_4m said:

ElectricSoup said:

yellowjack said:

talksthetorque said:

People who drink Aperol Spritz.

I didn't even know what one of those was. And I'll probably never order one now that I do.

Annoying me is the current trend for Gin drinking. All manner of "botanicals" get added to it, and everyone and their dog seems to have been swept up in the craze. I've tasted a couple of gins, but never found myself desiring a full measure. I just don't get it. Whiskey, yes, Rum too. But I can't understand the fuss about gin, and so gin drinkers bores annoy me beyond reason...

Yep. And you have to put tonic in gin. Once that's in, it just tastes of tonic, whatever fancy schmancy botanicals are in the 20ml of gin, which has now been drowned. Spot on.

Don't put so much tonic in?

I like a G+T. It's a simple, unfussy dry thing. It's annoying that current trends have turned it into yet another over sweetened fruit flavoured syrup for adults that never grew out of coke.

surely the better solution is "put more gin in" rather than "less tonic"?

Rum... likely to be the next gin I think. Invest now!

[j_4m]

Shakermaker said:

surely the better solution is "put more gin in" rather than "less tonic"?

Rum... likely to be the next gin I think. Invest now!

We'll need to quantify the initial measure of gin before we go down that road. Luckily the weights and measures people never audit my kitchen.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

j_4m said:

We'll need to quantify the initial measure of gin before we go down that road. Luckily the weights and measures people never audit my kitchen.

When I was growing up my dad used to make me make the drinks for everyone, and I used to play a subversive little game of seeing how strong I could mix the G&Ts before anyone complained. I'd occasionally get an "ooh, that's a strong one!" from one of the grandmothers as they greedily slurped them down.

Put me off gin for years - I hated even the smell of it.