Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Going back to North, South, Up, and Down, there's all sorts of others that crop up in Sci-Fi and fantasy. Spinward and Hubward being two that are particularly prevalent.

Then in nautical parlance, we have windward and leeward.

It's all pretty arbitrary really, depending on your Inertial Frame of Reference.

[MartG]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Going back to North, South, Up, and Down, there's all sorts of others that crop up in Sci-Fi and fantasy. Spinward and Hubward being two that are particularly prevalent.

Turnwise and Widdershins too

[Clockwork Cupcake]

MartG said:

Turnwise and Widdershins too

That too.

[George Smiley]

When you want sex but they don’t but when they want sex and you want an early night

[bristolracer]

George Smiley said:

When you want sex but they don’t but when they want sex and you want an early night

The fact you posted that at 00.42 implies you didn't get your early night ?

Sunday morning is the best compromise

[98elise]

bristolracer said:

MartG said:

Remember when you could plug a pair of headphones into a PC and they'd just work ?

See also warnings on phones about listening at high volumes when you trying to bluetooth something to the car radio

An not being able to click on a link without having to accept settings etc.

[davhill]

Frank7 said:

I agree with all of that, the only observation that I’d make is that as a born and raised Londoner, born in the east, but having lived south of the Thames, (in London), for almost all of my life, I’ve never heard anyone say “darn sarf”, to my gentle ears it’s more like “dahn souf”.

That's because you aren't hearing the Northen pronunciation

[Frank7]

davhill said:

Frank7 said:

I agree with all of that, the only observation that I’d make is that as a born and raised Londoner, born in the east, but having lived south of the Thames, (in London), for almost all of my life, I’ve never heard anyone say “darn sarf”, to my gentle ears it’s more like “dahn souf”.

That's because you aren't hearing the Northen pronunciation

North? (Never Northen), You mean Islington or Camden, perhaps ‘ampstead?”

[fausTVR]

DocJock said:

Europa1 said:

Or nothing in the thread title to give a clue as to what it is about. Looking at you "Just An Observation." Why not say it's about the Met Police asking for more money to investigate the McCann case? Or use the existing McCann thread?

In similar vein, why are there 3 Priti Patel threads running?

And breathe...

Just posting to thank you for being, very possibly, the first person to spell 'breathe' correctly, on the forum, since the start of the year.

Ahaa, that is one of my greatest bugbears for some reason, it's a tiny minority who can actually spell 'breathe'. Also, while I'm on, defiantly instead of definitely. Evolution of the language my arse!

[Clockwork Cupcake]

fausTVR said:

Also, while I'm on, defiantly instead of definitely. Evolution of the language my arse!

Totally agree. That's never going to be anything other than using a similarly-spelt word in the wrong context.

[Chicken_Satay]

"Online banking is changing"

NOBODY fkING CARES!

"This website uses cookies"

NOBODY fkING CARES!

Talk about just inventing problems to create jobs and keep people in work..!

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Chicken_Satay said:

"This website uses cookies"

NOBODY fkING CARES!

It's a legal requirement. You think website developers just stick it in for a laugh?

I rather like the Daily Mash website. The Cookie Consent popup on their website has a button marked "Whatever" that you click to indicate acceptance, and hence fulfil the legal requirement.

[Chicken_Satay]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

It's a legal requirement. You think website developers just stick it in for a laugh?

Yes, it's a legal requirement but nobody ever gave a fk about whether their browsing habits were being tracked or not, especially given that none if it is personally identifiable information anyway. In fact, most people didn't/still don't know what the fk it's all about. It was just a legal requirement thought up by people who knew too much about the subject. The general public couldn't care less.

[yellowjack]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Hackney said:

These previously fun and now dull road annoys me beyond reason.

Sadly, it is country-wide. Certainly I have noticed in Hampshire, Berkshire, and Surrey - areas that I have regularly driven in over the past 20 years - that vast swathes of two lane dual carriageway have been reduced to single lane (the A30 being a particular example) and speed limits have fallen on them too.

Decent B-roads have similarly suffered from falling speed limits - the Pirbright Bends are now mostly 40, even 30, where previously they were NSL, for example.

Sadly that's the other way around. For almost their entire length 'The Bends' are subject to a 30 mph speed limit now. The only short section that has a 40 mph limit is the straight bit of hill down to the Defence Medical Services barracks at the Ash end.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

yellowjack said:

Sadly that's the other way around. For almost their entire length 'The Bends' are subject to a 30 mph speed limit now. The only short section that has a 40 mph limit is the straight bit of hill down to the Defence Medical Services barracks at the Ash end.

[davhill]

Frank7 said:

North? (Never Northen), You mean Islington or Camden, perhaps ‘ampstead?”

Not 'arringay or South 'erts?

[john2443]

fausTVR said:

Also, while I'm on, defiantly instead of definitely. Evolution of the language my arse!

That's because if you type definately, predictive text thinks you've mistyped defiantly, not mispelt definitely, so makes it worse, whereas you'd expect it to make it better.

[Frank7]

davhill said:

Frank7 said:

North? (Never Northen), You mean Islington or Camden, perhaps ‘ampstead?”

Not 'arringay or South 'erts?

Ain’t it ‘aringey now?
I went to South Herts golf club when I was a Black Cab driver, not to play I hasten to add, I was one of those rarities, a Black Cab driver who didn’t play golf.
I went with two friends, who did play, I said that I’d go in the bar and drink grapefruit juice, (we went in my taxi), while they played.
I was stopped at the door, as apparently I was wearing banned attire, this was a pair of well cut Tuffery jeans, made in France, and bought in Brussels for the thick end of €180, and a mid blue long sleeved Italian shirt, bought in Rome for just under €100, so I found a cafe near Totteridge station, and drank coffee and read a couple of papers until they called me to go get them.
The guy who stopped me was wearing cavalry twill strides which probably cost £25 in M & S.

[popeyewhite]

Chicken_Satay said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

It's a legal requirement. You think website developers just stick it in for a laugh?

Yes, it's a legal requirement but nobody ever gave a fk about whether their browsing habits were being tracked or not, especially given that none if it is personally identifiable information anyway. In fact, most people didn't/still don't know what the fk it's all about. It was just a legal requirement thought up by people who knew too much about the subject. The general public couldn't care less.

Very true.

See also
"Please disable your adblocker"
*clicks off site*

[Clockwork Cupcake]

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