Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)
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Clockwork Cupcake said:
Oh and another thing... when TV shows in English subtitle people talking in English but with heavy accents (Indian, Icelandic, Swedish, Scottish). I feel insulted.
I'm not sure why you should feel insulted by that. Annoyed, yes - and hence eligible for this thread. But on a similar note I get annoyed by British people for whom English is presumably their mother tongue yet who are totally incomprehensible and for whom subtitles are not provided. Usually but not always from Celtic fringe nations.Clockwork Cupcake said:
Oh and another thing... when TV shows in English subtitle people talking in English but with heavy accents (Indian, Icelandic, Swedish, Scottish). I feel insulted.
Yes, and on that basis I was pleasantly surprised when the recent "Fish Town" series on BBC2 only did that in one instance, and it was when there was a lot of machine noise in the background of the person who was talking. All the rest of it, and there were some pretty broad Scottish accents on there, was just left as-is. Red9zero said:
A woman in our office puts a question mark at the end of the last sentence of her emails, whether it is a question or not. I can't describe how much it annoys me.
Might be html/plain text settings. Sometimes a smiley face shows up as a question mark Happens to us when I email internally from outlook 365 to an email queue and it gets sent to salesforce. talksthetorque said:
Red9zero said:
A woman in our office puts a question mark at the end of the last sentence of her emails, whether it is a question or not. I can't describe how much it annoys me.
Might be html/plain text settings. Sometimes a smiley face shows up as a question mark Happens to us when I email internally from outlook 365 to an email queue and it gets sent to salesforce. 
Clockwork Cupcake said:
Oh and another thing... when TV shows in English subtitle people talking in English but with heavy accents (Indian, Icelandic, Swedish, Scottish). I feel insulted.
I'm watching 'How Do They Do It?' on Discovery Science and an Icelandic guy is talking perfectly understandable English.... and they are subtitling him.
Speaks in Australian. I'm watching 'How Do They Do It?' on Discovery Science and an Icelandic guy is talking perfectly understandable English.... and they are subtitling him.
Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Tuesday 24th November 18:42
We get subtitled in other English speaking countries. See also: Scottish and Northerners... Pretty much everyone without an Estuary accent when on American TV.
Clockwork Cupcake said:
Oh and another thing... when TV shows in English subtitle people talking in English but with heavy accents (Indian, Icelandic, Swedish, Scottish). I feel insulted.
I'm watching 'How Do They Do It?' on Discovery Science and an Icelandic guy is talking perfectly understandable English.... and they are subtitling him.
Do you find yourself reading the subtitles anyway? I always do and find it quite distracting. I also watch stuff in English with subtitles in Dutch, which don't speak very well, and still find myself reading the subtitles, which is annoying I'm watching 'How Do They Do It?' on Discovery Science and an Icelandic guy is talking perfectly understandable English.... and they are subtitling him.
DoubleD said:
nonsequitur said:
DoubleD said:
nonsequitur said:
I've just spotted a post by a colonel cupcake. Any relation?
Remember nonse, quality not quantity. 
That post was not a pun or even a joke, but a genuine question to which a I got a genuine answer.RizzoTheRat said:
Clockwork Cupcake said:
Oh and another thing... when TV shows in English subtitle people talking in English but with heavy accents (Indian, Icelandic, Swedish, Scottish). I feel insulted.
I'm watching 'How Do They Do It?' on Discovery Science and an Icelandic guy is talking perfectly understandable English.... and they are subtitling him.
Do you find yourself reading the subtitles anyway? I always do and find it quite distracting. I also watch stuff in English with subtitles in Dutch, which don't speak very well, and still find myself reading the subtitles, which is annoying I'm watching 'How Do They Do It?' on Discovery Science and an Icelandic guy is talking perfectly understandable English.... and they are subtitling him.
talksthetorque said:
See also noisy group in a restaurant.
Nobody likes it when someone else is audibly having more fun that they are
I once had to endure eating dinner in a restaurant with a couple of (ex?) BA pilots. How did I know they were BA pilots? Oh, don't worry about what the identifying features of a Concorde pilot are - they'll soon announce the fact to an entire restaurant of diners. Repeatedly. Nobody likes it when someone else is audibly having more fun that they are
Legislation forcing Sky TV to ask for a pin to be entered when watching non-family rated programmes on demand.
Parents should accept responsibility for what their kids watch, and what they have access to, leaving the rest of us the freedom to watch what we like without punching in a 4 digit pin.
Parents should accept responsibility for what their kids watch, and what they have access to, leaving the rest of us the freedom to watch what we like without punching in a 4 digit pin.
yellowjack said:
I once had to endure eating dinner in a restaurant with a couple of (ex?) BA pilots. How did I know they were BA pilots? Oh, don't worry about what the identifying features of a Concorde pilot are - they'll soon announce the fact to an entire restaurant of diners. Repeatedly.
I thought that was vegans?MiniMan64 said:
People that flash their blinding full beam headlights at you to tell you that your headlights aren't on.
At 7.30am.
In the morning.
When it's light.
It might be light in your estimation but having your lights on dipped beam (not stupid side lights or parking lights) lets other motorists know you are there! (And safety wise that's a good thing) At 7.30am.
In the morning.
When it's light.
If you are driving a dark car or one of the many grey / silver cars, sometimes you can not be seen (at first glance) on a road that matches the colour of your car. Also lots of drivers are either returning from night shifts or are getting up or on School runs), they might be slightly distracted, their cars might not have a fully clear windscreen (condensation). Modern cars are not dynamo driven old bangers so it costs you nothing to put your headlights on and save any near misses from other drivers. Or perhaps you are driving an Electric car and are worried about charging it? number2 said:
Legislation forcing Sky TV to ask for a pin to be entered when watching non-family rated programmes on demand.
Parents should accept responsibility for what their kids watch, and what they have access to, leaving the rest of us the freedom to watch what we like without punching in a 4 digit pin.
I do agree in general that there should be parental protections available but yes, they should be opt *IN* for those without children. Parents should accept responsibility for what their kids watch, and what they have access to, leaving the rest of us the freedom to watch what we like without punching in a 4 digit pin.
As I've commented previously however, certainly with Amazon Prime this is utterly useless when the pin entry is so s
t anyway. If we for example choose to let our 10 year old watch say a 12A (shock horror etc) we have to put in the pin...which he can then see and then watch anything he wants afterwards, including buying items! It's very badly thought out. On a related note, we had a pin on the tablet for kids mode, he worked *that* out from watching the relative hand movements from the back of the tablet and some brute force trying of passwords! After I changed it I had to send him to another room before I did anything he requested that required it!
fatboy18 said:
MiniMan64 said:
People that flash their blinding full beam headlights at you to tell you that your headlights aren't on.
At 7.30am.
In the morning.
When it's light.
It might be light in your estimation but having your lights on dipped beam (not stupid side lights or parking lights) lets other motorists know you are there! (And safety wise that's a good thing) At 7.30am.
In the morning.
When it's light.
If you are driving a dark car or one of the many grey / silver cars, sometimes you can not be seen (at first glance) on a road that matches the colour of your car. Also lots of drivers are either returning from night shifts or are getting up or on School runs), they might be slightly distracted, their cars might not have a fully clear windscreen (condensation). Modern cars are not dynamo driven old bangers so it costs you nothing to put your headlights on and save any near misses from other drivers. Or perhaps you are driving an Electric car and are worried about charging it? Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff