Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 8)

[Red9zero]

Chauffard said:

It's wimmin to blame for the double-barrel epidemic, Victoria Mitchell is not going to lose the surname that is the only reason for her fame now is she ?

Wasn't she plain old Victoria Coren when she was making her money playing poker ? She seemed to be doing pretty well then.

[Roofless Toothless]

I was watching a football match last night and one side had thirteen names in the team.

[captain_cynic]

Red9zero said:

Chauffard said:

It's wimmin to blame for the double-barrel epidemic, Victoria Mitchell is not going to lose the surname that is the only reason for her fame now is she ?

Wasn't she plain old Victoria Coren when she was making her money playing poker ? She seemed to be doing pretty well then.

Pretty much this, she was known as Victoria Coren before she married David Mitchell but not that well known. So keeping the surname is as much about recognition.

I'm of the mind that people who take double-barrelled surnames at marriage are indecisive.

[captain_cynic]

Roofless Toothless said:

I was watching a football match last night and one side had thirteen names in the team.

Over here in Colombia it's not unusual to have 22 surnames per team.

[Skii]

Chauffard said:

The number of emails from Temu is getting ridiculaous, 6 today, and I only ordered guitar strings.

Temu guitar strings!?! Good god NO!!

[Stick Legs]

Double-Barreled surnames enjoy the same social democratic bell curve as not lowering your voice regardless of venue & the word ‘Estate’.

Upper Class- Double-Barrelled, loud regardless of their surroundings, live on an Estste.

Middle class- Single surname, moderate their tone to be considerate, drive an estate.

Lower class- Double-Barreled, loud regardless of their surroundings, live on an Estate.

[Randy Winkman]

captain_cynic said:

Red9zero said:

Chauffard said:

It's wimmin to blame for the double-barrel epidemic, Victoria Mitchell is not going to lose the surname that is the only reason for her fame now is she ?

Wasn't she plain old Victoria Coren when she was making her money playing poker ? She seemed to be doing pretty well then.

Pretty much this, she was known as Victoria Coren before she married David Mitchell but not that well known. So keeping the surname is as much about recognition.

I'm of the mind that people who take double-barrelled surnames at marriage are indecisive.

Thing is though - how many men would be happy to lose their own family name? Perhaps a fair number would be OK with it but feel it might upset their parents? That's a genuine question though, I dont pretend to know.

[Granadier]

Randy Winkman said:

captain_cynic said:

Red9zero said:

Chauffard said:

It's wimmin to blame for the double-barrel epidemic, Victoria Mitchell is not going to lose the surname that is the only reason for her fame now is she ?

Wasn't she plain old Victoria Coren when she was making her money playing poker ? She seemed to be doing pretty well then.

Pretty much this, she was known as Victoria Coren before she married David Mitchell but not that well known. So keeping the surname is as much about recognition.

I'm of the mind that people who take double-barrelled surnames at marriage are indecisive.

Thing is though - how many men would be happy to lose their own family name? Perhaps a fair number would be OK with it but feel it might upset their parents? That's a genuine question though, I dont pretend to know.

I always think of her as Alan Coren's daughter, Alan Coren being a reasonably well known humorous writer who appeared on TV a fair amount. So the Coren name was not unknown, though admittedly he died in 2007, so it depends on how old you are!

[Antony Moxey]

Randy Winkman said:

Thing is though - how many men would be happy to lose their own family name? Perhaps a fair number would be OK with it but feel it might upset their parents? That's a genuine question though, I dont pretend to know.

I think if it had been a near planet wide tradition that went back centuries that men took their wives’ surnames I’d be happy to go along with that. I don’t get what’s important in keeping a surname anyway, it’s not like it’s something we originally chose.

[thetapeworm]

One of the local supermarkets has a carpark that's half their responsibility and half belongs to the council. Over the past few months some pretty big holes have appeared, one was so big that a wheel could drop into it and ground the car.

Repairs have been made, this is in the bit the supermarket are responsible for...



And this is the bit the council are responsible for...



It took a week longer for the council to carry that one out.

[Cotty]

Randy Winkman said:

Thing is though - how many men would be happy to lose their own family name? Perhaps a fair number would be OK with it but feel it might upset their parents? That's a genuine question though, I dont pretend to know.

I don't really have a family name. My dad took his mothers second husbands name, not his fathers name. I don't have kids ........

[Chauffard]

Randy Winkman said:

Thing is though - how many men would be happy to lose their own family name? Perhaps a fair number would be OK with it but feel it might upset their parents? That's a genuine question though, I dont pretend to know.

Alan Hull the late member of Lindisfarne had three daughters, the current line-up of the band has a member called Dave Hull-Denholme, presumably the husband of one of the daughters.

[mac96]

thetapeworm said:

One of the local supermarkets has a carpark that's half their responsibility and half belongs to the council. Over the past few months some pretty big holes have appeared, one was so big that a wheel could drop into it and ground the car.

Repairs have been made, this is in the bit the supermarket are responsible for...



And this is the bit the council are responsible for...



It took a week longer for the council to carry that one out.

Its not even lack of funds. Council one will be lucky to last a month and will therefore cost many times the supermarket one. Disgraceful.

[DavieW]

thetapeworm said:

One of the local supermarkets has a carpark that's half their responsibility and half belongs to the council. Over the past few months some pretty big holes have appeared, one was so big that a wheel could drop into it and ground the car.

Repairs have been made, this is in the bit the supermarket are responsible for...

At first glance I thought it was the anti slip mats supermarkets have in the fruit and veg section.

[droopsnoot]

thetapeworm said:

That little sticky-out bit on the left is a bit annoying, though.

[cuprabob]

droopsnoot said:

thetapeworm said:

That little sticky-out bit on the left is a bit annoying, though.

That's the tab to lift it up

[milesgiles]

thetapeworm said:

One of the local supermarkets has a carpark that's half their responsibility and half belongs to the council. Over the past few months some pretty big holes have appeared, one was so big that a wheel could drop into it and ground the car.

Repairs have been made, this is in the bit the supermarket are responsible for...



And this is the bit the council are responsible for...



It took a week longer for the council to carry that one out.

Great stuff.. have you sent it to the local rag?

Definitely saw this around welwyn when I lived there. A bodged repair that didn’t last a year.. always wondered if there was any oversight/ money back.

[bigpriest]

People who, from the 1st March, will continually say "still cold isn't it?" as if they have never experienced UK seasonal weather before.

[the-norseman]

A guy I follow on Instagram, hes had his Audi RS6 robbed overnight, first thing he thinks to do is to make a video showing his house has been turned over etc and then start plugging a discount code of "RS6" for his gym supplements. A few mins later another video saying hes happy because he owned the car it wasn't on finance so the insurance will sort it and hell be fine.

Very strange behaviour, anyway unfollowed.

[Hackney]

Dog walkers who faff.

Case in point: taking my dog for a brisk walk during my lunch break so not hanging around. We’re catching a couple with two dogs where a road goes into a path.

I was happy to slow up a bit, and was going to divert to the bin to deposit a poo bag so we didn’t catch them but they stopped. And started faffing. So we ploughed on, caught them and quickly passed them.

Just as we got ahead they started up again. One of their dogs (off the lead) caught mine and was yapping. Now he’s soft as anything and would stop, play etc. but we haven’t got time for that.

Eventually decided to turn back and go another route because we’d get nowhere.