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  • ozaddick
    ozaddick Posts: 2,845
    The usual collapse of the English cricket team in Australia.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,256
    ozaddick said:

    The usual collapse of the English cricket team in Australia.

    Does my nut mate - just checked in :-(
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    edited December 2017
    ozaddick said:

    cricket and Australia.

  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    edited December 2017
    Riviera said:

    Riviera said:

    McBobbin said:

    Alexandra Armstrong's singing

    He's classically trained.

    So what??? He's shite! As are Nick Knowles and Jason Mumford; other "celebs" who have recorded albums. I don't know what is worse by these nobodies, recording these records or writing children's books?
    I have heard of all three of them. Perhaps you should get out more Chirpy? How many of the books have you read incidentally?

    Can't you give the stroppy old git act a rest for Yuletide mate? :wink:
    This is the things that annoy you thread you fool!
    If you have really read lots of celebrity children's books and found them poor, rather than getting annoyed just because of their mere existence, then fair comment. If you really have not heard of Jason Manford, Nick Knowles and Alexander Armstrong also fair comment.

    The wink is used to represent a light hearted comment. You seem to have forgotten it in your reply. :wink:
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,256
    cabbles said:

    ozaddick said:

    The usual collapse of the English cricket team in Australia.

    Does my nut mate - just checked in :-(
    Seems I was a bit too quick to write them off :-)

    Minimum 450 please
  • limeygent
    limeygent Posts: 3,217

    limeygent said:

    The helmet on the train behind me talking for the whole 40 minute journey on the phone to his builder mate, chatting shit about ‘price per meter’ and ‘loadsa day work’ in his booming voice. Throwing the odd swear word in there every now and then. All the time while sipping on shit beer and burping his dirty breath all over everyone within a 10 seat radius. Wanker.

    was he American ?
    Hey!!!!!
    Haven’t you got Tax reform to attend to?
    Yup, getting it done.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    edited December 2017

    Riviera said:

    Riviera said:

    McBobbin said:

    Alexandra Armstrong's singing

    He's classically trained.

    So what??? He's shite! As are Nick Knowles and Jason Manford; other "celebs" who have recorded albums. I don't know what is worse by these nobodies, recording these records or writing children's books?
    I have heard of all three of them. Perhaps you should get out more Chirpy? How many of the books have you read incidentally?

    Can't you give the stroppy old git act a rest for Yuletide mate? :wink:
    This is the things that annoy you thread you fool!
    If you have really read lots of celebrity children's books and found them poor, rather than getting annoyed just because of their mere existence, then fair comment. If you really have not heard of Jason Manford, Nick Knowles and Alexander Armstrong also fair comment.

    The wink is used to represent a light hearted comment. You seem to have forgotten it in your reply. :wink:
    You are missing the point completely. Of course I haven't read children's books by the likes of Walliams, Steadman, Hart etc. Why would I? I am not a child and my children are in their 20's. What annoys me is that publishers bend over backwards to get a celeb to "write" or at least add their name to a book to boost sales and in recent years there has been a surge in children's books like this. I am sure there are thousands of talented writers out there who cannot get a sniff of a publishing deal and either have to publish themselves, which is expensive and doesn't get the promotion or go digital on Amazon etc and get paid peanuts.
    Then the music, it's the same thing at Christmas we now have a trend of "celebs" being approached by record companies to record an album. I never said I hadn't heard of Mumford, Armstrong etc, I called them nobodies. I have heard Manford, Knowles and Armstrong sing both live and recorded because as a middle aged man I listen to Radio2. Armstrong has nothing to offer in the voice department, ok he wasn't out of tune but what makes a singer a singer is the originality of their voice. He sounds like me, or probably you or anyone else. Manford was on with Simon Mayo a few weeks ago and Mayo built him up as "not just a celeb making a record but someone who has a great voice and can really sing" He was simply appalling, check out the reaction on the Radio2 FB page. As for Knowles, just a bad karaoke singer late on a Friday night. Again there are thousands of singers and musicians out there with more talent in their little finger than those 3 put together in the music department who would give their right arm for a album recorded and promoted by a big record company. The whole thing annoys me. For goodness sake even Squeeze don't have a record deal!
  • Why on earth does the dentist/hygeinist insist on trying to have a conversation while they're working on you?

    I ran out of the different ways of saying 'ergh' today.

  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167

    Why on earth does the dentist/hygeinist insist on trying to have a conversation while they're working on you?

    I ran out of the different ways of saying 'ergh' today.

    Had exactly the same this morning! My dentist is a mate and he does it everytime.
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  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    I'll forgive Armstrong if he sticks to his Flanders and Swann pastiche. Cracks me up.

    https://youtu.be/OEv6dqVPLSM
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,127
    Sub contractors who feel entitled to the perks given to full time staff on less wages than they're on. Ungrateful bunch who should never be invited to Xmas parties it seems......
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    edited December 2017
    All the adverts on YouTube just basically Google plugging its own shitty products.

    And before you can skip you hear that woman go WIHHIT EMMA DO ISS, which seems to cause a blood vessel in my eye to burst every time.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    Professional darts players celebrations at getting180, the winning double or a significant score. Especially 'BVM'.
  • A few months ago I posted on here about my annoyance with Medway Council and their attempts to try and force a CPZ in my road when it wasn't voted for

    Basically at the time we were almost blackmailed and after the first results were given (proper set of figures provided) a second chance to have a re-vote and see if we wanted to change our minds about having a CPZ... Got a letter in the post a few weeks ago saying that the new survey results had been reviewed and that as per those results it was decided that the CPZ would be put into place

    What made me suspicious of this though was the fact it was a simple letter and not results were given; i.e. nothing to say which percentage had agreed to the change of heart and which percentage hadnt

    This morning my wife was on FaceBook reading a comment from people who are still fighting this, they too have found it strange that no actual figures were given in the new letter and requested this information under the Freedom of Information request.

    Based on the four roads in question... NONE of them have voted in favour for the CPZ to cover their roads with just 36 people who responded for the change whilst 102 houses who responded were against the change

    Absolute bastards my Council are for trying to force this through so they can simply get more money through Parking Permits!!
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,247

    A few months ago I posted on here about my annoyance with Medway Council and their attempts to try and force a CPZ in my road when it wasn't voted for

    Basically at the time we were almost blackmailed and after the first results were given (proper set of figures provided) a second chance to have a re-vote and see if we wanted to change our minds about having a CPZ... Got a letter in the post a few weeks ago saying that the new survey results had been reviewed and that as per those results it was decided that the CPZ would be put into place

    What made me suspicious of this though was the fact it was a simple letter and not results were given; i.e. nothing to say which percentage had agreed to the change of heart and which percentage hadnt

    This morning my wife was on FaceBook reading a comment from people who are still fighting this, they too have found it strange that no actual figures were given in the new letter and requested this information under the Freedom of Information request.

    Based on the four roads in question... NONE of them have voted in favour for the CPZ to cover their roads with just 36 people who responded for the change whilst 102 houses who responded were against the change

    Absolute bastards my Council are for trying to force this through so they can simply get more money through Parking Permits!!

    Mate, that is how they operate. A disaster of an authority

  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    That loud mouth American woman in silly tights shouting at you to buy any crap from Wowcha (I believe, as I have normally turned over by now)
  • Or the bloke currently advertising Cillit Bang. Who on earth cleans the underneath of their bath?
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,867
    Eminem
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  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,230
    Buckshee, do you dislike Eminem or is that the answer to the question who cleans under their bath?
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948

    Or the bloke currently advertising Cillit Bang. Who on earth cleans the underneath of their bath?

    BARRY SCOTT DOES!!!!!!!!
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    .....and my mrs probably would, if I never sealed it off with 25mm of oak panel
  • When you go to take your reading glasses off and a stray eyebrow hair has decided to get trapped in the hinge of the arm. I assume that this is comparable to
    childbirth.
  • limeygent
    limeygent Posts: 3,217
    Chicken sausages, tasteless bloody things.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026

    Or the bloke currently advertising Cillit Bang. Who on earth cleans the underneath of their bath?

    BARRY SCOTT DOES!!!!!!!!
    Trouble is, it's not even Barry Scott (who, if I remember correctly was an Aussie). Unless it's all just made up and Barry Scott is a joke. After all he's got the initials BS, is some advertising exec somewhere sending us a hidden message that it's all bullshit?
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,741
    limeygent said:

    Chicken sausages, tasteless bloody things.

    What a disgusting idea
  • ozaddick
    ozaddick Posts: 2,845

    limeygent said:

    Chicken sausages, tasteless bloody things.

    What a disgusting idea
    Surprise surprise, they are loved by Australians!
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    The sweaty winning Come Dancing, shoulda been Debbie McGee or Alexandra Burke
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964

    The sweaty winning Come Dancing, shoulda been Debbie McGee or Alexandra Burke

    But didn’t he do well........
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