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Really minor annoyances

BiG said:
Post #1622.

Also: I have a recollection that the writer of the show said something like they were pleased they’d ‘nailed it’

Correction (I googled): ‘… he (the writer.
Somebody called ‘Nick’) tweeted: “I got to do a bunch of the Geordie research and I gotta say @gregryb crushed it”’

The British press (The Chronicle?) weren’t having that.

‘We’d have to politely disagree Nick and by the looks of it many others do too as Nick has been busy replying to people not happy with the accent.’ They said

In a series of tweets, he responded: 'Hi new Castle friends from Newcastle. I gather some of you are upset about the portrayal of the Geordie on last week’s episode.

'We always wanted to have a Geordie be part of our ESL Class, and we worked hard to make the vocab/grammar authentic in the script’

Wot a f***ing arse. Such a condescending and utterly ignorant attitude. I can’t get my head around how some American’s (sorry but it is Americans) experience/perspective on the rest of the world (let alone England… where they speak… err English…) is soooo limited that they actually believe that it’s not just that the accent (or opinion, or lifestyle, or perspective) of somebody from elsewhere isn’t just ‘unusual’ or difficult for them to understand. They believe that it really is incontrovertibly nonsensical, impenetrable or incompressible. And that an accent renders somebody incapable of composing or uttering a coherent sentence.

The actor, you would think, might know better, because although he was born, and raised in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Pitzer College and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

His name is Greg Bryant

(Obviously I can’t sleep. 😉)
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Insomnia is fekking annoying ;) Its one of the worst attempts at trying to portray an accent i have ever seen! the script didn't help it looked like they just googled newcastle accent and just hoyed in n a few of the examples without using conjunction and linking words to make any form of sense...I think the writer thought syntax was a levy on ladies of the night!
 

oddbod said:
Insomnia is fekking annoying ;)
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I’m not a sufferer. But the missus is in hospital this week. And a combination of stress (probably) and the lack of her menopausally warm body next to me is causing me to wake, more often than the usual wandering aimlessly or multiple peeing allocation that normally suffices.

She was due for discharge yesterday but some paperwork or medication procedural stuff made it necessary for her to lose another nights sleep in a noisy, bright post surgery ward.

Woffling and unnecessary oversharing is also a feature of waking multiple times.
 
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BiG said:
I’m not a sufferer. But the missus is in hospital this week. And a combination of stress (probably) and the lack of her menopausally warm body next to me is causing me to wake, more often than the usual wandering aimlessly or multiple peeing allocation that normally suffices.

She was due for discharge yesterday but some paperwork or medication procedural stuff made it necessary for her to lose another nights sleep in a noisy, bright post surgery ward.

Woffling and unnecessary oversharing is also a feature of waking multiple times.
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Hope your back to a good nights sleep soon! Most wards are noisy at night imagine snd what they would be like if they were not trying to be quiet!Mix of prostate and leg nerve pain keeps me up some nights!
 
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Patch said:
People who, while waiting for the air hose to become available at a garage, don't have the foresight to remove their dust caps while waiting. Even more unforgivable, when you give them a massive hint by doing so when you're queued up behind them.
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That's niche. But I agree.
 
League Wan said:
People who use the cubicle to piss in when there's loads of free urinals and you need a shite.
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Got no problem with this.
Some people are cock shy
Some people get ‘stage fright’
Some people like to wipe their knob with bogroll to avoid pissy kecks
As for me the mere thought of having to drop the kids off at the pool in a public convenience is enough to curb the turtle’s curiosity till I get home!😁
 
Sgt Pepper said:
The mini roundabout at the entrance to the Galleries Retail Park. Hellhole of a place.
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I’ve just been over here this afternoon and as expected, it looked carnage. I decided to park in that little car park behind the petrol station and walk over the footbridge. Probably didn’t save me any time by the time you walk over, but was quite peaceful just having a stroll over and not having the stress of that car park to deal with. Game changer imo. :lol:
 
People who park their cars on match day on Shore street between the roundabout at Roker shops where Mcdonalds is and Roker avenue. Impossible to get cars through. Someone should knife all the tyres.
Fenwicks shop window and any other place that fail to do Christmas properly. Can't have traditional hymns, carols, nativities for fear of upsetting those who don't celebrate it. As if a Sikh or Muslim gives a sh!t. Its just some white Christian arsehole who THINKS non Christians are bothered.
 
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oddbod said:
not

Bad but not not as bad as this.....
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The actor that played Fraziers dad is english originally so must have been pissing himself laughing ..i have nee idea what castle producers were thinking!
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He sound Dutch!
Cheese n Ipa said:
People who park their cars on match day on Shore street between the roundabout at Roker shops where Mcdonalds is and Roker avenue. Impossible to get cars through. Someone should knife all the tyres.
Fenwicks shop window and any other place that fail to do Christmas properly. Can't have traditional hymns, carols, nativities for fear of upsetting those who don't celebrate it. As if a Sikh or Muslim gives a sh!t. Its just some white Christian arsehole who THINKS non Christians are bothered.
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Has that ever happened or is that only what the Daily Mail reports every year?

Usually at this time of year, Muslim community leaders come out and say "we are not offended, it is great we can all celebrate our own religious festivals". But the Mail reports the opposite.
 
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