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Really minor annoyances


Kevj said:
It’s common knowledge they put this institutions in on one side only. There’s online discussions and memes because apparently there’s a way to tell which side.
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Think if you are looking at the front of the box, the right way up, the instructions are on the right hand side.
 
Bollocks. I go through pain killers like I don’t know what. It doesn’t matter which end if it’s prescribed stuff both ends are sealed and they wrap the tablets inside the box so you struggle to get them out.
It’s a minor annoyance ……. 😉
 
T_Bone said:
Bollocks. I go through pain killers like I don’t know what. It doesn’t matter which end if it’s prescribed stuff both ends are sealed and they wrap the tablets inside the box so you struggle to get them out.
It’s a minor annoyance ……. 😉
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Or an incredibly unlucky bugger!
 
Wilfy said:
When people call a Union Flag a Union Jack.
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When people get their knickers in a twist over this.
It’s been called the Union Jack since I was a toddler in the sixties. Everyone - and I mean EVERYONE - called it the Union Jack.

It’s only in today’s world of internet smart arses that someone learned that hundreds of years ago it was only referred to as a “jack”’when it was on a ship. If those Internet smart arses bothered to do some research even Wikipedia says that the “Jack only on a ship”business went out of usage yonks ago.

If you want I get arsey about the Union Jack why not do so over the use of navy in it. It should be royal blue which is many shades lighter than navy.
c032745y said:
Article agrees with me, last paragraph is correct, it's a "Jack" when flown at the jackstaff of a Royal Navy vessel, everywhere else it's a flag...
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Have a read of this - including quotes from the vexicological society who are a higher authority on flags than some one on the SMB

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Tex said:
When people get their knickers in a twist over this.
It’s been called the Union Jack since I was a toddler in the sixties. Everyone - and I mean EVERYONE - called it the Union Jack.

It’s only in today’s world of internet smart arses that someone learned that hundreds of years ago it was only referred to as a “jack”’when it was on a ship. If those Internet smart arses bothered to do some research even Wikipedia says that the “Jack only on a ship”business went out of usage yonks ago.

If you want I get arsey about the Union Jack why not do so over the use of navy in it. It should be royal blue which is many shades lighter than navy.

Have a read of this - including quotes from the vexicological society who are a higher authority on flags than some one on the SMB

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I could not give a shiny shite about "flag authorities" or internet smart arses. My dad was ex RN & he called it out in 60's/70's. He was "old Navy" it was not a Union Jack when not on a jackstaff. I also joined the RN & was instructed, quite vehemently, by knowledgable, ancient mariners that if I called a Union Flag a Union Jack incorrectly, I would be educated.

It's quite simple, accepted correctness, ooh sailors getting a cob on about nothing, we'll just let everybody call it a Union Jack, is wrong.

On a jackstaff on a ship, Union Jack

Everywhere else, Union Flag
 
c032745y said:
I could not give a shiny shite about "flag authorities" or internet smart arses. My dad was ex RN & he called it out in 60's/70's. He was "old Navy" it was not a Union Jack when not on a jackstaff. I also joined the RN & was instructed, quite vehemently, by knowledgable, ancient mariners that if I called a Union Flag a Union Jack incorrectly, I would be educated.

It's quite simple, accepted correctness, ooh sailors getting a cob on about nothing, we'll just let everybody call it a Union Jack, is wrong.

On a jackstaff on a ship, Union Jack

Everywhere else, Union Flag
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Gerrem telt Jack. 😁
 
c032745y said:
I could not give a shiny shite about "flag authorities" or internet smart arses. My dad was ex RN & he called it out in 60's/70's. He was "old Navy" it was not a Union Jack when not on a jackstaff. I also joined the RN & was instructed, quite vehemently, by knowledgable, ancient mariners that if I called a Union Flag a Union Jack incorrectly, I would be educated.

It's quite simple, accepted correctness, ooh sailors getting a cob on about nothing, we'll just let everybody call it a Union Jack, is wrong.

On a jackstaff on a ship, Union Jack

Everywhere else, Union Flag
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Well I couldn’t give a shiney shite about what a bunch of old codgers in flares say. I will continue to refer to it as the Union Jack - on or off a ship, as did no lesser a leader than Winston Churchill himself.

Great this freedom of speech innit?😁

Like when marines are instructed to refer to their shirt as a blouse and their hat as a cover. They can do what they want in the marines (or whatever their drill sergeant drills into them in boot camp) it has zero bearing to those of us who aren’t marines and just because it’s ‘correct’ in the marines doesn’t make it ‘correct’ elsewhere.
 
Tex said:
Well I couldn’t give a shiney shite about what a bunch of old codgers in flares say. I will continue to refer to it as the Union Jack - on or off a ship, as did no lesser a leader than Winston Churchill himself.

Great this freedom of speech innit?😁

Like when marines are instructed to refer to their shirt as a blouse and their hat as a cover. They can do what they want in the marines (or whatever their drill sergeant drills into them in boot camp) it has zero bearing to those of us who aren’t marines and just because it’s ‘correct’ in the marines doesn’t make it ‘correct’ elsewhere.
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Not many shiney shites been given here mind.
 
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Champing at the bit, CHAMPING.
Big Jeff said:
Cottage cheese. It’s not from a cottage and must be stopped!
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But it's the only cheese guaranteed to please. Try it once, then you'll agree.

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Tex said:
Well I couldn’t give a shiney shite about what a bunch of old codgers in flares say. I will continue to refer to it as the Union Jack - on or off a ship, as did no lesser a leader than Winston Churchill himself.

Great this freedom of speech innit?😁

Like when marines are instructed to refer to their shirt as a blouse and their hat as a cover. They can do what they want in the marines (or whatever their drill sergeant drills into them in boot camp) it has zero bearing to those of us who aren’t marines and just because it’s ‘correct’ in the marines doesn’t make it ‘correct’ elsewhere.
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That's yank bollocks...
 
Tex said:
Well I couldn’t give a shiney shite about what a bunch of old codgers in flares say. I will continue to refer to it as the Union Jack - on or off a ship, as did no lesser a leader than Winston Churchill himself.

Great this freedom of speech innit?😁

Like when marines are instructed to refer to their shirt as a blouse and their hat as a cover. They can do what they want in the marines (or whatever their drill sergeant drills into them in boot camp) it has zero bearing to those of us who aren’t marines and just because it’s ‘correct’ in the marines doesn’t make it ‘correct’ elsewhere.
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This is the start of a slippery slope. Not getting things right is the way of a malcontent. Next thing you know these people will be referring to a winger having “went past his man”

We are called Great Britain for a reason. We are not called “OK Britain” OR “ That’s good enough Britain”

Let’s be better, let’s be the best.
 
Big Jeff said:
This is the start of a slippery slope. Not getting things right is the way of a malcontent. Next thing you know these people will be referring to a winger having “went past his man”

We are called Great Britain for a reason. We are not called “OK Britain” OR “ That’s good enough Britain”

Let’s be better, let’s be the best.
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Wasn’t Winston Churchill voted the best ever Brit? Or at least in the top ten?

OK by him = OK by me!😁
 
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