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Really minor annoyances

DaveH said:
He sound Dutch!

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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Fenwicks window displays nowadays have no link to Christmas whatsoever.
 

Tex said:
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!😁
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Nobody would choose to have a shyte in the safc bogs unless they had to as i the seat is covered in hundreds of blokes piss !
 
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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It might have been realistic if the English as a Second Language student has been from Wheatley Hill
 
People who stand on the left on tube escalators, and look confused when you want to get past.

Unless it’s the first escalator you’ve used in London, you’re surely not stupid enough to not understand
 
Modern cardboard boxes.

I recognise new machines allow optical sizing of the items which are to be boxed for shipping which optimises the box size and shape, but it also means when it comes to folding the used box for recycling, they’re no longer symmetrical.

The worse ones are when the top and bottom flaps are bigger than the depth of the box and you can’t easily fit them in.
 
chunkyshanhawk53 said:
People who stand on the left on tube escalators, and look confused when you want to get past.

Unless it’s the first escalator you’ve used in London, you’re surely not stupid enough to not understand
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People who push past to get to a tube is annoying. Especially when there’s another in 2 minutes.
 
Roker Mick said:
Yeah was drivin up country recently when I saw a sigh that read "Free Range Eggs" Anybody ever tried those Range Eggs...can't be all that great if they givin them away fer nowt ?
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Not just me then. A few of us were in Northern Ireland a few years ago, and hired a car so going round a few places. On approaching Derry City we noticed a sign that said "Free Derry" tours, £10. A friend of my wife's couldn't work out how if it was free she would have to pay £10. I still regret explaining it as I'm sure she would still be trying to work it out.
 
F.Frederick Skitty said:
Not just me then. A few of us were in Northern Ireland a few years ago, and hired a car so going round a few places. On approaching Derry City we noticed a sign that said "Free Derry" tours, £10. A friend of my wife's couldn't work out how if it was free she would have to pay £10. I still regret explaining it as I'm sure she would still be trying to work it out.
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So were they Free then ?
 
CheersMarra84 said:
Groups of people walking 3 or 4 abreast’s inability to walk in a single file manner on a pavement, when you’re walking past in an opposite direction, and then look surprised when I’ve stood my ground. You can let go of your partners hand for 2 seconds, it’s not hard.
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Same when couples are as wide as they are tall. Surely there’s some self awareness. And I’m not being critical of their weight or size, but the selfishness/ entitlement/ ignorance of it.
 
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