General Things That Annoy You thread - part 2

CharltonManor1966

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, Norman French became the dominant language of power, law, and the upper classes in England, creating a strict linguistic divide that lasted for roughly 300 years.  It was the Pleading in English act in 1362 that returned English to our law courts and schools - and the first King to speak English as his first language after the Norman invasion was Henry IV in 1399.

A famous 1973 computerized study of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary by Thomas Finkenstaedt and Dieter Wolff placed the precise number of direct French borrowings at 28.3%. However, because many Latin words actually entered English through French during the Middle Ages, linguists state that French has influenced up to 45% of our total vocabulary—accounting for roughly 80,000 words

Garlick eating frog bastards!

CharltonManor1966

charente addick said:

Playing matchplay golf against someone you’re giving 16 shots to. They beat you on the last hole then strut off like they’re Rory McIlroy despite the fact that you actually played the course 15 shots less that them!

Yeah - sorry I will adjust my handicap for next time.... 

SporadicAddick

CharltonManor1966 said:

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, Norman French became the dominant language of power, law, and the upper classes in England, creating a strict linguistic divide that lasted for roughly 300 years.  It was the Pleading in English act in 1362 that returned English to our law courts and schools - and the first King to speak English as his first language after the Norman invasion was Henry IV in 1399.

A famous 1973 computerized study of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary by Thomas Finkenstaedt and Dieter Wolff placed the precise number of direct French borrowings at 28.3%. However, because many Latin words actually entered English through French during the Middle Ages, linguists state that French has influenced up to 45% of our total vocabulary—accounting for roughly 80,000 words

Garlick eating frog bastards!

Cheese eating surrender monkeys

SELR_addicks

Calling a formation 3-5-2 and not 5-3-2 when you're playing wing-backs. 

MrOneLung

charente addick said:

Playing matchplay golf against someone you’re giving 16 shots to. They beat you on the last hole then strut off like they’re Rory McIlroy despite the fact that you actually played the course 15 shots less that them!

Surely that is exactly what handicaps are for ? 

lordromford

charente addick said:

Playing matchplay golf against someone you’re giving 16 shots to. They beat you on the last hole then strut off like they’re Rory McIlroy despite the fact that you actually played the course 15 shots less that them!

Sounds like your gripe is with the person you were playing, not the system. To be fair, they sound like a bit of a nob. 😂

In fact, it sounds like the handicap system worked perfectly, giving you a close fought match despite being golfers of very different abilities.

ValleyGary

Yeah that sounds exactly like the game you’d want to play. Fair golf.

Stuart_the_Red

Being so disappointed by yesterday’s match that I can’t be bothered to do the player’s marks!

Sorry @Lancashire Lad for all your hard work!

Arsenetatters

Earl Spencer
Just let it go man. Don’t spend the rest of your life bitter. Charles tried to love her but he loved someone else. He didn’t kill her. 

lordromford

Why are we listening to Carragher on a Liverpool game again?
I’m guessing Neville will be on the Man U game later too.

This must be a conscious decision that Sky make, because they always seem to do it, but why? 

Do people like having a biased commentator?

ME14addick

Arsenetatters said:

Earl Spencer
Just let it go man. Don’t spend the rest of your life bitter. Charles tried to love her but he loved someone else. He didn’t kill her. 

He has a book to sell, has to make it worth reading, despite the fact it might hurt others. 

Arsenetatters

ME14addick said:

Arsenetatters said:

Earl Spencer
Just let it go man. Don’t spend the rest of your life bitter. Charles tried to love her but he loved someone else. He didn’t kill her. 

He has a book to sell, has to make it worth reading, despite the fact it might hurt others. 

And all the ‘best bits’ are now known anyway. 

Still, he’ll get on well with his ‘spare’ nephew and stir things up . Bitterness is such a waste of life.

gringo

lordromford said:

Why are we listening to Carragher on a Liverpool game again?
I’m guessing Neville will be on the Man U game later too.

This must be a conscious decision that Sky make, because they always seem to do it, but why? 

Do people like having a biased commentator?

I think on every occasion I have used the red button, we have had a commentator biased towards the opposition.

lordromford

gringo said:

lordromford said:

Why are we listening to Carragher on a Liverpool game again?
I’m guessing Neville will be on the Man U game later too.

This must be a conscious decision that Sky make, because they always seem to do it, but why? 

Do people like having a biased commentator?

I think on every occasion I have used the red button, we have had a commentator biased towards the opposition.

I think sometimes it can seem that way, but I think that’s partly our own biases coming into play.
A lot of co-commentators are ex-pros and there’s a decent chance they might have played for one of the teams, so to an extent it’s a bit inevitable.

But Neville and Carragher are one club players. They could put them on commentary duty for literally any other game. But no, they always get their own club.
If Sky put an ex player of the opposition on commentary with them, I’d have less of an issue because it would have balance, but that never happens. The only exception is when Man U and Liverpool play each other. Then they're both on duty, which seems fair enough, but again, special treatment. 🙄

It’s gone on for too long now. You can’t even claim they’re providing any back room insight because neither of them have played for about 15 years. They played for different managers with different players in a different era. The game has moved on. All they provide is bias. It’s just not right.

gringo

lordromford said:

gringo said:

lordromford said:

Why are we listening to Carragher on a Liverpool game again?
I’m guessing Neville will be on the Man U game later too.

This must be a conscious decision that Sky make, because they always seem to do it, but why? 

Do people like having a biased commentator?

I think on every occasion I have used the red button, we have had a commentator biased towards the opposition.

I think sometimes it can seem that way, but I think that’s partly our own biases coming into play.
A lot of co-commentators are ex-pros and there’s a decent chance they might have played for one of the teams, so to an extent it’s a bit inevitable.

But Neville and Carragher are one club players. They could put them on commentary duty for literally any other game. But no, they always get their own club.
If Sky put an ex player of the opposition on commentary with them, I’d have less of an issue because it would have balance, but that never happens. The only exception is when Man U and Liverpool play each other. Then they're both on duty, which seems fair enough, but again, special treatment. 🙄

It’s gone on for too long now. You can’t even claim they’re providing any back room insight because neither of them have played for about 15 years. They played for different managers with different players in a different era. The game has moved on. All they provide is bias. It’s just not right.

they all seem to have knowledge of the other team, but very little about ourselves.

lordromford

gringo said:

lordromford said:

gringo said:

lordromford said:

Why are we listening to Carragher on a Liverpool game again?
I’m guessing Neville will be on the Man U game later too.

This must be a conscious decision that Sky make, because they always seem to do it, but why? 

Do people like having a biased commentator?

I think on every occasion I have used the red button, we have had a commentator biased towards the opposition.

I think sometimes it can seem that way, but I think that’s partly our own biases coming into play.
A lot of co-commentators are ex-pros and there’s a decent chance they might have played for one of the teams, so to an extent it’s a bit inevitable.

But Neville and Carragher are one club players. They could put them on commentary duty for literally any other game. But no, they always get their own club.
If Sky put an ex player of the opposition on commentary with them, I’d have less of an issue because it would have balance, but that never happens. The only exception is when Man U and Liverpool play each other. Then they're both on duty, which seems fair enough, but again, special treatment. 🙄

It’s gone on for too long now. You can’t even claim they’re providing any back room insight because neither of them have played for about 15 years. They played for different managers with different players in a different era. The game has moved on. All they provide is bias. It’s just not right.

they all seem to have knowledge of the other team, but very little about ourselves.

Like I say, it seems that way, but I think that’s our own bias. 

For example, you may get irritated that a commentator gets something wrong about us, or is repeating clichés we’ve heard a million times, but he may also be getting stuff wrong and repeating clichés about the oppo, you just don’t know that!