General things that Annoy you

MartinCAFC said:

Stoke City

Having watched the game v Leicester earlier on TV today and the highlights now on MOTD I appreciate they're sponsored by bet365 but isn't it a bit much to have your stadium named the bet365 stadium as well? Not only that but to have bet365 in white seats in one of the stands as well.

I might be missing something but i'd be furious if The Valley was renamed The Betdaq Stadium with Betdaq splashed across the East Stand in white seats.

I realize they have a fairly new ground but i'd still be furious if we moved to North Greenwich and had Betdaq splashed everywhere in name, seats everything. Surely as a Premier League club of 10+ years you can attract better than a betting company to be your main sponsor unless i'm missing something?

What do you think Bob Munro ?

iaitch said:

MartinCAFC said:

Stoke City

Having watched the game v Leicester earlier on TV today and the highlights now on MOTD I appreciate they're sponsored by bet365 but isn't it a bit much to have your stadium named the bet365 stadium as well? Not only that but to have bet365 in white seats in one of the stands as well.

I might be missing something but i'd be furious if The Valley was renamed The Betdaq Stadium with Betdaq splashed across the East Stand in white seats.

I realize they have a fairly new ground but i'd still be furious if we moved to North Greenwich and had Betdaq splashed everywhere in name, seats everything. Surely as a Premier League club of 10+ years you can attract better than a betting company to be your main sponsor unless i'm missing something?

The Coates familly own Bet365 and Stoke so they're just promoting their brand.

Fair enough, guess that makes sense why the choice of sponsor. Still not sure i'd be happy with a gambling firm's name on the stadium and on the seats but that's a seperate debate.

I don't like it whe they say "over now to the Bet365 / Macron / John Smiths stadium where there's been a goal". I have no idea who they are talking about & lose the plot. The day The Valley is re-named I'll stop supporting the club.

Christmas adverts anytime before 1st December.

Haven't even finished the first week of November and literally every ad is Christmas.

Reckon Ofcom or the Advertising bods should force these people to donate £100,000 to a homeless charity for every early Christmas ad they run.

golfaddick said:

Greenie said:

Kate Garraway (again) - does not listen to what her interviewee is saying, just talks over them with her crap. If you have someone in the studio to interview, let them bloody speak, appalling women.

Film remakes, so the 20th remake (maybe) of Murder on the Orient Express is out, why? This was written in 1933 FFS. Write some new stuff will you, we know what happens.
We really have embraced mediocrity.

Nothing can beat the 1974 epic, directed by Sidney Lumet & had a stellar cast. I know a lot of the dialogue off by heart I've seen it so many times.

I especially look forward to the crap bit right at the end when they realise, I presume after filming, that there is a plot hole and have to dub in the voice of the Greek doctor offscreen with a further bit of info, "Undoubtedly..........." so that it all makes sense.

People who don't tidy up after themselves in shops. If you knock something off a shelf by accident, pick it up and put it back. Try on a jumper, put it back on the hanger where you got it from. Tried on a pair of shoes, box them back up with the tissue paper stuffing etc and put the box back on the shelf, don't leave the shoes and packaging stroon around the aisle of the shop so I have to clear them out of the way to push my daughter's buggy around the shop.

I spent a day at the outlet mall today, some shops looked like they'd been turned over by a particularly untidy burglar. It's a) really quite anti social and makes it harder for other shoppers to see and find stuff they might want, and b) betrays a disrespect for the people working in the shop who probably end up having to stay late to tidy up afterwards.

British immigrants who buy tumbledown stone cottages here and think it can be fixed up with a few quid here and there.

I've spent hours organising / adjusting and re-adjusting quotes for a customer and the essentials on their property, eg. removing wildlife, making the stairs safe, making the roof watertight, making the electrics conform, etc. only to find out yesterday they signed a contract in the Summer with a local ground worker to put a pool in (Cheapest most basic pool being around €25k).

People that don't like Christmas.

Its the bollocks.

Christmas is fine, it's the berks who think Christmas begins on November 1st who deserve nothing but coal and overcooked sprouts.

Greenie said:

Fiiish said:

Christmas is fine, it's the berks who think Christmas begins on November 1st who deserve nothing but coal and overcooked sprouts.

My point about Christmas is the false friendliness/bonhomie adopted by many people, just be friendly for the rest of the year to people, not just for a few days at the end of the year.

I thought youfr point was that you had to be five to enjoy Christmas?

I was chatting to the Mrs last night and we both agree that in what we see the UK is very insular in that neighbours no longer greet one another, people rarely say morning in the street and almost no one seems willing to speak to a stranger in the way they would a new barber for instance.

Then Christmas comes around and it's all 'merry Christmas' here, there and everybloodywhere.

I like it.

Greenie said:

Oh yes on the Christmas subject, people who go to works Xmas parties wearing Deely Boppers, because it means that they are crazy.....yawn!
Practically every works do Ive been on always has someone, invariably a bird, wearing these.

And the male equivalents have a mug at work that says 'you don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps'

Young people, with their good teeth and skin, boundless energy, enthusiasm, health, lust for life, optimistic outlook and sense of immortality.
They're even worse than Australians.

ValleyGary said:

People that don't like Christmas.

Its the bollocks.

You’re right it is bollox!

Greenie said:

ValleyGary said:

Greenie said:

Fiiish said:

Christmas is fine, it's the berks who think Christmas begins on November 1st who deserve nothing but coal and overcooked sprouts.

My point about Christmas is the false friendliness/bonhomie adopted by many people, just be friendly for the rest of the year to people, not just for a few days at the end of the year.

I thought youfr point was that you had to be five to enjoy Christmas?

Yep that as well, its for kids. But the false friendliness irks me more.

I get wound up by all the shops advertising about quickly they can now deliver orders. Race to the bottom and all becomes quite pathetic and repetitive after a while.

It seems the race is on from Nov 1st to get the advert out there that winds me up the most.

Thankfully I've avoided the bastion of middle England's waitrose advert for the last few years.

what I do like is skysports 10 football league games in 10 days where they have someone like Phil Brown going 'oh it's great'

Nope, Bradford vs Rotherham isn't great