General things that Annoy you

Stig said:

My new desk in the corner of our office right next to the meeting room. Specifically the number of people who wander out of there and make a bee line for the first desk they see (mine), thinking that it's some sort of concierge sitting there. No, I don't know where the nearest colour printer is. No, I don't have a stapler. And No, I won't come in and fix the heating for you.  And here's a thing, when I'm sitting there with headphones on and there's moving pictures of other people on my screen, that means I'm in a meeting of my own.  A Skype meeting. Now, I don't wander into your meeting room asking for change for the parking meter, so kindly keep well out of mine.  If you want some help, try the kitchen there's always a herd of people in there with fuck all to do!    

Charltonlife have Skype?

The media debating over whether Solskjaer should get the United manager job ‘full time’. He already has it full time. The issue is whether he should become permanent manager or not.

Being unable to find the drunk thread when required.

Fumbluff said:

Stig said:

My new desk in the corner of our office right next to the meeting room. Specifically the number of people who wander out of there and make a bee line for the first desk they see (mine), thinking that it's some sort of concierge sitting there. No, I don't know where the nearest colour printer is. No, I don't have a stapler. And No, I won't come in and fix the heating for you.  And here's a thing, when I'm sitting there with headphones on and there's moving pictures of other people on my screen, that means I'm in a meeting of my own.  A Skype meeting. Now, I don't wander into your meeting room asking for change for the parking meter, so kindly keep well out of mine.  If you want some help, try the kitchen there's always a herd of people in there with fuck all to do!    

https://eu.embrava.com/collections/blynclight-series

I think this is the one for me:

Paul Gambacini on POTP on Radio2 not playing classics from the year in question and playing shit ones instead. Today for example, not playing Senses Working Overtime by XTC and playing Mickey by Toni Basil. 
 It was March 1982 this weekend, I was 16 and roughly the same time as my school skiing trip to Italy so a lot of the songs remind me of that week. Our hotel was at the top of a mountain and so at night it was just us (Crown Woods) and the other school ( a girls school from Wiltshire) there. There was a disco in the basement and we had some great nights there. Although I slagged off Toni Basil's song earlier, with my name I did used to make a big thing of it when it was played. 
 We had a fancy dress night and me and some others went as Hot Gossip, this included the now forbidden practice of "Blacking Up". Sorry. I however went as one of the birds!
 Popped me cherry that week, via Wiltshire!
That's me at the front.

When you find yourself fancying @Riviera

Stig said:

Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:

Gotten.
Shut up ffs.
Got is all you need.

Gotten serves a very useful purpose to distinguish between dynamic and static situations. Its use was once the common form of expression in England before the lazier and less illustrative got took hold. Our language is all the more descriptive and interesting with it. Please don't try to restrict that.

I suspect that people who use gotten aren't trying to make the language more descriptive  and interesting , they just watch too much American TV.
I've just got sick of hearing it 

Stig said:

Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:

Stig said:

Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:

Gotten.
Shut up ffs.
Got is all you need.

Gotten serves a very useful purpose to distinguish between dynamic and static situations. Its use was once the common form of expression in England before the lazier and less illustrative got took hold. Our language is all the more descriptive and interesting with it. Please don't try to restrict that.

I suspect that people who use gotten aren't trying to make the language more descriptive  and interesting , they just watch too much American TV.
I've just got sick of hearing it 

Just got is a contradiction in terms. If you'd just gotten sick of hearing it I know that this was a new phenomenon. If you'd got sick of hearing it, I could safely assume that you've felt like this for some time. But just got, I don't know what to believe
 

Aah. Got it. 

The Organiser said:

Commentators apologising for swear words heard in the crowds chants during the Sheffield derby tonight.

1. It’s football
2. It’s a derby. They select these games for coverage due to the supposed passion and intensity.
3. It’s past the watershed anyway ffs! You don’t get apologies before/during/after other programmes.

Boxing even worse in that respect. 

golfaddick said:

The Organiser said:

Commentators apologising for swear words heard in the crowds chants during the Sheffield derby tonight.

1. It’s football
2. It’s a derby. They select these games for coverage due to the supposed passion and intensity.
3. It’s past the watershed anyway ffs! You don’t get apologies before/during/after other programmes.

Its a regulator requirement.....or so I heard explained on R5Live the other week. If profound or swear words are heard live on air then an apology must be swiftly given. 

That's exactly what it is, it still strikes me as weird when watching a particularly brutal fight that commentators are apologising for people's language yet revel in the amount of blood or facial disfigurement there is on show 

I do understand where the football is concerned. That said, I was always told what I heard and said at football stays at football unless I didn't want to go again. Although for the last decade that would mean a lot of kids telling their mums to fuck off so they were not dragged along to Charlton!

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

Over pronunciation of the letter H in words like Vehicle and Adhesive 

Any pronunciation of the letter H at the start of the word aitch.

these gale force winds we've been having. my max hold hairspray is struggling to keep my receding hairline from view.
just glad I'm not near the stage of contemplating a syrup. imagine chasing that down the street if winds like this occur.

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

Check us Sarf Londoners educating the rest of the English speaking world on the use of the letter H.

They’re ardly gonna pick it up wivout our elp