General things that Annoy you

Bournemouth Addick said:

ross1 said:

orpingtonRED said:

ross1 said:

orpingtonRED said:

ross1 said:

For my sins, I watch Tipping Point every evening, and it amazes me the number of contestants that think it does not matter when you drop the counter in the machine. They drop it at the wrong time, keep getting riders and then moan that the machine do not like them, or they are being unlucky.....no you dope, watch and you will see, it is important to drop the counter at the right time and you will rarely get a rider.

I remember as a kid i loved the arcade...especially the machines with the coin drops. It was 2ps i think back then.
Cant believe they made a TV show out of it.

Still going in some arcades

Hopefully with £1 coins surely not coppers still?

It has been about ten years since I went to an arcade, but then they had two pence and 10 pence waterfalls, (that is what they call them)

Definitely 2p and 10p pieces still. My nephews have rinsed me out of many £'s on them still.

I'm not ashamed to admit I used to give them a bit of a bum when I got down to my last 2p

cafcdave123 said:

Now at arcades it’s all about winning tickets to exchange for some cheap arse toy that costs a fraction of what you have spent to win the tickets. Kids love it though 

man_at_milletts said:

cafcdave123 said:

Now at arcades it’s all about winning tickets to exchange for some cheap arse toy that costs a fraction of what you have spent to win the tickets. Kids love it though 

A slight aside to this bit of the thread, but has anybody on here actually ever managed to pick up a toy bear or whatever with the crane thing and succesfully dump it down the chute and win it?

I did it once when I was in Manchester about 30 years ago, but have never done it again since or witnessed anybody else doing it.

I’ve done it a couple of times, you’re superdad when you do win.

man_at_milletts said:

cafcdave123 said:

Now at arcades it’s all about winning tickets to exchange for some cheap arse toy that costs a fraction of what you have spent to win the tickets. Kids love it though 

A slight aside to this bit of the thread, but has anybody on here actually ever managed to pick up a toy bear or whatever with the crane thing and succesfully dump it down the chute and win it?

I did it once when I was in Manchester about 30 years ago, but have never done it again since or witnessed anybody else doing it.

My mate Angie is an absolute dab hand at it. Wins every time. Shame it's only a cuddly toy and not a packet of Embassy with a fiver wrapped round it like the good old days... 

happyvalley said:

Those websites where you have to say whether or not you are a robot, and then you have to identify bloody American taxis or fire hydrants or something equally as stupid.

Sounds just the sort of thing that a robot would complain about

Your predictions are very similar every week too

Redskin said:

That Jay character on The Repair Shop. Stop taking the blanket off the repaired thing and talking about 'Wot we done was...' You did hee haw apart from order a bit of glass or something, if that. 

Is that the bloke who paints one leg of an Ercol nursing chair pink, then sticks a couple of noughts on the asking price?

man_at_milletts said:

cafcdave123 said:

Now at arcades it’s all about winning tickets to exchange for some cheap arse toy that costs a fraction of what you have spent to win the tickets. Kids love it though 

A slight aside to this bit of the thread, but has anybody on here actually ever managed to pick up a toy bear or whatever with the crane thing and succesfully dump it down the chute and win it?

I did it once when I was in Manchester about 30 years ago, but have never done it again since or witnessed anybody else doing it.

Mrs Stig won two goes on the trot once. Think it was Yarmouth (certainly somewhere like that). She won the first one and we got in a bit of a mini-panic; two kids, one Bagpuss, how much is it going to cost us to even things up. Couldn't believe our luck when the second one came out straight away.  

It cost us in the long run though, because rather than learning the important life lesson that grab machines are a disappointing con, our kids thought they were some sort of benevolent toy giving scheme.

Getting a message saying today is the start of autumn. What's that nonsense about? Keep it simple, autumn is September, October, November. Nothing more nothing less.

I bet you're in Bits and Pieces?

Watching modern films at home, dialogue usually so quiet that volume has to be right up just to be able to follow it, but any hint of action and it goes so loud all the windows in the house rattle......

bexleyaddick said:

Watching modern films at home, dialogue usually so quiet that volume has to be right up just to be able to follow it, but any hint of action and it goes so loud all the windows in the house rattle......

I’ve got this problem solved a bit. My AV amp has clear speech function on it, which does make some difference but to really make speech heard I turn the centre channel up. 

DaveMehmet said:

T_C_E said:

Complete strangers that approach us in the street asking us if our dogs are for sale and then say “if you change your mind, I’ll pay £500 cash” like it’s going to make a fecking difference. They are not a commodity and certainly not for sale 😡😡😡

I'll give you £650 mate.

Lol, you could tag three noughts on the end and it’s still not enough. 😉

SporadicAddick said:

T_C_E said:

DaveMehmet said:

T_C_E said:

Complete strangers that approach us in the street asking us if our dogs are for sale and then say “if you change your mind, I’ll pay £500 cash” like it’s going to make a fecking difference. They are not a commodity and certainly not for sale 😡😡😡

I'll give you £650 mate.

Lol, you could tag three noughts on the end and it’s still not enough. 😉

Four noughts? Just trying to establish your negotiating break point...

JJ's dad sold for 50k, I'm still seven years later trying and failing to get my head around that. 
Someone asked me to name my price for Valli, I told them to sell their house and start saving some more cash and it still wouldn't be enough, we've done what we wanted to do in life now we just want to get by in our retirement with our dogs. I'd rather have my life now, than be a multimillionaire without one of my dogs. 

bexleyaddick said:

Watching modern films at home, dialogue usually so quiet that volume has to be right up just to be able to follow it, but any hint of action and it goes so loud all the windows in the house rattle......

I hear double glazing is the latest craze....

Is that written on the proverbial fag packet?