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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,007
    The Big Screen at Charlton. Or more to the point, the way the Big Screen is set up. Lot's of space at the bottom wasted on nonsense like dozens of different social media accounts that all follow the same pattern anyway. Meanwhile anyone scoring a second goal, doesn't get credited with it, presumably because too much space has been wasted. It badly needs sorting out.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,465
    Avast - No matter how many times you upgrade to cover for this and that, they'll still try selling you something to cover something else ffs
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,007
    Gribbo said:
    Avast - No matter how many times you upgrade to cover for this and that, they'll still try selling you something to cover something else ffs
    I think they're all the same. I get it with AVG. 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,925
    The latest Americanism creeping into sport - 'threepeat'.

    Because 'three-in-a-row' is too many syllables?
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,834
    North Lower Neil said:
    The latest Americanism creeping into sport - 'threepeat'.

    Because 'three-in-a-row' is too many syllables?
    Never heard that, but when I do, I will scream...

    Please tell me you have only heard it on American TV channels covering American sport?
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,801
    I assumed three peat was an order at a gardening store prior to the banning of peat based compost. Fucking ridiculous portmanteau word, doesn't even mean what it is meant to as repeat three times is four times. 
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,177
    The TV, license fee. Every £ I give is perfect!
    What I get back is unwatchable woke nonsense, and repeated old shite. 
    Antique programs, Cooking classes and Soap Operas. Constant “Police “ dramas. 
    And don’t get me started on that jumped up squirt Nicky Campbell!!
  • arny23394
    arny23394 Posts: 1,180
    People who use the word woke unironically.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,925
    SporadicAddick said:
    North Lower Neil said:
    The latest Americanism creeping into sport - 'threepeat'.

    Because 'three-in-a-row' is too many syllables?
    Never heard that, but when I do, I will scream...

    Please tell me you have only heard it on American TV channels covering American sport?
    Nope, sadly it's being used more and more over here:

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/articles/c8ed4g484p3o

    https://m.independent.ie/sport/rugby/six-nations/irelands-six-nations-three-peat-bid-in-tatters-as-grand-slam-dream-ends-with-defeat-to-france/a1884410531.html

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2025/03/16/gloucester-hartpury-vs-saracens-live-score-pwr-final/#:~:text=Gloucester-Hartpury's warrior queens will,a 'three-peat'.

    https://sport.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/04/25/unstoppable-triumph-womens-1st-football-team-secures-three-peat-victory/
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,968
    Hayfever.
    seems to be tree pollen at the moment 
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  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,834
    North Lower Neil said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    North Lower Neil said:
    The latest Americanism creeping into sport - 'threepeat'.

    Because 'three-in-a-row' is too many syllables?
    Never heard that, but when I do, I will scream...

    Please tell me you have only heard it on American TV channels covering American sport?
    Nope, sadly it's being used more and more over here:

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/articles/c8ed4g484p3o

    https://m.independent.ie/sport/rugby/six-nations/irelands-six-nations-three-peat-bid-in-tatters-as-grand-slam-dream-ends-with-defeat-to-france/a1884410531.html

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2025/03/16/gloucester-hartpury-vs-saracens-live-score-pwr-final/#:~:text=Gloucester-Hartpury's warrior queens will,a 'three-peat'.

    https://sport.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/04/25/unstoppable-triumph-womens-1st-football-team-secures-three-peat-victory/
    I take some comfort in the fact that of the near 600 comments on the BBC link, the majority are about the nonsense word. 
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,212
    Peter Drury uses the phrase 'obliged to' a few times.

    For example a team is behind and is 'obliged to' score the next goal.

    Yesterday Liverpool were going for broke as they were 'obliged to'. 
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,355
    Alwaysneil said:
    thickandthin63 said:
    I never learn,buying chinese imports on Amazon can be traumatic due to the wierdly worded instructions without diagrams.
    I bought a paint sprayer which requires an un supplied wrench to remove a brass nipple in order to insert the correct one.I have a a mole grip which i have tried,the bastard nipple will not move,anybody else experienced this problem.
    If the brass nipple is tightened onto a different metal, they will likely have different coefficients of  thermal expansion. Could try heating the brass gently to make it expand. Or chilling the metal its screwed onto to make it contract.

    Of course this could break the whole thing. 
    What I would do, buy a decent ring spanner or socket with a good fit. I'd never use mole grips, pump pliers or even an adjustable, they just make a mess. Apply some penetrating oil and leave for an hour or two. Then gently try moving the nipple both ways ever so slightly, worrying the threads. If this didn't work I'd play a bit of heat with a blow torch on the nipple/body and try again. If that didn't work I'd cut the nipple off, drill out the threaded section and tap out the threads.

     Linear expansion coefficient. That takes me back to my college days, bloody riveting stuff.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,962
    iaitch said:
    Peter Drury uses the phrase 'obliged to' a few times.

    For example a team is behind and is 'obliged to' score the next goal.

    Yesterday Liverpool were going for broke as they were 'obliged to'. 
    Drury is a fucking dork. He did the one line in the Roma comeback against Barcelona and now tries to come up with something every game. Yesterday he was shouting about ‘lads and lasses’. Just shut up mate and let the pictures do the talking.
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,411
    Nah I like Drury - you're all wrong
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,988
    cafcnick1992 said:
    Nah I like Drury - you're all wrong
    He's better than Matterface, who's absolutely dreadful, and clearly drafts his "spontaneous" cliches before the match. 

    Not many commentators I do like these days. Steve Wilson, once of Capital Gold, now of BBC does a good job of avoiding hysterics.
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,411
    I like Ian Darke but he only seems to work on ESPN these days.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,465
    MrLargo said:
    cafcnick1992 said:
    Nah I like Drury - you're all wrong
    He's better than Matterface, who's absolutely dreadful, and clearly drafts his "spontaneous" cliches before the match. 

    Not many commentators I do like these days. Steve Wilson, once of Capital Gold, now of BBC does a good job of avoiding hysterics.
    I like Tel & Greg
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    Gribbo said:
    MrLargo said:
    cafcnick1992 said:
    Nah I like Drury - you're all wrong
    He's better than Matterface, who's absolutely dreadful, and clearly drafts his "spontaneous" cliches before the match. 

    Not many commentators I do like these days. Steve Wilson, once of Capital Gold, now of BBC does a good job of avoiding hysterics.
    I like Tel & Greg
    And Brown? 🤔
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,580
    cafcnick1992 said:
    Nah I like Drury - you're all wrong
    Especially the sex and drugs and rock n roll bit
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  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,758
    MrLargo said:
    cafcnick1992 said:
    Nah I like Drury - you're all wrong
    He's better than Matterface, who's absolutely dreadful, and clearly drafts his "spontaneous" cliches before the match. 

    Not many commentators I do like these days. Steve Wilson, once of Capital Gold, now of BBC does a good job of avoiding hysterics.
    I’d say it’s clear that Drury does this too.
    His cringeworthy speech about the Angel of the North, Bigg Market, Geordie Nation, Eddie Howe can walk on the Tyne etc etc was almost as bad as that speech he made last year(?) when Liverpool won something and he was doing this whole thing where he was saying “They walked through the storm, but they held their heads high and they weren’t afraid of the dark…” or some shit like that.
    Excruciating.

  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,760
    People calling any soft toy a 'teddy'. Teddies are bears, they can't be any other animal. 
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,886
    £12 to have a front door key cut.

    Took the shyster no more than 10 seconds to do it. That’s £72 a minute or £4,320 an hour.

    Crook.
  • thickandthin63
    thickandthin63 Posts: 2,950
    Macronate said:
    £12 to have a front door key cut.

    Took the shyster no more than 10 seconds to do it. That’s £72 a minute or £4,320 an hour.

    Crook.
    Blimey that is extortion,my local hardware shop does 3 for £10.00
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,962
    edited March 18
    The idiots they get on trivia tv. 

    Watching who wants to be a millionaire and 16k question was which African country mirrors Irelands flag. She didn’t get it, Clarkson didn’t get it, phone a friend didn’t get it.

    That to me is basic.

    and what makes it worse is people don’t put their safety net at 8k cos they’re gonna be more confident answering.

    Dunno why I watch it winds me up.
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    Watching tipping point again tonight, I wonder if they have to prove a certain amount of intelligence. Some of their lack of general knowledge, baffles me.
     I am no genius, and I know there special subjects you may not know, but lack of knowledge about everyday things surprises me
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,834
    Macronate said:
    £12 to have a front door key cut.

    Took the shyster no more than 10 seconds to do it. That’s £72 a minute or £4,320 an hour.

    Crook.
    It's all about knowing where to tap the hammer.

    Mind you, with the level of income you describe, he'll be retired soon, and won't be able to rip you off.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,007
    ross1 said:
    Watching tipping point again tonight, I wonder if they have to prove a certain amount of intelligence. Some of their lack of general knowledge, baffles me.
     I am no genius, and I know there special subjects you may not know, but lack of knowledge about everyday things surprises me
    I believe on Tipping Point and certain other ITV quizzes, they deliberately pick a certain quota of thick people. It's about making their audience feel good about themselves, because no matter how dumb they may be they've just seen someone dumber on the telly. 
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,956
    Stig said:
    ross1 said:
    Watching tipping point again tonight, I wonder if they have to prove a certain amount of intelligence. Some of their lack of general knowledge, baffles me.
     I am no genius, and I know there special subjects you may not know, but lack of knowledge about everyday things surprises me
    I believe on Tipping Point and certain other ITV quizzes, they deliberately pick a certain quota of thick people. It's about making their audience feel good about themselves, because no matter how dumb they may be they've just seen someone dumber on the telly. 
    When I worked in Hemel Hempstead, I found walking down the high street had much the same effect.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,141
    I’m sure I’ve moaned about this before but I swear it’s 95% of drivers who do this so I’m moaning at all of you (if the cap fits )
    when there’s flashing lights on the other side of the motorway or even your own side and a lane or 2/3 are closed,  fire engines, ambulances , police cars , ice cream van, breakdown vehicle any old shit .
    oooooh let’s all slow down to snails pace and rubber neck cos we’ve been driving behind all the other fucktards who need to gawp at whatever’s happened , drive you cnuts get out the fucking way and let’s get on with our lives , press the poxy accelerator and get on with your lives you twunts 

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