BBC News presenters, interviewing someone, particularly via video link, ask them questions and then proceed to constantly interrupt or try to interrupt.
Just the BBC presenters do this then?
No not just them but that’s the news I watch so it’s them that annoy me
Shopping. Doesn't matter where you stand while she's looking someone will ask you to move.
You had me at shopping. Its pointless, just a waste of time
In particular, buying pointless tat like big pictures that say ‘HOME’ or ‘RELAX’, new towels just because you’ve had your bathroom decorated, those bloody ‘gift bags’ which cost more pointless money, new dresses as you can’t wear the one you wore before at someone else’s wedding.
Actually weddings. Especially ones that people have taken a year to prepare for, have bloody everything to match everything else - serviettes, tooth picks, toilet roll. Why not just go to Gretna Green and save the money for something better.
My observation is that, the more expensive the wedding, the shorter the marriage...
My first wedding was in the 80s when you did it on a budget by hiring a local hall that had a license so you could set up your own bar on a trestle table. Marriage lasted 3 years.
Second wedding was in a registry office, cost £80 and we had two neighbours as witnesses followed by a bottle of champagne and a Wallace and Gromit iced cake from Sainsburys. It was also on April 1st at 9am. The ‘groom’ (an arch bastard as I later found out) went to work afterwards. Marriage lasted a year.
Met Mr Tatters and we’ve never married. Been together 24 years.
Glad you found your mate. What's an arch bastard ?
Sadistical yoga teacher
I wanna know what an arch bastard is lol
I don’t actually know. It’s something my Dad used to say about certain people. I’m guessing it’s like bishops and archbishops. So an arch bastard is even more of a bastard than a bog standard bastard.
Shopping. Doesn't matter where you stand while she's looking someone will ask you to move.
You had me at shopping. Its pointless, just a waste of time
In particular, buying pointless tat like big pictures that say ‘HOME’ or ‘RELAX’, new towels just because you’ve had your bathroom decorated, those bloody ‘gift bags’ which cost more pointless money, new dresses as you can’t wear the one you wore before at someone else’s wedding.
Actually weddings. Especially ones that people have taken a year to prepare for, have bloody everything to match everything else - serviettes, tooth picks, toilet roll. Why not just go to Gretna Green and save the money for something better.
My observation is that, the more expensive the wedding, the shorter the marriage...
My first wedding was in the 80s when you did it on a budget by hiring a local hall that had a license so you could set up your own bar on a trestle table. Marriage lasted 3 years.
Second wedding was in a registry office, cost £80 and we had two neighbours as witnesses followed by a bottle of champagne and a Wallace and Gromit iced cake from Sainsburys. It was also on April 1st at 9am. The ‘groom’ (an arch bastard as I later found out) went to work afterwards. Marriage lasted a year.
Met Mr Tatters and we’ve never married. Been together 24 years.
Glad you found your mate. What's an arch bastard ?
Sadistical yoga teacher
I wanna know what an arch bastard is lol
I don’t actually know. It’s something my Dad used to say about certain people. I’m guessing it’s like bishops and archbishops. So an arch bastard is even more of a bastard than a bog standard bastard.
Shopping. Doesn't matter where you stand while she's looking someone will ask you to move.
You had me at shopping. Its pointless, just a waste of time
In particular, buying pointless tat like big pictures that say ‘HOME’ or ‘RELAX’, new towels just because you’ve had your bathroom decorated, those bloody ‘gift bags’ which cost more pointless money, new dresses as you can’t wear the one you wore before at someone else’s wedding.
Actually weddings. Especially ones that people have taken a year to prepare for, have bloody everything to match everything else - serviettes, tooth picks, toilet roll. Why not just go to Gretna Green and save the money for something better.
My observation is that, the more expensive the wedding, the shorter the marriage...
My first wedding was in the 80s when you did it on a budget by hiring a local hall that had a license so you could set up your own bar on a trestle table. Marriage lasted 3 years.
Second wedding was in a registry office, cost £80 and we had two neighbours as witnesses followed by a bottle of champagne and a Wallace and Gromit iced cake from Sainsburys. It was also on April 1st at 9am. The ‘groom’ (an arch bastard as I later found out) went to work afterwards. Marriage lasted a year.
Met Mr Tatters and we’ve never married. Been together 24 years.
Glad you found your mate. What's an arch bastard ?
Sadistical yoga teacher
I wanna know what an arch bastard is lol
I don’t actually know. It’s something my Dad used to say about certain people. I’m guessing it’s like bishops and archbishops. So an arch bastard is even more of a bastard than a bog standard bastard.
Is the archest arch bastard the arch bastard of Canterbury? Or somewhere else?
My observation is that, the more expensive the wedding, the shorter the marriage...
My first wedding was in the 80s when you did it on a budget by hiring a local hall that had a license so you could set up your own bar on a trestle table. Marriage lasted 3 years.
Second wedding was in a registry office, cost £80 and we had two neighbours as witnesses followed by a bottle of champagne and a Wallace and Gromit iced cake from Sainsburys. It was also on April 1st at 9am. The ‘groom’ (an arch bastard as I later found out) went to work afterwards. Marriage lasted a year.
Met Mr Tatters and we’ve never married. Been together 24 years.
Shopping. Doesn't matter where you stand while she's looking someone will ask you to move.
You had me at shopping. Its pointless, just a waste of time
In particular, buying pointless tat like big pictures that say ‘HOME’ or ‘RELAX’, new towels just because you’ve had your bathroom decorated, those bloody ‘gift bags’ which cost more pointless money, new dresses as you can’t wear the one you wore before at someone else’s wedding.
Actually weddings. Especially ones that people have taken a year to prepare for, have bloody everything to match everything else - serviettes, tooth picks, toilet roll. Why not just go to Gretna Green and save the money for something better.
My observation is that, the more expensive the wedding, the shorter the marriage...
My first wedding was in the 80s when you did it on a budget by hiring a local hall that had a license so you could set up your own bar on a trestle table. Marriage lasted 3 years.
Second wedding was in a registry office, cost £80 and we had two neighbours as witnesses followed by a bottle of champagne and a Wallace and Gromit iced cake from Sainsburys. It was also on April 1st at 9am. The ‘groom’ (an arch bastard as I later found out) went to work afterwards. Marriage lasted a year.
Met Mr Tatters and we’ve never married. Been together 24 years.
Glad you found your mate. What's an arch bastard ?
Shopping. Doesn't matter where you stand while she's looking someone will ask you to move.
You had me at shopping. Its pointless, just a waste of time
In particular, buying pointless tat like big pictures that say ‘HOME’ or ‘RELAX’, new towels just because you’ve had your bathroom decorated, those bloody ‘gift bags’ which cost more pointless money, new dresses as you can’t wear the one you wore before at someone else’s wedding.
Actually weddings. Especially ones that people have taken a year to prepare for, have bloody everything to match everything else - serviettes, tooth picks, toilet roll. Why not just go to Gretna Green and save the money for something better.
My observation is that, the more expensive the wedding, the shorter the marriage...
My first wedding was in the 80s when you did it on a budget by hiring a local hall that had a license so you could set up your own bar on a trestle table. Marriage lasted 3 years.
Second wedding was in a registry office, cost £80 and we had two neighbours as witnesses followed by a bottle of champagne and a Wallace and Gromit iced cake from Sainsburys. It was also on April 1st at 9am. The ‘groom’ (an arch bastard as I later found out) went to work afterwards. Marriage lasted a year.
Met Mr Tatters and we’ve never married. Been together 24 years.
Glad you found your mate. What's an arch bastard ?
Sadistical yoga teacher
I wanna know what an arch bastard is lol
I don’t actually know. It’s something my Dad used to say about certain people. I’m guessing it’s like bishops and archbishops. So an arch bastard is even more of a bastard than a bog standard bastard.
Is the archest arch bastard the arch bastard of Canterbury? Or somewhere else?
Don’t know where to put this as I’m happy, amazed, and annoyed, that we have managed to get to 47 years of marriage. Annoyed as murderers get less of a sentence than that. Happy that we managed to this far without murdering each other. Amazed that she had put up with me for all time.
Don’t know where to put this as I’m happy, amazed, and annoyed, that we have managed to get to 47 years of marriage. Annoyed as murderers get less of a sentence than that. Happy that we managed to this far without murdering each other. Amazed that she had put up with me for all time.
I got a new van. It feels like it has a jerking motion when doing between 40-50mph. So I called up the VW garage and asked for advice. They told me to come over this morning and take a mechanic out for a test drive and show him.
So I drove 30 minutes over to Epsom and waited around until they sent a mechanic out. Then we drove for 20 minutes. Halfway through the drive I asked if he could identify the issue. He said "Honestly, I don't know. I've never been in one of these before and that might be normal".
All in, that was 90 minutes of my life utterly wasted.
My observation is that, the more expensive the wedding, the shorter the marriage...
When I lived in France, me and my Mrs went on a road trip down to Nerja for her sisters wedding. That was a few quid. To say it was a short marriage is an understatement - My sister-in-law went on the honeymoon to Whistler with her best mate.
I'm convinced they had agreed they'd bother separate ways after the Spanish part of their wedding as it was too late to cancel it all and they would've lost all their money.
Would've saved me some dough to the tune of about €1800 though, just like at the other guests who forked out to go....
Don’t know where to put this as I’m happy, amazed, and annoyed, that we have managed to get to 47 years of marriage. Annoyed as murderers get less of a sentence than that. Happy that we managed to this far without murdering each other. Amazed that she had put up with me for all time.
Met my wife 51yrs ago today! And I had been a Charlton supporter for 10 years prior to that.
Don’t know where to put this as I’m happy, amazed, and annoyed, that we have managed to get to 47 years of marriage. Annoyed as murderers get less of a sentence than that. Happy that we managed to this far without murdering each other. Amazed that she had put up with me for all time.
Met my wife 51yrs ago today! And I had been a Charlton supporter for 10 years prior to that.
Think I just about beat you re bring a Charlton supporter first saw them in 1960 or 59 so around 65 to 66 years.
Shopping. Doesn't matter where you stand while she's looking someone will ask you to move.
You had me at shopping. Its pointless, just a waste of time
In particular, buying pointless tat like big pictures that say ‘HOME’ or ‘RELAX’, new towels just because you’ve had your bathroom decorated, those bloody ‘gift bags’ which cost more pointless money, new dresses as you can’t wear the one you wore before at someone else’s wedding.
Actually weddings. Especially ones that people have taken a year to prepare for, have bloody everything to match everything else - serviettes, tooth picks, toilet roll. Why not just go to Gretna Green and save the money for something better.
My observation is that, the more expensive the wedding, the shorter the marriage...
My first wedding was in the 80s when you did it on a budget by hiring a local hall that had a license so you could set up your own bar on a trestle table. Marriage lasted 3 years.
Second wedding was in a registry office, cost £80 and we had two neighbours as witnesses followed by a bottle of champagne and a Wallace and Gromit iced cake from Sainsburys. It was also on April 1st at 9am. The ‘groom’ (an arch bastard as I later found out) went to work afterwards. Marriage lasted a year.
Met Mr Tatters and we’ve never married. Been together 24 years.
Glad you found your mate. What's an arch bastard ?
Sadistical yoga teacher
I wanna know what an arch bastard is lol
I don’t actually know. It’s something my Dad used to say about certain people. I’m guessing it’s like bishops and archbishops. So an arch bastard is even more of a bastard than a bog standard bastard.
I always think of the Joker as being Batman's arch enemy.
Batman has plenty of enemies, but the Joker is pretty formidable - on a par with @Arsenetatters second groom ... well almost
A special mention for my ex-school mates at BGS (not you @AFKABartram) who are all so very quick to suggest dates that they are available for once in a blue moon Friday drinks but by 24-48hrs before, every single one of them in the whatsapp group are either ill, got alternative plans or just dont even engage with the whatsapp group!)
3rd time in 12m I've tried to get the boys out but here we are, yet again, every single one of them have blown the night out. So fucked off.
Have definitely made the right decision to go on a nice holiday rather than have a 50th party next year as I dont think anyone would bother to turn up.
Oh and thats another thing, whatsapp groups. You ask the group a simple yes/no answer question and you can see they've read it but they dont bother responding. Its like dealing with petchulant children.
Oh well, thats at least £100 I've saved.
We had a mini school reunion the other week up Borough, and 2 out the 6 blew it out last minute.
I totally get it if 1 or 2 dropped out but we're talking a group of 10-12 and every single one of them drop out. It wouldn't have been so bad if there was 4-5 of us, that would have been more than acceptable.
I think theres generally a reason why people don't keep in touch- and you have to accept that peoples lives move on, and they can no longer be arsed.
I get what you are saying, but they should have the decency to say they can't be arsed and turn the invite down.
I remember meeting up with my old school mates about 15 years after we left (which was far too long) and once we had caught up with what everyone was doing now, it was basically strangers trying to find something we still had in common and trying to outdo each other ("my wife was Miss England!", "really!, thats a coincidence my wife was Miss UK, and did you see my Lexus in the car park", "I did!, and if you want I'll get my chauffeur to wash it for you if you want?!"). I can honestly say that dental root canal was only marginally less painful. It wasn't repeated (or if it was, I wasn't invited!).
It’s about 40 years since I left school and I only hear from 2 people. One is just Xmas and the other I hadn’t heard from for years but we bumped into each other at a hen rescue thing. Needless to say, we are in touch a bit more as we have hens in common. Both are nice people, very down to earth and not caught up in the consumer world.
Kept up with others initially but the ‘even richer than yo’ outdoing was painful.
The only person I see from school is my best pal and we sit next to each other at the Valley. The same as we did in 1980 in form 3D. ❤️
Don’t know where to put this as I’m happy, amazed, and annoyed, that we have managed to get to 47 years of marriage. Annoyed as murderers get less of a sentence than that. Happy that we managed to this far without murdering each other. Amazed that she had put up with me for all time.
Met my wife 51yrs ago today! And I had been a Charlton supporter for 10 years prior to that.
Think I just about beat you re bring a Charlton supporter first saw them in 1960 or 59 so around 65 to 66 years.
My dad started taking me about 1952, stood behind the open goal for years until I became a Charlton youth player and took my dad to the West stand. Later went back to the open goal end, before becoming a season ticket holder in West stand
People at the bottom of a chain with a let to buy mortgage, meaning the entire chain has to simultaneously exchange and complete, causing no end of necessary stress.
A special mention for my ex-school mates at BGS (not you @AFKABartram) who are all so very quick to suggest dates that they are available for once in a blue moon Friday drinks but by 24-48hrs before, every single one of them in the whatsapp group are either ill, got alternative plans or just dont even engage with the whatsapp group!)
3rd time in 12m I've tried to get the boys out but here we are, yet again, every single one of them have blown the night out. So fucked off.
Have definitely made the right decision to go on a nice holiday rather than have a 50th party next year as I dont think anyone would bother to turn up.
Oh and thats another thing, whatsapp groups. You ask the group a simple yes/no answer question and you can see they've read it but they dont bother responding. Its like dealing with petchulant children.
Oh well, thats at least £100 I've saved.
We had a mini school reunion the other week up Borough, and 2 out the 6 blew it out last minute.
I totally get it if 1 or 2 dropped out but we're talking a group of 10-12 and every single one of them drop out. It wouldn't have been so bad if there was 4-5 of us, that would have been more than acceptable.
I think theres generally a reason why people don't keep in touch- and you have to accept that peoples lives move on, and they can no longer be arsed.
I get what you are saying, but they should have the decency to say they can't be arsed and turn the invite down.
I remember meeting up with my old school mates about 15 years after we left (which was far too long) and once we had caught up with what everyone was doing now, it was basically strangers trying to find something we still had in common and trying to outdo each other ("my wife was Miss England!", "really!, thats a coincidence my wife was Miss UK, and did you see my Lexus in the car park", "I did!, and if you want I'll get my chauffeur to wash it for you if you want?!"). I can honestly say that dental root canal was only marginally less painful. It wasn't repeated (or if it was, I wasn't invited!).
It’s about 40 years since I left school and I only hear from 2 people. One is just Xmas and the other I hadn’t heard from for years but we bumped into each other at a hen rescue thing. Needless to say, we are in touch a bit more as we have hens in common. Both are nice people, very down to earth and not caught up in the consumer world.
Kept up with others initially but the ‘even richer than yo’ outdoing was painful.
The only person I see from school is my best pal and we sit next to each other at the Valley. The same as we did in 1980 in form 3D. ❤️
That’s either very nice @Greenhithe or in 45 years you’ve not found anyone else to tolerate you! lol
Having watched part one of Noel's Kiwi adventure, I think he needs to be surgically removed from his own backside.
They were talking about it on the That's Entertainment podcast the other day. Two amusing things that were brought up were that he insisted in being mentioned in the credits - this isn't the done thing at all in biographical documentaries apparently. And the bitterness towards the BBC. As was pointed out, he wasn't booted out, his contract just wasn't renewed, after thirty odd years of work, making him a very, very well paid star, it was decided that his style had run it's course and the Beeb said thanks very much and goodbye. He is not the only one of course, but instead of "Thanks for a great ride, thanks for having faith in me all these years" they get all arsey about it.
Having watched part one of Noel's Kiwi adventure, I think he needs to be surgically removed from his own backside.
They were talking about it on the That's Entertainment podcast the other day. Two amusing things that were brought up were that he insisted in being mentioned in the credits - this isn't the done thing at all in biographical documentaries apparently. And the bitterness towards the BBC. As was pointed out, he wasn't booted out, his contract just wasn't renewed, after thirty odd years of work, making him a very, very well paid star, it was decided that his style had run it's course and the Beeb said thanks very much and goodbye. He is not the only one of course, but instead of "Thanks for a great ride, thanks for having faith in me all these years" they get all arsey about it.
Yeah I tend to agree with you and those 2. It wasn't like he was sacked and put on indefinite leave, he had a really good run, he clearly cares and works hard in that world but its a bit entitled to think he had a job for life as a tv presenter. Imagine how blobby feels, going dusty in a cupboard somewhere after burning out so quickly
He made me laugh in the same way Richard Madeley makes me laugh, hearing Noel Edmonds swear is also amusing
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So I drove 30 minutes over to Epsom and waited around until they sent a mechanic out. Then we drove for 20 minutes. Halfway through the drive I asked if he could identify the issue. He said "Honestly, I don't know. I've never been in one of these before and that might be normal".
All in, that was 90 minutes of my life utterly wasted.
I'm convinced they had agreed they'd bother separate ways after the Spanish part of their wedding as it was too late to cancel it all and they would've lost all their money.
Would've saved me some dough to the tune of about €1800 though, just like at the other guests who forked out to go....
Batman has plenty of enemies, but the Joker is pretty formidable - on a par with @Arsenetatters second groom ... well almost
Later went back to the open goal end, before becoming a season ticket holder in West stand
He made me laugh in the same way Richard Madeley makes me laugh, hearing Noel Edmonds swear is also amusing