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General Things That Annoy You thread - part 2

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  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 28,040
    IdleHans said:
    My previous bastard neighbours who planted both a laurel hedge (the devils plant, which they let grow way past 15 feet and never cut) and bamboo along the fence between us. 
    Happily the people who bought the house from them had the whole lot dug out, and they replaced the old panel fence with a new better quality. However, there are now bamboo stems pushing up through my lawn. I will do my best to dig them out but if they keep coming back I am minded to sue the previous owners for a professional firm to do it thoroughly.
    I hated those bastards anyway.
    That’s nothing. I’ve got a neighbour at the moment who keeps moaning about my new pizza oven at the bottom of my garden. 
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 33,934
    IdleHans said:
    My previous bastard neighbours who planted both a laurel hedge (the devils plant, which they let grow way past 15 feet and never cut) and bamboo along the fence between us. 
    Happily the people who bought the house from them had the whole lot dug out, and they replaced the old panel fence with a new better quality. However, there are now bamboo stems pushing up through my lawn. I will do my best to dig them out but if they keep coming back I am minded to sue the previous owners for a professional firm to do it thoroughly.
    I hated those bastards anyway.
    Dick van Dyke’s your man for getting rid of old bamboo.
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 9,134
    Mexican fecking waves
  • gringo
    gringo Posts: 1,161
    edited June 29
    KBslittlesis said:
    Mexican fecking waves
    racist!! :p
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,695
    Mexicans fecking waves?

    Wouldn't want to go swimming in the Gulf of Mexico/America. 
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,709
    KBslittlesis said:
    Mexican fecking waves
    And how to lose your phone in one easy go.  Tee hee.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 33,934
    South East Water. Tell us to conserve water, hosepipe ban in Kent, then when there is a leak in our village with water running down the main road like a river it takes them five days and counting to come and fix it.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,187
    Went to a lovely festival last night, got very near the front to see the lumineers,  and then a family shoved their way to the front... which I can live with... but then proceeded to talk loudly through the whole thing. Got angry when told to shut up. Arseholes.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,695
    Hey ho.
  • BFG94
    BFG94 Posts: 467
    Meaningless stats spewed out at World Cup. I’ve just read that Luka Modric became the oldest goal assist maker in WC history In game against Ghana. Am I really meant to believe someone has checked out every goal since the first WC in 1930 to see (a) who scored it (b) who assisted and (c) his age? I don’t think so. 

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  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 30,554
    McBobbin said:
    Went to a lovely festival last night, got very near the front to see the lumineers,  and then a family shoved their way to the front... which I can live with... but then proceeded to talk loudly through the whole thing. Got angry when told to shut up. Arseholes.
    I was there for the 3 days, thought it was great. Left before  the lumineers after seeing Amble in the big top to catch the train home. All you could smell most of the weekend was smoked meats & weed.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 18,335
    BFG94 said:
    Meaningless stats spewed out at World Cup. I’ve just read that Luka Modric became the oldest goal assist maker in WC history In game against Ghana. Am I really meant to believe someone has checked out every goal since the first WC in 1930 to see (a) who scored it (b) who assisted and (c) his age? I don’t think so. 
    Yes. There are stattos whose job it is to do these things. Whether for teams, for sports bodies, for the media or for sports stats companies that sell them to the media. It will 100% have been recorded and checked a number of times.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 11,543
    I went to see Lewis capaldi in Exeter on Saturday night (Mrs Idle seems to like the pasty Scottish doughboy) and nobody at all shoved in front of me. Disappointed.
  • gringo
    gringo Posts: 1,161
    cantersaddick said:
    BFG94 said:
    Meaningless stats spewed out at World Cup. I’ve just read that Luka Modric became the oldest goal assist maker in WC history In game against Ghana. Am I really meant to believe someone has checked out every goal since the first WC in 1930 to see (a) who scored it (b) who assisted and (c) his age? I don’t think so. 
    Yes. There are stattos whose job it is to do these things. Whether for teams, for sports bodies, for the media or for sports stats companies that sell them to the media. It will 100% have been recorded and checked a number of times.

  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 7,436
    edited June 29
    Google AI response to the question "do assist stats exist for the full history of the FIFA world Cup:-

    1966 to Present: Data providers like Opta have fully analyzed and verified every single goal using video footage. This is why all "all-time" World Cup assist leaderboards (such as Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona sharing the record with 8 assists) explicitly carry a "since 1966" condition. 

    1930 to 1962: There are no official FIFA assist records for the first seven World Cup tournaments. While sports historians and statisticians have attempted to retroactively calculate assists for legends like Pelé (1958, 1962) or Raymond Kopa (1958) using old newspaper archives and scarce film reels, these are unofficial estimates and often highly contested due to incomplete footage.

    That said, it's likely to be true in relation to Modric as there were no players older than Modric playing in any tournament between 1930 and 1966, after which the stats should be accurate. 
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,709
    BFG94 said:
    Meaningless stats spewed out at World Cup. I’ve just read that Luka Modric became the oldest goal assist maker in WC history In game against Ghana. Am I really meant to believe someone has checked out every goal since the first WC in 1930 to see (a) who scored it (b) who assisted and (c) his age? I don’t think so. 
    Worse than fucking train spotters!!
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,802
    My wife putting our lives at risk on Saturday.

    She told a lad on a train to stop playing music out loud and put on headphones.


  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 28,040
    cantersaddick said:
    BFG94 said:
    Meaningless stats spewed out at World Cup. I’ve just read that Luka Modric became the oldest goal assist maker in WC history In game against Ghana. Am I really meant to believe someone has checked out every goal since the first WC in 1930 to see (a) who scored it (b) who assisted and (c) his age? I don’t think so. 
    Yes. There are stattos whose job it is to do these things. Whether for teams, for sports bodies, for the media or for sports stats companies that sell them to the media. It will 100% have been recorded and checked a number of times.
    It will - but since stats like assists have actually been recorded. Unless someone is watching hours of tape and logging everything.
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 6,332
    cafcnick1992 said:
    My wife putting our lives at risk on Saturday.

    She told a lad on a train to stop playing music out loud and put on headphones.


    Did he?
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 30,554
    Arsenetatters said:
    cafcnick1992 said:
    My wife putting our lives at risk on Saturday.

    She told a lad on a train to stop playing music out loud and put on headphones.


    Did he?
    Obviously, not as @cafc@cafcnick1992 is still around to post about it.

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  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 6,022
    @ME14addick spends so much time on here annoyed and defending her corner that I was pleased for her when her  username appeared beside the 'Things that please you' thread.  A little light relef is good for everybody. 

    Then I read her post, only to find that she's still annoyed ... I mean, I wanted to be pleased that she was pleased and I'm generally not annoyed when she is annoyed, but I am annoyed that she is annoyed on the pleased thread  :|.
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 10,049
    edited 5:54AM
    Raith_C_Chattonell said:
    @ME14addick spends so much time on here annoyed and defending her corner that I was pleased for her when her  username appeared beside the 'Things that please you' thread.  A little light relef is good for everybody. 

    Then I read her post, only to find that she's still annoyed ... I mean, I wanted to be pleased that she was pleased and I'm generally not annoyed when she is annoyed, but I am annoyed that she is annoyed on the pleased thread  :|.
    What on earth are you talking about?
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 32,099
    I think he is referencing your expression of frustration when the jackdaws stopped after you downloaded the birdsong app
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 10,049
    LenGlover said:
    I think he is referencing your expression of frustration when the jackdaws stopped after you downloaded the birdsong app
    I did put an emoji after the post
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,802
    Arsenetatters said:
    cafcnick1992 said:
    My wife putting our lives at risk on Saturday.

    She told a lad on a train to stop playing music out loud and put on headphones.


    Did he?
    No, he moved to a different part of the train and continued to play music out loud. A sort of victory.

    My wife is northern so I proceeded to give her a lesson on how not to die in London.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 14,217
    Last train out of victoria a few years back, packed. Bloke has his music on from his phone. Ask him to turn it down or to put headphones on. He doesn't have headphones so he won't turn it down. Argument starts.. a girl then says it's not bothering her I said well bully for you but it's bothering me. Argument continues.. Then some bloke behind starts saying can everyone just shut up whilst he tries to eat his kebab. Someone else then started up saying you got to be kidding me you've been making so much noise and some rather strange mouth actions whilst trying to tackle that gawd awful kebab. Then possibly a heavyweight boxer looking chap turns round to all of us and says could you all please be quiet. Not another sound was made, apart from kebab bloke chewing as quietly as he could. 
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 28,040
    cafcnick1992 said:
    Arsenetatters said:
    cafcnick1992 said:
    My wife putting our lives at risk on Saturday.

    She told a lad on a train to stop playing music out loud and put on headphones.


    Did he?
    No, he moved to a different part of the train and continued to play music out loud. A sort of victory.

    My wife is northern so I proceeded to give her a lesson on how not to die in London.
    I think you may have learnt that lesson quickly if she’d done it in the north. 
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 9,134
    The Serena love in on BBC 🙄
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 28,040
    KBslittlesis said:
    The Serena love in on BBC 🙄
    Not watching but so what if they are. She’s one of the greatest of all time. 
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 9,134
    The Red Robin said:
    KBslittlesis said:
    The Serena love in on BBC 🙄
    Not watching but so what if they are. She’s one of the greatest of all time. 
    Was.
    Time for others to have their time.
    Shes playing a young girl who’d normally be on an outside court.
    It just a performance.

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