You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more
smokers.
smokers who congregate outside everywhere sucking on their smelly little sticks.
smokers who just chuck their fag ends on the floor because they have no respect for anything, least themselves.
vile habit that makes me instantly dislike you. no respect for yourself, other people, the NHS who will have to cut the dirty cancer out of your lungs and your family who will have to watch your slow painful death. yes I've been there. twice.
and vapists aren't much better, at least they can plead ignorance because it's not as obvious that they're killing themselves.
That guy/gal behind you that has to stick his nose out to your right (as you can see in the wing mirror) just so he can see if there’s anything in front of you.
Drivers who stare rabbit-like at the tail lights of the car in front rather than looking further down the road to anticipate hazards.
People who hold their phone in front of their face
Facetime, innit? Video calls?
Whilst we're doing supermarkets,
People who hold open freezer doors in order to browse its contents. you know, glass freezer doors. Thus causing them to mist up meaning every other bugger has to do the same thing. WHY?!
people that fill their car up at a *Pay at pump,card only* lane, then go into the kiosk to do their shopping,have a look around,pay there, whilst leaving their car at the pump, in the way, with a big queue behind them
people who spend their evenings watching TV.
There'll be plenty of time for that when you're drooling down your shirt in a retirement home
People that move to a housing estate in a woodland an moan about the trees and wildlife.
Smokers
Littererererers especially the scum who dump/throw dog poo bags
Brexit voters
Climate disaster deniers
Handcuffed drunken cyclists who manage to strip off and get jiggy with it in the back of police cars once arrested - I mean I've never been that flexible.....
Old geezers who whistle in the supermarket.
People who put a rag/piece of foam in the clamping jaws of their bike carrier, as if the silicone is going to leave a huge scratch on their beloved bikes.
I do that as other wise the slight twisting of the jaws over bumps (it's designed to do it) pulls off my frame protection. Leaves little marks without the frame protection on so it's a little bit of foam that works for me!
Thread needs more HMHB
We’re just receiving reports of an incident at a farm in Sussex where a number of people have been arrested in connection with “Annoying The Nation”.
It is believed that that the owner of the farm, a Mr. Hibbert, has been co-operating with police and government officials in a plot codenamed Operation Less Pricks, and kindly granted permission for the use of his seventeenth-century tithe barn as a temporary holding place for those arrested. Although not confirmed, we are led to understand that those already charged include:
Bus drivers who don’t wait for people to sit down before pulling away from the bus stop;
Taxi drivers who use their horns instead of knocking on the door;
People who moan at the council about the streets being full of litter, not stopping to think that it is people who drop litter, not the council;
A room full of drama teachers listening to Björk;
Grown men with replica shirts worn over their jumpers, who stand up and stretch out their arms when the opposing team fail to hit the target;
An assortment of scriptwriters, novelists and playwrights who own Agas but don’t know how to use them;
A musical equipment reviewer responsible for an article titled “Microphone of the Month”;
A woman who described herself as “A little bit Bridget, a little bit Ally, a little bit Sex And The City” and chose to call her baby boy Fred as a childishly rebellious attempt at a clever reaction to those who might have expected her to call him Julian or Rupert. Bit of advice: call him Rupert, it fits, and besides it’s a good name. Don’t be calling him Fred or Archie, with all its cheeky but lovable working-class-scamp connotations, unless you really do have plans for him to spend his life in William Hill’s waiting for them to weigh in at Newton Abbot.
Also being held is a whole wall full of teenagers spitting needlessly;
An amateur thug in camouflage trousers whose Japanese fighting dog had run amok on a Swindon council estate;
A man from the record company who said that George Michael continues to challenge social taboos through his music;
Lisa Riley;
Continuity announcers introducing comedy shows;
A pub band who get uppity when everyone goes to the bar during a song they’ve written themselves;
A group of football fans referred to as Commodores, as in once, twice, three times a season, who feed sugar lumps to police horses at Cup Finals;
An artist who said his next album would be more “song-based”;
A man who informs people that he gets up at six am every morning and seemed to want a medal;
People who say they speak as they find and are somehow proud of it;
Journalists who try to spell an interviewee’s laugh;
An organisation who declared an awareness week for awareness weeks;
And a council worker who dropped litter.
We’ll bring you more details as they emerge…
Drivers who stare rabbit-like at the tail lights of the car in front rather than looking further down the road to anticipate hazards.
You should flash your headlights at them. Oh...you do don’t you?
People that do not acknowledge or thank you for pulling in to let them come through in a car! Don't mention it.
People who use "swap out" when they mean replace.
I can’t make up my mind if it’s lack of spatial awareness or just ignorance.
It's called being oblivious.
Oblivious drivers are the most dangerous things ever.
Don't kick me off about people who haven't learned the green cross code & press the button before looking.
Being single, and trying to find a relationship, I am incredibly confused by the world of dating.
My approach so far has been to just get to know people in real life; but this hasn’t really worked, as if I find myself liking someone I am mainly “friendzoned”. That’s fair enough, but I can’t get my head around this new thing called Dating anonymous strangers.
I’m no looker, with a leg disability, all of which I’m very honest and open about, and I’ve had some replies, agreements to meet for a coffee, and then…complete silence. It gets annoying as it is like a part-time job just sending messages to get any replies.
I think I’m going to give up!
Big tip - don't date British women.
They're either:
* Brexit Voters
* Fat
* Entitled
* Anti-Cyclist
* Bigger drinkers than you
* Predisposed to duck lip selfies
* Orange
* Or already have kids
The above probably leaves about 2 percent of the population dateable. Of which only about 20 percent of those will probably find you physically attractive and on top of that there are those that will be more educated than you (because someone always is) and dating down educationally seems to be an issue.
We use Instant Messenger/Skype/Teams at work for communication. This seems to be a typical conversation...
THEM: "Hi"
ME: "Hello"
THEM: <silence for 30mins>
THEM: "Hi"
🤷♂️
@rayban My ex was italian, and the last relationship I had was with a moldovan. I've also had short term relationships with women from turkey and poland.
The issue with dating non-British partners is in the event of having children, do you stay in the uk or will she want to move back to her mother country. Ive known a couple of people who married foreign women, agreed they would stay in the uk, but then that all changes when the kids come along.
I think the best time to meet someone is in your early to mid-20s, most of my friends did this, then the law of diminishing returns sets in.
I've completely derailed this thread, so to make up:
Pretty much everyone annoys me.
@rayban My ex was italian, and the last relationship I had was with a moldovan. I’ve also had short term relationships with women from turkey and poland.
The issue with dating non-British partners is in the event of having children, do you stay in the uk or will she want to move back to her mother country. Ive known a couple of people who married foreign women, agreed they would stay in the uk, but then that all changes when the kids come along.
I think the best time to meet someone is in your early to mid-20s, most of my friends did this, then the law of diminishing returns sets in.
I’ve completely derailed this thread, so to make up:
Pretty much everyone annoys me.
My brothers wife stayed here, depends how much your grandparents help out/how much they are around. Everyone else in the world has stronger connections to their grandparents and their wider family than the anglosphere does.
The trick is to not get too jaded - you need to be a happy individual for when you do meet the right person.
Would it really bother you to move from the UK anyway - is our cold, aloof, brexity, angry culture and our propensity to live in or replicate Victorian or interwar shitboxes with tiny windows somewhere where you really see yourself raising happy children?
To clarify this answer
'Just reminded me there. People that wear those “commuter specific” hump rucksacks with the chevrons on.'
...I dont mean those ones..I mean the hike a mountain type ones that are severely overloaded..when its about as much as a pair of good panniers..
@rayban, good points, I'm not too jaded at the moment, interesting idea - pick the country I would like to live in, then filter the internet dating accordingly!
New Zealand (an ambitious one at my age though, and probably too far away) or Ireland (although the weather is worse than here) are top of the list so far. I'm half irish so never felt completely at home in (southern) england anyhow.
Tits that overtake as their lane is coming to an end then slam the brakes on to get into the tight space, temporary traffic lights for a wee road excavation ie the lights 10 yards apart, nobody coming the other way but the law abiding person in front wont jump the red. Road closed sign with no prior warning and you have a ten mile detour
Yup, even look for friends and then really travel. Don't go on holiday - crash at peoples places and meet people. Try and expand your interests internationally to do this - you could look for mountain bike groups in New Zealand or Japan that you can hook up with (the less well known the place, the more people on here will want to read about it as well). If you can save up and can get the time off or you can ditch work for a few months do it.
If you have a degree you could even study abroad? If not, you could learn a language abroad? And if you don't meet someone along the way - well you have made yourself a more interesting person to talk to.
Don't dismiss travelling when you are older, it achieves different things than those doing a "gap yahh" - you can work out where you would feel comfortable living. Just remember that whilst many people feel a sigh of relief coming back to their home country, you might be one of the ones where the adage "You Can't Go Home Again" rings true.
Talking about bike helmets, I don’t understand why so many people feel the need to wear them.
Ah, clearly the world’s most perfectly balanced and poised human being, one who’s never, ever, fallen off a bike!
Oh, how I wish I possessed your level of perfection, otherwise I wouldn’t have had my bike go out from under me at walking pace, causing my left knee, shoulder, side of my face and head to hit the ground very hard, consequently I now have osteoarthritis in my left knee, and if I hadn’t been wearing my crash hat then I would likely have suffered a fairly severe head injury as well. As it was I got away with a bad graze across my cheekbone, the outer edge of my helmet’s visor took the brunt of the hit.
People have died from hitting their head on kerbstones, I’ve proved to my own personal satisfaction that my helmet saved me from a greater injury than the damage to my knee.
I would suggest that wearing one is just common sense.
Men with wallets with change in … whats that all about ?? Are you ten ??
So, what, exactly, are we supposed to do with a handful of change from a tenner when the shop/pub/whatever doesn’t have any fivers?
After busting an expensive Oakley wallet through stuffing a load of loose change into the little zipped pocket, I now carry my lose change in a leather drawstring bag that I’ve made, after wearing out loads of cloth bags, and wearing holes on jeans and trouser pockets, thus losing significant amounts of money.
No, I’m not ten, I’m old enough to get cranky when I lose my hard-earned cash unnecessarily.
You should flash your headlights at them. Oh…you do don’t you?
No, I just like to see the road rather than the immediate five feet in front of me.
THEM: “Hi”
ME: “Hello”
THEM: <silence for 30mins>
THEM: “Hi”
my experience,
THEM: “Hi”
ME: “Hello”
User is typing...
User is typing...
User is typing...
User is typing...
User is typing...
User is typing...
User is typing...
User is typing...
User is typing...
User is typing...
User is typing...
User is typing...
User is typing...
THEM: “Hi”
wearing holes on jeans and trouser pockets, thus losing significant amounts of money.
Point the first, I'm 47 years old, I've carried coins in my pocket since I was in short pants, and I think I've had holes in my pockets in like four pairs of jeans / pants ever. In each case both pockets went, which would rather suggest to me that it's a failing of crap trousers rather than usage.
Point the second, "a significant amount of money," really? You'd have to have an undiscovered hole (otherwise you'd either darn it or not use it), fail to notice coins skittering down the length of your leg, and fail to hear them clattering on the floor. How much have you actually lost that way, thruppence? Do you get paid in diamonds? This from a man who's just dropped £1500 on a phone.
Operation Less Pricks
It's FEWER! God! Can't you get anything right?!
😉
Dog owners..with their four legged friend on a retractable lead who don't reign them in when you are trying to get past them ...then take offence when you guess wrong !
*Yesterday evening while trying to get by a "gentleman" and little rat on a string which was wandering from side to side on the pavement .." Watch my dog " says he when it suddenly veers into my path ..then can't understand why I lose it with him ..
^^ So you were riding on the footpath?!😳
And flounce...😁
Who said anything about riding ..
I was walking briskly behind him .with owner and dog meandering as if they had been on the piss all afternoon ..
The animal had typical little dog syndrome ( chihuahua) staggering about as if it owned the place!😉😁
3 pages & no specific mention of vapers, who cannot let go of their little puff stick, who set it so they get a massive cloud to come out their mouth, you're not James Dean, he looked cool smoking - you just look like you're sucking a pen.
Also people while driving down the road, randomly stop to let someone out of a side road!? Why is that now a thing?!
Also people while driving down the road, randomly stop to let someone out of a side road!? Why is that now a thing?!
Why not? Be polite now and then, make someone's day a little brighter.
Big tip – don’t date British women.
They’re either:
* Brexit Voters
* Fat
* Entitled
* Anti-Cyclist
* Bigger drinkers than you
* Predisposed to duck lip selfies
* Orange
* Or already have kidsThe above probably leaves about 2 percent of the population dateable. Of which only about 20 percent of those will probably find you physically attractive and on top of that there are those that will be more educated than you (because someone always is) and dating down educationally seems to be an issue.
The trick is to not get too jaded
Lol
Why not? Be polite now and then, make someone’s day a little brighter.
Because if a cyclist or motorbike is filtering the pulling out car might not be aware & cause an accident, because the cars following the car won't be expecting them to come to a complete stop, because the cars behind the car will then come to a complete stop creating a traffic jam that will make it harder for the next person to pull out etc...
Why do people keep paying to listen to Billy Joel or watch Tom Hanks? They're both the epitome of mediocrity. It's intensely annoying to me, on top of being confusing.
It’s FEWER! God! Can’t you get anything right?!
Always struck me as a bit odd they'd get it wrong, not sure if they put that in deliberately or not.
From a recent holiday.
People who leap from their seats whilst the aircraft is still taxiing, seat belt light still on to be first to the queue for luggage.
People who will spend a fortune on miniature version of snacks and drinks on a short-haul flights between meals times.
People who book hire cars on the French side of Geneva airport when they're flying in/out of the Swiss side, I know you're going to France, but you really don't want to do that.
Sadly, all of the above I do.
I would question anyone though who has had to use the French side of Geneva airport not to question the ludicrous concept of national borders. These imaginary lines that say this bit is French and this bit is Swiss, what a nightmare! The French, for reasons unknown hide their entrance, especially the road back to the hire car place, I would imagine it's easier to drive into the loading bay of Fort Knox than it is the French Carpark of Geneva airport, and do we really need to show our passports, boarding passes and have our bags checked to walk through a door in an airport when you can walk/drive through it unstopped outside.
>>Lunchtime update >> Mid-life crisis bikers that have speakers mounted on their Harley cruisers; other ridiculous cruisers are available. Radio 2 blaring out as they try and park on the pavement without falling over. Yir in a wee Scottish town, not California, ya roasters.
People that don't understand the concept of 'merge in turn'.
People that don’t understand the concept of ‘merge in turn’.
It seems entirely at odds with British values doesn't it!
Every time I see it at road works it's the same, 95% of people will ignore it and form a single file queue on whatever side the first driver of the morning decided on that's twice the length it should be. 5% of people will use the opportunity to drive faster than is wise down the other lane, unless some 'badass' Lorry driver decides he wants to Police the unwritten law of British queuing by driving down the middle.
The 5% are a bit of an enigma, by the way they drive/merge and frankly at lot of the time what they drive, you can be fairly certain a lot of them are what is known in Psychiatric circles as "arseholes", but unlike almost any other set of circumstances, these "arseholes" are actually in the right for once. The "arseholes" are doing the right thing. It's maddening.
People that don’t understand the concept of ‘merge in turn’.
I'll see your idiots and raise you some other idiots that don't understand that 'merge in turn' doesn't apply on roundabouts or where two roads meet and there's a clearly marked and signposted give way on one of them.
Driving seems to be a recurring theme, mine is people who drive at 40 on a ntional speed limit road, and stay at 40 when going througha village with a 30mph limit. Driver of Nissan Micra who regularly goes along the Trelleck to Devauden raod please take note. You muppet.
Argh, monospeeders.
A near-circular Venn diagram with people who wear hats in cars.
I could probably list 50 things but
People who finish reading a newspaper on the train and put it under the seat on the floor, or fling it it in the overhead luggage rack - this is despite the fact there's a bin by the doors as you exit the train.
Why people don't open train windows pretty much from August through to about mid May, I feel the cold but no harm in a bit of fresh air. Likewise South Eastern Railway who normally have the heating on from September through to mid May...
People who half ar5ed put a seat belt on in the car - just draped over the shoulder
Smoking and vaping strawberry scented chemicals
Chuggers who try and stop you in the street with the hello give me handshake trick
I've known people who are genuinely proud they do no exercise and wouldn't even consider walking up an escalator, they think smoking fags and going to the pub every day is an achievement
Confusing:
People who don't turn their vehicles engine off when doing so would have no negative consequence for them whatsoever.
Annoying:
Smokers who exhale stale smoke on entering a building so it lingers around for ages afterwards. Stinks worse than passive smoking. Addmitedley I used to do it, but I'm an ex-smoker now.
People who spit at least twice a minute while standing around outside.
Old people driving like they stole it.
People who half ar5ed put a seat belt on in the car – just draped over the shoulder
Does that ever happen?
Smokers who exhale stale smoke on entering a building so it lingers around for ages afterwards. Stinks worse than passive smoking. Addmitedley I used to do it, but I’m an ex-smoker now.
Self-righteous ex-smokers. (-:
People who should know better by now having their posts deleted due to deliberate swear filter avoidance.
I didn't use a swear word.People who cant read others posts carefully.
People like Cougar who allow words like piss and bullshit on other threads and then block mine.Also ascribing motivations to my actions which are pure fantasy.
I didn't avoid the swear filter, the swear filter just fails to filter out "bullshit". 🙂
Rule of thumb, if it's censored and you avoid the censor you get banned. I learnt the hard way.
People that don’t understand the concept of ‘merge in turn’.
Pffft - do you even merge bro?
This is a merge in turn....
My missus - keeps on leaving her shoes/bags directly behind the front door and then complains about the noise I make as I struggle to open it fully whilst getting my bike out of the house at daft o bloody clock! She also puts the toilet roll on the wrong way round. ffs.
I think there has been a seperate post on this ..but ..re: toilet roll .
I'm assuming pulling down from the top and not from underneath is the correct way ? It is in this household anyway..
The one that really gets to me is the unneeded overtake when I am on my bike. traffic stacked up at lights 100m away - car overtakes then comes to a halt on the back of the traffic queue. I go sailing past it filtering while the car is stationary. Happens every day.
People who should know better by now having their posts deleted due to deliberate swear filter avoidance.
I still do not fully understand the rules on swearing and I have tried to understand them. (I’m going to regret saying this, as I won’t be able to find the evidence) but it is not uncommon to see moderators break the above rule without comment.
I still do not fully understand the rules on swearing and I have tried to understand them.
It's fairly easy. The following words are prohibited and will get you banned....
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
and
*
I often get frustrated/confused as to why people hate being wrong/mistaken about plainly factual issues to the point where they double-down/get angry/defensive/even aggressive. I seem always to have thought that ‘being wrong’ was an opportunity to learn. Even saying that - it makes me sound annoying and self-righteous. This annoys me also, as I’m simply 100% being literal. Am probably somewhere on ‘the spectrum’. I understand that it’s an ego-thing with others, but I just don’t ‘get it’ as don’t experience it personally. Such feelings of bruised pride and/or denial seem to be so counterproductive, even to the point of fall-outs, misunderstandings, aggression, wars etc. It’s bloody annoying.
Confusing:
People who don’t turn their vehicles engine off when doing so would have no negative consequence for them whatsoever.
This baffles me also. There's a level crossing near me (Starbeck for those who know) and the barrier can be down for quite a while when two trains are arriving. Even though there are signs at the side of the road asking drivers to turn off engines, people rarely do.
I still do not fully understand the rules on swearing and I have tried to understand them.
It’s fairly easy. The following words are prohibited and will get you banned….
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
and
*
Oh FFS I’m so stupid
I’m assuming pulling down from the top and not from underneath is the correct way ?
Yes. To settle any arguments, buy the "puppies on a roll" Andrex.
I still do not fully understand the rules on swearing and I have tried to understand them. (I’m going to regret saying this, as I won’t be able to find the evidence) but it is not uncommon to see moderators break the above rule without comment.
Put simply, the swear filter is a blunt instrument, it will edit out any exact matches it finds in a fairly short wordlist. "Swear filter avoidance" is deliberately misspelling words to get around this.
Say for instance, "Piers Morgan" was in the swear filter. Posting going "that Pi3rs M0rgan is a right ****," whilst factually correct would be swear filter avoidance.
If simple words don't get caught, it's safe to assume that they're fine to use. Shit, piss and so forth. Complex words and compound swearing will get through as there's no pattern matching enabled (google "the S****horpe problem" for further reading) and it's impossible to predict people's impressive swearing creativity (hypothetically, were we to block "shit," someone will come along with "thunderingshitwomble"). There's little we can do about that other than ask that you don't do it and manually have to clean up after people if they do.
Andrex? ..naaah ..Costco's Kirkland brand ( triple ply ) blows that out of the water ..softer and also wider ( not that I have a particularly wide bum though!)
Put simply, the swear filter is a blunt instrument, it will edit out any exact matches it finds in a fairly short wordlist. “Swear filter avoidance” is deliberately misspelling words to get around this.
I have no need to swear, so I’m not overly troubled. But, I do not understand how FFS is any better than ‘for ****s sake’, or for ‘for Fuchs sake’ any worse.
The one that really gets to me is the unneeded overtake when I am in my car traffic stacked up at lights 100m away – car overtakes then comes to a halt on the back of the traffic queue. I roll up behind it, while the car in front is stationary. Happens every day.
FIFM
Truck drivers who pull out into the right lane on dual carriageways when doing 56.1111113 miles an hour to overtake a truck doing 56.1111112 miles an hour. And whilst pulling out, they see a line of cars overtaking the said trucks but simply pull out regardless forcing emergency braking and almost a trail of carnage behind them.
And yes, you are on dash cam and I have reported you...
Tosser
People that get annoyed by trivial things used to annoy me until I realised that doing the things they hate gives me super powers.
Thanks for the heads up all.
People who switch lane from the right-hand to straight-on to dodge the queue at the Medlock St/Whitworth St lights in Manchester plus people who dodge into queues on motorway exits. The lights go green and air turns purple.
People who use art galleries for a more sophisticated class of selfie.
People who try to avoid their round.
'Outraged' of Tunbridge Wells.
I realised that doing the things they hate gives me super powers.
I'm irritated just thinking about that.
Noisiness. Like the people near where I live, it's as if they are allergic to quiet, especially on a sunny day like today.
So far I've heard:
- next door neighbour revving up his motorbike (he never uses it) for half an hour,
- two doors away neighbour decides to hit something in his garden with a big stick for an hour
- other next door neighbour decides to go out in the garden and have a shouting match with his daughter for 15 minutes
- went to a coffee shop for a break from it, two ladies walk in and have a conversation at the top of their voices about their kids for 20 minutes!
Yes, I appreciate I am turning into Victor Medrew! I've invested in a pair of noise cancelling headphones like the builders use on site.
I still do not fully understand the rules on swearing and I have tried to understand them.
I've been 'reminded' a few times. It's pretty easy. Type what you what to say, if you use a word they'd rather you didn't they'll ****ing change it to something else.
However, if you attempt to circumvent the filter by using txt speak or otherwise swap characters etc they get very upset about it. Some swears are allowed, some not.
However, if you attempt to circumvent the filter by using txt speak or otherwise swap characters etc they get very upset about it. Some swears are allowed, some not.
Sounds easy, but ‘they’ don’t adhere to their own rules, which can seem harsh on others.
I do not see the mods avoiding the swear filter at all - just using words that are not in it.
So you can say balls but not bollocks?
EDIT - turns out you can say either
Dare I try a few swearwords to see what happens? Errmmm nope. I remain on my shoogly peg and am feart 😉
I do not see the mods avoiding the swear filter at all – just using words that are not in it.
One of us is recalling incorrectly, it may not be me.
Mother****er
I've never even met your mother.
The problem, as ably demonstrated here, is there will always be people trying their damnedest to push the envelope of exactly what they can get away with. Give an inch and some people take a parsec.
The swear filter exists as a crude way of preventing the place turning into, well, Mumsnet. The site's target audience is different, there's no age limit I'm aware of for membership (unlike Mumsnet where, well, the clue is in the name, there hopefully shouldn't be may 12-year old mothers on there), and it's a commercial venture. A degree of decorum is expected, you might call each other ****s down at the pub but you wouldn't do it over Sunday lunch (unless you're Glaswegian). We're supposed to be welcoming and inclusive.
Personally I swear like a trouper and I find it weird that a jumble of letters in a certain order can be problematic, I don't get how "can't" is a word in common parlance but swap the 'a' for a 'u' and it's suddenly one of the most vulgar swears out there. But, here we are, not my language and not my website.
People that get really excited about football during a world cup. I love football and could talk about it all day, don't give me "your opinion" on what happened. I watched the same coverage so I know you have just repeated what the experts have said.
While I'm getting grumpy about modern football. The stats that Sky Sports and the like take so much time analysing are mostly irrelevant. A team can have 90% of the possession and have 30 shots on target but it means bugger all if they can't get the ball in the net. You get no points for shots on target or possession. You get points by winning games which means scoring goals and defending better than the opposition can attack. Instead they should show us the clips of Policemen having their helmets / hats knocked off or stewards getting hit by the ball, the linesman (assistant ref) tripping over and any other incident that gets a great cheer from the fans at the game.
I'm glad the 3D phase has passed, I got sick of trying to explain to the Sky sales people in shopping centres that the most authentic experience is not achieved by sitting on my sofa wearing daft glasses after being told that it's better than being there because it was in HD 3D. I pointed out that when I go to watch football it's always in HD 3D with the added benefit of real atmosphere, hot pies and the collective excitement and anger of being in a crowd of people who all want the same thing. The experience of watching the the Champions League on the best TV is nothing compared to going to a game even in the lower leagues.
That feels better!
However, if you attempt to circumvent the filter by using txt speak or otherwise swap characters etc they get very upset about it. Some swears are allowed, some not.
what about french connection uk. **** ?
but it's a brand logo not a swear word
Can we have that swear filter word replacement thing that used to substitute ‘I have nothing of interest to say’ for certain words and phrases back again please?
What about “frack”?
You goddamn fracking cylons!
Is that swear filter avoidance?
Fracking frackity frack frack frack
People who don't pick up thier dog's 💩