Absolutely Ron, I had to move away. I’m now 10 yards away and can still understand every word, should I point out the error of his ways?
Horses with similar sounding names? There's a maiden by the name of Ipsilanti running in the opener at Kempton tomorrow night. I was questioning my own sanity (jury is still out) until realising it wasn't the the jumper Ypsilanti who I remember winning in bizarre fashion by not even bothering to jump for the last fence in a chase at Doncaster a year or so ago.
Cartoon racing going off every 2 minutes. People who insist they will bring up 10 bingo slips all for one game a time....especially on Grand National day People who have been in the shop for an hour, then blame you because they didn't get their bet on in time. People who walk in and use the loo, then bugger off without having a bet. It's now got to the point where I ask them to put a bet on first, if they don't, then I tell them that the public loos are further down the street. FOBTs
A variation on this theme following my trip to Aintree today. Folk, well 1 woman in particular, who rolls up at the tote pool kiosk with a fist full of betting slips and asks the cashier to check them all for winners. So you're at the races, you strike multiple bets, but don't watch the race or check the numerous screens showing the fookin result.
Fake Tykes that even the Tykes cannot spot: Two Jags Watching Gogglebox, they featured a program where John Prescott, former Labour Deputy Prime Minister, went to a chocolate factory in Skipton and tried to pack chocolates on a conveyer belt. Unsurprisingly, he was totally hopeless at it. Had to laugh when Jenny from Hull identified Prestatyn-born Two Jags as a Yorkshireman. It does demonstrate how little some people actually know about their local MPs, even when they have become a Baron and taken a seat in The Lords.
And another thing .................. People who are in a restaurant and can't stop looking or fiddling with their mobile phones. It's annoyed me before but last night was in the Newnham Court Inn with a mate when there was a party of 6 put onto the next table - 2 adults and 4 kids. They immediately got out their various devices - ALL of them - before even looking at the menu, and continued to play with them even when food had arrived. There is an upside to this, however - they were so engrossed in their individual digital world's that they weren't screaming and shouting like a table in an adjacent area. Small mercies, I guess!
I get incredibly annoyed by the mis-use of the word literally, especially by commentators who are literally paid for it. "He's literally driven that down the goalkeepers throat" "Cristiano Ronaldo is literally unplayable" The list is unfortunately, figuratively endless. That isn't even the most annoying thing I hear in football commentry though, the worst has to be "You couldn't write it!" My bone of contention with that sentence, spewed out at an ironically high percentage of matches/moments, is that it is literally the opposite of what they mean. You COULD write it, in fact, if you wanted a great story, you would write it, a tale for the ages (and so on).
And spokespersons on TV (especially politicians) who almost every other word goes "um" or "err", sometimes both. Surely they can find someone who sounds reasonably articulate to represent them on TV
Evening Kev. As you are here, I'm surprised you didn't participate in our GN comp. Just about to pop over to see what you lot thought of the GN
Hello. Yes I should have really. I'd taken a bit of a back seat and let the other mods do a bit of work post-Cheltenham . GN was a positive for us, Tiger Roll was put up by a few at 50s and plenty seemed to follow We almost had one member do the Masters/GN double with Anibale Fly, but on the whole, a good result I'd say!
Brain-dead Scousers who protest outside Alder Hey Hospital by spitting on the doctors and nurses on their way to/from work because they are following some factually inaccurate rumours spread on social media that a terminally ill boy could be saved by treatment in Rome for his degenerative neurological condition. Hopefully none of them or their children need treatment from health care professionals whose primary consideration is the best interests of their patient. According to the hospital, further treatment would be “futile and inhumane”.
Whilst I totally agree that they are disgusting human beings, I think it's only fair to point out it's happened elsewhere so it's a bit harsh to just single out people from that particular city. Attacking doctors or nurses should come with a long custodial sentence - or an ear operation whereby the only thing you can hear for the rest of your life is Coldplay.
that's the pitchfork brigade , ukip voting , xenophobic , uneducated and addicted to conspiracy theories, hate logic and anyone with a beard
Regardless of what he stands for, I'm afraid I can't stand Corbyn. He only has to open his mouth and I'm diving for the remote. Really irritating person. There's a word for him but I can't think of it. I may have to make one up
Was just responding to the news as reported by the BBC. Apparently complaints have been made to the police by hospital staff. The BBC spoke to some of the protesters, who gave some very vacuous reasons for why they were protesting (presumably have no jobs to go to instead). For balance, they then spoke to a consultant paediatrician who concurred with the hospital’s opinion that all avenues of treatment had been considered and that there was a high probability that the child would die during transportation to Rome because he is currently being kept alive by machines. I totally agree that people who attack clinicians who are just trying to do their job – treating the sick – should be treated with the contempt that they deserve (especially the ones clogging up A&E on a Friday/Saturday with booze-related injuries). But Coldplay, really?
