Darren Gough, Talksport Radio, quite possibly the most talentless broadcaster on radio. I usually swap my car radio between Radio 2 and 5Live but started listening to Alan Brazil during Cheltenham week. I quite liked Brazil. However getting back in the car to go home after work and Talkshite has Goughie plus some other geezer whose name escapes me. Man alive he is terrible. Has very little to say and struggles in the delivery of the ****e he does come out with. Shocking and must really irk professional broadcasters who have to look on whilst ex pros take their jobs.
Jim White...!!! Need I say anything more... Just can't be doing with the bloke on Sky or Talkshite...
Cor blimey what a wonderful thread. My current rants are: (i) What is the point of ‘meet and greet’ staff in banks/building societies?!? The current fad seems to be that the second you enter one of these establishments one runs up to eagerly asking if they can help you or if they can interest you in a certain product. Has anyone, in the history of banking, ever gone into a bank/building society and not known what they want to do??? It’s not Debenhams and you are there for a browse or to being swayed by a bargain. (ii) Being charged £47.04 for a ‘Coal Mining Search’, because, and I quote, 'its got to be done', when I’m 100% certain that the new Chuckle Towers is in no way affected by any previous coal mining activity. (iii) Being charged £30, in a few weeks, for a solicitor to make a telephone call /press a button on their PC to an estate agent who then presses a button on their PC to make a BACS payment re the payment of the purchase price. Money for old rope and again something wrapped up in the 'its got to be done' tag. Meanwhile, now that I’m shortly to leave the employ of the UK Government I’m finding that most of my previous rants are now obsolete. It used to annoy me to ‘high heaven’ the way that money that could have been put in my paypacket was being wasted by other Government departments. Now that my wages aren’t affected I’m finding myself taking the typical persons view of not really caring less.
Astonished that this has managed to survive a couple of days without any Tykes complaining... Round these parts, Goughie has God-like status as a Yorkshireman that used to play cricket for England. Talksport listening figures in God’s Own County must rocket when they hear that he is going to be preaching the sermon. As a foreigner here, I can tell you that the phrase “You can always tell a Yorkshireman – but you can’t tell him much” is accurate. They know everything and are never wrong.
Had to make a rare visit into my local branch of a bank beginning with B last week when one of their ATMs took my card, dispensed me no money and gave me a receipt for a deduction. I went inside and there was a boy and girl double act who looked about 12, whose sole role seemed to be to decide whether you should join the queue to speak to the counter staff or go and use the automated banking. They had to summon a grown up to deal with my inquiry; and she discovered that the machine had realised that it had dispensed no money and had refunded my account. The grown up then asked if I wanted to speak to one of their advisors about their financial products. Perhaps the ‘meet and greet’ kids are part of some intern project with the local schools to keep the little urchins off the streets on Saturday mornings...
Tried to buy tickets online for something the other day and when I went to pay got redirected to a new Visa check out website. Now I freely admit to being a dunce when it comes to using IT but this would have been a challenge for Bill Gates. It seems that systems are becoming ever more Kafkaesque. Why they feel the need to change, and complicate, things so much is beyond me. Maybe every time a new rant appears on this and similar threads they get commission.
The WH Smiths branches in major airports are moving more and more to "self-service" checkouts. My experience of these is as follows: the 1 manned cash register has a huge queue so I decide to use the self-service check-out. I proceed to follow the instructions on the screen and invariably get to some situation where an assistant has to come with a magic card, swipe it and correct some input I may or may not have erroneously made. I give up and join the long queue for the old fashioned till. Progress? Hardly. Enhanced customer experience? No. Pointless? Yes. You can take that as gospel as I am from Yorkshire.
Goughie was a decent whole hearted trier as an international cricketer and generally played the game in the right spirit - no issue with his sporting prowess. As a broadcaster he is beyond awful.
Master Chef. Keep hearing the same old comments over and over again. But the voice that really annoys me is the woman who says "And xxxx is making a xxxx with xxx, xxxxx, xxxxx etc". Does my head in but the missus loves the program
I've managed to swerve that one Ron. Along with every other single show revolving around cooking. What is so fascinating about watching people cook food and eat it? I admit that not having a significant other to force me to watch that sh!t helps. In fact my last 2 wives both died through food related problems. Wife one died from eating poisonous mushrooms. The second one died because she wouldn't eat the mushrooms
Another thing that really pisses me off is bloody singers that have to keep touching their crutch. I find myself shouting at the telly "Leave your ****ing crutch alone"
Getting home at stupid o’clock and instead of going to bed checking to see how many winners I’ve missed from the daily thread
No experience of the WH Smith’s self service checkout but have used the ASDA and Tesco ones. I am not sure how the WH Smith one can practically work given the light/similar weight of many products they sell: newspapers, magazines. I always think that the supermarket ones must be a license for theft. I could go to the self-service with a £20 bottle of wine and a £1 bottle of water. I scan the water but put the wine on the scale. The machine is happy because the two bottles weigh roughly the same. I then scan the water again and put it on the scale. I pay my £2 and walk out the door with £21 of goods. I am too honest to do this myself but surely some dishonest scrotes do this or similar all the time...
Sorry to any actual fans of either club, but what idiot allowed MILLWALL versus FULHAM to be scheduled for 7:45 on Friday 20th April? Give the undesirables all day to get tanked up before the game just so Sky can show it...
I'm sure people do that. Personally, it's not worth the risk of suffering the embarrassment of being caught. Imagine being in the local paper for shoplifting. Surely they have CCTV and would force suspects through the check out. I would also introduce spot checks, as at customs. That would cut out a lot of the thefts.
