Room 101

[plastic penguin]

If you are worried about crime at home, the idea is to have 2 dogs, a big one and a small one. The small one sounds the alarm, the big one scares off the burglar.

We have a small dog and a big cat, not sure if it will be as effective...

Or the big one bites their ears and the little'un chews their ankles. 😋

 

[jjbomber]

We have a small dog and a big cat, not sure if it will be as effective...

Big cat? Lion, leopard, tiger? I'm sure it will be as effective!

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

Big cat? Lion, leopard, tiger? I'm sure it will be as effective!

No! A fifteen month old Ragdoll. He is already the biggest cat I have ever had, with near three years of growing still to come, as the biggest breeds take longer to mature than smaller cats.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Hayfever.

 

[plastic penguin]

Hayfever.

Dust allergy is worse. At least hayfever is generally seasonal, whereas if I walk or sit in a dusty room anytime of the year I start sneezing.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Dust allergy is worse. At least hayfever is generally seasonal, whereas if I walk or sit in a dusty room anytime of the year I start sneezing.

Not sure I'm convinced - Hayfever makes everywhere in the world a dusty room for several months of the year! I get woken up by a runny nose most mornings at the moment, and that, sore eyes etc are a fixture to some extent even if you take antihistamines.

 

[Horowitz]

Absolutely detest the modern use of the word 'so' - usually used to begin an answer to a question, by educated types.
I'm surprised that broadcasters don't give some pre interview guidance against it.

Posts on this forum sometimes begin with 'so'....
Should be in the rules: 'Such posts will not be deleted, but are likely to be ignored'.

Maybe not so modern, Gray. I posted this mini-rant on my blog as a 'words consultant' in May, 2013 and it still drives me bonkers:

Can anyone remember when the habit of interviewees launching into an answer with ‘so’ began to catch on?

I don’t know if it’s just me, but when I hear people do this, it sounds inane. An interviewer on TV or radio asks a ‘spokesperson’ a question. They then launch off into an answer, beginning with ‘so’. Which would be fine if they’d just explained something, and were about to add to it with information – or an argument – that depended upon it. But, 99 times out of 100, they haven’t explained anything first. So… what?!

This actually sounds thoroughly patronising, because it makes the listener think that maybe they haven’t been paying attention. Or that they’re too thick to have understood a point. Even though no point had been made! Clearly it’s a device to help the speaker ‘hit the ground running’. Like ‘well’, or ‘now’. But neither of these suggest a logical progression in the way that ‘so’ does. So… who the hell came up with this nonsense?!

So (sic) I think I first started to notice it from Australian sportsmen and women in interviews two or three years ago. The Boss reckons she heard it from some Canadians she worked with in medical publishing 3 or 4 years back. But now it’s ubiquitous with business and even government spokespeople. It would appear that it has become the trendy media trainer’s device of the month. But it makes people sound vacuous and robotic.

So please desist.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

People who don't clear up there dogs' parked breakfasts.

Workmen who start making a racket at stupidly early hours - particularly at the weekend.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

Having watched the "How it's made - tube amps" video, I'm reminded of something that belongs here:

TV programmes and videos, presented in a way that shows they are assuming the audience is thick and/or, has the memory of a gold fish with Alzheimer's.

EDIT: And another thing, why have operations become known as surgeries? A surgery is where you go to see your GP, for eff's sake.

 

[plastic penguin]

These ridiculous sleuth series:

Cadfael: A medieval crime solving monk
Father Brown
Sister Boniface
Marple. Is this not Poirot in a frock?

I like crime/action/adventure programmes such as Spooks, Foyle's War, Prime Suspect, The Persuaders!...

American equivalents are even worse, Murder, She Wrote, Diagnosis Murder....

 

[Hugh Jarse]

These ridiculous sleuth series:

Cadfael: A medieval crime solving monk
Father Brown
Sister Boniface
Marple. Is this not Poirot in a frock?

I like crime/action/adventure programmes such as Spooks, Foyle's War, Prime Suspect, The Persuaders!...

American equivalents are even worse, Murder, She Wrote, Diagnosis Murder....

I've honestly never watched even as much as 10 seconds of any in the above list.
(I waste my time in other ways).

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

American equivalents are even worse, Murder, She Wrote, Diagnosis Murder....

You are a master of understatement!

 

[jjbomber]

These ridiculous sleuth series:

Cadfael: A medieval crime solving monk
Father Brown
Sister Boniface
Marple. Is this not Poirot in a frock?

I like crime/action/adventure programmes such as Spooks, Foyle's War, Prime Suspect, The Persuaders!...

American equivalents are even worse, Murder, She Wrote, Diagnosis Murder....

Buy a TV with an off button!!!

That's another for Room 101. People who watch rubbish on TV,, complain about it, but never switch the TV off.

 

[plastic penguin]

I've honestly never watched even as much as 10 seconds of any in the above list.
(I waste my time in other ways).

Same here, but Mrs. P loves all that tat.

 

[plastic penguin]

Buy a TV with an off button!!!

That's another for Room 101. People who watch rubbish on TV,, complain about it, but never switch the TV off.

With the streaming on the TV and a Sky box there's 100 + channels including a shed load of radio, yet err indoors tends to watch the same old rubbish.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

Too many national and world ‘days’ for things that judt don’t need them. E.g. today I heard on the radio, is World Parrot Day.

What next? Maybe, National Slightly Overripe Banana Day?

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

World Parrot Day.

Now World ex-parrot day has a certain ring to it...

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Not sure I'm convinced - Hayfever makes everywhere in the world a dusty room for several months of the year! I get woken up by a runny nose most mornings at the moment, and that, sore eyes etc are a fixture to some extent even if you take antihistamines.

2nd time this week up at 5 a.m. because of a permanently runny nose. I'm doubling up on my antihistamines for the next few weeks.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Idiotic parking - here's a good example:



To the crusher with them...

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

Idiotic parking - here's a good example:

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To the crusher with them...

Just needs a couple of big strong men, stronger than me, to roll it over onto the driver's side...

 

[jjbomber]

Idiotic parking - here's a good example:

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To the crusher with them...

Perhaps their disability is that they're blind!

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

People who toot their horn whilst waving goodbye - or to indicate that they are there to pick someone up. In the first instance, they can presumably see you. In the second, stop being a lazy ________

 

[Gray]

People who toot their horn whilst waving goodbye - or to indicate that they are there to pick someone up. In the first instance, they can presumably see you. In the second, stop being a lazy ________

And those stupid ..... that sound the horn as they pass a live TV report.

 

[plastic penguin]

Most drivers are s##t.

 

[Al ears]

Just needs a couple of big strong men, stronger than me, to roll it over onto the driver's side...

Shuurly Passenger side....