Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[kernow]

I hate that advert too, utter balls.

I hope he burnt his mouth eating it straight from the pan, it just looks so rehearsed too.

[charlesr]

If I was an advertising exec, I'd grab the entire advertising available slots for something like the last episode of Lost and get rid of them all and have a 1 minute ad slot in the middle which says "We don't think you should have to sit through ads all the time, so we bought all the ad slots. Please check out our cool product that brought you this streamlined episode."

Doubt it would go down too well in the US though, where they need ad breaks every 8 minutes to sustain life.

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

Twats who always have to have gone one better than you.

I took my new Focus out this morning and got 140mph out of it.

That's nothing. I got 620mph out of my 1985 Austin Maestro!!

Of course you did mate. Now STFU.

[Brad]

If I was an advertising exec, I'd grab the entire advertising available slots for something like the last episode of Lost and get rid of them all and have a 1 minute ad slot in the middle which says "We don't think you should have to sit through ads all the time, so we bought all the ad slots. Please check out our cool product that brought you this streamlined episode."

Would that not essentially be an advert though?

[Ady]

"How comes?"

Uurgh!

[BeyondJumpFish]

"She sez"
"he sez"

Even the BBC is guilty of this! So long for BBC standard english.
ITS SAYS!!!

[JazzFunk]

^Also, see "could of" and "would of" instead of "could/would have"/"could've/would've", now even appearing in subtitles, it doesn't even make any bloody sense!

Current prime irkage is those basts in the motorised wheelchair/kart things (usually either elderlies or the obese). They seem to think that they can scoot wherever they like and everyone has to move out of their way, like they're some "king of the road", they're often plain f*cking rude. One almost knocked me down a couple of weeks ago, the fat git tutted at me and sped off, like it was *I* who was the problem.

I don't want to tar *all* disability buggy drivers with the same brush, just the majority, and they need to be gunned down. Plus, why are they nearly always crimson, those kart things?

[Brad]

So the blood of their roadkill doesn't show!

[importaku]

^Also, see "could of" and "would of" instead of "could/would have"/"could've/would've", now even appearing in subtitles, it doesn't even make any bloody sense!

Current prime irkage is those basts in the motorised wheelchair/kart things (usually either elderlies or the obese). They seem to think that they can scoot wherever they like and everyone has to move out of their way, like they're some "king of the road", they're often plain f*cking rude. One almost knocked me down a couple of weeks ago, the fat git tutted at me and sped off, like it was *I* who was the problem.

I don't want to tar *all* disability buggy drivers with the same brush, just the majority, and they need to be gunned down. Plus, why are they nearly always crimson, those kart things?

Be the bigger person & WALK away

[Number45]

"She sez"
"he sez"

Even the BBC is guilty of this! So long for BBC standard english.
ITS SAYS!!!

I think that falls into the same category as the WED-NES-DAY thing. Virtually nobody I know sez SAYS.

^Also, see "could of" and "would of" instead of "could/would have"/"could've/would've", now even appearing in subtitles, it doesn't even make any bloody sense!

Subtitles are great. My DVD player upstairs defaults to subtitles on so I often watch Bottom/Blackadder etc. with them on and it's hilarious how bad they can be both in terms of spelling and just getting words and sentences completely wrong!

Plus, why are they nearly always crimson, those kart things?

To hide the blood stains I would assume.

[dataDave]

Twats who always have to have gone one better than you.

I took my new Focus out this morning and got 140mph out of it.

That's nothing. I got 620mph out of my 1985 Austin Maestro!!

Of course you did mate. Now STFU.

LOL! The best way around this is to just keep things to yourself.

[merf]

the other bloke variant of that is extreme underestimation of how long trips will take.

'so you've got to drive to Torquay via Cardiff at the weekend starting in Norwich, shouldn't take any more than 2 hours'

then they'll row with you for ages about how its feasibly possible and its because you are a lousy driver and stop for sandwiches that you won't make it, their mate did it in his Punto the other day

[charlesr]

Would that not essentially be an advert though?

well.... yes. That's the point. You have to affiliate the benefit to the product or you have thrown all the money away

[endo]

"She sez"
"he sez"

Even the BBC is guilty of this! So long for BBC standard english.
ITS SAYS!!!

The standard phonetic spelling of says is sɛz, meaning it's not a long vowel sound like in say, so 'sez' is basically correct.

[smouty]

And it is 'it's says'

If you are complaining about language usage you have to be correct yourself.

No doubt this will Irk someone