Shop in Morrisons like I do then. You don't see many other customers.
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Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you
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py_megapixel
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I would ban the practice of large supermarket chains in their small-format stores nearly always stocking the name brand in preference to the own brand of any particular category. For example at my local Tesco Express store you can't buy Tesco cream crackers: you can only buy Jacob's, which taste nearly indistinguishable but cost several times as much.
Gloster
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Those comments, often in obituaries or gushing profiles, about how s/he always wanted to a footballer, singer, TV personality, etc. These people have usually just been lucky and will often return to obscurity before very long. There are plenty of people who wanted to be footballers, singers, TV personalities, etc., but are doing…well, fill in your definition of an utterly boring, mundane and badly-paid job.
The use of the word "Poo" in anything serious to be read, seen or listened to by anyone adult. Please use the terms "Excrement", "Faeces/Feces", "Waste" or some similar term. I am not five, and I don't want to read it my paper or listen to it on the radio, etc.
Gloster
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The way that domestic British news sites, even the BBC, will push minor American news items on to the front page. Yes, we are interested in world news, but this is a British source and should largely restrict itself to news that affects us, directly or indirectly, although the odd bits of trivia and curiosities are acceptable. We do not want or need to know every detail of a shooting in Jelly Bean Creek, Alabama, where a Hershey bar was slightly hurt.
birchesgreen
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Its the main reason i stopped watching British news sites.
Also the BBC news site has gone down the slippery slope of becoming obsessed with celebrity trivia
People say that when experts (or in other words recognised authorities on the matter at hand) make statements that challenge their world view and what they want to believe is the truth. The way they resolve the cognitive dissonance is to direct inverse snobbery at the authority (e.g. if you can, you do, if you can't, you teach), standard emotion over logic again.
Gloster
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A Railway one for once. Southern helpfully telling me that the lift between Platform 1 and the exit is out of use at The Hawthorns station…for a Portsmouth-Dorking journey search.
61653 HTAFC
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That's so out of place that I'm impressed... I look forward to an alert from Česky Drahy warning me that the lifts are out of order at Crewe when I'm trying to book a flight to Helsinki!
gg1
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More annoying is something I've noticed a few times on the BBC news channel when presenters use American terms while discussing a British news story. I don't mean Americanisms which are now commonly used in Britain (such as season instead of series for a TV programme or apartment instead of flat) but terms where there is a clear divide between the American and British usage.
One example only a few days ago was saying candy instead of sweets, I've also recently heard sidewalk instead of pavement and UK government expenditure quoted in dollars rather than pounds.
dangie
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Bed & Breakfasts which don’t allow pre-booked one night stays.
Yes I know and understand why they do it, but it makes it very difficult to plan a journey (in this case a cycling holiday) just spending one night in each place. If they take a booking for, say, Friday night, it takes up a room that someone else may want for three nights. The B&B may then have a unsold room for Saturday & Sunday nights.
On the other hand, many B&B’s must loose custom by turning down pre-booked one night stays.
Yes I know and understand why they do it, but it makes it very difficult to plan a journey (in this case a cycling holiday) just spending one night in each place. If they take a booking for, say, Friday night, it takes up a room that someone else may want for three nights. The B&B may then have a unsold room for Saturday & Sunday nights.
On the other hand, many B&B’s must loose custom by turning down pre-booked one night stays.
BBC News 24 and the World Newsused to be separate. The BBC license fee didn't keep up with inflation, so they had to make some cutbacks, and one was to merge the UK and World News channels.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0026/243377/bbc-news-channel-merger.pdf
Moving away from UK-specific idioms is a casualty of that.
dangie
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Jacob Rees-Mogg
Just hearing his name is enough to irritate me…..
Just hearing his name is enough to irritate me…..
D6130
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At least his wife and his nannie will vote for him, even if nobody else does! 
D6130
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Aye....I'll second that!
I agree, it grates, it’s as if they hope we’ll forget that we’re using money to pay for our food. It’s enough to put me off going to some places that do it.
Maybe it would be worth once the bill has been delivered, placing the cash on the table in a currency that has units and 1/100th units as per the numbers and then proceed to leave.
Strat-tastic
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Credit where credit's due; I got some bacon from Aldi and the tab's in the top left corner.And they're on the wrong side or the bacon is arranged wrongly , depending on your point of view.
dangie
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Not a minor thing but major. Well to me anyway.
On the BBC Midlands News this evening they reported on a car crash in Birmingham which sadly ended with a fatality plus a serious injury. They showed CCTV footage of the accident. What annoyed me was the number of onlookers who were videoing the aftermath on their mobile phones.
What processes people to do this?
On the BBC Midlands News this evening they reported on a car crash in Birmingham which sadly ended with a fatality plus a serious injury. They showed CCTV footage of the accident. What annoyed me was the number of onlookers who were videoing the aftermath on their mobile phones.
What processes people to do this?
75A
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I would if I had the chance, I like himAt least his wife and his nannie will vote for him, even if nobody else does!
Sun Chariot
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One of my 1980's school friends was at Trinity College, Oxford, with him. My friend used to tell me that JRM was an acquired taste even back them...
Whilst I sympathise and agree with your view on such ghoulish behaviour, the abundance of footage from readily available cameras on the scene to record events has frequently assisted the police and others in their dealing with incidents where no official observation could reasonably be afforded.
Gloster
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Quite a few years ago Private Eye had a cartoon of somebody lying on the ground injured and all the group standing around were taking photos of him on their ‘phones. One of them says, “Shouldn’t somebody call an ambulance?”
dangie
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Yes I accept that, but in this incident the accident had already happened and the onlookers appeared to be videoing the efforts of those trying to help and the smashed up vehicles.
Unfortunately, people who wave their phone around all the time are poor judges of the sensitivities of others.
Gloster
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The widespread use of the word ‘super’ as a vague substitute for a more appropriate strengthening word: I found it super difficult, I worked super hard, can you be super kind. I even came across ‘super disgusting’: I find that a contradiction in terms, unless you have an utterly revolting senior policeman.
The large hadron collider proved the existence of the higgs bosons amongst other things.From the BBC:
Researchers at the world's biggest particle accelerator in Switzerland have submitted proposals for a new, much larger, supercollider.
Its aim is to discover new particles that would revolutionise physics and lead to a more complete understanding of how the Universe works. If approved, it will be three times larger than the current giant machine. But its £17bn price tag has raised some eyebrows, with one critic describing the expenditure as "reckless".
Now obviously I have no knowledge on what this is, what it does, or how it does it. But from what I can gather, the original Hadron Collider hasn’t done what it was designed to do, so let’s build a bigger one.
Prof Fabiola Gianotti, told BBC News that, if approved, it will be a "beautiful machine".
She added “We are missing something big,''
Personally I think they are missing something a bit more basic. Something between the ears…..
Huge atom-smasher bid to find missing 95% of Universe
Researchers want a new, much bigger supercollider but is it worth us paying the £12bn price tag?www.bbc.co.uk