birchesgreen
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I doubt the commentators or ex-pros care, but the producers know someone will call in to complain.
So let's add people who can't accept a bit of human emotion on the sportsfield to our list.
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Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you
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So let's add people who can't accept a bit of human emotion on the sportsfield to our list.
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I'd add anybody in general that tries to pretend swear words don't exist. Most people learn them in the school playground - let's not try and pretend otherwise.
The real skill is to learn when mild swearing (i.e. nothing outright offensive or derogatory) is and is not appropriate.
scotrail158713
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Agreed. Along those lines could also be news articles and the like that block out certain letters of swear words e.g. f*ck. Thanks for that - I’m really scrambling my brain trying to work out what that word is now!
Mcr Warrior
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HST274
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Or the Austrian village of fugging, originally called... (you work it out
)Does this forum not censor swear words? I know of at least one forum that does, even if the swear word is not directed at anyone in an offensive manner.
Gloster
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Do not get confused between two villages near Stanford-le-Hope in Essex: Mucking and Fobbing.
Strat-tastic
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People who come from Effingham 
Having just seen one on YouTube, I'd ban adverts using any of those basic text-to-speech voices for the voiceovers. Whether it's deliberate or not, I don't know (I've not watched enough of them to find out!), but it just says "poor quality" to me whenever it comes up. You can pay for the filming of the thing, so get some proper voiceover work done for it too!
And calm...
-Peter
And calm...
-Peter
birchesgreen
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It gets worse, there are whole "documentaries" done like that on YT.Having just seen one on YouTube, I'd ban adverts using any of those basic text-to-speech voices for the voiceovers. Whether it's deliberate or not, I don't know (I've not watched enough of them to find out!), but it just says "poor quality" to me whenever it comes up. You can pay for the filming of the thing, so get some proper voiceover work done for it too!
And calm...
-Peter
Those would drive me up the wall. Worse than really long videos on YouTube done entirely with captions (short videos it's alright but not amazing).
-Peter
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Ah yes...speaking of captions. those that use captions that absolutely have to highlight the main words in every sentence out of pure fear that the point of the video might be lost on the audience in my opinion want shooting until confirmed well and truly shot with a suitable shooting device
To break the cycle - you know what doesn't annoy me that I wouldn't want to ban? nothing at all. Those stagnant days where nobody calls and nothing happens at all. Bliss
To break the cycle - you know what doesn't annoy me that I wouldn't want to ban? nothing at all. Those stagnant days where nobody calls and nothing happens at all. Bliss
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I get (or got) called Chris by three separate people, Peter by two more, plus one Pete, and now Martin by another. My name begins with a 'T'.
Another thing I'd ban would be autocorrect on phones trying to correct a word to be the same as the one before - so if you're writing something like "But that might be for something else", as I've just tried to do, it'll correct it to "But but..." if you spell the second word wrong.
-Peter
-Peter
ABB125
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I'm sure this has already been mentioned, but people "reaching out" should be banned.
py_megapixel
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Any passage of text which pointlessly puts words in bold when there is no need to emphasise them, or when the emphasis is obvious from the context, deserves to be wiped off the face of the earth.
ABB125
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I really don't understand what your problem is with this; any normal person would consider this to be completely acceptable.
For clarity, I agree. The above sentence, if emphasis is needed, should read something like this:
I really don't understand what your problem is with this; any normal person would consider this to be completely acceptable.
You should be pleased that the emphasis has been placed accurately
ABB125
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You should be pleased that the emphasis has been placed accurately
ABB125
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That looks somewhat pointless.
Speaking of cars, I'd like to ban the Nissan Puke. At some point last month, I was driving on a motorway (can't remember which, sorry!) and, during a habitual glance in the mirror, saw an odious blot of ugliness approaching. Must be a Nissan Puke, I thought to myself. Sure enough, it was! I think there's a new model out, of which this was one. Just look at it!
That looks somewhat pointless.
Speaking of cars, I'd like to ban the Nissan Puke. At some point last month, I was driving on a motorway (can't remember which, sorry!) and, during a habitual glance in the mirror, saw an odious blot of ugliness approaching. Must be a Nissan Puke, I thought to myself. Sure enough, it was! I think there's a new model out, of which this was one. Just look at it!
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Other than Morse's jag and Bergerac's car (whatever it was) they all look the same to me !
Also laughably impractical for what is supposed to be an SUV/MPV, the previous generation had such small doors that getting a child in/out of a car seat must be a pain in the backside, it certinaly was for us normal sized humans. You get more room inside in the Micra (of which my sister has a facelifted K13 ('14 plate)) which shares the same platform.That looks somewhat pointless.
Speaking of cars, I'd like to ban the Nissan Puke. At some point last month, I was driving on a motorway (can't remember which, sorry!) and, during a habitual glance in the mirror, saw an odious blot of ugliness approaching. Must be a Nissan Puke, I thought to myself. Sure enough, it was! I think there's a new model out, of which this was one. Just look at it!
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My step-mum had a bright yellow one, horrendously ugly and for extra crapness was fitted with the horrid CVT gearbox (she has to have an automatic due to leg issues).
Personally with the Renault connection to Nissan becoming more and more obvious I don't get why people buy Nissans anymore, their electrics are certinaly more French than Japanese now!
