As in Jethro Tull you mean?
Same with cheese graters, and to a lesser degree.. honey drizzlers.
Leaf blowers…most useless tool in the box IMO.
People that start with…So, and go on to pepper their conversation with like, and, y’know….Painful!
Oh nearly forgot.. Upward inflection at the end of every word. ![]()
People who say “can i get” instead of please may I have.
I heard someone pronounce Z as Zee the other day!
You’re British, not bloody American!!
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Gotten.
People (usually young women) who say….”I had my phone snatched again the other day…that’s the second (third) (fourth) time it’s happened” ![]()
TV channels that put a banner at the beginning of a seventies comedy warning of “language and attitudes of it’s time” Then bleep everything out including highly offensive words like Sod, and, Git. (Both perfectly legitimate words)
They bleep out Jap and leave in Brit.
I KNOW HOW TO CHANGE CHANNEL IF I FIND IT OFFENSIVE!
Bring back Alf Garnet!! ![]()
Careful, IanH said not to stray into politics.
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Oops! ![]()
Now, where was I?
Oh yes.
People who park to refuel at the 1st pump instead of the last at the front get their miserable £10.00 of Evil Oil then go shopping in the Tesco store and leave the car.
Anything Cliff Richard sings about Xmas.
Cliff Richard.
Asda Adverts like the current Grincher. I so want to boot his cashew nuts.
Having 16 crammed greedy jobbies round a 6 seater table for Xmas dinner. Are you mental.
Stupid Xmas hats.
Ferrero Rocher. Get lost. It’s rubbish.
Hotel Xmas dinners at £60.00 per skull. Usually steaks that are as tough as Morocco sandals or mummified turkey cut the day before.
Deliverd meals ( very rare here) that do not resemble anywhere near the web photos. Cheating B’s.
Every advert with a stupid stupid rhyming voiceover dialogue with a Ho Ho faked up Santa theme. I so want to boot their cashews
too.
That’ll do for now.
There’s more.
Corny, irritating phrases used often in every day life, even in papers and the news:
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‘School Run’. Where that came from I don’t know. Not sure what ‘run’ is involved in often seen curb parking on double yellow lines 4 feet from a school, on a mobile phone
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‘Housing Ladder’. Horrendous phrase
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‘Climate Change’
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Sill internet speak stuff like ‘viral’ and ‘trending’
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People enjoying themselves in general.
Don’t forget “ Beer garden”
Genius!!! ![]()
This forum when I get an error message saying ive replied to quickly! ![]()
People enjoying themselves?
Not on my watch.
Get back to work.
Buzz off…..![]()
Self defenced myself.
I broke but the brakes didn’t work!
Aluminum.
Color.
Labor.
“influencer”
“celebrity”
This seems to be turning into a Grumpy Old Personage* thread rather than Room 101.
(Yeah, that’s the other thing.)
