GinAndPlatonic Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 I'm intrigued... please elaborate. PS>>>>> During the 1982 Falklands war British pilots reported that penguins toppled over backward while gazing at the planes. British navy pilots were then banned from flying low over penguin colonies. It led to a UK government study of the penguin-toppling effect. For seventeen days two helicopters were flown from varying directions and heights over the penguins. The result? It’s official: penguins do not topple over while gazing at airplanes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 False buttocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormymonday_2011 Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Gardens in supposedly faithful period dramas stuffed full of things that clearly come from a later era such as Rhododendrons appearing in Tudor England or herbaceous borders mysteriously transported back from late Victorian Britain to the time of Jane Austen. What is the point of getting the costumes and the houses right in a production but then getting these things wrong. You may as well have Henry VIII driving around in a Ferrari or Mr Darcy taking calls on his mobile phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Basically people should have to go on a training course before being allowed on the Underground. Either that, or I need to calm down a bit! That there is no training course for people who want to dare to use the underground once every ten years or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormymonday_2011 Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 People who stand on the left on London Underground escalators, who then tut and grumble when you ask them to move - despite the hundreds of signs saying "Stand on the right". People who stand staring vacantly at Oyster Card machines, trying to figure out how they work, as a massive queue builds up behind them People who walk onto Underground platforms and then stop, looking around aimlessly, so no-one else can get on without shoving them out the way Basically people should have to go on a training course before being allowed on the Underground. Either that, or I need to calm down a bit! People in London who think the whole f*cking world use Oyster cards every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GinAndPlatonic Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Anyone who use oyster, nectar, and any sort of pathetic reward cards...oh and anyone who uses plastic instead of cash! Edit to add....Such trivial rewards are creating queues so long that life is coming to a halt...get a life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 People in London who think the whole f*cking world use Oyster cards every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobloblob Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 London. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Banner Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 People who stand on the left on London Underground escalators, who then tut and grumble when you ask them to move - despite the hundreds of signs saying "Stand on the right". People who stand staring vacantly at Oyster Card machines, trying to figure out how they work, as a massive queue builds up behind them People who walk onto Underground platforms and then stop, looking around aimlessly, so no-one else can get on without shoving them out the way Basically people should have to go on a training course before being allowed on the Underground. Either that, or I need to calm down a bit! Or even worse, people who stop dead after stepping off an escalator leaving you to do a little dance trying to manoeuvre around them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuggets Mahoney Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 All the elderly women in my family nailing up spikey Christmas decorations comfortably above their head height, but in the face of everyone over 5'6". I'm looking forward to Christmas, and also after Christmas when I can stop having to remember to lean backwards whenever I approach a door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hail the Tripod Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Anyone who use oyster, nectar, and any sort of pathetic reward cards...oh and anyone who uses plastic instead of cash! Edit to add....Such trivial rewards are creating queues so long that life is coming to a halt...get a life No cash option for busses in Central London, Oyster cards only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuggets Mahoney Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 London. Tourists 'cos everyone hates a tourist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 I don't mind the lights, but I don't like 3 metre high inflatable lit up reindeer. If someone produced a 3 metre high inflatable, and then lit it, I doubt I would want it up me either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Does Oyster track the holder's movements around London? I expect you will have to log on everytime you use a bus soon, using facebook to login to your Oyster account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecrashingisles Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 People who have the Samsung Galaxy whistle alert and then spend an entire train journey texting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuggets Mahoney Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Does Oyster track the holder's movements around London? I expect you will have to log on everytime you use a bus soon, using facebook to login to your Oyster account. Go on, have a guess... Met thumbed through Oyster card data up to 22,000 times in 4 years You can try and use an unregistered PAYG card but London Underground tries all sorts of little wheezes to get you to register it. The appetite to track is clearly manifest. And if you ever top up an unregistered card with a debit card rather than cash, it's nailed down good and proper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuggets Mahoney Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Whenever the subject of life's little annoyances comes up I like to reflect on the first century stoic philosophy of Epictetus... When you are about to undertake some action, remind yourself what sort of action it is. If you are going out for a bath, put before your mind what commonly happens at the baths: some people splashing you, some people jostling, others being abusive, and others stealing. So you will undertake this action more securely if you say to yourself, 'I want to have a bath and also to keep my choice in harmony with nature.' And do likewise in everything you undertake. So, if anything gets in your way when you are having your bath, you will be ready to say, 'I wanted not only to have a bath but also to keep my choice in harmony with nature; and I shall not keep it so if I get angry at what happens.' (Handbook 4, trans. Hard) Whether Epictetus' philosophy can withstand the challenge of a weekend Lidl shop, I'm not sure. I keep trying though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Bear Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Gardens in supposedly faithful period dramas stuffed full of things that clearly come from a later era such as Rhododendrons appearing in Tudor England or herbaceous borders mysteriously transported back from late Victorian Britain to the time of Jane Austen. What is the point of getting the costumes and the houses right in a production but then getting these things wrong. You may as well have Henry VIII driving around in a Ferrari or Mr Darcy taking calls on his mobile phone.People in dramas set decades ago saying things they just wouldn't have, e.g. someone upper-crusty saying, 'It looks LIKE she's not coming,' instead of AS IF. Drives me mad. Not to mention a minor aristo in some period drama saying, '...if she fell pregnant...' instead of '...if she were to have a child/baby...' Don't know whether the writers are just clueless (probably, a degree in English doesn't guarantee anything nowadays) or patronisingly think they have to dumb down in order for the poor little proles to understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormymonday_2011 Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 People in dramas set decades ago saying things they just wouldn't have, e.g. someone upper-crusty saying, 'It looks LIKE she's not coming,' instead of AS IF. Drives me mad. Not to mention a minor aristo in some period drama saying, '...if she fell pregnant...' instead of '...if she were to have a child/baby...' Don't know whether the writers are just clueless (probably, a degree in English doesn't guarantee anything nowadays) or patronisingly think they have to dumb down in order for the poor little proles to understand. Aaagh. You have touched on another of my pet hates. These modernisations are possibly excusable in Tudor period drama when people had vocabulary and manners of speech that modern people might not understand but this should not apply to productions supposedly set in the 20th century. There has been a real spate of these recently with all the dramas set around the Great War where many characters use words and terms that did not come into usage until the Second World War . It is as if the writers who grew up on films about the latter conflict could not be ars*d to research the former properly so just assumed that the words and phrases used in one could be applied to the other . Needless to say Downton Abbey is a top scorer in that area though to be fair it is just a high class period soap designed to be about as realistic as Harry Potter. http://sappingattention.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/making-downton-more-traditional.html My real bugbear is dramatisations of novels from the past where the original author has often given the character appropriate lines to speak but the screenplay writer can not resist the attempt to 'improve' them by adding jarring modern phrases. I assume they think we are all stupid and that any old crap will do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19 year mortgage 8itch Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Strangers on the Internet moaning about the most pathetic of supposed injustices in some sort of Diana-esque display of collective mourning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19 year mortgage 8itch Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 People who reply before reading all of the thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobloblob Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Q.E. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Aaagh. You have touched on another of my pet hates. These modernisations are possibly excusable in Tudor period drama when people had vocabulary and manners of speech that modern people might not understand but this should not apply to productions supposedly set in the 20th century. There has been a real spate of these recently with all the dramas set around the Great War where many characters use words and terms that did not come into usage until the Second World War . It is as if the writers who grew up on films about the latter conflict could not be ars*d to research the former properly so just assumed that the words and phrases used in one could be applied to the other . Needless to say Downton Abbey is a top scorer in that area though to be fair it is just a high class period soap designed to be about as realistic as Harry Potter. http://sappingattention.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/making-downton-more-traditional.html My real bugbear is dramatisations of novels from the past where the original author has often given the character appropriate lines to speak but the screenplay writer can not resist the attempt to 'improve' them by adding jarring modern phrases. I assume they think we are all stupid and that any old crap will do. A 1929 film version of The Taming of the Shrew (which has the writing credit: "By William Shakespeare, with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor"), opens one scene with: PETRUCHIO: "Howdy Kate." KATE: "Katherine to you, mug." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 People in dramas set decades ago saying things they just wouldn't have, e.g. someone upper-crusty saying, 'It looks LIKE she's not coming,' instead of AS IF. Drives me mad. Not to mention a minor aristo in some period drama saying, '...if she fell pregnant...' instead of '...if she were to have a child/baby...' Don't know whether the writers are just clueless (probably, a degree in English doesn't guarantee anything nowadays) or patronisingly think they have to dumb down in order for the poor little proles to understand. Oh, and another one: The guy in Back to the Future in the 1950s drives a DeLorean. They weren't made until the 1980's FFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 PS>>>>> During the 1982 Falklands war British pilots reported that penguins toppled over backward while gazing at the planes. British navy pilots were then banned from flying low over penguin colonies. It led to a UK government study of the penguin-toppling effect. For seventeen days two helicopters were flown from varying directions and heights over the penguins. The result? Its official: penguins do not topple over while gazing at airplanes. The Falklands are in the southern hemisphere as per my op Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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