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Post by Cartman on Mar 27, 2024 19:18:22 GMT
Newspaper websites are particularly prone to this, the Manchester evening news one is terrible, mind you, so is the paper itself now. In the 70s it was good, like a lot of other things!😀😀
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Post by Nightfly on Mar 29, 2024 15:23:13 GMT
On the subject of websites and pop ups, how about those clickbait articles about veteran celebs and how they have aged. The worst one I recently saw was "You won't believe how unrecognisable Dave Hill from Slade is these days' together with a photo of an old guy who quite clearly isn't Dave. When you cave in and click the article, you find that actually Dave Hill still looks pretty much like he did in the 70s, give or take a few extra lines on the forehead.
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Post by Cartman on Mar 29, 2024 15:47:07 GMT
The Daily Heil tends to specialise in this kind of stuff
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Post by Nightfly on Mar 29, 2024 19:29:52 GMT
The Daily Heil tends to specialise in this kind of stuff Absolutely. Don't get me started on the Daily Excess with their extreme weather predictions. First day of summer and it's "Health Alert - 90c plus heatwave to hit UK next week with health chaos for the elderly" or as soon as we get to December, "Arctic Conditions to sweep Britain next week with road, transport and health chaos".
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Post by Cartman on Mar 29, 2024 20:07:35 GMT
The Daily Express is a joke. A week's headlines can be something like this..
Monday. Broccoli can kill you Tuesday. Broccoli can save your life Wednesday. Brexit means broccoli for everyone Thursday. Migrants steal your broccoli Friday. Diana: my broccoli hell by Paul Burrell Saturday. Broccoli will boost house prices
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Post by Dirty Epic on Mar 30, 2024 8:16:47 GMT
The Daily Express is a joke. A week's headlines can be something like this.. Monday. Broccoli can kill you Tuesday. Broccoli can save your life Wednesday. Brexit means broccoli for everyone Thursday. Migrants steal your broccoli Friday. Diana: my broccoli hell by Paul Burrell Saturday. Broccoli will boost house prices 😀 You forgot their story on Cubby Broccoli Carty, joking aside those newspaper website headline story's are clickbait all the way most of the time.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Apr 5, 2024 11:21:28 GMT
Little things that annoy you...
People who, when ordering something, say "Can I get...?" instead "I'd like a...." or "A black coffee please"
Can I get? Can I get? Of course you can. It's on the menu
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Post by Sam Tyler on Apr 5, 2024 16:06:10 GMT
Little things that annoy you...
People who, when ordering something, say "Can I get...?" instead "I'd like a...." or "A black coffee please"
Can I get? Can I get? Of course you can. It's on the menu
That gets on my thruppenny bits too. I was in a pub with one of my mates and when it was his round he said to the barman "Can I get..." to which I replied "No, you can't get, you ask for it and they get it for you!". You can imagine his reply to me! Sam.
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Post by Del Boy on Apr 8, 2024 16:37:51 GMT
Tyre whinge incoming ! I pay for a maintenance contract for my car and that includes servicing and one set of replacement tyres over the three years. The gits won't change a tyre though until they are down to at least 2mm or you get surcharged. The annoying thing is as ever they wear at slightly different rates and this week i picked up a puncture most of the tyres are at 3mm so it was a case of pay for a repair or surcharge on 4 tyres I've already paid for in the contract. Bloody Sharks the lot of them They can poke their maintenance contract in the future rant over (sorry)
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Apr 12, 2024 6:36:17 GMT
A few conversational ticks that have developed recently...
"To be fair…."
"To be honest...."
Does it mean that everything else you say without the "To be honest..." prefix is a lie?
see also...
"I'm not going to lie..."
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