Author Topic: The moaning old git thread (Read 534400 times)

Fat Rat · « **Reply #2260 on:** January 24, 2019, 14:12:06 »

I rarely watch anything that isn't streamed (Netflix etc.) or if I have to watch something from a broadcast channel, I record it and fast forward through the ads.

MartinW · « **Reply #2261 on:** January 24, 2019, 14:18:15 »

Me too - always Fast Forward the Adverts.

I don't need any shampoo anyway.

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #2262 on:** January 24, 2019, 17:32:26 »

Apparently the very first tivo boxes in the USA had the facility to stop recording at a commercial break and start when the show started again. This was ditched, presumably after considerable pressure from the ad lobby.

Fat Rat · « **Reply #2263 on:** January 24, 2019, 17:45:22 »

A few years ago I was approached by a company who were developing software to make ads embedded so that they couldn't be paused.

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #2264 on:** January 24, 2019, 18:22:12 »

trebornoxid · « **Reply #2265 on:** January 24, 2019, 22:19:29 »

Reading, I’ve been reading about giving up drinking. But have decided to give up reading!

tallpaul · « **Reply #2266 on:** January 25, 2019, 06:55:05 »

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading - Henry Youngman.

Fat Rat · « **Reply #2267 on:** January 31, 2019, 15:12:51 »

I may have covered this before in one of my well thought out, reasonable rants

What the feck does 'regular' mean as a unit of measurement? I accept that small, medium and large are also subjective, but when there are three size options available they are pretty self explanatory.

In fact, the scenario that generated this rant was even worse. A cup of Coffee, Regular or Large

Regular?

MartinW · « **Reply #2268 on:** January 31, 2019, 15:41:13 »

"Regular" is what you order when you are buying a round and "Large" is what you ask for when someone else is buying a round.

Barbel Mick · « **Reply #2269 on:** January 31, 2019, 15:51:11 »

Maybe you should ask for an 'irregular' coffee?

tallpaul · « **Reply #2270 on:** January 31, 2019, 15:56:19 »

Isn't that tea?

mr_diver · « **Reply #2271 on:** January 31, 2019, 16:57:54 »

I tend to find things sold as either Small, Medium, Large or Regular and Large.
You don't tend to find Small, Regular and Large.

S, M, L are self explanatory (within reason)
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Regular is a small and Large is larger than a Regular but smaller than a Large sold in places that do a S,M, L.

Think chip shop- buy a 'Regular' and it should be part of a kid's meal and Large is a Medium everywhere else.
Stingy bastards!

hotbulb · « **Reply #2272 on:** January 31, 2019, 17:03:11 »

I'm surprised "Regular" got through the Yankism filter! .... isn't it 'murican for a normal-sized fancy coffee?

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Or possibly something to do with the workings of the digestive system (and All-bran)?

Fat Rat · « **Reply #2273 on:** January 31, 2019, 17:05:25 »

If I filtered that word, I wouldn't be able to report to all that lots of cabbage keeps me regular

MartinW · « **Reply #2274 on:** January 31, 2019, 17:06:52 »

..... "Lots of cabbage keeps me small" .....

wurzel · « **Reply #2275 on:** January 31, 2019, 19:40:14 »

Mines a regular cabbage latte please...

Joe Rocket · « **Reply #2276 on:** January 31, 2019, 20:01:41 »

It's 'goofy' or 'regular' when surfing..........

Joe Rocket · « **Reply #2277 on:** February 24, 2019, 09:31:52 »

The new way to boast about how warm it is (or how cold) is the use of a decimal point! Who is going to know the difference between 4.2° and 4.5°? They do it on the telly and radio forecasts. Also the use of colour. In Winter anything above 10° is shown to go yellow to orange to red at 20° but in the Summer it's 30° for red. And just for good measure stupid statements like "hottest February night in 5 years........" yes, 5 years and always another so called 'record' for just about every day of the year!

Short memories or what......

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #2278 on:** February 24, 2019, 10:13:24 »

Legitimised designer mongrels.
Labradoodles, puginese, shipoos, sprockers, etc., and the most annoying - the cockapoo. If you're spelling it like that, surely it's a cross between a cockatoo and whatever, not a cocker spaniel. Just get a proper bloody dog.

Brockett · « **Reply #2279 on:** February 24, 2019, 10:39:03 »

Surley, the term 'Regular' is a measure of time and not dimension. A clock is regular as is Haley's comet. The terms 'Regular' and 'Frequent' are often misused, although in this example my wife knows the difference.