The Cringe/Hate Thread

[rowan]

Do I want a loser rugby team I don't care about presented to me like a handpicked selection of my favorite assorted chocolates? I don't think so

Your (insert name of loser team you don't care about) Mitre 10 team for the national provincial championships indeed . . .

[Which Tyler]

In-laws

It's been 21 days, including treating family members (@Morepork will appreciate this, assessing FIL's cauda equina syndrome..., using his daughter as translator... fun for all the family)

Only 9 to go...
I want my bed back... And to watch shit on the telly... Where they speak English

[morepork]

Jesus mate. I'd burn the mattress when they leave.

My MIL is an immortal witch from Sardinia. When I attempt to converse, she just stares at me with dead eyes like an emaciated shark wot has shit itself.

[Sandydragon]

In-laws

It's been 21 days, including treating family members (@Morepork will appreciate this, assessing FIL's cauda equina syndrome..., using his daughter as translator... fun for all the family)

Only 9 to go...
I want my bed back... And to watch shit on the telly... Where they speak English

Good God, thats a long stint. I wish you luck and sanity.

[Sandydragon]

Jesus mate. I'd burn the mattress when they leave.

My MIL is an immortal witch from Sardinia. When I attempt to converse, she just stares at me with dead eyes like an emaciated shark wot has shit itself.

Most MILs do that.

[Galfon]

Regulars sitting along an entire bar in a quiet pub sipping drinks nattering away, when there's a posse of customers trying to get some sort of service from the bar.Maybe it's a new game - not good for business though.

[rowan]

Regulars sitting along an entire bar in a quiet pub sipping drinks nattering away, when there's a posse of customers trying to get some sort of service from the bar.Maybe it's a new game - not good for business though.

New game? Don't think so. Been that way since Adam was a minor. & those regulars sitting along the entire bar sipping their drinks and nattering away are the ones you need to look after, coz that's regular business, not that unruly mob in behind, just making another stop on yet another a pub crawl . . .

[Galfon]

Yes and No..
It's a new game in the hostelry referred to - visited seasonally for decades.
The local businesses rely on seasonal trade - visitors from the other side of the world included - happy to pay silly money for the pleasure, and to put something in the pot - just won't come back tomorrow/ next week/next year...go next door. ( & drop a petty bomb on intaeweb if so inclined).
For the rest of the year, fair do's.

[rowan]

The fact I now have 10 news channels on my new flatscreen TV, and about half the time each and every single one of them is showing exactly the same thing - live speeches from our glorious leader (or occasionally one of his cronies). The other 20 or 30 channels are mostly showing D grade American TV shows, either with dubbing or subtitles, while the so-called History channel is doing a series on home-made weapons pageants with the contestants all looking like they just got back from a bikers' convention - or a KKK rally

[Galfon]

Surely there are international news channels available to you - for an alternative spin on things ?

[rowan]

Nope, I'm on the minimum budget option

[Mikey Brown]

People sincerely referring to a Spike Lee film as a Spike Lee joint.

[Numbers]

The fact I now have 10 news channels on my new flatscreen TV, and about half the time each and every single one of them is showing exactly the same thing - live speeches from our glorious leader (or occasionally one of his cronies). The other 20 or 30 channels are mostly showing D grade American TV shows, either with dubbing or subtitles, while the so-called History channel is doing a series on home-made weapons pageants with the contestants all looking like they just got back from a bikers' convention - or a KKK rally

Use Tunnelbear to set up a VPN in the UK then you can watch iPlayer and the other associated catchup TV for the other channels.

[rowan]

Tunnel Bear nearly wrecked my old computer.

[Buggaluggs]

Tunnel Bear nearly wrecked my old computer.

did it infect it with honest, impartial news?

[rowan]

No, nothing that would try to convince me to support NATO's genocidal wars or anything like that. Just kept inhabiting my computer, like some weird ghost that kept coming back, no matter how hard I tried to get rid of it. Very scary

[SerjeantWildgoose]

I think you're on to something there.

It is annoying when you turn to your computer for a friendly and informed debate but some ghostly cunt ruins it by hanging around like a dismal smell, continually regurgitating a deluge of barely intelligible and propagandist conspiracy-babble on the mistaken assumption that others might be convinced or even give half a shit about their pet peeves and opinions.

Yes, indeed. Nail; head Rowan.

[rowan]

Yes, and once again you've just amply demonstrated that for us

[Galfon]

Pay and Display Car Parks with machines not taking those quick and easy payments so you can display...
but hang on, just phone Ringo-bingo or download an App and fiddle about on your phone for a while, or enforcement is our game.

[rowan]

Every time I google something these days it brings up some B grade Hollywood movie Just googled Constantine and got a picture of Keanu Reeves

[Galfon]

Teeth

[rowan]

People who are so dumb they think Autumn begins on September 1. And they don't believe you when you politely explain that it actually begins at the equinox in late September because the seasons are determined by the sun and not the Roman calendar - which was squeezed out of shape to appease the egos of a couple of emperors. But they're not having any of it. September 1 will always be the start of Autumn to them, because that's what they have always believed and they're incapable of mental adjustment. These same flat-earth cretins are also wont to claim that summer begins on December 1 (and that Christmas really is all about baby Jesus), March 1 is the beginning of Spring (Easter also about Jesus) and Summer begins on the first of June. Of course, the Americans are even dumber than that. They don't even know what Autumn means...

[rowan]

Beware, they lurk everywhere!

[Galfon]

Not enough, or too much seasoning.

[belgarion]

People who are so dumb they think Autumn begins on September 1. And they don't believe you when you politely explain that it actually begins at the equinox in late September because the seasons are determined by the sun and not the Roman calendar - which was squeezed out of shape to appease the egos of a couple of emperors. But they're not having any of it. September 1 will always be the start of Autumn to them, because that's what they have always believed and they're incapable of mental adjustment. These same flat-earth cretins are also wont to claim that summer begins on December 1 (and that Christmas really is all about baby Jesus), March 1 is the beginning of Spring (Easter also about Jesus) and Summer begins on the first of June. Of course, the Americans are even dumber than that. They don't even know what Autumn means...

Meteorologically(SP?), 1st of September IS the start of Autumn