The Cringe/Hate Thread

[Numbers]

Feck me! Are we now offering a forum for Greggs aficionados?

Who's Gregg ??

He's a lad from Scotland that likes taking supplements and pumping brian, a Scottish version of Len if you like but with bigger hands.

[Mellsblue]

Grown men who cycle on the pavement.

[rowan]

Grown men who cycle on the pavement.

Grown men who have their umbrellas open when it's barely spitting enough to dampen your hair. & the ones who don't have umbrellas and hog the sheltered side of the pavement, specially if it's the left side of the pavement where they have no right to be!

[welshsaint]

Grown men who are afraid of spiders.....in England!

[rowan]

Grown men who are afraid of spiders.....in England!

Phew! Close call for me there. I'm not in England

[Galfon]

just a click away..
http://cdn1-www.mandatory.com/assets/ma ... 9620_2.gif

[rowan]

That better be a babe in a bikini . . .

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Bastard!

[Galfon]

how did you know she was in a bikini ?

[rowan]

Right now - people asking me about the cricket?

What scandal?

No, I don't care. Yawn!

No, I'm not gloating cos' I'm from NZ. I left NZ expressly to get away from that pastime.

Smith, Warner & Bancroff? Sounds like a Country & Western band from the 70s . . .

[Coco]

Smith, Warner & Bancroff? Sounds like a Country & Western band from the 70s . . .

Rowan, you did it. This is actually sort of funny. I knew you had it in you somewhere.

[rowan]

Notice how caveat vanished from the forum after I brought its pomposity to the attention of the bored.

So I've got another one - opprobrium. Seriously, does it get any more pretentious? It sounds like onomatopoeia for a particularly gaseous burp. What's wrong with criticism, abuse, shame or disgrace?

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Notice how caveat vanished from the forum after I brought its pomposity to the attention of the bored.

So I've got another one - opprobrium. Seriously, does it get any more pretentious? It sounds like onomatopoeia for a particularly gaseous burp. What's wrong with criticism, abuse, shame or disgrace?

Because you need a huge dictionary of words to keep up with the need when posting in any forum with you?

Perhaps we should eliminate these words that have enriched our language, rattle on straight past the retrogressive 1984 NewsSpeak stage and just go back to monosyllabic grunting? Come to think of it, that might make a few of your posts a little more readable.

[rowan]

Was it not requisite to accoutre a caveat with that promulgation, old boy?

[welshsaint]

Best not to post when crapulous then, as spelling goes down the pan.

[rowan]

spelling nazi

a person who freaks out when a little spelling mistake has occured or has be a constant little asshole about it.

person a: here's my thesis for the pythagoream theorem
persin b: OMG PYTHAGOREAM! JIHAD!

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define. ... ing%20nazi

[Which Tyler]

The very idea of switching from a meritocracy to an oligarchy. AKA ringfencing

[welshsaint]

Grown men pretending to love sport, but really don't have a clue. Appears regularly around Six Nations, World Cups (football or rugby), and The Ashes, are good examples.

[rowan]

Grown men playing social sport and arguing and bitching about it. I think there must be something psychological that links the activity directly back to their childhood, because it's invariably forgotten the moment they came off the pitch. Still it often sours the game and was the main reason I eventually retired from social team sports myself.

[welshsaint]

Grown men playing social sport and arguing and bitching about it. I think there must be something psychological that links the activity directly back to their childhood, because it's invariably forgotten the moment they came off the pitch. Still it often sours the game and was the main reason I eventually retired from social team sports myself.

You're not getting it. Time away from wife, kids and jobs, usually followed by a pint....or two.

[rowan]

Grown men playing social sport and arguing and bitching about it. I think there must be something psychological that links the activity directly back to their childhood, because it's invariably forgotten the moment they came off the pitch. Still it often sours the game and was the main reason I eventually retired from social team sports myself.

You're not getting it. Time away from wife, kids and jobs, usually followed by a pint....or two.

What I disliked was the self-appointed hierarchy; those who saw it as their natural place to give the orders but would be most outraged if expected to take them. The rest of it was just water off a duck's back, mostly.

I remember once there was a bit of snow coming down and one or two of the guys kept telling me to stay back on defense because I was a bit hopeless on attack and tended to just get in the way of my own team-mates and botch things up. Well, I nearly got hypothermia that day! So from that day on I resolved to get involved in attack regardless and actually scored in almost every game for the rest of the season

[rowan]

Buying technology these days. Never as simple as they say it will be and there's invariably at least one vital part they've forgotten to put in the box - as well as another that costs extra, and if you go back to the store for help after paying, forget it. Extortionists!

Imagine going to a furniture store and buying a table but when they deliver it there's a leg missing. 'Oh, that one costs extra,' they say

[Galfon]

Canned laughter, especially on unfunny sit-coms.

[Which Tyler]

Unfunny sitcoms - especially those which need to use canned laughter

[rowan]

& humorless ads that seek to grab your attention with loudly screaming idiots - accompanied by canned laughter

[rowan]

Buying technology these days. Never as simple as they say it will be and there's invariably at least one vital part they've forgotten to put in the box - as well as another that costs extra, and if you go back to the store for help after paying, forget it. Extortionists!

Imagine going to a furniture store and buying a table but when they deliver it there's a leg missing. 'Oh, that one costs extra,' they say

So 5 days after buying my brand new flat-screen TV it still doesn't work because a vital cable was not included and turns out to be out of stock.

That's why it was on sale - says the genius behind the counter.