The Cringe/Hate Thread

[Mellsblue]

Real niche one here - the Prostate Cancer UK advert that's showing on the rugby all the time. It uses the "What a piece of work is man" speech from Hamlet, but attempts to protray it through judicious cuts as an uplifting speech about the greatness of men, which it is categorically not. For a start, Hamlet is specifically talking about humans when he says man, not the male gender, and secondly he's saying that we have all this potential and are actually pretty shit.

Only quote Shakespeare if you understand it!

Puja

They’re trying to raise money for a cancer charity not gain a first from UCL in English Lit.

They're trying to raise money
Puja

The only important point of your post.

[Digby]

Real niche one here - the Prostate Cancer UK advert that's showing on the rugby all the time. It uses the "What a piece of work is man" speech from Hamlet, but attempts to protray it through judicious cuts as an uplifting speech about the greatness of men, which it is categorically not. For a start, Hamlet is specifically talking about humans when he says man, not the male gender, and secondly he's saying that we have all this potential and are actually pretty shit.

Only quote Shakespeare if you understand it!

Puja

They’re trying to raise money for a cancer charity not gain a first from UCL in English Lit.

They're trying to raise money by using a famous speech that means the opposite of the point they're trying to make.

Puja

Let's kill all the lawyers

[Puja]

They’re trying to raise money for a cancer charity not gain a first from UCL in English Lit.

They're trying to raise money
Puja

The only important point of your post.

They're trying to raise money badly. The point of the advertisement is to raise money and it's a crap advertisement in one very important respect.

I'm not against the charity raising money - I'm in favour of them doing it well.

They’re trying to raise money for a cancer charity not gain a first from UCL in English Lit.

They're trying to raise money by using a famous speech that means the opposite of the point they're trying to make.

Puja

Let's kill all the lawyers

{Golfclap}

Puja

[Mikey Brown]

Jesus fucking christ. What is wrong with people?

[Puja]

Jesus fucking christ. What is wrong with people?

I'm sorry, but that tickled me.

Puja

[Mikey Brown]

It's only the latest in a long trend over the last few years (probably mentioned it already in this thread) but there is a particularly horrific cover of The Chain on an advert in the ITV rugby coverage. That soppy, over-wrought, faux-angsty, acoustic cover style grates with me to my very core.

I guess it must resonate with some people because they recognise the words and the emotion of it doesn't require much deciphering, perhaps Govey/Puja for instance, but I cannot wait for this trend to stop. This is why I resent watching normal TV so much when the sport is on.

[Mikey Brown]

People saying "no pun intended" when somebody else makes a pun (intentionally or not) as if it's a punch line. Just fuck off. It's as if these people don't even understand what those words mean.

[Mikey Brown]

Also when people say 'addicting' in place of 'addictive'. Am I wrong or does this not make any sense?

[Galfon]

Also when people say 'addicting' in place of 'addictive'. Am I wrong or does this not make any sense?

correct - 'addictive' is an adjective so describes the substance/activity, 'addicting' is a verb so describes the actvity wot's making you addicted...e.g. taking regular espresso shots or......

[Galfon]

'The Club's DNA' - gets banded about pretty liberally.(even the FA has a project of this name)
...is eugenics creeping back in .?

[Buggaluggs]

'The Club's DNA' - gets banded about pretty liberally.(even the FA has a project of this name)
...is eugenics creeping back in .?

"As I wrote during the Rugby World Cup, the man is utterly relentless. He never stops, first or last minute. He’s the man offering to carry, looking to make the hit, the catch, the tackle. The standards he’s set for this Welsh team is at the core of their DNA and it’s fitting that, if all pans out, he will challenge Richie McCaw as the most capped player in the history of the game."

[morepork]

It sounds like a description of a carcinogenic mutagen.

[Mikey Brown]

The "people's party". I mean the "people's" anything is pretty annoying, but it seems particularly redundant when any majority government that's ever existed could reasonably claim to be "the people's party" at that time. Surely all that does is explain that more people voted for the thing that won?

[Banquo]

The "people's party". I mean the "people's" anything is pretty annoying, but it seems particularly redundant when any majority government that's ever existed could reasonably claim to be "the people's party" at that time. Surely all that does is explain that more people voted for the thing that won?

isn't it the peoples government? But yes,

[francoisfou]

I've not looked back at past posts, but I cannot stand to hear the word, "gutted"!

There's a BBC headline today, "Gutted Murray to miss Australian Open".

The journalist who wrote that deserves to be disembowelled.

[Mellsblue]

I've not looked back at past posts, but I cannot stand to hear the word, "gutted"!

There's a BBC headline today, "Gutted Murray to miss Australian Open".

The journalist who wrote that deserves to be disembowelled.

This has to be the best pun ever on this site.

[francoisfou]

This gets my goat, big time!!
2020, the beginning of a new decade is what we're reading everywhere!
When I went to school (ok, several decades ago!), a decade is a period of ten years from 1 -10, so a decade ends in 1990,2000, 2010, 2020, and a new one in 1991, 2001, 2011, 2021 etc.
Is it me?
If any of you feckers answer in the affirmative, I'll strike you off my Christmas card list!

[Puja]

This gets my goat, big time!!
2020, the beginning of a new decade is what we're reading everywhere!
When I went to school (ok, several decades ago!), a decade is a period of ten years from 1 -10, so a decade ends in 1990,2000, 2010, 2020, and a new one in 1991, 2001, 2011, 2021 etc.
Is it me?
If any of you feckers answer in the affirmative, I'll strike you off my Christmas card list!

https://xkcd.com/2249/

I tend to come down on the side that clarity is more important than being technically correct and to disbar 2020 from "the Twenties" but include 2030 is being difficult for no real benefit.

Puja

[Banquo]

This gets my goat, big time!!
2020, the beginning of a new decade is what we're reading everywhere!
When I went to school (ok, several decades ago!), a decade is a period of ten years from 1 -10, so a decade ends in 1990,2000, 2010, 2020, and a new one in 1991, 2001, 2011, 2021 etc.
Is it me?
If any of you feckers answer in the affirmative, I'll strike you off my Christmas card list!

https://xkcd.com/2249/

I tend to come down on the side that clarity is more important than being technically correct and to disbar 2020 from "the Twenties" but include 2030 is being difficult for no real benefit.

Puja

So if you are clearly wrong, that's better than being right, right?

[francoisfou]

This gets my goat, big time!!
2020, the beginning of a new decade is what we're reading everywhere!
When I went to school (ok, several decades ago!), a decade is a period of ten years from 1 -10, so a decade ends in 1990,2000, 2010, 2020, and a new one in 1991, 2001, 2011, 2021 etc.
Is it me?
If any of you feckers answer in the affirmative, I'll strike you off my Christmas card list!

https://xkcd.com/2249/

I tend to come down on the side that clarity is more important than being technically correct and to disbar 2020 from "the Twenties" but include 2030 is being difficult for no real benefit.

Puja

Good cartoon! Just had a similar “discussion” with the missus, but then again, she’s French...!

[Puja]

This gets my goat, big time!!
2020, the beginning of a new decade is what we're reading everywhere!
When I went to school (ok, several decades ago!), a decade is a period of ten years from 1 -10, so a decade ends in 1990,2000, 2010, 2020, and a new one in 1991, 2001, 2011, 2021 etc.
Is it me?
If any of you feckers answer in the affirmative, I'll strike you off my Christmas card list!

https://xkcd.com/2249/

I tend to come down on the side that clarity is more important than being technically correct and to disbar 2020 from "the Twenties" but include 2030 is being difficult for no real benefit.

Puja

So if you are clearly wrong, that's better than being right, right?

More that, if something is ambiguous and could go either way, go for the clearest and easiest option, rather than the one which lets a few smug people go, "Well, actually..."

Puja

[Banquo]

https://xkcd.com/2249/

I tend to come down on the side that clarity is more important than being technically correct and to disbar 2020 from "the Twenties" but include 2030 is being difficult for no real benefit.

Puja

So if you are clearly wrong, that's better than being right, right?

More that, if something is ambiguous and could go either way, go for the clearest and easiest option, rather than the one which lets a few smug people go, "Well, actually..."

Puja

bloody experts eh ..... HNY

[francoisfou]

So if you are clearly wrong, that's better than being right, right?

More that, if something is ambiguous and could go either way, go for the clearest and easiest option, rather than the one which lets a few smug people go, "Well, actually..."

Puja

bloody experts eh ..... HNY

Talking of bloody experts... What’s the title of this thread?

[Galfon]

Those new style sphincter-like bog paper dispensers.
When the paper jams ( frequently it seems ), there is no wriggle room to work the next piece out with a pen or finger, and the unit is usually locked. Being dome shaped, they can't even leave an emergency pile or bundle resting on top as back-up.
Somebody will have a design award for this I am sure.
The options available for the more dramatic events sre all pretty unsavoury.

[Banquo]

Any first world issue being described as a crisis, disaster, absolute chaos etc. Hyperbole makes me literally explode