little things that annoy the shit out of you

[Le Duan]

Just now, Bjornebye said:

 

At least you know why you're walking funny 

Fucking annoying when at the end of a long message I’ve just sent, I spot that I’ve said that I’m ‘…in the bus….’ And not ‘…on the bus….’ And I always have to edit and correct it. Gets in my fucking nerves.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Pointless. 
 

The final round. Particularly when they say that “there were loads of pointless answers, well done at home if you got one” but then proceed to only show you 4 or 5 of the pointless answers and then tell you that everything else was pointless apart from (then tell you the scoring answers)

 

How the fuck are you able to categorically know whether you got an answer that was both correct AND pointless, the required things to win the end game, if they don’t show you all of the pointless answers? Your answer mightn’t be in the scoring ones they tell you about, but it could be a wrong answer and not “pointless” as per the rules of the game. 
 

It really annoys me! Are you just meant to guess if your answer is one of the pointless ones for that category? It seems so! 
 

They need to adopt a system like Who Dares Wins, the old quiz show that Nick Knowles presented and which incorporated the lottery draw into the show. 
 

They’d ask questions which had lots of answers (for example: How many players can you name who’ve got over 50 England caps?) and once the round was over they’d show all the correct answers on the screen (as below.) They were only on for a bit, but Sky+ allowed you to pause and see if your answer was on the list. 
 

Fucking sort it out Pointless. A serious oversight in an otherwise enjoyable show. 

[Rushies tash]

19 minutes ago, Nelly-Szoboszlai said:

Pointless. 
 

The final round. Particularly when they say that “there were loads of pointless answers, well done at home if you got one” but then proceed to only show you 4 or 5 of the pointless answers and then tell you that everything else was pointless apart from (then tell you the scoring answers)

 

How the fuck are you able to categorically know whether you got an answer that was both correct AND pointless, the required things to win the end game, if they don’t show you all of the pointless answers? Your answer mightn’t be in the scoring ones they tell you about, but it could be a wrong answer and not “pointless” as per the rules of the game. 
 

It really annoys me! Are you just meant to guess if your answer is one of the pointless ones for that category? It seems so! 
 

They need to adopt a system like Who Dares Wins, the old quiz show that Nick Knowles presented and which incorporated the lottery draw into the show. 
 

They’d ask questions which had lots of answers (for example: How many players can you name who’ve got over 50 England caps?) and once the round was over they’d show all the correct answers on the screen (as below.) They were only on for a bit, but Sky+ allowed you to pause and see if your answer was on the list. 
 

Fucking sort it out Pointless. A serious oversight in an otherwise enjoyable show. 

 

Agreed, but I find the fact that their jackpot is little more than a half eaten Freddo and some change they found down the sofa way more annoying.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

1 minute ago, Rushies tash said:

 

Agreed, but I find the fact that their jackpot is little more than a half eaten Freddo and some change they found down the sofa way more annoying.

It's up to around £8k, I think. 
 

Meaning that nobody has won it for about 12 years, for it to get that high.

[sir roger]

Alexander Armstrong's hair stylist doesn't come cheap.

 

Agree though that it is ridiculous that a nothing show like Lingo pays out far more than BBC's flagship teatime show.

[Captain Turdseye]

The first four and a half minutes of ‘Breaking Into Heaven’ by The Stone Roses. What’s the fucking point?

 

The other six or seven minutes make for an all time great song. They’ve removed the shorter version of it from Spotify. Bastards. 

[Mudface]

On 30/01/2024 at 19:12, Nelly-Szoboszlai said:

They’d ask questions which had lots of answers (for example: How many players can you name who’ve got over 50 England caps?) and once the round was over they’d show all the correct answers on the screen (as below.) They were only on for a bit, but Sky+ allowed you to pause and see if your answer was on the list. 

 

Fucking sort it out Pointless. A serious oversight in an otherwise enjoyable show. 

 

I don't think any of those countries got over 50 England caps.

[VladimirIlyich]

10 hours ago, Captain Turdseye said:

The first four and a half minutes of ‘Breaking Into Heaven’ by The Stone Roses. What’s the fucking point?

 

The other six or seven minutes make for an all time great song. They’ve removed the shorter version of it from Spotify. Bastards. 

Most songs are shit if over 4 or 5 minutes anyway. If you like it that much you can always put it on repeat. It's what we did with our old 45rpm singles. We just played them over and over or on the LPs you'd just pick up the needle/stylus and carefully place it in the groove again. Old School rules.

[Creator Supreme]

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Most songs are shit if over 4 or 5 minutes anyway. If you like it that much you can always put it on repeat. It's what we did with our old 45rpm singles. We just played them over and over or on the LPs you'd just pick up the needle/stylus and carefully place it in the groove again. Old School rules.

Prog Rock says fuck you.

 

 

 

It just takes 23 and a half minutes to say it.

[VladimirIlyich]

10 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

Prog Rock says fuck you.

 

 

 

It just takes 23 and a half minutes to say it.

Haha.

[Harry's Lad]

26 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

Prog Rock says fuck you.

 

 

 

It just takes 23 and a half minutes to say it.

Quicker than opera which takes about 6 fucking hours.

[Mook]

Writing off pieces of music because of their length (short or long) is ludicrous.

 

Fine if you have attention deficit disorder or something but a grown up should be able to cope with a 20 minute piece of music no problem, if it is good (and a lot of them are).

[Captain Turdseye]

7 minutes ago, Mook said:

Writing off pieces of music because of their length (short or long) is ludicrous.

 

Fine if you have attention deficit disorder or something but a grown up should be able to cope with a 20 minute piece of music no problem, if it is good (and a lot of them are).

 

Aye, but you know the song I’m on about. 
 

The first four and a half minutes isn’t music. It’s just noise. 

[Mudface]

9 minutes ago, Mook said:

Writing off pieces of music because of their length (short or long) is ludicrous.

 

Fine if you have attention deficit disorder or something but a grown up should be able to cope with a 20 minute piece of music no problem, if it is good (and a lot of them are).

 

Quite. Some of the best songs ever written, like Free Bird, American Pie and Bat Out of Hell just wouldn't be as great as they are in truncated versions.

[Mook]

8 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

 

Aye, but you know the song I’m on about. 
 

The first four and a half minutes isn’t music. It’s just noise. 

 

I like it, I like a lot of sort of monotonous groove stuff where you need to get into the right headspace to appreciate it.

 

Not everything has to be three minutes long with guitar hooks and catchy melodies.

[Mook]

7 minutes ago, Mudface said:

 

Quite. Some of the best songs ever written, like Free Bird, American Pie and Bat Out of Hell just wouldn't be as great as they are in truncated versions.

 

You should be truncated ya bastard.

[manwiththestick]

1 hour ago, Mudface said:

 

Quite. Some of the best songs ever written, like Free Bird, American Pie and Bat Out of Hell just wouldn't be as great as they are in truncated versions.

Not to mention Swifty's  All Too Well which is 10 minutes long.

[Captain Turdseye]

1 hour ago, Mook said:

I like it, I like a lot of sort of monotonous groove stuff where you need to get into the right headspace to appreciate it.

I’ve had to resort to negging that because you know that I know you’re wrong. 

[Mudface]

9 minutes ago, manwiththestick said:

Not to mention Swifty's  All Too Well which is 10 minutes long.

 

I think @Mook would probably think more of that song than the others I mentioned...

[Mook]

13 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

I’ve had to resort to negging that because you know that I know you’re wrong. 

 

Philistine.

[Bob]

@Mooks new favourite song.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68209691

 

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, Bob said:

@Mooks new favourite song.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68209691

 

 

Preferred him in Mortal Kombat 

[VladimirIlyich]

22 hours ago, Mook said:

Writing off pieces of music because of their length (short or long) is ludicrous.

 

Fine if you have attention deficit disorder or something but a grown up should be able to cope with a 20 minute piece of music no problem, if it is good (and a lot of them are).

The kind of music I listen to is often accompanied by a 7 minute guitar solo,which I hate despite playing a bit of guitar, and that is just plain boring. Classical music is great but our ears have now been trained to treat it as background music and I'd be ignoring it and doing other daily stuff at the same time. 

Good for you if you can do that but I just cannot without variety.

[Mook]

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

The kind of music I listen to is often accompanied by a 7 minute guitar solo,which I hate despite playing a bit of guitar, and that is just plain boring. Classical music is great but our ears have now been trained to treat it as background music and I'd be ignoring it and doing other daily stuff at the same time. 

Good for you if you can do that but I just cannot without variety.

 

Good music is never plain boring, long or short.

 

It's quite possible you are listening to the wrong guitarists.

[Captain Turdseye]

23 minutes ago, Mook said:

Good music is never plain boring, long or short

The first four and a half minutes of Breaking Into Heaven is boring and definitely goes on for too long though. Just admit it, you bastard. 
 

It’s impossible for me to listen to it when I’m driving. I can’t get my phone out and skip past the shite, therefore I have to skip the whole song. I’m missing out. 
 

My main gripe is with the shorter version being removed from Spotify. It was on there previously on the ‘Very Best Of’ compilation but that’s been fucked off and I’m annoyed.