It's the little things that irritate

[Wulf]

DVDs in box sets, where you have to take one out to get at the one underneath...... That really, really p*sses me off !

Ooh, you just reminded me, the latest release of the Round The Horne box set CDs is in the post to me as we speak... and, yes, they come packaged that way.

Nonetheless, I'm happier for that reminder :-)

[Leman]

Vikings series 4, great fun, BUT - the army of Wessex is still wearing C16th burgonets, the army of Mercia looks like it's just travelled back from 1250 and the poor old Vikings still haven't worked out that a helmet protects your head - so much so that the opening titles have been changed so that they no longer show a Viking helmet!

[Roy]

CDs that come in horrid hard cardboard sleeves, (so you can scratch them) rather than a plastic 'jewel case'.....That irritates me.
DVDs in box sets, where you have to take one out to get at the one underneath...... That really, really p*sses me off !

Yes. Both of those irritate me, also.

I had the "Danger UXB" dvd box set, where two discs were stacked a top each other and it was a git to get them out. I broke one dvd in half trying to release it. Snapped straight down the middle did the disc. In the end I had to buy another box set.

[Techno]

Yes. Both of those irritate me, also.
I broke one dvd in half trying to release it. Snapped straight down the middle did the disc. In the end I had to buy another box set.

Haven't done that YET, Roy.....But with a new box, that's the one thing that I think is an accident just waiting to happen.
Though.....Had to replace one six disc set, myself, as I scratched one of the DVDs so badly (getting it out of the box)  it 'sticks', and won't play properly anymore.

And you can't help getting greasy fingerprints all over the damn things, as you carefully try and get the discs out !......AAAAARGH !!! 

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

IV) People who keep requesting tanks on perfectly decent fora... 🐠 ;P

[O Dinas Powys]

I'm already heartily sickened by the word "brexit" - even John Humphries uses it

Also "Ts & Cs" in adverts on the radio! If you can't say "Terms and Conditions" I'm not buying... 

[Techno]

I'm already heartily sick of both the 'In or Out' discussions regarding the referendum......AND the build up to the USA's presidential elections.....And we've got MONTHS to go on both !! 
NO POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS ON EITHER OF THESE.......Please gang......

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

And now a commercial break ...

"Brexit, the refreshing new cereal bar that fits your busy life! It's satisfying and delicious, and you can always find room in your handbag or pocket for one! Try the original oats and raisin, or now there's new strawberry wheat! Brexit not only fills you up, it gently eases difficult passage for a clean comfortable feeling by lunchtime. "

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"Brexit. It's glue. For men. Use it."

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"June, you look so worried."
"I am Mary. The bills just seem to be pilling up, and with my irritable bowel syndrome and Terry being stuck to the desk, we just can't seem to make ends meet."
"Oh June! I was in that situation just a few months ago, but now I've cleared my debts and am stashing away a tidy sum every month!"
"Really Mary! How did you manage that?"
"With Brexit! It's a scheme whereby you just give up a few hours a night and the money just pours in!"
"Wow!"
"Wow indeed. I can introduce you to my agent, Lemar, and he can sort you out with your own work area, and even introduce you to some fun gentlemen!"
"Sounds great Mary. What was that scheme name?"
"Oh June, you really are a forgetful-Fiona! It's Brexit!"
"Brexit*! I'll be sure to remember that! Thanks Mary!"  



* Terms and conditions apply.

[Orcs]

Is Nobby Little ? 

[d_Guy]

And now a commercial break ...

The Madison Avenue copy would be:

A - "it's not breakfast, it's Brexit!"
B - "Broke It? Brexit!!"
C - "No time for Sexting - try Brexiting!"

Six words or less!! - lots of exclamation point!!!!

[fsn]

Snappy!

I'm afraid I drifted to those fuzzy 1970's TV adverts. When they took time to sell us things, not like now when it's Buy! Buy! Buy! and you don't know if it's a toothbrush or a pregnancy test (well, that's what Auntie said anyway, but she walked with a limp for a week) and then when you do have it they say they've improved it and it's better than before and how you should dispose of the one you've got in a responsible manner and buy the new improved one but there's always different types isn't there? There's the ordinary one, but then there's always a lemon one and one that will get rid of stubborn stains and the one you take before going to bed and next thing there will be the one that's only good between 4pm and quarter past on a Tuesday, but it's not going to get any better. Then them scientists get involved and prove that the new newer one is better than the old new one which we have to dispose of carefully and why can't they do something useful like work out the cure to the common cold instead of improving things without a by-your-leave. Put anyone in a white coat and they think they're queen of Brian May and can tell you what to do because you haven't got a white coat. Anyway, it's nearly 9:30, so I just have ten minutes to enjoy a cuppa before it goes not very good, or turns to marmalade or something. Not quite sure what. Wasn't very clear on the advert. You know the one. She's standing there, all legs and teeth in the rain, and he turns up in sports car and she gets in and they get wet cos neither the two of them have the sense to realise that only posing bastarts buy a convertable in Britain. No, I've got it wrong, that's not the tea advert, that the constipation, because she's got a bag full of food that she's been throwing in there all day. Must get one of those bags. holds ever so much and doesn't leak.

Not like Auntie. Not since the toothbrush.    

[d_Guy]

@fsn

Yeah - it's pretty much short-attention-span theater (we say thee-8-er btw).
Like the adverts on YouTube where you can opt-out in five seconds - but once in a great while they do one that hooks you in.

[fsn]

I have introduced the receptionists at my place of work to  "3 second theatre". Their desk is in front of the lift (elevator), so you basically look at them as the lift door closes. That gives them three seconds to entertain, educate or generally catch attention - usually by pretending to be on the phone. Some of my favourites are:

    * "I'm telling you, he's not your father ... I'm pretty sure."
    * "Cancer. Definitely cancer ... no ... early July is Cancer."
    * "What kind of bomb?"
    * "There's a problem with the lift ... uh-huh ... oh! That sounds serious."
    * "I hear and obey ... Master ... I will do your bidding ..."

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

 

[Techno]

You're an oik, Nobby ! 

A genius......But an oik ! 

Cheers - Phil