Nev Posted September 26, 2009 Report Share Posted September 26, 2009 Football matches lasting more than 75 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted September 26, 2009 Report Share Posted September 26, 2009 Wirelessly posted (SonyEricssonK770i/R8BC Browser/NetFront/3.3 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1)Aberdeen's poorly stocked supermarkets. I had to drive round 3 different supermarkets tonight just to get the ingredients for a fucking blueberry cheesecake! Both Asda and Sainsbury's were sold out of spring-bottomed cake tins and vanilla extract. On the plus side, i now have a yummy looking blueberry cheesecake in the oven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatboy Posted September 26, 2009 Report Share Posted September 26, 2009 - Modern Imageseriously is there any need for these people taking photos of people then posting it on the net? pfft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Gold Posted September 26, 2009 Report Share Posted September 26, 2009 They get money for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Gold Posted September 26, 2009 Report Share Posted September 26, 2009 Puerile, even by your spectacular standards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xDamerx Posted September 27, 2009 Report Share Posted September 27, 2009 Love to see people picking up on the intentionally bad humour, your probably going to realise this post is sarcastic too.I'm gonna beat you up tonight!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted September 28, 2009 Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 I'm really disliking these CD covers that are becoming more common - the ones that are cardboard gatefold in style but the opening to put the CD(s) in is on the inside, the opening is usually so tight that the cover ends up tearing when attempting to remove the CD's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted September 28, 2009 Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 Those "Digipak" things in general are quite awful most of the time. Especially when they think that printing some pretty pictures on the inside means they don't have to put a booklet inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 I hate how whenever something controversial happens, the media automatically starts referring to it as "-gate". It's the most annoyingly overused suffix ever, especially in sport. In Formula 1 in the past few seasons we've had "liegate", "chicanegate", "indygate", "Buttongate", "spygate", and now "crashgate". And of course "bloodgate" in rugby.Just get an imagination inserted of churning the same old stuff, OK? It's seriously starting to piss me off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 The adding of the suffix -gate to every single scandal type story since the origianl watergate scandal. It's just lazyness of the highest order. Kakuta-gate is just taking the piss - Early Doors - Your morning briefing blog - Yahoo! Eurosport UKI hate it when people moan about "gate" being added to the end of a word, especially when it happens twice in the same month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 It's so annoying it deserves to be mentioned twice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorge Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 No idea if this has been mentioned, but people using the word 'show' instead of 'gig'. Another cheap Americanisation that boils my piss, quite frankly..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nev Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 But are you going to the TTNG show on Friday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 Gig is such a shite word though. It's so awkward to say, and it sounds like you've got your mouth full of phlegm. Show rolls out of the mouth with ease and aplomb. A super word. And they both mean the same thing. No harm done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorge Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 Show rolls out of the mouth with ease and aplomb. A super word. And they both mean the same thing. No harm done.No they don't. Unless you're going to see Erasure, or suchlike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 No they don't. Unless you're going to see Erasure, or suchlike.Show Definition | Definition of Show at Dictionary.comshow??/?o?/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [shoh] Show IPA verb, showed, shown or showed, show?ing, nounUse show in a SentenceSee web results for showSee images of showverb (used with object)1. to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.2. to present or perform as a public entertainment or spectacle: to show a movie. Pretty self explanatory if you ask me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorge Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 Pretty self explanatory if you ask me.Not really.Going to see a major touring band with 700 dancers all wearing yellow jumpsuits, pink umbrellas and inflatable phalluses etc is a show, four bands playing for 35 minutes a throw in a local venue is a fucking gig. Using the word 'show' to try and describe a local gig is just to try and make it sounds more glamourous and important than it actually is, the old 'polishing a turd' analogy springs to mind.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 I am quite comfortable to use the word 'gig' when discussing with other music lovers but when I say it to people I know probably don't really like music much I feel like Alan Partridge for some reason and tend to recourse to 'concert'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 I feel the word show should be used for a visual event, such as a play or a musical. When bands play, it's a gig or a concert (depending on the size of the venue). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 Not really.Going to see a major touring band with 700 dancers all wearing yellow jumpsuits, pink umbrellas and inflatable phalluses etc is a show, four bands playing for 35 minutes a throw in a local venue is a fucking gig. Using the word 'show' to try and describe a local gig is just to try and make it sounds more glamourous and important than it actually is, the old 'polishing a turd' analogy springs to mind....So when you're playing for a bunch of face-chewing "locals" you're not performing? Don't be silly.I've seen you drumming and your gurning and profuse sweating is certainly a "show" rather than a "gig" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 I saw Paul Weller live once. It was only an academy venue, and he had no dancers or stage visuals. He thanked everyone for coming to the show, and he's as British as Yorkshire Pudding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 I remember having a similar discussion with an old (ie in his 70s) friend of mine when I said I was going to see a gig. He thought I should be saying I was going to hear it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Jo-D Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 I am quite comfortable to use the word 'gig' when discussing with other music lovers but when I say it to people I know probably don't really like music much I feel like Alan Partridge for some reason and tend to recourse to 'concert'.I quite often call it a concert....feels so 80/90's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 I feel the word show should be used for a visual event, such as a play or a musical. When bands play, it's a gig or a concert (depending on the size of the venue).Oddly enough if you pluralise 'show' it conjurs up images of toothless carnies surfing the waltzers at the park next to the Lido in Peterhead. Is 'the shows' only a North East thing?People's mangling and misuse of words never bothers me. I like to think that language is always evolving and there is no right or wrong. That said, people who pepper their speech with unnecessary 'likes' bugs me. It's just lazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calum Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 Oddly enough if you pluralise 'show' it conjurs up images of toothless carnies surfing the waltzers at the park next to the Lido in Peterhead. Is 'the shows' only a North East thing?"Showies", surely? And Peter Fair is the champion of such events.My current pet hates are this decade's crisps, and repeated facial injuries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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