Quote: Lee @ October 23 2012, 11:52 PM BSTFireworks should be illegal. There is NO reason to have them in your garden. Public event displays do the job just fine.
But then you'd never have that unique frisson of danger you only get from re-visiting a lit firework that 'appears' to have gone out.
And rockets in milk bottles.
Another perfectly innocent pass-time that is now deemed evil.
It's like Jimmy Saville all over again.
Quote: Oldrocker @ October 24 2012, 9:25 AM BSTAnybody noticed the increasing use of the word 'offer'?
"Argos stores and catalogues will remain important, but their roles will be adapted in order to support a digital offer."
Stop it! Or, going forward, I will, right now, incentivise my anger offer !
Should it say offering? If they mean that store will be run as a support to a online one? Or are they going use their catalouge to really prommote sales of digital products?
The saying "Going forward" pisses me off. It seemed to be a kind of catch phrase for Julia Gillard a few years ago.
I cannot stand the phrase "On Point"
It's normally spoken by people who have no idea how to critique something, so they say it is "On Point", which as far as I can work out, means f**k all.
Quote: reds @ October 24 2012, 10:42 AM BSTThe saying "Going forward" pisses me off. It seemed to be a kind of catch phrase for Julia Gillard a few years ago.
David Mitchell has dedicated a whole video podcast to that exact phrase and how and why it replaced the phrase "From now on"
Funny stuff
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2012/sep/07/david-mitchell-soapbox-going-forward-video
Quote: Minty @ October 24 2012, 11:25 AM BSTDavid Mitchell has dedicated a whole video podcast to that exact phrase and how and why it replaced the phrase "From now on"
Funny stuff
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2012/sep/07/david-mitchell-soapbox-going-forward-video
And previously . . http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mind-your-language/2011/aug/30/mind-your-language-going-forward?commentpage=4#start-of-comments
Yes indeed, like re-vist, as in 'Let's re-visit your earlier point'
What the f**k happened to the time honoured 'Let's look again at...'
All this americanised shite spoken by insecure and characterless corporate muppets should be outlawed.
I heard the word 'bandwidth' used the other day in a context I didn't understand....
'What's the bandwidth on this?'
Apparently the David Brent-a-like who uttered it meant 'the amount of time and resources needed for a project'
Please....F**K OFF!
4od. The amount of times it has frozen after ads then thinks you'll sit through ads again in the hope of one day getting to the programme. Not gonna happen. F**k off 4od.
Quote: AJGO @ October 24 2012, 12:49 PM BST4od. The amount of times it has frozen after ads then thinks you'll sit through ads again in the hope of one day getting to the programme. Not gonna happen. F**k off 4od.
You would think by now the online catch systems would be better by now.
Quote: reds @ October 24 2012, 12:59 PM BSTYou would think by now the online catch systems would be better by now.
Yet BBC iPlayer, which doesn't have ads, rarely freezes.
Conspiracy glasses 
But with this facial expression 
Quote: AJGO @ October 24 2012, 12:49 PM BST4od. The amount of times it has frozen after ads then thinks you'll sit through ads again in the hope of one day getting to the programme. Not gonna happen. F**k off 4od.
4OD sucks major ass-age. It's player only works half the time and woe betide if you use a wi-fi connection, because that is a world of hurt unlike any other.
Not that keen on BBC iPlayer either because you can't 'load up' the stream. Much prefer to go to other sites, click play and then pause, go and make a sandwich, come back and find the entire stream has been loaded up.
Aparently channel 5 has an amazing players.
But as no one has ever wanted to watch a channel 5 program more than once, this has never been proven.
Another 4od hater here, and I think they're serving their advertisers poorly, because when you're made to watch the ads but are then pissed off with the show not playing, anything you remember about those ads is going to be negative.
Don't mind iPlayer though, and have liked the ability to download shows rather than stream them.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ October 24 2012, 2:10 PM BST4OD sucks major ass-age. It's player only works half the time and woe betide if you use a wi-fi connection, because that is a world of hurt unlike any other.
Not that keen on BBC iPlayer either because you can't 'load up' the stream. Much prefer to go to other sites, click play and then pause, go and make a sandwich, come back and find the entire stream has been loaded up.
Install "iPlayer Desktop" for that facility.
Buskers with backing tracks. That's just cheating.
