I hate

So you have time to catch up on the new Dr Who then?

I haven't watched it since I was about ten, and that would have only been an excuse to stop me being sent to bed early!

When they made Dalek's able to climb stairs, it completely vindicated my decision to stop watching......

The weeping angels are excellent monsters I think but I gave up after season 3 of the "reboot", felt like it lost its edge a little bit with too many meh episodes for me. There are some I really liked though (the library/the cyberman invasion/any weeping angels one*

Anyways I HATE it when people deadlift and don't use bumper plates. That turns the "hit floor" sound from a semiloud "sound" to an extremely loud metally CLUNK making me jump even with all the other noise going on.

*young at heart?

@stedlocks

Heal soon dude.

The way YouTubers use the English language...

Terrible use of phonetic alphabet

"A for apple, R for rose, S for shelf, E for erm, elephant?"

Introducing letters pisses me off, and wanky phonetics irk me greatly.

I’ve no idea why, but I know all of the (actual) phonetic alphabet. It is useful, but I feel like such a prick every time I tell someone my postcode over the phone with it.

It’s worse when someone makes up their own version and uses words that can be misheard.

Absolutely. Why even bother? Someone went to a lot of effort to make up a system where that won’t happen. If you can’t be arsed to use it, just say the letters and hope for the best ffs

Ha! I struggle with it all the time. I work on the railway and we have to use it for all operational calls (as misheard instructions can result in people wandering onto open lines or trying to attach kit to live third rails etc) so I'm used to hearing it without any sense of cringe.

I've found that it can be useful when talking on bad phone lines to call centers for banking or whatever. Especially when you have to give postcodes or passwords that contain easily misheard letter such as S and F. For that reason I have my postcode memorized in proper phonetics but when I try to use it for anything else my mind often goes blank and I end up using the "my first alphabet" version instead. Having a three year old doesn't help. U for unicorn. etc. Heh. Fuck it, makes me laugh anyway.

Apple
Bottom
Chalfie
Dinosaur
Elephant
Gibbon

"F for Pharmacy"

i don't get any mail, ever.

hope for the best ssf

Ftfy

K for Knight
P for Pneumatic

T is for biscuits

Gammon, Shirley?

You missed Frozen sausages...

A for horses
B for lamb
C for miles
...can't remember the rest...

[EDIT] Googling gives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_Alphabet

Terrible use of phonetic alphabet

I had a call centre job in the US, and as much as I tried to stick to the correct call signs, eventually I had to buckle and use peoples names - eg R for Robert, B for Brad, H for Jose.

https://youtu.be/3Tcy614ogms

Repost:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4jxLxZr­Mfs

Wikipedia has it different to my recollection, missing a couple of crackers:

O for the wings of a dove
Y for nagging

That fucking Shotgun song.

I work somewhere there’s awful radio playing and it’s on all the time.

Radio 2 plays it as well. My wife leaves it on in the car and sometimes I forget to change it until my ears are appalled.

I prefer the Vanilla Fudge version.

The Junior Walker version?

Squarespace are advertising in Oz and using Mini, Mini, Mini by Jacques Dutronc... Which is a bit disconcerting...

had to google it as dont ever listen to radio and from watching the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_B3qkp4nO4

this guy looks like every mugshot of a college rapist ever taken.

Jesus! My Lad is learning this song in his music class..I’m fuckin cancelling the direct debit