I hate

If they want to upgrade their infrastructure that's on them, you can't just get your customers to pay more for it.

They can. They did. They do.

Two BBC R4 Today contributors starting their bits with “So”.

Twitter users who start their boring normie bullshit with “Lads”.

[inevitable THIS YOU pic of me wearing a Hitler t-shirt starting a RoughStuff post with “so… lads…”]

Ah. ‘bit’ to describe a skit. Forgot about that one. I was awake at 4.45 with the anxiety spins. This will pass.

Everyone on every podcast / interview before they start an anecdote: ‘I remember…’ once you’ve clocked it it’s very tiring. Obviously you remember, you’re saying it.

I’m so sensitive to that kind of thing that I genuinely can’t concentrate on a podcast. As soon as someone has a rising inflection for example, no matter how intelligent or interesting they are, it goes off.
Someone was eating while talking on the radio the other week and my finger nearly went through the power button

Re: podcasts, I hate when hosts do their sponsored ads but decide they need to punch up the copy so much that it takes five times longer than it should. Blank Check is really bad for that so I'm just there tapping away at the +15s button over and over and getting more annoyed at their little skit.

Haven't listened to Blank Check for a while but I seem to remember (sorry @Hefty) when they first announced they were in a position to do ads Griffin couldn't wait to get started on it. Think it was suggested that David would just record things and slide it in in post but Griffin jokingly said he'd quit if he didn't get to do the ad read but then not actually that jokingly (hopefully this is the same Blank Check).

I seem to remember

You should apologise to @squidink too, ‘I think’ would have done just as well.

Yes it's Griffin who really stretches them out a lot I think with e.g. characters he invents for the ad. Griffin has tons of energy to burn which is fine for the show, but I know other podcasts that zip through the ad read and still put a bit of their humour in there so I don't bother reaching for the skip button, whereas these BC ones end up going on longer than actual broadcast TV ad breaks sometimes.

Generally I agree. Most ad reads are painful to listen to. My favourite, extremely stupid podcast does genuinely funny ones though. Insanely unprofessional though, they get through sponsors pretty quickly.

I’m always suspicious of podcasters that are comfortable with reading the commercials out

I know what you mean.

It's almost like they are well practiced at talking for a living.

This is the truth made possible by the sponsorship of this corporate interest

Interrails stupid model that they only show availability of reservations for trains that require reservations after you've bought the pass. My planned trip has no availability on interrail (despite loads of availability on other operators), thus the passes now useless.

They also only offer 85% refund on the passes.

So be cautious.

Have you spoken to them about it?

They were very helpful when I used the passes last year.

Yeah they've just doubled down.

Tbh I'm tempted to just keep them for the future as they last a year, rather than losing the 15%

someone verbing ‘solution’ on this call.

(or do I mean ‘adverbing’? damn)

Please action that as solutionly as possible.

thanks for reaching out, will circle back expeditiously

circle back

revert

Clapping.

Specifically, the sort of synchronised clapping that people feel compelled to do to accompany live music.

Fuck off you simpleton fucks.

In particular the lady in the row in front, who also talks to her neighbours in an everybody-should-listen-to-this voice.

I hope you go to the loo and they've run out of paper.

I went to a concert last year and there was a moment of the audience clapping above their heads. There were two ladies who didn’t know quite when to stop. They both urged people around them to carry on clapping but no one acquiesced. It then became more and more awkward as they couldn’t gracefully stop but instead both drifted out of time over another verse and chorus.

I think we need to know the song so we can picture this better, please.

https://youtu.be/pATX-lV0VFk