What grinds my gears...

[Footballwipe]

12 minutes ago, Manini said:

The holier than thou attitude of some people towards pubs and bars opening this weekend across the country. “All you’re bothered about is how the restrictions will affect you having a good time, maybe you should worry about catching the virus because that will be 10x worse. Is a pint worth dying? You wouldn’t catch me dead in a pub during this virus, I hope you can live with yourself when you infect all your family and you all cause a huge 2nd spike” 
 

Just **** off. They’ve been opened back up for a reason. If you’re against going and you don’t want to visit a pub, that’s fine, but why do you have to tell everybody about it and make everybody else feel guilty about going? Just let people do what they want to do and take their own calculated risks. I don’t see the same people having objections to hair salons opening - the virus must not circulate there or in supermarkets or any other indoor public spaces that are open. 

These people, by and large I'd say, are hypocrites. I guarantee they'll have done something, had a relative round under the tighter restrictions, reached for something in the supermarket close to someone. They pick and choose what they get uppity about.

 

All well and good saying "you're causing a second spike" when actually, there's quite a few of us who have no idea if we've had it and who we might have given it to. Best ignored and go and enjoy your social distant drinks. Some of us still can't!

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

I don't think I'd have rushed out tomorrow for pub pints but I definitely don't begrudge those going for it, you've been told you're allowed - go and have a bloody bev. Think some folk are just shitting their pants that every pub is gonna turn into some sort of all contact COVID orgy when I imagine in the main they're all gonna be fairly well staffed / managed.

[Jon the Hat]

2 hours ago, Footballwipe said:

These people, by and large I'd say, are hypocrites. I guarantee they'll have done something, had a relative round under the tighter restrictions, reached for something in the supermarket close to someone. They pick and choose what they get uppity about.

 

All well and good saying "you're causing a second spike" when actually, there's quite a few of us who have no idea if we've had it and who we might have given it to. Best ignored and go and enjoy your social distant drinks. Some of us still can't!

Plenty of people in their spacious houses with their loved ones tucked away in the country are happily condemning those stuck in pokey homes or apartments with sod all out door space, for daring to go out to the park, or the beach or now the pub.

[Stadt]

I think there’s a minute amount of people that if it were up to them would have the entire planet on lockdown until the virus disappeared completely, whilst ignoring all of the issues that entails. “You’re just focused on yourself if you just want to go to the pub whilst people are DYING!” Oh aye, lets never do anything again.

[MattFox]

They’ll probably me more journos looking for trouble than any actual trouble tomorrow.
 

The reputation also damage to the major pubcos of getting this wrong is to big and most seem to have followed the guidelines to the extreme.
 

Theirs a big difference for the likes of Wetherspoons between getting hounded on twitter by students who don’t really matter and getting hounded by the Daily Mail/ one of the ITV morning shows that hit a demographic that actually do matter for consumer facing businesses 

[Nalis]

Jimmy Bullard's over the top cockney-isms.

[Manini]

3 minutes ago, Nalis said:

Jimmy Bullard's over the top cockney-isms.

He’s turned in to a parody of himself. He was a good laugh years ago but the Soccer AM banter lads have given him a platform and he’s just completely taken it too far. It’s the same as Tubes, Tubes was funny back in the day of the dance off and stuff but he has a golf YouTube channel now and some of the patter is proper bottom rung stuff. 

Edited 4 July 2020 by Manini

[Corky]

4 minutes ago, Nalis said:

Jimmy Bullard's over the top cockney-isms.

Bloke's a wand. He got called up to the England squad by Capello and, as a thank you gesture, decided to link up with David Bentley to scream "POSTMAN PAT!" in Capello's face.

 

 

[Nalis]

2 minutes ago, Manini said:

He’s turned in to a parody of himself. He was a good laugh years ago but the Soccer AM banter lads have given him a platform and he’s just completely taken it too far. It’s the same as Tubes, Tubes was funny back in the day of the dance off and stuff but he has a golf YouTube channel now and some of the patter is proper bottom rung stuff. 

Its crap when you see people going over the top when trying to be funny, tone it down ffs.

 

Lloyd Griffith is cringe on soccer am when he went over the top for an attempt at a laugh but when he did How To Beat The Bookies on BBC3 he was actually pretty good at presenting and  quite likeable.

[Manini]

1 minute ago, Nalis said:

Its crap when you see people going over the top when trying to be funny, tone it down ffs.

 

Lloyd Griffith is cringe on soccer am when he went over the top for an attempt at a laugh but when he did How To Beat The Bookies on BBC3 he was actually pretty good at presenting and  quite likeable.

Agreed. 
 

That was a great programme wasn’t it? I think he’s probably quite a decent comic, the impressions he does of every teams fans after each round of premier league games is alright - but as you say, seems like the remit on SAM now is just to go on and act a complete and utter helmet to try and appeal to a certain type of audience so he’s probably just doing as he’s told. 

[Izzy]

31 minutes ago, Manini said:

He’s turned in to a parody of himself. He was a good laugh years ago but the Soccer AM banter lads have given him a platform and he’s just completely taken it too far. It’s the same as Tubes, Tubes was funny back in the day of the dance off and stuff but he has a golf YouTube channel now and some of the patter is proper bottom rung stuff. 

I saw his golf video with Fuchs and it made me cringe. It was so forced and proper embarrassing to watch.

[StanSP]

Match previews that state a long-term injury is out for a match he was always going to be out for.

 

Like Pereira these days. 'Pereira is still out for the Foxes so will miss out on the visit of the Eagles'. 

 

Well, yeah. In other news water is wet.

[los dedos]

1 minute ago, StanSP said:

Match previews that state a long-term injury is out for a match he was always going to be out for.

 

Like Pereira these days. 'Pereira is still out for the Foxes so will miss out on the visit of the Eagles'. 

 

Well, yeah. In other news water is wet.

Also when quoting stats like  Leicester have only beaten Bournemouth 5 times in a hundred years . Ignoring the fact we've been in different leagues for most of the past century 

[tom27111]

13 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Match previews that state a long-term injury is out for a match he was always going to be out for.

 

Like Pereira these days. 'Pereira is still out for the Foxes so will miss out on the visit of the Eagles'. 

 

Well, yeah. In other news water is wet.

 

Well, actually...technically 

[ajthefox]

On 03/07/2020 at 13:33, Jon the Hat said:

Plenty of people in their spacious houses with their loved ones tucked away in the country are happily condemning those stuck in pokey homes or apartments with sod all out door space, for daring to go out to the park, or the beach or now the pub.

I live and work in a house (with a small concrete yard) share as I'm saving to try and buy. I get on with my house mates generally but it of course has it's issues. I've got a bubble which is a family of 3 I'm very close with who I've been to the park and the beach up here with but we've been pretty responsible. We're going camping next weekend I can't wait. I've also seen a couple of other friends in outdoor spaces.

 

I'm fortunate enough to still be working and not be too worried about my finances or responsibility but if I couldn't do any of the above socialising I'd be an absolute mess right now. I've seen a few articles about mental health but I think this is one element of the pandemic which hasn't really been spoken about all that much.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

He's played for us for three and a half years and some folk are still in camp N'didi. You're making it harder for yourselves lads, put the apostrophe away 

[Steve_Walsh5]

Hermes. Ordered something from Asos yesterday got an E-Mail from Hermes today saying it’s been delivered and signed for. My girlfriend never signed for it, asked the neighbours if they had took delivery of which they hadn’t. Went back on the E-mail to check and further down it says they aren’t collecting signatures?!? 
 

Asos normally use DPD for premier delivery which is great as they give you time frames, and actually knock and wait for you to answer the door.

[StanSP]

8 minutes ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

Hermes. Ordered something from Asos yesterday got an E-Mail from Hermes today saying it’s been delivered and signed for. My girlfriend never signed for it, asked the neighbours if they had took delivery of which they hadn’t. Went back on the E-mail to check and further down it says they aren’t collecting signatures?!? 
 

Asos normally use DPD for premier delivery which is great as they give you time frames, and actually knock and wait for you to answer the door.

Hermes are very dodgy. They were 'exposed' on that Joe Lycett programme for not delivering packages and storing them in some depot, only for them to be resold somewhere else.

[stix]

14 minutes ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

Hermes. Ordered something from Asos yesterday got an E-Mail from Hermes today saying it’s been delivered and signed for. My girlfriend never signed for it, asked the neighbours if they had took delivery of which they hadn’t. Went back on the E-mail to check and further down it says they aren’t collecting signatures?!? 
 

Asos normally use DPD for premier delivery which is great as they give you time frames, and actually knock and wait for you to answer the door.

My wife arranged a delivery, through Hermes, to be delivered to the local co-op in South Wigston. She got a notification to say it had been delivered, so called said co-op to confirm. They hadn’t received the delivery, and after investigating further, Hermes said it had been delivered, in to our shed. We lived in a 2nd floor flat at the time! Obviously without a shed 😂. Dodgy as hell Hermes. 

[Brizzle Fox]

1 hour ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

Hermes. Ordered something from Asos yesterday got an E-Mail from Hermes today saying it’s been delivered and signed for. My girlfriend never signed for it, asked the neighbours if they had took delivery of which they hadn’t. Went back on the E-mail to check and further down it says they aren’t collecting signatures?!? 
 

Asos normally use DPD for premier delivery which is great as they give you time frames, and actually knock and wait for you to answer the door.

Hermes and Yodel are an absolute travesty. DPD are the bees knees though. Top notch. 

[Arkie Bennett]

When the word 'cringe' is wrongly used as an adjective, although I guess those who use it as an adjective don't know what an adjective is.

[AllGoneTitsSchlupp]

2 hours ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

Hermes. Ordered something from Asos yesterday got an E-Mail from Hermes today saying it’s been delivered and signed for. My girlfriend never signed for it, asked the neighbours if they had took delivery of which they hadn’t. Went back on the E-mail to check and further down it says they aren’t collecting signatures?!? 
 

Asos normally use DPD for premier delivery which is great as they give you time frames, and actually knock and wait for you to answer the door.

hermes can get to F! had a delivery today that had apparently been signed for... when I wasn't home... I get home and its just chucked down by my front door. i'm firmly a dpd man myself

[Stadt]

Overly positive fans, does my head in when people think blind faith is the answer

[UniFox21]

6 hours ago, Stadt said:

Overly positive fans, does my head in when people think blind faith is the answer

Overly positive people in general do my head in

[Dahnsouff]

7 hours ago, Stadt said:

Overly positive fans, does my head in when people think blind faith is the answer

Reactionary fans who rush from despair to euphoria are much better, I agree