What grinds my gears...

[Daggers]

8 hours ago, Unabomber said:

What on earth happened to TPH he lost the plot. I was concerned when he referred to posters as my merry men but wow 

One thing the forum does well is support for people suffering from mental health episodes. I think it’s clear that things aren’t normal in his world at the moment - and I reckon we should just let the whole matter lie. It does no one any favours to make this a public discussion. 

[Zear0]

Missing an 8-0 paddling of a team I don't particularly like as been nagged into clearing out the garage. 

[Parafox]

The ball-ache of clearing the main room in the house and piling all the stuff in various places and ripping up the old carpet and underlay in preparation for a new carpet. 

 

Followed by the ball-ache of putting it all back again and trying to successfully reinstate the TV and associated consoles, sound system and broadband hub.

 

 

[fox_favourite]

What grinds my gears - people smoking over a baby and/or over a pram. 

Edited 24 September 2023 by fox_favourite

[tom27111]

On 23/09/2023 at 10:27, StanSP said:

Someone sounds a bit jealous

 

 

People need to learn, mate.

 

If they're going for you, they've gotta go through me first 

 

Out of interest, you got any contact details of that guy that fluked beating you on Countdown? 

[Unabomber]

14 hours ago, Daggers said:

One thing the forum does well is support for people suffering from mental health episodes. I think it’s clear that things aren’t normal in his world at the moment - and I reckon we should just let the whole matter lie. It does no one any favours to make this a public discussion. 

I understand your point but being a twat to random people for no reason is not on imo.

[Sampson]

When someone says “okay, x”

 

With x usually referring to the person or oganusation they’re defending or some generic put down. 
 

Was funny 5 years ago but is an old joke now and a bad arguing or critical thinking technique and usually done by someone who knows they’ve lost the argument but can’t resist having the final word.

 

Cue the “ok, something” response to this post…

[bovril]

Haven't met him in real life and I came on to the forum later than most, but going only by what I've seen on here TPH comes across as a very unpleasant and bitter person in a way no other poster does. Even posters who annoy me like Geoff or the infamous MattPee never gave off those kind of vibes. 

[StanSP]

42 minutes ago, Sampson said:

When someone says “okay, x”

 

With x usually referring to the person or oganusation they’re defending or some generic put down. 
 

Was funny 5 years ago but is an old joke now and a bad arguing or critical thinking technique and usually done by someone who knows they’ve lost the argument but can’t resist having the final word.

 

Cue the “ok, something” response to this post…

I have never known the 'x' to represent what you say it does. Is this only in specific businesses or orgs? 

[Tommy G]

Instructions inside of paracetamol packets - surely just a massive waste of paper worldwide. 
 

how to take paracetamol or associated side effects are commonly known by now surely. 

[BenTheFox]

Seeing some of our fans claiming that relegation was some sort of blessing in disguise now that we have won a few games in the championship. There is absolutely no guarantee that we will be promoted this season and seeing how poor the three newly promoted sides are, we would have probably stayed up comfortably this season. The task of getting us back to being a competent premier league side having just stayed up would not have been insurmountable.

[SemperEadem]

3 minutes ago, BenTheFox said:

Seeing some of our fans claiming that relegation was some sort of blessing in disguise now that we have won a few games in the championship. There is absolutely no guarantee that we will be promoted this season and seeing how poor the three newly promoted sides are, we would have probably stayed up comfortably this season. The task of getting us back to being a competent premier league side having just stayed up would not have been insurmountable.

Is it more enjoyable going down there this season?

Forget which league we are in for a second.

[BenTheFox]

29 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

Is it more enjoyable going down there this season?

Forget which league we are in for a second.

Oh I'm enjoying it more now than last season, of course. Last season was pure misery. However, I will never argue that a completely avoidable relegation is a blessing in disguise. The only relegation we have had in my lifetime looking back on it that I could consider a blessing in disguise is relegation to League 1. The big difference is that we had been stinking out the championship for four years. 

[SemperEadem]

9 minutes ago, BenTheFox said:

Oh I'm enjoying it more now than last season, of course. Last season was pure misery. However, I will never argue that a completely avoidable relegation is a blessing in disguise. The only relegation we have had in my lifetime looking back on it that I could consider a blessing in disguise is relegation to League 1. The big difference is that we had been stinking out the championship for four years. 

We will come back up far better placed than dossing about up there another year finishing 16th.

[Bazly]

10 minutes ago, BenTheFox said:

Oh I'm enjoying it more now than last season, of course. Last season was pure misery. However, I will never argue that a completely avoidable relegation is a blessing in disguise. The only relegation we have had in my lifetime looking back on it that I could consider a blessing in disguise is relegation to League 1. The big difference is that we had been stinking out the championship for four years. 

Those Holloway years of 28% win ratio were pure shit.

[RonnieTodger]

1 hour ago, BenTheFox said:

Seeing some of our fans claiming that relegation was some sort of blessing in disguise now that we have won a few games in the championship. There is absolutely no guarantee that we will be promoted this season and seeing how poor the three newly promoted sides are, we would have probably stayed up comfortably this season. The task of getting us back to being a competent premier league side having just stayed up would not have been insurmountable.

This is true. I’m enjoying it at the moment and we’ve gotten things right so far. If we do go up, it’ll be a really enjoyable year. 

 

But look how far we are behind the likes of Forest already. 

[Zear0]

Lot of blue tinted specs on last season overlooking how abysmal we were from game one and blaming BR solely. Simple arrogance to assume we'd have easily stayed up this season. 

[BenTheFox]

14 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

This is true. I’m enjoying it at the moment and we’ve gotten things right so far. If we do go up, it’ll be a really enjoyable year. 

 

But look how far we are behind the likes of Forest already. 

Also, if we go up then all of us will see finishing 16th/17th in our first season back as a success. That really is going the long way round. 

[BenTheFox]

1 minute ago, Zear0 said:

Lot of blue tinted specs on last season overlooking how abysmal we were from game one and blaming BR solely. Simple arrogance to assume we'd have easily stayed up this season. 

Come on, have you seen how horrendous Luton and Sheffield United are? Burnley don't look great either. My point is hat it really wouldn't have taken that much to turn this around with a pre-season under a new manager and several players leaving. It was a rebuild opportunity but from a higher base. 

[Fox92]

11 minutes ago, BenTheFox said:

Come on, have you seen how horrendous Luton and Sheffield United are? Burnley don't look great either. My point is hat it really wouldn't have taken that much to turn this around with a pre-season under a new manager and several players leaving. It was a rebuild opportunity but from a higher base. 

I do think we're better than those three teams, and I would fancy our chances against any lower league PL team in the Cup this season, but our biggest issue would still be scoring goals. If we stayed up we'd still have lost Maddison which was our main creativity (9 assists) and also his 10 goals. So far this season we've scored 14 goals but only 3 of them have been scored by strikers, and 2 of them have been penalties. We scored 50+ last season which is good for a relegated team, but our three main strikers (Vardy/Iheanacho/Daka) scored less than 20 goals between them... any decent side needs a striker who will get double figures, at least. That was always my worry in the summer, scoring goals, and it will remain a worry if we do go up. 

 

Edited 25 September 2023 by Fox92

[Izzy]

21 hours ago, Zear0 said:

Missing an 8-0 paddling of a team I don't particularly like as been nagged into clearing out the garage. 

 

 

[goose2010]

People who get married mid week and I'm not including Friday! I honestly don't mind when you get married but don't get pissy with people if they say unfortunately we cant get the time off on a Wednesday for your wedding! 

 

limited holiday is hard enough to manage anyway so having to have at least 1 day off for a wedding mid week is just a ball ache. 

 

Being someone that has got married in the past 5 years i get that its cheaper but the ball ache it causes everyone and then people saying they cant make it, is it worth it? You might as well have invited less and had it on a Saturday. 

[String fellow]

HM Land Registry. Apparently, it can take up to 18 months or more to complete first registration of an old property not previously entered onto the register, by which time the new owner could already have moved elsewhere or maybe even died. In an age of electronic communication, where business can often be done almost instantly, such incredibly long delays seem hard to understand. 

[Bordersfox]

1 hour ago, String fellow said:

HM Land Registry. Apparently, it can take up to 18 months or more to complete first registration of an old property not previously entered onto the register, by which time the new owner could already have moved elsewhere or maybe even died. In an age of electronic communication, where business can often be done almost instantly, such incredibly long delays seem hard to understand. 

Years of big staff cuts and 'efficiency' savings which started in 2009 in the first credit crunch.  

 

I used to be a solicitor and dealt with them extensively.  My aunt was also a senior bod there before retiring.  

 

Things were always processed quickly and with minimal fuss back in the day.  Registration of a property would be completed with a few days.  

 

Ten years on and it took 12 months to register my own house purchase. A straightforward registration of an already registered house.  Absolutely bonkers.  

There simply aren't enough people doing the job any more, combine that with a COVID backlog and Bob's your uncle.  Massive delays.  

[Finnegan]

You know the BBC website has jumped the shark when you scroll through the sports news and know that Taylor fvcking Swift is dating an NFL player. Are we Americans now? 

 

Ferchrissakes it needs a new editor desperately.