He laughed when they said it couldn't be done, He smiled and said he knew it, But he tried the thing that couldn't be done, And found he couldn't do it.

no i meant pandemic as in a pandemic disease spreading through huge swathes of the population globally.
so not at all ironic in a post about stupidity
but thanks for playing "Let's make an assumption" here's what you could have won.....

No, in this context, it is a phrase, from a stupid advert! It's a stupid, childish, catchphrase.

I tried to send you a PM in reply by way of thanks, but your settings don't allow for PMs to be sent to you.

Thanks again though for going to all that effort, appreciate it

The fact that cats always manage to throw up in the most awkward of places. I really didn't need a trainer full of cat sick....

A similar phrase which annoys me is when couples have a 'date night'. Dating is what single people do!

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What about poor grammar and punctuation? Do I win a medal for pointing that out? Do I, do I, huh, do I?

No. Thank you for playing.

Bars/clubs where the music is too loud and there isn't really an area or booths to talk in, which aren't so noisy.
You can't meet new people/talk to members of the opposite sex because you end up shouting in their ear. The same for having a quick chat with friends, cause you can't hear anything over the music.
Kinda disappointing cus once I've had a drink or two it's one of the few times I don't mind socialising.

I've thought of another thing: behind-the-scenes, out-takes and documentaries revealing how films and TV programmes. For two reasons:

1) It ruins the show. Even though they're actors and it's all make-belief, there's just something I can't quite put my finger on. Watching the out-takes and extras, it just brings home how it's all a work of fiction and spoils the show a bit.
2) Too often, actors swear or utter profanities every time they cock up. It lowers their estimation in my eyes.

I make this complaint having just watched a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Blackadder...followed by watching an episode of it soon after.

I agree, totally. Films with high CG effects are spoiled for me if I see a "Making of..." documentary. Most of it's green screen, with actors talking at nothing, and all the clever stuff's edited in around it. It ruins the immersion for me.

One of the TV shows spoiled for me is Mrs Brown's Boys. I knew the show was filmed in front of a live audience, and I really liked the humour in the episode I saw, but then there was a scene where 'Mrs Brown' had gone to the pub and left her handbag at home. She legged it home to get it - ie, around a partition (total distance two yards). The camera zoomed out to show 'her' doing it, and the audience brayed with laughter. I was just left feeling cold about it all. I'm assuming it was scripted? So anyway, I stopped watching.

Someone then told me there was a scene where a cameraman (or someone) tripped over the wires and wandered into camera shot, and the audience found that hilarious too. I honestly can't think why anyone would.

It's a different matter when when a character on a live-filmed comedy show has an unscripted giggling fit or something. I find that sort of thing really funny.

On a forum when someone asks for some advice about something and you say "what about this?" and they go "I've tried that, thanks" as though you're a total idiot for not being able to read their mind about what they have and haven't already tried.

I had an agonising 10 minute conversation with a young lady who described her 'date nights' with an her husband. They started at letter 'A' and had to alternately arrange an event/activity to match the following letters. I had to endure what they had done for letters 'B,C,D'.

Me remarking 'Well 'F' night should be easy' was met with a real 'hurrumph'.

Falconry?

Very good.

...it deserves two! of these >>

Summint. Someone at work says this instead of something. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard for me now.

Actually there is a falcon rescue centre a couple of miles from where I live - I'll mail her the suggestion!

Noticing that a thread has been updated on a forum and clicking on "last post" to have a read... only to find it's just some annoying user who's added "bump" to it to get the topic back on the front page. Such a waste of my time.

excellent

Oh God yes. 'Date night'. Like fingernails down a blackboard

I work with someone who has date nights with her husband. It's horrible and twee and sick making.

She's so smug and superior about it. It always brings out the worst in me and I say dreadful things about what me and my husband got up to when she starts. I'm not a nice person

Voluntary organisations that recruit like a bog standard business. If you're that desperate for volunteers, then surely you'd have a quick chat with someone, judge that they're not a nutter and/or thief and get them in. At the moment, I'm seeing a lot of application forms and indications of two stage interview processes. I know volunteering involves giving up your time but not in that sense!

You know what's worse than date nights? People that describe days with their children as dates. "Mammys date with my little princess!" etc.

Eugh.

Yeah I would agree with this. I was looking at the Daily Mail site a little while ago and was reading about how it's the 40th anniversary of Jaws being released. A couple of people in the comments mentioned a programme that's on youtube showing how Jaws was made. I read that and just thought why would anyone want to watch it, we all know the people in the film weren't really killed by the shark and that the shark wasn't real, but it's such a great film and surely seeing how it was all done would completely ruin it!

I'm annoyed that I still mix up these words: retain, restrain and retrain.


I'm a film geek and I rarely watch those. Same with directors' commentaries and books about the making of specific films. I strongly advise everyone else to do the same.

In fact, I still regret working in production. It'd completely ruined the fun experience of being a film watcher. I left production about 12 years ago, and it took me years to ignore the invisible seams in film and TV productions, and to stop calculating what it took to set each scene up, practically and financially. If I could turn the clock back, I'd opt for something else. Such as ooh, I don't know... Art teacher, maybe? Anything but production.