The Broadcasting and Politics forums – full of nutters

The way '1st of [the month]' trends, without fail, at the start of every month. As if the phenomenon comes as a shock to people on Twitter.

The amount of packaging which is still not recyclable even now.

Film lids on ready meals that won't peel off and you have to cut them open with a knife or scissors.

Kellogg's variety packs. The ones that have one pack of each of my favourite cereals, but two packs of Coco Pops which I hate.

Slow acting pedestrian crossings....where I live the main crossing takes bloody ages...as a pedestrian you get so fed up waiting you end up looking for an opportunity to cross when there's a lull in traffic, consequently when the lights turn red there's nobody crossing so the drivers get annoyed too.

If the green man came on almost immediately all annoyance would be eliminated. SIMPLE

disclaimer : I have anger management problems

Men who are all flirty, flirty, flirty and then you find out they have a girlfriend.

Drivers who approach pelican crossings really fast when the lights are red. You have to stand & wait to make sure they are actually going to stop before crossing so the lights have started to change when I'm only halfway across & thus the drivers on the other side are getting bad tempered because they're having to wait for me to get across!

English people who say "DRAW" when they mean "DRAWER" and then "DRAWER" when they mean "DRAW" Do they not know what an R is? Do they not know you DRAW with a pencil and put your knickers in a DRAWER? What is this mad abuse of their own language? I've seen it even written wrongly on this forum and constantly mispronounced on the BBC. It is a simple matter of where to put your tongue - when there is a friggin' "R" at the end of a word it goes to the roof of your mouth FFS. I've put up with this shite for 50 years - when will they ever learn?

The foil packaging which my pain killer tablets are in. In have really painful hands and my thumbs keep dislocating so I get very cross when I can't push them out of the foil.

Tbf Draw and Draw-er sound alike when spoken.
Surely you know what they are saying given the context of their sentence.
For e.g if someone says 'I have put your book in the drawer' they're obviously talking about storage.

It's annoying when all the crisps fall out

I'm back at uni doing a bit of extra studying, and whenever I get something from the cafe they always charge me staff price

The sound of giggling. I hate it. Laughter? No problem (as long as it's not shrieking), but giggling makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end.


Me too, Tony. My dad used to do it on purpose when I was a child as he knew it would upset me.

Do you not say "drawer" with an "r" sound at the end then? The way I say it, it's like "drawr", sort of. And yes, I just sat here for five mins saying "draw" and "drawer" to myself, and getting funny looks from the cats.

Weather presenters talking about seasons early, February isn't spring.

I try to say it with an 'r' at the end but we talk pretty fast in the area I live in so it does sound a bit like 'draw' I suppose.

A bit rich of cats to be giving funny looks what with all the daftness their owners put up with

Haha true that!

But yes, about draw/drawer - I probably say it faster in real life, too (aka in conversation). Tell you what, I'll never stop thinking about that now, and I'll be using the word in every conversation I have, just to see what happens. It's going to proper do my head in.

The constant coverage of the US elections on TV & Radio! Do the Americans have to suffer ad nauseum coverage of ours? I think not.

When the back button in my browser doesn't take me back to the previous page. Sooooo many times when I click a link it opens up a 'holding-type' page then the page I wanted so backbuttoning just takes me to the 'holding' page which then automatically reopens up the page I just backbuttoned from. So I press back a bunch of times.... that doesn't work... so I press it multiple times, hammering the key.... that also doesn't work, so I keep the button pressed which works but ends up taking me about 30 pages back instead of the required 2.


I've often wondered why the main story in our news broadcasts is often one from abroad. Now I would understand it if something major had happened but when it's like man bitten by dog, or bus crashed in to a mountain.

My mum telling me I should go to A&E for swollen glands as I can't get a GP appointment. For crying out loud why would I do that!

Several years ago I had a serious infectious condition in my left eye/sinus that almost ended my life. I needed an emergency operation after repeated mis-diagnosis by my GP.

The Consultant who performed my emergency operation, a very eminent Ophthalmic Surgeon, told me, quote;

…“any pain/infection/disease from your neck upward should be treated as a potentially very serious problem until it is found to be otherwise.”

I have no medical qualifications whatsoever and I won’t presume to offer any advice other than to say “maybe mum knows best”.

I'm gonna try and shoehorn it into sentences too. 'Drawer' is pretty hard to get into conversation but 'draw' is fine as I am currently working on some art commissions

My annoyance today is those bits of skin that stick up around the fingernails (once you've cut your nails). I always think 'oh I'll tear that hanging bit off' and it really hurts, the skin underneath is very tender, bad idea.

Drivers who don't thank you when you give way to them , just sail past , and pedestrians who don't even look at you when you stop at the Zebra crossing Drives me insane it's so ignorant. If I had a swear box in my car it would be full to bursting . I must admit I give them the V sign sometimes or shout out Thank You

But you are legally obliged to stop so it's not liking doing a favour. I am irritated by drivers who fail to stop at the crossings

Very mature of you

I'm assuming you're referring to swollen lymph nodes? You do know that they're swollen for a reason, don't you? Do what you mum says.

People who are clearly making up piss-poor excuses (also known as lies) for not meeting up for events etc because they don't want to be seen as bad. Why not just be honest and say you just don't want to go? Surely an explanation isn't mandatory? It really boils my piss.