Behaviour which needs to be banned...

[SkStu]

Marking your territory. :eek:

class... :D

im like sh1tbreak in American Pie. Cant* and wont go for a dump in a public jacks - for my sake and everyone elses.

* not true, physically i can. ;)

[smellyfeet]

Marking your territory. :eek:

Fair enough lol.

[Onefootednopace]

People who are obsessed with hating one sport or another and continuously go on about it. Chances are if you hate a sport that much you don't know a whole pile about it anyway.

I agree, everyone to their own I think.

[Onefootednopace]

Did you ever watch You Are What You Eat?

I've seen that programme a few times, the part where Gillian Mc Keith examines the person's s*ite is gross. And what makes it worse is that she seems to get great enjoyment in telling them "That's a miserable little poo for a person of your size and dietary habits- you should have a bigger one than that "

[pineapple stu]

I agree, everyone to their own I think.
Hey - if I can't moan on a moany thread, where can I moan? :)


I've seen that programme a few times, the part where Gillian Mc Keith examines the person's s*ite is gross. And what makes it worse is that she seems to get great enjoyment in telling them "That's a miserable little poo for a person of your size and dietary habits- you should have a bigger one than that "
Yup (although it gets very formulaic after a while), but she has a point, and one which answers DeLorean's post.

[thischarmingman]

I've seen that programme a few times, the part where Gillian Mc Keith examines the person's s*ite is gross. And what makes it worse is that she seems to get great enjoyment in telling them "That's a miserable little poo for a person of your size and dietary habits- you should have a bigger one than that "

Dara O'Briain's take on her: "If you are what you eat, she's eaten a feckin' shrew."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIaV8swc-fo *

*I'm not sure this is the clip I'm thinking of as I can't watch video here.

[juan]

Dara O'Briain's take on her: "If you are what you eat, she's eaten a feckin' shrew."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIaV8swc-fo *

*I'm not sure this is the clip I'm thinking of as I can't watch video here.

Ah sure if you eat brocolli the fairies will come out and mine the fat off your arse.

[John83]

I kind it fairly hard to take her seriously:
http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/ms-gillian-mckeith-banned-from-calling-herself-a-doctor/

[Pauro 76]

Idiots at a bar who sing 'Sinn Fein/IRA' when Fields of Athenry is played.

[OwlsFan]

In Soap Operas they never use a doorbell - they pound on the doors. Must be a good opening in Weatherfield for a doorbell company (or maybe not if they never use them).

[pineapple stu]

I kind it fairly hard to take her seriously:
http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/ms-gillian-mckeith-banned-from-calling-herself-a-doctor/
Hey - she gets results.

You don't really need a doctorate to work out that not eating crap all the time makes you healthier.

(I haven't read her books, mind)

[A N Mouse]

Hey - she gets results.

You don't really need a doctorate to work out that not eating crap all the time makes you healthier.

(I haven't read her books, mind)

Fair enough, but call it what it is, common sense., and don't try and peddle it as science

[old git]

Idiots at a bar who sing 'Sinn Fein/IRA' when Fields of Athenry is played.

idiots at a bar in london singing fields of athenry:D

[Angus]

Idiots at a bar who sing 'Sinn Fein/IRA' when Fields of Athenry is played.

Agree but pales into insignificance compared to the spawn of satan who roar out "Alice, Alice, who the *** is Alice ?" and "Rise up your skirts" in the middle of Wild Rover. Die now.

[Angus]

Unneceaasry, fawning, OTT, newspaper coverage each knocking each other over to try and outdo each other on telling us just how much they are hopelessly in love with Brian O Driscoll. Yes the man is good at rugby but he hasnt cured jaysus cancer

[thischarmingman]

Unneceaasry, fawning, OTT, newspaper coverage each knocking each other over to try and outdo each other on telling us just how much they are hopelessly in love with Brian O Driscoll. Yes the man is good at rugby but he hasnt cured jaysus cancer

Have to say don't mind this as much. In a country as starved of international sporting success as Ireland, it's perfectly natural that someone like BOD would be elevated to national icon. Even if the endless articles annoy me, I can at least understand why they appear.

[Bluebeard]

Agree but pales into insignificance compared to the spawn of satan who roar out "Alice, Alice, who the *** is Alice ?" and "Rise up your skirts" in the middle of Wild Rover. Die now.

I hate it when people shout out "Alice, Alice, tho the **** is Alice?" in the middle of Wild Rover too.

[juan]

jaysus cancer

How can he cure that when it doesn't exist...

[John83]

Morons who think that the world owes them a life of luxury, and blaming every difficulty in life on a conspiracy against the working class.

And no, I've not been listening to Joe Duffy again.

[juan]

Someone else eating the breast in bun you queued up for in earnest, after a long night out!

[juan]

Morons who think that the world owes them a life of luxury, and blaming every difficulty in life on a conspiracy against the working class.

And no, I've not been listening to Joe Duffy again.

That should carry a death penaltly.

[Dunny]

Scumbags fighting over stupid sh1te like a bottle of beer....:teeth:

[Burny89]

my girlfriend walking in when i'm looking throught the top totty thread

[Closed Account 2]

The BBC using twitter instead of proper journalism:

from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8592380.stm

"1032 Neil Gaiman tweets: "Just saw the news about Moscow. I was in one of those two tube stations four days ago. Horrible, horrible. Love and sympathy to all Muscovites."
1013 zainul815 tweets: "Suicide bombings carried out by females in Moscow. What in the world is goin on?! R.I.P to ppl who lost their lives."
0837 Zui tweets:"Terrorism has no country, no borders, no nationality, no religion - regardless of whether it is Muslim, Christian, or any other religion." "

Who are Gaiman, Zainul and Zui, and what possible relevance do "tweets" (I hate that phrase) from a load of randoms have to do with covering a fairly major event? They're nobodies and totally irrelevant. Fair enough if the BBC want to put them on some sort of comment page at the back of the site, but interspursing the proper news with such guff is shocking. It's such sloppy, lazy journalism, picking a load of random comment via twitter instead of running a properly researched report. And they've been doing this for a while now.

[John83]

The BBC using twitter instead of proper journalism:

from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8592380.stm

"1032 Neil Gaiman tweets: "Just saw the news about Moscow. I was in one of those two tube stations four days ago. Horrible, horrible. Love and sympathy to all Muscovites."
1013 zainul815 tweets: "Suicide bombings carried out by females in Moscow. What in the world is goin on?! R.I.P to ppl who lost their lives."
0837 Zui tweets:"Terrorism has no country, no borders, no nationality, no religion - regardless of whether it is Muslim, Christian, or any other religion." "

Who are Gaiman, Zainul and Zui, and what possible relevance do "tweets" (I hate that phrase) from a load of randoms have to do with covering a fairly major event? They're nobodies and totally irrelevant. Fair enough if the BBC want to put them on some sort of comment page at the back of the site, but interspursing the proper news with such guff is shocking. It's such sloppy, lazy journalism, picking a load of random comment via twitter instead of running a properly researched report. And they've been doing this for a while now.
Gaiman is a successful author. The others seem to be random people. Why are the tweets (I'm not terribly fond of it either, but it's a word, not a phrase) less relevent than the emails from other random people? The opinions are clearly marked, and if they're representative, then what's the problem? It's not like one of those terrible newspaper articles where the journalist's opinion has poisoned the whole article. There'll be a proper article later, after the journalists have had time to collate information and check facts (or eat lunch and rewrite a wire piece, depending on the journo).

[Closed Account 2]

He's a fiction / comic-book writer, so I really don't think his comments are relevant at all, it's not like they are quoting someone with intimate knowledge of post Soviet political landscape, or someone noted for their knowledge of world events or the locality (e.g. say Kaplan, Simpson, etc), or say the head of the Moscow Metro (eg used in the Russian press http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14966415&PageNum=0).

News should be about the events happening, but this sort of dumbed down quasi-editorialised coverage really grates me. If the quotes were from eye-witnesses involved in the incidents there would be an element of legitimacy, but using random individual twitter transcripts as some sort of compass for world reaction is not only flawed, but also irrelevent in the context of a main news report.


Like I say, none of these sources are world leaders (Obama, Brown, etc)... What next ? Will they put on some quote from Jordan (does she have twitter ?), or maybe something from rent-a-tweet himself, Stephen Fry ?

[John83]

People who complain about one thing (like sourcing vox pops from twitter), and then turn out to have been complaining about something else (like the use of vox pops in modern news coverage). Just picking random examples, of course.

[osarusan]

Deliberately parking across two spaces to make it easier for the driver to get out.

[Closed Account 2]

People who complain about one thing (like sourcing vox pops from twitter), and then turn out to have been complaining about something else (like the use of vox pops in modern news coverage). Just picking random examples, of course.


My point is it (twitter use) is symptomatic of the current poor journalism endemic the BBC. They over-use populist/"youthie" technology so much at the expense of maintaining focus and relevance. I used to like their site as you weren't bombarded with adverts, banners etc, now it's just littered with self-important tweets from nobodies. What ever happened to sending journos out to cover stories?

But anyway I seem to have piqued your interest, I guess maybe you work for them, sorry for any offence.

[John83]

None taken edmundo. No, you just caught my attention because it seemed you were attacking twitter but okay with the emails doing the same thing, which seemed a bit daft. Your actual complaint is perfectly reasonable.

[Bluebeard]

I agree with you guys on news reporting, and with this guy.

YtGSXMuWMR4

[thischarmingman]

News should be about the events happening, but this sort of dumbed down quasi-editorialised coverage really grates me. If the quotes were from eye-witnesses involved in the incidents there would be an element of legitimacy, but using random individual twitter transcripts as some sort of compass for world reaction is not only flawed, but also irrelevent in the context of a main news report.



I agree as regards getting people to text/email/tweet their responses to events: "Mark from Surrey has emailed in to say..." The texts that run at the bottom of 24 hour news stations as also invariably pointless rubbish: "Chelsea taught Man U a lesson 2day, lets see how Fergie copes with the pressure now," JohnC, Kent.

BTW, excellent link Beardy.

EDIT: That reminds me, I've had cause to watch rather more American 24 hours news recently than normal and the difference in the style of reporting there and here is amazing. The anchors will always try to draw YOU into the story when they're introducing the story, having obviously been told to come across as 'a guy at the bar talking to his buddy.' Hence news reports that start along the lines, "Now, (*wry smile*) we allhave bad days at work, but for workers at this factory in Ohio, today was a day they'll really wanna forget. (*Pause, serious face*). Thirty workers at the busy bottling plant were killed today when a boiler exploded..."

[John83]

Sure, but depending on the station, the story will be spun so that either they need tighter regulation of boiler maintenence, or a focus on how poor standards of immigrant labour at the factory is thought to be a factor by "some". Straight reporting is awfully hard to come by.

[Poor Student]

People stealing supplements from newspapers. It is shoplifting. You are shafting the person who buys the unwittingly buys the product you've stolen part of. You're also a miserable miser because you won't cough up a couple of euro to pay for what you're bothered to steal. That goes for people who shoplift full newspapers too, of which there are a fair few.

[Schumi]

You are shafting the person who buys the unwittingly buys the product you've stolen part of.I'd generally be happy if someone had stolen some of the rubbish from my Sunday paper. ;)

[Acornvilla]

romanians coming into your shop begging for store credit and not leaving for an hour begging and repeating themselves even not leaving when i stop caring about how rude im being and continut to shout at them to fcuk off but they wonT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[oscar]

leeds bad run

[De Town]

People who have a load of ????????? Or !!!!!!!! At the end of something they write.

[osarusan]

People who have a load of ????????? Or !!!!!!!! At the end of something they write.

How about when it's in the middle of what they write???????

[Magicme]

Losing your friend in the smallest niteclub in the world.

[Acornvilla]

i reserve the right to use as many !!!'s as i like words can not describe the lack of respect those people have..

[De Town]

How about when it's in the middle of what they write???????

Also should be banned.

[Schumi]

When it's all they write, it's even worse.

Edit:
You'd better choose your next words wisely Schumi, not every day you make your 10000th post!
Just as well you noticed that, I'd have wasted it otherwise!

[Mr A]

You'd better choose your next words wisely Schumi, not every day you make your 10000th post!

[pineapple stu]

People who drive with their fog lights on. Seriously; it's an amazing percentage. Why?!

[stann]

It's foggy?

















:p

[pineapple stu]

When it's not foggy. :p

It's like they want to be seen to be rally drivers or something.

[oscar]

totally agree:car:

[stann]

It's like they want to be seen to be rally drivers or something.

Definitely, specially with the front fogs, some people do seem to be enamoured of that rally look alright, it's become quite the thing again.
I blame the Nordies. :p

[Angus]

The completely untrue, false, inaccurate, uninformed, cartooned, looked up on wikipedia, let's pretend it's hard because they won't understand, abysmally miles off reality, media descriptions of a CFD (contracts for difference) a la Quinn Group.

They are not and never will be a stake in a company. They are not a way of secretly building up a stake. They are not a highly leveraged product. They just aren't.