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Silly Mum and Little Girl insist on playing this horrid children’s music every time we’re in the car. All these little kids who can’t sing worth tuppence and loads of crappy synth and dreadful production… it infiltrates my brain and gets stuck in my head and it drives me BATTY!!! And I can’t get away from it. The only positive thing it’s done for me is it’s helped me better appreciate the music I love when I get it (I suppose I’m a bit spoiled really– I listen to what I love 98% of the time).
What I need are a pair of noise-cancelling headphones and an iPod loaded with all my Beatles/George/Pink Floyd/what-have-you.
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1 November 2013
Offline That sounds like kids bop. I always found it pointless, just play the real song instead of a kid cover.
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18 March 2013
Offline AppleScruffJunior said
Doing out CVs & Cover Letters.I’m currently trying to get work experience for 2 weeks in February that will hopefully lead onto summer work for me. I really hope I get a good place like a tourist office or a large department store rather than a restaurant
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Not that there’s anything wrong with restaurants of course, if it’s the only offer I get, I’ll happily take it.
.Got one, the large department store I was talking about! I met the boss and he looked at my CV went “you speak French?” and I said “Ah oui” and he said “hmmm I’ll pencil you in then, ring me in February”.
So success.
Hopefully I’ll get summer work out of it 🙂
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1 November 2013
Offline Yay AppleScruffJunior!
A pet peeve of mine is when ads load 50x faster than the actual video.
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29 August 2013
Offline Web pages you THINK have finished loading, until you click on a link but the page moves just as you do and you end up going to a page you’d rather not visit again.
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18 March 2013
Offline trcanberra said
Web pages you THINK have finished loading, until you click on a link but the page moves just as you do and you end up going to a page you’d rather not visit again.
Is that a slight-snub at the BB’s mobile homepage?
If so then……..
I completely agree with you 
I just have the link saved as beatlesbible.com/forum so I skip the homepage.
The amount of times I’ve clicked on one of the history pages when I want to go onto a forum topic 
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29 August 2013
Offline ^ ha ha – no; I have the forum page linked as well.
It happens to me a LOT on the Manchester United page which expands and contracts multiple times while loading and frequently on others.
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18 March 2013
Offline Here’s a slightly-controversial one:
The BBC requirement that there has to be at least one woman on any of their entertainment panel shows i.e. Mock The Week, Have I Got News For You, QI etc.
The vast majority of female-comedians/comediennes that are on those shows are, simply saying, not funny. I’m not saying women in general aren’t funny, a lot of my friends are hilarious and a good few of the female Biblers have me chortling to myself very regularly. It’s just why should there be a “gender equality” quota for entertainment shows (same for parliaments as well but that’s another matter), I don’t watch comedy shows to awaken my inner-feminist, I watch them to laugh for an hour. So seeing Zoe Lyons, Gina Yashere, Holly Walsh and all just make me groan as they try and keep up with the other comedians and say stupid, unfunny things.
I can reasonably stomach Jo Brand and Sandi Toksvig though
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1 November 2013
Offline It might be the problem since they are hiring cause of their gender so it isn’t as high of a bar as someone hired for their talent.
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18 March 2013
Offline Annadog40 said
It might be the problem since they are hiring cause of their gender so it isn’t as high of a bar as someone hired for their talent.
That’s it, I’d personally feel a bit insulted if I was a comedian at the thought that I wasn’t actually “wanted” on the show that I just had to fill a stupid-quota. Instead of showcasing female-talent, it’s actually pretty insulting.
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Its reverse discrimination which is the same as discrimination just dressed up to look better. Hiring someone solely because they are a woman, black (can i say that, is that the right term? – apologies if not), gay, transgender, muslim, disabled etc, to tick a box is every bit as bad as not hiring them because they are.
But you cant say that or you’ll get shouted down and called all kinds of horrid things.
Hire the person because they are damn good at what they do and meet the criteria of the job.
I went to a comedy club in Glasgow years ago where Gina Yashere was the main act (we had no idea who was on before we went and had no idea who she was when she come on). Her first “joke” was to insult Glasgow which felt totally flat and everyone in the audience preceded to ignore her set.
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18 March 2013
Offline meanmistermustard said
I went to a comedy club in Glasgow years ago where Gina Yashere was the main act (we had no idea who was on before we went and had no idea who she was when she come on). Her first “joke” was to insult Glasgow which felt totally flat and everyone in the audience preceded to ignore her set.
I think she’s the worst comedian that is regularly broadcast on telly. She is so unfunny, that whenever I see her on a show I like (à la Mock The Week) I turn it off but then again Ed Byrne makes me want to turn off MTW as well whenever he’s on, which is generally always, so……
But yeah I agree that’s it more harmful than beneficial in having quotas for a certain type of guest to be on a show.
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Here’s a slightly-controversial one:The BBC requirement that there has to be at least one woman on any of their entertainment panel shows i.e. Mock The Week, Have I Got News For You, QI etc.
I’d personally feel a bit insulted if I was a comedian at the thought that I wasn’t actually “wanted” on the show that I just had to fill a stupid-quota. Instead of showcasing female-talent, it’s actually pretty insulting.
meanmistermustard said
Its reverse discrimination which is the same as discrimination just dressed up to look better. Hiring someone solely because they are a woman, black (can i say that, is that the right term? – apologies if not), gay, transgender, muslim, disabled etc, to tick a box is every bit as bad as not hiring them because they are.Hire the person because they are damn good at what they do and meet the criteria of the job.
I don’t think it is controversial to think that way, ASJr. In my view, these types of practices do nothing to dissuade discrimination. I think it makes it worse. The same type of situation exists over here in professional sports. The National Football League has a rule in place that when a team is looking to hire a Head Coach (no, not a shrink), the team must interview at least one African American. To ASJr’s point, how do you think a person of any race would feel if they knew they were brought in for an interview because the team had no choice. That just smells rotten. How insulting. To date, there are several highly successful black HC’s in the NFL. They were hired because they are very talented – not because they were brought in as a requirement and got lucky. Paraphrasing what mmm said, the world will be a lot better off when we start considering people for what they can do and nothing else.
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1 May 2011
Offline I gave up on Mock The Week years ago. If i never have to see or hear Milton Jones or Mickey Flanagan again in my entire life i’ll be pleased.
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18 March 2013
Offline meanmistermustard said
I gave up on Mock The Week years ago. If i never have to see or hear Milton Jones or Mickey Flanagan again in my entire life i’ll be pleased.
I like Milton’s off-the-cuff puns and wordplay one-liners (hate the eejits who always laugh the second he says the first line despite the fact he hasn’t actually said the joke yet. I wonder what goes through their heads, “Oh look there’s Milton Jones, he’s going to say something funny HAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”) but Micky Flanagan, yeugh!
For all of you people who don’t know who Milton Jones is and his comedy-style here’s a montage
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Offline Milton completely bypasses my sense of humour.
Of all the comedians out there my favourite of the moment is probably Tim Vine. Deliberately bad jokes using word play – utterly stupid it all is.
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Kids that when they hit middle school, their basic reason for everything is “… because we are teenagers!”
For example “We shouldn’t have stuffed animals because we are teenagers!”
Seriously, just because you’re a damn teenager doesn’t mean you can’t like or have a certain thing labeled as “childish”
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20 August 2013
Offline When there’s a whole bunch of space on a form, but most of it is white space and you have to print really tiny on the lines they give you on which to write. Why not give your customers more of that space????
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17 October 2013
Offline I hate how on some sites when you want to scroll down there will be an advertising ‘patch’ of the same background colour to the right of what you’re reading…….Attempting to scroll down clicks on that advert and you are sent to their bloody site.
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Offline Waiting on an important phone call after they say “Okay, we’ll call you back with our decision later today”.
So you sit by the phone getting increasingly anxious as the hours slip away.
Then don’t sleep half the night because of course they made you wait another day.
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