The All New Gripes Thread

[Lazarus]

When (and why) did Railway Stations become Train Stations?

 

[PaulR]

About the same time that men wore pants instead of trousers and we awaited the mail delivery instead of the post.

 

[Lazarus]

Well I don't know about you, but I wear pants and trousers.

No commandos here .....

 

[PaulR]

Well I don't know about you, but I wear pants and trousers.

But not at the same time. Unless you mean underpants.

No commandos here .....

Such an interesting turn of phrase.

 

[Lazarus]

But what do underpants go under?

Pants?

We should be told.

 

[Channel Hopper]

But what do underpants go under?

Pants?

We should be told.

Foil underpants

 

[PaulR]

No, no. Those are trousers.

Unless you're wearing shorts or a kilt.

 

[Llew]

When (and why) did Railway Stations become Train Stations?

That's been irritating me for some time. Thanks for bringing that up, hate these upstarts entering the Queen's English.

 

[2cvbloke]

Unless you're wearing shorts or a kilt.

Or Pantaloons........

 

[Llew]

Back in the day, men knew how to dress decently, none of your half-mast shorts blokes wear today.

Vive La France, vive les culottes!

 

[PaulR]

That was when a decent sized stomach was to be celebrated!

 

[Archive7]

My gripe today is with movies that show a morning scene when a couple wake up after a good night sleep (if they were not lucky) and they kiss each other just as they wake up.
Honestly, is it only me that can smell a breath like a sewer even from the most beautiful actress when she wakes up?
Perhaps my bad eye sight was compensated with a better sense of smell, but why oh why they have to be such foul smells?
Anyway, Hollywood, do the right thing next time and send them to wash their teeth first.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Honestly, is it only me that can smell a breath like a sewer even from the most beautiful actress when she wakes up?
Perhaps my bad eye sight was compensated with a better sense of smell, but why oh why they have to be such foul smells?
Anyway, Hollywood, do the right thing next time and send them to wash their teeth first.

A ruff night ?

Your poor eysight could be behind the whole scenario.

 

[sonnetpete]

That was when a decent sized stomach was to be celebrated!

....and why I continue to live in France....

 

[Lazarus]

A ruff night ?

Your poor eysight could be behind the whole scenario.

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That makes two of you.

Surely this is more like it?

 

[Analoguesat]

Anybody else here loath the current trends of fast cuts in programmes. Im watching a dvd of a rock concert - Asia Live In Plovdiv. The director must be a young knob ead as the average length of any shot during the songs is about 3 seconds.

WHY??? The music & the performers are the interesting bit. Not the alleged skills of the editor/director. All the fast cuts and power zooms do to me is make me feel queasy.

 

[PaulR]

It annoys me as well. I usually defocus my eyes and concentrate on the sound instead. Either that or switch off.

 

[Terryl]

My gripe today is with movies that show a morning scene when a couple wake up after a good night sleep (if they were not lucky) and they kiss each other just as they wake up.
Honestly, is it only me that can smell a breath like a sewer even from the most beautiful actress when she wakes up?
Perhaps my bad eye sight was compensated with a better sense of smell, but why oh why they have to be such foul smells?
Anyway, Hollywood, do the right thing next time and send them to wash their teeth first.

Who in the world has the guts to tell their wife (or significant other) to go brush her teeth before you give her the first morning wake-up kiss............You would need some good makeup to cover that black eye.

 

[Archive-8]

Anybody else here loath the current trends of fast cuts in programmes. Im watching a dvd of a rock concert - Asia Live In Plovdiv. The director must be a young knob ead as the average length of any shot during the songs is about 3 seconds.

WHY??? The music & the performers are the interesting bit. Not the alleged skills of the editor/director. All the fast cuts and power zooms do to me is make me feel queasy.

The younger kids have no idea how a music concert should be shown.

So they make all of them in to a contender for some sort of prize!

 

[Archive7]

Who in the world has the guts to tell their wife (or significant other) to go brush her teeth before you give her the first morning wake-up kiss............You would need some good makeup to cover that black eye.

This works both ways.
But now that you mention it, no wonder my sight has gone worse.