The All New Gripes Thread

[Archive4]

6 nations rugby.
I loved rugby as a player and am also a fully qualified referee in the sport ( football as well, but not relevant to this post )
Just watching E v I at the mo. 2 or 3 things PMO , sorry, upsetting me at the moment.
Player being sent to sin bin for kicking a ball out of the hands of the player on the ground. RULES STATE TACKLED PLAYER MUST RELEASE THE BALL ONCE GROUNDED IN THE TACKLE, so if he is holding on to the ball, first offence is holding on after tackle!
Non straight put in at the scrum, can not remember the last international I saw when the ball was fed in straight! Normally direct to no.8 these days.
Assisted jump at lineout! ( Old rule was lifting ) all ignored at 6 nations and full international level.
LOB ( lots of spherical objects! )

 

[PaulR]

Whoooooosh...

All that is totally beyond me.

 

[Lazarus]

Whoooooosh...

All that is totally beyond me.

The whole point of Rugby Union is that nobody, NOBODY, understands the rules:

Not the Players, not the Officials, and certainly not the Spectators.

 

[2cvbloke]

And that's why the merkins created cowards' rugby, with armour plating and games that last about 3 minutes cos of all the TV ads, less time thinking about the game required...

 

[Archive4]

The whole point of Rugby Union is that nobody, NOBODY, understands the rules:

Not the Players, not the Officials, and certainly not the Spectators.

Spoken like a true rugby league fan!

 

[pgh13]

Cucking fookery programmes! In my defence, I don't usually watch them these days but looking at Saturday Kitchen while waiting for SWMBO's hair to dry enough so she can dry it - don't go there!

So, after cooking this pork dish which they eventually likened to gammon and pineapple, this 'wine expert' eff'ed off to Monmouth to select a bottle of wine from - wait for it; M&S! And when the dish they were cooking was finished, the chefs hugged as if they'd just scored the winning goal.

I think the last time I watched this, it was on the strength of the wine expert shopping in our local Oddbins (and Oddbins went t1ts up about 6 weeks after the progamme aired).

 

[2cvbloke]

the chefs hugged as if they'd just scored the winning goal.

James Martin's only got a few more shows of Saturday Kitchen left, so the hug was a goodbye hug as the two chefs were not going to be back on before JM's last episode...

It helps to pay attention... ;)

 

[pgh13]

James Martin's only got a few more shows of Saturday Kitchen left, so the hug was a goodbye hug as the two chefs were not going to be back on before JM's last episode...

It helps to pay attention... ;)

Sorry! I'll try to keep up! Oh No!!!!! He's a petrol head - he's going to be the secret weapon for Top Gear; Star with a reasonably priced omelet pan

 

[Archive4]

Sorry! I'll try to keep up! Oh No!!!!! He's a petrol head - he's going to be the secret weapon for Top Gear; Star with a reasonably priced omelet pan

Don´t tell me James Martin is the stig

 

[pgh13]

Nah! Stig's a skinny bloke

 

[Lazarus]

Could be a lady chap, then?

 

[2cvbloke]

Could be a lady chap, then?

Dead Stig, Sacked Stig or Unemployed Stig?

 

[Lazarus]

Here's one: Packaged Meat and Fish items containing Two Steaks/Fillets/Whatever that are never, ever even remotely of similar size.

And you cannot really see the separate pieces due to the vacuum wrap and product sleeve.

What on earth is the point?

 

[PaulR]

I strongly suspect that they are chosen to simply make their combined weight equal to whatever the pack size specifies. And to hell with sharing out afterwards.

 

[Archive4]

Here's one: What on earth is the point?

Has " one " looked in the mirror lately?

 

[pgh13]

Here's another: Those 10 packs of AA and AAA batteries that have a cutout in the front which is sized so that once you've taken 3 batteries from the pack, the rest can turn through 90 deg and fall through the opening

 

[Lazarus]

The very word "Brexit" rankles. Not only because someone, in the mists of time, coined the ridiculous expression, but also because it has been widely accepted.

In the old days, we could rely upon the US to mangle our glorious language, but now we do it ourselves.

Mind you, at least the Yanks have a word for "Entrepreneur", which is more than the French do.

 

[Lazarus]

Cellophane wrappers on CD Albums.

Packaging so fiendish that, even in the rare instances where a tab is provided, the first thing that happens is the tab breaks off and no Man's fingernails are deft enough to find a way in.

 

[Archive4]

I thought Brexit was a morning supplement biscuit for those " on the run "

 

[Archive4]

Cellophane wrappers on CD Albums.

Packaging so fiendish that, even in the rare instances where a tab is provided, the first thing that happens is the tab breaks off and no Man's fingernails are deft enough to find a way in.

Guess they have their uses!