Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: happy chappy on October 11, 2011, 08:20:33 AM
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mine is people throwing rubbish out of a car .what is your's ? dave
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seeing Turks driving with a young tot on their lap! Makes my blood boil!
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Idiots putting stupid questions in the members introduction section [:(!] ;)
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no need to be so harsh to a new member ken, welcome to the forum as you can see members get upset at the tiniest of mistakes, please make sure you post your topics in the correct forum ;)
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in fact which forum would you put it under? from the first few replies it is to do with Turkey
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Ken - even I give new members a bit of slack, CBF is often the first forum new members have experienced so it is encouragement that is needed, not being called an idiot - I doubt you remember how daunting it can feel to walk into a busy forum and speak - this is hardly going to give other new members who are yet to post the confidence boost they need to join in our varied discussions.
To the topic - if it is about Turkey, my pet hate is Brits sitting around in bars getting great enjoyment from loudly telling all their associates stories about how bad this or that is in Turkey - the dreadful work someone did on their home or how thick someone was when they spoke to them (missing entirely that it was probably caused by their own total inability to explain things carefully and clearly.
If it isn't about Turkey specifically then we could be here a while ;) - I'll probably go for ignorant drivers that you sit patiently waiting for to pass at a T junction for before you pull out - then just as they get to the junction they indicate at the last possible moment to turn into the road you are waiting to pull out of. I quite possibly hate that more than the women on the supermarket tills who say nothing until the last item is packed into the last bag and all is paid for, then start a whole conversation about whether the customer has seen Jean lately.
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Right then;
Queues at tills and assistants either talking to each other or restocking shelves! Whats the point restocking if the previous customers cant get out of the door?
Pushbikes during rush hour traffic!
Pushbikes with those kiddy carts on the back- OMG death traps!
Those kids in jeans that barely cover their ar*e- and yes I mean the kids rather than the jeans! Learn to dress- numpties!
People eating with the their cutlery in the wrong hands! You know who you are.
Louis Walsh- Jedward- Wagner and now Johnny- really?
I could go on but I can feel my blood pressure rising and I've got a meeting to chair!:-\
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Automated answering systems, particularly those that no matter what option you press, just send you round in the loop again & again:-\
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What about the frustration of making a call to a helpline or customer services, where you wait in a queue for ages - then get through to someone, explain everything to them - only to be told you need to speak to another department, and when they transfer you, YOU GET CUT OFF!!!
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I did have a grump on here some time ago about various pet hates but I can't find it.
It's a long list and if I find it I will bore you all with it again which in turn will give certain people the excuse to list it as one of their pet hates.
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I didn't realise it was a first post. I stand corrected, chastised and apologetic :(
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[:o)] That drive in the middle lane on a motorway 8)[:(!]
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Bad news folks, I've found it. Here is part one of what may turn out to be nineteen....
SPORT:
Things that annoy me in the world of sport:.
FIFA:
I will never understand why FIFA have decreed that some 35 other teams have to compete in Preliminary Rounds of the World Cup Finals for the privilege of playing England in the Final
It's a scandal - I think that the government should address the problem immediately - by all means necessary - and if that means invading FIFA headquarters - then so be it.
SCOTS PUNDITS:
People like Alan Hansen or indeed Nicky Campbell who start sentences with the royal "we" when referring to the England team - I'm asking for a refund on my licence
FORMULA ONE:
The most watched sport in the world - why ?
Whoever is leading at the first corner wins - given that he doesn't trash his car anywhere between that corner and the chequered flag of course - mind you - some of the sights in and around the pit lane offer some compensation
PAULA RADCLIFF:
She's too thin - she's got a stupid grin - and an even more stupid voice - and she gets off with doing things in public that I would be rightly arrested for.
OTHERS:
Anybody who insists that any of my 6ft putts are not gimmes:..
The Great Britain athletics squad - over hyped, overpaid nobodies - who get lots of my lottery money - to train in exotic, sunny climates - and who win sweet fa at any event
They wouldn't win anything at a Highland Gathering next summer - whatever happened to people like Daley Thompson - Seb Coe - Steve Cram
PLACES:
Places that annoy me
POST CODE EH99 1SP:
Now there's a place that really upsets me.
The site of one of the most hideous crimes in Scotland's long and proud history. An address that will surely go down in history and will induce such feelings of horror and revulsion as such places as - Glen Coe and 10 Rimmington Place. A beautiful corner of our fair land, raped by the manic delusions of a bearded heathen from foreign parts
And where is this I hear you ask - well EH99 1SP is the post code of our wonderful Scottish parliament - will someone please explain to me just how on earth that monstrosity won an architectural award - far less several - it's unbelievable
CALL CENTRES:
What kind of places must they be - modern day sweat shops - populated by morons in some back water in India - morons who can barely speak English and worse yet don't understand Dingwallean
There you are - you've dialled - there's a definite connection tone - and you're just about to speak when you hear the dread words - " thank you for calling the complete-waste-of time-centre - you're call may be recorded for training and monitoring"
Please select one of the following - press one for sales - press two for parts - press three for extended warranties - press four for after-sales services - press five for faults press six to hear these options again - hear them again - you're not serious.
Press seven if you're losing the will to live and are suicidal - your call will be redirected automatically to the samaritans -- or hold for one of our operators - then they have the temerity to subject you to two or three minutes of Greensleeves or worse Daniel bloody O'Donnell - if I want to listen to him I'll buy one of his CD's - then they announce - with more than a hint of arrogance I've often thought - we are experiencing a large volume of calls at the moment - and all of our operators are busy - what both of them - employ enough people to answer the number of calls - why don't you - and by the way if I want to choose from a menu I'll go to my favourite restaurant - thanks very much.
Incidently - I pressed option seven once - the one that redirects you automatically to the Samaritans - and it works - honestly - a sympathetic voice answered - "thank you for calling the Samaritans - press one for slashing wrists - press two for bridge jumping :::.. aghhhh
LANGUAGE:
Things that annoy me in language
WORDS:
Meta-bloody-tarsel - good grief if I hear that one word one or time I'll scream
MODERN BUSINESS SPEAK:
An easy target - phrases like "going forward" - "24/7" - "thinking out of the box" and "expanding the envelope"
Now this is a true story - I once went to a meeting where an Architect concluded proceedings with the immortal phrase "Gentlemen -I've shot the arrow - now I want you paint the target around it" - I swear to God that's what he said
The stunned highland members of the design team - seemed collectively to fail to grasp the deep significance of their esteemed colleague's intended meaning - greeting his pronouncement as they did - with a chorus of the equally profound and abstract "Aye - right enough son" - wonderful stuff !!
TV PRESENTERS:
Talk-show hosts who are for ever saying things like "come on - give it up for such-and-such a celebrity".
Give what up - smoking ??? - sex for lent ???? - what !!!
THE GAELIC LANGUAGE:
That annoys me - I know that's not politically correct - but dear me - do you know how many Gaelic speakers there were in Scotland at the 2001 census - 58,650. That's less than the number of people who go to Celtic Park every fortnight !.
And yet look at the money that's thrown at Gaelic speakers - just how much money was totally wasted on Gaelic road signs in the Highlands- if only 60 odd thousand people can read the blessed things
OTHERS:
People who repeat the same phrase in each and every sentence they utter - phrases like "know what I mean" .
Example: "I'm out of work - I can't afford expensive holidays know what I mean" OR "I was outside in the rain the other day and I got soaked - know what I mean"
No I don't know what you mean - I'm thick - the abstract idea of someone who isn't earning a wage being able to go on expensive foreign holidays is alien to me - and I just cannot grasp the concept of someone being out in the rain and getting wet - both are totally beyond me.
Definitely:
Then there's Glasgow people who say definitely all the bloody time - that really gets up my beak - Barry Ferguson ex of Rangers FC is perhaps the most famous exponent of this obscenity - by the way.
Nouns as verbs:
The increasing tendency nowadays for people to use nouns as verbs - that's another one - sports presenters are particularly guilty of this.
How often these days - at major athletic meetings do you hear some twerp saying "oh I do hope so-and-so "medals" in this event - excuse me - the word "medals" is the plural of the noun medal - it is not a verb - so don't use it as one - especially as you work for the British Broadcasting Corporation for goodness sake.
PS Colwyn - was it your goodself that took me to task on the last rant first time around :)
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Originally posted by kenkay
Idiots putting stupid questions in the members introduction section [:(!] ;)
i put it d your age ken get a life . dave
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That is a line drawn under this - please can we return to what is a very confrontation free topic (you would think) and leave the nastiness and digs behind for good.
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Crikey Highlander, that's a fair long list, I have a few pet hates to do with sayings. I hate "hun"-a lot of young uns use it on Facebook; "on trend", Gok likes this but it drives me mad.
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That's not the half of it Christine but I thinl I should put the rest in the Grumpy Old Man Section rather than here.
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People who throw stones at street dogs and wonder why they bark and chase them, why dont they throw biscuits?
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Scooters that flaunt all those signs that say NO SCOOTERS etc.People on holiday see these signs along Fethiye and Calis seafront and think they are safe with their children.It's worse than ever this year and now we have the electric bicycle (scooter)joining in with the mayhem.Why do they put these signs up as they mislead people into thinking it's safe. A friend was knocked to the ground last year on Calis seafront by a scooter.
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People who clap and cheer when a plane lands... Why?
People who you see at Dalaman coming back to Aberdeen wearing shorts, flip flops,light tee shirts and when they get to Aberdeen they immediately all start shivering and saying how cold it is..These people come from Aberdeen(and even from far away Dingwall), why do they think it's suddenly going to be as hot as Turkey?
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Jacqui - I take the strongest possible exception to that !!!!!!!!.
You have never even met me fair less ever seen me getting of a plane at Aberdeen airport.
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Originally posted by tinkerman
People who throw stones at street dogs and wonder why they bark and chase them, why dont they throw biscuits?
People who throw stones over my gate at my dogs and look surprised and scared when said dogs bark at them !!
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People whose heads are so far stuck up their own a*se that their brains are blocked with sh*te and it ends up coming out of their mouths.
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Agreed laffa - good call :)
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People who park in the disabled section of a car park in huge 4x4 vehicles. When asked where their blue badge is they say ' it's in the other car or i left it at home'. Yeah right!!
People who empty the cars ashtray on the floor of the car park.
People walking who stop dead in front of you causing you to carreer into them, who then give a mouthful of abuse!!
Maybe I should post this in the grumpy old man section :o
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Originally posted by Highlander
Jacqui - I take the strongest possible exception to that !!!!!!!!.
You have never even met me fair less ever seen me getting of a plane at Aberdeen airport.
Don't worry John it wasn't you. Some people on one flight we were on who said they had to go to the Inverness/Dingwall area and had a long drive in front of them.. Hope they had a heater in their car ;)
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My Mrs's ( can you tell she doesn't read this )hopefully
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Originally posted by Highlander
PS Colwyn - was it your goodself that took me to task on the last rant first time around :)
If you are referring to the "Pet Hates (Again) thread, you only made one contribution and was a single letter - "B". You did not explain why you hated the letter so much. I must have either missed this previous thread or restrained myself from commenting "I hate those damned enigmatic posts". So I'll do it now. I hate those damned enigmatic posts.
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But you might be referring to the thread you started yourself in July of this year. I didn't comment on this one either. You may have a tiny imaginary Colwyn sitting on your shoulder waiting to take you task when necessary; a sort of external conscience. This has not happened to me before so it can't really be a pet hate. You may need to see someone about this condition. But if you don't do anything about it, I think I'll begin invoicing you for my services.
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Not being able to buy a poppy with a pin to put it in your coat. Health and Safety think we will damage our bodies by piercing them with the pin... How have we managed all this years to put in a poppy without injury?
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Don't worry John it wasn't you.
That being the case I withdraw my exception.
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Colwyn
Re my post of the single letter B - that was my rather pathetic attempt to answer the question cited in the previous post on that thread.
Re using nouns as vowels, I seem to remember someone, if not your goodself, pointing out that I was totally incorrect to say that medal could only be used as a noun.
As regards the need for me to see someone about a possible external conscience, I fear I am taking enough medication at present and any addition may well push me over the edge.
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On "B". Yes I quoted you out of context. This is often a weaselly excuse offered by politicians to cover up some mistake, but in this case is completely justified. Sorry about that.
On verbs. I recall some such discussion. I think you were complaining about a sports commentator using "winter" as a verb, and I pointed out that it had been used as such since Chaucer's day. You may have mellowed on this noun/verb issue. I see you haven't complained about me converting invoice into a verb.
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Stupid laws - I saw one of those TV programmes that follow the Motorway Police around and they saw someone doing whatever it is you can't do anymore this week - eating a banana, scratch your knee while driving etc. - anyway, they were actually in pursuit of another vehicle so couldn't pull this guy over. Instead, the non-driving policeman suggested they pull alongside and the non-driving policeman could tick him off, before speeding off in pursuit of the other car.
So here we have someone doing something exceptionally trivial, being forced to look sideways out of his car and try and comprehend what all the mouthed words and gestures might mean. All this at 70 miles per hour on the motorway.
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Originally posted by Colwyn
Ah, I recall some such discussion. I think you were complaining about a sports commentator using "winter" as a verb
I recall it perhaps being about a news report from the Olympics or some such event where the successful athletes were described as being "medalled" - is that right?
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Originally posted by Highlander
As if it wasn't bad enough to have them use nouns as verbs in "such and such an athlete hopes to medal in the olympics" I've just heard one say " he has wintered well"
AGGGHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!