mjmooney Posted April 19, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted April 19, 2020 It pisses me off that I've never been any good at knowing street names in city centres. I usually remember one or two of the thoroughfares, but beyond that, if I have to give directions to somebody, I have to describe buildings, pubs or shops. e.g. in Brum, I know New Street, Hill Street and Corporation Street, and that's about it. Colmore Row? Not sure. Yet I could find my way around on foot - I have a good mental 'map' - it's just that I can never remember the actual street names. Admittedly, I haven't lived in Birmingham for nearly fifty years (!), but I'm the same with Leeds, where I have. The Headrow, Briggate, and Vicar Lane - beyond that, I know what they look like, and I've heard and read the names a million times, but if somebody tells me to go to Calverley Street or Park Lane, I have to ask them to describe what buildings are there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 On 17/04/2020 at 17:08, Xela said: Reading the earlier posts makes me grateful for my boss and our WFH policy. My boss only calls me about once a week and thats only to check I'm still alive! I'm more likely to ring her and have a moan about something. Some of the management styles mentioned up the page are terrible. 8am calls, 4:55pm calls, lunchtime zoom meetings. **** right off! Yep awful! We use Sprint/Scrum as we're a development team, so we need daily calls so I can check in with my team but it isn't to check if they're doing work ffs. It's just a 'hey, what's going on today, any blockers etc'. words removed are words removed, regardless of their job position. Some managers are just words removed with an ounce of power. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 19, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted April 19, 2020 6 hours ago, Chindie said: Just catching up on MasterChef and got to the final week and the episode where they take the finalists abroad and get them doing different types of cuisine and working with top chefs there. This year, they've taken the contestants to Mauritius. In the round where they cook with a local top chef and have to do a course each. The one guy tastes his dish ahead of doing it himself and starts going on about how it's elevating the traditional flavours of Mauritius. **** off, he'd never tasted Mauritian food until the day before and probably still couldn't tell you what the 'traditional flavours of Mauritius' were. I've been to Mauritius for 2 weeks and I couldn't tell you what the flavours of Mauritius are either. Ate at loads of different places and apart from sub par curries I don't really know what their cuisine is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 I find Grace Dent to be a massive word removed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Just turned over to BBC 4 and it’s ‘One Hit Wonders’. First up, Peter Sarstedt, who had hits with ‘Where Do You Go To’ and ‘Frozen Orange Juice’. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted April 19, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted April 19, 2020 1 hour ago, Stevo985 said: I've been to Mauritius for 2 weeks and I couldn't tell you what the flavours of Mauritius are either. Ate at loads of different places and apart from sub par curries I don't really know what their cuisine is A mix of Indian, African, Chinese and French cuisine apparently. Most influenced by India it appears. How do I know this? Because the show told me. Probably the same way this Representative for Wellingborough found out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 19, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted April 19, 2020 Just now, Chindie said: A mix of Indian, African, Chinese and French cuisine apparently. Most influenced by India it appears. How do I know this? Because the show told me. Probably the same way this Representative for Wellingborough found out. Yep. but they don't seem to have really created anything unique there. I didn't find any dishes that I would say were typically mauritian. Just borrowed from other cuisines. Sorry I know this isn't what your post was about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted April 19, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted April 19, 2020 55 minutes ago, Morley_crosses_to_Withe said: I find Grace Dent to be a massive word removed She is. I despise her. I've moaned about how shit she is before but no harm in reiterating that she's a completely false pretentious word removed. She's a nobody from Oop Norf who used to review soap operas and then somehow got the gig of being a food critic and immediately took on this affected persona of classy 50s inspired 'lady' that is completely absurd and put on. I mean, her **** walk is put on - she 'sashays' about, nose in the air, arm cocked upwards, index and ring fingertips held against her thumb and other fingers slightly splayed, a completely absurd figure that you'd guffaw at if you saw it in a shit movie, but that seems to be how she actually wants to be seen in the world. And then she will throw in some nods to her actually being a nobody from somewhere too close to Manchester by going on ironically about how much she likes some old fashioned common folk food. She's **** tragic. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted April 20, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted April 20, 2020 On 17/04/2020 at 04:27, mjmooney said: Biro. Xerox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted April 20, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted April 20, 2020 On 17/04/2020 at 09:02, Xela said: You don't get the sign up gifts like this anymore! Man that is a blast from the past. Somehow all that bumpf made me feel grown up! Probably had some ad agency doing psychological tests on kids so it was designed to make you feel that way. Anyway eventually I defected to the NatWest... Interestingly the last piggy you got looked like a fat capitalist pig. We were being trained early! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 For me with Lloyds it was a black plastic horse head shape money box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 20, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted April 20, 2020 10 hours ago, chrisp65 said: Just turned over to BBC 4 and it’s ‘One Hit Wonders’. First up, Peter Sarstedt, who had hits with ‘Where Do You Go To’ and ‘Frozen Orange Juice’. Yeah, people tend to forget the latter (it was pretty shit, compared to WDYGTML). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted April 20, 2020 Moderator Share Posted April 20, 2020 On 06/04/2020 at 19:39, Stevo985 said: Yep. A friend of my mom’s does this. “only geniuses can get 80% on this quiz” and he reposts it saying “I got 10 out of 10!” blocked Someone posted a word search just full of the word nowherenowherenowhere through it with the caption 'The first word you see is where you're going on holidays this year'. Fierce clever altogether. My response 'I guess I'm off to Reno'. Like this 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Ads that mock up a zoom screen. Co op one in particular is pissing me off. "Can you hear me?" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troglodyte Posted April 20, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted April 20, 2020 38 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Ads that mock up a zoom screen. Co op one in particular is pissing me off. "Can you hear me?" Almost as bad as all the banking adverts with shit poetry or, more recently, stand-up 'comedy'. Because they're just so real. **** off. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 20, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted April 20, 2020 1 hour ago, BOF said: Someone posted a word search just full of the word nowherenowherenowhere through it with the caption 'The first word you see is where you're going on holidays this year'. Fierce clever altogether. My response 'I guess I'm off to Reno'. Like this Im going to Weeshrnweeo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 7 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: Im going to Weeshrnweeo The Welsh coast is lovely this time of year tbf 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Genie Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 6 hours ago, Troglodyte said: Almost as bad as all the banking adverts with shit poetry or, more recently, stand-up 'comedy'. Because they're just so real. **** off. Yes, Nationwide have cornered the market with shit annoying adverts with shit annoying songs/poems/stand up by shit annoying people. It must be a deliberate marketing ploy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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