>>29639
>As far as I'm aware the WHO named the coronavirus "Covid-19", but people keep writing it as "COVID-19"
u fkin wot m8

People who keep spelling martial law as marshall law, as if they expect Eminem to show up and start running things.

>>29687

The Chinese virus needs Chinese solutions

Americans writing "Antifa" as though it was an acronym (i.e. ANTIFA). I can accept any other variation, but this one is irritating.

>>29687
I've also noticed people spelling metre as "meter". Fucking Americanisms.

>>29707

There's a thing in aviation like that, where everyone gets on a conference call once a week just to read out the number of delays they've had that week and why. They're stopped because of this bollocks and I hope they never come back - they make no sense. The delays are already common knowledge and fed back to the airline's operations departments by email, movement messages, and ACARS feeds daily anyway, so these calls are, I assume, literally there to shame people, or because upper management are too lazy or thick to look at the reports.

>>29705
>I might moot changing it to a Monday-Wednesday-Friday structure

Never organise catch-ups on a Monday. You won't have much of an idea of how your weeks going to go and therefore the whole team is so focused on not looking a dosser that they don't listen to other people. Likewise, nobody wants to do a meeting on a Friday - don't be a dick.

I don't work in programming but I do work in an industry with too many managers. What worked for me was to moan about it with other people so that when you send the email it has some weight to it without naming names. Then you convince them to make the meeting on a Tuesday afternoon when everyone is so busy that it never happens again.

>>29703

I worked on a scrum team in 2005 and it was fucking awful. The entire development methodology is broken and I'm surprised it's still around now. What pissed me off the most was that anyone could call a stand-up meeting at any time, as long as that person was the team leader. Anyone else got told to wait until that cunt was ready.

>>29709
> Likewise, nobody wants to do a meeting on a Friday - don't be a dick.

In my experience Friday afternoon just after lunch is best time for a weekly meeting. Everyone can have a pint of five for lunch, meet from two to four for a coffee and doss then doss from four until half past when it's time for everyone to go home chuffed that they got away with half a day of work.

Fuck's sake, largethreadlockmodladm8, I only wanted to respond to a post from 2018.

>>27545 This book just bubbled up to the top of my reading pile.
Thanks for the link, it's really quite good so far, but will need another go through.
Completely unlike my usual fare - to the point that the Mrs was quite put out and accused me of having an affair with a theatre luvvie. I figured I'd let that lie, rather than showing her this place.

>>29457

My ex still calls emergency vehicles "nee naws" as in, oh, pull over, here come the nee naws.

It was sort of funny but mostly very odd.

>>29458

I was just thinking their cultural literacy must be as impressive as whoever thought [word redacted because I just got banned for an hour for posting it] was a good name for Woolworths kids beds. It's not like when you used to see accidentally goatse-looking logos and think oh well, the designer's just oblivious to memes. That was a bit enviable.

>>29460

Maybe someone at Cummings just thought it was finally time to address the company name with a little nod.

>>29456

>>27716
I used to read a trade mag called Computing. They had a long-running gag about "black women with routers". And it was true, almost without fail every advert for a router used to have a very happy-looking black woman holding it.

I think someone has been in my car last night, judging by the glovebox being open and things from there and the compartment next to the gearbox being on the floor. I suppose it was inevitable, having a car that tucks in the wing mirrors when it is locked and a scatterbrained girlfriend who doesn't always remember to lock the car. At least there was nothing for them worth pinching.

I was about two-thirds of the way past a bus when it simultaneously indicated and swerved out from the stop, almost hitting me. Bus drivers are right cunts.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. Use the whole fucking length of the slip road.

Whether the traffic is at a standstill or moving at 70mph, the slip road is there to give you time to filter in without stopping and match the speed of the traffic, or if you absolutely have to stop when there's no space, move to the end of the slip road to make space for the cars behind you to queue (and get off the fucking roundabout too)

Today I watched a police car ignore one of these. ACAB.

Had to use my horn twice in two days.
First was a campervan driver who pulling away mugging like he was looking in the side mirror but due to how he was parked all that would have shown them was the Gregs behind him - not me coming down the road he was pulling in to.
Second was someone who was driving down the road and then just slowed down to a complete stop. No hazard lights, no signs of looking to pull over - just stopped in the middle of the road with no apparent idea someone was behind them.

It's called a quarterly.

No, it's definitely monthly.

It's four weekly.

https://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/store/back-issues/practical-fishkeeping

It's mainly for the benefit of WH Smith. Nobody likes buying old magazines, so releasing the "November" issue in September extends the shelf life. Also, international subscribers feel like they're getting the latest issue even if it takes six weeks to arrive by surface mail.

The cover date is for the newsagent, not you. It's the date when they're supposed to withdraw the issue from sale. Typically a monthly magazine will publish either 12 or 13 issues per year (the latter usually includes a Christmas issue). In this case, the November issue goes on sale from 25/09, and will be removed from the shelves around 01/11, by which time the December issue should have turned up.

Tip the police off that the house is being used to sell drugs. Scum like that always have drugs anyway so the rozzers are bound to find something nickable.

Bear in mind that snitches get stitches and now you've screamed at them they'll probably blame you for anything like that. I know it's obvious advice but keep your head down, save what you can and fight tooth and nail for a better job that lets you move far, far away.

Is this the first time you've actually had to encounter the great unwashed? Your options are either to join in with them or do what everyone else in the country does by getting as far away from them as possible. You will not change their behaviour.

I find I'm okay with it if I just think of it as an ongoing drama that I catch snippets of.

Just plug stuff in, lol.

>>28838
We've been over this before. Fab lollies are for girls.

>>28839

Marlboro fags were originally marketed to women, but I think we can agree that the branding has moved on.

Despite a risk of "severe" thunderstorms, no such thing looks to be happening. Looks like a disgustingly clammy night in store.

>>28841
There's been thunder since about 8pm and it's still making grumbling rolling noises now.

been sweating my ass off all week welding in this heat. but 3 hours before i leave the fucking weekend rain starts again FML.

I've seen far, far more "moral imperative etc." about I, Daniel Blake than anything Hollywood has ever made.

>>28817

The problem with Ghostbusters 2016 as an example is that it's pretty difficult to argue that the political agenda didn't get in the way of it being a good film. That film was fucking shit, and it wasn't shit because it had women instead of men. It was fucking shit because they were clearly more bothered about subverting expectations and forecasting shipping than they were about writing a good script or hiring actresses who could actually carry a joke.

At best it made no impact at all and everyone has just forgotten about it, but at worst it's had a negative impact for the people it was trying to help.

If I wanted to watch Ghostbusters but not Ghostbusters then I'd watch Evolution. It's a very underrated film.

>>28784
>I'm posting this pre-emptively to moan about all the moaning. It's coming, you can tell.
And come it did. Well done, OP.

>>28820
I wasn't addressing why it was shit, but I still think you're wrong in your reasoning on that matter. I can't be arsed going through it though, you'll just have to imagine me being all smart and long-winded.

Too hot to talk about Ghostbusters 2016. Too bloody hot.

I need to stop doing deep-dives into bigoted teen eskimo Tweeter. Shit's too retarded.

>>28565

I'm learning to be obsequious in Mandarin. It probably won't save me from the forced labour camps, but it might earn me an extra bowl of rice while I'm there.

>他做到了！ 杀死叛徒！

>>28567
You turncoat bastard, I'll have your hide before I take their rice!

>>28567
我的气垫船装满了鳗鱼

The cyclist today who saw an older lady crossing the road at a t-junction and approached it at near full speed, purposefully moving so his path was aligned with hers so he could go 'Watch it!' before cycling straight out of the junction and nearly being sidelined by a taxi with right of way.

I am a huge, huge fan of getting more people to cycle but some London cyclists can be a little bellicose at times and misunderstand their commute to work for the first stage of the Tour De France.

I feel like that ought to have some consequences like forgetting to close a bold tag, but I can't think how. Everything is now a quotation forever.

>>28049

>kicks your ass, destroys all that he cannot carry and takes a shit on your favourite carpet

Moving the goalposts a bit from 'poor people commit crimes for economic reasons' m8

>>28051

Almost all poor people that I had the misfortune to meet have a mindset that can be condensed in: "I was born poor and I had a shittier life than yours, so I am justified in behaving in the shittiest way possible."

>>28051
I understand his objection, if not his cuntyness. The majority of poor people don't just go around swindling and burgling, and their personal ethics will be a big part of that. Meanwhile I know very wealthy people who have similarly strict morals and are the sort of people who would never fuck others over given the opportunity.

>>28050

necrocunting

>>28049
>kicks your ass
Go home, Yank.

>>27746
>elitism and snobbery

Welcome to britfa.gs m8

>>27749
I'd be inclined to agree with you but this gets more playtime than it deserves and it's even won an award. The lyrics are what especially piss me off, just droning on and on repeating the same phrase. I listen to the radio daily and whilst there's a lot of contemporary music I don't like, I wouldn't say it's the same level as this song.

>>27780

Repetition and simplicity are two major features of successful modern pop music. I'm not saying that means you have to suddenly like the song, but you shouldn't be so surprised it's a popular song.

The production on it is really good, it's about as gritty, sampled, and hip-hop as you can get away with making a chart hit sound, and as the lad was originally a rapper and cut his teeth in the High Focus stable, that shouldn't come as much of a shock. His unique (in mainstream music at least) voice probably caught some people's attention too.

The song gets on my tits now because, as you say, it's ridiculously overplayed. But I think I thought it was pretty catchy the first two or three times I heard it. Now after the 800th time, it can fuck right off.

Sage for not supporting your hatred entirely.

Reminds me of the Gnarls Barkley song. Fine in it's own right, nods to a genre beyond just "pop", subsequently played to death.

Isn't this thread about a year late?

But yeah he's bollocks, it's just one of those pop songs that comes out occasionally that's just fresh enough to properly blow every chart-listening cunt's head off. You know how normal wankers think a trip to Nandos is a bit of an adventurous treat? That's exactly what a fat tattooed bloke is to the pop market.

You can tell it's an intentional marketing construct by the fact his album had adverts on the telly. Telly adverts for an album. Just let your mind roll over that for a moment.

>>27783

>It's just one of those pop songs that comes out occasionally that's just fresh enough to properly blow every chart-listening cunt's head off. You know how normal wankers think a trip to Nandos is a bit of an adventurous treat? That's exactly what a fat tattooed bloke is to the pop market.

Very, very well put.

>>27468
Because I've been doing youtube embeds this for the past 20 years of my life and I'll be damned if I'm going start doing it the fancy pants way you kids do things now.

Jesus fucking christ

>>27468
The old embeds are better anyway, because they show the video title, which the new ones don’t. Also you can right click and open them in a private window, in case it’s some manner of dreck you don’t want polluting your YT feeds forever more.

such a creepy video

>>27889
Thank you for your contribution.