Things that irritate the shit out of you

Fin - off topic i know, but do you have issues being understood over there? I presume you still have a Bolton accent? 
I get abuse from Mancs about my accent and i'm only a few miles away 

Fin went to Sharples - people in Smithills can't understand him. 

finlaymcdanger wrote:

It was interesting to see how the UK media reported it versus how it was covered over here. Really highlights how you're way more conscious of climate change over there than they are here.

24" in one day was a lot but like anything, you get used to it over time - it's pretty much expected.

We had a 24 degrees Celsius swing in temperature in the UK this week according to Carol Kirkwood on the Beeb this morning.

-12C last week to +12C this week in the same place in Scotland.

And yet people continue to deny that global warming exists......

Norpig wrote:Fin - off topic i know, but do you have issues being understood over there? I presume you still have a Bolton accent? 
I get abuse from Mancs about my accent and i'm only a few miles away 

Yes. At times. I do still have my accent despite having left Bolton about 25 years ago. Lived in London for 8 years before heading to New York.

I do get blank stares from time to time and have learned to reiterate myself at work. People often just hear the accent and not the words and therefore have no clue what I'm talking about. It can be very annoying.

I can play it to my advantage too though - when making presentations at work (the thing I loathe more than anything else) I'm told that no-one actually hears what I'm talking about, because they fixate on the accent, but it sounds good anyway. I could probably just 'rhubarb, rhubarb' my way through most of it.

The accent can be the least of my problems here though... soon after I moved to New York, I was asked by a junior designer I had inherited if Great Britain was in London. 

Flipping this article for a minute... Things that make me laugh out loud...

The amount of cocks I have seen drawn in the snow on car windscreens this past few days is magnificent.

A thing that irritates the shit out of me. Avoiding the internet all day twitter, facebook, sky sports, everything.....to make sure i dont spoil the royal rumble outcome for me and my lad. 3 minutes left, Ambrose and triple h the last ones in
.....my lad knocked my ps4 pad off and skipped to the end. Bugger. Absolutely loved it though and aj styles will be a good addition.

y2johnny wrote:A thing that irritates the shit out of me. Avoiding the internet all day twitter, facebook, sky sports, everything.....to make sure i dont spoil the royal rumble outcome for me and my lad.  3 minutes left, Ambrose and triple h the last ones in
.....my lad knocked my ps4 pad off and skipped to the end.  Bugger.   Absolutely loved it though and aj styles will be a good addition.

Thanks for this Y2J.
I wish I had a clue what you were talking about though.

rammywhite wrote:

y2johnny wrote:A thing that irritates the shit out of me. Avoiding the internet all day twitter, facebook, sky sports, everything.....to make sure i dont spoil the royal rumble outcome for me and my lad.  3 minutes left, Ambrose and triple h the last ones in
.....my lad knocked my ps4 pad off and skipped to the end.  Bugger.   Absolutely loved it though and aj styles will be a good addition.

Thanks for this Y2J.
I wish I had a clue what you were talking about though.

Thanks for giving you all a break from me while i avoided the internet?

finlaymcdanger wrote:
The amount of cocks I have seen drawn in the snow on car windscreens this past few days is magnificent.

Funny you should bring that up because you would not believe the number of cocks I have seen actually driving cars round here recently.

rammywhite wrote:

y2johnny wrote:A thing that irritates the shit out of me. Avoiding the internet all day twitter, facebook, sky sports, everything.....to make sure i dont spoil the royal rumble outcome for me and my lad.  3 minutes left, Ambrose and triple h the last ones in
.....my lad knocked my ps4 pad off and skipped to the end.  Bugger.   Absolutely loved it though and aj styles will be a good addition.

Thanks for this Y2J.
I wish I had a clue what you were talking about though.

Me too Rammy. I was brought up on Billy Two Rivers, Mick McManus, Adrian Street, Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake, Johnny Quango ( before they invented Kwango's'  ) HoneyBoy Zimba, Dalibar Singh, Marc ' Rollerball' Rocco, Les Kellet, Kendo Nagasaki ( NEVER EVER SET FOOT IN THE PLACE).

This current crop of superstars are a poor imitation. Nobody did a half nelson like Jackie Pallo ( and he had never visited Burnley )

Didn't Cactus Jack used to be called something else? Diesel?

Mick foley. mankind. Dude love

y2johnny wrote:Mick foley. mankind. Dude love

That's him. I used to find it entertaining when I was younger but since the advent of the UFC I changed allegiance.

Reebok Trotter wrote:

y2johnny wrote:Mick foley. mankind. Dude love

That's him. I used to find it entertaining when I was younger but since the advent of the UFC I changed allegiance.

Reebok Trotter wrote:

y2johnny wrote:Mick foley. mankind. Dude love

That's him. I used to find it entertaining when I was younger but since the advent of the UFC I changed allegiance.

I don't mind ufc but it's so hit and miss ALL the time. At least with wrestling there is always something going on that you're invested in. Like at the moment, all the new blood coming through from the nxt are brilliant. And the biggest pop of the night last night was when sami zayn entered the rumble and made a bee line for kevin owens.

Well that and aj styles FINALLY making his wwe debut. Off to check when they are over here again now.

My lad really got into the rumble. He loves kofi kingston apart from when he cheats

finlaymcdanger wrote:

Reebok Trotter wrote:

y2johnny wrote:Mick foley. mankind. Dude love

That's him. I used to find it entertaining when I was younger but since the advent of the UFC I changed allegiance.

Im fighting a losing battle i think fin

y2johnny wrote:

finlaymcdanger wrote:

Reebok Trotter wrote:

y2johnny wrote:Mick foley. mankind. Dude love

That's him. I used to find it entertaining when I was younger but since the advent of the UFC I changed allegiance.

Im fighting a losing battle i think fin

Never Give Up, Johnny. You know the drill.

Reebok Trotter wrote:

rammywhite wrote:

y2johnny wrote:A thing that irritates the shit out of me. Avoiding the internet all day twitter, facebook, sky sports, everything.....to make sure i dont spoil the royal rumble outcome for me and my lad.  3 minutes left, Ambrose and triple h the last ones in
.....my lad knocked my ps4 pad off and skipped to the end.  Bugger.   Absolutely loved it though and aj styles will be a good addition.

Thanks for this Y2J.
I wish I had a clue what you were talking about though.

Me too Rammy. I was brought up on Billy Two Rivers, Mick McManus, Adrian Street, Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake, Johnny Quango ( before they invented Kwango's'  ) HoneyBoy Zimba, Dalibar Singh, Marc ' Rollerball' Rocco, Les Kellet, Kendo Nagasaki ( NEVER EVER SET FOOT IN THE PLACE).

This current crop of superstars are a poor imitation. Nobody did a half nelson like Jackie Pallo ( and he had never visited Burnley )

So it's all about wrestling then?

It is indeed! Rammy, you will probably remember the famous Bolton tag team duo, the Royal Brothers. Bert Royal and Vic Faulkner.