Rant of the Day v2.

[Capetonian]

Why must radio announcers always refer to a programme as a 'show'?
"So, here's the line-up for today's show ....."

[ian16th]

Why must radio announcers always refer to a programme as a 'show'?
"So, here's the line-up for today's show ....."

Isn’t there an 'app' for video on the wireless with these new fangled smart phones?

[Pontius Navigator]

Why must radio announcers always refer to a programme as a 'show'?
"So, here's the line-up for today's show ....."

Isn’t there an 'app' for video on the wireless with these new fangled smart phones?

I hope not

[fareastdriver]

Went out for some essentials today. The bus stop shelters ane placed at the back of the pavement with the front about five feet from the kerb. I am walking along and there is a bloke waiting fore a bus; halfway between the front of the shelter and the kerb. Expecting him to move into the shelter so as to give me about two metres clearance if I walked along the kerb I carried on.

No; the thick burk just stood there. I assumed that he was so thick that he was bound to have caught Corvid 19 so I stopped short and crossed the road.

[jimtherev]

Went out for some essentials today. The bus stop shelters ane placed at the back of the pavement with the front about five feet from the kerb. I am walking along and there is a bloke waiting fore a bus; halfway between the front of the shelter and the kerb. Expecting him to move into the shelter so as to give me about two metres clearance if I walked along the kerb I carried on.

No; the thick burk just stood there. I assumed that he was so thick that he was bound to have caught Corvid 19 so I stopped short and crossed the road.

E woz there first, innit?

[Smeagol]

Got a bit 'hot under the collar' and had a shout at the television at a news report recently. A young woman was bemoaning the fact that she had been in temporary accommodation, in a converted office building, for over two years with her two children and that is was completely unsuitable. The children were aged 7 years and 7 months. That means that she got herself pregnant whilst already living in temporary accommodation that she deemed unsuitable.

Was that an act of stupidity, carelessness or just a cynical exercise to get more leverage to get out of the temporary housing? If the latter it seems to have failed miserably but I am inclined to believe it was one or both of the first two.

No sympathy from me.

[Boac]

Agree 100%. A case for sterilisation.

[G-CPTN]

Don't you know that the state owes single mothers accommodation?

[ricardian]

A cry of "Now you know how it feels, you ******". A cry from my asthmatic wife in response to some patient interviewed on TV today regarding his difficulty in drawing breath consequent on contracting CV.

Yup! Asthmatics have difficulty in breathing out, once you've breathed out the laws of physics mean you breath in without too much effort. The physiotherapists at HMS Drake taught me the essentials of diaphragmatic breathing which has probably saved me a few blue light trips to hospital although I did have a cardiac arrest after a particularly nasty bronchospasm in 1987.

[Mrs Ex-Ascot]

Despite being vaccinated for Whooping cough I managed to suffer from a 'mild case' at the age of fourteen; apparently I turned blue quite a few times. Asthma is mild in comparison. Not quite sure that I want to test out Beer virus.........

[PHXPhlyer]

Got flashed by Photo Radar yesterday. 60ish in a 45MPH zone.
No idea what it will cost.
My excuse: near empty streets.

PP

[ian16th]

Got flashed by Photo Radar yesterday. 60ish in a 45MPH zone.
No idea what it will cost.
My excuse: near empty streets.

PP

Is your system simply pay up and grit your teeth, or do you accumulate points towards a banning?

[PHXPhlyer]

Don't have a clue Ian.
I guess I will find out when I get the letter.
Something to look forward to. Not!

PP

[jimtherev]

Local reports that a number of people have been flashed at 151 mph on the M1 motorway in Derbyshire.
Hope they enjoyed it, as they won't have a license for a while, now.

[4mastacker]

Doesn't 151mph guarantee jail-time?

[Ex-Ascot]

Doesn't 151mph guarantee jail-time?

Pretty sure it goes down as dangerous driving.

[ExSp33db1rd]

Doesn't 151mph guarantee jail-time?
Pretty sure it goes down as dangerous driving.

Once lived 2 hours from Heathrow, so when rostered for 1 1/2 hrs stand-by duty I would drive about 1/3 of the distance to the airport, and use a location for the day that had a telephone, and where I could sit and read, or use a portable typewriter,or do my flight manual amendments ! ( keen I was )

One day I was a bit behind my planned departure schedule when I left home, so stopped en route to my destination and was told that I had been called out shortly after I had left ! Quelle Horreur ! I was left with less than an hour to meet my 1 1/2 hr. commitment.

That was when I discovered that my car could maintain 140 mph on the M.3 No overhead cameras in those days, and no Police Patrols, made it !

[Ex-Ascot]

Our standby at LGW was 2hrs. Could usually just about make it depending on the time of day. Had one guy 3 hrs away who never got caught out. Had one captain who rented out a caravan close by for standby or triple night flights. His teeth once got frozen into a glass of water by the bed. He brought the glass mit nashers to work and thawed the combination out on the flight deck.

[Pinky the pilot]

t was when I discovered that my car could maintain 140 mph on the M.3

What was your car Speedy?

[Ex-Ascot]

About 300 house sitting applications a year 298 are unsuitable or don't qualify. Why don't people read the advert. Courtesy dictates that I reply to every application. Some then start to argue and say that they could learn on the job or that they would get used to living in the middle of the bush in Africa.

Just had an application from a Barbie Doll in school uniform. American of course and probably has absolutely no idea where Botswana is. If she has ever heard of it probably thinks that it is a county in that country Africa.