This is sexist I know, but i really can't stand the 'ladette' presenters. Didn't they all come to fame with some crass late night Channel 4 thing on TV? But then to balance things - I switch off anything that has that ego on legs Chris Evans in it as well. Bring back Terry Wogan, Pauly Waters and Boggie Marsh I say......and announcers dressed in dinner jackets speaking the Queen's English... and those big microphones suspended on wires from a frame.....
I get so annoyed when you phone the bank or insurance etc and they ask you for some personal details, whats your date of birth, I tell them and they say âFantasticâ ..what! Fantastic I survived the 2 worst winters, fantastic Iâve lived for so long. Fantastic I can still remember.Â
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
Just wasted 50 mins trying to re-book an eye clinic appt at Royal free that THEY cancelled after all that wait was just to "you will have to be more patient they will get back to you" really the original appt was in September I have had nothing since. Can't get hold of the clinic direct no-one picking up on their extensions. Might be quicker to get on a train & go down there!!
Radio presenters in DJs speaking the Queen's English; yes it sounds daft (at least the DJs), but the point is that there was a time when the BBC had standards.  People weren't allowed to swear on radio and television, then the people in charge decided that their public duty was to reflect reality rather than to set a good example. Back in the day, you could rebuke someone for swearing in public, on the grounds that there were children present, and they would stop. Back in the day before that, it was "ladies present", and the offender might stop and look shamefaced. Try doing that nowadays. If it's on television, it must be OK.
Those children who were present heard far worse in the school playground than their parents ever dreamed of. And thank heavens we have abandoned the outrageously sexist idea that women, such delicate creatures, would suffer the vapours if exposed to swearing.
I agree with you there Su,  now the kids are as bad as the parents,  (not all I may add before you all come back and say my kids donât swear.) I remember my dad, years ago having a go at a bloke in a pub, dad said stop that language in front of my wife and daughter. He apologised to us.  Mind you, my dad was quite a big bloke and a boxer in his time. Now the cowards would get a crowd of mates and kill someone that said that to them.Â
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Dump myself inTO the bath?? any better???Â
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I remember my dad, years ago having a go at a bloke in a pub, dad said stop that language in front of my wife and daughter. He apologised to us. Â Mind you, my dad was quite a big bloke and a boxer in his time.Â
Now the cowards would get a crowd of mates and kill someone that said that to them.Â