If looking for something really piffling to complain about, how about people in TV-land, adverts in particular, being unable to hold a mug by the handle instead wrapping their hands around it looking ‘mumsy’ and self satisfied.
@BenCotto - at the risk of offending your sensibilities ... I always have very cold fingers and hands (circulation issues) - so I'm guilty of cradling my hot drink mugs as per cheesy adverts!
Me too. Especially when I'm trying not to put the heating on @Desi_in_London
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Real, artificial or pylon? The true Christmas tree choices. This specific style of pylon Christmas tree has been requested for several months. It's officially known as a 'spikey Eiffel Tower' by those that really know their pylon styles.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Think you need to check the moisture levels in your house @wild edges. Mushrooms growing up the wall.... I love the little trees at the bottom. They look like the ones I have for the top of a Christmas cake. We make a little scene on a kitchen shelf every year with them [don't do cake now ] and they were my Mum's. They must be at least 50 or 60 years old, as I remember them being on cakes from a very young age. You can just about see them here - there's a Santa, a robin on a tree trunk, and some children on sledges.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The ad that does my head in is that one for a perfume - Daisy. Makes me ridiculously furious because of the stupid repetition of the name. Thankfully I can pause it if I'm watching in real time, then wait a bit, and press resume, missing out the thing.
Drives OH nuts too.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
The ones about funerrrral plans annoy me. Patronising old gttts And the cruise ones with rich looking silver foxes and sophisticated women dining on gourmet food in splendid isolation - so convincing Then there's that crying woman in the couch with animals looking at her. I've no idea what they're advertising because I always switch channels before the end.
I've noticed that there seems to be a lot of women presenters on ( mens) football games now but have yet to see ( or be aware) of any men presenters on the women football games. 🤔
The ones about funerrrral plans annoy me. Patronising old gttts And the cruise ones with rich looking silver foxes and sophisticated women dining on gourmet food in splendid isolation - so convincing Then there's that crying woman in the couch with animals looking at her. I've no idea what they're advertising because I always switch channels before the end.
@B3. I agree on all three of those. I saw a post on a travel site recently contrasting the images from brochures and the reality of life on a cruise ship. A woman I worked with used to come out with some great expressions, and her description of a dense crowd seems to fit the bill. "They were shoulder to shoulder from the waist up".
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I love the little trees at the bottom. They look like the ones I have for the top of a Christmas cake. We make a little scene on a kitchen shelf every year with them [don't do cake now ] and they were my Mum's. They must be at least 50 or 60 years old, as I remember them being on cakes from a very young age.
You can just about see them here - there's a Santa, a robin on a tree trunk, and some children on sledges.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
And the cruise ones with rich looking silver foxes and sophisticated women dining on gourmet food in splendid isolation - so convincing
Then there's that crying woman in the couch with animals looking at her. I've no idea what they're advertising because I always switch channels before the end.
@B3. I agree on all three of those. I saw a post on a travel site recently contrasting the images from brochures and the reality of life on a cruise ship. A woman I worked with used to come out with some great expressions, and her description of a dense crowd seems to fit the bill. "They were shoulder to shoulder from the waist up".