You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

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You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

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I'm pretty cynical and bitter before my time I think, and I need a place to vent my petty frustrations...

One thing that reoccurred today for the nth time was an asterisk in a piece of text* which had no counterpart anywhere to be seen. I spent a good few minutes hunting for it. Either someone likes playing jokes or I'm just terrible at "Where's Wally?"

Oh yes, and having just restarted college and needing to take a bus there, I've rediscovered hatred for loud chart topping (god only knows why) music. What ever happened to indie/alt or just plain rock music getting it's say in the charts?

Also colds.

/grumble
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I agree with the asterisk thing. It doesn't make me rage, but it's often a head-scratcher.
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Post by Stoat »

The charts have always been mainly pop, because that's what pop means.
I'm told what subgenre it is goes in 13 year cycles. We recently had rock followed by indie. Now it's sort of urban hiphop, I think. I don't know.
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Post by Dog Pants »

I've noticed that since the early 90s retro has been catching up. Back then the 60s were fashionable. It's been slowly creeping up, but faster than real time, so now the mid 90s stuff is fashionable. I wonder what will happen when last year's music becomes retro. Or new music.
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Post by FatherJack »

I treat unreferenced asterisks as ! symbols, or logical NOTs.

Thus "100 free* stuffs" becomes "100 !free stuffs", or:
100 free* stuffs

*not free
It's like "terms and conditions apply" written really small in an asterisk shape.

In other news, I saw an advert for a College on a bus the other day, which amused a bit, it said: "Great terms and conditions. Apply."
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Re: You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

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WereRabbit wrote: Oh yes, and having just restarted college and needing to take a bus there, I've rediscovered hatred for loud chart topping (god only knows why) music. What ever happened to indie/alt or just plain rock music getting it's say in the charts?
Oh yes, i agree with this many times over. I used to set my alarm clock to radio 1 in the mornings and, honestly, the only reason i got out of bed to turn it off was so i didn't have to listen to the inane drivel from Chris-fucking-Moyles and the cookie-cutter shite that passed for music.

I did like how Sandi Toksvig described Fern Cotton's radio show on the recent News Quiz "It's like listening to somebody who has never seen cutlery and showing them a spoon."

Protip: 6music. What a godsend.
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I wake up to the not so dulcet tones of moyles. I think my ears have developed a protective film to it all as I rarely hear any actual words and just interpret it as mumbling, possibly it actually sounds like that.
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Has to be Radio 2 for me... maybe it's my age... :?
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Willwillwritehiswill wrote: I did like how Sandi Toksvig described Fern Cotton's radio show on the recent News Quiz "It's like listening to somebody who has never seen cutlery and showing them a spoon."
:lol:
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Post by Baliame »

Charts need to be a little more specific. I throw up a little every time I see some faaabulous retard like guetta topping THE CHART.

There should be a top chart like now, but also a real variety such as metal, rock, alternative, real pop, hip-hop, gangsta rap (although we really don't need charts for these, they're all very bad, I mean the best rap I've heard in years was on fucking Whose Line), techno, disco, and so on.
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Post by friznit »

TheJockGit wrote:Has to be Radio 2 for me... maybe it's my age... :?
Except Ginger Twat has made that equally obnoxious repetetive shite now as well. I've resolved myself to listening to Radio 4 all the way to work and back nowadays. I can quote the news, it's scary.
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What's real pop?
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Post by Roman Totale »

Dog Pants wrote:What's real pop?
Vimto and Irn Bru
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Re: You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

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WereRabbit wrote:You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?
Lack of grease?
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Post by Anhamgrimmar »

Granny shifting, not double-clutching like you should?
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But what happened to
SMILER45 wrote:Can Chihaohehao it? Can not be right.
:?
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HereComesPete wrote:But what happened to
SMILER45 wrote:Can Chihaohehao it? Can not be right.

:?
He canned it.
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