The Ranting Room

Jim Garten wrote: I agree with that to an extent, but is it really beyond the wit of mankind to invent a CD insert that lasts longer than the time it takes to open the CD case for the first time? How many times have you bought a brand new CD, opened it & had those little tags which are supposed to hold the disc in place fall out (followed closely by the disc itself if you're not quick enough)? No - the kind of packaging which irritates me is the special edition box sets such as Genesis' "Archives"; great album, great to listen to & full of marvellous photos & interviews etc... but where am I supposed to store it? It's way too big for any of my CD racks & even though it looks like a book, it's too tall for any of my bookcases! And what about import CDs which for some obscure reason have an immoveable sticker right across the top sealing the case completely? Half an hour of careful peeling results in several broken nails and one broken CD outer case... then the inner tags fall out, & because you're so busy stemming the blood from ripped cuticles, you don't see where the CD itself fell!

Haha, my friend Louise calls it by the rude name!

Hi! Barry Scott Here!

BANG and it's GONE!

Was it formerly Jif and Cif, Jim?  Somebody once told me it was.


Edited by Geck0 - May 23 2006 at 08:00

Geck0 wrote: Was it formerly Jif and Cif, Jim? Somebody once told me it was.

1 - What do I know about cleaning products? I'm male!

2 - Don't get me started on changing brand names...

OOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Snickers bars are, always have been and always will be called Marathon bars in this house!



I think I need a lie down...


Edited by Jim Garten - May 23 2006 at 07:47

Geck0 wrote: Haha, my friend Louise cools it by the rude name! Hi! Barry Scott Here! BANG and it's GONE! Was it formerly Jif and Cif, Jim?  Somebody once told me it was.

Prog - chick

I dont have kids, but as a rough guide, I stopped blaming my mum for everything when I was about 35..

Anyway, JIM, Cillit Bang has worked wonders in my kitchen, but any advert where someone is shouting at me to buy something really gets me seething. The wost is the advert for 'Safestyle UK' Windows. Now I can't remember the name of this loathsome, bearded northern d!ckhead, but he shouts, repeatedly 'You buy one, you get one free, I SAID YOU BUY ONE YOU GET ONE FREE!!!' This is repeated at great volume, maybe three times, perhaps for the benefit of the elderly or anyone with a short term memory problem. As for me, I find myself shouting back at the TV 'You shout at me you b&stard, you get my boot in your nuts. I SAID, YOU SHOUT AT ME YOU B&STARD, YOU GET MY BOOT IN YOUR NUTS!!'

Now, I couldn't let this years Big Brother (UK) slip through the net. Once again the program makers round up some of the most unstable, disfunctional people they can scrape from the bottom of socieites barrel, and dump them in that perspex house for 10 weeks, in the hope they will either shag or kill each other. Either way it's great telly, right? No. Wrong. It's cheap TV, and while it's on it dominates everything in the media. There's Big Brother, Big Brothers little Brother with that Dermot bloke who does everything on Channel 4 before 6pm, Big Brothers Big Mouth, with that hateful sh!t head of a commedian, who by all accounts is having it away with Kate Moss. The only thing BB is good for is making you realise how lucky you are, not to be as damaged as any of the contestants; knowing that you will never be so insecure as to need to seek the approval of millions of people through a TV show.

Now, excuse me. It's one oclock and time for lunch dom de dom de dom dom
    

Edited by Blacksword - May 23 2006 at 08:04

I have only one coment to say about Big Brother, it!!! 

The girl with the annoying voice who works (works?) alongside Vernon Kaye (the northern monkey).  You must have seen her, or at least heard her?

Google her and find out for yourself.

^Thankfully I seem to avoid such rubbish so well I never even hear about it, though spot on description of "The Northen Monkey".

I don't watch Big Brother, or Channel 4 all that much anymore, so I have no idea who you mean.

But you must know June Sarpong, surely?  If you know who Vernon Kaye is, then you must know June Sarpong!

Not to be politically incorrect, but she's the black girl who hosts the Sunday morning show with Vernon Kaye.

Geck0 wrote: I don't watch Big Brother, or Channel 4 all that much anymore, so I have no idea who you mean.But you must know June Sarpong, surely?  If you know who Vernon Kaye is, then you must know June Sarpong!Not to be politically incorrect, but she's the black girl who hosts the Sunday morning show with Vernon Kaye.

Saying she's black is not un-pc. She IS black..

Dont even get me started on political correctness. I'll be here all day...thinking about it I probably will be anyway..