Rizzo Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Just now, BFTD said: Sounds like you could do with a trip to the doctor. I'm no medical expert, but I'd have thought it's more likely that it's the same cold and you're just not throwing it off. They'll probably want to run some bloods on you to see if you have a vitamin deficiency. It's definately been three different bugs with different symptoms. First felt more like a throat infection and took a good two weeks to clear. That one came with a cough so got a PCR test but it was negative. Got a few days feeling fine then suddenly got a runny nose one Friday afternoon and spent the Saturday and Sunday feeling very worn out out with chills and fever but not really any other symptoms. That lasted about a week. Again got a few days feeling fine but think it was this Tuesday this week I developed a chesty cough which is still going strong. This one I caught from OH who was prescribed antibiotics from his GP but they haven't touched it so it must be viral. Been doing LF tests twice a week but have never tested positive for C-19 so it does just seem to be bad luck with other wee stupid cold bugs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Highly paid and probably respected actors basterdising accents. Surely they had a screen test to prove they were at least adequate at their job. Has Hollywood not learned from Dick Van Dyke? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 13 minutes ago, Rizzo said: It's definately been three different bugs with different symptoms. First felt more like a throat infection and took a good two weeks to clear. That one came with a cough so got a PCR test but it was negative. Got a few days feeling fine then suddenly got a runny nose one Friday afternoon and spent the Saturday and Sunday feeling very worn out out with chills and fever but not really any other symptoms. That lasted about a week. Again got a few days feeling fine but think it was this Tuesday this week I developed a chesty cough which is still going strong. This one I caught from OH who was prescribed antibiotics from his GP but they haven't touched it so it must be viral. Been doing LF tests twice a week but have never tested positive for C-19 so it does just seem to be bad luck with other wee stupid cold bugs. In that case, your other half is clearly playing the long game and trying to kill you off gradually with constant coughs & colds. You should accuse them on hidden camera and post the video so we can gauge their reaction. It's the only way to be sure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Just now, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: Highly paid and probably respected actors basterdising accents. Surely they had a screen test to prove they were at least adequate at their job. Has Hollywood not learned from Dick Van Dyke? What a coincidence. I just got through binge-watching Frasier. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Just now, BFTD said: What a coincidence. I just got through binge-watching Frasier. Currently watching Blown Away, so far Lloyd Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones fucking up a NornIrn accent, I'm sure there is more to follow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 5 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: Currently watching Blown Away, so far Lloyd Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones fucking up a NornIrn accent, I'm sure there is more to follow. Hollywood is incredible for dreadful Irish accents. And then when they clutch an Irish actor to their bosom, they force them to put on dreadful American accents. It must be very confusing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 10 minutes ago, BFTD said: Hollywood is incredible for dreadful Irish accents. And then when they clutch an Irish actor to their bosom, they force them to put on dreadful American accents. It must be very confusing. I once drove a guy to Glasgow airport as a favour to a relative. The guy was over from New York to a wedding in Dunfermline, I asked my relative 'how long had he been away from Northern Ireland?' He said, he was 3rd generation and had never lived in NI. Apparently there are enclaves in NYC that keep themselves to themselves and keep the accent. Hollywood could save a bob or two and hire these guys. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 4 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: I once drove a guy to Glasgow airport as a favour to a relative. The guy was over from New York to a wedding in Dunfermline, I asked my relative 'how long had he been away from Northern Ireland?' He said, he was 3rd generation and had never lived in NI. Apparently there are enclaves in NYC that keep themselves to themselves and keep the accent. Hollywood could save a bob or two and hire these guys. They'd give them subtitles. Admittedly fairly, in some cases. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 10 hours ago, welshbairn said: Who was that Celtic supporting King chap who hates the Jews? Is this him? Adolf O'Hitler? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milton75 Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 On 26/11/2021 at 13:57, MEADOWXI said: They have been encouraging us for months not to use cash, contactless for everything. At the worst of lockdown shops even stopped the need for a coin to get a trolley. I used to always have cash on me, but event he pubs have gone contactless. Now Morrisons have reintroduced the need for a pound coin to get a trolley and been caught out as don't carry cash any more. Pain in the arse. 13 hours ago, Mr. Alli said: What is it about the £1 trolley you can't stomach but normal trolleys are fine. As in, are you fine using parking machines and vending machines etc? (If I am correct in assuming it's the whole £1 slot thing?) 12 hours ago, Thorongil said: It’s the sheer insult and inconvenience of it. I don’t use parking machines, I use the RingGo app or use my phone to pay via Apple Pay. If a vending machine doesn’t have contactless I don’t use it. I’m not carrying around coins. It’s almost 2022. As if I’m going to steal a shopping trolley. Plenty of supermarkets don’t have this arcane practice of having to use a pound coin to get a trolley. If a supermarket does do this then I simply will not use it. 12 hours ago, coprolite said: This is also a factor in my choice of supermarkets. If they want to stop people stealing them they should adapt the exploding collar technology out of The Running Man. 12 hours ago, Thorongil said: I know, right? And honestly, who steals shopping trolleys? It’s not 1985 when there were 4 channels on the telly and kids had nothing better to do. Sorry for the multiple quotes, but I made a fud of it. Anyway. Thorongil - you're having a head's gone on this. That's fine though. Thread is about being annoyed about petty things. The thing about this is that it's not about the supermarket per se, it's about the locale. The same supermarket chain will have stores where you don't need a pound/token and stores where you do. This will be based on the behaviour of their customers. Nowadays most trollies have an inhibitor once you get out the car park, so it's not even about lost trollies, it's about having to reclaim them from areas of the car park where they've been abandoned by morons. Put simply, if your supermarket makes you use a token for a trolley its because most of your fellow local citizens are lazy scum who don't put the trollies back. (None of this is hard and fast, I think all Aldis and Lidls still have tokens needed, but that's a reflection that they're not willing to spend money on a person collecting trollies that posh folk have abandoned). During covid lockdowns a lot of the supermarkets stopped making people do this, as it was seen as unnecessary opportunity for transmission, but they've gradually slipped back to it. I do admit to avoiding places that do it. Lidl and Aldi get a pass as I can usually fit stuff in the big baskets, but I don't have coins any more and can't be arsed with a token. I live in Bishopbriggs and my local supermarkets are Morrisons and Asda. Neither make you use tokens. The next Asda over in Robroyston makes you use tokens. So I don't go. So if your closest supermarket annoys you by doing this, blame your local residents. They are the reason. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: Blown Away It was pish, it seemed to ride on the coat tails of Patriot Games which wasn't all that great. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milton75 Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 9 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: It was pish, it seemed to ride on the coat tails of Patriot Games which wasn't all that great. Like US Marshals on The Fugitive. Although I will gladly watch either tbh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 10 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: It was pish, it seemed to ride on the coat tails of Patriot Games which wasn't all that great. The Devil's Own with Brad Pitt as the cuddly IRA man and Harrison Ford as a gullible New York cop was one of the worst. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 3 minutes ago, welshbairn said: The Devil's Own with Brad Pitt as the cuddly IRA man and Harrison Ford as a gullible New York cop was one of the worst. That's exactly the one I was thinking of and I haven't even seen it The Nineties was absolutely hoaching with Hollywood films romanticising "The Troubles". The Bruce Willis remake of Day of the Jackal is another that springs to mind, with Richard Gere as a troubled, brooding Irish terrorist who's secretly a good guy (with an awful accent). Not sure what could have happened in America after the Nineties to make this subgenre disappear. Bit of a mystery. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 11 hours ago, milton75 said: The Fugitive Watched this for the first time last night, at the insistence of Mrs Mathematics. Had to pretend it was really good, when it was just alright. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 Watching "the boys" right now and Karl Urban's attempt at a cockney accent is nothing short of disgraceful. Sounds Australian most of the time. He is antipodean himself, so that's not surprising. On the NI accent, actors seem to think that just employing the tones is enough. The sing song aspect of it. Its lazy. The series of "Sons of Anarchy" that was set in NI was unintentionally hilarious due to this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 Perhaps they need a Father Ted type "that would be an ecumenical matter" chart for actors doing an NI accent "NO MY COMMUNITY SIXTEEN NINETY NINETEEN SIXTEEN" etc 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 Doing some work earlier. Mrs offered to pop in to see me and bring us some tea/coffee. She turned up and promptly dropped both cups into my shoes, which had been sitting by the door. Had to leave not long after and have had one foot full of tea and one full of mocha for the rest of the afternoon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 So you slipped out of your kitten heel workie footwear into coffee soaked shoes?I'll never understand Fifers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 1 minute ago, Florentine_Pogen said: So you slipped out of your kitten heel workie footwear into coffee soaked shoes? I'll never understand Fifers. It’s a kink thing. I would imagine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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