Irritations

[John Wheat]

Well Said . #646 is just Bitterness

Bitterness at what?

[John Wheat]

Yes, it is irritating but it comes with being on these boards. I am saying this is not the place for it. Richard is entitled to support a particular candidate and you are free to disagree or ignore him. Surely you want to shout your support for Bury from the rooftop. Are you denying that right to others? And please don't respond by saying well Bury is a legitimate suspect and Thompson is not. That is not how it works.

And keep in mind that personal attacks on posters can get you in trouble.

Again, let's just keep this non-Ripper related because nothing good in going to come of it.

c.d.

Fair points. However I wasn't singling anyone out. Also I just find the attitude by some of the quest to frame a suspect brigade off.

[Pcdunn]

When you go for an eye exam and they switch lenses back and forth asking you each time which is better. Well sometimes they seem almost exactly the same to me but telling them that seems to get them upset. I mean it's not like I am trying to be difficult.

c.d.

Agreed. At my last eye exam, the man began switching them faster and even said he was doing this because I wasn't answering his question. Sigh... old eyes take a little longer to focus, doctor!

[FISHY1118]

Yes, it is irritating but it comes with being on these boards. I am saying this is not the place for it. Richard is entitled to support a particular candidate and you are free to disagree or ignore him. Surely you want to shout your support for Bury from the rooftop. Are you denying that right to others? And please don't respond by saying well Bury is a legitimate suspect and Thompson is not. That is not how it works.

And keep in mind that personal attacks on posters can get you in trouble.

Again, let's just keep this non-Ripper related because nothing good in going to come of it.

c.d.

Well Said . #646 is just Bitterness

[c.d.]

Are you saying that the quests to frame various people for the Ripper crimes isn't irritating? I would say it's both irritating and in bad taste.

Yes, it is irritating but it comes with being on these boards. I am saying this is not the place for it. Richard is entitled to support a particular candidate and you are free to disagree or ignore him. Surely you want to shout your support for Bury from the rooftop. Are you denying that right to others? And please don't respond by saying well Bury is a legitimate suspect and Thompson is not. That is not how it works.

And keep in mind that personal attacks on posters can get you in trouble.

Again, let's just keep this non-Ripper related because nothing good in going to come of it.

c.d.

[John Wheat]

The Irritations thread is a fun thread for complaining about...well...life's Irritations. Let's not turn it into a pissing thread for complaining about fellow posters. I don't think that is a road we want to start down.

c.d.

Are you saying that the quests to frame various people for the Ripper crimes isn't irritating? I would say it's both irritating and in bad taste.

[c.d.]

The Irritations thread is a fun thread for complaining about...well...life's Irritations. Let's not turn it into a pissing thread for complaining about fellow posters. I don't think that is a road we want to start down.

c.d.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Here, here.

[John Wheat]

Those proclaiming that the Jack the Ripper is finally solved when they are referring to a crap suspect that has very little going for them. And that everyone should just believe the b.s. there peddling. It's happened with Lechmere, Kosminski, Sickert and now Thompson. These people of course disregard more plausible suspects that are atleast violent murderers.

[c.d.]

All the junk e-mail that you get telling you that you have won a valuable prize and of course the countless e-mails from FedEx telling me that I have a package waiting for me but they just need a little more information. Yeah right.

c.d.

[c.d.]

When you go for an eye exam and they switch lenses back and forth asking you each time which is better. Well sometimes they seem almost exactly the same to me but telling them that seems to get them upset. I mean it's not like I am trying to be difficult.

c.d.

[Doctored Whatsit]

But that is the case all over, in Canada, U.S., and the U.K., whoever is hosting the interview wants to control the narrative.
Media who attend these things must submit their questions beforehand to be approved, or they are not admitted.
This is why you get lame questions a lot of the time.

Yes, that is really how I feel. It is quite common, and as I said, I used Trump as an example that we would all recognise, because he does this just about every day at his press conferences etc. I thought that using him as an example would help, but I wish I had just made the point as above, and not quoted him as an example of it.

[Wickerman]

With the risk of being political, but very much an irritation, Donald Trump seems to give interviews regularly, but only to people who ask the questions he wants, in the way that he wants, and then don't point out that he hasn't actually answered the question anyway. . . .

But that is the case all over, in Canada, U.S., and the U.K., whoever is hosting the interview wants to control the narrative.
Media who attend these things must submit their questions beforehand to be approved, or they are not admitted.
This is why you get lame questions a lot of the time.

[Herlock Sholmes]

I am SO with you on this one Herlock, it is the most ridiculous way to begin a sentence, and it is getting worse.

It’s strange how this one has become a part of the language Tel. It’s now common place to hear it used. I wonder how it started?

Another one is ‘innit.’ Obviously short for “isn’t it”, but it’s when it’s used that I don’t get. “I’m going to the pub innit,” makes no sense but it’s just used at random.

[Tel]

Also, people who say 'you know' every few words. If I bloody 'knew' there would be no reason to tell me, would there?