Random thing you loathe right now.

Navy aircraft crash today. Lost a couple of aviators on a training mission. Mishaps always suck, but especially when it's such young lives. Another reminder of how dangerous this line of work is. RIP

My downstairs refridgerator decided to stop refridgerating.

I can't say that I "loathe" it specifically, but do find it annoying. So I've been watching some YouTube videos on various crafty subjects and I'm finding it irksome how so many of the content creators continue to apologize for the state of their nails. For one, I would have never noticed in the first place had they not pointed it out, and for two, I couldn't care less about what their nails look like as that's not why I'm watching the videos. (And a more minor third, I rarely ever see anything wrong with them.)

I'm also annoyed that more and more people are drinking and eating in their videos. I don't find it appealing at all, but maybe it's just me. It's just kind of gross hearing people slurping and swallowing their tea or coffee or whatever, and even worse when they're eating and chewing. Yuck! Sometimes it gets to the point where I just shut off the video and move on, even if I'm otherwise interested in the topic, because I just can't take anymore!

bekkilyn wrote:

drinking and eating in their videos

Unacceptable!

Danjo Olivaw wrote:
bekkilyn wrote:

drinking and eating in their videos

Unacceptable!

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That so many international companies assume every Belgian has French as their first language (60% doesn't), and that modern webdesign apparently entails hiding the country/language choice button like it's the protagonist in a Where's Wally book.

Danjo Olivaw wrote:
bekkilyn wrote:

drinking and eating in their videos

Unacceptable!

It’s gross. It can be removed in post and the fact that those creators didn’t is sad.

RawkGWJ wrote:
Danjo Olivaw wrote:
bekkilyn wrote:

drinking and eating in their videos

Unacceptable!

It’s gross. It can be removed in post and the fact that those creators didn’t is sad.

The thing is that they have intentionally made it a part of their videos. As in "Let's chat and have breakfast together!" type of thing in which they sit down at their breakfast and film themselves eating it. And they're talking through it too, which is often even worse than just showing themselves having a few bites as part of their day, which is bad enough in most cases, but more often than not talking with their mouth full. So they don't edit it out because they want it there as a "feature" of their video. And the tea/coffee drinking is getting insane. I've sat through videos where they seem to be taking big gulps of their drinks every 3 minutes. There was another video in which they were doing something creative on a table and they had their drink right there in the midst of it and I was distracted by thinking that they were going to knock it over at any moment all over the thing they were making.

(And yes, they could edit out a lot of these things because I'm not talking about live videos.)

Dejanzie wrote:

That so many international companies assume every Belgian has French as their first language (60% doesn't), and that modern webdesign apparently entails hiding the country/language choice button like it's the protagonist dans un "Ou est Charlie?" livre.

Happy to help!

dejanzie wrote:

That so many international companies assume every Belgian has French as their first language (60% doesn't), and that modern webdesign apparently entails hiding the country/language choice button like it's the protagonist in a Where's Wally book.

Try telling a website you live in the United Kingdom. Or is that Great Britain? Or the British Isles? Or England? ('cos sod Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) or maybe it's just the plan old UK. Or Britain.

Like seriously. Just pick one. Very soon it's probable none of them will be right!

dejanzie wrote:

That so many international companies assume every Belgian has French as their first language (60% doesn't), and that modern webdesign apparently entails hiding the country/language choice button like it's the protagonist in a Where's Wally book.

I thought French was the main language in Belgium. Now I learn it's Dutch?! MADNESS!

Quintin_Stone wrote:
dejanzie wrote:

That so many international companies assume every Belgian has French as their first language (60% doesn't), and that modern webdesign apparently entails hiding the country/language choice button like it's the protagonist in a Where's Wally book.

I thought French was the main language in Belgium. Now I learn it's Dutch?! MADNESS!

Oui, c’est hollandais.

Doesn't this forum have language filters? People keep posting the most offensive word in the universe, and it's not even getting censored

ClockworkHouse wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:
dejanzie wrote:

That so many international companies assume every Belgian has French as their first language (60% doesn't), and that modern webdesign apparently entails hiding the country/language choice button like it's the protagonist in a Where's Wally book.

I thought French was the main language in Belgium. Now I learn it's Dutch?! MADNESS!

Oui, c’est hollandais.

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For the record: "Hollandais" (Dutch from the Netherlands) is as different to Flemish as British English is to US English.

Ironically, Flemish is heavily influenced by French, for obvious reasons. Any car part is just a bastardization of the French term.

dejanzie wrote:

Any car part is just a bastardization of the French term.

TIL: Fluffy dice are French

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Sorbicol wrote:
dejanzie wrote:

That so many international companies assume every Belgian has French as their first language (60% doesn't), and that modern webdesign apparently entails hiding the country/language choice button like it's the protagonist in a Where's Wally book.

Try telling a website you live in the United Kingdom. Or is that Great Britain? Or the British Isles? Or England? ('cos sod Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) or maybe it's just the plan old UK. Or Britain.

Like seriously. Just pick one. Very soon it's probable none of them will be right!

I see you have selected Britishish, is there something I can help you with today?

dejanzie wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:
dejanzie wrote:

That so many international companies assume every Belgian has French as their first language (60% doesn't), and that modern webdesign apparently entails hiding the country/language choice button like it's the protagonist in a Where's Wally book.

I thought French was the main language in Belgium. Now I learn it's Dutch?! MADNESS!

Oui, c’est hollandais.

IMAGE(https://media.giphy.com/media/2BgfYUfSqDilW/giphy.gif)

For the record: "Hollandais" (Dutch from the Netherlands) is as different to Flemish as British English is to US English.

Ironically, Flemish is heavily influenced by French, for obvious reasons. Any car part is just a bastardization of the French term.

Belgium (and Switzerland too) are my favourite language roulette. Many many years ago spent some time in both countries (Waterloo and a tiny village called Grandsivaz) and it was amazing driving short distances and coming across several different languages. Also infuriating for Western Canadians that have only a tenuous grasp on Quebecois French.

fenomas wrote:

Doesn't this forum have language filters? People keep posting the most offensive word in the universe, and it's not even getting censored :shock:

Are you saying I shouldn’t be adapting this thread into a serious screenplay?

fenomas wrote:

Doesn't this forum have language filters? People keep posting the most offensive word in the universe, and it's not even getting censored :shock:

Unfortunately, "Quintin Stone" is actually his name.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:
dejanzie wrote:

That so many international companies assume every Belgian has French as their first language (60% doesn't), and that modern webdesign apparently entails hiding the country/language choice button like it's the protagonist in a Where's Wally book.

I thought French was the main language in Belgium. Now I learn it's Dutch?! MADNESS!

Oui, c’est hollandais.

Ugh, enough of the Belgeoisie, please.

Six hours of required training that has nothing to do with my job and that I don't get to clock out of my regular job to do.

Le Charm Discret de la Belgeoisie?

I'm very confused. I need Hercule Poirot to come sort this whole language business out.

thrawn82 wrote:

I'm very confused. I need Hercule Poirot to come sort this whole language business out.

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Couldn't resist. Love Poirot.

I've been tearing through all the Hercule Poirot books lately. I'm currently on Murder in Mesopotamia.

Kenneth Branagh's head is not sufficiently egg-shaped.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

I've been tearing through all the Hercule Poirot books lately. I'm currently on Murder in Mesopotamia.

Kenneth Branagh's head is not sufficiently egg-shaped.

Ah but his moustache could claim an acting credit by itself. Not sure there's many that could pull that off.

Peter Sellers?

A balm?!

misplacedbravado wrote:
fenomas wrote:

Doesn't this forum have language filters? People keep posting the most offensive word in the universe, and it's not even getting censored :shock:

Are you saying I shouldn’t be adapting this thread into a serious screenplay?

Gunning for a Rory eh?

Quintin_Stone wrote:

I've been tearing through all the Hercule Poirot books lately. I'm currently on Murder in Mesopotamia.

Kenneth Branagh's head is not sufficiently egg-shaped.

I think we can all agree David Suchet is the One True Poirot