People you shouldn't trust

[Marc Meakin]

People who say "x years young!" when talking about a person's birthday. It does not even make sense, and just sounds really ridiculous.

Yeah.
Jimmy Saville often said this

[Johnny Canuck]

People who say "x years young!" when talking about a person's birthday. It does not even make sense, and just sounds really ridiculous.

A 10-year-old is 6 years young for Countdown. That’s about the only legit reason to use the phrase IMO.

[Elliott Mellor]

People who say "x years young!" when talking about a person's birthday. It does not even make sense, and just sounds really ridiculous.

A 10-year-old is 6 years young for Countdown. That’s about the only legit reason to use the phrase IMO.

Even then, you'd say "6 years TOO young".

[Ian Volante]

People who say "x years young!" when talking about a person's birthday. It does not even make sense, and just sounds really ridiculous.

Meh, just the use of an antonym for effect. There's probably a linguistic term for this, but I don't know what it is.

[Elliott Mellor]

People who say "x years young!" when talking about a person's birthday. It does not even make sense, and just sounds really ridiculous.

Meh, just the use of an antonym for effect. There's probably a linguistic term for this, but I don't know what it is.

I'm well aware of what it is, I just think it sounds silly.

[Marc Meakin]

People who say "x years young!" when talking about a person's birthday. It does not even make sense, and just sounds really ridiculous.

Meh, just the use of an antonym for effect. There's probably a linguistic term for this, but I don't know what it is.

Like the name Little John maybe

[Gavin Chipper]

Rebekah Vardy.

People that follow the world of pointless "celebrity" gossip.

Still this.

[Fiona T]

As for the name, well I suppose changing it shows some effort! But the worst is when it's not even "run" or "cycle" etc. but "activity". I give kudos (essentially likes on Strava for those who have no idea what's going on) to pretty much everything in my feed, but if I come across something like "Evening activity" with nothing to explain what might have happened, it goes unkudosed.

This made me lol. A Gev kudos is awarded entirely on the basis of the activity owner having changed its title from the default. Good to know.

That said, I do appreciate the reliable stream of kudoseseses from you. I just didn't know what they were for until now.

I am enjoying Tim's diligent run renaming His most recent is particularly inspired.

[Gavin Chipper]

As for the name, well I suppose changing it shows some effort! But the worst is when it's not even "run" or "cycle" etc. but "activity". I give kudos (essentially likes on Strava for those who have no idea what's going on) to pretty much everything in my feed, but if I come across something like "Evening activity" with nothing to explain what might have happened, it goes unkudosed.

This made me lol. A Gev kudos is awarded entirely on the basis of the activity owner having changed its title from the default. Good to know.

That said, I do appreciate the reliable stream of kudoseseses from you. I just didn't know what they were for until now.

I am enjoying Tim's diligent run renaming His most recent is particularly inspired.

"A run"? Nice.

[Mark James]

Rebekah Vardy.

People that follow the world of pointless "celebrity" gossip.

Still this.

How can you not follow a story that throws up gems like this:

Rooney's lawyer claims WhatsApp messages that would show the leaking of stories to the Sun are on a phone dropped off the side of a boat. He says it is now "lying at the bottom of sea in Davy Jones' locker".

Vardy asks the court: "Who is Davy Jones?"

The judge intervenes.

[Gavin Chipper]

Hahaha.

[Marc Meakin]

Sad but true, I have been following the Depp/Heard trial.
Prolly would have watched Rooney v Vardy if it was televised.
Still cant believe the Vardy case will cost over a million in legal fees for a 40 grand payout, go figure

[Johnny Canuck]

Whatever conglomerate puts these all over Facebook.

[Ian Volante]

Whatever conglomerate puts these all over Facebook.

Can't you block them? I've never seen this at all.

[Marc Meakin]

These so called 'auditors' who film in areas purely to goad the police.
Cant believe how many are on YouTube

[Gavin Chipper]

People who bring activities with them (e.g. phone, book, magazine) to have a shit. Just have the shit as quickly and efficiently as possible, wipe up and get out of there.

[Callum Todd]

wipe up

I believe it's more hygienic to wipe down but whatever.

[Marc Meakin]

People who bring activities with them (e.g. phone, book, magazine) to have a shit. Just have the shit as quickly and efficiently as possible, wipe up and get out of there.

You meat dodgers might have a quick poo but us carnivores need a ittle longer.
Plus where would I do my wordle

[Adam Gillard]

People who leave a big gap to the car in front at traffic lights, then edge forward in a stop-start manner while the lights are still red.

[Elliott Mellor]

Family members who gift framed photos of their kids to others. Like, great, another thing to file in a drawer out of sight. I'm not really sure why people imagine that you're going to want a picture of their grinning kid on the wall/mantlepiece staring at you - it just seems like a bizarre concept if you're not particularly close.

[Callum Todd]

People who leave a big gap to the car in front at traffic lights, then edge forward in a stop-start manner while the lights are still red.

I have long wondered about what the optimal size gap is to leave when stopped or moving very slowly in a long queue of traffic. Too much, as you indicate, is clearly inconsiderate and causes the queue of traffic behind to tail back further, but I'm not sure going absolutely bumper to bumper is ideal either as although it shortens the length of the queue while stopped it also slows down the restart and makes it difficult to clear the road in case of an emergency vehicle needing to cut through the traffic, or if there is a bump (which would surely be more likely if everyone's getting as close as they can!)

So I think a gap of a couple of feet is reasonable overall. Bring on self-driving cars that will automatically leave the optimal gap.

[Gavin Chipper]

People who say it's good luck to be shat on by a bird. I mean, it's pretty much the definition of bad luck.

[Marc Meakin]

People who say it's good luck to be shat on by a bird. I mean, it's pretty much the definition of bad luck.

You can include all omens in that, especially the bad luck ones.
Like not putting shoes on a table and opening umbrellas indoors and of course the 7 years bad luck for breaking a mirror.
My Cousin used to work in a factory making mirrors and they was always breaking.
He's been pretty lucky in life

[Marc Meakin]

People who refer to eggs as chicken abortions

[L'oisleatch McGraw]

I'd be tempted to include "people who refer to meat as 'animal corpse'"
but I know one of those, and he seems pretty trustworthy in general, so perhaps not.

[Callum Todd]

I'd be tempted to include "people who refer to meat as 'animal corpse'"
but I know one of those, and he seems pretty trustworthy in general, so perhaps not.

tell me it's not accurate. 'Meat' is a euphemism. See also: 'beef', 'pork'.

[Fiona T]

Piers Morgan.

[L'oisleatch McGraw]

Piers Morgan.

Pretty sure that is a different Piers,
but lolz for the fact that these readings were taking place in Woke-ingham. You couldn't make it up.

[L'oisleatch McGraw]

I'd be tempted to include "people who refer to meat as 'animal corpse'"
but I know one of those, and he seems pretty trustworthy in general, so perhaps not.

tell me it's not accurate. 'Meat' is a euphemism. See also: 'beef', 'pork'.

Being "on your period" is a euphemism for "cunt-bleeding"... if you are so principled about rejecting euphemisms and using 'honest' (read: nasty) language instead... why not that one?

[Callum Todd]

I'd be tempted to include "people who refer to meat as 'animal corpse'"
but I know one of those, and he seems pretty trustworthy in general, so perhaps not.

tell me it's not accurate. 'Meat' is a euphemism. See also: 'beef', 'pork'.

Being "on your period" is a euphemism for "cunt-bleeding"... if you are so principled about rejecting euphemisms and using 'honest' (read: nasty) language instead... why not that one?

Think I've already answered that in the other thread so won't clog up a third thread on this forum with my animal wellbeing diatribe. Hopefully I can earn your trust there

[Marc Meakin]

People who post negative reviews of holiday parks just because there was a murder in the car park recently, leading to the camp to temporarily lose its alcohol licence

[Gavin Chipper]

People in The Queue.

[Marc Meakin]

People in The Queue.

As an extension, people who take their infant children in the queue

[Gavin Chipper]

People who log their runs on Strava but just leave them as their default name - e.g. Morning Run or Afternoon Run.

Some people took this to a new level today by doing the London Marathon but leaving it titled as "Morning Run", with no description about it or anything. That's truly psychopathic.

[Marc Meakin]

People who log their runs on Strava but just leave them as their default name - e.g. Morning Run or Afternoon Run.

Some people took this to a new level today by doing the London Marathon but leaving it titled as "Morning Run", with no description about it or anything. That's truly psychopathic.

Aah it was the London Marathon yesterday,. When I saw all these people running around I assumed the buses were on strike too

[Tim Down]

People who log their runs on Strava but just leave them as their default name - e.g. Morning Run or Afternoon Run.

Some people took this to a new level today by doing the London Marathon but leaving it titled as "Morning Run", with no description about it or anything. That's truly psychopathic.

You know some watches just upload an activity with that title automatically, right?

[Fiona T]

People who log their runs on Strava but just leave them as their default name - e.g. Morning Run or Afternoon Run.

Some people took this to a new level today by doing the London Marathon but leaving it titled as "Morning Run", with no description about it or anything. That's truly psychopathic.

You know some watches just upload an activity with that title automatically, right?

Indeed - activity gets uploaded automagically, and edited some time later (from minutes to hours to never)

[Gavin Chipper]

People who log their runs on Strava but just leave them as their default name - e.g. Morning Run or Afternoon Run.

Some people took this to a new level today by doing the London Marathon but leaving it titled as "Morning Run", with no description about it or anything. That's truly psychopathic.

You know some watches just upload an activity with that title automatically, right?

It's the default title on Strava (Morning Run, Lunch Run, Afternoon Run etc.) But some people just leave it like that for ages after it uploads (and maybe forever).

The way I have it set up is that when it uploads from my watch, it defaults to private so only I can see it. Then I edit the title and put any comments I want before releasing it to the masses. This is the Proper Way. Otherwise, when people scroll through their feed, they might only see it as Morning Run, and not see it again once you've changed it.

Edit - Fiona replied just before me, but my response covers that too I think!

[Fiona T]

The way I have it set up is that when it uploads from my watch, it defaults to private so only I can see it. Then I edit the title and put any comments I want before releasing it to the masses. This is the Proper Way. Otherwise, when people scroll through their feed, they might only see it as Morning Run, and not see it again once you've changed it.

Perhaps you need to create an instructional video!

[Gavin Chipper]

The way I have it set up is that when it uploads from my watch, it defaults to private so only I can see it. Then I edit the title and put any comments I want before releasing it to the masses. This is the Proper Way. Otherwise, when people scroll through their feed, they might only see it as Morning Run, and not see it again once you've changed it.

Perhaps you need to create an instructional video!

Ooh yes, that would be an idea.

[Fiona T]

The way I have it set up is that when it uploads from my watch, it defaults to private so only I can see it. Then I edit the title and put any comments I want before releasing it to the masses. This is the Proper Way. Otherwise, when people scroll through their feed, they might only see it as Morning Run, and not see it again once you've changed it.

Perhaps you need to create an instructional video!

Ooh yes, that would be an idea.

So I gave this a go but it changed all my historic activities too so would have to edit them all to make them visible. You'll have to live with Morning Run for now!

[Gavin Chipper]

Seems weird. Poor behaviour from Strava.

[Fiona T]

Attractions that insist you buy your ticket online even when you're standing at the gate, and require you to supply all sorts of personal details then spam you with unwanted emails after your visit.

Edinburgh castle, I'm looking at you.

Even their unsubscribe form then requires 5 bits of data!

[Fiona T]

Seems weird. Poor behaviour from Strava.

Tried this again and it appears to have worked - did it on the desktop rather than the app, so maybe different behaviour, or maybe they fixed it!

[Marc Meakin]

People who make these aps that change your image or make your image or photos sing etc.
They could use your images for ill gotten gains.
This may be boomer paranoia, but still

[Fiona T]

I give kudos (essentially likes on Strava for those who have no idea what's going on) to pretty much everything in my feed, but if I come across something like "Evening activity" with nothing to explain what might have happened, it goes unkudosed.

I did a run yesterday and Gev hasn't kudosed it yet - at what point do we report him missing? (I renamed it and everything!)

[Gavin Chipper]

Done. It somehow got buried in my feed.

[Fiona T]

Done. It somehow got buried in my feed.

All is right with the world again

[Gavin Chipper]

Speaking of activity tracking - people who do a run/race that is a set distance in miles or km, but always just leave their watch in the other unit rather than changing it for the event. (I've seen a lot of people log their parkrun in miles.)

People who log their runs on Strava but just leave them as their default name - e.g. Morning Run or Afternoon Run.

Guilty, guilty. Can't be bothered to change the units on my watch. Can you not do the conversion in your head, Mr Numbers? And sometimes I have nothing to say about a mundane run. I'm not sure "Easy Flitch Way 8-miler" is any more imaginative than "Morning Run".

Well, on Strava it comes up with whatever units I've got in my setting anyway, but I just find it slightly strange when I hear people's watches beeping at the mile intervals in a parkrun. And when people talk about whether a parkrun is long or short, they're like "I measured it as 3.14 today." Great. That's quite short. It's meant to be 5.

As for the name, well I suppose changing it shows some effort! But the worst is when it's not even "run" or "cycle" etc. but "activity". I give kudos (essentially likes on Strava for those who have no idea what's going on) to pretty much everything in my feed, but if I come across something like "Evening activity" with nothing to explain what might have happened, it goes unkudosed.

OK, so I have to admit that nowadays I just leave my Garmin in kilometres the whole time. I did a 5-mile race and a 10-mile race not so long ago and just left it. That's who I am now.

[Gavin Chipper]

People who say "is is" when it doesn't make sense (which is most of the time).

Do a sentence please.

I don't think I ever got back to you on this. Something like "The reason we are doing this is is". I think Jess Phillips does this a lot.

[Gavin Chipper]

People who have toasted marshmallows. How is that a thing? It's such an arbitrary thing to do. Excuse me a minute while I stir fry some gummy bears.

Found this video of some stir-fried gummy bears.

[Fiona T]

Guilty, guilty. Can't be bothered to change the units on my watch. Can you not do the conversion in your head, Mr Numbers? And sometimes I have nothing to say about a mundane run. I'm not sure "Easy Flitch Way 8-miler" is any more imaginative than "Morning Run".

Well, on Strava it comes up with whatever units I've got in my setting anyway, but I just find it slightly strange when I hear people's watches beeping at the mile intervals in a parkrun. And when people talk about whether a parkrun is long or short, they're like "I measured it as 3.14 today." Great. That's quite short. It's meant to be 5.

As for the name, well I suppose changing it shows some effort! But the worst is when it's not even "run" or "cycle" etc. but "activity". I give kudos (essentially likes on Strava for those who have no idea what's going on) to pretty much everything in my feed, but if I come across something like "Evening activity" with nothing to explain what might have happened, it goes unkudosed.

OK, so I have to admit that nowadays I just leave my Garmin in kilometres the whole time. I did a 5-mile race and a 10-mile race not so long ago and just left it. That's who I am now.

Surely you're used to pacing yourself in km so that makes sense.

My watch is in km, my Edge (used for longer cycles) is in miles. But Strava shows everything in km anyway.

[Callum Todd]

Surely you're used to pacing yourself in km so that makes sense.

My watch is in km, my Edge (used for longer cycles) is in miles. But Strava shows everything in km anyway.

You can change your Strava settings to show in miles if you prefer. Personally I always use km unless I'm doing a race that fits really neatly into miles (e.g. if I was trying to do a 10 mile race in 90 minutes I would set my watch to miles and try do 9:00 pace)

[Fiona T]

Surely you're used to pacing yourself in km so that makes sense.

My watch is in km, my Edge (used for longer cycles) is in miles. But Strava shows everything in km anyway.

You can change your Strava settings to show in miles if you prefer. Personally I always use km unless I'm doing a race that fits really neatly into miles (e.g. if I was trying to do a 10 mile race in 90 minutes I would set my watch to miles and try do 9:00 pace)

Ah can you do it per activity? Will investigate!

[Matt Morrison]

People who say "is is" when it doesn't make sense (which is most of the time).

Do a sentence please.

I don't think I ever got back to you on this. Something like "The reason we are doing this is is". I think Jess Phillips does this a lot.

Am I being stupid for not following at all? Are we talking about a stutter rather than a deliberate choice to say "is is" because it doesn't make any sense to me. (I mean the whole "it doesn't make sense" doesn't make sense to me as I can't understand what is going on!)

[Gavin Chipper]

Do a sentence please.

I don't think I ever got back to you on this. Something like "The reason we are doing this is is". I think Jess Phillips does this a lot.

Am I being stupid for not following at all? Are we talking about a stutter rather than a deliberate choice to say "is is" because it doesn't make any sense to me. (I mean the whole "it doesn't make sense" doesn't make sense to me as I can't understand what is going on!)

We aren't talking about a stutter. We're talking about people extending the classic "What it is is" to other sentences where it doesn't make sense. I'll listen out for specific examples and get back to you. It's a little bit like when people say "The reason being is...".

[Marc Meakin]

There is a sentence with 5 successive 'and's that makes sense

[Matt Morrison]

I don't think I ever got back to you on this. Something like "The reason we are doing this is is". I think Jess Phillips does this a lot.

Am I being stupid for not following at all? Are we talking about a stutter rather than a deliberate choice to say "is is" because it doesn't make any sense to me. (I mean the whole "it doesn't make sense" doesn't make sense to me as I can't understand what is going on!)

We aren't talking about a stutter. We're talking about people extending the classic "What it is is" to other sentences where it doesn't make sense. I'll listen out for specific examples and get back to you. It's a little bit like when people say "The reason being is...".

Aha! Ok, I follow with the "what it is is" but I still can't get my head round "the reason we are doing this is is". But that's fine. Thanks.

[Marc Meakin]

Had, had gets used a lot too

[Mark Deeks]

People with wind chimes in their garden. We live in a society, you sociopaths.