Random Irritations

[dewsweeper]

Words have been had but she’s still here!

Change the locks!
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[Beezerk]

I nearly posted this point a few days ago. Virtually every interview I've heard or seen with a medal winner has concluded with a question that was either a disgusting attempt to make them cry or just something totally asinine...
"I know your grandfather died this year..."
or
"How proud are you of what you've achieved?"

It's the BBC default position now to try and make the guest cry, specially on breakfast TV.

 

[GreiginFife]

Change the locks!
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Not sure that works when they are still inside...

 

[RichA]

It's the BBC default position now to try and make the guest cry, specially on breakfast TV.

It is a shame. BBC Sport and News have some great reporters, interviewers and commentators, but it feels like they're being directed to ask questions and give opinions that will trend well on social media, rather than being informative and thoughtful.

 

[PNWokingham]

Nobody is cancelling my curry!!! .

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/food-bloggers-call-word-curry-063400213.html

 

[GreiginFife]

Nobody is cancelling my curry!!! .

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/food-bloggers-call-word-curry-063400213.html

Not entirely sure that they want to cancel your curry per se. Just the use of the blanket term for multiple dishes which does seem to be quite worthy of discussion.

It might very well be an English thing predominantly but most people I know up here don't usually "fancy a curry", More likely to fancy an Indian and then get a dish based on it's name given by the restaurant (Saag, Madras, Bhuna etc). Even then the names differ slightly (Dupiaza versus Dopiaza, Karahi vs Kahari and so forth).

Christ, here in the UK from North to South we can't even decide on a settled name for a bread roll with bacon or sausage in it (or on it.. (and then the type of sausage...) it's a veritable minefield).

 

[Orikoru]

Nobody is cancelling my curry!!! .

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/food-bloggers-call-word-curry-063400213.html

This is just dumb. The word curry as we know it pretty much just means rice with meat and sauce. I doubt it has barely any relation to what you'd actually get in Asia. It's like saying we should cancel the word 'sweetbreads' because they're not made of bread. It's just a word.

On another note, do you intentionally seek out these moral outrage stories?? I never see them anywhere but for you posting them in here, ha.

 

[PJ87]

Not entirely sure that they want to cancel your curry per se. Just the use of the blanket term for multiple dishes which does seem to be quite worthy of discussion.

It might very well be an English thing predominantly but most people I know up here don't usually "fancy a curry", More likely to fancy an Indian and then get a dish based on it's name given by the restaurant (Saag, Madras, Bhuna etc). Even then the names differ slightly (Dupiaza versus Dopiaza, Karahi vs Kahari and so forth).

Christ, here in the UK from North to South we can't even decide on a settled name for a bread roll with bacon or sausage in it (or on it.. (and then the type of sausage...) it's a veritable minefield).

It's one of my pet hates ...people always say how can you have curry 3 times a week (I home cook a lot of Indian food)

I just point out it's not just "curry" it's not the same food all time

One day a dhansak, next a Madras, then a korma or a butter chicken

I can see what they mean about a blanket term curry

Maybe just refer to it as an Indian?

 

[Lord Tyrion]

In India they refer to the sauce as gravy, curry is a British invention. Thank you to Rick Stein's Indian series for that.

Back to irritations, I'm on the train to London and the number of cretins in the wrong seat is doing my nut. Book your seat, sit in it. If you haven't booked then don't sit in a seat that is marked as booked. If you do and then the person who bothered to book arrives don't spend 2 minutes explaining why they should be the ones to find somewhere else to sit. Morons ?, I miss being in my car at times like this ?

 

[PNWokingham]

This is just dumb. The word curry as we know it pretty much just means rice with meat and sauce. I doubt it has barely any relation to what you'd actually get in Asia. It's like saying we should cancel the word 'sweetbreads' because they're not made of bread. It's just a word.

On another note, do you intentionally seek out these moral outrage stories?? I never see them anywhere but for you posting them in here, ha.

this is another example ogf cancel culture, which is everywhere - and annoys me and is my random irritation. You have yours i have mine

 

[Orikoru]

this is another example ogf cancel culture, which is everywhere - and annoys me and is my random irritation. You have yours i have mine

I just mean how do you keep finding these things? Do you have a Google alert set up or something? As you saw, I didn't disagree with your point that it was a nonsense story. I just don't know how you keep finding one every other day.

 

[Rooter]

Back to irritations, I'm on the train to London and the number of cretins in the wrong seat is doing my nut. Book your seat, sit in it. If you haven't booked then don't sit in a seat that is marked as booked. If you do and then the person who bothered to book arrives don't spend 2 minutes explaining why they should be the ones to find somewhere else to sit. Morons ?, I miss being in my car at times like this ?

Yeh. ill give you that one. A pointless system! No one pays any attention to it, and I have heard the excuses from seat nickers so many times!! LOL

 

[PNWokingham]

I just mean how do you keep finding these things? Do you have a Google alert set up or something? As you saw, I didn't disagree with your point that it was a nonsense story. I just don't know how you keep finding one every other day.

i think every day may be a slight exageration but given the way the world is, this would not be hard!!

I aheard it this morning listening to Takk Radio and it is all over the press. I deliberatelyy avoided a Daily Mail link as that is bound to annoy the usual suspects and get a normal responce but will add it here so you have more variety along with a few others

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...r-says-time-cancel-British-colonial-term.html

https://metro.co.uk/2021/08/09/blog...oblematic-because-of-colonial-roots-15060822/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-...curry-desi-cooks-call-change-western-n1275855

https://news.sky.com/story/food-blo...-it-is-rooted-in-british-colonialism-12376985

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/curry-cancelled-british-colonialism-claims/

 

[Miller]

Back to irritations, I'm on the train to London and the number of cretins in the wrong seat is doing my nut. Book your seat, sit in it. If you haven't booked then don't sit in a seat that is marked as booked. If you do and then the person who bothered to book arrives don't spend 2 minutes explaining why they should be the ones to find somewhere else to sit. Morons ?, I miss being in my car at times like this ?

This annoys me in cinemas. You go through the rigmarole of choosing and paying for your seat only to find someone else sitting in it before you get there and ask them (and therefore their mates) to move. It's just a lot easier just to find the seat that you paid for.

 

[D-S]

i think every day may be a slight exageration but given the way the world is, this would not be hard!!

I aheard it this morning listening to Takk Radio and it is all over the press. I deliberatelyy avoided a Daily Mail link as that is bound to annoy the usual suspects and get a normal responce but will add it here so you have more variety along with a few others

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...r-says-time-cancel-British-colonial-term.html

https://metro.co.uk/2021/08/09/blog...oblematic-because-of-colonial-roots-15060822/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-...curry-desi-cooks-call-change-western-n1275855

https://news.sky.com/story/food-blo...-it-is-rooted-in-british-colonialism-12376985

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/curry-cancelled-british-colonialism-claims/

How many of these ‘daft’ proposed cancellations actually happen? Do people really think that the word curry will be expunged from our day to day language? I know it fills newspapers but in reality these are non stories which merely serve to outrage people who are horrified by others being outraged.

 

[GB72]

Websites that put a slant on a headline to sensationalise. Today 'brits in france without 2 jabs face ban from pubs and cafes'. Implication is that hte fact that they are Biritish has some impact on this requirement when it is, in fact, the whole of France but accurately headlining the position for everyone in France, including all French nationals. does not have the same impact and ability to infuriate certain elements of the population.

 

[PJ87]

i think every day may be a slight exageration but given the way the world is, this would not be hard!!

I aheard it this morning listening to Takk Radio and it is all over the press. I deliberatelyy avoided a Daily Mail link as that is bound to annoy the usual suspects and get a normal responce but will add it here so you have more variety along with a few others

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...r-says-time-cancel-British-colonial-term.html

https://metro.co.uk/2021/08/09/blog...oblematic-because-of-colonial-roots-15060822/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-...curry-desi-cooks-call-change-western-n1275855

https://news.sky.com/story/food-blo...-it-is-rooted-in-british-colonialism-12376985

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/curry-cancelled-british-colonialism-claims/

Just a point of order the metro is the mail , the mail owns them and just puts stories out under their name that are word for word the same

 

[Neilds]

i think every day may be a slight exageration but given the way the world is, this would not be hard!!

I aheard it this morning listening to Takk Radio and it is all over the press. I deliberatelyy avoided a Daily Mail link as that is bound to annoy the usual suspects and get a normal responce but will add it here so you have more variety along with a few others

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9874633/Now-word-CURRY-racist-Food-blogger-says-time-cancel-British-colonial-term.html

https://metro.co.uk/2021/08/09/blog...oblematic-because-of-colonial-roots-15060822/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-...curry-desi-cooks-call-change-western-n1275855

https://news.sky.com/story/food-blo...-it-is-rooted-in-british-colonialism-12376985

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/curry-cancelled-british-colonialism-claims/

ERM?!?!? The first link is from the Daily Mail

 

[Deleted member 18588]

Just a point of order the metro is the mail , the mail owns them and just puts stories out under their name that are word for word the same

Actually the Metro is owned by DMG Media which also owns the Mail and other titles including the I and New Scientist.

Each publication has its own editorial policy.

 

[PNWokingham]

ERM?!?!? The first link is from the Daily Mail

I didn't want to deprive anyone of having a flabber!