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Post by sandbachhatter on Oct 12, 2015 7:14:03 GMT
Another Ruined Saturday is your host this week, and here are his suggestions for 'H':
Hodgkinson
It's a stupid name, and it's on my work badge. A proper mouthful, misspellable in a dazzling variety of ways (my dad once received a letter in which he was Mr 'Hudgkowsken'), and just lumbering through the room crashing into things because it is utterly incapable of any daintiness.
'Hazard’ lights
The hazardous nature of these has changed somewhat from I've-broken-down-in-the-middle-lane-and-the-only-responsible-thing-to-do-is-to-alert-fast-approaching-drivers-of-the-potential-hazard-i'm-posing, to I-can't-be-arsed-using-that-free-space-just-across-the-road-because-I'm-too-selfish-important-and-having-two-wheels-on-the-pavement-and-causing-an-obstruction/hazard-both-to-pedestrians-and-other-motorists-while-I-nip-in-for-that-vital-newspaper-is-completely-absolved-by-my-having-all-four-indicators-blinking-at-the-same-time. No. Have a ticket you pr**k. You'll be wanting carrying in a f**king litter next.
Howling for Nathan Woolfe.
Grow up, for f**k's sake. And then looking round grinning at your mates that you're such a card too. I probably said on here, but within about two hearings of it I wanted us to get rid of him because it gave me a right itch that completely overpowered any fairness about him having time to prove himself. Fortunately he was crap, so I didn't have to form a vengeful militia - we probably only had to endure it a couple of dozen or so times in total, and avoided any organised hot-bovril-in-the-eyes reactive punishments. His half-brother was the UKIP candidate for stocky in the recent general election and managed 13% of the vote. I suspect you could have put him on county's wing and made Nathan UKIP's economic spokesman and you wouldn't have seen significantly worse results. I digress.
All werewolf films are sh*te (yes, including 'an american...' and 'ginger snaps'), the only context in which such a display is acceptable is if it's Halloween and you're under 8, and county fans should actually have been howling at that last touch of the game open goal miss away at Solihull last season. Gone. Forgotten as a player, but I still have an involuntary shudder at the 'Soccer Saturday' whopperness of it all.
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Post by sandbachhatter on Oct 12, 2015 7:16:23 GMT
Easy one for me. Much as the misuse of hazard warning lights annoys me (the other one is assuming it's acceptable to park in a disabled space so long as you have your warning lights on. No, being a c*** isn't a disability), I have to vote for howling at Nathan Woolfe. I damn near punched Shrops in the face every time he did it. How he survived last season (Shrops, we all know Nathan didn't) remains a mystery.
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Oct 12, 2015 8:29:41 GMT
Having a surname that also beginnings with and H I can sympathise with the mis-spelling and mis-pronunciation of such.
Blimey, mine only has 4 letters to it but the mangalation of such has led to a series of anagrams and near misses which I could fill a book with.
Hazard lights and howling pale into insiginificance.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Oct 12, 2015 8:43:13 GMT
Having just lost almost an hour of my life doing the school run - a trip that, in normal conditions, should take no longer than fifteen minutes - it has to be hazard lights for me. Some parents clearly consider themselves too important to drive all the way to the official drop-off points, and instead simply stop sooner on the main road, with their flashers a-blinking, while they let out Tristram and Samantha - causing unholy tailbacks, and rather-less-than-holy language, all around them. In my match-tweeting capacity, I didn't mind the howling for Woolfey - given that it usually gave me a cue for a lupine pun. 'Were' is he now, I wonder...  |
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Post by countyfan on Oct 12, 2015 9:08:41 GMT
It has to be the hazard lights for me this week. To me they are for when you have broken down ONLY!! I hate the people that when on the motorway use them to warn of other drives of a queue up ahead and that they are slowing down!!! Thats what your brake lights are for idiots! When I see your brake lights I too will apply mine to slow the vehicle down, I wont take my eyes off the road while looking around for a little red triangle button somewhere amongst the hundred other buttons in the car!!
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Post by ceefer on Oct 12, 2015 18:00:48 GMT
It's got to be howling for NW. The only wolfish thing abot him was the beard. He underperformed last season and wont be missed.
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Post by gazz on Oct 12, 2015 18:32:51 GMT
Howling for Woolfe, it was almost as toe-curling as the absolute cocks who sang 'Ooh,ah, Cantona' when we had the crap brother of Eric in the 90s.
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Post by jamesgill on Oct 12, 2015 19:46:34 GMT
The howling for Woolfe has to take this one. As a younger fan, this should be more of the thing that my generation likes, but I just can't get my head around it. My brother used to do it all the time so I'm really glad I moved to sitting next to Maccy otherwise I'd have probably punched him.
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Oct 12, 2015 21:06:14 GMT
Nice to know Maccy has his uses !!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2015 20:27:44 GMT
Hazard lights has to take it for me. I don't so much mind seeing people use them on the motorway when decelerating rapidly, as I imagine a fair few shunts happen when some dozy so and so is following the car in front too closely and not paying full attention. Plus, it is an accepted use of them in the highway code and I must admit I do very occasionally use them if I'm approaching stationary traffic on the motorway and I feel the car behind is following too closely. It's not myself I don't trust - its other drivers! I loathe people who use them to park illegally, and even more so when their nearside indicator is obstructed behind something (like another parked car) so to everyone else it looks like they are intending to pull out - just creates an even bigger hazard than if they hadn't bothered!
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Post by dudleyhatter on Oct 14, 2015 19:14:00 GMT
So hazard lights... If we didn't have them what state would we be in? Yes there are muppets who don't know/care about using them properly. But on balance they are too important to discard.
Howling or your name to choose between.... The only time I saw woolfie play was Solihull when I was probably only a few yards away from yourself ARS as he missed that last minute chance. Ironically during the subs kick about I thought he looked decent with a good strike on him. However the howling was rather annoying (although the stupidly immature streak I have running through me did snigger at first). Having never really heard the howling I don't know how bad it got but I am sure that it would have irritated the heck out of me. Not enough to get my selfish vote though.
Taking the selfish streak further, my own surname is Gregg so I'm sure you can imagine the number of times I have had smirking kids making comments about 'my' cakes, pastries, sausage rolls etc. So yes having an annoying surname gets my vote.
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Post by marketharborough on Oct 14, 2015 20:05:04 GMT
Hazard Lights - on the pavement - "book 'em Danno!!"
They think its a licence to park anywhere - more traffic wardens would stop them - but then whoever gets T could have traffic wardens and we could all bin them as well!!
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Post by bigfudge on Oct 14, 2015 21:58:00 GMT
All good nomimations but Im going to go for Howling for Nathan Woolfe. Hes sh*t, his brothers a bigot and its f**king annoying!
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Oct 14, 2015 22:40:16 GMT
succinctly (and correctly) put, fudge!
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Post by gazz on Oct 14, 2015 22:56:41 GMT
succinctly (and correctly) put, fudge! Seconded! |
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