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Old Oct 20th 2013 | 4:16 am
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Originally Posted by montreal mike
actually I quite like Mansbridge and his panels, and i enjoy Rex
Manbridge cos he is a Brit - high school only education with many honorary degrees, or the women in his life?

Murphy because he is a newfy & Oxford educated?
 
Old Oct 20th 2013 | 4:16 am
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George Stroumboulopoulos, no problem, quite like him.
 
Old Oct 20th 2013 | 4:18 am
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Originally Posted by Shard
George Stroumboulopoulos, no problem, quite like him.
He's like of them cartoons from the nineties that thought was cool to shiver the picture about.
 
Old Oct 20th 2013 | 4:36 am
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Default Re: Things that really grind your gears.

Originally Posted by Oink
He's like of them cartoons from the nineties that thought was cool to shiver the picture about.
Strombo, is a crap interviewer and there is that other guy, cant think of his name, he's a really boring interviewer.

Being served luke warm food is my bug bear
 
Old Oct 20th 2013 | 5:32 am
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Originally Posted by Piff Poff
Strombo, is a crap interviewer and there is that other guy, cant think of his name, he's a really boring interviewer.

Being served luke warm food is my bug bear
I'm guessing that you mean Steve Paikin?

Strombo is a bell-end. We can't wait for his show to finish and Corrie to start.
 
Old Oct 20th 2013 | 5:35 am
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On the interviews I've seen I thought Strombo was well prepared for his interviews, and usually asks insightful questions in a disarming way. Guests seem to be comfortable with him too.
 
Old Oct 20th 2013 | 5:39 am
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Women with whiny, nasal, Valley Girl voices.
 
Old Oct 20th 2013 | 5:40 am
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Default Re: Things that really grind your gears.

Originally Posted by Shard
On the interviews I've seen I thought Strombo was well prepared for his interviews, and usually asks insightful questions in a disarming way. Guests seem to be comfortable with him too.
He asks well-prepared, and well-scripted, questions that let his guests look good. Not exactly a penetrating interviewer.
 
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Originally Posted by Oink
People not being able to negotiate a roundabout properly
This really irritates me, especially as I had to take a test to show that I am a competent driver and then six weeks later the rules were changed for British drivers.

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Old Oct 20th 2013 | 6:54 am
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Putting my empty wine bottle in the rubbish bin, because there are no glass recycling facilities here!

We don't have problems with roundabouts as we only have two, little mini ones....but!!! We have one planned to be built in 2015 there are all sorts of studies and information sessions planned to get us all used to it.
 
Old Oct 20th 2013 | 6:56 am
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Default Re: Things that really grind your gears.

Originally Posted by Jingsamichty
Women with whiny, nasal, Valley Girl voices.
Do you, like, get a lot of that, like, in Fort Mac?
 
Old Oct 20th 2013 | 6:58 am
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Default Re: Things that really grind your gears.

Originally Posted by MillieF
Putting my empty wine bottle in the rubbish bin, because there are no glass recycling facilities here!

We don't have problems with roundabouts as we only have two, little mini ones....but!!! We have one planned to be built in 2015 there are all sorts of studies and information sessions planned to get us all used to it.
Eh? Don't you take em back to the Green Depot or some such place to get the deposit back?
 
Old Oct 20th 2013 | 7:42 am
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Default Re: Things that really grind your gears.

Originally Posted by MillieF
Putting my empty wine bottle in the rubbish bin, because there are no glass recycling facilities here!

We don't have problems with roundabouts as we only have two, little mini ones....but!!! We have one planned to be built in 2015 there are all sorts of studies and information sessions planned to get us all used to it.
I was in NB this summer and ended up paying what seemed to be a big deposit on a can on Arizona Iced Tea....we drank the ice tea outside the store, and I went in to return it to get our deposit back...the cashier said I had to go to some bottle depot store to get my deposit back and that store was a half hour drive away..this was in Alma, NB this summer..what a scam of a system..and apparently you only get 1/2 the deposit back.
 
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Default Re: Things that really grind your gears.

Originally Posted by not2old
Manbridge cos he is a Brit - high school only education with many honorary degrees, or the women in his life?

Murphy because he is a newfy & Oxford educated?
Peter, I did not know until recently that he was born over there and as to his women I know nothing of that and Rex is brilliant, has a fantastic vocabulary and knows how to put it to good use.

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Old Oct 20th 2013 | 9:06 am
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Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
Do you, like, get a lot of that, like, in Fort Mac?
Nooooo, but y'know, there's like a ladda of engineers y'know, from, like Dallas and Houston, y'know, like.
 


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