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The dastardly red

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Bit moody as got work at 5. Sorry but I have to update you on phrases I hate.

By a country mile

Billy big bollox

He's not the messiah he's a very naughty boy

Bazoongers 

Absolute basket case of a club

Florist/Man Ure/Bournemuff/Pressed Ham etc.

 

I'll probably remember more as the day goes on so will keep you posted. Thanks for listening.

 

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35 minutes ago, The dastardly red said:

Bit moody as got work at 5. Sorry but I have to update you on phrases I hate.

By a country mile

Billy big bollox

He's not the messiah he's a very naughty boy

Bazoongers 

Absolute basket case of a club

Florist/Man Ure/Bournemuff/Pressed Ham etc.

 

I'll probably remember more as the day goes on so will keep you posted. Thanks for listening.

 

The nicknames like Florist etc are so lame, yeh we get it, Florist sounds like Forest, cant OTIB introduce an autocorrect function to remove these?

FFS has to be the most annoying post ever.  Why sign into OTIB and then onto the match day thread to just post FFS, what a waste of time and energy!

Not so relevant now but ‘Little Lee’ used to do my head in, such a deliberately derogatory and patronising phrase to use.

To add a positive spin, I do enjoy when the puns take hold for a few pages, unlike the Monty Python quotes which we all know and have heard a billion times, just in OTIB, but still get trotted out to prove we all know the script of Life of Bryan!  

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39 minutes ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

The nicknames like Florist etc are so lame, yeh we get it, Florist sounds like Forest, cant OTIB introduce an autocorrect function to remove these?

FFS has to be the most annoying post ever.  Why sign into OTIB and then onto the match day thread to just post FFS, what a waste of time and energy!

Not so relevant now but ‘Little Lee’ used to do my head in, such a deliberately derogatory and patronising phrase to use.

To add a positive spin, I do enjoy when the puns take hold for a few pages, unlike the Monty Python quotes which we all know and have heard a billion times, just in OTIB, but still get trotted out to prove we all know the script of Life of Bryan!  

And hands off our Half Man Half Biscuit references!

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29 minutes ago, bobbyhutchscurlymullet said:

Someone calls the play offs the 'pray offs'. Every. Single. Time.

First I thought I was a typo. But, no.

Think that very same poster use’s the name “ Florist “ also……….. I’m not very eloquent when it comes to putting my feelings onto the page,but it would seem to take more effort to use these childish replacements.

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19 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:

Puns.

They are the perfect way to utterly destroy a thread for the comedically-challenged.

Especially fish puns which should result in an immediate ban.

"Hur hur, "plaice" sounds like"place", hur hur."

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Agreed. As mentioned above, when someone says "for f*cks hake" on the match day thread, it's just the worst.

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3 hours ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

To add a positive spin, I do enjoy when the puns take hold for a few pages, unlike the Monty Python quotes which we all know and have heard a billion times, just in OTIB, but still get trotted out to prove we all know the script of Life of Bryan!  

Not only do we know the quotes, but some of us even know that the film is about a man mistaken for Jesus, rather than a former City player now playing (occasionally) for Fulham ?.

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Post after post after post that just agrees with or repeats a previous post.

A single thread can have tens of pages, but it gets really difficult to actually find the key points that are being made.

If you agree with a post, just use the voting button, and only reply to it if you have a fresh point to make.

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1 hour ago, The Horse With No Name said:

It annoys me when posters refer to players by their initials, ie TM has a year left on his contract. There was one the other day had me scratching my head for ages till it turned out to be a typo. 

Agree with this one. I was quite relieved when Kevin Pietersen was sold to Coventry. 

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1 hour ago, The Horse With No Name said:

It annoys me when posters refer to players by their initials, ie TM has a year left on his contract. There was one the other day had me scratching my head for ages till it turned out to be a typo. 

It’s just a way to shorten the name to save time! But agree pointless if nobody knows who it is…

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31 minutes ago, Abraham Romanovich said:

Presser , no it is a press conference, using this does not make you appear more knowledgeable or in the know  

 

 

Industry term, innit, but I take your point.

Going back to the OP, what you so rarely read on here, but always restores your faith in human intelligence when you do, is when someone starts the thread arguing one point of view, but then has his or her mind changed by what others have posted and acknowledges it.  It seems to me, there's something about social media and making posts to strangers that stops many people being able to compromise and back down from set positions. Chatting with your mates in the pub, you are much more likely to change your mind or concede that the opposing view has something going for it. 

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58 minutes ago, HitchinRed said:

Post after post after post that just agrees with or repeats a previous post.

A single thread can have tens of pages, but it gets really difficult to actually find the key points that are being made.

If you agree with a post, just use the voting button, and only reply to it if you have a fresh point to make.

I agree ?

Actually, one that irritates me is, when someone DOES agree with a post, they type “This”. 

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When talking about hooligans people use the name of the club. RE "Cardiff were very naughty"  "Millwall Ran" It seems anyone who is in favour of a little bit of football violence turn all monosyllabic when referring to football fans/hooligans and forget to add anything after the club name. Or maybe it just a weird attempt to sound hard, I dunno.

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1 minute ago, TRL said:

When talking about hooligans people use the name of the club. RE "Cardiff were very naughty"  "Millwall Ran" It seems anyone who is in favour of a little bit of football violence turn all monosyllabic when referring to football fans/hooligans and forget to add anything after the club name. Or maybe it just a weird attempt to sound hard, I dunno.

Ironic that ‘monosyllabic’ has so many syllables. 

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7 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

Industry term, innit, but I take your point.

Going back to the OP, what you so rarely read on here, but always restores your faith in human intelligence when you do, is when someone starts the thread arguing one point of view, but then has his or her mind changed by what others have posted and acknowledges it.  It seems to me, there's something about social media and making posts to strangers that stops many people being able to compromise and back down from set positions. Chatting with your mates in the pub, you are much more likely to change your mind or concede that the opposing view has something going for it. 

Absolutely, a rare thing in any context these days. One of the most valuable things my late Dad (a T&GWU shop steward) said to me was "Remember, sometimes the boss is right." A lesson I have tried to apply, replacing boss with the more general "person you disagree with."

As to the forum, I am perfectly happy to give a like to a post I disagree with if I think it has been well argued.

I'm fond of quoting Keynes:

"When the facts change I change my mind. What do you do sir?"

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What’s quite interesting is a lot of the frequent ideas on this thread are all a bit of a hangover to the early days of OTIB.

Calling teams ‘Crapdiff’ and ‘Florist’ and discussing the ‘Pray offs’ has a real early 2000s vibe to it. The internet has evolved and so has the humour - it’s also interesting that it’s a certain poster who’s been around since those early days (and is a dogmatic old relic anyway) is the main offender! 

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The word "literally ".Constantly overused and misused in society in general. I don't know why it gets under my skin so much.

He literally should have passed it there.He  literally should have scored.The ref was literally hopeless.The list is literally endless!

 

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15 minutes ago, Mad Cyril said:

"Give him a pay per play contract".

"He is rubbish, we need to sell him"

"Why don't they lower the price and fill the Gate?"

And other fantasy clap trap...

Baffles me how many people still genuinely suggest ‘pay as you play’ deals - they aren’t remotely realistic.

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