Teeny tiny things that drive you nuts out of all proportion

[swee'pea99]

Milligan was a nutter. Also a genius. And The Goons featured some of the most brilliant sound-gags ever broadcast. Eg, Seagoon tells how he was instructed, on arriving at the Inn, to knock 1,000 times. Which he does, with a staccato rattle that extends for an agonizingly ludicrous period - probably a minute or more, with slightly nervous audience chuckles just audible in the background, till it eventually stops, door opens, voice says 'yes?' Seagoon says 'House of the August Goon?' Voice says 'Next door', door closes.

 

[Archie_tect]

You silly twisted boy, you.

 

[Trickedem]

Bits of spiders webs that get caught in what's left of my hair. Always difficult to remove

 

[captain nemo1701]

A couple more things that wind me up:

1. Nigel Farage. Smug git who hates the EU, yet is an MEP. Hates 'Brussels beaurocrats' yet presumably draws a salary from the EU. Hypocritical twat

2 . Triple razor blade spares that need to be kept in big plastic boxes 'cos of the law (or so I'm told). What does the govt think I'm going to do - shave someone to death?. Could be very dangerous with a vitamin E lubricating strip .

 

[Linford]

[QUOTE 2425061, member: 45"]And the world is a better place thanks to people like him.[/quote]

I've read a few of his books...very entertaining reads. He certainly marched in time to the beat of a different drummer.

 

[Bay Runner]

Eastenders

 

[tyred]

Eastenders

Yep, the world's most pointless TV programme. I have no desire to sit and watch second rate actors rant and shout at each other.

 

[Arch]

All this talk of sound effects brings to mind a story of Spike Milligan walking into the BBC canteen (this during the Goons era), going up to the counter and asking for a jug of custard, then removing a shoe and sock, carefully pouring custard into the sock, hefting it up thoughtfully, then thwacking it on the counter, thinking about it for a moment, then thanking the counter lady and leaving.

I heard a story of an editor going into an editing suite at Broadcasting House and finding another editor cutting long swathes of tape out of something. When asked what it was, he said it was the Goon Show, and they were cutting out minutes and minutes of audience laughter to get it down to time.

At which point I confess that the Goons don't do it for me. I chuckle, but its just a little bit TOO zany for me.

 

[asterix]

I heard a story of an editor going into an editing suite at Broadcasting House and finding another editor cutting long swathes of tape out of something. When asked what it was, he said it was the Goon Show, and they were cutting out minutes and minutes of audience laughter to get it down to time.

At which point I confess that the Goons don't do it for me. I chuckle, but its just a little bit TOO zany for me.

Prince Charles likes the Goon Show. Need I say more?

 

[Linford]

People who drive caravanettes......

 

[Herbie]

Crisp Crunching on the train

And in the cinema...all food and drink should be banned in cinemas

 

[Herbie]

People who drive caravanettes......

I love caravanettes...we had some great hols in them when i was a nipper...i hate caravans though

 

[Herbie]

For me it has to be aitch when pronounced haitch.

And before anyone says it is an accepted alternative then my second hate is dictionaries that accept wrong things just because enough people are similarly wrong.

I dislike it when English people can't say words properly ie when they add letters to words...for example they say saw it sounds saw{r} and they can't say Loch its always Lock

 

[Herbie]

No no, I realise only too well - if there is one thing I hate about them, its when there is something on the telly that you know should sound like, but the noise on the telly bears precisely feck all resemblance to it.

One fantastic example are trains actually, I mean, any kind of diesel or electric passing by at speed very often gets that whineing, whish noise that HSTs (Intercity 125s) used to make (they don't even make the noise any more!). The reality is that the train often sounds nothing like that, but no, everything instantly has to be an HST because it sounds dramatic!!

It might not sound like much, but its one of these things that once you notice it, you hear it all the time! In fact, you, hear them all the time for other things, planes, boats, buses....... I could go on.

The irony is that, instead of it being lazy, it actually takes effort to add a new sound in when there is one there already, I mean FFS!!

I hate canned laughter in sit coms especially in bits that aren't remotely funny....down with kind of thing i say

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I hate canned laughter in sit coms especially in bits that aren't remotely funny

Agreed, it can sometimes ruin things!

I used to find American sitcoms like Friends practically unwatchable, because the laughter always took on a sound quality that was like flowing water to me.

...down with this kind of thing

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