h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

On the plus side, that super-sibilant whistling of T and S, that every British and American female presenter seemed to be doing about two years ago, seems to have gone out of fashion.

>>PH: MasterChef. More specifically the woman who does the voiceover. I simply cannot stand her voice.

I like to think she speaks like that in real life. Imagine her at the post office, or in the throws of passion.

I don't remember that.

I really also detest the breathy, low-pitched (supposedly sexy) voice they use for German women in radio and tv advertsiing. And for dubbed films.

PH: In documentaries and news, the translating voiceover has such a heavy accent (of the language translated, presumably for authenticity) that you can hardly understand it, either

A petty hate of mine is when someone is speaking English which is clearer than that of a lot of native speakers, yet they are subtitled because they are foreign.

"PH: MasterChef. More specifically the woman who does the voiceover. I simply cannot stand her voice."

India Fisher... I like her voice. Lots. And she's no bad looking either.

to me she just sounds too lazy to properly pitch her voice, as though she is so thoroughly bored of it all. In fact, between her and the shouty guys I've given up on MasterChef.

I've given up on them as well.
Current PH:end credits that roll too fastor are obscured by ads for what's coming next on TV

Masterchef Australia is a much better programme.

Less shouting, more sensible mouthfuls and the competition focuses more on the contestants' improvement rather than them showing off what they can already do.

~*~end credits that roll too fast or are obscured by ads for what's coming next on TV~*~

Seconded.

And on that same subject: re-runs of older TV shows where they cut up some of the scenes so they can play more commercials.

Sometimes it's as if the person responsible for cutting for ads thinks they're playing a game of pin the tail on the donkey. "I'll close my eyes and when I say 'Now!', you can cut it there. No, of course it doesn't matter if it's mid-sentence."

Deb

Pah! You don't know when you're well off!
There really is too little advertising and too much program in UK (compared to here, that is).

I'm sorry Rod, we have to interrupt you there for a word from our sponsor...

Ah! That's better.

It's "throes", quotes, it's "throes of passion." ARGH.

PH: screaming kids on a plane and the kids that run up and down the cabin. The poor babies are in pain with take off and landing, but why is a three month old baby on a plane anyway unless you're moving all? And why are three/four years allowed to run about? They'll get hurt. No wonder the crew were in a mood. It was a crap flight back.

PH 2: Airport security. Why they held me back I don't know and I nearly missed the sodding flight.

Wet door handles on the inside of the gents toilets at work.

PP

Ew, god, I hope it's water/

So do I every time I encounter it.

(Have I mentioned the time I was at a training venue and one of the attendees went directly from the urinal to the hand driers missing out the handbasin completely? No I didn't think so....)

PP

"(Have I mentioned the time I was at a training venue and one of the attendees went directly from the urinal to the hand driers missing out the handbasin completely?"

Guy at the last place I worked used to do that... I tried not to think too hard about the fact that people use hand driers because their hands are wet...