Even outside of Christmas - working a 10 hour shift at the service desk at Tesco with 'Don't Stop Me Now' and 'That's Amore' playing multiple times an hour genuinely drove me to madness, especially as one of the speakers was right above the desk.
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Public facing jobs are not for everyone and those who can't handle it shouldn't take those jobs. So clearly some do like dealing with the public, (for what it's worth I don't and having worked in a Lyons Teashop as a saturday/holiday job whilst at school, made sure that I didn't work in the retail sphere throughout my adult working life).
Be able to deal with the public and having to put up with annoying music are two totally different things.
A regular problem here, single track road / no pavement.
Or which side of the pavement to walk when it is beside moving traffic, (clue is that the same danger exists to a slightly lesser degree).
You should tell that to people here in Italy, who have absolutely no idea of the concept of walking on the side of the road facing on-coming traffic....even though it's the other side of the road from that appertaining in the UK and Ireland.
Maybe they've got crabs.
Only if they've travelled on EMR Connect, (according to some on here).Maybe they've got crabs.
See what you've done there!
If we're moving on to this subject, I would like to nominate Jimmy Carr. He is so infantile - I can't stand him! To a lesser extent, I would also like to nominate all the "comedians" who haven't really grown up since the age of eight and are still convinced that swearing and toilet humour are the most hilariously funny thing in their entire life. If a joke isn't clever, it isn't funny, and, if you wouldn't say it at dinner with the Archbishop of Canterbury, don't say it on national television.See what you've done there!
If we're heading down that particular avenue of comedic "things you would ban"... I'll go with Brendan O'Carroll ("Agnes Brown") and all the other less than funny characters in BBC1's supposedly hilarious "Mrs. Brown's Boys" sitcom.
Comedy is easy to measure. If a professional comedian says something that doesn't make you laugh, but makes others laugh, that means that you are not the target audience.
I suppose, but most of the comedy on TV nowadays seems to be aimed at that same market. Whether it's the mark of a population that is remaining eight years old, as opposed to comics remaining eight, I'm not quite sure!
Jimmy Carr was a co-author on a thoughtful book on the mechanics of jokes (The Naked Jape). Jokes with Mark is a podcast on how to fix jokes that don't work.
Whilst I totally agree with you, I don’t think they should be associated with the word ‘comedic’. They are as far from comedy as you can get.
I couldn’t agree more…’comedy’ consists of just juvenile slapstick and swearing nowadays. Morecambe and Wise and the Two Ronnies must be turning in their graves!
Perfect example of how different people see humour in different ways.
A lot of humour depends on the context. I've got a box set of Goodies DVDs which came with a book that explains the jokes, which is interesting, but rather kills the humour.
It's not just supermarket car parks, my car, parked in the kerb outside my house has just had a wing mirror broken, (actually only a chip off the frame), but even though many of the other drivers round here park half on the footpath, I refuse to act so in consideration for pedestrians and will continue to park respectfully.