Things that have bothered you for a long time.

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Chris S

Legendary Member
Location
Birmingham
Why do they play the National Anthem last thing at night on Radio 4? Just as I'm getting off to sleep after the Shipping Forecast and Sailing By, I have to get up and stand to attention.
They used to do it in cinemas once, there was a mad rush to get out before it stated.
I think they stopped playing it sometime in the 1980s.
 

Drago

Legendary Member
Brexit has bother me for a while now. I'm sick of hearing it. Just get it done so we can get some peace and quiet.
 
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Yellow Fang

Yellow Fang

Legendary Member
Location
Reading
Languages: I heard somewhere language grammar has been deteriorating or simplifying for thousands of years. For example, modern English grammar is simpler than old English. Italian is simpler than Latin, which is simpler Sanskrit, which is simpler than proto-Indo-European. If that's the case, how did those early languages get so complicated in the first place?
 

Lullabelle

Banana
Location
Midlands UK
On Masterchef, Sri Lankan contestants always cook curry, Caribbean descendants all cook jerk chicken, unfortunately all too cliched, surely they can cook other things.
 
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