Minor Annoyances (Vol 2)

[deathrey]

'Don't shit where you eat' podcast?

[Carbomb]

Just had a cross-trivia moment. I realised I didn't know what made Padel different from tennis and squash, so looked it up, and saw this in the history of it.

 

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The sport was invented in 1969 in Acapulco, Mexico,^[4] by Enrique Corcuera,^[1][5] after he modified his squash court to incorporate elements of platform tennis.^[6] Initially, he called it "Padel Corcuera". In the beginning, courts used concrete walls and surfaces, which obscured visibility for spectators. To improve the viewing experience and gameplay, these were eventually replaced by glass walls and artificial turf.^[7]

Corcuera had many friends who came to visit him, trying out the new sport he had invented, amongst them Frank Sinatra and Henry Kissinger.^[1] One of his friends was Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, who learned about padel visiting Corcuera in Acapulco.

 

 

Which reminded me of this posted yesterday, and @Fog Dude's follow-up that it's an old posho German family.

On 10/7/2026 at 8:34 AM, Statto said:

 

[SuperBacon]

3 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

The best ones are the ones who just write "Redacted", which is Letterboxd shorthand for "Yeah I got to see this before all you poor cunts".

Absolute wankers. Just like music journalists who say albums have landed in their emails and "boy, I can't wait for you all to hear this one!" Get FUCKED!

1 hour ago, Lorne Malvo said:

We should start a UKFF podcast

UKFF poocast more like eh!!!!

[Fog Dude]

6 hours ago, Carbomb said:

Just had a cross-trivia moment. I realised I didn't know what made Padel different from tennis and squash, so looked it up, and saw this in the history of it.

 

 

Which reminded me of this posted yesterday, and @Fog Dude's follow-up that it's an old posho German family.

 

So that's where I heard the name! I think one of his relatives was the sole representative of Mexico at a past Winter Olympics, in skiing?

That's one minor annoyance put to bed then. As for padel: a whole load of new courts just opened up down the road from here, but whenever my Dad visits he'd prefer to find somewhere to play pickleball instead these days.

[wordsfromlee]

7 hours ago, DavidB6937 said:

Guessing you've already joined the local Padel club then?

I've decided I'm going to get well into coffee and buy tent box. I've already got a robust vinyl collection sorted.

[Tim Healys Chutney Spoon]

Ignoring the obvious here, but I was at Westlife at the O2 last night and we'd paid a LOT of money for floor seats near the front. (Wife has been desperate to see them for yonks and we thought we'd splash out for a special night out) 

 

Thats not the irritation, the annoyance is that there was a woman just in front of us that was basically live streaming the whole gig....but filming herself and spending the whole time filming herself and looking at herself in her phone as opposed to enjoying the music that she'd clearly spent hundreds on.

 

What a waste of time and well done on distracting everyone around you with your awful singing and 'look at me' dancing whilst being live for her 12 followers....

[Joe Blog]

Should have said you look a bit silly when you’re looking like that. 

[Tim Healys Chutney Spoon]

12 minutes ago, Joe Blog said:

Should have said you look a bit silly when you’re looking like that. 

I did say to the wife if she carried on much longer she'd be flying without wings or her phone

[tiger_rick]

On 10/11/2026 at 7:03 AM, Tim Healys Chutney Spoon said:

I did say to the wife if she carried on much longer she'd be flying without wings or her phone

Should have kept that one to just you and the wife.

[Lorne Malvo]

On 10/10/2026 at 9:09 PM, Tim Healys Chutney Spoon said:

enjoying the music 

At a Westlife gig?!

[DavidB6937]

11 minutes ago, Lorne Malvo said:

At a Westlife gig?!

I love the bit where they change key and stand up.

[Accident Prone]

There was an episode of Never Mind The Buzzcocks where Louis Walsh was a contestant and got grilled by Mark Lemar for repping Westlife. I haven't seen it in decades but whenever I hear "Westlife" the interaction pops into my head and I smile. It goes something like;

Mark: Westlife....aren't very good, are they?

Louis: They've sold a lot of records.

Mark: Name one good Westlife song.

- Louis hesitates and stutters -

Mark: Ah.....

[johnnyboy]

I can never forgive Westlife for taking one of the greatest songs of all-time ("The Dance") and running it through the Blandeiser 3000 to turn it into a below average album track.

Took Mrs JB to see them a few times around the turn of the century before they'd committed this cringe against humanity and they put on a decent show, tbf.

Edited Tuesday at 12:02 PM by johnnyboy

[Jazzy G]

The ex used to be obsessed with them. She'd see them at least once every time they went on tour. We could be struggling to pay the bills and as soon as they were on tour she had to see which of the gigs her fellow "Westlife looneys" were going to and go with them, even if it meant her spending a weekend in Ireland while I was stuck at home to look after her family. 

If I wanted to pop for an afternoon at a friend's it turned into a huge inconvenience, but that summer of pumping hundreds of pounds into some random person on facebook's bank account so she could play random games of bingo or be entered into raffles for tickets to see them at Wembley was probably getting towards the straw that broke the dromedary. 

When I lived with my mum at the pub after I left I would flip if the jukebox's auto-random select put a Westlife song on and immediately have to cancel it. I'd put up with it if somebody had paid to put them on as that's their right to, but I've flown across the pub if a random Westlife song came on because of what I was put through. Properly triggered. 

[tiger_rick]

4 hours ago, johnnyboy said:

I can never forgive Westlife for taking one of the greatest songs of all-time ("The Dance") and running it through the Blandeiser 3000 to turn it into a below average album track.

Didn't know that existed. I hate you now.