subtitle fuckups

[DrGreggles]

So what was he really saying? I honestly can't work it out.

Not a fucking clue.

[Small Man Big Horse]

Mentioned in the Strictly thread, but apparently this happened tonight:

[Captain Z]

So what was he really saying? I honestly can't work it out.

Small/full bags of salad? He must be talking about things people throw away that are difficult to recycle/sort/deal with, or that are a terrible waste.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I'm guessing those pointless wee bags of salad you get from the takeaway.

[Rolf Lundgren]

Splashing Alby = splashing out a bit?

Yep.

On a couple of occasions the subtitles say (mumbles) when "Rodgers" says something perfectly understandable.

[Twed]

They used to use human typists as they had a typing/subtitling test. Using a qwerty keyboard isn't usually done in professional subtitling, a common way is to use voice recognition trained to someone who respeaks the dialogue clearly for the computer;

That wasn't the case at least 13 years ago for pre-recorded content. They would type it as usual, and actually bother positioning on screen carefully, taking care of formatting etc.

Watching TV with subtitles on now I can see this probably isn't bothered with at all anymore.

[Bhazor]

Funnily enough I've applied to a couple companies that do transcription for like 30c a minute.

https://www.rev.com/freelancers

So thats the going rate for this shit.

[a duncandisorderly]

she said (& fucking meant) "would OF", you grammar nazi subtitle twats.

"I would OF".

it's quite normal up north & it isn't a mistake. we do it on porpoise.

[poodlefaker]

BBC News had Jimmy Savile accused of "molesting a tea woman in Gloucestershire". Now then now then, chasing her round the tea trolley, waggling his cigar. Turned out to be "eighty women". Not so funny now.

[Bhazor]

[Sebastian Cobb]

Ok, not actually subs, but still.

[Andy147]

A weird one I saw several years ago (hence the details are a bit vague): a man with a fairly strong (Liverpool?) accent said something like "it was a doctored picture of them". The subtitles said "it was a 'dog-turd' picture of them" (complete with quotes).

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]