Irrational hatreds

Agent57

Cubic wrote:

Boring internet forum pedants bug me.
I agree with Stephen Fry's opinion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY

He puts his case very well, but I don't agree entirely with the idea we should just accept all transgressions. "Verbing" a noun is one thing, "should of" in place of "should have" is quite another, I reckon.

Good video though; I'm going to pass it on to my friends in Pedants Anonymous.

SpaceBadger

People who insist on taking increasingly oversized items of luggage on flights as 'carry on' rather than checking them in, then wreck everybody else's stuff/use up all the space by shoving their case aggressively into the overhead lockers.

People who overtake queued cars then cut in once the traffic starts flowing again (cars only, not cyclists obviously).

People who think the world owes them a living.

Peas.

Julia Roberts.

Jay dubbleU

rjsterry wrote:

Cubic wrote:

Boring internet forum pedants bug me.
I agree with Stephen Fry's opinion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY

I take his and your point, although railing against people being show-off know-it-alls is a bit rich coming from him.

Irony, my dear chap, irony

rjsterry

I think it's a case of first you need to know the rules before you can learn when you can bend the rules. That's how Wilde and Fry can write/say things that aren't strictly correct, but still sound right, as opposed to just sounding clumsy.

An architectural analogy would be the buildings of Palladio, which look as though they elegantly follow a strict system of proportions, but a few hours with a tape measure will show that he cheated quite a lot. In contrast, buildings by lesser architects, who followed the strict proportional system espoused by Palladio to the letter, produced buildings which feel a little dead in comparison. Anyway, it's probably getting difficult to hear me clearly now as I'm disappearing up my own ar$e.

Oh, back on topic: upside down dropped handle bars. What is that about?

Kieran_Burns

Clowns.

I utterly, utterly get freaked out by clowns. I hate their painty-faced f*ck-wittery and bouncy trousered bastardness

Thw white-faced clown just does my crust; and I swear if I met one in real life I would probably end his with a blunt spoon and a can of petrol.

I. Just. Hate. Them.

One time, one came bouncing up to me while I had my (then) g/f's young niece with me. How the f*ck I didn't rip his lungs out and shove them up his arse, I'll never know, but said niece rescued me (and him) with the most ear-shattering scream I have ever heard. It was Biblical and this grease-paint, gap-toothed gimp turned tail and ran in the face of this awesome oral onslaught. I was so proud.

Clowns. Devilspawn in paint.

CiB

Yer don't like clowns then Kieran? Is that what you're trying to say?

CiB

Woman's Hour. Bunch of self-satisfied lefties with the full approval of the pinkoes & commies that run the BBC get their own special hour, which is only 42 minutes once you take out the news, trails & the story that these poor girls have to read out loud to them.

feltkuota

The SCR thread... People telling other people how wonderfully smart, fit and brilliant they are. Total bag of...

rjsterry

CiB wrote:

Woman's Hour. Bunch of self-satisfied lefties with the full approval of the pinkoes & commies that run the BBC get their own special hour, which is only 42 minutes once you take out the news, trails & the story that these poor girls have to read out loud to them.

There's a clue in the title CiB

poacherjake

feltkuota wrote:

The SCR thread... People telling other people how wonderfully smart, fit and brilliant they are. Total bag of...

what's SCR please?

NGale

hatbeard wrote:

NGale wrote:

Beards.....Jake really dosen't get why I don't like them (he's sporting one at the moment) but I really can't stand them

what about hats?

being an owner of many hats I can cope with them.

feltkuota

Silly Commuter Racing

lost_in_thought

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Sewinman wrote:

Anono wrote:

vinegar on fish and chips

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :shock:

Quite.

I have him on ignore now.

Yeah, I'm considering it too! :shock:

HungryCol

Business Terminology:

"Four Eyes Principle" - Such a pants buzz word.

"Best Practice" As Dilbert once said, if everyone is doing ‘best practice’ is this then ‘mediocre practice’?

rick_chasey

HungryCol wrote:

"Best Practice" As Dilbert once said, if everyone is doing ‘best practice’ is this then ‘mediocre practice’?

Not really no.

Best practice is the best way to do it. That doesn't mean that everyone per definition isn't doing it. For all we know, everyone is doing it the best way.

For example, it's best practice to cycle a standard step over bike by pedalling using your legs, rather than, say, your arms, or trying to move by pushing the rear wheel around with your hand. I'd suggest that everyone who rides a step-over bike on this forum rides it the same way. Thus, everyone is doing 'best practice'.

rjsterry

HungryCol wrote:

Business Terminology:

"Four Eyes Principle" - Such a pants buzz word.

"Best Practice" As Dilbert once said, if everyone is doing ‘best practice’ is this then ‘mediocre practice’?

I can't even begin to guess what that is supposed to mean.

feltkuota

Four eyes practice = Getting someone to check what you've done or two other people depending on how many eye's they have.

Greg T

feltkuota wrote:

The SCR thread... People telling other people how wonderfully smart, fit and brilliant they are. Total bag of...

http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... sc&start=0

feltkuota wrote:

I've got a 911

Oh Stop It!

I've got one too - aren't we ace!

feltkuota

Greg T,

Did I touch a nerve?

dhope

Porsche drivers...

il_principe

feltkuota wrote:

Greg T,

Did I touch a nerve?

No, but you rather missed the point.

rjsterry

feltkuota wrote:

Four eyes practice = Getting someone to check what you've done or two other people depending on how many eye's they have.

Or you could just put some glasses on and give it a read through yourself.

And what, pray tell, is wrong with the word 'checking'? Or does 'getting someone to check that' not sound whizzy enough for the likes that use 'four eyes practice'

dhope

rjsterry wrote:

feltkuota wrote:

Four eyes practice = Getting someone to check what you've done or two other people depending on how many eye's they have.

Or you could just put some glasses on and give it a read through yourself.

And what, pray tell, is wrong with the word 'checking'? Or does 'getting someone to check that' not sound whizzy enough for the likes that use 'four eyes practice'

And what happens if the first person wears glasses?

Clever Pun

rjsterry wrote:

feltkuota wrote:

Four eyes practice = Getting someone to check what you've done or two other people depending on how many eye's they have.

Or you could just put some glasses on and give it a read through yourself.

And what, pray tell, is wrong with the word 'checking'? Or does 'getting someone to check that' not sound whizzy enough for the likes that use 'four eyes practice'

It's regulatory as a rule, FSA say so.. important financial info etc etc. I've had to implement 6 eyes stuff too...yawn.

eg where something is paid into; if you were to edit this it'd need to be double checked for obvious reasons

lost_in_thought

Could you get 4 people to look at it as long as they promised to keep one eye closed?

NGale

so whatever happened to just calling it Proof Reading or have the managment idiots on the like of the Apprentice got hold of it and given it a poncy name just so they can sound good.

shouldbeinbed

Clowns yes
Pedants yes
Overtakers and cutter inners of queues - there is a word for these people: c*n*s
Hating Vinagar on fish and chips - unghhhhh does not compute.

Tottenham Hotspur

Rolf Harris painting and panting

Johnny Morris on Animal Magic doing the stupid animal voices. I Know he's dead but Id happily dig him up and kick his corpse for the hatred I felt for AfM.

(Rational ones: Bono, Mick Hucknall, Chris Moyles)

Those above me that confuse curved glass in a frame for additional eyes. Do you call people in calipers 4 legs????

ACTION, as in can you Action that for me. No but I can do it you fukwit

Esther Rantzen

Kieran_Burns

CiB wrote:

Yer don't like clowns then Kieran? Is that what you're trying to say?

No.

I don't dislike Clowns.

Hitler disliked gays, gypsies and Communists.

I *hate* Clowns.

Given half a chance I would gather every clown in the World into one giant blender. I would then find out how much sh*t I would defecate in a lifetime; get that much sh*t together and pour it into the same blender, have one more particularly foul vegetarian dump, drop on the lid and switch the blender on; turning every one of those p*ssing paint-profiled prat-falling painfully pathetic putrid excuses for people into one giant clown / sh*t smoothie.

Does this help clarify the depth of my loathing for clowns?

EKE_38BPM

What would you do with the smoothie?

getonyourbike

Kieran_Burns wrote:

CiB wrote:

Yer don't like clowns then Kieran? Is that what you're trying to say?

No.

I don't dislike Clowns.

Hitler disliked gays, gypsies and Communists.

I *hate* Clowns.

Given half a chance I would gather every clown in the World into one giant blender. I would then find out how much sh*t I would defecate in a lifetime; get that much sh*t together and pour it into the same blender, have one more particularly foul vegetarian dump, drop on the lid and switch the blender on; turning every one of those p*ssing paint-profiled prat-falling painfully pathetic putrid excuses for people into one giant clown / sh*t smoothie.

Does this help clarify the depth of my loathing for clowns?