Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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Yeah, I hear that fairly often, usually from the same to55ers who use the phrase "get go" when they really mean "start".0
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Yeah, I hear that fairly often, usually from the same to55ers who use the phrase "get go" when they really mean "start".
Did you see an episode of Dave Gorman's "Modern Life is Goodish"?
He had a feature on things which people have misheard and then typed.
He started with "Cat Phrase", because someone had written that he always used the same one (even though he doesn't use any).
He then played a game called "Cat Phrase" based on the well-known correctly named game, using pictures and "say what you see"
We had "From the ghecko" (which is what reminded me).
"Bowl in a China shop".
and "Escape goat".
I wondered if the "revert" thing had come via a similar route, not that I can think of one.
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
Yeah, I hear that fairly often, usually from the same to55ers who use the phrase "get go" when they really mean "start".
Did you see an episode of Dave Gorman's "Modern Life is Goodish"?
He had a feature on things which people have misheard and then typed.
He started with "Cat Phrase", because someone had written that he always used the same one (even though he doesn't use any).
He then played a game called "Cat Phrase" based on the well-known correctly named game, using pictures and "say what you see"
We had "From the ghecko" (which is what reminded me).
"Bowl in a China shop".
and "Escape goat".
I wondered if the "revert" thing had come via a similar route, not that I can think of one.
Interesting theory. I saw that episode and I seem to recall Dave Gorman's point was that the words are irrelevant if you understand the phrase in context and so go uncorrected.
"Bowl in a china shop" is a good example: someone's misheard "bull in a china shop" used in the correct context and understood the meaning of the phrase but never questioned the meaning of the words specifically.
In the above examples, "revert" is clearly being used instead of "reply". Some people must blindly accept revert to mean reply and so the misuse of the word spreads.
I'm waaay over-thinking this now...0 -
I think we're on the same page there Finchy.
As long as that page isn't one out of First Insights Into Business... (shudders at long-repressed memories of sitting in a factory in Slovakia, trying to teach the manager how to talk about advertising)
I'm sure you ran many ideas up the flagpole and there were many salutes.
Surely it is time to draw a line in the sand and move on though? After all, we are where we are.
You've got the suburbs of an idea there and it's heading towards the High Street.0 -
Yeah, I hear that fairly often, usually from the same to55ers who use the phrase "get go" when they really mean "start".
Did you see an episode of Dave Gorman's "Modern Life is Goodish"?
He had a feature on things which people have misheard and then typed.
He started with "Cat Phrase", because someone had written that he always used the same one (even though he doesn't use any).
He then played a game called "Cat Phrase" based on the well-known correctly named game, using pictures and "say what you see"
We had "From the ghecko" (which is what reminded me).
"Bowl in a China shop".
and "Escape goat".
I wondered if the "revert" thing had come via a similar route, not that I can think of one.
actually I know someone in our office who uses "escape goat" and not in the Dave Gorman amusing way, I think they believe thats actually the real phrase. :shock:
as to "revert", the offshore Indian colleagues I work with use it alot, less so the Malaysians but it soon becomes like the lingua everyone uses, but usually when they mean to rollback a software deployment, they "revert the change", so if they were reverting back to someone following a discussion, they mean they are rolling back, or really just returning to you, we'd just say Ill come back to you instead.
I dont know if its how they are taught english,or just pick it up, or if native English speakers absorb the language in completely differently way, I know French and German speakers often complain about the complexity of learning English but more so from similar sounding words,their,there,they're for instance not sort of similar meaning words.
but the offshore teams often use verbs with similar meanings like that in phrases, that we'd have picked a completely different sentence structure for. like theyll often say "do the needful" when they mean "could you do what I asked ?"0 -
Here's one that's been bugging me for a while:
People interviewed on TV who begin every answer with "so".
"What do you think of the decision?"
"So, I'm pleased that this has finally..."
"And do you think your constituents will agree?"
"So, I expect that they will be as delighted as I am, and..."
"Can you say when this will be implemented?"
"So, according to the council, this should happen..."
"Are you incapable of answering any question without beginning with 'so'?"
"So, it very much looks as if I am."0 -
[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19758217#p19758217]oblongomaculatus[/url] wrote:Here's one that's been bugging me for a while:
People interviewed on TV who begin every answer with "so".
"What do you think of the decision?"
"So, I'm pleased that this has finally..."
"And do you think your constituents will agree?"
"So, I expect that they will be as delighted as I am, and..."
"Can you say when this will be implemented?"
"So, according to the council, this should happen..."
"Are you incapable of answering any question without beginning with 'so'?"
"So, it very much looks as if I am."
It's just a word inserted to allow more time for thought, or quite often from experience it's useful to make any old random noise when you start speaking because people often don't pay attention to the first thing said.
Sounds a bit better than 'Ermmm', before everything.0 -
[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19758217#p19758217]oblongomaculatus[/url] wrote:Here's one that's been bugging me for a while:
People interviewed on TV who begin every answer with "so".
"What do you think of the decision?"
"So, I'm pleased that this has finally..."
"And do you think your constituents will agree?"
"So, I expect that they will be as delighted as I am, and..."
"Can you say when this will be implemented?"
"So, according to the council, this should happen..."
"Are you incapable of answering any question without beginning with 'so'?"
"So, it very much looks as if I am."
This one really gets on my T1ts too!!
The same way that absolutely any Aussie sports person begins the answer to any question with " ahh mate . . ." or " . . . ah look . . . "Wilier Izoard XP0 -
[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19758217#p19758217]oblongomaculatus[/url] wrote:Here's one that's been bugging me for a while:
People interviewed on TV who begin every answer with "so".
"What do you think of the decision?"
"So, I'm pleased that this has finally..."
"And do you think your constituents will agree?"
"So, I expect that they will be as delighted as I am, and..."
"Can you say when this will be implemented?"
"So, according to the council, this should happen..."
"Are you incapable of answering any question without beginning with 'so'?"
"So, it very much looks as if I am."
It's just a word inserted to allow more time for thought, or quite often from experience it's useful to make any old random noise when you start speaking because people often don't pay attention to the first thing said.
Sounds a bit better than 'Ermmm', before everything.
No, it's much more irritating that 'ermmm', which is just a sound. So is an actual word which can be used numerous ways, for instance as a conjunction: "I wanted to get fit, so I bought a bike." Or a submodifier; "It was so windy yesterday, I could hardly stand up." Misusing it to begin an answer is poor grammar, and disturbingly, it seems to be spreading, like those management speak phrases that escape into real life (my personal 'favourite' being 'going forward'.) Using it to begin every answer is maddening.0 -
"Bowl in a china shop" is a good example: someone's misheard "bull in a china shop" used in the correct context and understood the meaning of the phrase but never questioned the meaning of the words specifically.
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The weird thing that came out about the "Bowl in a China Shop" example is that some of the people who used it did so to mean boring , as in "not standing out in a crowd".
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
when people ask if your email address is in upper or lower casewww.conjunctivitis.com - a site for sore eyes0
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when people ask if your email address is in upper or lower case
Sometimes, it does matter.0 -
when people ask if your email address is in upper or lower case
When people start a sentence in lower case.
Oh, and fail to use a full stop.0 -
when people ask if your email address is in upper or lower case
When people start a sentence in lower case.
Oh, and fail to use a full stop.
If you're not nice to him Bally, we'll never get to see his sister's Noorks.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
People that promise pics of their sister, then renege on their promise.0
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When people start a declarative sentence with "when".0
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When people start a declarative sentence with "when".
When's that then?
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Every ***ing day on this forumWhen people start a declarative sentence with "when".
When's that then?0 -
People that promise pics of their sister, then renege on their promise.
Christmas day, I've already said! Fully clothed though!www.conjunctivitis.com - a site for sore eyes0 -
When someone starts a thread on a subject when one already exists.
Had to be done.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Umbrellas. A few drops of rain and suddenly you can't walk down the high street without having to dodge and duck every two seconds, because of all the massive golf umbrellas (So called because they're big enough to shelter a golf course under). Come on, it won't hurt you, it's only water, not sulphuric acid.0
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[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19760368#p19760368]oblongomaculatus[/url] wrote:Umbrellas. A few drops of rain and suddenly you can't walk down the high street without having to dodge and duck every two seconds, because of all the massive golf umbrellas (So called because they're big enough to shelter a golf course under). Come on, it won't hurt you, it's only water, not sulphuric acid.
Not in Beijing it ain't (or Scunthorpe).seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Off CBeebies. I wanted to pull my eyes out of my sockets whenever he appears.0 -
The absence of cartoons on mainstream tv. In the good ol' days you would get a gem from Tom & Jerry or Bugs Bunny thrown in unexpectedly between programmes, but now you have to watch a dedicated kiddies channel for cartoons. Do kids still get to see T&J, Bugs, Daffy, Foghorn etc?0
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The absence of cartoons on mainstream tv. In the good ol' days you would get a gem from Tom & Jerry or Bugs Bunny thrown in unexpectedly between programmes, but now you have to watch a dedicated kiddies channel for cartoons. Do kids still get to see T&J, Bugs, Daffy, Foghorn etc?
At my house they do. You're welcome to come over. T and J is the dog's wotsits to the girls. CBeebies is just wall to wall shyte. Kwizzkids - contrived CGi, vulgar, loud, inane... We tend to limit Cbeebies as much as possible.
Boj together we can... [scream?]seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Ha ha. One of my uncles used to tape them, and we could all sit around and laugh like drains at the ridiculous levels of violence. Roadrunner was always my fave with the "Acme rocket sled" stuff.The absence of cartoons on mainstream tv. In the good ol' days you would get a gem from Tom & Jerry or Bugs Bunny thrown in unexpectedly between programmes, but now you have to watch a dedicated kiddies channel for cartoons. Do kids still get to see T&J, Bugs, Daffy, Foghorn etc?
At my house they do. You're welcome to come over. T and J is the dog's wotsits to the girls. CBeebies is just wall to wall shyte. Kwizzkids - contrived CGi, vulgar, loud, inane... We tend to limit Cbeebies as much as possible.
Boj together we can... [scream?]
Anyway, back to curmudgeonlyness (if that's not a word, grammer pedants can do one). Pertinent to this time of year, and it's cheese with bits in. Why take some cheese, mash it up, and add bits? The chives I can just about do, but lime pickle? Onions? Cranberries? Disgusting. As is mild cheddar. Who hates cheese so much they must buy mild cheddar? Why not eat a block of wax?Ecrasez l’infame0 -
Like this BBG?Not hungover in the slightest despite my best efforts.
Went shopping with MrsHD and had a bottle of white with our late lunch, stopped off at the kids house and had a beer, stopped off at mum & dads house to pick the boy up and had four glasses of wine.
Got home and had a bottle of red (shared) with some cheese I bought from the Christmas Markets in Manchester.
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Nail on head. Disgusting. Get some stilton, or some Camembert. Eat. Drink port. Simple.Like this BBG?Not hungover in the slightest despite my best efforts.
Went shopping with MrsHD and had a bottle of white with our late lunch, stopped off at the kids house and had a beer, stopped off at mum & dads house to pick the boy up and had four glasses of wine.
Got home and had a bottle of red (shared) with some cheese I bought from the Christmas Markets in Manchester.
Oh well, soon be January.Ecrasez l’infame0 -
[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19760368#p19760368]oblongomaculatus[/url] wrote:Umbrellas. A few drops of rain and suddenly you can't walk down the high street without having to dodge and duck every two seconds, because of all the massive golf umbrellas (So called because they're big enough to shelter a golf course under). Come on, it won't hurt you, it's only water, not sulphuric acid.
Whatever happened to acid rain? When I were a lad, it was all the rage - going to kill us all you know......CS7
Surrey Hills
What's a Zwift?0 -
[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19760368#p19760368]oblongomaculatus[/url] wrote:Umbrellas. A few drops of rain and suddenly you can't walk down the high street without having to dodge and duck every two seconds, because of all the massive golf umbrellas (So called because they're big enough to shelter a golf course under). Come on, it won't hurt you, it's only water, not sulphuric acid.
Whatever happened to acid rain? When I were a lad, it was all the rage - going to kill us all you know......
Whatever happened to heavy industry, steel mills, coal fired power stations and use of coal as a domestic source of heating? Less sulphur emissions.0
