BS: Things that get up your nose

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: saulgoldie
Date: 25 Oct 11 - 12:24 PM

Sometimes it is necessary for me to correct someone's grammar so I can understand exactly what it is that they mean to convey. Furthermore, the student aides I supervise, almost to a person, appreciate it when I correct them. YMMV, of course.

Saul

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: BTNG
Date: 25 Oct 11 - 12:23 PM

people telling to read books, that turn out to be as boring as all hell

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: kendall
Date: 25 Oct 11 - 12:13 PM

People in general. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: GUEST,n
Date: 25 Oct 11 - 11:34 AM

people that leave odd ever so slighlty sarcastic or mysterious replies to my posts on this forum and then when asked don't offer an explanation do no such thing , not naaming any names. ;-D

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: kendall
Date: 25 Oct 11 - 10:49 AM

My old friend, Andy, and I do it all the time.
If I were walking down the street with my fly open I would want someone to tell me, instead of making a spectacle of myself all day.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 25 Oct 11 - 10:21 AM

It is rude and foolish to correct anybody's grammar outside of the classroom or in the home, if parents are educating children.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Becca72
Date: 25 Oct 11 - 10:11 AM

Being almost 40 and still having my grammar corrected...

While some errors bother me, I don't actually say anything to the people doing it. It's my issue, not theirs.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: kendall
Date: 24 Oct 11 - 07:29 PM

Miss using me and I.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: gnu
Date: 24 Oct 11 - 06:46 PM

I'd PM ya about that Shimmy lad but yer a guest.

Yeah! GUESTS that ya can't PM. >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 24 Oct 11 - 06:41 PM

Gurney,

Please read Oliver Rackham's book 'Woodlands' (Vol. 100 in the Collins 'New Naturalist' series) and then get back to me.

"Also, the average developer has a name for land reserved under the system of natural succession. He'd call it wasteland, and many local authorities would agree with him, and they are the people who sign compulsory purchase orders."

This is to do with the planning system, the rapacity of developers and the general ignorance of, and indifference to, the environment in our culture more than anything else.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 24 Oct 11 - 04:48 PM

Being charged £1.75 for an espresso.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Oct 11 - 03:43 PM

Bdetween you and I

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: kendall
Date: 24 Oct 11 - 03:09 PM

Joe and me went downtown.
Her and I went downtown.
Me and...anyone.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 24 Oct 11 - 01:47 PM

Patsy, I know what you mean. But as this recession bites, it's harder than ever to find the money to buy the presents with! I've been saying I'll wait to buy the presents until my monthly Pension payment goes in, but there's never much left after the bills are paid.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Becca72
Date: 24 Oct 11 - 11:56 AM

A short list: "I been knowing her since...", "would of", "could of" "should of", " since I been 8 years old" "lemme axe you somethin' "

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: kendall
Date: 24 Oct 11 - 11:49 AM

People who look right at the sign in the back window of our 1937 Packard and ask, "What make, and what year is it"?

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Oct 11 - 11:37 AM

Cyclists who seem to think that stop signs (or even red lights!)do not apply to them!

People of ANY type, especially politicians to newscasters, who do not seen to even comprehend that there IS a difference between 'insure' and 'ensure'.

"We are trying to insure that the problem does not happen again" arrrggghhh...

Those who ask craft people at juried craft shows: "Did you make all these yourself?"

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 24 Oct 11 - 06:39 AM

Me leaving Christmas shopping to the last minute. Every year I rush around in the last week and swear to myself that I will be more prepared next year.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Gurney
Date: 24 Oct 11 - 05:59 AM

Problem was, Shimrod, that the earliest inhabitants of Britain immigrated to a forested environment, and then spent the next umpteen generations cutting down the trees to make room for agriculture, as well as introducing alien plants and animals. Britain is a modified environment and can never be anything else, now.
My point is, ground flora is skimpy in a forested area, and trees, all trees, dry out the ground. That's how it works. Native ground flora belongs under native trees, and also on naturally un-forested ground.
William the Bastard tried to remedy the deforestation trend for his own personal enjoyment, but some of the administrators who followed him have undone some of his good work. The New Forest is still one of the nicest places in the UK, though.

My interests are more with water conservation, and I'm sure that you get as frustrated as I do. It is just that I'd much rather see a dam, or a planted forest, than a dairy farm polluting the stream running through it. Also, the average developer has a name for land reserved under the system of natural succession. He'd call it wasteland, and many local authorities would agree with him, and they are the people who sign compulsory purchase orders.

I wouldn't argue with your principles or aims, just your tactics.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 23 Oct 11 - 05:32 PM

People who claim to be conservationists but who think that planting trees is the noblest, greenest thing that they can do. This is one of the great myths of the last few decades. For a start, in Britain, trees have been 'happily' planting themselves for millions of years without our help; if you want to create a wood just fence off a suitably sized piece of ground and just leave it for few decades (the process is called 'natural succession'). Planted trees won't grow much faster but will have damaged root systems. My experience is that ill-considered tree planting can cause ecological damage by shading out the ground flora and drying out the ground.

Undertaking conservation by tree planting bears about as much resemblance to real conservation as a car made out of jelly does to a real car!

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: kendall
Date: 23 Oct 11 - 04:34 PM

People who expect.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Bert
Date: 23 Oct 11 - 02:39 PM

People who expect Hotel Food to be as good as That served in a Transport Cafe;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: kendall
Date: 23 Oct 11 - 02:27 PM

People who make promises that they have no intention of keeping.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 23 Oct 11 - 06:56 AM

Gurney, my cousin married a lovely Japanese girl. But they called their first child Robert, which I thought was a bit of a mistake, as she now calls him 'Lobert'!

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Oct 11 - 05:47 AM

Scandinavian Hotels who serve cold meats, cheese and fruit juice, and do not have a self service buffet, with "full English breakfast"


;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 23 Oct 11 - 05:27 AM

English hotels who serve "full English breakfast" and do not have a self service buffet with fruit and cold meats/cheese. Staying in Canterbury tonight - we'll see!!

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Oct 11 - 04:45 PM

Aye, sometimes it comes from the mouth, not the arse.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: gnu
Date: 22 Oct 11 - 04:39 PM

The wind often changes, G. >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Oct 11 - 04:34 PM

The aroma of sanctimony!

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: gnu
Date: 22 Oct 11 - 04:30 PM

"the aisles are for PEOPLE not PRODUCT!" Yes, but, when people park their cart next to the product and walk ten feet away and see you coming and don't move the cart until you have to stop and try to start to move it... aaaagggghhhhh! And, then they say "Sorry." and smile. When Mum isn't with me, I reply, "Really? Then don't do that." To which I often hear, "Well, exCUse me." You know my reply to that.

My bro used put items in such carts when he could without the offender noticing. Or so he told me.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Gurney
Date: 22 Oct 11 - 04:26 PM

Bonzo, you must really hate Japanese voices, then. We had a Japanese girl staying with us once, and tried to help her with that. It's a sound that they just don't have in their speech.

I do know what you mean, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Oct 11 - 02:19 PM

To be perfectly honest, Greg, we had ay meeting at ay top level of the grocery high command system worldwide and we decided:

A. (ay) - That we like putting lots of product and marketing displays IN the aisles, because it annoys you.

and

B. - That we will continue putting the word "ay" in front of every noun possible, because (see A above)....eh? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Greg B
Date: 22 Oct 11 - 01:14 PM

People who start every third sentence with "To be honest..." or "To be perfectly honest..."   What, are you lying the rest of the time?

US Presidents (including the current one and his predecessor) who think that always pronouncing the article "a" as "ay" makes them sound authoritative. No, it just makes you sound condescending. Then they take it to the point where they can't us "an" properly, prior to a noun that begins with a vowel. That would lose them an opportunity to say "ay."

Grocery stores that start out with nice, broad, empty aisles that allow two carts to pass easily and which eventually become cluttered with marchandising displays to where barely one can get through. Memo to managers... the aisles are for PEOPLE not PRODUCT!

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 22 Oct 11 - 01:03 PM

People that cannot pronounce the letter L in words.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 22 Oct 11 - 01:02 PM

Pneumatic drills

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: gnu
Date: 22 Oct 11 - 01:02 PM

Bonzo3legs... "Voices going up at the end of each sentence"

Oh yeah! Really upsets me.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Ed T
Date: 22 Oct 11 - 10:04 AM

Some of these must:
weird nasal hair

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 22 Oct 11 - 09:38 AM

Stupid people who camp outside St Paul's Cathedral

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: kendall
Date: 22 Oct 11 - 08:41 AM

People who say "UH' or some other non word every three or four words. Hillary Clinton does this and it drives me nuts. They sound like they don't know what they are talking about and are searching for words.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 21 Oct 11 - 06:50 PM

Hello, Eliza. I'm glad somebody shares my interest in children.

Why aren't pushchairs designed so that the baby sees its mother?

Have you ever noticed the troubled expression on the face of a baby who's facing forward in the pushchair and is being thrust through a crowd of strange adults? The child is turned into the prow of a boat, pushing its way through a sea of impassive humanity.

Why, people, why?

Don, I sympathize. My mother, who was 4'11" at her tallest, had the same kind of problem. Would it be possible for you to waggle your walking stick from side to side as you perambulate? It might get their attention.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 21 Oct 11 - 03:36 PM

Calling Argentine people "Argentinians"

The easyjet queue at Alicante Airport

When ordering an espresso, being asked "single or double"

Voices going up at the end of each sentence

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 21 Oct 11 - 02:06 PM

I absolutely adore Lee Nelson's WELL GOOD Show. He has that inane manner of speech down to a fine art. Having heard him, I now don't grind my teeth when I hear it, I just laugh.
I totally agree about the uncared-for children. You see so many poor little souls trapped in a pushchair, whimpering and being wheeled all round the clothes shops. Their little legs must ache for exercise. Sometimes they're crying loudly, perhaps thirsty or hungry, but 'mum' is trying on the latest fashions and couldn't give a toss. I bet if you said something, you'd get a right earful!

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: kendall
Date: 21 Oct 11 - 01:48 PM

Young adults who insist on walking with traffic! I recently stopped, had Jacqui roll the right side window down, and I said, "You will live longer on the other side of the road."

And cyclists who like to ride two and three abreast at 15 miles an hour. They jump when I lay on the Packard's horn, it is about 100 decibels.It is also equipped with a wolf whistle that just about tears eardrums.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 21 Oct 11 - 01:46 PM

Popping into the newsagents to buy a newspaper and being faced with a queue of idiots buying lottery tickets.

Idiot: "Oh, I want a scratch card for Wednesday and three tickets for a week next Thursday. And do I get a discount because it's a month with an 'r' in it? And can you check this ticket that I bought in 2007? I think it was a month with an 'r' in it - it was July ..."

Newsagent: Hhhhm. I don't know ... I think I'm going to have to re-program the till for that. Can you just hang on for 25 minutes?

30 minutes later

Idiot: "And can I have 20 Bensons & Hedges and a box of matches, please? And can I pay my paper bill from last week? Don't forget I didn't get my copy of the 'Radio Times' last Monday.

Newsagent: "Sorry, but I'm going to have to re-program the till again."

Me: "You see this? It's called an axe - and guess what I'm planning to do with it?!!"

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 21 Oct 11 - 01:28 PM

"Nucular" is guaranteed to make me explode, along with abortions like "more better", more quicker" and other ignorant distortions of a language which has a correct word for almost anything you can think of.

I object, when out for a day's leisure, if some thoughtless twerp drowns out my favourite noise, the laughter and shouts of happy children, with his personal choice of what he fondly imagines to be music, played at volume eleven.

I gave up rushing when I retired, developed COPD/emphysema, and knackered a knee with arthritis so, as you might imagine, the one thing designed to provoke my incandescent anger is the bastards (almost 100% men) who walk straight at me expecting me to jump (an impossibility) aside, bang into me, swear and carry on their way, cellphone clamped to one ear and brain (if any) switched off. It happens much more frequently than you might think.

If I were able to move fast enough, they'd find their legs inextricably intertwined with my errant but highly visible walking stick, and their front teeth chewing paving stones.

OOoooh! I feel a lot more better now!:)

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: David C. Carter
Date: 21 Oct 11 - 11:38 AM

People who pull in to gas stations,fill up,stick their heads in the car window asking for the bank card,stroll casually to the service station shop leaving the car in front of the gas pump,look around for stuff to buy,glance at various magazines,candy for the kids etc,shuffle to the pay desk forgetting which pump they used,come back out,get in the car,dish out the goodies,fasten seat belt,stall the engine,leaving you sitting there losing the will to live.

That sort of gets up my nose.Just a little!

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 21 Oct 11 - 11:01 AM

People who have small children and don't know how to take care of them. (I don't mean terrible things like child abuse.)

Vivid example: a woman came into the fabric store with a 4-year-old girl. Woman got absorbed in a pattern book. Four-year-old wandered about unsupervised, sticking pieces of a burrito (which she didn't want to eat) into bolts of fabric. Later a manager found a LOT of ruined fabric.

Why didn't the woman know what the kid would and would not eat?
Why didn't she know it was unsafe to lose herself in the pattern book?

Recently I watched little boy in an expensive restaurant struggle to eat full-length strands of spaghetti. Now I know where the Greeks got the idea of Hercules battling the Hydra.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 21 Oct 11 - 09:48 AM

Marks & Spencer's shirts made far too short - probably for the oiks who don't tuck them in their trousers.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: Becca72
Date: 21 Oct 11 - 09:46 AM

At the moment, coffee....went the wrong way. I HATE when that happens.

and Gnu LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Things that get up your nose
From: kendall
Date: 21 Oct 11 - 07:18 AM

" and she goes, and then I go and then she goes.... and I'm gone.
People who say anartica, particully, nucular, prone when they mean supine...
Come to think of it, Most things get up my nose.