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16 Feb 01 - 11:53 AM (#399434) Subject: Stop doing this right now! From: LR Mole Update from the Irritating Behavior Police: no more finger-waving "air quotes" (he said he was an"artist"{wiggle, wiggle}) OR making a phone out of your hand (index finger in ear, next two fingers curled, talking into pinkie-tip.) So let it be written, so let it be done. Other commands requested. |
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16 Feb 01 - 12:00 PM (#399442) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: SINSULL No more chalking up points with licked finger mid air. |
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16 Feb 01 - 12:00 PM (#399443) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Liz the Squeak Tapping your imaginary wristwatch when someone is late. I know I'm late, I have my own watch.... Duh! And that lovely bending of elbows and hitching up of body as if about to run, but not actually running, done by pedestrians when stepping out in front of cars.... why bother, I'll run you over what ever your arms are doing!! And that silly "mayfair" kiss that is carefully placed about 8 inches from the actual face, in mid air. If you don't want to kiss 'em, don't bother! LTS |
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16 Feb 01 - 12:05 PM (#399446) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Sorcha Well, like, um, like, ya know, like, well, KEE-RIST!! Just spit it out!! |
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16 Feb 01 - 12:08 PM (#399449) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Liz the Squeak And saying 'can I just make a point' when you know you are going to go on and make six. Ever noticed how those who say 'just one more thing' or 'just a quick question' then go on and on for hours on end...... And why are they always in my meetings?? LTS |
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16 Feb 01 - 12:09 PM (#399450) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Liz the Squeak Workmen putting their hands on their hips and tilting their heads, like it's going to help me understand why they are charging me twice for one day's work.... You sorta got me going now.... LTS |
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16 Feb 01 - 12:10 PM (#399452) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Liz the Squeak AND THAT BLOODY ANNOYING LITTLE BLOODY PAPER BLOODY CLIP ON MICROSOFT... LTS
OK, going to go and have a calming drink now.....
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16 Feb 01 - 12:14 PM (#399456) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: CarolC (Damn... I'm going to have to come up with a whole new repetoir of obnoxious behaviours... ) |
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16 Feb 01 - 12:24 PM (#399463) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: wdyat12 When I walk along country roads strangers ride by with their hand on the wheel and raise their fingers in a half hearted wave. What are they doing with the other hand? OK buddy, just give me a blast with your horn or run me into the ditch. That would show me your genuine feelings. wdyat12 |
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16 Feb 01 - 12:25 PM (#399465) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: mousethief What about pumping your arm while saying "YES!"? |
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16 Feb 01 - 12:26 PM (#399468) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Rick Fielding And immediately stop using brackets (you know, these things) just because you're too lazy to compose a proper sentence. Fer Gawd's sake, stop starting sentences with conjuctions! Stop using "cutesy slang". If you can't bring yourself to say "For God's sake", find some other expression. Stop over-using exclamation points. Stop hyphenating words because you can't find a "real" word to describe what you mean. Drop all the quotation marks.....oh, and the stupid dots as well. Oops, sorry. These were on my "things to do today" list. Rick |
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16 Feb 01 - 12:34 PM (#399477) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: wdyat12 Rick, You forget about all those smilies:) wday12 |
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16 Feb 01 - 12:37 PM (#399479) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: mousethief But I LIKE starting sentences with conjunctions! |
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16 Feb 01 - 12:43 PM (#399481) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: KingBrilliant Stop telling people what not to do? maybe? Kris |
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16 Feb 01 - 12:44 PM (#399483) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: mousethief Don't tell me to stop telling people what to do! |
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16 Feb 01 - 12:44 PM (#399484) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: KingBrilliant And what's really distressing is that I wanted dearly to use a smiley on that last message, but I thought perhaps someone might not like it. Kris |
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16 Feb 01 - 12:46 PM (#399486) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: misfit Don't ask me "Could I ask you a question?" Little late for that question isn't it? Also, lol, does this really mean anything anymore. I have friends that use it in their email. God that is annoying...lol. |
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16 Feb 01 - 12:47 PM (#399488) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Rick Fielding ...and so do I Alex (must be my upbringing), but I'm a'feared wdyat12, that I can't DO a "smiley face". 'Guess I'm just "iconically-challenged"!!! Oh, and the thing that drives me REALLY crazy.......signing your name with a whole bunch of cute descriptive words. Rickwhowouldneverstoopsolow |
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16 Feb 01 - 12:52 PM (#399491) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Clinton Hammond So I go... The he goes... So She goes... So I go... Well, people who talk like that, I wish they would go!! The word they're looking for is 'said'! And well, I gotta jump in here in defence of smilies... the internet needs something to covey overall emotion, considering that most people type on it as if they were speaking (or 'going', I guess)... And rick, sorry... but I like my dots! ;-) Ya know who else can go... people who say "irregardless". There's no such word! |
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16 Feb 01 - 01:00 PM (#399503) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: wdyat12 Boy! I really touched a nerve here:) wdyat12 |
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16 Feb 01 - 01:00 PM (#399504) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Rick Fielding What are the "..........s" called? Clinton, on a serious note, I think that "well, I go, and then she goes..." thing is the most annoying communication "quirk" produced by the nineties. Don't you just want to go over to these kids and scream at them? Of course, they'd pepper-spray you on the spot, but it would be worth it. Rick |
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16 Feb 01 - 01:02 PM (#399506) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: GUEST,guestguestguest(intruder)oops ::is not adding a comment because he's helpless without brackets, ie parenthetical statements, and the three dots, ie an ellipsis, he fades into the night, weeping:: and, sarcasm, broad obvious sarcasm... gotta stop that lmaotipmp |
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16 Feb 01 - 01:06 PM (#399509) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Clinton Hammond "Don't you just want to go over to these kids and scream at them?" Nope... I just 'GO'! LOL!! between 'go' and 'like', the 90's were pretty much able to butcher the english language to death!! And the encouragement of eubonics doesn't help either! Let's bring back elocution lessions!!! ;-) |
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16 Feb 01 - 01:06 PM (#399510) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: GUEST ...and this would be annoying because...? |
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16 Feb 01 - 01:07 PM (#399511) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: catspaw49 Damn Liz. Could you list the things that don't bother you? I ask this purely in the hope of saving some bandwidth. Rick, I thought you were speaking of me and about 90% of the others here. Thankfully we have PT!!!! But outside of him...................(:<)) Spawandhisbagofgrammaticalerrorsandotherpainsintheassferchrissakes |
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16 Feb 01 - 01:08 PM (#399512) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: GUEST I'm, like, hurt. |
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16 Feb 01 - 01:16 PM (#399520) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Morticia People who say " Well, in my humble opinion", when you know it is anything but...( oops, sorry Rick, just love those little dots), people who preface a sentence with " I know you must be busy.." as a sop to piling more work in your in-tray.....and the real tooth-gnasher for me, people who can take an hour and ten minutes to say what could have been said in three. |
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16 Feb 01 - 01:17 PM (#399521) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: GUEST,Bigchuck So, like, just get over it dude....you know, like just suck it up and deal. |
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16 Feb 01 - 01:27 PM (#399525) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Justa Picker - Drivers who cut YOU off and give you the finger when you honk at them! |
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16 Feb 01 - 01:31 PM (#399531) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: catspaw49 JP, keep an eye out for Liz. Spaw |
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16 Feb 01 - 01:52 PM (#399550) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Wesley S Please don't tell me to "Talk to the hand" when you don't want my opinion. |
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16 Feb 01 - 02:10 PM (#399568) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Uncle_DaveO Clinton-Hammond said something about "so he goes" etc. But the cow goes moo!
He also said: Oh, yes, there is! It's right there in your post! Not a good word, mind you; an ignorant, nonsensical construction, yes; a word deserving of condemnation, assuredly. But it's a word, all right. Dave Oesterreich
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16 Feb 01 - 02:14 PM (#399572) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: GUEST, Going Cookieless, Just Cuz, Mind Yer Own B wdyat12, that waving thing-- it has a lot of layers of communication in it, but they mean it sincerely. Our whole county runs on that level of communication, and runs well. There just isn't a translation dictionary yet. ~S~ - cookie |
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16 Feb 01 - 02:41 PM (#399580) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Hawker what I really HATE is when people say.... "Oh what you need is.." DON'T tell me what I need, I know what I need.... Blah blah blah.... Lucy |
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16 Feb 01 - 02:51 PM (#399582) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: GUEST,khandu The thing that bugs me, you know what I'm saying, is when people, you know what I'm saying, interrupt their own sentences, you know what I'm saying, with crap like this. khanduwithoutallthiscrapyouknowwhati'msaying |
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16 Feb 01 - 04:09 PM (#399653) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: kendall Oh Lord it's hard to be humble. Clinton, you are right. The only thing worse than someone using irregardless, is someone defending it. You will find many, (notice I didn't say alota) non words in the modern dictionary. Words such as fuck. That does not make them proper words.Now, a question. Why do we allow such gross demonstrations of ignorance to set us off? |
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16 Feb 01 - 04:41 PM (#399687) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Bardford And the people who stack their seltic record albins by the chimbley. They're on a different tact, supposebly. |
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16 Feb 01 - 06:35 PM (#399740) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Bill D and people who comb their hair while looking in a 'meer' or plant corn in a 'filled'.... (and don't bug me about the dots.....It's a graphic represention of what my mind is doing as I compose thoughts.) |
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16 Feb 01 - 06:40 PM (#399743) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Justa Picker Oh and while we're on the subject of hair......Men who've lost all their hair on the top, and grow it out on the sides, and then back-comb it across the top. Nice look - NOT! |
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16 Feb 01 - 06:53 PM (#399750) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Paul G. Its nuke-LEE-ur, not nuke-YA-ler. Droves me nuts. Almost worse than that are people who make quotation marks with two fingers of each hand when they're trying to make a point. Ugh. |
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16 Feb 01 - 06:57 PM (#399752) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: GUEST khandu, I know what you're saying, ya know what I'm sayin' |
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16 Feb 01 - 06:58 PM (#399753) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: McGrath of Harlow I get mildly irritated by people who get irritated by things that don't seem in the least irritating to me.
Having said that I feel an obligation to cite a couple of things I find irritating: Anybody who says "in this day and age", implying that the calendar date has some relevance to the question of whether something is right or wrong.
Statements of the form "You make me angry".
People who say "in a perfect world" as a way of justifying adding to its imperfection. |
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16 Feb 01 - 07:14 PM (#399763) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: mousethief If something small has the power to anger you, what does that say about your size? |
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16 Feb 01 - 07:19 PM (#399766) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: late 'n short 2 "Actually,..." |
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16 Feb 01 - 07:59 PM (#399794) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: kendall State of the art. Pushing the envelope AT this point in time. Partic- u- ly (particularly) The cutting edge. nuw q lar (nuclear) I agree bugs me too. Hopefully. one of the most mis-used words of all time. |
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16 Feb 01 - 08:27 PM (#399806) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: DancingMom I've been hearing "have a good one" (instead of "have a nice day" , I guess.) The way my mind works, "Have a good one" always makes me wonder, "Have a good WHAT?" Hmm. THAT'S open to interpretation! |
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16 Feb 01 - 08:38 PM (#399810) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: wdyat12 Whatever. wdyat12 |
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16 Feb 01 - 08:39 PM (#399811) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Bill D you just answer.."every one I have is good.." and smile |
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16 Feb 01 - 08:56 PM (#399820) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: GUEST,Bardford At the end of the day, it doesn't look like we can expect change anytime soon. |
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16 Feb 01 - 09:22 PM (#399850) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Ebbie It bothers me just a bit to have someone write 'alot'. There ain't no such critter. There's either 'allot' or 'a lot'. (And no, Kendall, I'm not aiming at you. I'm assuming yours is a typo.) Ebbie |
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16 Feb 01 - 11:27 PM (#399936) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: leprechaun Mole's pretend-phone notwithstanding, I usually put my thumb to my ear, have my three fingers curled, and talk into my pinkie. I just don't feel comfortable talking into that smaller phone, with the thumb just dangling out useless. I guess the thumb could be considered an antenna, notwithstanding. But (conjunction) {those are parentheses, these are brackets} [or maybe these are brackets and those are some other thing] what really bugs me is when somebody makes a pistol out of their finger and fires it by bending their thumb forward. What kind of goofball trigger mechanism is that anyway? Are they too lazy to use their other hand to pull the imaginary slide back, notwithstanding? |
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16 Feb 01 - 11:37 PM (#399941) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Clinton Hammond read "BRAINDROPPINGS" by George Carlin... a fantastic book that could be posted here whole! ;-) |
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16 Feb 01 - 11:41 PM (#399945) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Troll Saying " I heard that!" as an acknowledgment to a statement. And Boom-box cars! AAAAAAAAAAARGH! troll |
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17 Feb 01 - 12:14 AM (#399957) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Amos One of mine is the stupid, subliterate, ungrammatical and actually manipulative (sometimes) stunt of making a declarative sentence and appending "..soooo.....", to it. It is used to invite you, the listener, to do or say something they want you to do or say, even though the desired idea is theirs, not yours. Another abuse of the same word, but abusing a different defintion of it, is the youthful practice of attrributiong an extreme quality by saying something is "soooooo" followed by a phrase ('he is soooo to die for!') or even worse, a negation, as in "that is sooooo Not True!". Finally, a feel like kicking someone when they offer one of those push-button thought-packets condensed into a single irrlevant word. In midconversation, for example, you might hear such a person interject, "Doooood!", to indicate strong protest or disagreement with something juts said. On the other hand, I was part of the great conspiracy of eternal newness which foisted "Hey, man", "hey, mon", "far out", "cooool", and a few other abominations (by the standards of the time) on the English-speaking world, so i guess I am just recycling a second-hand karma... (The dots are called an ellipsis, and have a legitimate grammatical and typographical role in mainstream written English...but I forget what it is. :>))) AmoswhoisgettingsuckedbackintotheMudcatvortexagainsthiswill.... |
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17 Feb 01 - 08:27 AM (#400079) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Firecat Elocution lessons ...... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll tell you whatI get completely sick & tired of, parents nagging, people accusing me of lying and self opinionated, over important, puffed - up, arrogant, cocky, and downright annoying little GITS!!!!! I have the misfortune of having to work with people like them for my Theatre Studies AS Level exam piece and there is NO CHANCE I'm going to be able to get my proper grade if those annoying little c***s don't even concentrate! I would happily get a rope and tie it tightly around their necks so I strangle them!!! OK I'm REALLY p****d off now, just from thinking about them. One of them has already posted to the Cat before Christmas, and tried to get me thrown off it by accusing me of slagging him off, and to be quite honest with you that was a load of complete and utter b******s!!!! OK I'd better go and calm down now. It's very rare that I get this angry. FirecatwhoiscontemplatingtheAztecfiretorturefortheannoyingboysshehasjusthadagoodrantabout!! |
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17 Feb 01 - 08:37 AM (#400084) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: kendall In other words. This implies that the listener is too dim to get what was just said. A number of people. Too vague to use at all. A handfull of people. Midgets? |
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17 Feb 01 - 09:03 AM (#400092) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: John P Have you noticed that people who say "I'm speechless!" when they don't like what they've just heard never really are? Wouldn't it be nice if they were? I agree with wdyat12 about people saying "Whatever". If you want me to decide for you I will, but don't bitch at me about it later. I am vaguely irritated most of the time when I see LOL. It is often used in places where it doesn't mean anything, like a verbal tick. It's really strange that people don't know the difference between the word it's and its homonym, its. Inappropriate quatation marks on signs can be very funny sometimes: Restrooms are "cleaned" daily. John Peekstok |
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17 Feb 01 - 03:39 PM (#400308) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: leprechaun Sir Lancelot was speechless. |
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17 Feb 01 - 04:27 PM (#400339) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Little Hawk I can't stand the way Spaw starts to screw up the left side of his mouth and squint his eyes just before he posts to a thread like this one, and then the way he snorts with glee upon hitting the "submit" button. The guy is a public nuisance, you know what I'm sayin'? Y' know? Well, do ya? Huh? Huh? Do ya? - LH |
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17 Feb 01 - 04:31 PM (#400344) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Clinton Hammond firecat.. I understand the need to rant from time to time... But sorry... yer's makes no sence... I have no idea what yer on about... But I do think elocution lessons would be a good idea... ;-) |
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17 Feb 01 - 04:45 PM (#400356) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: McGrath of Harlow This being a global site with local outbreaks, it's intriguing to see how so many of the mannerisms and expressions and habits that have grown so cliched they drive people crazy elsewhere have never been heard of in my corner of the world. Or they have a completely different meaning or resonance.
It isn't so much that I get irritated by verbal expressions, but there are some that tend to tell me I'm not going to get along too well with this person (assuming they come from my corner of the world):
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17 Feb 01 - 04:49 PM (#400358) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: RoyH (Burl) Some people, when describing a conversation, always say "Do you know what he turned round and said?". Or "She turned round and said to him". They live in a world where people are always turning round to speak. I don't see this happening. Who are all these revolving people?. |
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17 Feb 01 - 04:50 PM (#400364) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Little Hawk Ugh. - LH |
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17 Feb 01 - 04:51 PM (#400365) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Lonesome EJ When did "buck naked" become "butt naked"? Stupid Another pet peeve is people who never end a sentence, but uh...Its like they don't want to give you an opening, and uh... I really hate TV commercial humor, the stuff like "I can't believe I ate the whole thing" or "wassss-UP!" Certain indivduals love to adopt these canned phrases and repeat them as a reasonable substitute for a clever remark, and especially in an office environment these phrases often generate a sort of Pavlovian laugh response. On an episode of The Simpsons, Homer once said " I love to quote laugh-lines from commercials...its not that they are actually funny, but I like the way it make us feel like one big family and we're all in on the joke." |
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17 Feb 01 - 04:53 PM (#400366) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Lonesome EJ and those goll dang double-posters! |
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17 Feb 01 - 04:58 PM (#400368) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: kendall Abraham Lincoln admitted that he had trouble with the difference between its and it's. Never could figure why anyone would have such a problem. This may sound strange coming from a Yank, but, I hate what we are doing to the English language. It is becoming overloaded with crap from commercials. Mind Twinkies. |
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17 Feb 01 - 06:37 PM (#400443) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Alice yada, yada, yada
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17 Feb 01 - 07:11 PM (#400466) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: jofield 1. People who start by saying, "I'm just the kind of person who..." followed by some characteristic common to any normal, sane person, as if this somehow makes them unique: "I'm just the kind of person who doesn't like to wait in line." (Oh, gee, the rest of us love waiting in line.)
2. ANY altruistic wish expressed in the imperative: "You have a nice day, now!" I could never stand the chorus to Jesse Colin Young tune, "Come on people, now, smile on your brother. Everybody get together GOT TO love one another right now." Got to? I think not. 3. The expression "Don't go there." But this one is so lame, it has already been excoriated nearly everywhere. |
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18 Feb 01 - 04:51 AM (#400680) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Gervase Basically, at the end of the day... No, please don't get me started on this. I already spent most of my driving time ranting at the radio, newspapers and magazines are read with exasperation and... But if there's one thing that pisses me off more than anything else, it's intolerance! Or Intelligent people who vote Conservative. Or people who can't make up their mind what really gedts their goat. Or |
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18 Feb 01 - 06:13 AM (#400703) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Penny S. With the greatest of respect... (you know and I know that what follows will show no respect at all). Penny |
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18 Feb 01 - 06:48 AM (#400707) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: GUEST,Nat Yeah, my one is "Well, that's life I'm afraid" when you're suffering some major personal tragedy or are being evicted or have lost your job or something. I hate that. Its as if the person who said it to you has undergone many tragedies without aid, and that you would be better off without their support too. Cheers. Have to say, though, I'm one of those who can't stop saying "You know what I mean?" at the end of every sentence. I hate doing it but sometimes its the only way of sparking a response such as a nod or a "yeah". The worst thing of all has to be people putting an apostrophe in words like the '70s', '80s' and '90s'. Ugh.
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18 Feb 01 - 07:09 AM (#400715) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Liz the Squeak And there's the old social-work favourite "I hear what you say" (with the unspoken coda "But I'm not really listening to you.") Oh that is not just restricted to Social work, but any form of management meeting... we had a council leader whose meetings became a form of bingo. You had a card with several phrases on, like 'I hear...', 'at the end of the day', 'we are working in your best interests', 'if you would just look at it from our side'... Tick off each one as he says it, and the winner is the one who completes the card first. At one meeting he used the 'at the end' phrase 16 times, and 'I hear...' 23 times, and the bloody meeting was only an hour long!!! Drivers who pull up to houses and just beep their horn, rather than get out and ring the doorbell. A disabled friend of mine has been overcharged by so many cab firms for that, despite telling the operator she uses a wheelchair. She takes a while to get to the door and half the time the cab can be seen pulling out of her street before she's made it to the gate. And why does my office disabled toilet have to be behind 2 doors that pull towards you? You can either get in, or get out, not both. LTS |
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18 Feb 01 - 10:23 AM (#400795) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Mr Red AND ANOTHER THING...... |
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18 Feb 01 - 12:56 PM (#400879) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Ebbie People who say- in reference to what is actually at best enabling behavior- "I'm just too kind, I guess" or "I'm too soft-hearted", when they really mean they don't want the hassle of saying NO. Eb |
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18 Feb 01 - 12:56 PM (#400880) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: flattop Great irony in your demonstration of ignorance post Kendall. |
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18 Feb 01 - 05:18 PM (#401027) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Liz the Squeak And the people who say 'I won't keep you a moment' - Well DON'T then! 'Cause I know it will be more like half an hour. And why don't they put fraction keys on keyboards any longer? LTS |
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18 Feb 01 - 05:46 PM (#401044) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Bill D well, Liz ½ of them don't care, ¼ of them don't think we need it, and ¾ of them can't figure out what key they would replace...and 7/32 of them have no idea what you are talking about |
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18 Feb 01 - 06:00 PM (#401052) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) Amos hit the nail SOOOO on the head with the word "SO". Who started that and why didn't the first person they said that to tell them how TOTALLY stupid they sound. Thankfully, "totally" is fading out of use, "SOOOOO" probably was born out a need to say something in front of an expression that wouldn't need a prefix if it was said in context. Finally, stop referring to Irish Music as "Celtic". The Celts were long gone before any of the music that record companies associate with them ever came into being. I could probably make 3 or 4 more points but I just used the expression "finally" and I hate when people say "finally" and then proceed to make 3 or 4 more points. Rich |
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18 Feb 01 - 06:09 PM (#401058) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: John Hardly W'sup 'mos? |
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18 Feb 01 - 06:12 PM (#401060) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: kendall flattop, your post baffles me. Maybe it's the lack of punctuation? Say more about it, ok? |
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19 Feb 01 - 12:28 AM (#401252) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: CarolC In our little planet that is smothered with living languages, labeling words that have enough usage to be included in dictionaries as non-words, strikes me as a bit of comic genius. |
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19 Feb 01 - 12:50 AM (#401264) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: CarolC kendall, this is CaroC. Someone else used my cookie for that last post. It was not me. (The someone else told me to tell you that it was "some asshole" who used my cookie.) We apologize for the inconvience. Carol (the real one) |
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19 Feb 01 - 01:20 AM (#401273) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: wdyat12 CarolC, (the real one) About your last post where you mention that someone stole your cookie in the previous post: Are we to beleive that some devious sort could somehow steal another's cookie and assume their identity just to cause mischeif? I've been following your threads and I might be getting a little paranoid at the the thought of such a rascally act. Are you becoming a split personality? wdyat12 |
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19 Feb 01 - 10:20 AM (#401420) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Kim C well I am guilty of most of these (except "nucular")so I guess I'm like you know the sooooooo most ignorant college grad who, like, ever lived, even though I was, like, an English major......... There's a time and place to be goofy and a time and place to be serious. I would not use casual speech in a formal presentation, nor would I use casual writing in a formal letter. Personally, life's too short to get annoyed by goofy stuff. |
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19 Feb 01 - 10:39 AM (#401433) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: CarolC Hi wdyat12, I live in the US, and I'm currently visiting with a Mudcatter in Canada. In order to post to the Mudcat, I have to use his computer. In order to post on his computer as CarolC, it is necessary for him to log out of his cookie, and for me to log on with my cookie. In his enthusiasm to make that post, he forgot to change to his cookie before sending it. You don't ever have to worry about someone else using your cookie unless you, yourself have set it on a computer that someone else has access to. In order to set your cookie, you have to type in not only your screen name, but also your password. So you don't really have anything to worry about unless you are sharing a computer. As far as the split personality thing is concerned, you'll have to ask my shrink about that. Carol P.S. flattop says you should never share your computer with assholes like him.
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19 Feb 01 - 10:40 AM (#401434) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Little Hawk The expression "life's too short" really burns my cookies. People who use it oughta have their noses tweaked. I am sooooo, like, tired of it. I'm like, as if! So who doesn't know life is short? It seems endless when you're waiting for the damned thread to load... - LH Kendall - asking flattop for an explanation is as unrewarding as standing behind a mule to check out when and if it's going to kick. Just ignore him, is my advice. :-) - LH
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19 Feb 01 - 11:13 AM (#401453) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: flattop You should stop standing behind kicking mules, Small Hawk. Is that what happened to your face? |
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19 Feb 01 - 12:05 PM (#401483) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: En No one has mentioned "She's all.." which is used in place of "She goes...", as in: "I'm all 'I'm going out with Dave and there's nothing you can do about it,' and she's all 'Whatever.'" |
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19 Feb 01 - 12:08 PM (#401486) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Kim C well tweak me then. |
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19 Feb 01 - 12:16 PM (#401493) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock This is not grammatic or speech related at all but I HATE IT. Couples. Not a normal, loving, caring but normal relationship, but THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE ALWAYS ALL OVER EACH OTHER IN PUBLIC. There is a time and a place, and in front of me is not it. It's rude and ill-mannered and I hate it. I especially hate couples pawing each other when there's only you or you and your own Other Half in a room. The sort that whisper to each other and have their limbs wrapped round each other. Don't get me wrong, public displays of affection can be nice occasionally, and I will walk with linked arms with my bloke, and kisses goodbye are fine - but people slobbering all over each other in pubs or cinemas or parks? UUUUUuuuuuugggggggh. (Teenagers aren't so bad - I almost expect it of them and they have raging hormones as an excuse, but anyone over the age of 20 should know better). Rant ends. |
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19 Feb 01 - 12:24 PM (#401497) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Kim C I am like, SO with you on that, Fibula, you know what I'm saying? |
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19 Feb 01 - 12:32 PM (#401503) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock heh heh heh! Don't GO there! |
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19 Feb 01 - 01:04 PM (#401529) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Kim C You da (wo)man. ;) |
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19 Feb 01 - 02:09 PM (#401594) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: McGrath of Harlow But what CarolC's cookie monster said was sensible enough. Words are what people say, dictionaries are just lists of words with definitions that help you check up on what they mean, and whatbthey have meant. And dictionaries are never going to be able to keep up to date with a changing language.
The only circumstances in which it is appropriate to treat a dictionary as a complete list of all the words you are allowed to use is when you are playing word-games like Scrabble or Countdown. |
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19 Feb 01 - 03:41 PM (#401641) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Little Hawk flattop - it's cos he just smoked my eyelids and punched my cigarette. That's what happened. And I don't even smoke. I'm like, "Gimmme a break!" He's like, "I'll break your bones, I ain't your pop!" So I decided to have him arrested, and went lookin' for a cop. I was, like, SOOOOO bummed out! I'll let you know how it turns out. (From Little Hawk on his miscellaneous birthday) - LH |
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20 Feb 01 - 01:01 AM (#401987) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Seamus Kennedy Doh! |
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20 Feb 01 - 12:08 PM (#402235) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: CamiSu Apostrophes where they don't belong, and none where they do belong. Ditto quotes. I have never liked "Don't go there." But, it has gained some charm with my Austrian AFS student who says, "Only just DON'T!" Kendall, I think the irony comment came (maybe) from your comment about Lincoln's difficulty with its and it's, and then sidestepping the issue by using "it is" in the next sentence. BTW Anu Garg of Wordsmith has a theme on made up words this week. There are several in my family, some of which are making their way into general usage. As long as we agree on hteir meanings, I guess they are words. Those other things are null sounds, like er and um. They only SOUND like real words, ya know what I mean? *small smile* CamiSu
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20 Feb 01 - 03:31 PM (#402387) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Jim Krause And, well ya know, there are like all these twenty somethings that end all their sentences with a question mark? As if they're trying to ask a question, or make a statement? Jim |
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20 Feb 01 - 05:23 PM (#402453) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Little Hawk That is Soooo, like, right on, eh? So, I'm like, this has reached 100 posts now, right? So, like, should we just, like, dump the thread or? Whaddya think? I'm like, whatever. Y' know what I mean? - LH |
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20 Feb 01 - 05:41 PM (#402457) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: CarolC Well, Little Hawk, it occurs to me, serendipitously, and perhaps somewhat posthumously (well, not really), that the inclusion, nay, in fact, the creative insertion of a new thread to foist vast quantities of the kind of profound and even, dare I say it, pendulous maxims that bestraddle this most poignant of threads, would be a decidedly expedient, if vexing, course of action. I say go for it. Carol |
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21 Feb 01 - 01:38 AM (#402731) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: Peg Jim Krause: that's called "uptalking," ending a sentence or statement as if it is a question...points to lack of confidence perhaps? all the kids do it, it seems. don't even get me started (heh heh ;)! ) with the grammar stuff. I teach college students. the damn little fuckers don't read anymore. they sure as heck can't write. no clue about grammar. constant misuse of its and it's, whose and who's, they're, their and there....just for starters. Most of them are incapable of writing in an intelligent and engaging manner; when I find a rare student with actual writing ability or, gasp!! talent, it makes my freakin' month...mind you, it does not happen often. oh and I know I did not use caps when I should have just then...get over yerself!!! peg (yes I have my computer back at last!!!) |
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21 Feb 01 - 07:40 AM (#402768) Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now! From: John P You go, girl. (Ackk!!) |