More really annoying things that people say

The political one that gets my goat is the inane "What I would say......"

As a pose to what for pities sake???? Are they contemplating telling us what they wouldn't say just to balance the debate??

Muppets, the lot of them!

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Originally posted by JonR:

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Originally posted by Chillkram:
You bloody bunch of pedants!

That should read:-

"You bunch of bloody pedants!"

Cheers (/pedant mode off)

You nazi bloody syntax, Jon!

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Originally posted by Chillkram:

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Originally posted by JonR:

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Originally posted by Chillkram:
You bloody bunch of pedants!

That should read:-

"You bunch of bloody pedants!"

Cheers (/pedant mode off)

You nazi bloody syntax, Jon!

Tut, tut.

It should be

"You nazi! Bloody syntax, Jon!"

Must do better next time, Mark...

Not detention again, sir?

Yes, I'm afraid so.

Double-detention, in fact.

girl 1 - Oh my God, see that boy there, he's like really really cute

girl 2 - Oh my God, he's like well cute

girl 3 - oh my God

girl 1 - I would like, totally shag him

girl 2 - He's like sooo shagable

girl 3 - Oh my God

girl 1 - oh my God, he's like with that girl there, you know, like the ugly one

girl 2 - I know her she's like SUCH a slut

girl 3 Oh my God

Tonight Matthew I'm going to be...

Surely "you bloody syntax nazi!"

Yep, fair suggestion, Howard.

One house point for you.

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Originally posted by BigH47:
Surely "you bloody syntax nazi!"

I'm not commenting. I've already got double detention!

Mark

"To be honest...." or "To be frank..."

Leaves you wondering about any other comments they make.

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txt spk on the net

Text speak anywhere!!!

I no doubt sound like a sad old pedant here but I always use full spelling and punctuation on all the text messages I send. I physically can't bring myself to use text abbreviations.

But then I listen to analogue radio and records a lot too!

Jonathan

"Its not rocket science"

Ususally said by someone who doesn't know what they are talking about. No, it may not be rocket science, but its still a challenge to get right.

I often hear:
"bought" instead of "brought"
"I'm like" instead of "I said"
"wrought havoc" instead of "wreaked..."
and it jars, but in ten years or so the corruptions will probably be part of the language, and no-one will notice.

People who start a sentence "with the greatest respect..." and then proceed to insult you, they have no respect at all!

Also... "Absolutely" If there one word I hate it's this one

Gary

American music "artists";

"'cos I'm a artist mumble mumble mumble y'know what I'm sayin mumble mumble mumble y'know what I'm sayin mumble mumble mumble y'know what I'm sayin mumble mumble mumble................

No, I don't know what you're "sayin", speak fucking english!

Did anybody hear reports of an incident on a farm in Sussex, where a number of people have been arrested in connection with annoying the nation. It is believed that the owner of the farm, a Mr Hibbert, has been co-operating with police and government officials, in a plot codenamed “Operation Les Pricks”, and kindly granted permission for the use of a 17th century tithe barn as a temporary holding place for those arrested. Although not confirmed, those already charged include

• bus drivers who don’t wait for people to sit down before pulling away from the bus stop
  
• taxi drivers who use their horns instead of knocking on the door
  
• people who moan at the council about the streets being full of litter - not stopping to think that it is the people who drop litter, not the council
  
• a room full of drama teachers listening to Bjork
  
• grown men with replica shirts worn over their jumpers, who stand up and stretch out their arms when the opposing team fail to hit the target
  
• an assortment of scriptwriters, novelists and playwrights who own Agas but don’t know how to use them
  
• a musical equipment reviewer responsible for an article entitled “Microphone of the Month”
  
• a woman who described herself as a little bit “Bridget”, a little bit “Ally”, a little bit “Sex and the City”, who chose to call her baby boy “Fred” as a childishly rebellious attempt at a clever reaction to those who might have expected her to call him Julian or Rupert. A bit of advice - call him Rupert - it fits. And besides, it’s a good name. Don’t be calling him Fred, or Archie, with all its cheeky but loveable working class scamp connotations - unless you really do have plans for him to spend his life in William Hill’s, waiting for them to weigh in at Newton Abbott
  
• a whole wall full of teenagers spitting needlessly
  
• an amateur thug in camouflage trousers, whose Japanese fighting dog had run amok on a Swindon council estate
  
• a man from the record company, who said that George Michael continues to challenge social taboos through his music
  
• continuity announcers introducing comedy shows
  
• a pub band who get uppity when everyone goes to the bar during a song they’ve written themselves
  
• a group of football fans referred to as “Commodores” - as in “Once, Twice, Three Times a Season”, who feed sugar lumps to police horses at cup finals
  
• an artist who says his next album will be more “song-based”
  
• a man who informs people that he gets up at six o’clock every morning, and seems to want a medal
  
• people who say they “speak as they find”, and are somehow proud of it
  
• journalists who try to spell an interviewee’s laugh
  
• an organisation who declared an awareness week for awareness weeks
  
• and a council worker who had dropped litter
  

Have you been reading the 'Grumpy Old Men Whinging Thread' again ROTF?

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Originally posted by Chillkram:
Have you been reading the 'Grumpy Old Men Whinging Thread' again ROTF?

It is the lyrics of Half Man Half Biscuit's Breaking News from Cammell Laird Social Club - I think I agree with every word of it.

BTW why do weather men always describe a rainy day as miserable, when I quite like a bit of drizzle?

Anyone who ends a post or letter with the word 'cheers'.

I want to say, what's so fucking 'cheery' about it.

Anyone who swears.

Cheers

Brad

It was the fashion among certain types few years ago to say, "it's all good". Now I've noticed that some television weather presenters here are using the phrase.

When it's raining and some bright spark says - "cor in it wet out there"

"Foul sweep" instead of "fell swoop"

"For all intensive purposes" instead of "For all intents and purposes"

Steve

"your call is important to us- please continue to hold"



SJB