Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)

[CivicDuties]

popeyewhite said:

CivicDuties said:

I'd say the correct answer is "I am well, thanks".

To describe how you are (the word 'are' being a verb) requires an adverb, not an adjective. 'Good' is an adjective, 'well' is the adverbial form. However, if the question was "What are you?" rather than "How are you?", then 'Good' can be used as an answer, i.e. 'I am good, as opposed to evil'. The statement 'I am good' does not describe your state of wellbeing - the 'good' here is describing the noun (or to be precise in this case the pronoun) 'I'.

The correct answer would surely be "I'm very well, thank you. How are you?"

If you knew the answer, what were you asking earlier?

But the 'very' will be dependent (one can be well without being very well), and the reciprocal question is an optional nicety, and nothing whatsoever to do with what you asked.

This is a strange conversation.

[snuffy]

Alickadoo said:

Link?

I don't know.

I just remember a sketch with them both at a party, one asks the other a series if questions like "How's the wife?" and gets an answer like say "she's dead" and gets the reply "oh, good, good, that's good to hear", so on it goes.

[captain_cynic]

MartG said:

Pretty sure 'carby' is used in the US and possibly Australia

Can confirm "carby" was in common usage in Australia prior to most cars having EFI. Hardly used in modern parlance.

Have heard it used as a short from of "carbohydrate" but anyone who discussed that outside of a scientific context is a weapons grade bell end regardless.

[Nethybridge]

Taking advantage of the lovely weather
I am sitting inside watching TV, and rapidly
getting irked at why
you tube insists in putting vidoes I've
already watched on my "recommend" list.

[popeyewhite]

CivicDuties said:

If you knew the answer, what were you asking earlier?

It was rhetorical, and anyway not addressed at you.

[popeyewhite]

paulguitar said:

Doofus said:

The 'proper' greeting is "How do you do", to which the correct response is "How do you do".

It seems not much progress has been made though.

"Alright mate?"

[Wonderman]

popeyewhite said:

paulguitar said:

Doofus said:

The 'proper' greeting is "How do you do", to which the correct response is "How do you do".

It seems not much progress has been made though.

"Alright mate?"

You are the manager of Spurs and I claim my five pounds.

[Antony Moxey]

jamesson said:

Some abbreviations bug the hell out of me. Lappy for laptop, thou for thousand, ambo for ambulance etc. Cretins.

Motoring ones especially: Fezza, Pork, Scooby, Teg, Lambo, Vee Dub, Stang etc etc. What on earth is wrong with people that they can’t manage more than a couple of syllables?

[QuickQuack]

I'm sure this has been mentioned before, but I need to say it again.

OPs of a new thread who then delete their OP, thus rendering the whole thread unintelligible. What the hell is wrong with you? If you've said something foolish or haven't received the reaction you were looking for, grow a backbone, own your mistake, and don't do it again. Some others are worse because they're totally inexplicable, this makes a thread even more confusing.

The only reason to delete a post is if it's offensive or contains unnecessary personally identifiable information.

[Alickadoo]

QuickQuack said:

I'm sure this has been mentioned before, but I need to say it again.

OPs of a new thread who then delete their OP, thus rendering the whole thread unintelligible. What the hell is wrong with you? If you've said something foolish or haven't received the reaction you were looking for, grow a backbone, own your mistake, and don't do it again. Some others are worse because they're totally inexplicable, this makes a thread even more confusing.

The only reason to delete a post is if it's offensive or contains unnecessary personally identifiable information.

The answer to that is for the first responder to quote the original post, then if the OP deletes their post we still have the original.

QED.

[nismocat]

Pit Pony said:

Cotty said:

I sometimes wonder that if I don't make the effort to contact people and arrange things that I might never see them again. Is this just me or do other people experience this?

It does annoy me thats its always me that has to make the first move to get people motivated to meet up.

My best man. 15 years of no contact, then I started a new job, and he was a major customer's representative helping key suppliers with improvement projects. So I saw him every week, for a year. Then I was made redundant, and I didn't hear from him for 7 years, unless I made contact first.
Then I went contracting, and I got a contract with a different part of his company in the same location, so I saw him for lunch every 3 or 4 weeks, then, I moved on to.another contract, and I only spoke to him if I emailed him. I heard he was taking early retirement via someone we both knew, but it turned out the only contact details I had was a work phone number.
I think I could contact him on LinkedIn, but why should I make every move?
Note. We went to school together. Ended up on the same degree course (my fourth polytechnic back up) and shared a house in the 2nd and 3rd years.

There's a few possibilities.

1. He just doesn't like you.
2. He is jealous of your life/wife/car whatever
3. He is just a bit of a dick

[nismocat]

When Australians say "How's it going?" the reply is always "Yeah, good mate, how's you?" No matter what, they really don't care. It's like saying hello.

If the Brits say "How's it going?" the reply is usually "Well, bit of a bad leg", "Wife left me", "I have cancer", "Pissed off with the weather/government/my dog" etc etc.

[paulguitar]

nismocat said:

When Australians say "How's it going?" the reply is always "Yeah, good mate, how's you?" No matter what, they really don't care. It's like saying hello.

If the Brits say "How's it going?" the reply is usually "Well, bit of a bad leg", "Wife left me", "I have cancer", "Pissed off with the weather/government/my dog" etc etc.

Same with Americans asking 'What's up?'.


They don't expect an answer.

[Fastdruid]

nismocat said:

Pit Pony said:

Cotty said:

I sometimes wonder that if I don't make the effort to contact people and arrange things that I might never see them again. Is this just me or do other people experience this?

It does annoy me thats its always me that has to make the first move to get people motivated to meet up.

My best man. 15 years of no contact, then I started a new job, and he was a major customer's representative helping key suppliers with improvement projects. So I saw him every week, for a year. Then I was made redundant, and I didn't hear from him for 7 years, unless I made contact first.
Then I went contracting, and I got a contract with a different part of his company in the same location, so I saw him for lunch every 3 or 4 weeks, then, I moved on to.another contract, and I only spoke to him if I emailed him. I heard he was taking early retirement via someone we both knew, but it turned out the only contact details I had was a work phone number.
I think I could contact him on LinkedIn, but why should I make every move?
Note. We went to school together. Ended up on the same degree course (my fourth polytechnic back up) and shared a house in the 2nd and 3rd years.

There's a few possibilities.

1. He just doesn't like you.
2. He is jealous of your life/wife/car whatever
3. He is just a bit of a dick

4. He has ADHD.

[The Mad Monk]

People who call themselves Zander, or Xander.

They will be the first up against the wall and it will be a slow death.

[snuffy]

For people not contacting other people, I think it works like this:

They have every intention of doing so, but they think "I will do that tomorrow when I have time". Then the next day, they think the same thing, and so on.

And then, as times goes on, it gets harder and harder, because you then start looking stupid for taking so long. And you don't want to look stupid, so you put it off. And then put it off again.

The longer you leave it, the harder it gets, to the point where you never will do it.

As it happens, I have something to Pit Pony: Last November I contacted someone on LinkedIn. I've not seen him for over years. We were in the 6th form together, and also at the same Poly (but for the first 2 years, neither of us knew that). Anyway, he had a new job, fairly close to where I live. So I sent him a message and suggested going for a scoop. Next day he replied, saying that would be a fantastic idea, but he's now away for work for 2 weeks, but when he comes back, we'll sort it out. About 4-5 weeks go by, nothing. I sent him an email (which I now have from his LinkedIn reply). Nothing. I know in the past he'd been very unwell, so I started wondering if he was unwell again. I then sent him a LinkedIn message in January, asking if he was ok. Next day he replies, saying there's nothing to worry about, only he's been very busy for work, but he'll email me over the weekend and we can sort it out. That's the last I've heard. I mean, no one is that busy.

[snuffy]

Doofus said:

The 'proper' greeting is "How do you do", to which the correct response is "How do you do".

I believe the correct response, if you sneeze, and someone says "Bless you", is actually not to say anything back to them.

[CivicDuties]

popeyewhite said:

CivicDuties said:

If you knew the answer, what were you asking earlier?

It was rhetorical, and anyway not addressed at you.

It is an open forum discussion.

But OK on the rhetorical, I missed that, I confess I have a tendency to take things a bit literally. Which can annoy people beyond reason.

[LunarOne]

Fastdruid said:

nismocat said:

Pit Pony said:

Cotty said:

I sometimes wonder that if I don't make the effort to contact people and arrange things that I might never see them again. Is this just me or do other people experience this?

It does annoy me thats its always me that has to make the first move to get people motivated to meet up.

My best man. 15 years of no contact, then I started a new job, and he was a major customer's representative helping key suppliers with improvement projects. So I saw him every week, for a year. Then I was made redundant, and I didn't hear from him for 7 years, unless I made contact first.
Then I went contracting, and I got a contract with a different part of his company in the same location, so I saw him for lunch every 3 or 4 weeks, then, I moved on to.another contract, and I only spoke to him if I emailed him. I heard he was taking early retirement via someone we both knew, but it turned out the only contact details I had was a work phone number.
I think I could contact him on LinkedIn, but why should I make every move?
Note. We went to school together. Ended up on the same degree course (my fourth polytechnic back up) and shared a house in the 2nd and 3rd years.

There's a few possibilities.

1. He just doesn't like you.
2. He is jealous of your life/wife/car whatever
3. He is just a bit of a dick

4. He has ADHD.

5. He has low self-esteem and doesn't like to take the initiative. VERY common.

[LunarOne]

The Mad Monk said:

People who call themselves Zander, or Xander.

They will be the first up against the wall and it will be a slow death.

How will you tell whether they are calling themselves that, or whether the name was bestowed upon them by their parents?