Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]

[McAndy]

CC07 PEU said:

People who don't put their signatures on work emails. Bunch of pretentious, too-cool-for-school wkers!

Really? Why?

[McAndy]

JonRB said:

...I have half a mind to deliberately run into them with my supermarket trolley and then go "oh, sorry", rather than trying to avoid them...

I have hit people a few times over the years (not deliberately). So far they've always admitted their incompetence.

[mickk]

Wind chimes, those little bd metal things that keep me awake at night.

What purpose do they serve?

[gowmonster]

mickk said:

Wind chimes, those little bd metal things that keep me awake at night.

What purpose do they serve?

keep away evil spirits?

[mickk]

gowmonster said:

mickk said:

Wind chimes, those little bd metal things that keep me awake at night.

What purpose do they serve?

keep away evil spirits?

No that's Dream Catchers, they're the work of the Devil those things!

[popeyewhite]

RobinOakapple said:

popeyewhite said:

RobinOakapple said:

PoleDriver said:

constantly kick gift horses in the mouth!

Fortunately I find mixed metaphors more amusing than annoying.

It's not a mixed metaphor. I quite like it though.

Actually, it is.

Don't be silly.

This might help you: http://grammar.about.com/od/qaaboutrhetoric/f/QAmi...

"As defined in our glossary, a mixed metaphor is a succession of incongruous or ludicrous comparisons. When two or more metaphors are jumbled together, often illogically, we say that these comparisons are "mixed." "

Replacing one word with another is not 'mixing metaphors', nor is the phrase I think you allude to - featuring the word 'kick' - a metaphor anyway.

[RobinOakapple]

popeyewhite said:

RobinOakapple said:

popeyewhite said:

RobinOakapple said:

PoleDriver said:

constantly kick gift horses in the mouth!

Fortunately I find mixed metaphors more amusing than annoying.

It's not a mixed metaphor. I quite like it though.

Actually, it is.

Don't be silly.

This might help you: http://grammar.about.com/od/qaaboutrhetoric/f/QAmi...

"As defined in our glossary, a mixed metaphor is a succession of incongruous or ludicrous comparisons. When two or more metaphors are jumbled together, often illogically, we say that these comparisons are "mixed." "

Replacing one word with another is not 'mixing metaphors', nor is the phrase I think you allude to - featuring the word 'kick' - a metaphor anyway.

You can wriggle as much as you like, it's still a mixed metaphor.

[popeyewhite]

RobinOakapple said:

You can wriggle as much as you like, it's still a mixed metaphor.

I'm afraid just because you say it's a mixed metaphor doesn't make it so.

[RobinOakapple]

popeyewhite said:

RobinOakapple said:

You can wriggle as much as you like, it's still a mixed metaphor.

I'm afraid just because you say it's a mixed metaphor doesn't make it so.

It's a mixed metaphor not because I say so, but because it is, laughing boy.

I can see why you are trying to cover your earlier error, but it's all there on the screen in black and white.

Your attempt at dissection/pedantry failed because you didn't read it as a whole. Do that and you will see where you went wrong.

[RizzoTheRat]

So what metaphors is it mixing then?

[Einion Yrth]

RobinOakapple in "being aggressively wrong" mode today then.

[popeyewhite]

RobinOakapple said:

popeyewhite said:

RobinOakapple said:

You can wriggle as much as you like, it's still a mixed metaphor.

I'm afraid just because you say it's a mixed metaphor doesn't make it so.

It's a mixed metaphor not because I say so, but because it is, laughing boy.

I can see why you are trying to cover your earlier error, but it's all there on the screen in black and white.

Your attempt at dissection/pedantry failed because you didn't read it as a whole. Do that and you will see where you went wrong.

OK.



Nope. Still don't see any mixed metaphors.

I see a misplaced word in a metaphor... .

[RobinOakapple]

RizzoTheRat said:

So what metaphors is it mixing then?

1) kicking (presumably in the teeth) and 2) gift horses (normally one looks in the mouth of these (to judge the age by the state of the teeth))

[popeyewhite]

That's not how mixed metaphors work. It's the combining of two or more metaphoric phrases, not substitution of one word for another in an idiom.

[Einion Yrth]

RobinOakapple said:

RizzoTheRat said:

So what metaphors is it mixing then?

1) kicking (presumably in the teeth) and 2) gift horses (normally one looks in the mouth of these (to judge the age by the state of the teeth))

Nope, no metaphors there.

Replacing the word "looking" in an aphorism with the the word "kicking" is not doing anything to metaphors, certainly not mixing them.

[thismonkeyhere]

mickk said:

Wind chimes, those little bd metal things that keep me awake at night.

What purpose do they serve?

Originally invented by someone who hated his neighbours.

The tt.

[Issi]

Couples, usually in their mid thirties, who equate a stroll along the prom with climbing the north face of the Eiger.

As in dressed head to toe in North Face gear, with his and hers matching Merrell shoes, complete with 35l daysacks, and all for a gentle ramble down by the beach.

Now to await all of the 'Well, how do you know that they weren't going to finish their Raspberry Ripples and then run up Snowdon?' comments.

[nicanary]

thismonkeyhere said:

mickk said:

Wind chimes, those little bd metal things that keep me awake at night.

What purpose do they serve?

Originally invented by someone who hated his neighbours.

The tt.

The bamboo ones sound like something by Carl Orff when he was on speed.

[thismonkeyhere]

Issi said:

Couples, usually in their mid thirties, who equate a stroll along the prom with climbing the north face of the Eiger.

As in dressed head to toe in North Face gear, with his and hers matching Merrell shoes, complete with 35l daysacks, and all for a gentle ramble down by the beach.

I know what you mean, but IMO less annoying than those strolling up actual mountains in jeans, trainers and t-shirts, and with no other kit, some of whom will undoubtedly end up calling out mountain rescue and/or search and rescue helicopter following an all-too-avoidable fk up.

[Issi]

I couldn't agree more.