Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
Discussion
antspants said:
I'm sure it's come up multiple times over 147 pages, but it's pissed me off again this morning.
My bloody wife clearly steers into the kerb to see if she's parked close enough to it, shaving metal from the rim of the wheel every time she parks!!
Each time I mention it I got a nod of the head and agreement that she'll stop doing it, but I know it goes in one ear and out the other because it just doesn't register on her list of things she should care about.
If it was her car I wouldn't be too bothered, if she wants to drive round in something with shagged wheels who am I to care. But no, her car blew up at the weekend so now she's wrecking OUR family wagon!
Get the wheel refurbed and leave the receipt where she will find it. Repeat every time she does it. My bloody wife clearly steers into the kerb to see if she's parked close enough to it, shaving metal from the rim of the wheel every time she parks!!
Each time I mention it I got a nod of the head and agreement that she'll stop doing it, but I know it goes in one ear and out the other because it just doesn't register on her list of things she should care about.
If it was her car I wouldn't be too bothered, if she wants to drive round in something with shagged wheels who am I to care. But no, her car blew up at the weekend so now she's wrecking OUR family wagon!
Cotty said:
Get the wheel refurbed and leave the receipt where she will find it. Repeat every time she does it.
An excellent idea in principle, however I reckon that will cost me about £200 a month plus the time to get it done. Unless I can find a way to deduct that from something she really does care about then it's just me who will suffer. Hmm...maybe I could cancel her gym membership. If you see me posting in the Dog House thread next week you'll know I've
popeyewhite said:
Iva Barchetta said:
This has already had a mention somewhere on PH,and apparently to medal IS a verb.
No it's not. And just because some trendy dictionary on the interweb says it is doesn't make it so. Language takes longer than 8 years and 2 Olympic games to evolve.
!Moonhawk said:
V8mate said:
The OED simply reflects words in common usage. It doesn't decide whether they are acceptable revisions to the English language, as the Académie française does for the French language in France, for example.
The English language doesn't have an equivalent of the Académie française though and so there is no actual 'official' version of the English Language.If a word (or new definition for an existing word) enters common usage then, in effect, it becomes 'official' by default.
I think I heard a competitor refer to being 'podiated' once (as in having 'medalled').
The prospect of heavy rain through an August weekend annoys me, beyond reason.
McAndy said:
In the case of the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries I suggest that the hundreds of years of research and highly qualified scholars are the roots. ...etc
Then I'd suggest you'd be wrong. Hundreds of years of research/highly qualified scholars has nothing to do with the criteria for admitting a less-than-ten-year-old non-verb into any dictionary as a verb! A dictionary makes no comment on whether the usage is correct or incorrect, just that it is recognised that 'to medal' is being currently used as a verb. Which in my contention is incorrect.popeyewhite said:
Then I'd suggest you'd be wrong. Hundreds of years of research/highly qualified scholars has nothing to do with the criteria for admitting a less-than-ten-year-old non-verb into any dictionary as a verb! A dictionary makes no comment on whether the usage is correct or incorrect, just that it is recognised that 'to medal' is being currently used as a verb. Which in my contention is incorrect.
But it's not less than 10 years old, hence my reference to the 1960s.
I have 2 right now.
People who pedal their bicycles with the middle of their feet or even worse their heels. I want to stop them and grab the bars and say 'that's really irritating and you look like Jacques Tati'
Over engineered and very earnest sandals. The wearers are inevitably socialists of some persuasion.
It's a good job I don't have a foot fetish or I wouldn't know if I was coming or going!
People who pedal their bicycles with the middle of their feet or even worse their heels. I want to stop them and grab the bars and say 'that's really irritating and you look like Jacques Tati'
Over engineered and very earnest sandals. The wearers are inevitably socialists of some persuasion.
It's a good job I don't have a foot fetish or I wouldn't know if I was coming or going!
Edited by silverthorn2151 on Saturday 20th August 22:47
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