Annoying PH behaviours/phrases

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Europa1 said:

greygoose said:

Europa1 said:

A lot of the posts on this thread are indicative of some of the less attractive traits on PH: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Indeed the instant dislike of someone new who dares to oppose the majority view on here, backed up by the usual suspects.

Yes, I felt sorry for the OP - some of the posts were at best condescending, at worst bullying.

I thought it was because he/she was only posting about brexit so people assumed it was someone using PHs for political campaigning purposes. Rather than people being unpleasant because he/she was new.

It seems a bit odd to join PHs and just post about the EU doesn't it? We normally get this when approaching an election and people sign up just to post about how great their leader is.

Edited by el stovey on Wednesday 18th May 14:43

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'Leptons'

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engine broke

just chuck a new one in

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People who randomly reference Mumsnet to insult anyone they disagree with.

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swerni said:

DonkeyApple said:

longshot said:

The thing that annoys me the most on here and I really don't know why because I know it shouldn't is when a poster, for example let's say someone called Dave finishes each and every post he writes with 'Dave'.

It is a little informal. 'David' would be more appropriate prior to formal introductions.

I don't mind the adding of a name to be honest, I think it is very easy to misinterpret the manner in which someone types and I suspect the adding of a name makes a post less impersonal and possibly less likely to have its tone misconstrued?

Love

Beryl.

So?

The Moose

Or finish every post, no matter how harsh, with a smily, eg:


Oh look, they've found Maddie's headless corpse in the boot of Ant and Dec's car.

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DonkeyApple said:

OpulentBob said:

Or finish every post, no matter how harsh, with a smily, eg:


Oh look, they've found Maddie's headless corpse in the boot of Ant and Dec's car.

But where is the line though? I tend to resort to smilies as I know I have a very blunt turn of phrase and a dry wit. I've learnt to use smilies on PH so as to try an minimise the offence caused to the myriad pre-ops that float around horrifically distressed, in between retail therapy bouts, at some of the very unfluffybunny turns of phrases used.

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Swanny87 said:

Just bought a car I didn't test drive and didn't have a good gut feeling about. Can I reject it?


No. You. fking. Can't.

Was it a Polo GTI

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Oh, and 'blat', makes me itch.

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or 'rocco, or 'tang, or, or, - just fk right off..... please

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"Aero" when used to describe spoilers, road holding and stuff.

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Iva Barchetta said:

Was that after after I used "aero delete" to describe an Escort Cosworth without big spoilers ?

It was the official title for such cars.

No, reference to the IOM Subaru thread.

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"The wife".

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People who call a Volvo an Ovlov as if it's funny.

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'My car will destroy yours.'

Cringe..

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whoami said:

ThunderGuts said:

The nosed the fking brie!!!

Stilton

That was by far one of the funniest threads I've seen on pistonheads.

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I know we've already had people mentioning people who belittle other cars by saying things like "stroen" or "Poogeot", but I saw another one recently: "Aldi" (Audi).

Only one poster uses this phrase as far as I can see. He also uses the term "junior supercars" to describe some of his own fleet.

Neither are really annoying, just tragic

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'you sir xxxxx'

'xxxxxxxx that.'