Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)

[SilverSixer]

FourWheelDrift said:

The modern lack of putting st, nd, rd or th after date numbers.

And the American habit of missing out "on" with days and dates. For example: "I am a clucking gibbering moron, President Trump said Thursday".

[popeyewhite]

ambuletz said:

Hate it when I order something hot from my local chinese takeaway and sometimes it's not even hot! GRRR. ill with man flu so I felt like having singapore rice noodles but the bloody thing wasn't even hot, I don't think they used any chili oil as it wasn't its usual red and it barely had any chillies in it!

If you have a microwave just reheat for 30 secs and it's piping hot.

[Shakermaker]

popeyewhite said:

ambuletz said:

Hate it when I order something hot from my local chinese takeaway and sometimes it's not even hot! GRRR. ill with man flu so I felt like having singapore rice noodles but the bloody thing wasn't even hot, I don't think they used any chili oil as it wasn't its usual red and it barely had any chillies in it!

If you have a microwave just reheat for 30 secs and it's piping hot.

Microwaves don't add chilli though, which is what I took the comment to mean.

[berlintaxi]

Antony Moxey said:

The only one worth watching is Louise Munchkin, but even she's getting too milfy now.

Trouble is, SWMBO insists we have it on in the mornings.

Corrected that for you.

[popeyewhite]

Shakermaker said:

Microwaves don't add chilli though, which is what I took the comment to mean.

I took it to mean there wasn't enough chilli AND it was cold. Perhaps the OP could clarify...though I think you're probably right!

[popeyewhite]

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[SilverSixer]

FourWheelDrift said:

The modern lack of putting st, nd, rd or th after date numbers.

Oh, and another one. Leaving out "to be" when something needs (to be) done. Just seen it in another thread where someone says: "the whole gearbox needs replaced". No, it needs TO BE replaced. Gah.

[nicanary]

SilverSixer said:

FourWheelDrift said:

The modern lack of putting st, nd, rd or th after date numbers.

Oh, and another one. Leaving out "to be" when something needs (to be) done. Just seen it in another thread where someone says: "the whole gearbox needs replaced". No, it needs TO BE replaced. Gah.

Or "needs replacement". I have posted on another thread the commonplace "needs restored". Does my head in - two verbs one after the other. It's basic grammar and there's no excuse. A verb has to be followed by a noun or adverb otherwise it's just gibberish. What schools did they attend?

[Old Tyke]

Probably due to them typing from a phone with predictive text turned on.

[SlimJim16v]

Probably due to them being lazy s. Predictive text isn't compulsory and can be changed.

Takeaways that put chicken in Ms 16v's food. Her being a veggie it doesn't go down well.

[Hugo a Gogo]

nicanary said:

SilverSixer said:

FourWheelDrift said:

The modern lack of putting st, nd, rd or th after date numbers.

Oh, and another one. Leaving out "to be" when something needs (to be) done. Just seen it in another thread where someone says: "the whole gearbox needs replaced". No, it needs TO BE replaced. Gah.

Or "needs replacement". I have posted on another thread the commonplace "needs restored". Does my head in - two verbs one after the other. It's basic grammar and there's no excuse. A verb has to be followed by a noun or adverb otherwise it's just gibberish. What schools did they attend?

isn't "needs to be restored" 3 verbs after another?

[nicanary]

Hugo a Gogo said:

nicanary said:

SilverSixer said:

FourWheelDrift said:

The modern lack of putting st, nd, rd or th after date numbers.

Oh, and another one. Leaving out "to be" when something needs (to be) done. Just seen it in another thread where someone says: "the whole gearbox needs replaced". No, it needs TO BE replaced. Gah.

Or "needs replacement". I have posted on another thread the commonplace "needs restored". Does my head in - two verbs one after the other. It's basic grammar and there's no excuse. A verb has to be followed by a noun or adverb otherwise it's just gibberish. What schools did they attend?

isn't "needs to be restored" 3 verbs after another?

Aren't "to" and "be" adverbs in that context? I suspect I've dug my grave here.

[Hugo a Gogo]

no, 'to be' is a verb (or not)

[The Don of Croy]

DJFish said:

It's one of the bizarre traits of working nights, as the first strands of sunlight turn the eastern sky from inky black to pale blue and the songbirds sing the first chords of the dawn chorus, and you realise you've spent the last 12hrs on eBay & now need to find somewhere to store 20 hooverbags, a 2nd hand mountain bike & an antique woodworking vice.

Don't think this received the praise it deserves...

Ageing car is annoying me now - having just replaced or repaired many things on the aux belt loop, it's decided to flatten the (3 month old) battery after a 150 mile run. Whilst the o/s/r brake still needs fettling. Continual nagging problems.

[ClockworkCupcake]

Hugo a Gogo said:

no, 'to be' is a verb (or not)

That is the question

[hurstg01]

ClockworkCupcake said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

no, 'to be' is a verb (or not)

That is the question

[yoda]The question, that is[/yoda]

[Nimby]

nicanary said:

A verb has to be followed by a noun or adverb otherwise it's just gibberish.

Except for intransitive verbs.

[mikal83]

And that Ladies n Gennlemen, is why I failed English Lit and Language in 1973! Didn't understand a word of the above posts!!!

[colonel c]

Remaniacal audience members on discussion TV and radio shows, whooping at any anti Brexit remark made by the panellists.

[cheesesliceking]

Estate Agents.