Phrases that annoy you the most
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I've just ordered some tape measures that are metric only - stops the imperial nutjobs with their fourteen and five sixteenths nonsense. But for driving the vast majority of road signs show miles so mph and mpg are therefore the sensible options. "Keelo-meeters" not "Kill-om-et-ters"
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Yep. Was on a tour (UK) once and the driver and guide were debating how to say it "Keelo-meeters" or "Kill-om-et-ters" ?
My answer: "Miles"
Doofus said:
bigpriest said:
I've just ordered some tape measures that are metric only - stops the imperial nutjobs with their fourteen and five sixteenths nonsense. But for driving the vast majority of road signs show miles so mph and mpg are therefore the sensible options. "Keelo-meeters" not "Kill-om-et-ters"
Except you don't buy fuel in Gs, you buy it in Ls,s o you have to do some maths to work out your MPG anyway.Doofus said:
bigpriest said:
I've just ordered some tape measures that are metric only - stops the imperial nutjobs with their fourteen and five sixteenths nonsense. But for driving the vast majority of road signs show miles so mph and mpg are therefore the sensible options. "Keelo-meeters" not "Kill-om-et-ters"
Except you don't buy fuel in Gs, you buy it in Ls,s o you have to do some maths to work out your MPG anyway.
All this talk of Keelo/Killom Priest, I do hope the capital K was an autocorrect aberration! I work with a guy who always, and I mean ALWAYS states "hmmm, that money is very hot/cold indeed" whenever he sees a £k figure written as £K. We then have a bemused business-side person who doesn't get the joke... Again. If they understood the joke, then they wouldn't have written it incorrectly in the first place. They confuse M and m also, so we have budgets in millisterling.
Cotty said:
"it's ok it's friendly" I don't give a s
t keep your dog away from me. A dog tried to bite me today, missed but now got dog saliva on my trousers. I'm sure it's owner thought it was friendly as well.
Yes agree. I've been bitten three times. Most recently when running ajout two years ago. Not a fan of dogs, and sick to ft keep your dog away from me. A dog tried to bite me today, missed but now got dog saliva on my trousers. I'm sure it's owner thought it was friendly as well.k of them being off leads on the woodland paths here, and in the park. Not to mention now in coffee shops and the local pub. I often run and will hear the owner trying to recall the dog. It's really unsettling as I often worry the dog is chasing me. Most of the time it's just not listening to the owner or generally in the way
Cotty said:
"it's ok it's friendly" I don't give a st keep your dog away from me. A dog tried to bite me today, missed but now got dog saliva on my trousers. I'm sure it's owner thought it was friendly as well.
A local pub landlord has a new Doberman which, despite being a big, jumpy, barky kind of dog, is "a big softie". Yes, I can see that you're not under any strain trying to hold it back from ripping my throat out. I've no problem with chilled out dogs - another pub has a couple, they come in, have a look around then go and lie down somewhere, but this one just needs to calm down a bit. On the plus side, the landlord isn't often at the pub when I go.t keep your dog away from me. A dog tried to bite me today, missed but now got dog saliva on my trousers. I'm sure it's owner thought it was friendly as well.redrabbit29 said:
Yes agree. I've been bitten three times. Most recently when running ajout two years ago. Not a fan of dogs, and sick to fk of them being off leads on the woodland paths here, and in the park. Not to mention now in coffee shops and the local pub.
I often run and will hear the owner trying to recall the dog. It's really unsettling as I often worry the dog is chasing me. Most of the time it's just not listening to the owner or generally in the way
Username checks out.k of them being off leads on the woodland paths here, and in the park. Not to mention now in coffee shops and the local pub. I often run and will hear the owner trying to recall the dog. It's really unsettling as I often worry the dog is chasing me. Most of the time it's just not listening to the owner or generally in the way
In all seriousness though, you are extremely unlucky to have been bitten once let alone three times. Do you douse yourself in gravy before your runs?
InductionRoar said:
redrabbit29 said:
Yes agree. I've been bitten three times. Most recently when running ajout two years ago. Not a fan of dogs, and sick to fk of them being off leads on the woodland paths here, and in the park. Not to mention now in coffee shops and the local pub.
I often run and will hear the owner trying to recall the dog. It's really unsettling as I often worry the dog is chasing me. Most of the time it's just not listening to the owner or generally in the way
Username checks out.k of them being off leads on the woodland paths here, and in the park. Not to mention now in coffee shops and the local pub. I often run and will hear the owner trying to recall the dog. It's really unsettling as I often worry the dog is chasing me. Most of the time it's just not listening to the owner or generally in the way
In all seriousness though, you are extremely unlucky to have been bitten once let alone three times. Do you douse yourself in gravy before your runs?
Apologies redrabbit29, but the old adage about turning your back on a dog and running, often does just encourage them to run after you - even if just 'playing'.
Better to stand still and ask the owner/walker to keep their dog on a lead.
dukeboy749r said:
InductionRoar said:
redrabbit29 said:
Yes agree. I've been bitten three times. Most recently when running ajout two years ago. Not a fan of dogs, and sick to fk of them being off leads on the woodland paths here, and in the park. Not to mention now in coffee shops and the local pub.
I often run and will hear the owner trying to recall the dog. It's really unsettling as I often worry the dog is chasing me. Most of the time it's just not listening to the owner or generally in the way
Username checks out.k of them being off leads on the woodland paths here, and in the park. Not to mention now in coffee shops and the local pub. I often run and will hear the owner trying to recall the dog. It's really unsettling as I often worry the dog is chasing me. Most of the time it's just not listening to the owner or generally in the way
In all seriousness though, you are extremely unlucky to have been bitten once let alone three times. Do you douse yourself in gravy before your runs?
Apologies redrabbit29, but the old adage about turning your back on a dog and running, often does just encourage them to run after you - even if just 'playing'.
Better to stand still and ask the owner/walker to keep their dog on a lead.
yesterday in a training course for a work allocation tool that no one wants or needs we had "light touch delivery" mentioned several times. The last of which I lost my rag at and asked the trainer to speak normally.
Really these idiots need to listen to themselves.
These annoying phrases and use of words follow a pattern like an epidemic. It just shows how stupid people are in general. More worringly how many of these stupid people are in roles they haven't the ability to hold.
Really these idiots need to listen to themselves.
These annoying phrases and use of words follow a pattern like an epidemic. It just shows how stupid people are in general. More worringly how many of these stupid people are in roles they haven't the ability to hold.
loskie said:
yesterday in a training course for a work allocation tool that no one wants or needs we had "light touch delivery" mentioned several times. The last of which I lost my rag at and asked the trainer to speak normally.
I just find these things funny now.Last week, in a meeting, someone said of another company who are currently providing us with tech support, that we need to ask them to "throw their arms around us".
And yesterday we had the term "pens down pink review" used . Now I keep thinking of "playing the pink oboe".
borcy said:
What does a pens down pink review mean?
I had to ask, and I was told it's where we have an initial proposal/answer to a question, and we are reviewing that. I assume "pink" means an "early stage" and "pens down" comes from what's said at the end of an exam.Why its not just not an early stage review, I have no idea.
loskie said:
yesterday in a training course for a work allocation tool that no one wants or needs we had "light touch delivery" mentioned several times. The last of which I lost my rag at and asked the trainer to speak normally.
Really these idiots need to listen to themselves.
These annoying phrases and use of words follow a pattern like an epidemic. It just shows how stupid people are in general. More worringly how many of these stupid people are in roles they haven't the ability to hold.
I once worked with someone who was absolutely fluent in jargon like this. He was giving a presentation about something like service delivery and I literally couldn't understand what he was on about.Really these idiots need to listen to themselves.
These annoying phrases and use of words follow a pattern like an epidemic. It just shows how stupid people are in general. More worringly how many of these stupid people are in roles they haven't the ability to hold.
I seriously suspected my boss, who employed him, didn't get half of it either. What a gig!
swisstoni said:
loskie said:
yesterday in a training course for a work allocation tool that no one wants or needs we had "light touch delivery" mentioned several times. The last of which I lost my rag at and asked the trainer to speak normally.
Really these idiots need to listen to themselves.
These annoying phrases and use of words follow a pattern like an epidemic. It just shows how stupid people are in general. More worringly how many of these stupid people are in roles they haven't the ability to hold.
I once worked with someone who was absolutely fluent in jargon like this. He was giving a presentation about something like service delivery and I literally couldn't understand what he was on about.Really these idiots need to listen to themselves.
These annoying phrases and use of words follow a pattern like an epidemic. It just shows how stupid people are in general. More worringly how many of these stupid people are in roles they haven't the ability to hold.
I seriously suspected my boss, who employed him, didn't get half of it either. What a gig!
loskie said:
yesterday in a training course for a work allocation tool that no one wants or needs we had "light touch delivery" mentioned several times. The last of which I lost my rag at and asked the trainer to speak normally.
Really these idiots need to listen to themselves.
These annoying phrases and use of words follow a pattern like an epidemic. It just shows how stupid people are in general. More worringly how many of these stupid people are in roles they haven't the ability to hold.
HR types. Incapable of using English, usually to sound clever as they have never had a position of authority or had to do anything they are trying to train you to do.Really these idiots need to listen to themselves.
These annoying phrases and use of words follow a pattern like an epidemic. It just shows how stupid people are in general. More worringly how many of these stupid people are in roles they haven't the ability to hold.
Other common phrases on planning where people say "forward planning". Not sure how you plan for what happened yesterday? You then have "action plan". Ooh, action, suggesting you might do something. Not sure of the difference between a plan and an "action" plan.
Similar to sales. You have a sales "director" but then to go one up and sound more important you have "strategic" sales director. No difference whatsoever, they both have to sell s
t, just one looks better on Linkedin than the other. I reckon the standard sales guy wears a suit and tie but the "strategic" sales guy doesn't wear a tie and maybe wears pumps with his suit to look extra "strategic".Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff