Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)
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br d said:
ElectricSoup said:
Quite. These hipster millennial "craft" breweries just want more "real estate" to splash their illegible, multi-coloured cartoon attempts at branding across so they can hawk more of their undrinkable, flowery fruit juice to their fashion-victim generational cohort.
If you're not already a journalist you should have a bash, that is a wonderful paragraph. 
Something I've always wanted to do, but never had the balls to give up my regular salaried job to try to get in to it. Big risk to take with a mortgage and two nippers in fee paying schools...
A selection from the office I'm working in today:
1. The increasing incidence of sentences being started with 'So' for no good reason.
2. (Similar to the first) gratuitous Americanisms; specifically the chap who just said that if he got home to find his kids playing on the XBox he would be 'pissed'. He's not an American, he's from Leeds.
3. If there are a few people clearly waiting to use the sink in an office's kitchen area, don't apply the sort of time and care that would usually be reserved for restoring a Caravaggio to washing your bloody tea cup.
1. The increasing incidence of sentences being started with 'So' for no good reason.
2. (Similar to the first) gratuitous Americanisms; specifically the chap who just said that if he got home to find his kids playing on the XBox he would be 'pissed'. He's not an American, he's from Leeds.
3. If there are a few people clearly waiting to use the sink in an office's kitchen area, don't apply the sort of time and care that would usually be reserved for restoring a Caravaggio to washing your bloody tea cup.
popeyewhite said:
bristolbaron said:
Doofus said:
It's a convenience in pronunciation which isn't strictly correct, but is common and generally accepted.
Do you say 'choreezo'?
Choreezo here, Choreetho in Spain if I needed to. Not that I eat it, terrible stuff!Do you say 'choreezo'?
Shakermaker said:
popeyewhite said:
bristolbaron said:
Doofus said:
It's a convenience in pronunciation which isn't strictly correct, but is common and generally accepted.
Do you say 'choreezo'?
Choreezo here, Choreetho in Spain if I needed to. Not that I eat it, terrible stuff!Do you say 'choreezo'?
Shakermaker said:
But how do you pronounce the word Pizza then?
It's a foreign proper noun, it'll be pronounced as close to that as possible. It'll be peesa with the i vowel sound being translated into elongated e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GyNyVGnvTQ
Deliberately mutilating foreign proper nouns is mainly an English Language thing.
Roger Irrelevant said:
A selection from the office I'm working in today:
3. If there are a few people clearly waiting to use the sink in an office's kitchen area, don't apply the sort of time and care that would usually be reserved for restoring a Caravaggio to washing your bloody tea cup.
This a million times over. Get a f3. If there are a few people clearly waiting to use the sink in an office's kitchen area, don't apply the sort of time and care that would usually be reserved for restoring a Caravaggio to washing your bloody tea cup.
king move on, you're not scrubbing up for an operation. Bonus points if they've used all the hot water (our kitchen area has some sort of mini hot-water tank).captain_cynic said:
It's a foreign proper noun, it'll be pronounced as close to that as possible. It'll be peesa with the i vowel sound being translated into elongated e.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GyNyVGnvTQ
Deliberately mutilating foreign proper nouns is mainly an English Language thing.
Pizza isn't a proper noun, its a delicious form of food. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GyNyVGnvTQ
Deliberately mutilating foreign proper nouns is mainly an English Language thing.
Unless you're thinking of that place with the wonky tower?
About a year ago my elderly neighbour got scammed by a doorstep trader. Thankfully the police got involved early, cheques were stopped and he reclaimed some of his losses.
The Police helpfully gave him those bright yellow warning stickers: 'Warning we do not deal with uninvited traders...criminal offence..etc'.
What happens now is he gets just as many doorstep traders, but all saying 'Its ok that doesn't apply to us as we're trustworthy'.
fking bunch of complete s.
The Police helpfully gave him those bright yellow warning stickers: 'Warning we do not deal with uninvited traders...criminal offence..etc'.
What happens now is he gets just as many doorstep traders, but all saying 'Its ok that doesn't apply to us as we're trustworthy'.
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king bunch of complete s.Big Nanas said:
About a year ago my elderly neighbour got scammed by a doorstep trader. Thankfully the police got involved early, cheques were stopped and he reclaimed some of his losses.
The Police helpfully gave him those bright yellow warning stickers: 'Warning we do not deal with uninvited traders...criminal offence..etc'.
What happens now is he gets just as many doorstep traders, but all saying 'Its ok that doesn't apply to us as we're trustworthy'.
fking bunch of complete s.
I guess they know they type of people who put up those stickers ...The Police helpfully gave him those bright yellow warning stickers: 'Warning we do not deal with uninvited traders...criminal offence..etc'.
What happens now is he gets just as many doorstep traders, but all saying 'Its ok that doesn't apply to us as we're trustworthy'.
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king bunch of complete s.Frimley111R said:
I guess they know they type of people who put up those stickers ...
I have a "No Cold Callers, No Canvassers..." (etc) sign, simply so that when they come to the door I can ask them to explain why it doesn't apply to them. Puts them right off their sales patter and onto the back foot. I find it rather amusing.Shakermaker said:
popeyewhite said:
bristolbaron said:
Doofus said:
It's a convenience in pronunciation which isn't strictly correct, but is common and generally accepted.
Do you say 'choreezo'?
Choreezo here, Choreetho in Spain if I needed to. Not that I eat it, terrible stuff!Do you say 'choreezo'?
Pizza is Italian.
They treat their Zs differently.
Grahamdub said:
SCEtoAUX said:
A car park in Bristol with a sign asking you to tell them on Facebook how your "parking experience" was. FFS.
Very expensive if the comments I hear at the pay machine at the NCP I use are anything to go by.Ive said it before, if you got hassled like that when you were out shopping in your local mall you would pretty soon tell them to FRO
There was someone on the radio from feefo the other day who was desperately trying to convince the interviewer that they were definitely independent although they were paid by the companies they review,no conflict of interest there, no siree bub
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