Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 5)

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Bibbs said:

I'm often finding myself adding the "th" under my breath, when the ads are on the TV/radio.

I also add an "s" with "Math", and find I get tourettes when I hear "LEGOs" ..

I am totally with you on all of these.

[nicanary]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Bibbs said:

I'm often finding myself adding the "th" under my breath, when the ads are on the TV/radio.

I also add an "s" with "Math", and find I get tourettes when I hear "LEGOs" ..

I am totally with you on all of these.

LEGOs usually pronounced LAYGOs.

[Allanv]

talksthetorque said:

5/10/19

Today or October?

This laptop my own - 10/05/2019

The yank infested work one to my left 05/10/2019

Drives me loopy.

[RizzoTheRat]

Allanv said:

talksthetorque said:

5/10/19

Today or October?

This laptop my own - 10/05/2019

The yank infested work one to my left 05/10/2019

Drives me loopy.

When my work PC managed to reset itself the other week I confused the hell out of myself as Excel was managing to convert to the UK format, but assumed I was typing in US format, so I'd type in 3/5/19 and excel would display 05/03/19. I also remote in to a development machine, which was in UK format, so I had one monitor working in UK format and the other monitor in US format.

[Frank7]

talksthetorque said:

Frank7 said:

I Love Cake said:

This is now creeping into daily life here. News websites I visit use it. For example- ‘Bank robbed May 6’. This sort of thing makes me wonder why it took them so long to report it.


See also film release dates. June 7.

It’s ridiculous IMO.

Ridiculous? How so?
November 26, 26th of November, November 26th,
it’s not difficult to work out, did I miss something?

5/10/19

Today or October?


October would be my first thought, but I was saying that I find nothing wrong in seeing a date written either as October 5, or as October 5th.
Sure, dates written in the American format cause me to slow down and think, so I’d prefer to read Christmas Day as 25/12/19, rather than 12/25/19, but personally I find nothing wrong with December 25, that’s all.

[RizzoTheRat]

Frank7 said:

Sure, dates written in the American format cause me to slow down and think, so I’d prefer to read Christmas Day as 25/12/19, rather than 12/25/19, but personally I find nothing wrong with December 25, that’s all.

December 25 annoys me a bit, I'd much prefer to see December 25th, but agree the order isn't a problem when using words.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Frank7 said:

but personally I find nothing wrong with December 25, that’s all.

The beef was with "December Twenty Five" as opposed to "December the Twenty-fifth"

[Clockwork Cupcake]

GroundEffect said:

Proper would be 10-May-19 for today

That's the format I use for human-readable dates.
Advantage is that it is totally unambiguous, even when communicating with Americans or, more specifically, an international group of people who may use varying formats.

And for everything else, especially in dated filenames, I'll use ISO8601

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Friday 10th May 09:39

[gareth_r]

Bibbs said:

I'm often finding myself adding the "th" under my breath, when the ads are on the TV/radio.

I also add an "s" with "Math", and find I get tourettes when I hear "LEGOs" ..

Let's not forget "kudo" as the singular of (the already singular) kudos.

1 kudo.

2 or more kudos.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

gareth_r said:

Let's not forget "kudo" as the singular of (the already singular) kudos.

1 kudo.

2 or more kudos.

I just die when I have less than two dice.

[AstonZagato]

Allanv said:

talksthetorque said:

5/10/19

Today or October?

This laptop my own - 10/05/2019

The yank infested work one to my left 05/10/2019

Drives me loopy.

I'm a user of Bloomberg (financial data). All its dates are in US format regardless of the settings of the machine you're viewing it on. Unless you export the data to Excel, when it picks up your settings (which at least is sensible).

But at least once a day, I put the wrong bloody date into Bloomberg (well the right date but in a European format not a US format). Drives me up the wall.

[Cliftonite]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

I just die when I have less than two dice.

Fewer! Parrot incoming?

[Frank7]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Frank7 said:

but personally I find nothing wrong with December 25, that’s all.

The beef was with "December Twenty Five" as opposed to "December the Twenty-fifth"

No way am I going to cross swords with the doyen of PH, but I don’t recall anyone writing December Twenty Five, only December 25, but there again, I’m just a poor old retired taxi driver, whose memory is shot to hell and gone.

[R Mutt]

People in the pool not swimming. One woman walks up and down the lanes doing what looks like a horse doing dressage. Assuming this is some sort of hydrotherapy, but none seem to have any injuries.

Hazard lights in a (dodgy) parking space.

Most things.

[RizzoTheRat]

Frank7 said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Frank7 said:

but personally I find nothing wrong with December 25, that’s all.

The beef was with "December Twenty Five" as opposed to "December the Twenty-fifth"

No way am I going to cross swords with the doyen of PH, but I don’t recall anyone writing December Twenty Five, only December 25, but there again, I’m just a poor old retired taxi driver, whose memory is shot to hell and gone.

Eh? How do you pronounce 25 then? Twenty Five = 25. Twenty-Fifth = 25th

[nonsequitur]

Frank7 said:

I Love Cake said:

This is now creeping into daily life here. News websites I visit use it. For example- ‘Bank robbed May 6’. This sort of thing makes me wonder why it took them so long to report it.


See also film release dates. June 7.

It’s ridiculous IMO.

Ridiculous? How so?
November 26, 26th of November, November 26th,
it’s not difficult to work out, did I miss something?

But all numeral dates are more enigmatic for some. 5/4/19....9/3/19....11/6/19. are they May, April, September, March ,November or June?

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Frank7 said:

No way am I going to cross swords with the doyen of PH, but I don’t recall anyone writing December Twenty Five, only December 25, but there again, I’m just a poor old retired taxi driver, whose memory is shot to hell and gone.

Maybe we're talking at cross purposes then, but there was mention of film trailers etc. where the gravelly-voiced voiceover man announces "Coming <month> <number>" as being an annoyance.

[MartG]

Bibbs said:

I'm often finding myself adding the "th" under my breath, when the ads are on the TV/radio.

I also add an "s" with "Math", and find I get tourettes when I hear "LEGOs" ..

[Clockwork Cupcake]

R Mutt said:

Hazard lights in a (dodgy) parking space.

LOL yes. "I know I'm parked stupidly and causing a hazard, but it's ok because I have my hazard lights on"

[Frank7]

gareth_r said:

Let's not forget "kudo" as the singular of (the already singular) kudos.

1 kudo.

2 or more kudos.

And panino and panini, I once went into a café in Grays Inn Road with another Black Cab driver, who was quite intelligent.
He asked for a panino, and the girl said, “You mean panini.”
He said, “No, panino, I only want one.” (flash bas*ard).
Confusion reigned, and I never went in there again.