Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

When you retire a domain name, let it expire, delete the vserver for it, and then have a mild panic as you start getting error reports and you think that you actually needed the email addresses on it, panic-renew the domain since it is in the grace period, and then realise afterwards that actually you didn't need to renew it after all.

It was only £15-odd but still annoying.

I always power off the VM for a week or so and sit by the phone hoping it won't ring, and only delete it if I need the space.

[Morningside]

8 bit music. Sorry but it just sounds crap.

[SCEtoAUX]

When the end of your nob gets stuck together and piss goes in two directions.

[nicanary]

SCEtoAUX said:

When the end of your nob gets stuck together and piss goes in two directions.

Oh yes. The wife moans like feck about the spray on the walls.....

[Hackney]

The very fun road near me (between Center Parks Woburn and Flitwick) which was a 50 limit last CP and a nursery then went to NSL. It’s down hill, has a couple of bends, a narrow S over a bridge then drops to thirty before a roundabout at Flitwick. Lovely road at NSL speeds. Loads of fun in any car including my wife’s now departed 1000cc Seat Mii. Great for practicing, weight transfer and finding limes at sensible speeds. The only downside was when you followed the 40 everywhere crowd (who’d hold you up then disappear when the limit dropped to 30) or someone going even slower.

The road recently closed for repairs and - as it turns out - pavement / cycle path being installed. Great idea.
Until you realise they reduced the limit to 40.
The section between the nursery and Center Parcs is still, bizarrely, 50 though.

These previously fun and now dull road annoys me beyond reason.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Hackney said:

These previously fun and now dull road annoys me beyond reason.

Sadly, it is country-wide. Certainly I have noticed in Hampshire, Berkshire, and Surrey - areas that I have regularly driven in over the past 20 years - that vast swathes of two lane dual carriageway have been reduced to single lane (the A30 being a particular example) and speed limits have fallen on them too.

Decent B-roads have similarly suffered from falling speed limits - the Pirbright Bends are now mostly 40, even 30, where previously they were NSL, for example.

[21st Century Man]

I know that there is no up or down unless travelling vertically, but folks who talk about coming down when travelling North or coming up when travelling South. Maps have North and South, with North at the top and South at the bottom. I live in the Midlands, so I'd go down to London and up to Scotland, why would anyone say it the other way around?

[anonymous-user]

Being banned from a topic by the thought police with no right of reply,supposedly for a week,but now permanently.

[P5BNij]

21st Century Man said:

I know that there is no up or down unless travelling vertically, but folks who talk about coming down when travelling North or coming up when travelling South. Maps have North and South, with North at the top and South at the bottom. I live in the Midlands, so I'd go down to London and up to Scotland, why would anyone say it the other way around?

It's an old railway thing, generally (there are exceptions) the names of running lines on railway maps are 'up' towards the London termini and 'down' when leaving the capital. Last week I worked a stone train from Crewe to Battersea, mostly along the 'up slow' lines, the oddity in this case being that once I'd turned directly south at Willesden to traverse the West London Line through Kensington Olympia and West Brompton I was still travelling on the 'up' line as I crossed the Thames at Imperial Wharf, despite heading away from the centre of London. Hope that makes sense...

[captain_cynic]

P5BNij said:

21st Century Man said:

I know that there is no up or down unless travelling vertically, but folks who talk about coming down when travelling North or coming up when travelling South. Maps have North and South, with North at the top and South at the bottom. I live in the Midlands, so I'd go down to London and up to Scotland, why would anyone say it the other way around?

It's an old railway thing, generally (there are exceptions) the names of running lines on railway maps are 'up' towards the London termini and 'down' when leaving the capital. Last week I worked a stone train from Crewe to Battersea, mostly along the 'up slow' lines, the oddity in this case being that once I'd turned directly south at Willesden to traverse the West London Line through Kensington Olympia and West Brompton I was still travelling on the 'up' line as I crossed the Thames at Imperial Wharf, despite heading away from the centre of London. Hope that makes sense...

This... A thousand times this.

Technically speaking, there is no up or down unless referencing another object. So"down to Brighton" is perfectly acceptable as you've referenced what down is.

We only think of up and down as vertical movements because gravity makes us use the surface of the earth as the horizontal planes. If we were to use the galactic plane as a reference, up could easily be left.

It's people unable to give up on antiquicated ideas about a constantly changing language who annoy me beyond reason. The irony is that these people are the worst English speakers because they don't get that the language isn't just fluid, but fault tolerant.

I deal with India a lot, they can really mangle the English language. That's OK as I speak English well enough to understand them.

Also that is why the world speaks English and not French, the French insisted that everyone speaks French properly, the English insisted that everyone just speaks English.

Grammar NAZI's can do the needful n fuk write off, of.

[21st Century Man]

P5BNij said:

21st Century Man said:

I know that there is no up or down unless travelling vertically, but folks who talk about coming down when travelling North or coming up when travelling South. Maps have North and South, with North at the top and South at the bottom. I live in the Midlands, so I'd go down to London and up to Scotland, why would anyone say it the other way around?

It's an old railway thing, generally (there are exceptions) the names of running lines on railway maps are 'up' towards the London termini and 'down' when leaving the capital. Last week I worked a stone train from Crewe to Battersea, mostly along the 'up slow' lines, the oddity in this case being that once I'd turned directly south at Willesden to traverse the West London Line through Kensington Olympia and West Brompton I was still travelling on the 'up' line as I crossed the Thames at Imperial Wharf, despite heading away from the centre of London. Hope that makes sense...

Great answer, makes perfect sense with the railway reference. But then you'd have to know in which direction you'd be travelling with regard to London to reference up or down, I don't think people are doing that anymore than they are referencing North/South on a map.

Edited by 21st Century Man on Saturday 29th February 13:58

[FourWheelDrift]

People who start threads on the news forum with contentious statement with no link or quote so we don't know if it's their own mad opinion or the mad opinion of someone else in a news story.

[Europa1]

FourWheelDrift said:

People who start threads on the news forum with contentious statement with no link or quote so we don't know if it's their own mad opinion or the mad opinion of someone else in a news story.

Or nothing in the thread title to give a clue as to what it is about. Looking at you "Just An Observation." Why not say it's about the Met Police asking for more money to investigate the McCann case? Or use the existing McCann thread?

In similar vein, why are there 3 Priti Patel threads running?

And breathe...

[DocJock]

Europa1 said:

Or nothing in the thread title to give a clue as to what it is about. Looking at you "Just An Observation." Why not say it's about the Met Police asking for more money to investigate the McCann case? Or use the existing McCann thread?

In similar vein, why are there 3 Priti Patel threads running?

And breathe...

Just posting to thank you for being, very possibly, the first person to spell 'breathe' correctly, on the forum, since the start of the year.

[Europa1]

DocJock said:

Europa1 said:

Or nothing in the thread title to give a clue as to what it is about. Looking at you "Just An Observation." Why not say it's about the Met Police asking for more money to investigate the McCann case? Or use the existing McCann thread?

In similar vein, why are there 3 Priti Patel threads running?

And breathe...

Just posting to thank you for being, very possibly, the first person to spell 'breathe' correctly, on the forum, since the start of the year.

My pleasure. For me it's 'loose' instead of 'lose' that winds me up.

[MartG]

Remember when you could plug a pair of headphones into a PC and they'd just work ?

No sodding Windows notification tab popping up you have to click on to accept that yes, you did actually intend to plug the fking headphones in, followed by an 'audio manager' tab you have to click to identify that it was a bloody pair of headphones you plugged in, before the blasted thing deigns to switch audio output to the headphones...

[davhill]

P5BNij said:

It's an old railway thing, generally (there are exceptions) the names of running lines on railway maps are 'up' towards the London termini and 'down' when leaving the capital. Last week I worked a stone train from Crewe to Battersea, mostly along the 'up slow' lines, the oddity in this case being that once I'd turned directly south at Willesden to traverse the West London Line through Kensington Olympia and West Brompton I was still travelling on the 'up' line as I crossed the Thames at Imperial Wharf, despite heading away from the centre of London. Hope that makes sense...

That's as may be but I've always seen it as how we study a physical map.
The Beeb shows the UK with Scotland at the top of the screen and I expect most
people look at a road map holding it in the same orientation.

Therefore, from the Midlands, you go 'up' to Scotland and ''down' to London.

The phrases 'Oop North' and 'Darn Sarf' offer a clue.

If in doubt somebody can always run a poll.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

davhill said:

If in doubt somebody can always run a poll.

Like that's going to prove anything.

Many of the objections to grammar and word usage on this thread bemoan the fact that common parlance is wrong, so I'd suggest to you that majority usage is hardly a good yardstick to measure correctness against.

[bristolracer]

MartG said:

Remember when you could plug a pair of headphones into a PC and they'd just work ?

See also warnings on phones about listening at high volumes when you trying to bluetooth something to the car radio

[Frank7]

davhill said:

That's as may be but I've always seen it as how we study a physical map.
The Beeb shows the UK with Scotland at the top of the screen and I expect most
people look at a road map holding it in the same orientation.

Therefore, from the Midlands, you go 'up' to Scotland and ''down' to London.

The phrases 'Oop North' and 'Darn Sarf' offer a clue.

I agree with all of that, the only observation that I’d make is that as a born and raised Londoner, born in the east, but having lived south of the Thames, (in London), for almost all of my life, I’ve never heard anyone say “darn sarf”, to my gentle ears it’s more like “dahn souf”.