One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4

[anonymous-user]

Did they stop at a fork in the road?

[nonsequitur]

juice said:

HM-2 said:

Just saw someone driving rather erratically at a roundabout. No indication, all over the road. Turns out they were eating a Pot Noodle whilst driving.

What flavour ?

Bombay Bad Boy?

[anonymous-user]

Drumroll said:

So when I see hedge trimmings, I slow down because maybe round the next corner there will be a tractor trimming the hedge or somebody who may not be readily visible.

I guess you have xray specs as there are no trimming, and this is the view.

just for the pedantics this viewpoint is much higher than my viewpoint.

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On the left

a few metres, further the bloke was standing in his Army type jacket, camouflaged whilst standing slighting in the road, on a national speed limit road.

Drumroll said:

I certainly wouldn't come on a forum to vent my frustration, but what others may see as my own shortcomings.

Yet you commented on it, with a idiotic statement not knowing the full information. Anyway..

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 3rd July 19:01

[Mr Squarekins]

Good camo. I don't see him.

[nonsequitur]

Mr Squarekins said:

Good camo. I don't see him.

I notice that it's bin day.

[LunarOne]

nonsequitur said:

Ares said:

Use of the word 'Leptons'.

You leapt on that one super fast

Very clever. Leptons strikes me as incredibly childish, and the only thing it elicits in me is a mental eye roll, because it's sad that people still think it's funny. Same with that Powerfully built director nonsense and again with frozen sausages.

I'm pretty sure nobody is sad enough to have a reference to frozen sausages in their handle. Sadly the same can't be said for leptons or powerfully built directors.

[LetsTryAgain]

Shirley not?

[Export56]

Speaking of camo jackets, one thing that makes me think knob is fishermen ( the type that sit by resevoirs etc in camo jackets). Its like a scene from deliverance when you come across them, they always seem part of some weird subculture.

[Mr Squarekins]

Export56 said:

Speaking of camo jackets, one thing that makes me think knob is fishermen ( the type that sit by resevoirs etc in camo jackets). Its like a scene from deliverance when you come across them, they always seem part of some weird subculture.

Camo, knife, old estate car, plastic sheeting. Nothing odd at at....

[biggbn]

LetsTryAgain said:

biggbn said:

People who overuse the word 'literal ' or 'literally '

So more than zero uses is classed as over use?

They are sphincters, is that better?
The ACTUAL ahole.
The hole, of your arse.

Blown2CV said:

grow up you pathetic child

I'm very grown up, thank you.
I even know where and when to use capital letters and punctuation.
Very clever you see.

Let me know if you'd like some help.

Oh, sorry. I thought this thread was about things that annoyed us, and made us think someone was, figuratively, a knob ( I do not think you or anyone is a knob by the way, its just my translation of the thread title). My dislike of what is becoming a new fashion, dropping literal or literally into ordinary speech when it is not strictly, or sometimes at all, necessary irritates me. Perhaps this marks me out as a (figurative) knob?

Can I show you what I mean? Here are two sentences.

I opened the door and my mate was literally on my doorstep.

I opened the door and my mate was on my doorstep.

There is no need for the word literally in the first sentence, both statements convey exactly the same thing.

[captain_cynic]

biggbn said:

Can I show you what I mean? Here are two sentences.

I opened the door and my mate was literally on my doorstep.

I opened the door and my mate was on my doorstep.

There is no need for the word literally in the first sentence, both statements convey exactly the same thing.

Actually one statement conveys more emphasis than the other. Nor is either incorrect.

English is a language of obsessive minutiae but here the difference is as subtle as a brick to the face.

You're well within your rights not to like it... But don't expect us to pretend there is no difference. There literally is one as literally, the hyperbolic definition of literally is literally in the literal dictionary.

[LetsTryAgain]

biggbn said:

Oh, sorry. I thought this thread was about things that annoyed us, and made us think someone was, figuratively, a knob ( I do not think you or anyone is a knob by the way, its just my translation of the thread title). My dislike of what is becoming a new fashion, dropping literal or literally into ordinary speech when it is not strictly, or sometimes at all, necessary irritates me. Perhaps this marks me out as a (figurative) knob?

Can I show you what I mean? Here are two sentences.

I opened the door and my mate was literally on my doorstep.

I opened the door and my mate was on my doorstep.

There is no need for the word literally in the first sentence, both statements convey exactly the same thing.

No, one is given greater emphasis than the other.

'Literal - taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or exaggeration'.

So I was calling them literal aholes.
Like I explained, the chocolate starfish part of the bum = the ahole.
You never answered my question?
Is more than once in one sentence too many?
Am I not able to use the word at all with you?

[biggbn]

captain_cynic said:

biggbn said:

Can I show you what I mean? Here are two sentences.

I opened the door and my mate was literally on my doorstep.

I opened the door and my mate was on my doorstep.

There is no need for the word literally in the first sentence, both statements convey exactly the same thing.

Actually one statement conveys more emphasis than the other. Nor is either incorrect.

English is a language of obsessive minutiae but here the difference is as subtle as a brick to the face.

You're well within your rights not to like it... But don't expect us to pretend there is no difference. There literally is one as literally, the hyperbolic definition of literally is literally in the literal dictionary.

I'm sorry but the word, for me, is superfluous in the first statement. As I said, this may be a dislike that I am in a minority with, but dislike it I do. Sorry for swimming against the tide.

[biggbn]

LetsTryAgain said:

biggbn said:

Oh, sorry. I thought this thread was about things that annoyed us, and made us think someone was, figuratively, a knob ( I do not think you or anyone is a knob by the way, its just my translation of the thread title). My dislike of what is becoming a new fashion, dropping literal or literally into ordinary speech when it is not strictly, or sometimes at all, necessary irritates me. Perhaps this marks me out as a (figurative) knob?

Can I show you what I mean? Here are two sentences.

I opened the door and my mate was literally on my doorstep.

I opened the door and my mate was on my doorstep.

There is no need for the word literally in the first sentence, both statements convey exactly the same thing.

No, one is given greater emphasis than the other.

'Literal - taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or exaggeration'.

So I was calling them literal aholes.
Like I explained, the chocolate starfish part of the bum = the ahole.
You never answered my question?
Is more than once in one sentence too many?
Am I not able to use the word at all with you?

Man, why so aggressive? I have explained this dislike of the use literal may be me only. But that's what this thread is for? As above, for me, to say someone is a literal ahole is an overuse of the word literal. I would have known exactly what you meant without saying literal. Its just an individual dislike I have and I have given my reasons. Jeez, some people like Brussel Sprouts, some don't

Perhaps it would have been clearer if I said I, personally, don't like when the words literal or literally are used for emphasis as i feel it is an overuse of language. I accept i may be in a minority with this (irrational?) dislike. Gbn

Edited by biggbn on Saturday 4th July 11:40

[InitialDave]

biggbn said:

I'm sorry but the word, for me, is superfluous in the first statement. As I said, this may be a dislike that I am in a minority with, but dislike it I do. Sorry for swimming against the tide.

It's not, though, someone could say "on my doorstep" figuratively to mean "immediately outside my house", whereas "literally on my doorstep" would be, well, literally on the doorstep.

I agree people often misuse it, but it has its place.

[biggbn]

InitialDave said:

biggbn said:

I'm sorry but the word, for me, is superfluous in the first statement. As I said, this may be a dislike that I am in a minority with, but dislike it I do. Sorry for swimming against the tide.

It's not, though, someone could say "on my doorstep" figuratively to mean "immediately outside my house", whereas "literally on my doorstep" would be, well, literally on the doorstep.

I agree people often misuse it, but it has its place.

I freely admit my dislike may be irrational man. We all have linguistic foibles that grate. Literally is one of mine, as are the use of 'so' at the start of every sentence, yet I write, and speak using quite flowery overdescriptive language at times so I am, at best, a hypocrite!! (Literally?)

[Gerradi]

WOW...Coronavirus Lockdown has been hard on some...

[LunarOne]

Use of the word literal is literally fine with me. But when people pronounce it as it were spelled "litcherally", I become annoyed beyond reason. Oops, wrong thread.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Mr Squarekins]

Gerradi said:

WOW...Coronavirus Lockdown has been hard on some...

Literally?

[A1VDY]

My mate turned up and st on my doorstep..

My mate turned up and 'literally' st on my doorstep..

More emphasis on the stting part the latter sentence.