Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
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Gosh. Volume 4.
Anger management needed round here, methinks.
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Anger management needed round here, methinks.
Continued from: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
RobinOakapple said:
BBC news reporters saying 'decimated' when they mean 'nearly destroyed'.
I hold the BBC to a higher standard, but am frequently disappointed.
No longer, I understand. I hold the BBC to a higher standard, but am frequently disappointed.
OED, academic and journalistic usage guidelines now deem the original meaning of reducing by a tenth to be so specific and anachronistic that the modern usage has become acceptable.
'Hopefully' is far more annoying, but unfortunately going the same way.
Inbred, genetically inadequate mouth breathing scum who consider that because they are moving, even at a glacial pace, they are entitled to be on the left of a tube escalator.
If you fed them feet first into a wood chipper whilst they were forced to watch their entire family slaughtered to a Justin Bieber soundtrack, they would still, in a very real way, have escaped sufficient justice.
If you fed them feet first into a wood chipper whilst they were forced to watch their entire family slaughtered to a Justin Bieber soundtrack, they would still, in a very real way, have escaped sufficient justice.
thetapeworm said:
I realise most of you have sexy maids to deal with this one but mine is under the patio - duvet covers, it's 2016, is there no way this can be made easier?
The Swedish solved duvets yonks ago, theirs have vents at the top end, make putting it on a piece of piece. No idea why they've not caught on here.
ClockworkCupcake said:
Do you honestly think programmers should be allowed to talk to customers? 
Of course not, there are professionals for that. Customer: can we have it do x,y and z, and run on windows phone?
Sales guy: Can't see a problem.
Programmer, later : You do realise, due to the current architecture, that it would mean scrapping the entire product and starting afresh, with a new team versed in what is a totally different skill set?
sales guy: Steve? Yeah, no problem, they'll deliver next week. Cocktails?
The utter pondlife that congreate in my local Waitrose at around 7.30pm to buy the reduced stuff. They all seem to know each other and work as a pack. Worse, they seem to have cottoned on the fact that Waitrose will keep reducing goods through their POS system if unsold, so they load up their baskets and then hang around for an hour or so untill last knockings so that the stuff is pennies.
Even worse is the suspicion that the source of my ire is that I could be enjoying almost free grocery purchasing if only I could rid myself of the tiny remnants of dignity and self respect I may still cling to, as they so clearly have.
Even worse is the suspicion that the source of my ire is that I could be enjoying almost free grocery purchasing if only I could rid myself of the tiny remnants of dignity and self respect I may still cling to, as they so clearly have.
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