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Stupid things that annoy you but shouldn't • Page 270
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Psychotext 70,652 posts
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Psychotext 70,652 posts
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Registered 15 years agoHi new page! -
superdelphinus 10,507 posts
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Registered 16 years agoPeople who use the initialisation, ‘MSM’. Though generally speaking, it’s a good sign that whatever I’ve either just heard, or about to hear is almost certainly some form of conspiracy theory. -
Matt_B 512 posts
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Registered 15 years agoAmericans using "serious" instead of "seriously", for example "I take my job serious".
I've really tuned into this one and I've started to hear it more frequently. It riles me up every time I hear it. My grasp of the English language is far from perfect, so it shouldn't bother me but it does. It just sounds wrong.
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nickthegun 87,711 posts
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Registered 16 years agosuperdelphinus wrote:
Its usually preceded by something cretinous about 'doing research'
People who use the initialisation, ‘MSM’. Though generally speaking, it’s a good sign that whatever I’ve either just heard, or about to hear is almost certainly some form of conspiracy theory. -
X201 22,150 posts
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Registered 16 years agonickthegun wrote:
Don't forget "truth seeker" and "free thinker"
superdelphinus wrote:
Its usually preceded by something cretinous about 'doing research'
People who use the initialisation, ‘MSM’. Though generally speaking, it’s a good sign that whatever I’ve either just heard, or about to hear is almost certainly some form of conspiracy theory. -
Saul_Iscariot 4,399 posts
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Registered 9 years agoI had an email to say that my Cyberpunk Xbox One was going to be delivered on the 11th. It is still at the sorting office, after nearly 36 hours. Why give me a date, that may have been unrealistic to start with, and not just say nothing? -
Zomoniac 10,628 posts
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Registered 17 years agoAmericans not saying and in numbers has always been a stupid thing that annoys me. I’ve now looked up why and it turns out their way is correct and now I’m annoyed because I wanted it to be wrong but instead I’m wrong. -
Rogueywon 12,387 posts
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Registered 16 years ago@Zomoniac American English branched off from British English a few centuries back. While both have evolved since then, American English has, by and large, stayed closer to the language as it was when it branched than British has. This means, unfortunately, that if you want to get into debates about which is "correct" (albeit this is a pointless debate), American English tends to "win" in the majority of cases.
Except on "colour vs color" (and so on). They're absolutely wrong on that one. -
Yet it's called the English language, not the American language. So everything that deviates from how the English use the English language is, by definition, incorrect. Boom checkmate -
superdelphinus 10,507 posts
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Registered 16 years agoX201 wrote:
Sheeple.
nickthegun wrote:
Don't forget "truth seeker" and "free thinker"
superdelphinus wrote:
Its usually preceded by something cretinous about 'doing research'
People who use the initialisation, ‘MSM’. Though generally speaking, it’s a good sign that whatever I’ve either just heard, or about to hear is almost certainly some form of conspiracy theory. -
Rogueywon 12,387 posts
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Registered 16 years ago@DrStrangelove Except if you use "-ise" rather that "-ize", you're basically speaking French. -
@Rogueywon
Yeah but, but... that's different. -
Saul_Iscariot 4,399 posts
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Registered 9 years agoJust an update on my Xbox One X. On Tuesday I checked again, and it was still showing as at the sorting office. So I checked on the website I ordered it from, and there was a note that it had been returned to them on Monday the 15th, five days after the sorting office received it. So at 08:00 I rang them up to find out what was going on.
It seems it should have gone to a different courier, not Royal Mail. So I asked would it be sent soon and could I get an approximate arrival time? I was told it would not be sent out again, as I was a cash paying customer. Instead I would be refunded the money and would have to order again. I pointed out that as a limited edition console, it was now out of stock and that they wouldn’t get anymore in. I was then told that there was nothing more that they could do to help.
So, I asked why had there been not a single attempt to let me know that there was an issue, I hadn’t even been told it was back with them, wouldn’t be coming or that I was simply being refunded. And since then, complete silence. I won’t be using Very.co.uk ever again. They have not tried anything to help or communicate with me. It is fucking disgraceful. I have gone from annoyed, but shouldn’t be, to fucking livid.
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Kronos 794 posts
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Registered 19 years agoProbably been said before but people who say Bu-on instead of Button.
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Psychotext 70,652 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI've considered it, and I think I say but-un.
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Kronos 794 posts
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Registered 19 years agoyou're ok because there is a t in there, its the lack of any t's I'm complaining about.
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Saul_Iscariot 4,399 posts
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Registered 9 years agoThe cheeky cunts have refunded the cost of the console but kept the fucking postage. -
nudistpete 1,273 posts
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Registered 4 years agoThat very.co.uk story should be in a thread named "Things that make me absolutely fuming, and rightly so".
I'm pretty sure we avoided using them after my wife was stung when they decided after delivery not to honour a promotional code. -
Fourwisemen 1,108 posts
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Registered 11 years agoCash machine - what service would you like?
1. Balance
2. Cash with receipt
3. Cash without receipt
4. Deposit
5. Pin services
I select option 3..
Cash machine - Would you like to see your balance?
I select NO while thinking ‘I’d have chosen that fucking option if I’d have wanted it’ then say how much I want.
Cash machine - would you like a receipt?
I just carry on pushing the no button, contemplate why I didn’t have a career in UX because I obviously know better that some fucker who designs cash machines, think I might point this out to someone at the bank who can do something about it then stroll off, have a beer and forget all about it.
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Rogueywon 12,387 posts
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Registered 16 years agoMy mum had a nightmare with very.co.uk last year. Ordered some clothing from them, they dispatched the wrong item (not just slightly wrong, completely wrong) and then got incredibly shirty about taking a return. They caved eventually, but only after a lot of throwing around of the words "trading standards". -
nickthegun 87,711 posts
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Registered 16 years agoFourwisemen wrote:
If you did want to see your balance and then take cash out, you'd be moaning that you had to go through two menus to do it.
Cash machine - Would you like to see your balance?
I select NO while thinking ‘I’d have chosen that fucking option if I’d have wanted it’ then say how much I want.
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Fourwisemen 1,108 posts
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Registered 11 years agonickthegun wrote:
That might be true if I didn’t always know my balance, and a better UX could account for that anyway.
Fourwisemen wrote:
If you did want to see your balance and then take cash out, you'd be moaning that you had to go through two menus to do it.
Cash machine - Would you like to see your balance?
I select NO while thinking ‘I’d have chosen that fucking option if I’d have wanted it’ then say how much I want.
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BreadBinLidHero 10,803 posts
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Registered 12 years agoThis A-Levels shit. Fair play to the students for getting what they can out of it - I can't really blame them for that. But it rankles me because I'm still bitter about the shit they pulled in 2002, the cunts. -
hedben2013 2,266 posts
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Registered 9 years agoAre the students getting what they can out of it? I heard some are being shafted with grades lower than mocks or predictions -
XsjadoBlaydette 57 posts
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Registered 3 years agoPeople (most often Americans and Canadians, but not always) who use the word "ironic" to mean "coincidence." For example;
"Hey...we've stumbled upon a random watermelon festival on the very day I happened to wear my 'I Love Watermelons" shirt! How ironic is that?"
Sorry to say, not much, Holmes. In fact, not at all. Irony lives in the opposites, and not necessarily anything to do with random chance either. For example;
"We've stumbled upon a watermelon celebration festival on the very day I happened to wear my "Watermelons are horrible, I hate watermelons...Death to all watermelons! While the irony may be palpable, we may need to leave asap."
Also the simplest example of irony not being part of coincidence; alcohol...the drink that dehydrates you. Opposites! I'm glad we've had this learning exercise so I don't have to restrain eye twitching the next time the word is incorrectly deployed. 😋 -
Rum_Monkey 3,488 posts
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Registered 2 years agoBut what happens when all you need is a knife? -
DasBooter 546 posts
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Registered 15 years ago@XsjadoBlaydette
It's like the Alanis Morisette song where none of the examples she cites are examples of irony.
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Registered 12 years ago@DasBooter Ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife is ironic. Rain on your wedding day, not so much. -
Looking at the lyrics of “Ironic”, here’s our verdict on whether the song’s lyrics are actually examples of irony.
An old man turned 98, he won the lottery and died the next day
This is not an example of irony, in a strict sense. What would be ironic is if he needed the money for something to maintain his health and he died just as he’d finally received it.
It’s a black fly in your Chardonnay
This is just an inconvenience. No irony detected here.
It’s a death row pardon two minutes too late
While it’s a tragedy, it’s not necessarily irony. If you’re using the dramatic irony definition, then sure, this could fit in a fictional setting.
It’s like rain on your wedding day
While most would very much like to avoid this happening, it’s not actually an example of irony. To make it an ironic statement, someone would have to say something like “luckily, it’s not raining on your wedding day” and then it begins to rain out of nowhere.
It’s a free ride when you’ve already paid
Because of the name of this game is being pedantic, this is going in the ‘no’ pile because the situation isn’t specified. If you’d just asked for a free ticket, gotten rejected and then paid for it and immediately after were offered a free ride, this could probably fall into the irony category.
It’s the good advice that you just didn’t take
We all have probably had this happen to us but alas, it’s too general to say it’s irony.
Mr. Play-It-Safe was afraid to fly, he packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye, he waited his whole damn life to take that flight, and as the plane crashed down he thought, “Well isn’t this nice”
This is mostly just tragic but in a fictional setting, this could be considered as dramatic irony. Especially, if someone had just convinced him how safe flying is and how nothing would go wrong on this flight. We’ll put this in the ‘maybe’ pile.
It’s a traffic jam when you’re already late
Another major inconvenience we can all relate to but it’s not irony, specifically. If you’d just called your friend to say you won’t be late because there’s never traffic at this time, it’d probably sneak in.
It’s a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
Nada on the irony front here. It’d be more directly ironic if you’d put up the sign.
It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
A tad of an exaggeration but it’s definitely life’s frustrations but one that can sadly not be marked down as irony.
It’s meeting the man of my dreams, and then meeting his beautiful wife
Meeting your dream crush and then their wife is not an opposite response. Again, in fiction, this could be dramatic irony if the audience knows the dream crush has a romantic partner but the main character has yet to figure it out. Even then, it loosely fits the definition. It’s just a bummer.
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