spikey Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 I'll start. People who use i.e. when they mean e.g. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post woodenhead Posted March 8, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 8, 2022 Threads that serve no purpose but to annoy me 3 3 6 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Arbitrary, and ludicrously restrictive limits on descriptions of things that irritate me. 1 1 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold AndrueC Posted March 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 8, 2022 Idiots in general (including myself sometimes) and anything involving Visual Studio. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 38 minutes ago, spikey said: I'll start. People who use i.e. when they mean e.g. Oi, that's two sentences. Bernard 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 This book..... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ducks-Newburyport-Lucy-Ellmann/dp/1910296961 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 People who prefix evey sentence with "So". 10 minutes ago, Steamport Southport said: This book..... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ducks-Newburyport-Lucy-Ellmann/dp/1910296961 So, looks like standard literary award fodder... 4 6 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Life, the universe, and everything. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Tracksuits as normal, everyday wear. 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 People who go to the shops in pyjamas. 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 1 hour ago, Hroth said: People who prefix evey sentence with "So". So, looks like standard literary award fodder... Yep, but written as one sentence, I got as far as two pages before I gave up, didn't bother with the other 1000 odd pages.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kylestrome Posted March 8, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 8, 2022 (edited) Sentences that end with three dots ... Edited March 8, 2022 by Kylestrome 1 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PhilH Posted March 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 8, 2022 13 minutes ago, Kylestrome said: Sentences that end with three dots ... Thank goodness I’m a four dot person…. 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 1 hour ago, 33C said: Tracksuits as normal, everyday wear. PE Teachers, Coaches, Rehabilitation Medics and Athletes, perhaps some others may wonder why..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 8, 2022 The concept that music that is particularly popular is particularly and of necessity of good quality just because a lot of people like it (I am of course fully aware that quality is a subjective matter in this case). 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RFS Posted March 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 8, 2022 2 hours ago, Bernard Lamb said: Oi, that's two sentences. Bernard That's one sentence with two clauses. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 1 hour ago, jcredfer said: PE Teachers, Coaches, Rehabilitation Medics and Athletes, perhaps some others may wonder why..... That is "workwear/uniform" for them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach james Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Into running, with a hop, Change ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
4901 Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 Media people and police in the States saying multiple when a specific number could be mentioned or words like lots, a few, or several could be used. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted March 9, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2022 'Could of', which should be 'could have', and first person singular he or she written or said as 'they'. 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 Plurals with inappropriate apostrophes (and particularly e.g. "country's" instead of "countries"). 2 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 (edited) 11 hours ago, Steamport Southport said: Yep, but written as one sentence, I got as far as two pages before I gave up, didn't bother with the other 1000 odd pages.... Oh, that one! Edited March 9, 2022 by Hroth Emphasis... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 The tendency of late middle aged and older blokes to fixate upon, and get needlessly irritated by, trivial things like the poor use of English, when their grumpiness could be better deployed upon genuinely important matters like the many persistent injustices in the world, or mitigated by focusing instead on the positive aspects of life, which they appear wilfully blind to. 5 5 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 8 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: The tendency of late middle aged and older blokes to fixate upon, and get needlessly irritated by, trivial things like the poor use of English, when their grumpiness could be better deployed upon genuinely important matters like the many persistent injustices in the world, or mitigated by focusing instead on the positive aspects of life, which they appear wilfully blind to. Ok So, people who use "train station" and call locomotives "trains"... Managed to address several previously enunciated gripes there!!! 5 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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