Talking/Posting in the third person GRRRRR

bishop brennan

Does ANYONE agree with me on how annoying this is!

Theres a few here that do it and it drives me mad:( (we all know who they are:rolleyes: )
Im a very easy going fella but it's just one of those things that get's to me.
Bishop brennan wants to know if others feel the same ?He would love to hear
your opinion's(see how annoying it isAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH)

Crucifix

It can be really annoying if done wrong/overused etc.

bishop brennan

Agree Crucifix
There's people posting here who swear by it:(

Rb

A few?I only know of one and it doesn't really bother me tbh.

bishop brennan

Your lucky RB!!
As i said it's one of those things that grate's certain people and others are'nt
bothered;)

bishop brennan

And you have'nt read many post's if its only 1 you know of:D

Laguna

Laguna completely sees where you're coming from.

Laguna finds 3rd person referrals annoying as well.

WhiteWashMan

bishop brennan wrote:

Does ANYONE agree with me on how annoying this is!

Theres a few here that do it and it drives me mad:( (we all know who they are:rolleyes: )
Im a very easy going fella but it's just one of those things that get's to me.
Bishop brennan wants to know if others feel the same ?He would love to hear
your opinion's(see how annoying it isAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH)

whitewashman wants to know why you get so easily annoyed over something so petty and trivial.
whitewashman has found that people who are easily annoyed and irritated over small things generally have self issues.

Agent Orange

WhiteWashMan wrote:

whitewashman wants to know why you get so easily annoyed over something so petty and trivial.
whitewashman has found that people who are easily annoyed and irritated over small things generally have self issues.

LOL irony!

Seriously though, way to make the most obvious joke possible regarding this thread.

Wertz

Wertz jumps on bandwagons at the earliest given opportunity.
He also has a sh*tload of upcoming psychiatrists bills to pay so if you'll excuse him he'll be on his merry way...

Töpher

Einstürzende does not mind it once the post itself is of reasonable quality, unlike this one.

Our man in Havana

Bond-007 agrees with the sentiments of the previous poster.

bishop brennan

Ha ha lads!!!:D
Dont have any "issue's" thank God,but this is a small one.;)

Capt'n Midnight

One finds the whole quaintly ammusing.

patzer117

bishop brennan wrote:

Does ANYONE agree with me on how annoying this is!

Theres a few here that do it and it drives me mad...
Im a very easy going fella but it's just one of those things that get's to me...
... hear your opinion's(see ...

...There's people posting here who swear by it...

...As i said it's one of those things that grate's certain people and others are'nt
bothered...

...And you have'nt read many post's if its only 1 you know of...

...Dont have any "issue's" thank God,but this is a small one...

Patzer is thinking of starting a new thread. He is going to entitle it 'Bad spelling and the misuse of apostrophe's' because it is an issue that grate's him and certain people while others are'nt bothered in their post's...

cil_aine

cil_aine finds posting in the third person slightly pretentious but quite amusing all the same.

Silverfish

Silverfish used to hate it, but she sees that its not that bad really, and find it quite amusing.

I mean, Silverfish just thinks there's lots of people with different posting styles, and some r jst more annying thn othrs, k?

bishop brennan

patzer117 wrote:

Patzer is thinking of starting a new thread. He is going to entitle it 'Bad spelling and the misuse of apostrophe's' because it is an issue that grate's him and certain people while others are'nt bothered in their post's...

Fair enough!!I am dyslexic and have tried hard to get spellings etc right.My post is about people speaking in third person.
It annoys a LOT of people,my reason for posting here was to see what people think.
Being able to write clearly is a problem a lot of us share ,speaking in third person isnt.

Piste

It annoys me a lot. Personal pronouns were invented for a reason.

Cake Fiend

It's pretty sad alright, but hardly something to blow a gasket over. Also, these people are possibly doing it for the attention, so if you make a whole thread devoted to their antics, they'll only be encouraged.

If reading posts like those hurts your brain so much, why not just put the offenders on 'ignore' and be done with it?

Maguined

Mikaboshi believes posting in the third person is fun, Mikaboshi feels like it makes him more powerfull and can defeat any and all comers. Mikaboshi believes it can be overdone. Mikaboshi believes it cannot be overdone by himself because he is so all powerfull.

Mikaboshi thanks the O for providing him with an excuse to post in third person. Mikaboshi is finished making his point.

Silverfish

Mikaboshi has surpassed the person this thread is about.

patzer117

bishop brennan wrote:

Fair enough!!I am dyslexic and have tried hard to get spellings etc right.My post is about people speaking in third person.
It annoys a LOT of people,my reason for posting here was to see what people think.
Being able to write clearly is a problem a lot of us share ,speaking in third person isnt.

My apologies then. I was merely pointing out that nobody is perfect. I am guilty of it myself (which you could see if searching was enabled). If i'm honest posting in the third person does really annoy me, but I usually brush over the posts due to lack of interest. Sorry again, I didn't mean to offend.

Aisling(",)

Aisling coughs *Pighead* cough
Aisling als agrees that posting in the 3rd person is irritating

Goodshape

Goodshape thinks you're all mental.

billy the squid

I think that there are more instances of idiots using txt spk than there are people using the third person lingo. I find txt spk posts more irritating.

Rhyme

Talking in the fourth person is pretty annoying...

Rhyme isnt concerned with this issue

MrJoeSoap

MrJoeSoap wonders what Pigheads response will be and when it will come....

Tar.Aldarion

Doesn't annoy me it the slightest, sweet liquid Jesus, lighten up.

NoDayBut2Day

Doesn't bother me either; it puts a different touch to a message board when someone writes in a different style.

luckat

Yeah, it's interesting psychologically. People who become famous often start to refer to themselves in the third person, and it's often a sign that they're going off the rails: "You may say that the leader of the LVF would do that, but Jim Gray would not do that, and he is telling you that now."

Quick course in apostrophes:

* No personal possessive pronoun ever uses an apostrope: his hers, its, theirs, ours.

* Other than in these pronouns, apostrophes are always used to denote possession: Mike's hat, Niamh's gloves, the boy's mother [one boy], the woman's skirt, the women's skirts, the people's party, the children's games, the men's moustaches, the boys' mother [two or more boys - see, it's after the "s" there?] (In these cases, according to grammatical urban legend, the ' stands for the word "his", so it's "Mike(his) hat" and so on.)

* In "n't" words, the apostrophe stands for the missing letter "o" - isn't, wouldn't, hadn't and so on - so it always goes between the "n" and the "t".

* If you're just making a plural, and there's no ownership involved, you don't use an apostrophe: the boy, the boys; the book, the books.

* Apostrophes are nothing to do with dyslexia. They're to do with being taught the rules badly, or being too unnerved by reading matters generally to take in the rules.

OK, now you know all about them.

Victor

bishop brennan wrote:

bishop brennan

Is that you Pigman?

luckat wrote:

* Other than in these pronouns, apostrophes are always used to denote possession: Mike's hat, Niamh's gloves, the boy's mother [one boy], the woman's skirt, the women's skirts, the people's party, the children's games, the men's moustaches, the boys' mother [two or more boys - see, it's after the "s" there?] (In these cases, according to grammatical urban legend, the ' stands for the word "his", so it's "Mike(his) hat" and so on.)

Shouldn't it be:

Mike's hat,
Niamh's gloves,
the boy's mother [one boy],
the woman's skirt,
the womens' skirts,
the peoples' party,
the childrens' games,
the men's moustaches,
the boys' mother [two or more boys - see, it's after the "s" there?]?

Not that it matters, seeing as "women", "people" and "children" are plural nouns. It would be more important with:

The boys' mother,
The brothers' house,
The dog's kennel.

Capt'n Midnight

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scojones

sjones was looking forward to reading Pighead's response.

Bard

Bard thinks this thread will be locked before Pighead responds...

Wertz

Whereas Wertz is of the opinion that the thread will grow into a 20+ page monster as people flock to post about themselves in the 3rd person...

astrofool

maybe they were auditioning for that new McDonalds ad, "one is loving..."

Mr.Nice Guy

Mr.Nice Guy would like to post in the third person but Mr.Nice Guy fears it wouldn't be too clever at this late stage.

Endurance Man

I see the man of the hour is yet to add is piece .

bishop brennan

HA HA!:D
Well i got opinions!
The man of the hour??HA HA!:D

WhiteWashMan

whitewashman has found this thread entertaining, and is hoping that it will go on for several pages.

whitewashman suggests someone makes up a game to play while we wait for the end of the world.

Goodshape

Goodshape suggests the mother of all thrid-person talking games... "Simon Says". But we'll need to find a Simon first.

Goodshape's sure there must be a Simon about here somewhere.

Wertz

Goodshape wrote:

Goodshape suggests the mother of all thrid-person talking games... "Simon Says". But we'll need to find a Simon first.

Goodshape's sure there must be a Simon about here somewhere.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=298

bishop brennan

WhiteWashMan wrote:

whitewashman has found this thread entertaining, and is hoping that it will go on for several pages.

whitewashman suggests someone makes up a game to play while we wait for the end of the world.

Well XBOX 360 is out soon you could try that;)

Goodshape

Wertz wrote:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=298

Simon says.. em, nothing - since 1970! :eek:

Sparky

sparky, is really wondering how pighead is not here and how WWM is enjoying this

Rhyme

Sparky_S wrote:

sparky, is really wondering how pighead is not here

Rhyme concurs and wonders if perhaps Pighead deems this too obvious an oppurtunity

theCzar

theCzar saw this all coming

Supercell

Longfield wonders if people that find third party posting disturbing are a little unimaginative !!

Longfield likes this style of posting, viva la ...

Jimi-Spandex

Jimi doesn't care.

Sparky

sparky lols @ jimi