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The Rant Thread(a place to dump ur baggage)

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  • #332
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,548 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    ThisRegard wrote: »

    And anyone that educates people in the correct use of the English language being accused of being a grammar Nazi.

    Or anyone who educates and in doing so makes simple errors themselves.:)


  • #333
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    walshb wrote: »
    Or anyone who educates and in doing so makes simple errors themselves.:)

    :D I honestly re-read that about 5 times to make sure I didn't fail spectacularly.

    harumph, bloody grammar Nazis.


  • #334
    pa4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 617 ✭✭✭pa4


    T runner wrote: »
    Morons being abusive about women.

    Morons who think women deserve special treatment.


  • #335
    pa4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 617 ✭✭✭pa4


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    People who can't use self service tills. It's simpler than your Garmin folks !

    But their just so complicated :(


  • #336
    Ososlo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,420 ✭✭✭Ososlo


    pa4 wrote: »
    But their just so complicated :(

    their what is so complicated?
    sorry I'm a biatch... reformed grammar Nazi here. Nowadays i put all that frustration into my running ;)


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  • #337
    pa4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 617 ✭✭✭pa4


    Ososlo wrote: »
    their what is so complicated?
    sorry I'm a biatch... reformed grammar Nazi here. Nowadays i put all that frustration into my running ;)

    Everything about them, I went to buy a carton of chocolate milk the other day and was trying to figure it out for about 5 mins then the person behind did it for me! To many bad experiences with those self service tills.. best to avoid them in future :P


  • #338
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,514 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    Ososlo wrote: »
    their what is so complicated?
    sorry I'm a biatch... reformed grammar Nazi here. Nowadays i put all that frustration into my running ;)
    ... Must resist urge to correct Ososlo's capitaliz(s)ation and punctuation....


  • #339
    Ososlo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,420 ✭✭✭Ososlo


    Krusty_Clown wrote: »
    ... Must resist urge to correct Ososlo's capitaliz(s)ation and punctuation....

    knew someone would be along....
    i am on the phone and it doesn't do it automatically and i couldn't be arsed fixing it. so there!
    anyway i don't really care anymore as I'm reformed!


  • #340
    T runner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,307 ✭✭✭T runner


    pa4 wrote: »
    Morons who think women deserve special treatment.

    No, not special treatment. Abusive, sexist comments shouldn't be made about men either. "cnut" is a filthy derogatory term aimed particlaurly at women.


  • #341
    pa4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 617 ✭✭✭pa4


    T runner wrote: »
    No, not special treatment. Abusive, sexist comments shouldnt be made about men either.

    Agreed. Hate abusive attitudes.


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  • #342
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,548 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Ososlo wrote: »
    their what is so complicated?
    sorry I'm a biatch... reformed grammar Nazi here. Nowadays i put all that frustration into my running ;)

    Oh no. Small 'i' on its own in a sentence:D


  • #343
    T runner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,307 ✭✭✭T runner


    pa4 wrote: »
    Agreed. Hate abusive attitudes.

    So you agree. The posters comments were abusive and derogatory towards her. Thank you.


  • #344
    drquirky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,866 ✭✭✭drquirky


    Rant: this thread !


  • #345
    pa4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 617 ✭✭✭pa4


    T runner wrote: »
    So you agree. The posters comments were abusive and derogatory towards her. Thank you.

    Yes I do, I just thought you wouldn't have felt the same if the genders were reversed. Its cleared up now anyway!


  • #346
    kit3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭kit3


    drquirky wrote: »
    Rant: this thread !

    Ah, but you keep getting drawn back - admit it :)


  • #347
    kit3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭kit3


    Meetings interfering with my lunchtime runs - makes for a very long afternoon :mad:


  • #348
    T runner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,307 ✭✭✭T runner


    pa4 wrote: »
    Yes I do, I just thought you wouldn't have felt the same if the genders were reversed. Its cleared up now anyway!

    I abhor all sexist attitudes but I have to be honest: as a highly patriarcal society we have a particularly acute problem with mens attitudes to women. Particularly as someone with a young son and daughter who will have to face this society.... i will call sexism whenever i see it regardless of gender (even if it does seem to occur overwhelmingly in one direction). I have felt it my duty as a citizen to research and discover why these attitudes exist and why they happen in the proportions they do here and what i can do about it.

    I have discovered that, If comments such as that poster made are not challenged (i.e sexism is accepted), then that type of sexism remains endemic in our society.


    That's my honest position, im entitled to it, but i have had to take dogs abuse, from men particularly, over the years for holding it.


  • #349
    FrClintPower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭FrClintPower


    People who confuse loose/lose and looser/loser.


  • #350
    Gavlor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭Gavlor


    This used to be fun.

    Rant: high moral grounds. Chill the f&ck out.


  • #351
    kit3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭kit3


    Ososlo wrote: »
    Gaa and county pride and county / locality pride in general. i just don't get it. i couldn't care less about where i'm from.
    d.

    I think to get this you either need to be from a rural area or involved with a club. I see it with friends from Mayo and Cork but also see a big pride in community in my local club in Clondalkin. I'm from Cork city and didn't have that parish thing as a kid but my own kids are involved in the GAA now and I find I know every second person in the village through it. I get it (and like it) :)


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  • #352
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,514 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    FrClintPower wrote: »
    People who confuse loose/lose and looser/loser.
    Ah yes, a common malapropism. Don't you just hate sesquipedalianists?


  • #353
    Ososlo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,420 ✭✭✭Ososlo


    kit3 wrote: »
    I think to get this you either need to be from a rural area or involved with a club. I see it with friends from Mayo and Cork but also see a big pride in community in my local club in Clondalkin. I'm from Cork city and didn't have that parish thing as a kid but my own kids are involved in the GAA now and I find I know every second person in the village through it. I get it (and like it) :)

    I'm from rural Kilkenny so grew up with this pride thing all around me. I still don't get it. You don't choose where you are born. It is where it is. Why have a special affinity to that place? I am probably the one who is missing out.

    Damn capitals taking me ages to type in.... ggggrrrr


  • #354
    kit3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭kit3


    Ososlo wrote: »
    I'm from rural Kilkenny so grew up with this pride thing all around me. I still don't get it. You don't choose where you are born. It is where it is. Why have a special affinity to that place? I am probably the one who is missing out.

    Damn capitals taking me ages to type in.... ggggrrrr

    Can't believe you got away with that in Kilkenny. Do they let you back :rolleyes:


  • #355
    notsofast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭notsofast


    pconn062 wrote: »
    Jesus, lighten the tone lads! How did we get from turnips onto pedophiles??

    Ha, and in the Athletics/Running forum too.


  • #356
    T runner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,307 ✭✭✭T runner


    Gavlor wrote: »
    This used to be fun.

    Rant: high moral grounds. Chill the f&ck out.

    Challenging a poster who agressively labelled a woman a "cnut" on this thread is something that should be encouraged not discouraged, I would have thought.


  • #357
    TRR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭TRR


    [Rant] The rant thread, as said before it's no fun anymore. See you next Tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!! And that is aimed at everyone just in case I'm accused of being sexist you shower of copper nanotubes ;)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/09/nanotube_acronyms/


  • #358
    Gavlor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭Gavlor


    T runner wrote: »
    Challenging a poster who agressively labelled a woman a "cnut" on this thread is something that should be encouraged not discouraged, I would have thought.

    Dragging the arse out of it should be discouraged.


  • #359
    Gavlor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭Gavlor


    TRR wrote: »
    [Rant] The rant thread, as said before it's no fun anymore. See you next Tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!! And that is aimed at everyone just in case I'm accused of being sexist you shower of copper nanotubes ;)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/09/nanotube_acronyms/

    C u then ;)


  • #360
    TFBubendorfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭TFBubendorfer


    Krusty_Clown wrote: »
    Ah yes, a common malapropism. Don't you just hate sesquipedalianists?

    I hate smart arse dictionary sites:

    sesquipedalianist (plural sesquipedalianists): A person who tends to use sesquipedalian words.

    Thanks for that, that finally clears it up.


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  • #361
    T runner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,307 ✭✭✭T runner


    Gavlor wrote: »
    Dragging the arse out of it should be discouraged.

    Ah, as long as making abusive comments is "no fun anymore" here its worth-it.
    Looks like its working!


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