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Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

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  • #1322
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭KungPao


    When you pick up a hoody you were just wearing and find a spider is on it :( Did he just get on it or was he on it while I was wearing it?


  • #1323
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    If I hear one more semi-literate Government clodhopper abuse the word "revert" in an attempt to sound clever I shan't be responsible for the consequences. :mad:


  • #1324
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    One of our solicitors was telling me how to phrase something in a letter and used revert. I didn't use it of course but also couldn't point out that it was the wrong way to use it.

    Thing is though I don't know what to use instead.


  • #1325
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Gongoozler wrote: »
    One of our solicitors was telling me how to phrase something in a letter and used revert. I didn't use it of course but also couldn't point out that it was the wrong way to use it.

    Thing is though I don't know what to use instead.

    "Reply". I will reply to you. Alternatives include "answer", or the somewhat slangy "get back to".


  • #1326
    GotTheTshirt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 674 ✭✭✭GotTheTshirt


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Why do parents shave/have their little boys head shaved:confused: It just makes the poor child look like a mini scumbag.

    There's a good reason for this. We shaved our boys hair when they turned a year old, baby hair is wispy and thin. One good shave at that age and it grows back much stronger.

    There are probably some who do it for 'style' reasons though!


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  • #1327
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    jimgoose wrote: »
    "Reply". I will reply to you. Alternatives include "answer", or the somewhat slangy "get back to".

    But see reply is not appropriate sometimes


  • #1328
    Vel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Vel


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Women in public who think its socially acceptable to poke at the inner corner of their eye and then examine the takings. It's never ok to poke at an orifice in public! And examining your loot makes the rest of us nauseous ok?! The fairer sex? Pfft.... :rolleyes:

    An absolute yoke on the Luas this morning, wearing the most makeup I have ever seen another human being wear fancy dress included, spent the journey clawing under her long painted talons and carefully examining whatever it was she was picking out before flicking it onto the floor. My dogs have better manners


  • #1329
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Gongoozler wrote: »
    But see reply is not appropriate sometimes

    In the same way that the word "cucumber" or "ballbearing" probably isn't appropriate either. What is it that you're trying to say?? Meantime, I'll think about it and get witch'all in da PM.


  • #1330
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    GotTheTshirt wrote: »
    There's a good reason for this. We shaved our boys hair when they turned a year old, baby hair is wispy and thin. One good shave at that age and it grows back much stronger.

    There are probably some who do it for 'style' reasons though!

    That isn't the case for children of primary school age though, which is the age I'm referring to, I wasn't very clear about the age group I had in mind. I saw a child of about 8 years old yesterday with his father, the child's hair was just shorn to a 5 o'clock shadow look, it was awful.


  • #1331
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    There is no situation where this bizarre and grotesque misuse of the word 'revert' in contemptible office jargon either cannot or should not be replaced with 'reply' or 'respond'.


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  • #1332
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,202 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    There is no situation where this bizarre and grotesque misuse of the word 'revert' in contemptible office jargon either cannot or should not be replaced with 'reply' or 'respond'.

    You can rollerbearing that with any polyalphaolefin you like.


  • #1333
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    People who use words they don't understand the meaning of.

    For example. In a Daily Star article (my dad buys it, not me! :pac:) today they were speaking to a Dublin councillor called Mannix Flynn about a recent incident where a man attempted a sex act on a motorcycle in Temple Bar in broad daylight (:confused:). Anyway, he was giving the usual spiel about how the place is f*cked and how Dublin's a dump and why everyone's poor etc. etc. and he said "lewd acts are commonplace on a daily basis throughout the city centre - whether it be drug-taking, drinking or people having sex in public".

    Now let's take a look at the meaning of the word "lewd":
    Lewd = Crude and offensive in a sexual way.

    He either got a D in Leaving Cert English or else he finds people taking drugs and drinking alcohol in public arousing, but either way - I'm worried that this man holds a public office.


  • #1334
    takamichinoku
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭takamichinoku


    When it's a flatmate's turn to buy the toilet paper and they buy a 4 pack of tesco value stuff.


    One of the best ways of gauging how much of a tightarse you're dealing with though!


  • #1335
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    takamichinoku wrote: »
    When it's a flatmate's turn to buy the toilet paper and they buy a 4 pack of tesco value stuff.


    One of the best ways of gauging how much of a tightarse you're dealing with though!


    Maybe that's why he needs less :P


  • #1336
    SpaceCowb0y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭SpaceCowb0y


    takamichinoku wrote: »
    When it's a flatmate's turn to buy the toilet paper and they buy a 4 pack of tesco value stuff.


    One of the best ways of gauging how much of a tightarse you're dealing with though!

    This does my head in!! Housemates in general do my head in! One of the people i live with is an old Italian dude and in the two years he is there he has never once bought a poxy bin tag! :mad:

    I take my revenge by eating all his glorious food that he's cooked when i stumble in hammered at stupid o'clock in the morning! No Abra or Chinese etc can compare to freshly prepared home made meat balls in tomato sauce or pasta of every kind you can think of...

    Jesus i'm hungry, is it lunch time yet??


  • #1337
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    That isn't the case for children of primary school age though, which is the age I'm referring to, I wasn't very clear about the age group I had in mind. I saw a child of about 8 years old yesterday with his father, the child's hair was just shorn to a 5 o'clock shadow look, it was awful.


    It's an unlikely explanation in the case you encountered Pumpkin, but I remember last year the young lad getting his hands on a scissors and trying to cut his own hair. He cut too deep into the fringe so in order to make it look right I'd to chase the hair down which meant shaving it all off.


    Poor child didn't look right for weeks! :pac:


  • #1338
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    People who use "big" words when they want to feel puffed up. "Purchase" instead of "bought" is a classic.

    What's wrong with "big" words? A lot of them sound a lot nicer than the "smaller" version when you're writing something. If you're going to use them in everyday conversation when actually speaking to people you just come across as a pretentious gobshíte though.


  • #1339
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Vel wrote: »
    An absolute yoke on the Luas this morning, wearing the most makeup I have ever seen another human being wear fancy dress included, spent the journey clawing under her long painted talons and carefully examining whatever it was she was picking out before flicking it onto the floor. My dogs have better manners

    I got a still from one of the Luas cameras for you

    http://www.redcarpetnewstv.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/stephen-king-IT-remake.jpg


  • #1340
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Hotfail.com wrote: »
    People who use words they don't understand the meaning of.

    For example. In a Daily Star article (my dad buys it, not me! :pac:) today they were speaking to a Dublin councillor called Mannix Flynn about a recent incident where a man attempted a sex act on a motorcycle in Temple Bar in broad daylight (:confused:). Anyway, he was giving the usual spiel about how the place is f*cked and how Dublin's a dump and why everyone's poor etc. etc. and he said "lewd acts are commonplace on a daily basis throughout the city centre - whether it be drug-taking, drinking or people having sex in public".

    Now let's take a look at the meaning of the word "lewd":





    He either got a D in Leaving Cert English or else he finds people taking drugs and drinking alcohol in public arousing, but either way - I'm worried that this man holds a public office.

    To be fair, I am sure there are holders of an A in Leaving Cert English who may not have known that fact.


  • #1341
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    To be fair, I am sure there are holders of an A in Leaving Cert English who may not have known that fact.

    True. Damn that Leaving Cert nonsense.


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  • #1342
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    There is no situation where this bizarre and grotesque misuse of the word 'revert' in contemptible office jargon either cannot or should not be replaced with 'reply' or 'respond'.

    I disagree. Often we'll have to write a letter and explain that we'll get back to them at a later date with an answer, by which time you'll already have replied, so you can't use reply in this situation.


  • #1343
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭KungPao


    GotTheTshirt wrote: »
    There's a good reason for this. We shaved our boys hair when they turned a year old, baby hair is wispy and thin. One good shave at that age and it grows back much stronger.

    There are probably some who do it for 'style' reasons though!

    Pretty sure that's a myth. Shaving a hair has zero effect on how it grows... bar being a bit stubbly for a short time.


  • #1344
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭KungPao


    jimgoose wrote: »
    If I hear one more semi-literate Government clodhopper abuse the word "revert" in an attempt to sound clever I shan't be responsible for the consequences. :mad:
    It's funny when you see "revert back to you" in an email. 'Revert' essentially means go back/return to a previous condition or situation, so revert back just makes no sense!


  • #1345
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    KungPao wrote: »
    It's funny when you see "revert back to you" in an email. 'Revert' essentially means go back/return to a previous condition or situation, so revert back just makes no sense!

    Maybe they were you once and yearn to be that sexy again.


  • #1346
    Mitchell Pitiful Llama
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Mitchell Pitiful Llama


    jimgoose wrote: »
    If I hear one more semi-literate Government clodhopper abuse the word "revert" in an attempt to sound clever I shan't be responsible for the consequences. :mad:
    KungPao wrote: »
    It's funny when you see "revert back to you" in an email. 'Revert' essentially means go back/return to a previous condition or situation, so revert back just makes no sense!


    Yeah it's so many people abusing "revert" at this stage. Still makes me angry. ANGRY


  • #1347
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Gongoozler wrote: »
    I disagree. Often we'll have to write a letter and explain that we'll get back to them at a later date with an answer, by which time you'll already have replied, so you can't use reply in this situation.

    Can you provide and example of a sentence where you feel that this is an acceptable usage of 'revert'?


  • #1348
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Can you provide and example of a sentence where you feel that this is an acceptable usage of 'revert'?


    "The driving tester failed me as I was unable to locate revert in order to complete a three point turn"


  • #1349
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Can you provide and example of a sentence where you feel that this is an acceptable usage of 'revert'?
    Dear Maximus,

    Gongoozler will revert back to you with an answer as soon as possible.

    Kind regards,
    KungPao.


  • #1350
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    KungPao wrote: »
    Dear Maximus,

    Gongoozler will revert back to you respond with an answer as soon as possible.

    Kind regards,
    KungPao.

    FYP. :P


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  • #1351
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    KungPao wrote: »
    Dear Maximus,

    Gongoozler will revert back to you with an answer as soon as possible.

    Kind regards,
    KungPao.

    It's not the same thing though. If I'm writing to you and saying I'll come back to you later with an answer I can't say I'll respond, that's as stupid as revert. I've already responded!
    Ah I quoted the wrong post.


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