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[LY_Scott]

Struck a cord chaps All of the above. What is the point of piling them in the sink?!?! You just need to lift them out again to fill it and normall spill the stale water now filling the pots.

[rob999]

Car drivers thinking they own the road

[mark_vx]

People who pick up americanisms, examples being:-

 

Using 'pissed' when meaning 'pissed off'

Pronunciation of the word 'router' when talking about network routers (It's not a woodwork tool!)

Pronunciation of the word 'leverage'

 

I pull people up about it at work and tell them off.

 

It's our language - hands off yanks!!

 

Too much American TV/movies

 

[KurtVerbose]

People who stare at your shopping at the check out. It's not like I've bought a big tub of anal lube or anything.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was a small tub.

[-Dab-of-Oppo-]

People who pick up americanisms, examples being:-   Using 'pissed' when meaning 'pissed off' Pronunciation of the word 'router' when talking about network routers (It's not a woodwork tool!) Pronunciation of the word 'leverage'   I pull people up about it at work and tell them off.   It's our language - hands off yanks!!   Too much American TV/movies  

I hear you on this. A-loooooo-min-um is my worst one followed closely by math and data.

[mark_vx]

 

People who pick up americanisms, examples being:-   Using 'pissed' when meaning 'pissed off' Pronunciation of the word 'router' when talking about network routers (It's not a woodwork tool!) Pronunciation of the word 'leverage'   I pull people up about it at work and tell them off.   It's our language - hands off yanks!!   Too much American TV/movies  

I hear you on this. A-loooooo-min-um is my worst one followed closely by math and data.

 

 

Yes

 

I lose things not 'loose' things.

I have wind not 'gas'

It's colour not 'color'

 

The list goes on

 

Aaaaarrgh!

[ChrisNo/Swe]

 

 

People who pick up americanisms, examples being:-   Using 'pissed' when meaning 'pissed off' Pronunciation of the word 'router' when talking about network routers (It's not a woodwork tool!) Pronunciation of the word 'leverage'   I pull people up about it at work and tell them off.   It's our language - hands off yanks!!   Too much American TV/movies  

I hear you on this. A-loooooo-min-um is my worst one followed closely by math and data.

 

 

Yes

 

I lose things not 'loose' things.

I have wind not 'gas'

It's colour not 'color'

 

The list goes on

 

Aaaaarrgh!

 

I had no idea i was pissing off so many Brits here    My excuse is that i learnt "English" from Fresh Prince In Bel-Air, Rambo and other 80s movies.

What really annoys me is when parents let their childs go mental in stores, libraries or other public places and they couldn't care less what their child was doing.

"couldn't, did i do it again? i don't know what is/isn't Murican" 

[moospeed]

Illiterate idiots (including highly educated people) who want to "revert" to an email. You were never an email so no, you cannot revert to being an email, you can "reply" though. * I think there are some exceptions to this from the legal world

[Wolfstone]

Tattoos. Bad enough on men but just plain wrong on women.

[Andrew aka Stuwy]

Tattoos. Bad enough on men but just plain wrong on women.

 

 

I wondered why you stopped talking to me

 

[Captain Vimes]

Illiterate idiots (including highly educated people) who want to "revert" to an email. You were never an email so no, you cannot revert to being an email, you can "reply" though. * I think there are some exceptions to this from the legal world

Agree. We should be pro-active in driving through the change in culture required to deliver a world class approach to literacy. We should blue sky it ASAP. If you could revert with ideas via PM I'll table it on the agenda for the next Essex meet. Thx K

[AstonVauxhall]

 

Illiterate idiots (including highly educated people) who want to "revert" to an email. You were never an email so no, you cannot revert to being an email, you can "reply" though. * I think there are some exceptions to this from the legal world

Agree. We should be pro-active in driving through the change in culture required to deliver a world class approach to literacy. We should blue sky it ASAP. If you could revert with ideas via PM I'll table it on the agenda for the next Essex meet. Thx K

 

 

Just be careful you don't paint yourself into a corner. You'll need 110% from everyone just in case the goalposts are moved, remember it is mission critical although you could incentivise the team if needed - could end up being a win-win situation.  

[james.a]

Don't knock it. Teamwork makes the dream work remember 😊

[slindborg]

People who pick up americanisms, examples being:-   Using 'pissed' when meaning 'pissed off' Pronunciation of the word 'router' when talking about network routers (It's not a woodwork tool!) Pronunciation of the word 'leverage'   I pull people up about it at work and tell them off.   It's our language - hands off yanks!!   Too much American TV/movies  

Someone asked me to bring a rowter to the test office we have, so I took my lovely woodwork tool with me (and he router they had asked for too as I'm not a total dick).... Confused but they called it by its proper pronunciation after that

[Ali87]

Washing cars. Why does it have to be so boring?

[rob999]

Washing cars. Why does it have to be so boring?

Yes but it's when you wash a normal car it feels like it takes an eternity compared to the VX!

[Ali87]

Bikes again. Especially self righteous old witches cycling on a single track road who refuse to get out the way of a line of VXs! She was lucky us vx lot are so nice else that bike might have made its way right up her wrinkly old arse!

[Nev]

Bikes again.

 

Indeed, the worst is when they ride 2 or 3 abreast on windy country lanes, seemingly unaware of the obstruction they cause and the increased chance they have of being knocked off.

 

Just like most drivers, I've had instances when driving down country lanes at perfectly sensible speeds of 30 to 60 MPH, only to go round a corner and find 3 of them abreast, completely blocking the lane and doing 10 MPH and relying on every car coming up behind them to hard/emergency brake to avoid them. Inevitably some driver doesn't brake hard enough and a group of them are ploughed into, and survival of the fittest comes into operation.

 

When ever I cycle on the road I do so defensively and consideration of others on the road and to reduce my risk profile to cars around me.

 

Edited by Nev, 05 September 2016 - 09:24 AM.

[Nev]

Tattoos. Bad enough on men but just plain wrong on women.

 

Oooh, that doesn't sound very tolerant !  

[Ali87]