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IMO - yeah...we know. You just typed it.

IMHO - not content with patronising us all by assuming we're too stupid to recognise an opinion, now you're being all ****ing humble about it.

**** off!


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 11:29 am
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Posted : 02/12/2012 11:39 am
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BOOM!


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 11:42 am
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What the flipping Nora does "fractious"even mean?

So wait, your vocabulary is limited, and that's somehow our fault? Right on!


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 11:48 am
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"PIN Number"

And just what do you think the "N" in PIN stands for you brainless sack of (expletive deleted)?


 
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"Can I get a regular skinny latte to go?"

When they should ask "can I have a Latte with skimmed milk to take away please?"

(Or better still, can I have a white coffee please)

Oh now come on. You want us to use more words or even actually ask for something else because.. what.. ? You've got some kind of chip on your shoulder?

You lot have no concpet of what language is all about.


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 11:50 am
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“Touch base with..."
“Reach out to..."
“I could care less..."

Referring to the police as the “Feds".


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 11:50 am
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You lot have no [u]concpet [/u]of what language is all about.

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Posted : 02/12/2012 11:53 am
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You lot have no concpet of what language is all about.

What, like,[i] literally[/i]?

Personally I don't get wound up by people asking for stupid sounding coffees, because coffee shops are for mugs and I don't go into them.

Everyone should just let Molgrips pretend he's in Friends if it makes him happy.


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 11:58 am
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WUNUNNERD!


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 11:59 am
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When I'm in a shop, and I want something off the menu, I ask for it by name.

I don't try and translate into a form that I think is acceptable because I think it's somehow just and righteous, and then have the poor sod on the other side of the counter try and figure out wtf I am talking about.

Everyone should just let Molgrips pretend he's in Friends if it makes him happy.

Coffee shops existed independently of Friends, in fact.

I bet some of your bookshelves are pretty barren tedious places, aren't they?

Referring to the police as the “Feds".

I think that's ironic humour, isn't it?


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 12:04 pm
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And just what do you think the "N" in PIN stands for you brainless sack of (expletive deleted)?

it's so the stupid people of the world don't get it confused with PI number or 3.14159265359


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 12:09 pm
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People who say "mute" when they mean "moot" as in "it's a mute point". Nuggets!


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 12:10 pm
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I have used the term Feds , for policemen since about 1978 ...
And yes - totally ironic after too many american cops shows ...

However

reach out
clarity
engage with

all are really w*** work jargon


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 12:11 pm
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words don't annoy people, people annoy people


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 12:11 pm
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"I went to the shops and I brought (Insert product name here) off of them"

KILL! KILL! KILL!


 
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highclimber just made me literally LOL

I bet some of your bookshelves are pretty barren tedious places, aren't they?

Literally WTF?


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 12:12 pm
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" Grow a pair"


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 12:12 pm
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re. "reach out"

Just substitute "reach around" when using it in a work context, much more entertaining.


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 12:13 pm
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oo ooo oooo I have one - anyone who starts a word with hash-tag infront of it. WTF does hash-tag effing mean??


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 12:13 pm
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Turned round and said.

Basically

Literally.

Regular (portion of chips, coffee etc)

And all that stuff.......

And everything.... (ive washed the dishes and everything)


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 12:16 pm
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re. "reach out"
Just substitute "reach around" when using it in a work context, much more entertaining.

"cloth" works similarly with "touching base".


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 12:26 pm
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"at this moment in time" - unless you're talking about levers, what other moment would it be?!

Use of "leverage" when "borrow" or "learn" would make sense - see above on leverage!

Use of "that" for comparatives rather than "than" - grrrr...

"up" added to everything - what's the difference between "meet" and "meet up"?

And - breathe....


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 12:30 pm
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Guesstimate. It's one or the other.

Someone I work with will 'save down' something when she means to save an electronic file. I'm not sure if it's the correct phrase to use but it annoys me almost as much as guesstimate.


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 12:42 pm
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Regular (portion of chips, coffee etc)

this is another one that boils my p1ss - what is so god damned wrong with saying something is small for christ's sake

it's less ambiguous to start


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 12:42 pm
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coffee shops are for mugs

Well duh, how else do they serve it? (sorry, I'm in that sort of mood)

The word 'Hun' when used as a term of endearment. Unless the person you are addressing is part of the Mongol hoards, and first name is 'Atilla', the word you are looking for is 'honey' or 'hon' if you are lazy. I know of (grown up, adult) men who use the previous abomination. Makes me want to explode them to death.


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 12:50 pm
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While on the coffee shop tirade. i ask for a black coffee and get an "americano, no milk". Every time i hear this it is accompanied by the satisfying thunk click of a pulled back cocking handle and the selector going from single shot to american.


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 1:04 pm
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Reem. I have no idea what it means, but I don't like it.


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 1:21 pm
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Draw. As in, "the knives and forks are in the kitchen draw."

LOL, when used literally literally, is fine; as a replacement for a full stop, it makes me want to kill kittens. "I've just opened a can of coke lol I've poured it into a glass lol" - do you really go about your daily business laughing out loud all the time? Loony.

Lend instead of borrow. "That book you're reading looks good, can I lend it when you've done?" - "Unless you've got your own copy, probably not." (Excusable in Wales as, I'm told, 'lend' and 'borrow' are the same word in Welsh; if you're not Welsh, LEARN SOME WORDS.)

People who have no concept of how to use an apostrophe, so precede every "s" with one just to be on the safe side. "If you want to borrow this book, go to the library, they have lot's of book's there." If you don't know how to use an apostrophe and can't be bothered to find out, please, just don't use it, ever.

"Legos" as a pluralisation of "Lego." HULK SMASH.


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 1:27 pm
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I had my urethra reemed out in 2003. I know exactly what that means!


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 1:27 pm
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WTF does hash-tag effing mean??

its air quotes for people who've lost the use of their arms


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 1:28 pm
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I had my urethra reemed out in 2003. I know exactly what that means!

Docking?


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 1:29 pm
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ITYM "ream".

Reem is something from 'the only way is Essex'. Fuctifino what it means.


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 1:29 pm
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Regular (portion of chips, coffee etc)
this is another one that boils my p1ss - what is so god damned wrong with saying something is small for christ's sake

Well, regular isn't small, is it? Three sizes, small, regular and large.

Simple, hun. Now let's go and get a grande hot wet skinny latte with hazelnut and cinnamon.


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 1:50 pm
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Oh, oh,

Sales that advertise "up to 20% off". Meaningless, whatever you save, it'll be no more than 20%. You might save 20%, you might save nothing at all, that's still "up to" 20%. Grr.


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 1:55 pm
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what is so god damned wrong with saying something is small for christ's sake

Moreover, the absence of "small" as an option; you can have regular, large, or super.


 
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so what's the plural of Lego?


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 2:03 pm
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so what's the plural of Lego?

Duplo!


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 2:08 pm
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The plural of Lego is Lego. Like sheep.

Or, if you want to be really correct, "Lego bricks."


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 2:15 pm
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Legii

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Posted : 02/12/2012 2:15 pm
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Like sheep.

In my mind 'sheep' is like 'cattle'

A cow, a bull, a calf - a herd of cattle

A ram, a ewe, a little lambikins - a flock sheep


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 2:20 pm
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well, that's me learned. Literallly! anyways up, I call a multiple of sheep SHEEPS. SO SWIVLE ON IT!


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 2:21 pm
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A field of sheep.

A box of Lego.


 
Posted : 02/12/2012 2:22 pm
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A shower of *****


 
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