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"Influencers."
I know this is low-hanging fruit but bear with me.
There was a lass on one of these doctory programmes on TV yesterday evening. She'd gone for a malaria vaccination or some such. Made a fuss about how much she hated needles, insisted on filming the whole process on her phone. There was a "still to come" clip of her on a previous episode, I thought she was in childbirth.
It's Cult of Celebrity only without the celebrity. People jumping on YouTube to watch these narcissists when they could watch it on national television.
See also, "reaction" videos, monetising someone else's original content by going "ooh!" and "ah!" over the top of it.
Therefore ‘are’ doesn’t feel right.
Whether it "feels" right is neither here nor there. Plenty of English grammar is counterintuitive.
Would you say "Tesco are selling apples..." or "Tesco is selling apples..."? The former sounds right but the latter are right.
Fiddling about with clocks.
I wish you wouldn't do that...
Oh, clocks. Sorry.
Having just driven 490 miles to Inverness, I'm going to nominate people who refuse to use their cruise control. Gits.
People calling tasting menus “taster” menus.
See also, “reaction” videos
See also 'unboxing videos' on youtube..
Nice bit of protective foam in this one, but dissapointed at the quality of the vac-wrap plastic... etc..
The product either arrived intact or not!
“Influencers.”
Don’t get me started on them! There must be an isolated island somewhere where the influencers can be put once they’ve all been rounded up, with its own intranet where they can influence each other. If ever there was a subset of humanity that can genuinely be regarded as utterly useless, they’re it.
Pubs called Eating Houses.
Get tae ****
A place near me on the Fosseway that calls itself a 'lifestyle emporium'
Is it even possible to be more Juan Key? Why don't they just say, shit you don't need?
This has ensured that I will never, ever, ever enter this place. Awful.
Would you say “Tesco are selling apples…” or “Tesco is selling apples…”?
The latter, obviously.
On which subject, people who call the place Tescos make me (a bit) cross too. My SIL, before she moved away from Reading, insisted she worked at Asdas. Nope.
Would you say “Tesco are selling apples…” or “Tesco is selling apples…”?
What if the apple seller is Sainsbury's? Sainsbury's's selling apples?
Would you say “Tesco are selling apples…” or “Tesco is selling apples…”? The former sounds right but the latter are right.
I think both is right. Tesco are both a single entity and a group of people.
‘lifestyle emporium’ = pulling weeds out of the gravel 24/7/365
people who call the place Tescos make me (a bit) cross too.
Tesco's, obvs. This is almost forgivable, it's a store belonging to Tesco.
How do you feel about "the doctor/s/'s/s'"
I think both is right. Tesco
areis both a single entity and a group of people.
FTFY.
"Tesco" is a company, it is a single entity. You wouldn't say that "my train are arriving shortly" because there's a group of people onboard. This is almost the Lego argument. The groups are Tesco's employees or Tesco's stores.
What's cruise control? Stopping yourself stopping off at your local badger watching place? I don't have one but do use the A9. Shall I go to Hell?
Oh and the apostrophe - a seemingly random device to make writing harder (see also "guess the vowel" and "how many letters?"
apo’strophe?
The thing with the apostrophe is,
If you don't know how to use it - and it's really not difficult - then why not just leave it out? A missing apostrophe is far preferable to just randomly sticking them in words. "isnt" is better than "is'nt."
Isn't dream't a contraction of dreamed? (I'm really the wrong person to ask mind. Left to my own devices I'd have double letters in there somewhere)
Tyson fury getting that decision
Isn’t dream’t a contraction of dreamed?
No.
Dreamt is British English, Dreamed is US English, though either are considered acceptable. Dream't is just gibberish.
The forum not showing my replies that it seems to have accepted.
I think both is right. Tesco are both a single entity and a group of people.
Wrong.
Tesco is not a group of people?
If the big Tesco and the little one down the road are selling apples, then Tescos are indeed, selling apples 😁
Tesco is selling apples from two of its stores. Or if you prefer, two Tesco stores are selling apples.
I was thinking about this earlier (because I'm a sad sack). If you were visiting your sister you might say "I'm going to my sister's." Then we hear the cry of every apostrophe pedant everywhere: "your sister's what?" However, 'her house' is clearly implied here. Saying "I'm going to my sister" would be weird, it sounds like you're going to attend to her somehow.
So by turns is it not correct to say "I'm going to Tesco's" because it is implied that you mean Tesco's store? "Tescos" is as wrong as Legos (where the correct plural is Lego bricks).
Maybe. 😁
Wasn't it dreampt, or did I dream that up*?
*rhetorical question as I can use the internet.
The Post Office scandal.
If the big Tesco and the little one down the road are selling apples, then Tescos are indeed, selling apples
*Tescoes.
*Tescoe's ?
I’m not sure you can be disproportionately cross about the Post Office scandal. Rage at least is completely reasonable. And despair.
Agreed.
People who say 24/7/365
****ing stupid arseholes. What the **** is it supposed to mean. 24 hours a day seven days a week for 7 years and 1 week?
Does anyone know if there’s been a thread on the Post Office scandal?
People who are bad at elocution, but pedantic with maths.
Did something happen at the post office?
@mattyfez you could say that.
The Post Office, and there really is no other way to describe this, extorted money from hundreds, possibly thousands, of sub-post masters, wrongfully dismissed at least a few hundred of them, and wrongfully convicted and sent to jail a significant proportion of those.
Then it lied and obfuscated to cover it up.
So far, no one at the Post Office has been held responsible for it.
People who say 24/7/365
* stupid arseholes. What the * is it supposed to mean. 24 hours a day seven days a week for 7 years and 1 week?
I thought it was just me. I've mentioned it to work colleagues and they looked at me like I'd got two heads. Who ever coined it originally was an idiot.
Sounds like a job for Kevin Costner.
As a nurse I am constantly infuriated to epic levels by other nurses; who put empty medication strips back into boxes, don't replace medication after using the last one, don't remove the information leaflet and continue to insist on ramming the strip back into the box so the box crumples and doesn't fit neatly back into its allocated space on the trolley, start dispenscing from multiple strips of medication, put boxes back in the trolley with the labels facing down so you can't see what they are, don't put medication alphabetically in the stock cupboard, don't write the expiry date on the outside facing end so you don't have to take them all out to check, don't wipe bottles after using them so the next person picks up a gunky bottle.....
And not forgetting people who don't select the option for a link opening in a seperate tab on internet forums!
Apple seemed to take it personally when they were asked to switch from lightning to usb-C connectors.
If my Apple Watch is anything to go by, the charging units couple to a usb-C connector at the other end, too.
And here’s the rub. Most usb chargers still only include a usb-A (female) charging point.
Imagine the dismay on GBO’s face*, unboxing apples new treasure, only to find out that, for the fancy induction charger to work, he’d have to order some usb-A to C adapters.
These adapters probably cost pennies to produce, but are worth £££ in goodwill alone, if included in the purchase.
A lack of foresight on apples part, or just spite?
Smilairly, Apple have been shouting down people’s iPhones to upgrade their Wi-Fi routers to WPA 3 protocol.
Not many in this the uk, as CV of yet.
They could have announced a switch to this new protocol, and then cornered the market…
Overall, I’m impressed when the Apple Watch, even though it he UI is about ten years behind the curve.
id stock up in these, just to avoid any potential tears at Xmas/ win over your neighbours 😉😉😉
* the horror, the horror…
*Tescoe’s ?
Jack Cohen was a grocer originally, wasn't he? So that would really take it back to its roots.
Sorry, it's root's.
On a medical ‘tip’, surely with the vast laundry services within hospitals, it would be more hygienic for the staff to change into scrubs within the hospital, rather than wearing them everywhere.`
they should be. Its a disciplinary offense to wear uniform outside of hospitals / workplaces ( bar district nurses)
*Tescoes.
I wondered this. But then, if you had more than one rhino you'd say "rhinos" rather than "rhinoes." I'm not sure what the rule is here exactly.
Apple seemed to take it personally when they were asked to switch from lightning to usb-C connectors.
I always found it a bit weird that Apple had the 40-pin thing when they were part of the USB Consortium who standardised mini/micro USB over proprietary chargers for mobile devices in the first place.
I wondered this. But then, if you had more than one rhino you’d say “rhinos” rather than “rhinoes
You'd still say rhino.
As in, 'look yonder at that flock of rhino', or 'behold, a herd of rhinoceros'
Just like you'd say, 'oh look, a deer', Or maybe, 'look Margaret, a herd of deer'.
I find it hard to believe that one would describe a herd of rhinos as a "flock."
I just googled it (along with the plural, it is rhinos) and apparently the collective noun is a crash of rhinos. This makes me happy.
I just googled it (along with the plural, it is rhinos) and apparently the collective noun is a crash of rhinos.
Yeah. Confirmation bias innit.
It's either I would wager.
standardised mini/micro USB
Bloody awful, fiddly, fragile little things.
The move to type-c connectors was where one physical connector for everything began to make sense.
I’m currently out of the office now
🤦🏻
I always found it a bit weird that Apple had the 40-pin thing when they were part of the USB Consortium who standardised mini/micro USB over proprietary chargers for mobile devices in the first place.
all about profits. If they have their own proprietary cable then they can sell them at high prices.
I only get cross about shopping trolleys abandoned in the cycling bays so meh!
Kayak, is that in Tescoe's's
People proudly posting pictures on SM with the horizon not level and morons queueing up to say "what a beautiful picture" when all I can see is the sea trying to all run down to one side. One this morning was cropped so that the sea intersected the bottom of the frame making it double obvious. Even the BBC did it last week.
Edit: deletedmoronic post about bad weather and bad forecasts.
The sea of (Halloween) tat,soon to be heading for landfill.
People with zero skills or imagination,that pay to have contractors decorate their garden (with lots of tat),in the desperate hope they can win a prize.
The sea of (Halloween) tat,soon to be heading for landfill.
On top of that, the colossal volume of viable food (pumpkins) grown on huge areas of land and shipped across continents using millions of tonnes of fossil fuel, for no purpose other than to slowly rot on a doorstep, then be binned and rot down in landfill.
The sea of (Halloween) tat,soon to be heading for landfill.
the trick is go and forage for sustainable Halloween goodies. I found a wonderful woodland site, where, with a bit of digging you can get an organic, locally sourced skeleton, with a minimal carbon footprint, that can be used to scare the kids and then ground down to add nutrients to my veg patch
Meh, we just use the previous year’s trick or treaters.
Aye reeksy,but (in a few ways) you're not like a lot of folk 😉 😂
People who park in disabled bays when they clearly aren't. I just tell myself that they are clearly mentally disabled, which makes me feel better 🙂
Ditto people who park in parent/child bays, without child.
People who inch forwards over the line bit by bit when stopped at a red light. What on earth it accomplishes apart from wasting fuel I have no idea. Also those who feel the need to move forwards in a queue of traffic when a space opens up in front half a car length long.
Drivers who stop in the cycle box at the lights.
Cyclists who stop 6' the other side of the cycle box, despite the box being empty.
"I will stop at the lights, but I will stop just the other side of the line, to show that I'm above the rules. I know it doesn't benefit me in any way whatsoever, but I just like to advertise to all and sundry that I'm a d..."
Fog. Nothing drives me more mad than drivers in fog, whether it's those with no lights in thick fog, or those with fog lights blazing away when there's a slight mist and 200 yards visibility.
People are so brainless re. car lights! It's like they think night = lights, day = no lights and that's all there is to it. Thick snow heavy clouds pouring rain and fog all at once? But it's 2pm, I don't need lights! Morons.
So many examples where just a little bit of common sense or human decency is required. Makes me furious and despairing in equal measure. It's just on the roads where you see it most obviously.
Boggles my mind how people don't mind behaving like this in public. I mean, I get that some people are selfish, lazy and arrogant. But why advertise it? Little things like leaving your shopping trolley in the middle of a parking bay, or parking in disabled areas, is basically just sticking a giant sign on your forehead saying "I am a selfish, lazy and arrogant cockwomble! Look at me!"
...
I need another coffee.
People are so brainless re. car lights!
Folks driving at night with no lights on, cos their DRLs are on.
Oh, and auto-fudging-correct on mobiles.
People who park in disabled bays when they clearly aren’t. I just tell myself that they are clearly mentally disabled, which makes me feel better
Some disabilities are not visible. Able to walk short distances but not long ones is common for example.
so what makes me angry is folk judging others without all the info
🙂
Some disabilities are not visible. Able to walk short distances but not long ones is common for example.
so what makes me angry is folk judging others without all the info
I am well aware of this and try not to always judge. But they'd have a blue badge, no?
When Mr Cool and his friends rock up in his Golf or BMW and pop into Tescoe's for his daily Red Bull or whatever, this is what gets my goat. Generalisations aside, my point is that sometimes it's just obvious.
People who park in disabled bays when they clearly aren’t. I just tell myself that they are clearly mentally disabled, which makes me feel better 🙂
I've often thought, "if you wish to park in this bay and aren't disabled, please notify Big Clive at reception where a disablement will be provided with our compliments."
Ditto people who park in parent/child bays, without child.
I've less of an issue with this. "Parent and Child badges" aren't a thing. Rather it's a symptom of poor car park layout. Because, why are they there?
Because they afford wider spaces? Why not just make all the spaces wider? Cars are getting bigger all the time, parking bays are not and driving isn't improving either. Granted this isn't always practical if the carpark is perpetually rammed but eg Tesco Accrington's car park is huge and three-quarters empty. Even on the run-up to Christmas it never remotely troubles getting filled up. (Aside, there must easily be 20 disabled bays, on a busy day there's about three in use.)
Because they're closer to the door? Well, why do they need to be? What's needed there surely is safe passage across the car park with pedestrian walkways and crossings, rather than just minimising the distance they have to run the gauntlet. At the aforementioned Tesco there's a walkway front-to-back from the door to get to your chosen row but even with all that space there's no way of getting across the rows without walking in traffic.
I've parked in P&C bays before now, meeting the criterion as I was with my mum. Before you all reach for the torches, she was recovering from a stroke and couldn't walk very far so I make no apologies for this. I wonder how readers might feel if I'd parked in a supermarket disabled bay without a blue badge despite her clearly being disabled? There's no provision made for this scenario.
Where / which trust? I’ve never been told that. Are you talking about nursing uniforms or theatre scrubs?
Both. they should never be warn outside and its a disciplinary offense to do so. Disregarded in some trusts but its there. You should never wear your uniform outside of work. Two main reasons - one is infection control and the other is that it can place you in an awkward position if someone has a medical issue while you are in uniform outside - professional accountability
Edit - checked the NMC guidance and its just that - not mandatory but its clear that they want you not to wear uniforms outside of work. Its certainly disciplinary to wear uniforms outside of work in Lothianand I think NHS scotland wide
I’ve less of an issue with this. “Parent and Child badges” aren’t a thing. Rather it’s a symptom of poor car park layout. Because, why are they there?
Because if you can reel in a (hard working) FAMBILY with a parking spot you will retain them and they will spend thousands of pounds over a lifetime
Microsoft.
If I wanted to open spreadsheets or documents in teams or SharePoint I would uninstall Word and Excel!
The design of the tank on the new Royal Enfield Himalayan 450
People who think prefixing their opinion on something with 'as a mother' automatically bestows them with unique wisdom, gravitas and insight.
The design of the tank on the new Royal Enfield Himalayan 450
It's not obvious from the picture, what's the issue?