Grumpy old men

Stupidity.

People that are incapable of typing "Ebay" and "Paypal"!

JIm

What annoys me ? The BBC, which i refuse to watch anymore, with most other channels. They became a lecturing, preachy, pc, pain in the fundament !

I to will not watch the BBC. Also being preached at about things that happened two hundred years ago. And it should be all lives matter .

Bob

It's best practice to define the acronym the first time you use it. I don't want to repeatedly read 'Quick Change Tool Post' multiple times in a paragraph when QCTP does the same job.

"on a journey, life chances,going forward etc, and all the people on tv interviews by zoom etc who park themselves in front of bookcases with a million books they have probably never read, is this to show that they must be much wiser than the peasantry?

Mick 🇫🇴

Basically its use your loaf

Bob

Oh, and lessons will be learn't !! and to ensure this will never happen again

Mick 🇫🇴

Like many others, one thing that annoys me is the progressive corruption of the English language by those too lazy to use it correctly, usually news presenters and tv journalists.

My top hates are: 'compared to' and 'different to' (Aarrrrgh) which should be 'compared with' and 'different from', vunnerable instead of vulnerable, 'coop' instead of 'coupe' (pronounced 'coopay' when describing a 2-door car, and beginning every sentence with 'So' as others have previously mentioned.

SillOldDuffer, ( Do Australians still think Sellotape (transparent adhesive tape) is called Durex? ). No, Durex tape is long gone. Common name, simply sticky tape.

Paul.

NUCLEAR methinks! ..

Pedantry.

Grumps.

Pedantic grumps.

🤣

People who start a sentence with so. So I bought a whatever...... So I have a problem.......

+1 for that.

It really irritates me

.... whereas when they mostly have, and do other things too, they might look more like this:-

I have enjoyed reading this, I agree with almost every example cited. One that gets me going is the use of to when they mean also!, It should be too!!!

I am also guilty of embarrassing my daughter when she says 'can I get'. I always suggest that she goes around the counter to serve herself. She must hate me.

I think that it is a losing battle, the language is changing. How many shops still sell produce in pounds? How long ago was it that we went metric? How many people here still use inches instead of the much better metric system? Move on!

Edited By norman valentine on 11/10/2020 13:30:42

Tv programs with what will happen in the next part. Very annoying if it’s say part 4 of 6 drama series and it’s a critical point with the story line hanging. If it’s been watched fir this long, why do I need to know what’s next

In a similar vein previews and reviews before and after adverts , is this a way of expanding material to fill the the actual time needed?

Advert intervals which are not 4 mins it makes the time jump on playback trying..... Esp when sometimes it’s only 2 mins.....we never watch things live, saves hours of time a week.....

mr x has apologised/ will not apologise for events which took place years and if not decades ago

dog poo hanging in trees how do they get it up there?
autocorrect on my iPad, and a capital letter at the start of any word you (one) edits
Typing fir not for

not noting down numbers in correct order. Causes mayhem and frustration when parts are too small or too big 2.358” needed, but 2.385” Made , but that’s a silly old git problem Grrrrrrr capital letter!!!

If you pronounce 'NUclear' instead of 'NEWclear' it sounds like you have a blocked nose.

Folloing on from Perk's comment in a post above I find a lot of people are not good at understanding when it should be the 'above post' (whiich it shouldn't be in this case) and more often as emails put the new contribution at the top referring to the 'below post'.

Edited By Bazyle on 11/10/2020 13:53:45

Hi, another thing that gets me is mobile photos/videos shown on TV that people have taken in portrait mode, and they show it with the same image split either side blurred, the video ones are so confusing the watch and I just have to look away, I just don't understand why they do it. of course if people take photos/videos in the proper mode.......

Regards Nick.

Senior citizens who reject Political Correctness but can't stand being called a Boomer, Wrinkly, or Coffin Dodger!