- Location
- London
you had me at “watching CNBC in my hotel room” but yeah…
NWR Silly Little Things That Annoy You
- Thread starter Adam Holland
- Start date
- Location
- East Cambs
Surely you could care less.
- Location
- Staining
Brave bringing this to pedants’ corner! You might have a recurring itch along with a reoccurring bout of syphilis. One being more regular than the other, thankfully.
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- England
As in it was the tv channel that came on when I switched the tv on. That did not reoccur.
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- England
You’re assuming facts not in evidence ie that the usage reflected that distinction…
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- Manchester
Ditto the 2nd "o" in pronounciation, and the 3rd "i" in mischievious.
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- Manchester
But this isn't "pedants corner" it's "silly little things that annoy you".
Pedantry can be annoying too, depending of course on whether it comes from me or not
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- London, England
One of the silly things that annoy me is the increased likelihood of typos occurring when pointing out something incorrect that I am pedantically correcting...
Tom Cannavan
Administrator
Has anyone ever - ever - had a satisfactory solution to a customer complaint resulting directly from a 'conversaation' with a chatbot? If this is the level of 'AI' currently, yet it is being deployed widely, god help us.
By him nicer food, perhaps?
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- Scotland
However long it is, remember to multiply by 9.
- Location
- Scotland
Being asked to review a purchase even if it was only purchased a day or two before, and sometimes not even arrived.
I bought some razor blades from Boots and within two days I was asked to review them. I couldn't even just give it the required stars and leave, I also had to leave a comment. Normally I would quit but this time I left a comment "just got them. Not used yet. I hope they're sharp".
The next day I got an email saying my comment had been moderated and they were sorry that they couldn't post it but I could rewrite it if I wanted to. And I wonder why I lose the will to live.
I bought some razor blades from Boots and within two days I was asked to review them. I couldn't even just give it the required stars and leave, I also had to leave a comment. Normally I would quit but this time I left a comment "just got them. Not used yet. I hope they're sharp".
The next day I got an email saying my comment had been moderated and they were sorry that they couldn't post it but I could rewrite it if I wanted to. And I wonder why I lose the will to live.
- Location
- Manchester
I suspect the deployer of the bots reach a satisfactory solution most of the time.
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- London, Europe
I once complained to Netflix about a programme that appeared on my 5 year olds (at the time) recommended tv programme. It was about people dying in wierd ways - one of which was a woman sufficating a man in her ample bussom. The other was getting his stomach ripped out my a nail. I had a nice chat with a lovely lady on the t'interweb.... and only realised several months later that I was talking to a computer.
My boy loved the programme by the way.
- Location
- London
Attaboy!
- Location
- Birmingham
Summer’s arrived in suburbia when the ice cream vans start coming round with their banal tunes.
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- London, Europe
The pavlovian response to the ice cream jingle is still there even though I am in my 50s. Memories of being on a dodgy council estate in Lincolnshire in 1976 floods back!!
- Location
- Manchester
Similarly, it always makes me smile when people talk about their lovely wife, or Geoffrey Archer's fragrant one.
But maybe this is the wrong thread for these comments.
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- East Cambs
One's an irony and one's an axiom.
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- England
When you’re trying to finish a movie on a plane and they insist on cutting off the programme to give multiple utterly pointless announcements in multiple languages. Seriously, just shut up already and let me finish my movie before we land!!!!
- Location
- London
This is why ipads were invented! With the additional benefit that if you have Airpods or Airpods max, you get this directional effect which is just awesome.
- Location
- London
'100%'.
- Location
- Lillehammer
"In and out of". Surely, it's "into and out of".
- Location
- Manchester
Hmmm... interesting... not necessarily.
"I fell in and out of love" = "I fell in love, and fell out of love". You don't fall into love.
"They were in and out of each others' houses" = "They were in each others' houses, and out of each others' houses".
"The car was in and out of tunnels all day" = "The car was variously in tunnels, and out of tunnels all day."
But "The car drove into and out of the tunnel" refers to the entering and leaving events, not the various locations of the car. In that meaning "in and out of" is not so good, but you might hear it.
(I've been spending too much time on language forums recently)
- Location
- Lillehammer
Steve, we're talking movement in both directions.