Paid Members Jazzy G Posted November 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted November 4, 2018 1 hour ago, SuperBacon said: "I wonder if any of my friends will be BRAVE enough to share this if you think BRITISH history should be taught in schools AGAIN!!!" Teenagers getting warts and all descriptions of all the atrocities we carried out during our Empire building days? Yeah,that'd be well received at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members TheBurningRed Posted November 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted November 4, 2018 Once Remembrance Day is out of the way next week, we get to move on from the poppy police and on to people claiming Muslims are trying to ban Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted November 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted November 4, 2018 36 minutes ago, gmoney said: The new definition of literally meaning an exaggeration is in the OED now, so it's probably not going away any time soon. Language evolves. Disgusting, that. Word might as well be dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CavemanLynn Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 An odd one that I hope can explain - when you're waiting patiently for a gap in the traffic to cross the road, and then that last car in the queue stops to wave you across. I know they're trying to be nice, but all it does is make me feel awkward that they're unnecessarily holding themselves up when both of us would have been on our way quicker if they'd just driven on. It also usually leads to the will-you-won't-you game where I wave at you to go, you wave at me to go, then I step out into the road and you start driving, so I stop, and you stop, and so on, and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted November 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted November 4, 2018 9 minutes ago, CavemanLynn said: An odd one that I hope can explain - when you're waiting patiently for a gap in the traffic to cross the road, and then that last car in the queue stops to wave you across. Â Yes. I have one at bus stops at rush hour where I've just disembarked and I want to cross the road. Occasionally the still-parked bus will flash for me to cross before he pulls off. OK dickhead, except I cant see the cars that are about to come around you and potentially hit me, or if the road behind you is clear. I need you to fuck off so I actually can look both ways before crossing. Probably look ungrateful or ignorant ignoring the driver's signal, which I hate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted November 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted November 4, 2018 55 minutes ago, air_raid said: Disgusting, that. Word might as well be dead. Not really, there are other words that mean essentially the opposite of itself (sanction, splice, bolt) we just happened to be around when this one developed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted November 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted November 4, 2018 (edited) 26 minutes ago, gmoney said: Not really, there are other words that mean essentially the opposite of itself (sanction, splice, bolt) we just happened to be around when this one developed. If literally no longer has to mean literally, how does the person specify that that's actually what they mean without further clarification? It's rendering the word meaningless. Absolutely horrible. If someone uses "literally" in the workplace for instance I.e. number of tasks outstanding, how long something's "literally" going to take them, I take that at face value. Now I'm going to have to waste time checking they're not being a contrary prick, saying literally when they don't mean it. There is another meaning to splice other than join? EDIT - Never mind. Dutch. Edited November 4, 2018 by air_raid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted November 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted November 4, 2018 1 minute ago, air_raid said: If literally no longer has to mean literally, how does the person specify that that's actually what they mean without further clarification? It's rendering the word meaningless. Absolutely horrible. If someone uses "literally" in the workplace for instance I.e. number of tasks outstanding, how long something's "literally" going to take them, I take that at face value. Now I'm going to have to waste time checking they're not being a contrary prick, saying literally when they don't mean it. Context, and interaction. Quote There is another meaning to splice other than join? To split. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted November 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted November 4, 2018 6 minutes ago, gmoney said: Context, and interaction. "I've got literally hundreds of emails to get through." Every time I hear that, I've got to ask them if it's accurate or exaggeration. Awful. Word is redundant and we have to stop thinking Jamie Redknapp is an imbecile for using it wrongly and just let him. Stop the world, I want to get off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members stumobir Posted November 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted November 4, 2018 15 hours ago, W35ty said: The poppy police. Wondering what this fella’s take on white poppies would be.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted November 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted November 4, 2018 12 minutes ago, air_raid said: "I've got literally hundreds of emails to get through." Every time I hear that, I've got to ask them if it's accurate or exaggeration. Do they think you're autistic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armitage Shanks Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 9 hours ago, jazzygeofferz said: A variation on this is when people announce they're leaving a group online and then wait around to see how everybody reacts. I'm off lads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 People, normally the Scotch, who type and spell in their accent. Gae ya heed a wobble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted November 4, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted November 4, 2018 (edited) People using" he's" instead of his. I don't know whether it's an etymological thing, but it just never looks right. My sisters and nieces do it all the time. Edited November 4, 2018 by jazzygeofferz Proofreading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Blog Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 Pursuit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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