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Post by TallPaul on May 21, 2021 8:24:08 GMT
I always use Arial for my personal letters.
And no trip to Nottingham is complete without a trip to the pea stall in the market...for a bowl of mushy and mint sauce.
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Post by david on May 21, 2021 15:36:38 GMT
I always use Arial for my personal letters. And no trip to Nottingham is complete without a trip to the pea stall in the market...for a bowl of mushy and mint sauce. Mushy peas and mint sauce TallPaul? Now that’s a good combination I would never have dreamt up in a million years!
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Post by Jon on May 21, 2021 18:52:07 GMT
Multiple emojis whether it is in messages or forums, I don't mind someone using one emoji but multiple is too much.
On the same note, anyone who uses text speak on forums. Can't bear it!
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Post by Dawnstar on May 21, 2021 20:31:15 GMT
Multiple emojis whether it is in messages or forums, I don't mind someone using one emoji but multiple is too much. Especially when messages are nothing but a string of emojis. I only understand what a few emojis mean so have no idea what someone is saying when there's a message with dozens of them.
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Post by kathryn on May 21, 2021 22:01:39 GMT
😱😡😤😔😕🤨🙂😘😁
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Post by david on May 21, 2021 22:38:25 GMT
Pineapple chunks are a great pizza topping.
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Post by The Matthew on May 22, 2021 4:34:12 GMT
Multiple emojis whether it is in messages or forums It's particularly bad when someone blind is using screen reading software, because many — possibly all — of them read out the full name of each emoji in turn. The sender may think twenty smileys shows how happy they are but the recipient hearing "beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes beaming face with smiling eyes" will be far from happy.
Although you can actually send someone "badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom".
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Post by Dawnstar on May 22, 2021 11:39:55 GMT
Um... horrified screaming, ?angry, no idea, no idea, unhappy, no idea, happy, no idea, very happy.
I've just read another of my pet hates on the BBC's website "off of". Just "off" is sufficient.
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Post by kathryn on May 22, 2021 13:33:16 GMT
Um... horrified screaming, ?angry, no idea, no idea, unhappy, no idea, happy, no idea, very happy.
I've just read another of my pet hates on the BBC's website "off of". Just "off" is sufficient.
I read it as ‘shock, horror!’, ‘angry!’, ‘blowing off angry steam’, ‘dejected’, ‘sad’, ‘quizzical’, ‘happy’, ‘blowing a kiss’’, ‘laugh’. But of course it depends how your device renders the images - they will look different in different operating systems. And the overall sentiment was that I was lightly teasing you!
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Post by Dawnstar on May 22, 2021 16:31:56 GMT
I read it as ‘shock, horror!’, ‘angry!’, ‘blowing off angry steam’, ‘dejected’, ‘sad’, ‘quizzical’, ‘happy’, ‘blowing a kiss’’, ‘laugh’. But of course it depends how your device renders the images - they will look different in different operating systems. And the overall sentiment was that I was lightly teasing you!
I had a year or two where I could only see emojis displayed on Twitter when looking at it from my phone. On my laptop they just showed up as crosses. Not that that made much difference to my comprehension of most of them!
Having Asperger's, I'm not very good at "reading" teasing either!
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Post by anthony40 on May 22, 2021 17:00:03 GMT
Can somebody in this country please pronounce my name correctly- it's AnTHony! Not Antony!
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Post by alece10 on May 22, 2021 17:17:35 GMT
Can somebody in this country please pronounce my name correctly- it's AnTHony! Not Antony! God I think I'm guilty of mispronouning your name. Sorry.
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Post by theatreian on May 22, 2021 17:21:08 GMT
I think most British say Antony. There was a drama recently called The Disappearance where a boy called Anthony disappeared. He was pronounced Anthony with a th.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 22, 2021 17:22:08 GMT
Can somebody in this country please pronounce my name correctly- it's AnTHony! Not Antony! I pronounce it correctly! 😕
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Post by The Matthew on May 22, 2021 18:20:51 GMT
I think most British say Antony. My family does, but we spell it with a "th".
On the subject of names: People who see a foreign-looking name and instead of asking how to pronounce it will simply pick a different but similar name and call the person that name from then on. Bonus points if they insist they have it right and try to correct that person about their own name.
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Post by sfsusan on May 22, 2021 19:09:58 GMT
people start posting stuff about there being “another angel in heaven.” Somewhat related, people who celebrate the "heavenly birthdays" of deceased loved ones. About name pronunciations... in the US, I've never heard Anthony pronounced 'Antony' and it took me a while to realize that people in the UK were saying the same name. (It was while watching The Crown and hearing about 'Antony Armstrong Jones'.) But the last name I find interesting is "Davies"... in America it would be pronounced 'Daveees', and in the UK it seems to be mostly pronounced as 'Davis'.
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Post by TallPaul on May 23, 2021 14:37:30 GMT
What's with this trend for TV presenters to do a piece to camera by not doing a piece to camera?
I've been enjoying Saved by a Stranger on BBC2, but Anita Rani is always talking to someone in the distance who we never see.
Just look straight down the lense!
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Post by marob on May 23, 2021 14:56:09 GMT
What's with this trend for TV presenters to do a piece to camera by not doing a piece to camera? I've been enjoying Saved by a Stranger on BBC2, but Anita Rani is always talking to someone in the distance who we never see. Just look straight down the lense! You see the opposite happen a lot on the news when the reporter talks directly to the camera while taking no notice of the thing they’re supposed to be reporting on, which is still unfolding behind them.
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Post by johartuk on May 23, 2021 15:01:22 GMT
A few weeks late for this but it annoys the hell out of me that most Easter eggs now come with their halves welded together instead of simply falling neatly into two sections so I have to bash them on a table until they shatter and then I'm left with loads of differently-sized fragments that make it nearly impossible to judge how much of it is half an egg and they don't fit back in the packaging in any useful way and you can't wrap them up in the foil without the jagged edges sticking through so I end up eating about three quarters of the egg in one sitting instead of saving half for tomorrow like I intended and then there's only quarter of an egg left and it doesn't seem like it's worth saving that so I finish it off and then I don't have anything left of the egg for the next day so I have to start my next egg a day early and all I want is for eggs to be the eggs I remember from my childhood, dammit. This reminds me of something that really bugged me as a youngster, when I first became aware of Terry's chocolate oranges. The TV advert claimed that all you had to do to separate the segments was to gently tap the wrapped chocolate citrus fruit against the nearest table/chair arm/wall and all the segments would magically separate. They didn't! In reality, chocolate oranges were like rocks - in order to at least try to make a dent in the thing, you had to repeatedly bash it against the nearest table/chair arm/wall! That was when I first learned that TV adverts don't always give an accurate representation of the product!
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Post by alece10 on May 23, 2021 16:23:12 GMT
A few weeks late for this but it annoys the hell out of me that most Easter eggs now come with their halves welded together instead of simply falling neatly into two sections so I have to bash them on a table until they shatter and then I'm left with loads of differently-sized fragments that make it nearly impossible to judge how much of it is half an egg and they don't fit back in the packaging in any useful way and you can't wrap them up in the foil without the jagged edges sticking through so I end up eating about three quarters of the egg in one sitting instead of saving half for tomorrow like I intended and then there's only quarter of an egg left and it doesn't seem like it's worth saving that so I finish it off and then I don't have anything left of the egg for the next day so I have to start my next egg a day early and all I want is for eggs to be the eggs I remember from my childhood, dammit. This reminds me of something that really bugged me as a youngster, when I first became aware of Terry's chocolate oranges. The TV advert claimed that all you had to do to separate the segments was to gently tap the wrapped chocolate citrus fruit against the nearest table/chair arm/wall and all the segments would magically separate. They didn't! In reality, chocolate oranges were like rocks - in order to at least try to make a dent in the thing, you had to repeatedly bash it against the nearest table/chair arm/wall! That was when I first learned that TV adverts don't always give an accurate representation of the product! So true. And the slogan was "tap it, unwrap it".
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Post by poster J on May 23, 2021 17:03:55 GMT
A few weeks late for this but it annoys the hell out of me that most Easter eggs now come with their halves welded together instead of simply falling neatly into two sections so I have to bash them on a table until they shatter and then I'm left with loads of differently-sized fragments that make it nearly impossible to judge how much of it is half an egg and they don't fit back in the packaging in any useful way and you can't wrap them up in the foil without the jagged edges sticking through so I end up eating about three quarters of the egg in one sitting instead of saving half for tomorrow like I intended and then there's only quarter of an egg left and it doesn't seem like it's worth saving that so I finish it off and then I don't have anything left of the egg for the next day so I have to start my next egg a day early and all I want is for eggs to be the eggs I remember from my childhood, dammit. This reminds me of something that really bugged me as a youngster, when I first became aware of Terry's chocolate oranges. The TV advert claimed that all you had to do to separate the segments was to gently tap the wrapped chocolate citrus fruit against the nearest table/chair arm/wall and all the segments would magically separate. They didn't! In reality, chocolate oranges were like rocks - in order to at least try to make a dent in the thing, you had to repeatedly bash it against the nearest table/chair arm/wall! That was when I first learned that TV adverts don't always give an accurate representation of the product! In my family we decided that the only way to open a Terry's Chocolate Orange is to drop it on the floor (while still in the wrapper, obviously).
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Post by peggs on May 23, 2021 18:18:47 GMT
Oh if you apply lots of pressure they then fracture sending bits flying everywhere.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 23, 2021 19:29:41 GMT
If you just eat it like an apple this isn’t an issue.
(Just me then? 😏)
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Post by Deal J on May 24, 2021 10:57:47 GMT
Multiple emojis whether it is in messages or forums [...]
Although you can actually send someone "badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom".
Aghh! Snake! A Snake! ohhhhhh a Snake!
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Post by theglenbucklaird on May 24, 2021 14:18:06 GMT
People who say 'like' fifteen times in a sentence. Like, can't you, like, string a normal sentence together, like? I thought this one until I heard the Italian Eurovision winners interviewed and she used like multiple times a sentence. What a way to learn another language?
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Post by lynette on May 24, 2021 16:24:12 GMT
It’s like a nervous tick, done without awareness.
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Post by peggs on May 24, 2021 17:33:41 GMT
If you just eat it like an apple this isn’t an issue. (Just me then? 😏) I fear my teeth would shatter!
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Post by kathryn on May 25, 2021 8:13:02 GMT
It’s like a nervous tick, done without awareness. Seriously, everyone uses ‘filler’ word when they speak. Everyone! You just don’t realise you are doing it unless you record yourself in conversation and listen back. And ‘like’ often does add semantic meaning - indicating approximation or paraphrasing (‘she was like, OMG!’ Does not mean that ‘she’ literally said ‘OMG!’, it means she expressed a similar sentiment/ has a shocked reaction). Fixating on ‘like’ to become annoyed by is more about the listener than the speaker.
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Post by ruby on May 25, 2021 11:40:33 GMT
UK drivers license. No!
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Post by lynette on May 25, 2021 16:21:01 GMT
It’s like a nervous tick, done without awareness. Seriously, everyone uses ‘filler’ word when they speak. Everyone! You just don’t realise you are doing it unless you record yourself in conversation and listen back. And ‘like’ often does add semantic meaning - indicating approximation or paraphrasing (‘she was like, OMG!’ Does not mean that ‘she’ literally said ‘OMG!’, it means she expressed a similar sentiment/ has a shocked reaction). Fixating on ‘like’ to become annoyed by is more about the listener than the speaker. I’m not fixating. The kids I have encountered with the ‘like’ habit were absolutely just talking with no awareness of it. Part of the ‘problem’ if you perceive it to be one, is that we often do not listen, give time to what youngsters say so they have less time to formulate their expression and resort to a shorthand. This works within their peer group but doesn’t work outside of it. I’ve noticed the ‘likes’ can disappear as a conversation develops and listening happens.
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