We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "John"
saying something like:

Pet hates:

"It was surreal" - overused and not understood.

"And also" - use one or the other - not both.

"Like" - sprinkled into every sentence by those under 30

"Celebrate our differences", and "various different", get me a bit
stabby.

Tim Streater wrote:
On 29/01/2010 23:02, John Rumm wrote:
PJ wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
John wrote:
Have you noticed the increase of the word "Solutions" on company
names.
Examples spotted today:

Washroom Solutions = Bog cleaning contractor

Transport Solutions = Van Hire

Mobility Solutions = Supplier of Mobility Scooters

Office Solutions = Furniture

I saw a van with 'Infrastructure Facilities Provider' written on
the side - no 'kin idea what they do.

Spose I could call myself a 'Domestic Dwelling Maintenance
Solutions Enabler'.


Only if you bought a longer van.

Cue reference to "open all hours" and Arkwright's treacle toffee...

How about "foot pedal" or "2am in the morning" (not to be confused
with 2am in the afternoon).

Or "bored of"?

The list is endless.

When my youngest daughter was a terrible teen I used to wind up her mates
when they used expresions like "she turned round and said" and "then she
went, so I went". I'd ask why she "turned round" and didn't that make
conversation difficult and where did she go when "she went".

I wasn't appreciated.

Two questions; If a black rapper is greeting a prostitute, would he say "yo
ho" and if a teenager is feeling particularly good, would they claim to be
"well well"?


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:13:44 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:

Cue reference to "open all hours" and Arkwright's treacle toffee...

How about "foot pedal" or "2am in the morning" (not to be confused with
2am in the afternoon).

Or "bored of"?

The list is endless.

"Open all day" on a pub that's open 12:00h - 23:00h

Also '12 am to 12 pm' for 00:00h - 12:00h, or, as for something in a
village hall nearby: "Open from 12 pm to 10 pm", so 22 hours!
--
Peter.
2x4 - thick plank; 4x4 - two of 'em.

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:09:50 GMT, The Medway Handyman wrote:

if a teenager is feeling particularly good, would they claim to be
"well well"?

Use of "they" for one person :-
--
Peter.
2x4 - thick plank; 4x4 - two of 'em.

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:46:04 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "John"
saying something like:

Pet hates:

"It was surreal" - overused and not understood.

"And also" - use one or the other - not both.

"Like" - sprinkled into every sentence by those under 30

"Celebrate our differences", and "various different", get me a bit
stabby.


Multiculturalism.

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:09:50 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:


When my youngest daughter was a terrible teen I used to wind up her mates
when they used expresions like "she turned round and said" and "then she
went, so I went". I'd ask why she "turned round" and didn't that make
conversation difficult and where did she go when "she went".

I wasn't appreciated.

No, you wouldn't be! The thing now seems to be "I was like...." and
"she was like...."

Two questions; If a black rapper is greeting a prostitute, would he say "yo
ho" and if a teenager is feeling particularly good, would they claim to be
"well well"?

Don't know about the black rapper, but many of the younger generation
now say they're "good" when asked how they are, so I suppose they
might also claim to be "well good".

Two more pet hates for the list:

"alot" for "many"

"outside of"

On 30/01/2010 10:25, John J Armstrong wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:09:50 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:


When my youngest daughter was a terrible teen I used to wind up her mates
when they used expresions like "she turned round and said" and "then she
went, so I went". I'd ask why she "turned round" and didn't that make
conversation difficult and where did she go when "she went".

I wasn't appreciated.

No, you wouldn't be! The thing now seems to be "I was like...." and
"she was like...."

Two questions; If a black rapper is greeting a prostitute, would he say "yo
ho" and if a teenager is feeling particularly good, would they claim to be
"well well"?

Don't know about the black rapper, but many of the younger generation
now say they're "good" when asked how they are, so I suppose they
might also claim to be "well good".

Two more pet hates for the list:

"alot" for "many"

"outside of"

A current pet hate of mine is the overuse of the word "currently" as
well as obviously the word "obviously".

--
Tim

"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines
imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted"

Bill of Rights 1689

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:09:52 +0000, Bruce
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:46:04 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "John"
saying something like:

Pet hates:

"It was surreal" - overused and not understood.

"And also" - use one or the other - not both.

"Like" - sprinkled into every sentence by those under 30

"Celebrate our differences", and "various different", get me a bit
stabby.


Multiculturalism.

"Train station" rather than "railway station".

--
Frank Erskine

PeterC
wibbled on Saturday 30 January 2010 08:19

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:09:50 GMT, The Medway Handyman wrote:

if a teenager is feeling particularly good, would they claim to be
"well well"?

Use of "they" for one person :-

Our English teacher told us (and he wasn't an idiot) that "they" was
acceptable in the singular where gender could not be assumed.

As I don't have a better solution (ha) I'm going to keep using the term. cf
"he/she did blah"- horrible.

--
Tim Watts

Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.

John J Armstrong
wibbled on Saturday 30 January 2010 10:25

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:09:50 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:


When my youngest daughter was a terrible teen I used to wind up her mates
when they used expresions like "she turned round and said" and "then she
went, so I went". I'd ask why she "turned round" and didn't that make
conversation difficult and where did she go when "she went".

I wasn't appreciated.

No, you wouldn't be! The thing now seems to be "I was like...." and
"she was like...."

You just want to get into preemptive sentence completion:

"I was like..."
"a big fat whale?"

That really ****es people off.


Two questions; If a black rapper is greeting a prostitute, would he say
"yo ho" and if a teenager is feeling particularly good, would they claim
to be "well well"?

Don't know about the black rapper, but many of the younger generation
now say they're "good" when asked how they are, so I suppose they
might also claim to be "well good".

Though I think my generation were using the likes of "well hard" "well good"
and "wicked" and that was in the late 70's.

Two more pet hates for the list:

"alot" for "many"

"outside of"

--
Tim Watts

Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.

On 30/01/2010 08:18, PeterC wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:13:44 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:



Also '12 am to 12 pm' for 00:00h - 12:00h,

12 a.m. is midnight and 12 p.m. is mid-day in my book (and for most
people, I suspect), so that works for me.

or, as for something in a
village hall nearby: "Open from 12 pm to 10 pm", so 22 hours!

Which is 10 hours, not 22 hours if you take 12 p.m. as midday. ;-)



Quote from the National Physical Laboratory:

"There are no standards established for the meaning of 12 a.m. and 12
p.m. It is often said that 12 a.m. Monday is midnight on Monday morning
and 12 p.m. is mid-day. This puts all the times beginning with 12 and
ending with a.m. in the same one-hour block, similarly with those ending
with p.m. It can also be argued that by the time you have seen a clock
showing 12:00 at mid-day it is already post meridiem, and similarly at
midnight it is already ante meridiem. Times in the first hour of the day
are sometimes given as, for example, 00:47 a.m., with 00:00 a.m.
corresponding to midnight, but with a time twelve hours later given as
12:47 p.m."


Quote from National Maritime Museum.

"Is noon 12 a.m. or 12 p.m.?

12 noon is neither a.m. nor p.m.

To avoid confusion, the correct designation for 12 o'clock is 12 noon or
12 midnight. Alternatively, the 24-hour clock system may be used.

The abbreviation a.m. stands for ante-meridiem (before the Sun has
crossed the line) and p.m. for post-meridiem (after the Sun has crossed
the line). At 12 noon, the Sun is at its highest point in the sky and
directly over the meridian. It is therefore neither 'ante-' nor 'post-'."

On 29/01/2010 23:03, John Rumm wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
John wrote:
Have you noticed the increase of the word "Solutions" on company
names. Examples spotted today:

Washroom Solutions = Bog cleaning contractor

Transport Solutions = Van Hire

Mobility Solutions = Supplier of Mobility Scooters

Office Solutions = Furniture


10% solutions, your local smack dealer.

7% solution - Sherlock Holmes


Problems finding a sexual partner? Never mind, the solution is in hand...


OK, I'll bite. Chloroform? Rohypnol?, Ketamine?

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:24:51 +0000, Dave Osborne
wrote:

On 29/01/2010 23:03, John Rumm wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
John wrote:
Have you noticed the increase of the word "Solutions" on company
names. Examples spotted today:

Washroom Solutions = Bog cleaning contractor

Transport Solutions = Van Hire

Mobility Solutions = Supplier of Mobility Scooters

Office Solutions = Furniture


10% solutions, your local smack dealer.

7% solution - Sherlock Holmes


Problems finding a sexual partner? Never mind, the solution is in hand...


OK, I'll bite. Chloroform? Rohypnol?, Ketamine?

Cool .. where can I get this stuff !!

My pet hate ... "at this moment in time" ..... is there any other
moment ?

Mike Peters

Mike wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:24:51 +0000, Dave Osborne
wrote:

On 29/01/2010 23:03, John Rumm wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
John wrote:
Have you noticed the increase of the word "Solutions" on company
names. Examples spotted today:

Washroom Solutions = Bog cleaning contractor

Transport Solutions = Van Hire

Mobility Solutions = Supplier of Mobility Scooters

Office Solutions = Furniture


10% solutions, your local smack dealer.
7% solution - Sherlock Holmes

Problems finding a sexual partner? Never mind, the solution is in hand...

OK, I'll bite. Chloroform? Rohypnol?, Ketamine?

Cool .. where can I get this stuff !!

My pet hate ... "at this moment in time" ..... is there any other
moment ?

Mike Peters
Ah, as in Lewis Carroll's, "Jam every *other* day, but never JAM TODAY!!"

Man at B&Q wrote:

A bit like "logistics" appearing on delivery vans a few years ago.


Used to be called "haulage".

Still should be in most cases.

Another Dave

"John" writes:
Pet hates:
[...]

"Like" - sprinkled into every sentence by those under 30

To repeat something I heard recently:

Middle aged person (smugly): "My partner and I **** like
rabbits"

Young person (horrified): "My partner and I ****, like, each
other."

--
Jón Fairbairn
http://www.chaos.org.uk/~jf/Stuff-I-dont-want.html (updated 2009-01-31)

Frank Erskine :
"Train station" rather than "railway station".

But "bus station" is OK presumably.

--
Mike Barnes

Mike :
My pet hate ... "at this moment in time" ..... is there any other
moment ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_of_inertia

--
Mike Barnes

John wrote:

Have you noticed the increase of the word "Solutions" on company names.

Have you been asleep for the best part of a decade?

The nadir of the use of the word "solutions" was IMO Tesco who feature
"Meal Solutions" in their supermarkets. This brought to mind the image
of chavs dressed in pyjamas sucking their nourishment through blotting
paper like a plague of flies.

John wrote:

"Like" - sprinkled into every sentence by those under 30

That's like just so old?

Dave Osborne wrote:

Problems finding a sexual partner? Never mind, the solution is in hand...


OK, I'll bite. Chloroform?

Point of order, that's a solvent, not a solution.

"Mike" wrote in message
...

My pet hate ... "at this moment in time" ..... is there any other
moment ?

See the below reference:

(etc)

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:42:51 +0000, Frank Erskine
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:09:52 +0000, Bruce
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:46:04 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "John"
saying something like:

Pet hates:

"It was surreal" - overused and not understood.

"And also" - use one or the other - not both.

"Like" - sprinkled into every sentence by those under 30

"Celebrate our differences", and "various different", get me a bit
stabby.


Multiculturalism.

"Train station" rather than "railway station".


At least "Train station" is logical;

Bus station (OK), car park (OK), railway station (Eh????).

On 30/01/2010 13:31 Steve Firth wrote:

wrote:

"Like" - sprinkled into every sentence by those under 30

That's like just so old?

init

--
F

John J Armstrong wrote:

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:09:50 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:


When my youngest daughter was a terrible teen I used to wind up her mates
when they used expresions like "she turned round and said" and "then she
went, so I went". I'd ask why she "turned round" and didn't that make
conversation difficult and where did she go when "she went".

I wasn't appreciated.

No, you wouldn't be! The thing now seems to be "I was like...." and
"she was like...."

Two questions; If a black rapper is greeting a prostitute, would he say
"yo ho" and if a teenager is feeling particularly good, would they claim
to be "well well"?

Don't know about the black rapper, but many of the younger generation
now say they're "good" when asked how they are, so I suppose they
might also claim to be "well good".

Two more pet hates for the list:

"alot" for "many"

"outside of"

"absolutely" for "yes"

--
email ~= s/nospam//

Dave Osborne wrote:

To avoid confusion, the correct designation for 12 o'clock is 12 noon or
12 midnight. Alternatively, the 24-hour clock system may be used.

The abbreviation a.m. stands for ante-meridiem (before the Sun has
crossed the line) and p.m. for post-meridiem (after the Sun has crossed
the line). At 12 noon, the Sun is at its highest point in the sky and
directly over the meridian. It is therefore neither 'ante-' nor 'post-'."

Mmmmm so when we put the clocks forward in spring, does that mean that
pm does not start until after what we call 1 p.m. (1300 hours?)


Dave

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Ah, as in Lewis Carroll's, "Jam every *other* day, but never JAM TODAY!!"

That reminds me of a sign in the caravan park bar in Southsea.

It says 'free beer tomorrow'.

Dave

Steve Firth wrote:
Dave Osborne wrote:

Problems finding a sexual partner? Never mind, the solution is in hand...

OK, I'll bite. Chloroform?

Point of order, that's a solvent, not a solution.

Now you have disturbed the moth balls in my mind, remind me why it was
invented to dissolve please.

Dave

Dave wrote:

the caravan park bar in Southsea.

Boggle? Where the **** is that? Up near the pikey[1] end by Fort
Cumberland Road?

[1] OK, I admit it's all pikey but some bits are pikier.

The Medway Handyman wrote:
If a black rapper is greeting a prostitute, would he say "yo
ho"



The phrase may be older than you think. Having heard rumours of the
predilections of sailors in the past is this why pirates used to say "Yo
ho ho, and a bottle of rum"?

Andy

Steve Firth wrote:
Dave Osborne wrote:

Problems finding a sexual partner? Never mind, the solution is in
hand...

OK, I'll bite. Chloroform?

Point of order, that's a solvent, not a solution.



I refer you to Merck Index, Eighth Edition, 1968

"One ml [of chloroform] dissolves in about 200ml of water at 25° [C]."

On Jan 29, 3:46*pm, John J Armstrong wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:51:01 +0000, Invisible Man

wrote:
Don't be ridiculous. Companies have to use buzzwords and acronyms that
even their employees don't understand.

Talking of this, could sks please explain the difference between
"feedback" and "360 degree feedback"?

I suspect 360 degree is used when the talk just goes round in circles,
but I'm not sure.

John

360 degrees maybe; but in which plane?

In message , Andy Champ
writes
The Medway Handyman wrote:
If a black rapper is greeting a prostitute, would he say "yo ho"

The phrase may be older than you think. Having heard rumours of the
predilections of sailors in the past is this why pirates used to say
"Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum"?

That's because they were seeing double after the bottle of rum


--
geoff

On Jan 30, 2:08*pm, terry wrote:

360 degrees maybe; but in which plane?

Oh; by the way, bringing you right back to where you started; eh?

In message , PeterC
writes
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:13:44 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:

Cue reference to "open all hours" and Arkwright's treacle toffee...

How about "foot pedal" or "2am in the morning" (not to be confused with
2am in the afternoon).

Or "bored of"?

The list is endless.

"Open all day" on a pub that's open 12:00h - 23:00h

Also '12 am to 12 pm' for 00:00h - 12:00h, or, as for something in a
village hall nearby: "Open from 12 pm to 10 pm", so 22 hours!

Err ...

can't be

there is no such thing as 12am or 12pm

If things get on your tits - make sure it's the right tit not the left
one


--
geoff

Dave Osborne wrote:

"One ml [of chloroform] dissolves in about 200ml of water at 25° [C]."

At which point it is a solution of chloroform in water.

Or is it a solution of water in chloroform?

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:22:06 +0000, Mike Barnes
wrote:

Frank Erskine :
"Train station" rather than "railway station".

But "bus station" is OK presumably.

Yes.

--
Frank Erskine

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:42:48 +0000, Mike wrote:

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:24:51 +0000, Dave Osborne
wrote:

On 29/01/2010 23:03, John Rumm wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
John wrote:
Have you noticed the increase of the word "Solutions" on company
names. Examples spotted today:

Washroom Solutions = Bog cleaning contractor

Transport Solutions = Van Hire

Mobility Solutions = Supplier of Mobility Scooters

Office Solutions = Furniture


10% solutions, your local smack dealer.

7% solution - Sherlock Holmes


Problems finding a sexual partner? Never mind, the solution is in hand...


OK, I'll bite. Chloroform? Rohypnol?, Ketamine?

Cool .. where can I get this stuff !!

My pet hate ... "at this moment in time" ..... is there any other
moment ?

Then of course there's "Basically", which means "I'll keep it simple
for your benefit".

--
Frank Erskine

Frank Erskine wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:09:52 +0000, Bruce
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:46:04 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when
the drugs began to take hold. I remember "John"
saying something like:

Pet hates:

"It was surreal" - overused and not understood.

"And also" - use one or the other - not both.

"Like" - sprinkled into every sentence by those under 30

"Celebrate our differences", and "various different", get me a bit
stabby.


Multiculturalism.

"Train station" rather than "railway station".

That one drives me mad as well.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

Andy Champ wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
If a black rapper is greeting a prostitute, would he say "yo
ho"



The phrase may be older than you think. Having heard rumours of the
predilections of sailors in the past is this why pirates used to say
"Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum"?

I thought it was rum, bum & backy?


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk