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Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 12:34 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Whoever invented dust covers on books.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 2:35 pm
by Mark James
People who still have the French flag overlay on their Facebook profile pic.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 6:00 pm
by James Laverty
Idiots who take negative offers on The Chase

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 7:09 pm
by Charlie Reams
James Laverty wrote:Idiots who take negative offers on The Chase
Is this a reference to a recent thing? It seems quite sensible to me.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 7:23 pm
by Jennifer Steadman
People who support a new, state-funded royal yacht.
People who are really, really into the royals in general, tbh.
People who do not enjoy It Wasn't Me by Shaggy.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:57 pm
by James Laverty
Charlie Reams wrote:
James Laverty wrote:Idiots who take negative offers on The Chase
Is this a reference to a recent thing? It seems quite sensible to me.
Happened most recently on Wednesday. Guy had got 0 in the cash builder but suddenly got all his questions right after taking an offer of -£2,000

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 10:40 pm
by Gavin Chipper
I don't think there's anything wrong in principle with taking a negative offer, although if someone gets 0 in the cash builder, you might want to argue they are an idiot anyway - I'll leave that for you to do though!

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 1:47 pm
by Mark Deeks
People who have stuff like "Husband. Father." in their Twitter bios, especially when it's before their profession or claim to fame. Yes because I'm definitely following you for your family updates ever.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 10:43 pm
by Ian Volante
People that press the bell on the bus when someone's already pressed it.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 10:32 am
by Marc Meakin
Surely not as bad as people who press the bell far too late and the driver either does an emergency stop or gets an earful from the passenger who has to walk back a stop.......come to think of it the people who press the bell only to say I want the next one actually

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 8:00 pm
by Graeme Cole
People who say "reading" rather than "studying" in their University Challenge introduction.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 8:12 pm
by Gavin Chipper
People who use the "word" "bae".

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 8:51 pm
by Mark Deeks
Graeme Cole wrote:People who say "reading" rather than "studying" in their University Challenge introduction.
YES.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:02 pm
by Marc Meakin
I always think of the Bambi episode by the Young Ones when I think of University Challange.
Btw Paxman is piss poor as the presenter.
He rarely hurries the teams

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:12 pm
by Graeme Cole
Marc Meakin wrote:I always think of the Bambi episode by the Young Ones when I think of University Challange.
Btw Paxman is piss poor as the presenter.
He rarely hurries the teams
He does hurry the teams, but usually only towards the end of the quiz, or at other times if the team deliberate for ages.

Compare him to Bamber Gascoigne. Stephen Fry would have been lucky to get past "um, sorry, hang on..." if Paxo had been in charge.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:21 pm
by Jennifer Steadman
Mark Deeks wrote:
Graeme Cole wrote:People who say "reading" rather than "studying" in their University Challenge introduction.
YES.
yes x2
Gavin Chipper wrote:People who use the "word" "bae".
Nah, old people who think they have autonomy over the English language and are too snotty to enjoy slang.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:37 pm
by Marc Meakin
As an old person , please tell me is bar an acronym for before anyone else or is it just a lazy slang term like fam ?

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:39 pm
by Marc Meakin
Graeme Cole wrote:
Marc Meakin wrote:I always think of the Bambi episode by the Young Ones when I think of University Challange.
Btw Paxman is piss poor as the presenter.
He rarely hurries the teams
He does hurry the teams, but usually only towards the end of the quiz, or at other times if the team deliberate for ages.

Compare him to Bamber Gascoigne. Stephen Fry would have been lucky to get past "um, sorry, hang on..." if Paxo had been in charge.
I'm a little older than you and I
can assure you Bambi was the Richard Whitely to Paxmans Des O'Connor

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:44 pm
by Jennifer Steadman
Marc Meakin wrote:As an old person , please tell me is bar an acronym for before anyone else or is it just a lazy slang term like fam ?
The latter, but like 'fam' it's really its own word with unique connotations - it's a more flippant/tongue-in-cheek term of endearment than its parent, the grotesquely nauseating 'babe'.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:50 pm
by Marc Meakin
Must be a generational thing. I think babe is a sweet term of endearment.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:52 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Jennifer Steadman wrote: Nah, old people who think they have autonomy over the English language and are too snotty to enjoy slang.
Them too but some words are just objectively shit!

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 12:16 am
by Mark James
Gavin Chipper wrote:
Jennifer Steadman wrote: Nah, old people who think they have autonomy over the English language and are too snotty to enjoy slang.
Them too but some words are just objectively shit!
I was watching the Simpsons episode where Homer joins the freakshow and goes on tour with all the rock stars. Early on in the episode he says he just wants to party with his kids but Bart explains that it's supposed to be pronounced par-tay. Remember when that was a thing? I cringe every time I hear it now especially in that episode. It's incredibly naff and for me bae is of that cringe-worthy category so as much as I want to agree with Jen about snooty people who don't accept new slang I agree with Gev. It's dreadful.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 7:29 am
by Euan Slatter
Marc Meakin wrote:As an old person , please tell me is bar an acronym for before anyone else or is it just a lazy slang term like fam ?
Being a kid, I confirm it does mean Before Anyone/thing Else, so is technically an acronym.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 12:08 pm
by Jennifer Steadman
Euan Slatter wrote:
Marc Meakin wrote:As an old person , please tell me is bar an acronym for before anyone else or is it just a lazy slang term like fam ?
Being a kid, I confirm it does mean Before Anyone/thing Else, so is technically an acronym.
ODO says "Early 21st century: abbreviation of baby or babe."

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 12:48 pm
by Marc Meakin
Looks like you're now the out of touch oldie according to Euan.

I remember years ago the very offensive word wog was originally an acronym of Western Oriental Gentleman

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 1:01 pm
by Marc Meakin
Having done a bit of research it looks like the kids of today are referencing the urban dictionary, rather than the stuffy O.E.D

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 3:17 pm
by JimBentley
Marc Meakin wrote:I remember years ago the very offensive word wog was originally an acronym of Western Oriental Gentleman
I remember this as well, it was definitely a thing in the 1970s. I remember my dad telling us about it and he wasn't a massive racist or anything. There was also something about being on the port or starboard side of ships that linked into it but I can't remember what that was now.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 3:47 pm
by Mark Deeks
Before Anything Else is a backronym, not to be trusted.
People you shouldn't trust
People who use backronyms.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 4:26 pm
by Jennifer Steadman
People who don't do their research properly too, obviously.

Related subsets:
- People of any political inclination who share infographics or serious memes seen on social media without having done any fact-checking (like that Donald Trump talking about Fox viewers thing)
- People who complain about the accuracy/bias of The Mail or The Sun on social media, then earnestly share links from The Canary.
- People who share news links from obscure sources without checking the legitimacy of those sources (yournewswire).

Obviously mainstream press isn't always great at upholding basic tenets of accuracy but they are at least bound by law, unlike random websites which can post whatever shit they want. There was some stuff last week about how hundreds of totally unsubstantiated pro Trump news websites have been set up in Macedonia in order to earn their creators a load of advertising revenue.

/definitely not on the accuracy warpath after spending a solid week reading about media law

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 5:37 pm
by Marc Meakin
Mark Deeks wrote:Before Anything Else is a backronym, not to be trusted.
People you shouldn't trust
People who use backronyms.
You'll be telling me next that the origins of the word Fuck isn't from the Acronym Fornication Under Consent of the King. :D

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2016 8:29 am
by Euan Slatter
Trump

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2016 9:22 am
by Marc Meakin
The American people to make a judgement call

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2016 12:47 pm
by Ian Volante
Marc Meakin wrote:The American people to make a judgement call
Since when did we have any room to talk?

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2016 2:59 pm
by Marc Meakin
One assumes you are referring to Brexit and not the last General Election.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2016 4:14 pm
by Heather Styles
Agree with consensus re. bae. I like slang generally but no good can come of that word.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 9:37 am
by Gavin Chipper
People who think BODMAS or BIDMAS are helpful.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 11:32 am
by Martin Hurst
People who unnecessarily "reply to all" - scum. Pure scum.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 11:59 am
by Mark Deeks
People who put read receipts on emails.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 1:01 pm
by Ian Volante
Gavin Chipper wrote:People who think BODMAS or BIDMAS are helpful.
Aye, only BEDMAS is useful.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 1:45 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Ian Volante wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:People who think BODMAS or BIDMAS are helpful.
Aye, only BEDMAS is useful.
Still rubbish. First of all division and multiplication are equal, as are addition and subtraction, which you don't get from these pointless acronyms. Secondly, they don't tell you that a^b^c should be taken as a^(b^c) rather than (a^b)^c.

Also, when I heard about BIDMAS at school, I thought is was just the acronym of some governing body of these things. I had no idea it was supposed to be some sort of useful tool (which it isn't).

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 4:11 pm
by Euan Slatter
/BI\
/ DM \
/ AS \

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2016 2:16 am
by Martin Hurst
People who get excited over the annual John Lewis Christmas advert

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2016 7:45 am
by Gavin Chipper
Martin Hurst wrote:People who get excited over the annual John Lewis Christmas advert
100% yes. It's just cynical marketing bollocks and people think it's part of Christmas!

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2016 10:34 am
by Marc Meakin
Martin Hurst wrote:People who get excited over the annual John Lewis Christmas advert
I must have heard it over a 1000 times already.
That comes with working for John Lewis.
It's like fucking psychological warfare.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2016 9:14 pm
by Ryan Taylor
Martin Hurst wrote:People who unnecessarily "reply to all" - scum. Pure scum.
Mark Deeks wrote:People who put read receipts on emails.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37979456

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 12:15 am
by Mark James
Anyone who plays tumbleweed or any of its atrocious spin-offs.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 1:36 am
by Martin Hurst
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37979456[/quote]

Same sort of thing happened when I worked for Aviva a few years ago - someone internally accidentally forwarded a work-related email to a secret "all employees" distribution list that existed (for emergencies I guess), and it went to everyone UK based in the whole company. Cue instantly hundreds of "reply to all" emails saying "this isn't for me", which was promptly followed by hundreds more emails simultaneously replying to all saying "please don't reply to all". Emails were down for the whole company for about 12 hours. A real numptystorm.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 7:29 am
by Euan Slatter
Mark James wrote:Anyone who plays tumbleweed or any of its atrocious spin-offs.
They're not ALL atrocious. Most are though

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 12:50 pm
by Ian Volante
Many years ago, a place I worked at installed its first e-mail system. Within an hour on the first morning, someone decided to test the out of office system by e-mailing themselves. Unfortunately, the system didn't limit the number of replies, so the server was immediately sent into an infinite loop of replying to the bloke with the out of office on, and e-mails filled up the server quicker than they could be deleted, and probably got to the point of exceeding the number of protons in the universe (well, I exaggerate) before they pulled the plug and started again.

I think it inspired the back story to the Terminator.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2016 10:31 pm
by Gavin Chipper
People who think that Black Friday is something other than Friday the 13th.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2016 11:57 pm
by Adam Gillard
Gavin Chipper wrote:People who use the "word" "bae".
Why? It's a perfectly cromulent word.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 1:15 pm
by Ian Volante
Gavin Chipper wrote:People who think that Black Friday is something other than Friday the 13th.
Nay lad, it's the last Friday before the final week before Christmas where everyone gets mortal drunk and shits in the street. No amount of capitalist promotion of shelf-clearing events is going to change that.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 12:38 pm
by Mark James
Adults with no children who get excited about the Late Late Toy Show. (Might not be known outside of Ireland but I'm sure you can guess what it's about)

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 1:04 pm
by Marc Meakin
Sounds like an Ann Summers infomercial

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 10:41 pm
by Euan Slatter
Kids over the age of 10 who believe in Santa Claus.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 1:11 pm
by Ian Volante
Mark James wrote:Adults with no children who get excited about the Late Late Toy Show. (Might not be known outside of Ireland but I'm sure you can guess what it's about)
I'm taking offence on behalf of my fiancée.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 2:12 am
by Mark Deeks
People who, after racking up a game of pool and lifting the black up to see where the spot is, spin it on the spot when putting it back. Barbaric behaviour.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 9:02 am
by Mark James
Mark Deeks wrote:People who, after racking up a game of pool and lifting the black up to see where the spot is, spin it on the spot when putting it back. Barbaric behaviour.
Must admit I do this but I agree with you. It's a force of habit at this stage but I must try and stop. Strange that I don't do it for 9 Ball though.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:05 pm
by Mark Deeks
I like you, Mark, but you need to take a long hard look at yourself.

Re: People you shouldn't trust

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:12 pm
by Gavin Chipper
I sometimes spin the ball. What's wrong with it?