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Whoever invented dust covers on books.
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People who still have the French flag overlay on their Facebook profile pic.
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Idiots who take negative offers on The Chase
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Is this a reference to a recent thing? It seems quite sensible to me.James Laverty wrote:Idiots who take negative offers on The Chase
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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.
People who are really, really into the royals in general, tbh.
People who do not enjoy It Wasn't Me by Shaggy.
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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 -£2,000Charlie Reams wrote:Is this a reference to a recent thing? It seems quite sensible to me.James Laverty wrote:Idiots who take negative offers on The Chase
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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!
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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.
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People that press the bell on the bus when someone's already pressed it.
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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
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People who say "reading" rather than "studying" in their University Challenge introduction.
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People who use the "word" "bae".
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YES.Graeme Cole wrote:People who say "reading" rather than "studying" in their University Challenge introduction.
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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
Btw Paxman is piss poor as the presenter.
He rarely hurries the teams
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He does hurry the teams, but usually only towards the end of the quiz, or at other times if the team deliberate for ages.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
Compare him to Bamber Gascoigne. Stephen Fry would have been lucky to get past "um, sorry, hang on..." if Paxo had been in charge.
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yes x2Mark Deeks wrote:YES.Graeme Cole wrote:People who say "reading" rather than "studying" in their University Challenge introduction.
Nah, old people who think they have autonomy over the English language and are too snotty to enjoy slang.Gavin Chipper wrote:People who use the "word" "bae".
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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 ?
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I'm a little older than you and IGraeme Cole wrote:He does hurry the teams, but usually only towards the end of the quiz, or at other times if the team deliberate for ages.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
Compare him to Bamber Gascoigne. Stephen Fry would have been lucky to get past "um, sorry, hang on..." if Paxo had been in charge.
can assure you Bambi was the Richard Whitely to Paxmans Des O'Connor
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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'.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 ?
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Must be a generational thing. I think babe is a sweet term of endearment.
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Them too but some words are just objectively shit!Jennifer Steadman wrote: Nah, old people who think they have autonomy over the English language and are too snotty to enjoy slang.
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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.Gavin Chipper wrote:Them too but some words are just objectively shit!Jennifer Steadman wrote: Nah, old people who think they have autonomy over the English language and are too snotty to enjoy slang.
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Being a kid, I confirm it does mean Before Anyone/thing Else, so is technically an acronym.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 ?
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ODO says "Early 21st century: abbreviation of baby or babe."Euan Slatter wrote:Being a kid, I confirm it does mean Before Anyone/thing Else, so is technically an acronym.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 ?
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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
I remember years ago the very offensive word wog was originally an acronym of Western Oriental Gentleman
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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
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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.Marc Meakin wrote:I remember years ago the very offensive word wog was originally an acronym of Western Oriental Gentleman
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Before Anything Else is a backronym, not to be trusted.
People who use backronyms.People you shouldn't trust
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People who don't do their research properly too, obviously.
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- 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
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
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You'll be telling me next that the origins of the word Fuck isn't from the Acronym Fornication Under Consent of the King.Mark Deeks wrote:Before Anything Else is a backronym, not to be trusted.
People who use backronyms.People you shouldn't trust
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The American people to make a judgement call
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Since when did we have any room to talk?Marc Meakin wrote:The American people to make a judgement call
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One assumes you are referring to Brexit and not the last General Election.
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Agree with consensus re. bae. I like slang generally but no good can come of that word.
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People who think BODMAS or BIDMAS are helpful.
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People who unnecessarily "reply to all" - scum. Pure scum.
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People who put read receipts on emails.
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Aye, only BEDMAS is useful.Gavin Chipper wrote:People who think BODMAS or BIDMAS are helpful.
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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.Ian Volante wrote:Aye, only BEDMAS is useful.Gavin Chipper wrote:People who think BODMAS or BIDMAS are helpful.
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).
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People who get excited over the annual John Lewis Christmas advert
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100% yes. It's just cynical marketing bollocks and people think it's part of Christmas!Martin Hurst wrote:People who get excited over the annual John Lewis Christmas advert
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I must have heard it over a 1000 times already.Martin Hurst wrote:People who get excited over the annual John Lewis Christmas advert
That comes with working for John Lewis.
It's like fucking psychological warfare.
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Martin Hurst wrote:People who unnecessarily "reply to all" - scum. Pure scum.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37979456Mark Deeks wrote:People who put read receipts on emails.
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Anyone who plays tumbleweed or any of its atrocious spin-offs.
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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.
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.
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They're not ALL atrocious. Most are thoughMark James wrote:Anyone who plays tumbleweed or any of its atrocious spin-offs.
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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.
I think it inspired the back story to the Terminator.
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People who think that Black Friday is something other than Friday the 13th.
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Why? It's a perfectly cromulent word.Gavin Chipper wrote:People who use the "word" "bae".
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C1: SIGNATURE (18) ["9; not written down"]
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Score: 108–16 (max 113)
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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.Gavin Chipper wrote:People who think that Black Friday is something other than Friday the 13th.
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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)
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Sounds like an Ann Summers infomercial
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Kids over the age of 10 who believe in Santa Claus.
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I'm taking offence on behalf of my fiancée.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)
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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.
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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.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.
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I like you, Mark, but you need to take a long hard look at yourself.
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I sometimes spin the ball. What's wrong with it?