Things that annoy you

[Tichtheid]

I can see why that would grate. But language often veers off from logic anyway. What does the “It’s” in “It’s raining” take the place of? The sentence makes no logical sense, but conveys meaning perfectly well. The same with, “I could care less”. It conveys meaning perfectly well in context, even if it’s daft in terms of logic.

Isn't "it" "the weather" in that case? - the weather is raining, the weather is hot, the weather is snowing etc.

In French they use the "to do" verb for weather, "it does some sunshine", "it does rain", it makes sense when you hear it from birth but it sounds clunky as a learner from another language.

I'm all for evolution of language, I have no problem with using a verb as a noun*, "verbing" if you will, but "I could care less" winds me up beyond reason.

*though when someone suggested "let's beer" I felt like smashing his face in.

Am I missing something here? "It's" ins simply a contraction of "it is", in this instances, a shortening of "it is raining" to "it's raining". Not to be confused with 'its .... is raining down on ..."

Yes, "it's" is a contraction of "it is", but what is "it"?

FujiKiwi is right that "it" stands in for something - where is the ball? It is over there - "it" is the ball in this case.

I'm no English teacher and I'm from the generation that was taught grammar without being taught the mechanics of it, I have no idea of the name of tenses beyond the simple past and present, but I know what sounds right and I wouldn't know a cognate object if it offered me a pint.

When we say "it's raining", something is raining and I think it's the weather.

[tabascoboy]

Isn't "it" "the weather" in that case? - the weather is raining, the weather is hot, the weather is snowing etc.

In French they use the "to do" verb for weather, "it does some sunshine", "it does rain", it makes sense when you hear it from birth but it sounds clunky as a learner from another language.

I'm all for evolution of language, I have no problem with using a verb as a noun*, "verbing" if you will, but "I could care less" winds me up beyond reason.

*though when someone suggested "let's beer" I felt like smashing his face in.

Am I missing something here? "It's" ins simply a contraction of "it is", in this instances, a shortening of "it is raining" to "it's raining". Not to be confused with 'its .... is raining down on ..."

Yes, "it's" is a contraction of "it is", but what is "it"?

FujiKiwi is right that "it" stands in for something - where is the ball? It is over there - "it" is the ball in this case.

I'm no English teacher and I'm from the generation that was taught grammar without being taught the mechanics of it, I have no idea of the name of tenses beyond the simple past and present, but I know what sounds right and I wouldn't know a cognate object if it offered me a pint.

When we say "it's raining", something is raining and I think it's the weather.

Same construction in
German: es regnet = it rains / it is raining
Dutch: Het regent = it rains / it is raining
Norwegian: det regner = it rains / it is raining
etc

So blame whatever grammatic pioneer devised this construction for Germanic languages way back in the day, as it presumably goes back to Proto-Germanic. "It" is essentially an empty subject.

In Japanese it is more like "rain falls / is falling" = 雨が降ってる , which does sound a little better I guess

[Torquemada 1420]

"young people".

Do they mean "children"?

[sockwithaticket]

Songs that seem to mostly comprise of the chorus endlessly on repeat. It's so dull often exacerbated by the actual chorus itself not being anything particularly novel or interesting.

Needs to be 3 and done, especially if you're sticking with a standard verse - chorus - verse - chorus - bridge - chorus structure.

[Kiwias]

Am I missing something here? "It's" ins simply a contraction of "it is", in this instances, a shortening of "it is raining" to "it's raining". Not to be confused with 'its .... is raining down on ..."

Yes, "it's" is a contraction of "it is", but what is "it"?

FujiKiwi is right that "it" stands in for something - where is the ball? It is over there - "it" is the ball in this case.

I'm no English teacher and I'm from the generation that was taught grammar without being taught the mechanics of it, I have no idea of the name of tenses beyond the simple past and present, but I know what sounds right and I wouldn't know a cognate object if it offered me a pint.

When we say "it's raining", something is raining and I think it's the weather.

Same construction in
German: es regnet = it rains / it is raining
Dutch: Het regent = it rains / it is raining
Norwegian: det regner = it rains / it is raining
etc

So blame whatever grammatic pioneer devised this construction for Germanic languages way back in the day, as it presumably goes back to Proto-Germanic. "It" is essentially an empty subject.

In Japanese it is more like "rain falls / is falling" = 雨が降ってる , which does sound a little better I guess

Or you can just say, "today is rain" 今日は雨です。

[PlanetGlyndwr]

grammar nazis can fudge off

[mat the expat]

Cunts

[Hugo]

People that only propagate the "I have a dream" version of MLK like that's the only meaningful speech he ever gave.

It's a complete insult to his legacy, he was much more than some docile, friendly black guy who wanted everyone to get on. He had really insightful things to say about poverty, imperialism, militarism, violence, the class system, the ruling classes, ignorance, financial exploitation, media manipulation, northern hypocrisy and such which are entirely overlooked.

[Rinkals]

People who refer to someone dying as having "passed".

Passed water? Passed wind?

Also referring to people who have died as "looking down on us".

If there IS as fucking afterlife, it'd have to be extremely fucking tedious for them to pay the slightest bit of attention to whatever is happening in your life...

[Tichtheid]

"Each to their own" - possibly the dullest phrase in the English language.

Not to be confused with "Live and let live", the only thing that shouldn't be tolerated is intolerance, but have a discussion, be passionate about things, state your case and defend it, listen with an open mind and be prepared to be convinced.

[GogLais]

"Each to their own" - possibly the dullest phrase in the English language.

Not to be confused with "Live and let live", the only thing that shouldn't be tolerated is intolerance, but have a discussion, be passionate about things, state your case and defend it, listen with an open mind and be prepared to be convinced.

People who deliberately park in two or even four spaces to avoid having their doors dented.

[Tichtheid]

"Each to their own" - possibly the dullest phrase in the English language.

Not to be confused with "Live and let live", the only thing that shouldn't be tolerated is intolerance, but have a discussion, be passionate about things, state your case and defend it, listen with an open mind and be prepared to be convinced.

People who deliberately park in two or even four spaces to avoid having their doors dented.

Ah ha! You've reminded me of something -

When you leave your car in the empty area of the car park , miles away from the supermarket, and when you get back there is one other car in that area, right beside you, or two cars, one either side of you.

[GogLais]

"Each to their own" - possibly the dullest phrase in the English language.

Not to be confused with "Live and let live", the only thing that shouldn't be tolerated is intolerance, but have a discussion, be passionate about things, state your case and defend it, listen with an open mind and be prepared to be convinced.

People who deliberately park in two or even four spaces to avoid having their doors dented.

Ah ha! You've reminded me of something -

When you leave your car in the empty area of the car park , miles away from the supermarket, and when you get back there is one other car in that area, right beside you, or two cars, one either side of you.

Apparently some people get to a stage where they can't remember where they left their car. I don't believe it.

[The Druid]

"Each to their own" - possibly the dullest phrase in the English language.

Not to be confused with "Live and let live", the only thing that shouldn't be tolerated is intolerance, but have a discussion, be passionate about things, state your case and defend it, listen with an open mind and be prepared to be convinced.

People who deliberately park in two or even four spaces to avoid having their doors dented.

You are not an Audi driver, are you?

[GogLais]

"Each to their own" - possibly the dullest phrase in the English language.

Not to be confused with "Live and let live", the only thing that shouldn't be tolerated is intolerance, but have a discussion, be passionate about things, state your case and defend it, listen with an open mind and be prepared to be convinced.

People who deliberately park in two or even four spaces to avoid having their doors dented.

You are not an Audi driver, are you?

Golf now. I used to have one of the brick shaped no power steering 1980s Audi 80s. Wonderful car, it was like driving a ship.

[Woddy]

"Each to their own" - possibly the dullest phrase in the English language.

Not to be confused with "Live and let live", the only thing that shouldn't be tolerated is intolerance, but have a discussion, be passionate about things, state your case and defend it, listen with an open mind and be prepared to be convinced.

People who deliberately park in two or even four spaces to avoid having their doors dented.

Ah ha! You've reminded me of something -

When you leave your car in the empty area of the car park , miles away from the supermarket, and when you get back there is one other car in that area, right beside you, or two cars, one either side of you.

Apparently, most people can't help it. Part of our social make-up.

But I share in the wish for capital punishment for those who take up more than one space; and those who leap nimbly out of their car, having parked in a disabled space.

Drivers who evidently never use mirrors. Slow drivers on country lanes who refuse to pull over and the let the column of traffic behind them past. Drivers who stick in the outside lane at 80 when they are not overtaking anyone. In sum, drivers.

[Tichtheid]

Slow drivers on country lanes who refuse to pull over and the let the column of traffic behind them past.

I worked as a fencing contractor out of a farm in Sussex for a while, the farmer ran his own place as well as supplying farm services, so we had shearers, dairymen, tractor drivers etc, most of them were Kiwis.



The Kiwis who drove the tractors had competitions to see how many cars they could get tailed back behind them

[Woddy]

Slow drivers on country lanes who refuse to pull over and the let the column of traffic behind them past.

I worked as a fencing contractor out of a farm in Sussex for a while, the farmer ran his own place as well as supplying farm services, so we had shearers, dairymen, tractor drivers etc, most of them were Kiwis.



The Kiwis who drove the tractors had competitions to see how many cars they could get tailed back behind them

Utter bastards. Blackguards. I must invest in rockets mounted on my bonnet.

[PCPhil]

Suppossed managers who can't make a decision without calling a meeting as they really are overpromoted tossers who are full of insecurities that Hans from Germany wants their job.

and people who can't spell.

[Punter15]

"Each to their own" - possibly the dullest phrase in the English language.

Not to be confused with "Live and let live", the only thing that shouldn't be tolerated is intolerance, but have a discussion, be passionate about things, state your case and defend it, listen with an open mind and be prepared to be convinced.

People who deliberately park in two or even four spaces to avoid having their doors dented.

Got into a very tasty argument with an old boy recently who yelled at me for parking too close to him, when I’d parked in the middle of a space and he’d plonked his right on the line. Arsehole.

Ah ha! You've reminded me of something -

When you leave your car in the empty area of the car park , miles away from the supermarket, and when you get back there is one other car in that area, right beside you, or two cars, one either side of you.

[Un Pilier]

Slow drivers on country lanes who refuse to pull over and the let the column of traffic behind them past.

I worked as a fencing contractor out of a farm in Sussex for a while, the farmer ran his own place as well as supplying farm services, so we had shearers, dairymen, tractor drivers etc, most of them were Kiwis.



The Kiwis who drove the tractors had competitions to see how many cars they could get tailed back behind them

Utter bastards. Blackguards. I must invest in rockets mounted on my bonnet.

Stingers! Stinger missiles! They’re an optional extra on my big sod-off SUV!

[Niegs]

Stingers! Stinger missiles! They’re an optional extra on my big sod-off SUV!

Ahem, but Stingers are surface to air. You'll want something like a TOW...

[Un Pilier]

Stingers! Stinger missiles! They’re an optional extra on my big sod-off SUV!

Ahem, but Stingers are surface to air. You'll want something like a TOW...

Fair point. But I get a fair few microlight thingies round my way. Why some knobhead thinks they are entitled to spoil the peace and enjoyment of thousands is a mystery and irritant to me. Perhaps we need a suite of “disincentives”

[Random1]

Stingers! Stinger missiles! They’re an optional extra on my big sod-off SUV!

Ahem, but Stingers are surface to air. You'll want something like a TOW...

Fair point. But I get a fair few microlight thingies round my way. Why some knobhead thinks they are entitled to spoil the peace and enjoyment of thousands is a mystery and irritant to me. Perhaps we need a suite of “disincentives”

Same principle as something that really gets my goat; modified cars with oversized, noisy exhausts.

The sole purpose they have those exhausts is to be noisy, so the sole reason they do it is to piss people off.

I’m people. I’m pissed off!

Congratulations you fucking twats!

[Niegs]

Fair point. But I get a fair few microlight thingies round my way. Why some knobhead thinks they are entitled to spoil the peace and enjoyment of thousands is a mystery and irritant to me. Perhaps we need a suite of “disincentives”

Same principle as something that really gets my goat; modified cars with oversized, noisy exhausts.

The sole purpose they have those exhausts is to be noisy, so the sole reason they do it is to piss people off.

I’m people. I’m pissed off!

Congratulations you fucking twats!

My father/brother (both gearheads) say the new fad here is this ... twats modding their pickups to emit black smoke when they rev the engine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch/luVfs2wUK7Y

[Dinsdale Piranha]

Fair point. But I get a fair few microlight thingies round my way. Why some knobhead thinks they are entitled to spoil the peace and enjoyment of thousands is a mystery and irritant to me. Perhaps we need a suite of “disincentives”

Same principle as something that really gets my goat; modified cars with oversized, noisy exhausts.

The sole purpose they have those exhausts is to be noisy, so the sole reason they do it is to piss people off.

I’m people. I’m pissed off!

Congratulations you fucking twats!

My father/brother (both gearheads) say the new fad here is this ... twats modding their pickups to emit black smoke when they rev the engine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch/luVfs2wUK7Y

Rolling Coal is the expression. Not that new sadly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

[mat the expat]

Roadside assist companies that take your money, yet refuse to assist at midnight on a busy motorway

Cunts

[Sandstorm]

Roadside assist companies that take your money, yet refuse to assist at midnight on a busy motorway

Cunts

Change your own tyre. What could go wrong?

[Rinkals]

Roadside assist companies that take your money, yet refuse to assist at midnight on a busy motorway

Cunts

Change your own tyre. What could go wrong?

Where's the pic of Coog?

[Nickdemus]

You fokkin annoy me

[Nickdemus]

You fokkin annoy me

[mat the expat]

Roadside assist companies that take your money, yet refuse to assist at midnight on a busy motorway

Cunts

Change your own tyre. What could go wrong?

In all seriousness, it was amazing I managed to drift across 4 lanes at 100kph with no power - 3 lanes of trucks inside me. Then the smell of petrol everywhere

[Kiwias]

Roadside assist companies that take your money, yet refuse to assist at midnight on a busy motorway

Cunts

Change your own tyre. What could go wrong?

In all seriousness, it was amazing I managed to drift across 4 lanes at 100kph with no power - 3 lanes of trucks inside me. Then the smell of petrol everywhere

It sounds like something a crazy youngster would do for a dare.

[mat the expat]

Change your own tyre. What could go wrong?

In all seriousness, it was amazing I managed to drift across 4 lanes at 100kph with no power - 3 lanes of trucks inside me. Then the smell of petrol everywhere

It sounds like something a crazy youngster would do for a dare.

It's when I realised that life is too short...

[Kiwias]

In all seriousness, it was amazing I managed to drift across 4 lanes at 100kph with no power - 3 lanes of trucks inside me. Then the smell of petrol everywhere

It sounds like something a crazy youngster would do for a dare.

It's when I realised that life is too short...

[Slick]

Stingers! Stinger missiles! They’re an optional extra on my big sod-off SUV!

Ahem, but Stingers are surface to air. You'll want something like a TOW...

Fair point. But I get a fair few microlight thingies round my way. Why some knobhead thinks they are entitled to spoil the peace and enjoyment of thousands is a mystery and irritant to me. Perhaps we need a suite of “disincentives”

I was speaking to a guy in the park who was telling me his new hobby is taking his drone to the hills and flying it about. My head was just saying “cunt cunt”. It can really spoil a day out.

[Un Pilier]

Ahem, but Stingers are surface to air. You'll want something like a TOW...

Fair point. But I get a fair few microlight thingies round my way. Why some knobhead thinks they are entitled to spoil the peace and enjoyment of thousands is a mystery and irritant to me. Perhaps we need a suite of “disincentives”

I was speaking to a guy in the park who was telling me his new hobby is taking his drone to the hills and flying it about. My head was just saying “cunt cunt”. It can really spoil a day out.

Yep. Devil’s spawn!

[sockwithaticket]

Vague corporate diversity pushes.

We've had an email today that states the company is lacking in diversity and the executive will be working on a plan to improve the situation.

I'd like a little bit more context than that. By what metric are we lacking in diversity? The implication is that there's a level where we're no longer lacking, what is that and how was it determined? Where do we currently sit in relation to it?

[Un Pilier]

Vague corporate diversity pushes.

We've had an email today that states the company is lacking in diversity and the executive will be working on a plan to improve the situation.

I'd like a little bit more context than that. By what metric are we lacking in diversity? The implication is that there's a level where we're no longer lacking, what is that and how was it determined? Where do we currently sit in relation to it?

So, how many wringer outs for one - armed window cleaners do you have? Just asking. We can drill down from there.

[mat the expat]

I was speaking to a guy in the park who was telling me his new hobby is taking his drone to the hills and flying it about. My head was just saying “cunt cunt”. It can really spoil a day out.

That would prompt me to trail him with a home-made Gauss Gun.