pet hate: close of play
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Why oh why do people insist upon using the phrase "Close of play" in business emails. Example: "Please have xyz report to me by close of play on Wednesday" Are you playing a game of cricket? Tennis maybe? NO YOU FREAKING EEJIT we call it "the end of the day" Or the "close of business". /rant * breathes * So what pet hates do you guys have? business or personal I don't mind. Have them to me by the close of play tonight please.
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J4amieC wrote:
just plane "stolen"?
Try 'just plain stolen', please. A 'plane stolen' (or stolen plane) would be the hijack case you mentioned.
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Why oh why do people insist upon using the phrase "Close of play" in business emails. Example: "Please have xyz report to me by close of play on Wednesday" Are you playing a game of cricket? Tennis maybe? NO YOU FREAKING EEJIT we call it "the end of the day" Or the "close of business". /rant * breathes * So what pet hates do you guys have? business or personal I don't mind. Have them to me by the close of play tonight please.
Close of day is common and legit. I suspect that person is not a native english speaker or is mistakenly using play instead of day. My pet peeves of the day are: Moving graphics on tv sports or news programs that are accompanied by sound effects when they appear on screen and dissapear off screen. The current state of graphics in television reminds me of the horrible web sites from the '90s with the flaming text and blinking crap. I hope they all mature soon, it's a distraction. Also I hate the puns that are used on tv news, previously they were used for "human interest" type stories only on nightly news near the end of the hour, now they're used for nearly every story.
More people died from worry than ever bled to death. - RAH
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Why oh why do people insist upon using the phrase "Close of play" in business emails. Example: "Please have xyz report to me by close of play on Wednesday" Are you playing a game of cricket? Tennis maybe? NO YOU FREAKING EEJIT we call it "the end of the day" Or the "close of business". /rant * breathes * So what pet hates do you guys have? business or personal I don't mind. Have them to me by the close of play tonight please.
I hate it when people introduce pet peeves I never knew existed. I was getting along fine without this one and now I'm annoyed and have you J4asmieC to thank for that.
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Brady Kelly wrote:
So I am an incentived employee?
Motivated? Encouraged? Rewarded?
I can be motivated without an incentive, encouraged by praise, and I am rewarded at the end of every month.
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Now if anyone uses the 'Whatever' word within my hearing range, they usually end up running from the steam pouring out of my ears. :mad:
We can very close to putting that as an option, with Yes, and No, on confirmation dialogues for some girls in the office.
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One of my pet peaves is people who pronounce "Especially" as "Exspecially." Also, people who begin ever sentenc with "Uh." I.E. : "Uh, did you get the memo about those TPS reports" Also, I have the dumbest sister-in-law ever. She says the stupiest things. Last night we were at the in-laws and she microwaved something and got mad because when she took a bite of the food it was "Nuke Warm." I hate dumb people. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: As I remember more, I am sure I will be modifying this post
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Justin Perez wrote:
One of my pet peaves is people who pronounce "Especially" as "Exspecially."
I never hear that, but an old 'favourite' of mine is people pronouncing Xavier ex-savier. Then don;t even remind me of people getting their morning lift from a double expresso.
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Let me not forget "burglarized". What the heck is burglarized? When did this come into existence. I haven't got a problem with it being used by Americans, it's when I hear it being used by Brits that I want to bludgeon them over the head with a wet kipper. It's burgled people.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Ooh yes, that's a good one. :mad:
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Yes Pete, I hate burglarized too. How the hell did that come about? And on the same note how did car-jack come about? I mean hijack is not called "planejack". Its still hijack even if its a car, a boat your mobile phone. For that matter why did it have to change from just plane "stolen"?
Here we just call it hijack for cars. I was talking about a filling today, that I need replaced, because a few years ago I was hijacked in my car, and had a 9mm stuck in my mouth, which took a nice chip out of one of my molars.
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I gave up when Microspeak enabled any English adjective to be used as a verb. I remote, you remote, they remoted, we shall remote, he remotes, aaaarg, I remotely considered resorting to the meaning of Liff and defining a Redmond as "a word used repeatedly in the wrong part of speach by a company who's dictionaries are used by more people than any other." The only problem is MS would probably redfine this as a describe and I would finally go mad:doh:
Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.
Matthew Faithfull wrote:
...I remotely considered resorting to the meaning of Liff and defining a Redmond as "a word used repeatedly in the wrong part of speach by a company who's dictionaries are used by more people than any other."
...a word used repeatedly in the wrong part of speach by a company whose dictionaries...