Today I Consign To Hell -the All Saints version

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  • MMMMMM Shipmate
    Hmm. I remember being in the airport longe in Lima. The place was empty apart from me, Macarius and a band playing 'Hey Jude' repeatedly on the panpipes. We went to the other side if the lounge and round a corner -and the band followed us....

    MMM
  • In our case, we flew from Lima to La Paz -- where we were greeted by a Bolivian band of panpipers playing "El Condor Pasa."
  • finelinefineline Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Ha, years ago, I had a tape of panpipes playing hymns - I loved it. Maybe the novelty of sound I hadn’t heard before.
  • MooMoo Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Broken washing machines in laundromats. I have a pillow which needs washing. It's too big to go in my machine. The nearby laundromat has eight very large machines. I took my pillow there today, and ALL of them were out of order.
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    I'm an admin on a website about women in history. We also have a facebook page. Over half of the people who contact the facebook page are men who are under the impression that our page is some sort of a dating site. Yesterday I posted a piece about a woman who designed a landscape for an estate. She died in 1805. Today, I'm deleting more crap of the "Hello, lovely ladies!" variety. Fortunately, none of the rubbish has been obscene or aggressive, but seriously? Why do some random men find a facebook page about long-dead women and think it's some sort of invitation to post about how they love women and would like to get together with one?
  • sionisaissionisais Shipmate
    I rather thought the 'Pan Pipes' stuff was recent history - IIRC, I haven't heard such sh**e for ages. Wasn't there some ghastly Peruvian (or somewhere) band that purveyed it?

    But yes, I concur. <votive> for Mrs. Smiff and her benighted ilk....

    IJ

    I think the "musical" instrument you refer to is the ocarina, sometimes called the "Peruvian Nose Flute" by the much missed Ray Moore.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    TICTH "reaching out" when it just means "contacting"
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    KarlLB wrote: »
    TICTH "reaching out" when it just means "contacting"
    Yes yes yes! I'm glad it's not just me.
  • the only time you should use Reach Out at work
  • CaissaCaissa Shipmate
    TICTH the Toronto Blue Jays management.
  • So here's a minor, but constant frustration: people (especially interviewees on television) who begin every comment with, "So ...". [Devil]

    This is a relatively new thing IMO.
  • So here's a minor, but constant frustration: people (especially interviewees on television) who begin every comment with, "So ...". [Devil]

    This is a relatively new thing IMO.

    This has been driving me crazy for a couple of years now. It's not just on television -- I attended a panel discussion a couple of weeks ago. Every single one of the panelists started her answer with "So..."


  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Definitely one for the deepest pit! I was with my sister when she was considering replacing her laptop, and the (really very nice) embryo in the shop began his answer to her every question with "So".

    I don't know where the habit comes from*, but it's spread to the written word: I have several Facebook friends (all considerably younger than me) whose posts nearly always begin with "So".

    * but I suspect American or Australian television.
  • An alternate opinion...from 2011!
    The new So stands at the end of a continuum of sentence-starters that begins with with Uh or Um (which say, “I didn’t really expect your question and am not sure how to answer it, so give me a minute”) and continues with Well (“I didn’t expect the question, but I’ve got an answer and here it comes”) and Oh (“You have presented me some new information; I have absorbed it.”) So says, “I understand the question and how it displays your incomplete knowledge of the subject. What follows is an answer that will help you comprehend what’s really going on and, in addition, suggest a unified theory of the reality.”
    https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2011/12/02/so-it-turns-out-that-everyones-starting-sentences-with-so/
  • In Metro, a free newspaper found on buses and trains in the U.K., most letters from Jo/e Public begin “So,” giving the whole communication a whiny, passive-aggressive tone (with side order of entitlement)
  • i used to do the same thing in German "Allllsoooooo......" when I knew what I wanted to say in English, but just needed time to work out the translation in my head.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited August 2018
    Similarly I notice that people whose first language is a Slavic one tend to begin their responses in English with the word "Actually .,.,".

    If I can add another hellish phrase, it's "going forward", as in "We're seeking to develop plans for the future, going forward". So: where else could we go? (And don't quote "Back to the Future" at me!!!)
  • Hearing "Going forward" instantly makes me lose 100 brain cells. And I can scarcely afford to.
  • Can I add the new habit of referring to any group of people of whatever age as "guys"? As in the waitress asking myself and Darllenwr "And what can I get for you guys?"
  • Priscilla wrote: »
    Can I add the new habit of referring to any group of people of whatever age as "guys"? As in the waitress asking myself and Darllenwr "And what can I get for you guys?"

    Unfortunately, it's not new. It's a battle I've been fighting for many years.
    :rage:
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited August 2018
    Can't we conflate these: "So what can I get for you guys, going forward?"
  • I get cross with interviewees who use the word ‘obviously’ in their answer. It may be obvious to them, but not to us, which is why they were asked the question in the first place.
  • Flies. Driving me mad while picking fruit. How do cows stay so calm?

  • Flies! Eugh.

    Oxygen thieves on 6-figure salaries who contribute or deliver absolutely nothing to the division or university. But we have no money for training.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    So here's a minor, but constant frustration: people (especially interviewees on television) who begin every comment with, "So ...". [Devil]

    This is a relatively new thing IMO.

    I saw what you did there. :wink:
  • Picking up a load of dirt in a little utility trailer which gets a flat tire which means must unload the dirt on the side of the road detach trailer from car by using car jack then jack up side of trailer to get wheel off. Get to a tire shop which has a tire go to second tire shop for a wheel rim. Then back to trailer to put on tire and hitch up trailer. Then shovel dirt back into trailer. Then drive. Then shovel dirt off of trailer.

    Delivery by dump truck is $100 for $15 worth of dirt. Wheel was $55. Tire was $58. Or It could be t'other way round. Either way shovelled dirt 3x and paid more. I am toast, soggy pathetic toast.

    On the "so", there's many who use "well" the same way. Myself, I have decided to use f*** in place of both.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    ... On the "so", there's many who use "well" the same way. Myself, I have decided to use f*** in place of both.
    After the day you've had, I don't think anyone would blame you. :smiley:

  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited August 2018
    So what's the problem with starting sentences with so?

    Actually, I think I'd better get me coat.

    F*** it, I'll go nekkid...

    Obviously that's the better choice.

    IJ
  • So there!
  • So what?
  • Actually (and risking Hostly Wrath), that's a good answer!
    :warning:

    IJ
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    I was listening to an interview on the radio. The interviewee said "at this moment in time" and I realised I hadn't heard that phrase for ages. It used to annoy me, but now I feel a certain nostalgia for it.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Maybe you just haven't been moving in the right circles ... :mrgreen:
  • MooMoo Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    ?

    Actually, I think I'd better get me coat.

    F*** it, I'll go nekkid...

    Obviously that's the better choice.

    IJ

    Better for who?

  • A double-header...

    Those who do not know proper urinal etiquette. If there are 3, and I am using #1, you go to #3, not #2.

    And those who don't wash their hands afterwards. Was it Seinfeld who said, "At least pretend"?
  • LeoLeo Shipmate
    More hygenic to wash your hands BEFORE
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    Surely it's not an either / or??
  • Surely.

    TICTH the wanker who has parked in my apartment car space.
  • I’ll second that.
  • The ubiquitous use of "being alongside" by clerics when they mean sharing, accompanying or showing solidarity :angry:

  • Those who reply to an enquiry like “How do you do?”with “I’m good”.

    No. It isn’t for you to say. Stop it.
  • People who enquire 'How do you do?'

    How do I do what ?

    Be specific, and, if you actually mean 'How are you as regards your health?', be prepared to listen to a lengthy answer.

    IJ
  • LeoLeo Shipmate
    manners
  • LeoLeo Shipmate
    by which I mean that asking 'How do you do?' is the way people are taught to greet. What would you prefer? 'God, you're ugly, aren't you?'
  • Well, in my case, that might at least be appropriate!
    :grimace:

    IJ
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I'm happy enough with "how do you do?", but I completely agree about "I'm good" when what's meant is "I'm well".
  • It may well have been a thread on the previous Ship that I got the reply from, but when someone says "I'm good" in reply to my "How are you?" my further reply is that "That is for Santa to decide."
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Good answer! :mrgreen:
  • JapesJapes Shipmate
    No, I am not your sweetheart, darling, dear, love, lovely, gorgeous or any other variation thereof if we have only ever met for a passing transaction for approximately 30 seconds and especially if you have spent most of that time conversing with your colleagues or a customer who is more interesting/better known to you than I am.

    I am beginning to register that these, in my part of the world at least, seem to be replacing "Please/thank you." and am off to put this to the test.

  • Oh, Japes, I feel the same way. It drives me crazy sometimes! May I add to your list by saying that when they tell me "perfect" when I hand over the money to pay or do something similar to that, I always want to ask if someone has recently received a score of "imperfect" or at least a rating lower than "perfect". The departing wish to "have a good one" is also making me a little crazy. Oh my, I must be getting old!
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