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Asset Wrote:

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> incorrect use of apostrophes

> hahahahahahahahahahahahaha, sorry.


I'm with you, Asset. It drives me up the wall.


Its - possessive use. No apostrophe. The dog eats its bone.

It's - shortened version of it is. It's raining today.


How f*cking hard is it?

Asset Wrote:

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> incorrect use of apostrophes

> hahahahahahahahahahahahaha, sorry.


I'm with you, Asset. It drives me up the wall.


Its - possessive use. No apostrophe. The dog eats its bone.

It's - shortened version of it is. It's raining today.


How f*cking hard is it?



Oh I did it on mine, apologies.


still very easily done when you are typing and elsewhere in your head.


pedant :)

I can understand the odd typo. It's when it's on a printed sign or a website. Someone should have checked it. (Abbey's website at the mo has this mistake...looking for a new mortgage deal and spotted it tonight so it's fresh in my mind.) My post was not meant as a personal dig. :)) Pedant? Moi? Perhaps I should get out more? Then I can get my blood truly boiling on public transport...

elfy, I was joshing, I found it funny in my twisted way to call someone a pedant on a thread about petty annoyances.


No apologies though for crapness of this posts content, typed on my phone, in bed, with cats arse in face again.


How do you all feel about semi colons by the way?

Random Game Show irritations:-

1/ Deal or No Deal: Person does not gamble and takes,say,?5,000...they play on and when the last 2 boxes ""would have been" either ?5 or ?20,000 they,when asked what they 2would2 have done if they had continued and not taken the money say:

"I would have gambled!"..Yeah RIGHT!B)

2/ Millionaire: 85% Audience tell him/her the answer and because he/she did not know themselves they hesitate over whether 85% all independently say the right answer!

3/ Millionaire:Contestants don't know the answer and then gofor a "50/50" Whats the point if you haven't a clue,by your own admission.

4/ Millionaire:Contestants who take a "50/50" to reduce the odds for their "phone-a-friend"..Do you think they are going to guess witgh YOUR money???...either they know the answer or not!..Wasted lifeline,again.

Then when the contestants get to the real money they bemoan the fact that they have no lifelines left!

5/ Millionaire:Contestants who waste lifelines when they are virtually certain that they do know the answer!

Seamusmac shoots and scores!


Tonyfromburbs - you missed the Millionaire one that gets me most - IF you are going to go for a 50/50, do NOT say out loud "I think it's between C & B" before going for a 50/50 only to find the two choices left are the same two you just gave away

Bloomin' pushchairs/buggys on buses and the attitude of the mothers that it's their RIGHT to bring the ruddy thing on board AND put it in the area they think is ONLY for them even on a packed bus followed by insulted dear old ladies for pointing out back in their day they had to manage without such luxuries, resulting in silly "21 yr old boys" joining in...


*breathes*


Mothers with babies taking up two seats on a bus (the second seat meaning the one you are already sitting on), elbows, baby sludge/food and rubbish everywhere AND having the cheek to explode at you when you want to get off the bus as if it's your fault for being in the way! Bloomin' 'eck how much space do they want!?!

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

Seamusmac shoots and scores!

IF you are going to go for a

50/50, do NOT say out loud "I think it's between C

& B" before going for a 50/50 only to find the two

choices left are the same two you just gave away


Agreed,and thats why it can NOT be "random". As you know the odds are 3/1 against the 2 options that they mention coming out(if we assume one of those "2" is the correct answer)..I was say over the hundreds of shows that I have seen around 50%+ of the time the "2" mentioned miraculously appears,accompanied by CT's "Oh! No!"...:X

Good spot, seamusmac.


KK, um isn't it someone's right to bring a buggy on board if there's space? I mean, presumably mother and baby need to get to wherever they're going just as much as you do? Have you ever tried standing on a packed bus holding a baby and hanging onto a folded buggy? It's really scary.


Agree re: the 2 seats though.


*awaits cut-and-paste post from Keef re: parents attacking everyone in the world who dares to criticise them*

"Have you ever tried standing on a packed bus holding a baby and hanging onto a folded buggy?"


Yes. It wasn't that long ago that unfolded prams weren't allowed on buses and was completely impossible on a Routemaster anyway. It's tricky, yes, but perfectly doable.


I was on a bus last week and there were two mothers with pushchairs who had to give way to a wheelchair. Absolute chaos ensued.


Wouldn't it be wise for one pram per bus to be the limit?


My absolute bugbear on buses is children sitting while adults stand. If they are too young to stand, sit them on your lap - if we don't inculcate good manners at a young age, what hope is there?


Right, I'll get me weasel and go to the Old Fogies Thread.

I've only done it once, and it scared the life out of me, because one hand for buggy and one for baby meant none for hanging on. I don't think it's a good idea at all.


Mothers with pushchairs should give way to wheelchairs, that's what the signs say. And most drivers do only allow only one or two - again, perfectly legit. I've quite often had to wait for the next bus, and I have no argument with that. But I do think that people with buggies have as much right as anyone else to travel, and it gets wearisome when able-bodied young people grumble and cast black looks at those of us who cause inconvenience to their swift journey. People are very quick to moan about the elderly, the young, the encumbered, when a little bit of courtesy and patience on all sides - and yes that certainly does include those who are being the nuisance, the Us in my argument - would make everything much more pleasant. I don't mind apologising for taking up a lot of space, or for having to ask people to move out of the way so I can get off. But I hate having to apologise for existing in my inconvenient way.

Melbourne's Wrote:

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> Men who sit with legs wide apart - no matter how

> big or small, its very uncomfortable to close legs

> together squashing the furniture, especially on

> train seats. Why do women like to keep their legs

> closed?


it would be too drafty otherwise.

thumbs aloft for that post Moos -


"a little bit of courtesy and patience on all sides " will help us with most things


Now, how about all of those people who huddle around teh space between teh doors and the bottom of the stairs when there is acres of space upstairs? And then give you the skunk eye when you have to pass through them from upstairs!

my big pa, is people deciding to park beside me when there are hundreds of spaces elsewhere, eg on the weekly trip to sainbos, i,ll park right down the back where there is plenty of room, as i,m sick of other eejits banging their doors into mine, there are dozens of empty bays yet inevitably when i come out some prick has parked in the bay beside me. why?
Oh dear, I feel got at now. I did sit with a totally strange baby on my lap from Brixton to Peckham. The point being that the mother seemed particularly inept and it didn't occur to her to fold up the pushchair when there was no baby in it to alleviate the congestion problem.

how can you have all missed the worst public transport annoyance of them all -

people who get on the train before you've had a chance to get off it!! believe it or not there are people out there who do this, and i swear one day i'm gonna be petulent and repeatedly side-step in their way on purpose, not allowing them on until they get the idea. - however i'll probly just bottle it up for the time being through fear of being knifed

Jimbob said

my big pa, is people deciding to park beside me when there are hundreds of spaces elsewhere, eg on the weekly trip to sainbos, i,ll park right down the back where there is plenty of room, as i,m sick of other eejits banging their doors into mine, there are dozens of empty bays yet inevitably when i come out some prick has parked in the bay beside me. why?


Always happens to me, regardless of where I park and how busy the supermarket is. You would think that baby seats and child seats on both sides would deter people also, it is very difficult strapping them in when you can't open the doors very wide.

It's great when a parent and child space is free but otherwise I am doomed to have a car that attracts others like flies to s**t.

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