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Parkdrive Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

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> > People with no disability taking a lift one floor!!!!!!!!!!!

>

> Or able bodied people parking in disbaled bays


It's not always what it seems. My dad was in a wheelchair and we had a blue badge for him. We had parked the car and gone into a shopping centre, but came out a different door. So, I left dad with mum, and walked back around and moved the car to the new door, parked in the disabled bay (as we are allowed) and went inside to fetch him. Halfway across the footpath I suddenly figured, "if anyone is watching this..."

Zebedee Tring Wrote:

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> next to them on trains, and then glare at you when

> you have the audacity to ask them to move their

> crap >



I actually experienced this last night... the look the woman gave me when politely (I know, I try!) asked to move her bag... and all I could think about was this thread the rest of the way home!


I that two or three rages there?


No wonder why I don't like people! :-|

That drives me nuts too Jah.


Don't know why so many British people were using 'mom' on mother's day either, spotted a particularly nauseating example on a friend's Facebook timeline (by his sister, not him). They are from Birmingham, not the one in Alabama.

People using Americanisms doesn't bother me in the slightest - language is cross-pollinating all the time. Americans use brit phrases too


there was never a time when language was "nailed down" and that's the version we should be using - that way lies madness!


All part of the give and take

Mustard Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

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> > People with no disability taking a lift one

> > floor!!!!!!!!!!!

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> How do you know they don't have a disability, not

> all are visible.



I'm aware of that, having a non visual disability myself, and working in the field for the last 12 years.


BUT


I'm 99.9999% sure the woman that did it yesterday was just a lazy cow, and I'm 100% certain that all the people that do it don't have disabilities.

"drives me nuts"


An early example of this phrase can be seen written in The Bilioxi Daily Herald, a newspaper printed in 1884. The idiom is written under an advice column, where people could write in asking a woman named Ann Landers for advice:



snigger...

Otta Wrote:

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> As in that's where the "rock up" thing has come

> from, not that Australians cause me irrational

> rage.



I quite like it - typically Aussie and often used when someone is late and doesn't care (ime) as in "when did you rock up?"


Reminds me of another Aussie saying I like - "Rack off!" (I think I got that from Joe Mangel).

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