Ok....add your rant to this thread..one at a time please....

My rant...

Why do people use alpha characters in phone numbers?..(is this just a US thing?)...do they think we are such retards that we can't dial 734-8974 or whatever?......

We had a power cut last night and I had to dial..1-800-4OUTAGE.......OK I remembered it now, which I guess is the point, but I still had to look it up...I hadn't remembered it from last time...

It's hard enough trying to see the numbers by fading torchlight let alone the f*******g letters....

So people out there...give me numbers......I can handle them...


End of rant...next?

Alan - it's only in the US, and lets hope it's not another piece of cr*p US culture that migrates over here.....

You've probably guess my rant for the day

It's coming, sure I've seen it on some telly progs. Top of the pops I think (the wife watches OK!)

Them what can't spell? Phones with chellspeckers anybody.

Glad my numbers not 867737!!













tosser btw

They've used it in England for years.... well they have down here anyway... you not seen the advert with Holly Valence in.. where you can dial this new number to make a reverse charge call... whats wrong with ringing the operator, i ask 0800 Reverse or something

People dont tend to bother with the letters thing now... but they used too! Hence why we have letters on the phone keypad

OH btw Peteff.. it's spelt dyslexics... i should know

Hmmm, I'm not convinced it's a bad idea - you don't get to locostbuilders by typing 217.204.9.252 do you? It's just a memory thing, granted you didn't remember 4outage, but you're more likely to than just any old number. Over here 0800 numbers try to be as easily remembered as possible, but there's so many now you're likely to confuse them, whereas 0800 admiral or similar would be a lot easier, the 6 character restriction would be a big problem though, and I'd image a lot would end up pretty contrived as a result. Didn't old exchange numbers used to spell out names?

Kingr

There's a new slimming club started up in scotland the number is 0800 808080. get it

My rant for today (and every f***ing day for that matter) is the use of the phrase:

"At the end of the day"

If you've ever had the misfortune to see Trisha or other similar crappy morning chatshow type thing then you'll understand.

Oh, and people that end a sentance with the word:

"So"

I just hate the use of pointless phrases etc.......

Thats it, I feel better now, so.....

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Originally posted by Jasper
lets hope it's not another piece of cr*p US culture that migrates over here.....

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The phrase "Be all and end all" whats that all about. The word "Pro-active" gets on my t1t5 As does People who call me between 5 & 7 pm and ask for Mr Bircumshaw. My Boss who thinks by giving me a fancy job title instead of more money, along with many many other things. My wife says i'm a cross between Victor meldrew and Becker. Damn right i am

[Edited on 12/4/04 by dave1888]

Northy,
You'd just love it up here in Scotland as there are parts of Glasgow and other places where they end their sentences with "but." or "by the way." The former drives me nuts!! "But" what!!

I think the use of meaningless sentence endings is mainly an american thing but it seems to have migrated to some extent. How about, "... at this point" or "... at this time" etc etc.

The other one I hate is "Basically...."

I'm off to watch telly but.
Cheers,
Craig.

aghhh, Craig you've reminded me of one of my pet hates - people who keep saying "yeah?" or "ok?" after every sentence, it's so patronising, and you can't even ignore it, because they require you to make some sort of noise of confirmation after every one of their sentences. Without fail they're always saying something totally mundane anyway - "I've got this problem, yeah?" "yes...." "It's, like, my computer, yeah?" "yes...." "My computer's, like, not working, yeah?", and so on.

Ughh, I just want to strangle some people.

Kingr

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Originally posted by Jasper
lets hope it's not another piece of cr*p US culture that migrates over here.....

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Oh, heck, Jasper, we're still not even for Benny Hill yet

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Welsh people who ask you "where you too?"

"where you what?" (in best posh accent)

When what them mean is "where are you from?"

And the really strong somerset accent "errrrrrr, you seen me comb'n 'avester round errrrr mate - lost it when I'sss drunk too much ciderrrrr, ohhh arrr"

basically, at the end of the day, i use loads of, like, annoying phrases, cos i talk too fast anyway, if you know what i mean. its like, ya know, a way of letting people catch up, but when push comes to shove, why not? alls well as ends well...

Absolutely

While we're on the subject then - why are there loads of "ken's" in Scotland?

Like... "I've been waiting for you.... ken"
"ken... let's see if he's in"

also... whats "Pish"?

...and the like - makes me laugh!

anyroad... am guing nagh...!

[Edited on 13-4-04 by Hellfire]

I hate with a vengence businesses that put you on hold when you phone them up.
Especially having to listen to that crap music.

If they don't have anyone to answer the phone then why make you pay for the privilege of waiting! Whatever happened to the engaged tone?
As if you have nothing better to do than just sit/stand there listening to some crap canned music for 15/30 minutes at a time! Aaaaaargh!
If it was decent music it might not be so bad, but I wonder if anyone within the company has ever listened to how bad it sounds and it repeats before ending properly.

By the time you get through you've forgotten what you were ringing about cuz you're so angry!


A minor hate is the misspelling of the abreviation of etcetera!
It is etc. Not ect!

Terry


[Edited on 13/4/04 by Spyderman]

People who say "the thing is, is that....."

Oh yes and welsh people er and northeners and scots and foreigners and er anyone thats not me basically

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If it was decent music it might not be so bad

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Originally posted by JoelP

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Originally posted by Spyderman
If it was decent music it might not be so bad

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NTL actually had a good tune once, which was just as well cos i spent about an hour on hold over the week.

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What's wrong with NOW . and the twots who commentate on f1 with P1 and P2 really P me off. My brother in law is from Edinburgh and he used the but and byderwee all the time. Another of his sayings was thingummy, pronounced hingmee. Also people who end a sentence with "yeah" for no reason. My relatives in Leicestershire also leave small words out of sentences like "We're going Harborough" instead of making sense you have to fill in the blanks. The "ken" thing is like the English "you know" which crops up every other syllable in footballer talk. If it wasn't for regional differences we would all sound like the Queen and nobody would be able to say where you sound like you come from and Crimewatch would be clueless.
I hate linguistics, in fact I hate all Italian food.

Hellfire,
You don't know what "Pish" is? You must be talking pish surely...

It's slang for urine and is used as a slightly milder form of, "You are talking sh1t"

It's also used commonly to describe how well our national team plays football!!

Cheers,
Craig.

ps. I bet I get a brick through my window within 5 minutes of posting this for even suggesting such a thing...

yeah, and we're stuck with your old manager too......

Alan B

(Preston exile)

Aye Scotland fitba Pure pish byraway

I Liked

'hows my driving? Ring 1-800-f^ck-you'

atb

steve