Words or phrases that annoy you

Flyonthewall

barbiedoll wrote: »

Aaarrggghh!!! (And no, it didn't work. It never does)

barbiedoll wrote: »

Yes, yes, I do know all this, I'm actually quite computer literate unlike some of our so-called I.T "experts" at work. I told the guy that I had the same issue on 3 different machines, that it was a clearly a password access issue and that he probably needed to reset my access levels. And yet he still asked me to turn it off and on again. Which, unsurprisingly, didn't work. As I knew it wouldn't! :mad:

Well that's a whole other story that you didn't include before. It's also just one time and you said it never works, hence why you got them replies. Sure, in that case it wouldn't work, but in others it would.

Frogletina wrote: »

My computer keeps losing the volume control on my task bar.

Last week I had to switch it off and back on again three or four times in a row before if reappeared.

frogletina

Um, good for you? I assume your point is based on the fact I said "Computers often do need to be shut down and restarted in order to start up properly without the error because they often just glitch and the error is forgotten once shut down."? Which is true, but that doesn't mean it can't glitch multiple times in the same way, requiring a few restarts.

Sometimes things become corrupted and in that case a restart may resolve it or a few restarts may resolve it (although it's not always a permanent fix) and other times more needs to be done, it depends what is causing it.

There are odd things a computer may remember despite a restart. Again it depends on what is causing it. For the most part though it closes everything down, forgets all and restarts as it should be.

Loz01

People who say "pacifically" instead of "specifically" :mad:

Definitely the over use of the word "literally"... "Ive literally got your back!!!" er no you don't, or the person would be dead and you'd be in possession of a spine if you LITERALLY had their back. Jeez.

Frogletina

Flyonthewall wrote: »

Um, good for you? I assume your point is based on the fact I said "Computers often do need to be shut down and restarted in order to start up properly without the error because they often just glitch and the error is forgotten once shut down."? Which is true, but that doesn't mean it can't glitch multiple times in the same way, requiring a few restarts.

Sometimes things become corrupted and in that case a restart may resolve it or a few restarts may resolve it (although it's not always a permanent fix) and other times more needs to be done, it depends what is causing it.

There are odd things a computer may remember despite a restart. Again it depends on what is causing it. For the most part though it closes everything down, forgets all and restarts as it should be.

I was agreeing with you, just giving an example of how restarting a computer solves a problem which I'm always getting.

It was unusual that it took more than one restart this time but I wasn't trying to invalidate what you had said.

frogletina

Flyonthewall

Frogletina wrote: »

I was agreeing with you, just giving an example of how restarting a computer solves a problem which I'm always getting.

It was unusual that it took more than one restart this time but I wasn't trying to invalidate what you had said.

frogletina

Oh right, fair enough Sorry, it's just usually when people reply like that they're trying to prove me wrong so I assumed you were doing the same with saying it took a few tries.

I've had to restart a computer more than once too to resolve issues. Usually once is enough but sometimes computers like to be awkward

NBLondon

ItsJordannn wrote: »

I used to work in a retail store and if we didn't have a product in stock, we had to tell the customer to order it off our website.

"Hey you! Leopard-print straighteners! Get off that website!" (Add smiley here to show good intentions).


Order it on the website (you have to be on the website to place the order) or from or through the website. Or even - a true pedant would then expect you to place an order in store - which is by definition - off the website.


I find "Off of" even more annoying. As in, "I saw him off of Eastenders in the Gents at Nandos"

anon123456

What makes me so very angry is people who say
"Chomping at the bit"

I will be CHAMPING at the bit to punch you hard in the face when I hear this.

Also someone on a very early page said they hated a couple saying "we are pregnant"
I could not disagree more with this.

When my wife and I fell pregnant with our first daughter we told her parents and she used "we" not "I"
It took us over a year of trying and it isn't just the woman who changes and grows (literally and figuratively) it is a significant change to the Dad's as well.
I vehemently defend that it is a great and heart-warming sentence

jackieblack

anon123456 wrote: »

I vehemently defend that it is a great and heart-warming sentence

But factually and biologically incorrect


Both parents may be expecting a baby, but until medical science finds a way for men to gestate a foetus, only females can become pregnant.

Izadora

anon123456 wrote: »

Also someone on a very early page said they hated a couple saying "we are pregnant"
I could not disagree more with this.

You can disagree all you like but, until a man spends nine months growing a baby, you'll be wrong.

I fully understand people saying "We're having a baby", as that's definitely something which is happening to both of you, but it will only ever be the woman who is pregnant.

PenguinOfDeath

barbiedoll wrote: »

Yes, yes, I do know all this, I'm actually quite computer literate unlike some of our so-called I.T "experts" at work. I told the guy that I had the same issue on 3 different machines, that it was a clearly a password access issue and that he probably needed to reset my access levels. And yet he still asked me to turn it off and on again. Which, unsurprisingly, didn't work. As I knew it wouldn't! :mad:

Unfortunately the IT 'expert' is probably a first line 'bod' who just reads off a script, and has to tick off question before moving to the next one.

Maybe thank your less than computer literate colleagues for that!

TBagpuss

anon123456 wrote: »

What makes me so very angry is people who say
"Chomping at the bit"

I will be CHAMPING at the bit to punch you hard in the face when I hear this.

Also someone on a very early page said they hated a couple saying "we are pregnant"
I could not disagree more with this.

When my wife and I fell pregnant with our first daughter we told her parents and she used "we" not "I"
It took us over a year of trying and it isn't just the woman who changes and grows (literally and figuratively) it is a significant change to the Dad's as well.
I vehemently defend that it is a great and heart-warming sentence

I have to admit it annoys me, too. You're both expecting a baby, ou're both going to have a child/baby, but only one of you is actually pregnant.

The idea that you 'fall' pregnant is also a bit irritating. Makes it sound like an unfotunate tripping accident!

Another phrase which annoys me is "hence why". If you use 'hence' you don't need to add 'why'. Hence means 'as a consequence' or 'for this reason' or 'this is why', so adding an extra 'why' is redundant.

And anything which starts "I'm not ________ but..."