How about people who start new threads about topics already being discussed, often with an oblique title and just a link to a news article in the post?
At risk of irritating my good friends Snaky and Madame Nef, would it be possible to stop posts that include Twitter and similar links without added comment? Begging yer pardon, Majesty
At risk of irritating my good friends Snaky and Madame Nef, would it be possible to stop posts that include Twitter and similar links without added comment? Begging yer pardon, Majesty
I like the way that embedded tweets usually include the link plus the comment. You can choose to click through or not - but crucially, unlike with links - you already know whether it's of interest to you.
At risk of irritating my good friends Snaky and Madame Nef, would it be possible to stop posts that include Twitter and similar links without added comment? Begging yer pardon, Majesty
People standing in shop doorways, or in the middle of a supermarket aisle (even more so when they aren't actually looking at anything and are on the phone), or any other narrow space where they don't need to be standing, therefore preventing anyone getting past without coming within a metre of them. Or people on a footpath who stop to talk to someone they know, and then stand either side of the path, requiring everyone else to pass between them, when they could just as easily both stand to the side and get their own 2m separation longways.
People standing in shop doorways, or in the middle of a supermarket aisle (even more so when they aren't actually looking at anything and are on the phone), or any other narrow space where they don't need to be standing, therefore preventing anyone getting past without coming within a metre of them. Or people on a footpath who stop to talk to someone they know, and then stand either side of the path, requiring everyone else to pass between them, when they could just as easily both stand to the side and get their own 2m separation longways.
They're neither ridiculous nor trivial irritations.
Worse than people writing Chrimbo is people saying Chrimbo. If you want to abbreviate Christmas by saying a word shorter than Christmas, then it needs to be one syllable. Chrim would work. Or Smas. Both would be annoying, but would make more sense.
Many Germans pronounce it "iksmas"*. I understand why they pronounce it like that, but that doesn't make it any less bad.
(* There is, of course, a German word for Christmas. I'm talking about when they read it out loud from an English-language Christmas card, or when they want to offer me season's greetings in English.)
Further to that, people who post - instead of Happy Thanksgiving - Happy Turkey Day or Happy Gobble Gobble. I have a FB acquaintance who enjoys wishing everyone, on their birthday "Happy Happy to my nephew", etc. I've yet to see 'Happy Boo! Day on Halloween, but I'm sure it's not far off.
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