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MikeW

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People who leave coffee granules in the sugar bowl at work

 

This one million times.

 

And people who literally do not know what the word literally means but don't let that stop them using it.

 

Edit* Spotted Kenilworth Tiger beat me to it*

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co-workers. No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

its colleagues. COLLEAGUES!!!1

 

If you work for certain Americans it's "associates", as in

 

"Due to ongoing challenges we're going to have to let some associates go to pursue alternative opportunities"

 

Business-speak is a true Orwellian nightmare.

"I am the avenging angel; I come with wings unfurled, I come with claws extended from halfway round the world. I am the God Almighty, I am the howling wind. I care not for your family; I care not for your kin. I come in search of terror, though terror is my own; I come in search of vengeance for crimes and crimes unknown. I care not for your children, I care not for your wives, I care not for your country, I care not for your lives." - (c) Jim Boyes - "The Avenging Angel"

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People who start sentences with "so"

 

 

this is a strange new phenomenon.

 

you hear it a lot recently when people are being interviewed......i first noticed that any aussie folk being interviewed started their sentence with "listen" and not long afterwards all sorts of british folk seem to have started their responses with "so"....very bizarre

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Sycophants

The worst of all are those who add comments to the chief executives blog on the intranet

"Fantastic blog Ian! It's great to have someone share this with us. I look forward to hearing more about how we can take the company forward"

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So there is this guy in the office who, like, walks around talking on his mobile, and like, scuffs his trainers on the carpet like a teenager, like every single step. It's sooooooooo irritating.

 

I also get annoyed when people use "like" unnecessarily in a pause when speaking.

 

And like someone else mentioned "should of", "would of" and "could of".

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The use of "har ass" for harass

People who put the stress on the last syllable in Cumbrian place names

It's NOT PenRITH, BowNESS, SkaFELL or FurNESS the stress should on the first syllable.

Finally can people please remember that lose is spelt lose. Loose has a different meaning altogether.

Pedants who point out Furness is a Lancashire district.

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WearyRhino

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Couples who, when out supermarket shopping, spot another couple they know doing the same and then start a lengthy conversation standing there each with a trolley blocking the aisle.

 

Drivers who park their motor vehicles on pavements making it impossible for wheelchair users or parents with buggies to get by without going on the road and endangering themselves.

 

People who park in disabled bays and excuse their behaviour with "I'll only be a second".

 

Hen/stag parties that plague York city centre every weekend.

 

People who go into a quality real/craft ale bar/pub and try to order Carlsberg/Stella/Carling.

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Couples who, when out supermarket shopping, spot another couple they know doing the same and then start a lengthy conversation standing there each with a trolley blocking the aisle.

 

Drivers who park their motor vehicles on pavements making it impossible for wheelchair users or parents with buggies to get by without going on the road and endangering themselves.

 

People who park in disabled bays and excuse their behaviour with "I'll only be a second".

 

Hen/stag parties that plague York city centre every weekend.

 

People who go into a quality real/craft ale bar/pub and try to order Carlsberg/Stella/Carling.

 

Hangings too good for them. 

"it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it."

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Couples who, when out supermarket shopping, spot another couple they know doing the same and then start a lengthy conversation standing there each with a trolley blocking the aisle.

 

Drivers who park their motor vehicles on pavements making it impossible for wheelchair users or parents with buggies to get by without going on the road and endangering themselves.

 

People who park in disabled bays and excuse their behaviour with "I'll only be a second".

 

Hen/stag parties that plague York city centre every weekend.

 

People who go into a quality real/craft ale bar/pub and try to order Carlsberg/Stella/Carling.

 

There's a cave near me advertising for a hermit and having reviewed your application we would like to offer you a job.

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Tiny Tim

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Management away days like today.

Management away days with personality tests when you've known everyone in your team for well over a year.

Personality tests that rate you as a colour. "He's not blue, he's a narcissistic bully".

People who organise a set lunch for a management away day and assume everyone likes chicken.

External consultants who specialise in facilitating management away days who have never actually been senior managers themselves.

The word facilitating.

 

Sounds like it must be that time of year.

 

On my recent trip to the states we did 'team building' and we had some shouty yank consultant (he was red) colour code us all using insightful questions that revealed exactly who we are....we then had to do bl**dy role playing to help us understand how others communicate and how we are perceived. All this while being presented with an absolutely pathetic attempt at a cup of tea that was like drinking tepid dishwater.

 

I've done the colour thing before a few years back and appreciate some of it has value, but they really have built this up beyond belief and anyone with even a modest awareness of their fellow humans probably figured out most of this in early childhood.

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Tiny Tim

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People who say 'tuna fish' - as opposed to the other sort of tuna?

 

The people who decided bacon is dangerous.

 

American immigration officers who decide to open 5 desks for US citizens and 1 desk for rest of world (despite the flight coming from Europe and the queue for rest of world being 5 times the size of the US queue).

 

Companies that define their employees as US or ROW (rest of World). Too difficult to learn other country names is it!!!!!

 

Chatty people on planes. Shut up I want to sleep not talk to you for 9 hours.

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Kenilworth Tiger

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Personalised number plates

Now then, it's a race between Sandie....and Fairburn....and the little man is in........yeees he's in.

I, just like those Castleford supporters felt that the ball should have gone to David Plange but he put the bit betwen his teeth...and it was a try

Kevin Ward - best player I have ever seen

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The real Mick Gledhill is what you see on here, a Bradford fan ........, but deep down knows that Bradford are just not good enough to challenge the likes of Leeds & St Helens.
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John Rhino

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Using "dove" as the past tense of dive.

Companies (just about every one these days) with "solution" in their name.

When I see Floor Covering Solutions Ltd I'm always tempted to ask what they are dissolved in.

And walling solutions on a pallet of bricks seen on a building site, made me want to weep.

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Kenilworth Tiger

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Especially the low rent ones, where the owner has convinced themselves that that random array of oddly spaced letters, numbers and black capped mounting screws somehow represents their name. 1.1.14NK3R5

spot on

 

C11NTS with a great big black screw at the bottom of the 1's the lot of 'em!!

Now then, it's a race between Sandie....and Fairburn....and the little man is in........yeees he's in.

I, just like those Castleford supporters felt that the ball should have gone to David Plange but he put the bit betwen his teeth...and it was a try

Kevin Ward - best player I have ever seen

DSC04156_edited-1_thumb.jpg

The real Mick Gledhill is what you see on here, a Bradford fan ........, but deep down knows that Bradford are just not good enough to challenge the likes of Leeds & St Helens.
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