People that step out of the elevator then stop and have a conversation. Move the f#(k over! Everyone else has places to be!
See Post #62.
And conversely, “litigious” does have a spurious “i” in it. How did that ever come about? Why isn’t the word simply “litigous” ?
What about, “I could care less.”?
acknowledgment
They leave their unfinished drinks and jackets at the bar seat while smoking.
I sometimes find it a bit annoying when someone says to me “Can I ask you a question?” I’m always tempted to point out that they just did.
“Can I ask you a question?”
“You just did.”
“Oh, right. Can I ask you another question?”
“You just did.”
“…I think we may be here a while.”
I would assume the judgement-free zone at the gym refers to the employees – that they will not give you attitude if you are not up to the physical standard of those 20-something gym bunnies. That sort of attitude toward their customers is rather notorious in gyms, and is something that really turns off customers. They are trying to say that their employees won’t treat you like that.
This doesn’t happen often but drives me nuts for some reason when it does: If there’s someone on TV/radio talking about some baby product, they refer to the baby as “baby” , not “The baby” For example : 'The harness loops around so its not uncomfortable for baby" or the like. Just seems too cutesy or something, I dont know. But, I admit I’m biased, not really a baby/kid loving person.
So am I. I think they are appealing to the parent, who has a unique, beautiful, witty, supremely intelligent child. This product isn’t for the baby, it is for your Perfect Baby.
Hey! Did you know that Brooklyn is the second most expensive place to live in the entire USA, behind only Manhattan? And that Manhattan is a terrible name for a child?
Senegoid - I can’t believe I did that, it was a typo. I definitely know the difference
When you become Queen of the World, I want to be your Prime Minister. Together we will ban all of these and MORE!
U 2 R over xcited.
I never assumed that the people so memorialized were murdered, necessarily. Aren’t they sometimes the victims of ordinary traffic accidents?
In a related vein, it bugs me when English writers or–ahem–translators?–feel they must use the word “soccer” if they are writing for or speaking to Americans. Don’t worry, you can say football, and unless you are specifically talking about North America we will understand you mean what we call “soccer”.
(In the interest of fairness, I realize that in some cases it could be American editors who do this as well.)
Because then it would look as if we were supposed to pronounce it with a hard ‘g’.
Speaking of WE TV, I used to see their commercials on other cable stations, back before I cut the cord. This was when they were using “We Are Family” as their theme music, but they would only sing the “We”:
As follows:
Not hearing the other words was like stepping on a last step that isn’t that isn’t there. It drove me nuts.