Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

Whoever clipped their nails in this conference room and left the clippings behind.

"nice to e-meet you"

"nice to e-meet you"

best regards

Kthx

Kthxbye

can't believe we're at almost a decade of calling people disgusting savages for having harmless quirks of speech or manner

excessive hyperbole is the ultimate act of disgusting savagery

You’ve heard of zone 1 joggers

Get ready for the well-meaning but even more infuriating sequel: New Year’s resolution zone 1 joggers

This is why I don’t run in public, unless to a bus I’m scared to miss.

best regards

This is why I don’t run in public, unless to a bus I’m scared to miss.

That’s all of them! I live bang in the centre of Z1 and the only healthy activity I aspire to in public is walking some kind of sighthound. Runners-up in self-important fitness assholism are Lincoln’s Inn legal types with early-morning personal trainer appointments in the Fields.

One of my first jobs my boss signed his emails simply 'Best' then his name. I thought he couldn't decide whether to say 'regards', 'wishes' etc.

maybe he was saying he was the Best Jeff out of all Jeffs or something

Yeah I considered that too!
Best,
kinder

william shatner used to sign all of his tweets "my best, bill", sometimes shortening it to "MBB"

I like 'Best' as a sign-off

im a regardsman

_self-important fitness assholism_
Yup

i am a 'Best' user too. its okay. definitely un-savage.

i switched from 'best regards' to 'cheers' like 18 months ago and it's been lifechanging tbh

I don't like 'cheers', I tolerate it as a blood sausage jolly good wut wut thing from olde Britaine but from anyone else it's even more of an eye roll

i am a 'Best' user too. its okay. definitely un-savage.

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, January 14, 2020 5:35 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

So in conclusion, just write your name at the bottom because apparently everything else is Savage

Laters.

I use 'best' more than half the time.

How do we feel about “Warm Regards”?

"Moist Regards,"

Great now my head goes to Moist Depends

I have a correspondant who signs "Truly" which I absolutely adore but cannot come to adopt it myself

https://i.imgur.com/h1KT3nX.jpg

I don't like 'cheers', I tolerate it as a blood sausage jolly good wut wut thing from olde Britaine but from anyone else it's even more of an eye roll

― juntos pedemos (Euler), Tuesday, January 14, 2020 11:42 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah if you are saying this and aren't British it's v grating

sorry everyone

cheers, vg

I've gotten where I sign emails with either just my first name (without a hyphen), or a hyphen and first initial (sometimes lower-case).

vg I think you should lean into it with a full cheerio

indubitably yours,

brownie

yours excrementally,

vg

I think we need to return to elaborate 19th century signoffs. Wouldn't getting an email that ended with "I Remain, Your Stalwart And Loyal Friend" or whatever brighten up your day?

the misplaced comma would dampen it a little

Misplaced by contemporary standards, but when you see a letter in a novel by Dickens or Trollope or whoever, that's exactly how it's written. So you gotta go with it, for full accuracy.

Fuck off,

Neanderthal

P.S. And suck my dick

http://simonkidner.co.uk/george_letters/george28_scan.jpg

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/ERHEXH/anthony-trollope-signed-fascimile-letter-from-the-english-novelist-ERHEXH.jpg

dickens definitely liked underlining his name too often, and i'm not claiming no literary figure in the 19th century ever mistakenby used a single comma to cut subject off from verb, but the correct form was this:
i:
"I Remain Your Stalwart And Loyal Friend,
Grawlix Unperson
ii: (or possibly, occasionally and ornately)
"I Remain, As God Is My My Witness, Your Stalwart And Loyal Friend,
Grawlix Unperson

If Dickens used a fountain pen it’s totally excusable imo

he shd have used a red felt tip he's cancelled imo

wot, americans are using "cheers"?

I sign off all my work emails correctly with "I love you"

Many xposts but I don't actually mind 'best', I was just thrown by it first time.

wot, americans are using "cheers"?

It'll be 'toodle pip' next.

the only people who have said cheers to me have been Britons .or people who have been about to glass me.

All this agita around sign offs is just a veil for our collective misanthropy

A long time ago I worked for a British literary agent who varied her sign-offs from ‘yours sincerely’ to ‘best wishes’ to ‘love’ depending on the mood she was in with the recipient. British publishing is full of people micro-analysing written interaction, obviously. We took dictation of the letters and when we got to signing off, she’d mention that someone accustomed to ‘love’ was getting ‘yours sincerely’ that day and our reactions were oooOOOooo.