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
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
sorry everyonecheers, vg
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 18:34 (four years ago) link
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).
― beard papa, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
vg I think you should lean into it with a full cheerio
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
indubitably yours,
brownie
― brownie, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
yours excrementally,vg
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 18:54 (four years ago) link
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?
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
the misplaced comma would dampen it a little
― mark s, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link
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.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
Fuck off,
Neanderthal
P.S. And suck my dick
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
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
― mark s, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
If Dickens used a fountain pen it’s totally excusable imo
― steer karma (gyac), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
he shd have used a red felt tip he's cancelled imo
― mark s, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
wot, americans are using "cheers"?I sign off all my work emails correctly with "I love you"
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
Many xposts but I don't actually mind 'best', I was just thrown by it first time.
― kinder, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 20:30 (four years ago) link
wot, americans are using "cheers"?
It'll be 'toodle pip' next.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 20:49 (four years ago) link
the only people who have said cheers to me have been Britons .or people who have been about to glass me.
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 20:50 (four years ago) link
All this agita around sign offs is just a veil for our collective misanthropy
― calstars, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
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.
― santa clause four (suzy), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 22:32 (four years ago) link
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 18:25 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
hi lads
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link
I heard it on the newsies wewsies
whimsical british "wordplay" is mortifying. feel ashamed even pasting this, but an actual prime minister quote:"We are working up a plan so people can bung a bob for a Big Ben bong"
― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
xp what no you are entitled by birth
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
also aussies, kiwis
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
MACLUNKEY
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:15 (four years ago) link
people who romanticise the rain
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 02:32 (four years ago) link
maybe the real disgusting savage is . . . you
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 03:47 (four years ago) link
Hugh
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 03:52 (four years ago) link
feeling v attacked by this thread today imo
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 05:24 (four years ago) link
People who sit at larger tables than they need in cafes & pubs, so when you go in as a group of four or more all the tables for four or more are taken up by one or two people even though all the tables for two are empty.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 09:14 (four years ago) link
my two local shops only sell grated bags of parmesan, it's fucking ridiculous because if you don't use it all in one go it goes mouldy after a few days. I like to grate how much I need as i go along thank you very much and a 300g block will work out cheaper and go much further and waste less plastic than 3 times 100g bags obv.
― calzino, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 15:22 (four years ago) link
Probably already covered itt but bears repeating after it happened to me twice this morning. Disgusting savages who impatiently inch forward into the crosswalk while pedestrians are legally crossing should lose their drivers licenses.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
A bus driver did this to me this morning. I stopped and turned toward the windshield, and it was the driver for my occasional afternoon route! She gave me a big wave, and I waved back thinking, "was this how you were trying to get my attention?"
― pplains, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
It was a bus that did it to me one of the times this morning! Not a bus I ride, so my thoughts were far less charitable after I was startled to see a bus coming at me out of the corner of my eye.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
A few weeks ago I had a bus lay on the horn behind me because I refused to gridlock the intersection as the light was turning red. Trying to stay on schedule, I suppose!
― Dan I., Tuesday, 3 March 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
Calz, grated Parmesan can live a long and happy shelf life once open, if stored in the freezer.
― santa clause four (suzy), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
frozen parmesan versus grated straight off the block though!
― calzino, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
Whatever’s on offer is what I buy - the one good thing we can say about my mum is she drilled me in food bargain strategies.
― santa clause four (suzy), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
Related to the inching forward savages are drivers who rev their engines as you're crossing in front of them, making you jump because you think you're about to get mowed down by some bellend who somehow passed a driving test.
― the ball comes in, we're like this *grabs assistant coach* (Matt #2), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
I went through a phase where I started slapping people's windshields if they were in the crosswalk. Looking back, not the best idea but it was fun.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
I slapped the trunk of a cab that illegally turned the corner and almost hit me once, it was not a mistake I will make again. Driver immediately slammed on the brakes and shoved me to the ground. Would have been far worse had two, thankfully very large, construction workers been at the building across the street and intervened.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
yeah, i never had a problem because since I did it from the front I think most people had several moments where they thought they had hit me.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
Carry bear spray.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81XwfmJk21L.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
ya - dude deserved his trunk slapped. had the same thing happened to a friend when a cab decided stopping at a crosswalk full of people was not necessary. driver got out and was immediately punched out.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
I remember being in the worst depression i ever had when i was 19, walking down Tennessee St in Tallahassee and was completely adrift.
I crossed the street legally only for an inpatient driver to scream at me through his window "HEY! GET THE FUCK OUT THE ROAD!"
I was in no mood and instinctively flipped him off, only to hear tires screech and he screams "WHAT?!!". Kept walking in away from his direction with heart palpitating but he was all bluster and drove off.
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
We used to, as teenagers, thump the hoods of cars that protruded too far into the pedestrian crossing.
― santa clause four (suzy), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
quite right too.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
I like to get out an acetylene torch and saw off the portions of cars that have inched into the crosswalk
― you miss 100 percent of the jello shots you don't take (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
i want to string wires across the sidewalk to prevent delivery bikes from racing down them
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 5 March 2020 23:19 (four years ago) link
karate kicked a car that approached me too closely at a zebra crossing once
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 5 March 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
xp Not sure if you know the conditions of that sort of work, assuming you don't I have to inform you that you are decapitating the wrong guys
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 5 March 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link