Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

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

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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.

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 hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

hi lads

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"

xp what no you are entitled by birth

also aussies, kiwis

MACLUNKEY

people who romanticise the rain

maybe the real disgusting savage is . . . you

Hugh

feeling v attacked by this thread today imo

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.

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.

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.

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?"

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.

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!

Calz, grated Parmesan can live a long and happy shelf life once open, if stored in the freezer.

frozen parmesan versus grated straight off the block though!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Carry bear spray.

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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.

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.

We used to, as teenagers, thump the hoods of cars that protruded too far into the pedestrian crossing.

quite right too.

I like to get out an acetylene torch and saw off the portions of cars that have inched into the crosswalk

i want to string wires across the sidewalk to prevent delivery bikes from racing down them

karate kicked a car that approached me too closely at a zebra crossing once

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

i know it's illegal for an adult to ride a bide on the fucking sidewalk -- ride in the goddamn street like the rest of the commuters in this city

to be less snippy I have thought long and hard about my stance on this re: the immigrant labor population and just trying to make a dime in this shitty world, but this isn't about denying the labor in the first place, it's about following a regulation that is purely there for human safety reasons and not a barrier to access (which is, imo, buying a 700 dollar phone and a 1500 dollar bike)

it's solely because they are set unreasonable targets, if they don't break the rules of the road they will be too slow and will lose their jobs.

see i think that's nonsense. the act of getting from the door of the takeout joint to the curb/street is entirely negligible in this. there's no way getting a running start on a sidewalk makes all this go faster