Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[Dirty Sanchez]

Bah, the illiterate supermarket has got the better of me again.

This proves that I can't type but I can generally spell fine.

My point still stands!

"Into exile I must go. Failed, I have."

[Number45]

I keep meaning to start a grammar help thread. There are many things I'm not sure of, but usually can't be bothered/don't have time to ask.

[NemesiS]

Does check anyone these things? It boggles the mind.

It sure does...

Let's get you writing the sentence in order before we start worrying about grammatical errors like apostrophes

[randombs]

I found this book at my granddad's:



which I nabbed because I was planning on writing a book. Well, not so much a book as an Arabic learning aid ripping off a Japanese learning book I have.

I haven't looked at it yet, probably because the title confuses me a bit. Not sure if "How to speak better" is grammatically correct here in Blighty. It just sounds wrong to me.

@ Number45: Please start one. Bonus points if you call it 'The Grammer Thread'

My new irk:

How come machine-sewn buttons are so easy to pull off? Pull the thread a bit and it goes pop-pop-pop-pop until the button falls off. It's like the machine doesn't actually sew the button to the shirt but rather feeds the thread through a bit in each hole and prays it'll all hold together. I sewed a new button onto one of my shirts and it's rock solid in comparison.

I bet the buttons that've been sewn on to shirts by child labourers stay on forever

[abigsmurf]

News sites spoiling the apprentice.

Some people had it recorded and haven't seen it yet. Putting up a big picture on the front page and going "XYZ GETS FIRED FROM THE APPRENTICE" is deeply annoying.

[noobish hat]

Also - NEWS!? I thought it was a TV programme.

[Dirty Sanchez]

Social networking as a whole just grips my ****. The constant drivel from presenters referring to Twitter is really started to turn me off TV altogether. A complete joke that now there are guest on certain programs - their title? Blogger. Jesus, that is scraping the barrel.

[randombs]

When did it all go wrong, boys? I'm convinced the death of the Saturn started the ball rolling.

The only thing I like about Twitter is how all these celebs can just say what they want, often with hilarious consequences.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Even the name 'Twitter', or to 'tweet' someone irks the hell out of me when I here it on TV.
It just sounds so whimpy

[charlesr]

wesbites, blogs, wikis, facebooks, twitters, myspaces, et infinitum. It seems that to survive, you've got to have all these bases covered. Gah.

[Neil]

wesbites, blogs, wikis, facebooks, twitters, myspaces, et infinitum. It seems that to survive, you've got to have all these bases covered. Gah.

I honestly don't do any of the above. Never even been on Facebook or Twitter, am I going to be ok?

What's a wesbite btw

[kernow]

wifi, and poor wifi access points.

oh my word.

[Number45]

I received a single pair shoelaces through the post today, in a box about the size of an average DVD player. No wonder they wanted to charge £6 for shipping.

[randombs]

^^ That's disgusting

I've been busy battling Conficker and other such nonce sense on one single PC for the past two days at the hotel. Of course I'd love to just blitz the hard drive and start again but there's more to it than that. So my current irk is worms and trojans and horses.

Problem is, the machine is right next to the concierge desk so guests keep asking me questions when the concierge buggers off for something. One guest got annoyed because I didn't know if they had spare umbrellas! I've half a mind to get a name tag that says TECH SUPPORT on it. The concierge guy told me to just ignore people but I can't really do that, and I don't like telling guests I'm just tech support, so I end up trying to help out. I did manage to order extra towels for one guest, though(by waiting for him to leave and then asking the concierge guy to ring the towel lady). Besides, I'm learning these things as I go so it'll hopefully not be for too long. Alternatively I could just not spend such a long time on the lobby/reception machines

[randombs]

Limited accounts being able to disable LAN connections. While troubleshooting a printer issue for a Terminal Server account, I disabled the LAN connection for the server itself and now no one can connect

To make matters worse, no one knows the local login so I have to wait