Ever heard anyone in the office ask for statistics for “physical year 2004”?
Not calendar year or fiscal year but physical year. Ay caramba.
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Ever heard anyone in the office ask for statistics for “physical year 2004”?
Not calendar year or fiscal year but physical year. Ay caramba.
Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like bananas.
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People who try to be smart using terms from other languages but make terrible mistakes. Like CA in RTW -- 'Vae victus'. GAH!!!
~Wiz
"It ain't where you're from / it's where you're at."
Eric B. & Rakim, I Know You Got Soul
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Er, Latin Noob here-What's wrong with that? I always thought it meant 'woe to the vanquished'.Originally Posted by The Wizard
Co-Lord of BKS and Beirut's Kingdom of Peace and Love.
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"I could care less" gets my blood flowing...
other than that, people telling me to say "well" when I really mean the noun "good".
I've found myself accidently typing "there" instead of "their", so that doesn't get me too upset. On many of the technicalities, I am often unsure. That's why I got me "Elements of Style".
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No, that's 'Vae victis'.
Vae = nominativus; that's the subject form.
victis = dativus; the form used for 'giving'. When translating, it adds 'to' to the word. So I just used the English dativus.
In the wrong RTW version, it's 'victus', which is the nominativus form, which means the translation is 'Woe defeated'.
~Wiz
"It ain't where you're from / it's where you're at."
Eric B. & Rakim, I Know You Got Soul
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folks at my work asking me for my john henry when they need me to sign something. i always tell them, john henry was a steel driving man, it's my john hancock you want...
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Political Conservatives. Just irritating.
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People drawing outrageous comparisons.
"George Bush is the 21st century Hitler!"
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Damn uppity goats getting my trash, now that'll make me angryfolks at my work asking me for my john henry when they need me to sign something. i always tell them, john henry was a steel driving man, it's my john hancock you want...
ichi
good to see you over here
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w00t!Damn uppity goats getting my trash, now that'll make me angry
ichi
good to see you over here
can you show me that whip again
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I really hate it when people throw their ciggy butts out the car window.
*gets out his whip*I wish I lived in a world where idiots were whiped out.
I assume that you meant 'wiped'
Be careful what you wish for
ichi
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CoH
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I'm tempted tosay that doesn't qualify for this thread, as it's not a small thing, given the destruction fires caused by cigarette buts can cause.
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I just wish people won't use "their", "there" and "they're" as interchangeably equal.
Also "should of" as in "should of been"
"Should HAVE been".
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People who are so ardent in their belief of God at a young age.
GARCIN: I "dreamt," you say. It was no dream. When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he wills himself to be.
INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.
Jean Paul Sartre - No Exit 1944
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Without getting too offensive with my list, I'm just going to say that every grammar and spelling error previously mentioned (including the German ones) burn my arse. Also, I hate spilling things, and I hate furres.
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Worst is people that calls you and don't say anything......
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I would like to take this moment to denounce the sacred name of cheese.
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"We are lovers of beauty without extravagance and of learning without loss of vigor." -Thucydides
"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage." -Thucydides
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People who don't understand science trying to use it to support their social/political agenda.
Our genes maybe in the basement but it does not stop us chosing our point of view from the top.
Pape for global overlord!!
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ok a few things...
Cold wet bread....
People who raise the pitch of their voice at the end of a sentance, so they sound like they're asking you a question. It gives the impression that they think you're stupid as you should know what they're talking about. (ALA Australian soaps)
David Beckhams voice....I just want to squeeze his neck until his pips squeak, just to shut him up.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
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Here's some more:
People who say you shouldn't use the word "Brainstorm" because it's offensive to epileptics, no it's not I asked some. Damn PC brigade.
Ugly stupid people with children, they shouldn't be allowed to breed.
Dubbed TV adverts, if they are too cheap to make a new advert what makes them think I'm going to buy their product, this holds true for adverts that are, well, pants, like the policewoman dancing while directing traffic.
People bumping into me in pubs, it only takes a second to say "Excuse me" or "Sorry".
People who use big words to sound important when you know that it's the only big word they know.
People from reality TV shows.
Reality TV shows, that's not reality.
My next door neighbours, but there's no way you caould call her small, she hung her washing on the line last week and could only fit 1 pair of pants on it, the line's about 15m long.
There's bound to be more.
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Good call, and while we are on the subject, imported products that have silly names that they can't be bothered to rename for the UK. I am NOT cleaning my windows with something called "Bang", even if Bang does mean "window cleaner" in Turkish or Estonian.Dubbed TV adverts, if they are too cheap to make a new advert what makes them think I'm going to buy their product, this holds true for adverts that are, well, pants, like the policewoman dancing while directing traffic
Meetings. Meetings are not work, they are what stop you doing work.
Oh, and by an obvious train of thought, management consultants. And estate agents who they so closely resemble.
"The only thing I've gotten out of this thread is that Navaros is claiming that Satan gave Man meat. Awesome." Gorebag
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Another thing that I hate is how people always say "get your butt in here", "sit your butt down", "I'm gonna kick your butt". Why do they have to add the gross word butt in every command when it's totally unnecessary? GAH!
Another thing that I hate is when people try to correct every simple word's spelling like they are better and somehow more educated then you even though you just made the mistake because you typed it in a hurry. GAH!
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BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!I would like to take this moment to denounce the sacred name of cheese.
It was not theirs to reason why,
It was not theirs to make reply,
It was theirs but to do or die.
-The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Wherever this stone shall lie, the King of the Scots shall rule"
-Prophecy of the Stone of Destiny
"For God, For King and country, For loved ones home and Empire, For the sacred cause of justice, and The freedom of the world, They buried him among the kings because he, Had done good toward God and toward his house."
-Inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
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"We are lovers of beauty without extravagance and of learning without loss of vigor." -Thucydides
"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage." -Thucydides
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Kids aged 8-14... Damn I hate their respectless, stupid, annoying, pseudo-funny but truly very sad behavior!
And I hate having to search for the damn angry smiley which I want, which is not in the quick smileys section!!!
Edit: Oh, and scared as shit people who can't stand my way of debating -- dissing someone when he makes a damn stupid remark/asks a damn stupid question. That kind of people lost me a EYP! GAH!
~Wiz
Last edited by The Wizard; 05-12-2005 at 19:11.
"It ain't where you're from / it's where you're at."
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