As seen on the back of Securicor trucks. "Police follow this van" Do they, or are the police being asked to follow the van?
surely America is a continent made up of several countries ! so why have we allowed the united states hijacked the name ?
Whenever I see the sticker on a van ..... "no tools are left in this van overnight", I think that some one should add "they go to sleep in the house nearby". Anyone remember the band "The Caution Horses", or the Viv Stanshall album "Men Opening Umbrellas"?
Some more pet hates - People who add "dot com" to anything and everything. People who use the word "totally" out of context, or worse, use the word "totes". People who use the word "amazeballs". People who use the phrase "hash-tag". "I mean, the weather was like totes amazeballs. It was totally raining dot come. Hash-tag soaked..." Twitter talk... NO! STOP IT NOW!
you are soOOOooo right JR..i'd forgotten about this new fashion of TOWIE and Twatter Twaddle..utterly prententious bullshit, that immediately emotes "I am a braindead twot who has to adopt the latest superficial trends in order to seem witty, relevant, and..'ON POINT/TREND/MESSAGE"* utter cobblers.... What about this these two for another pair of molar grinders.... 1) when words are joined to together to show a 'humorous' or 'witty' relationship between two people, places or things...most notably when the media..im think Branjolena, TomCart and so on....very rarely is this funny, unless its used mockingly with phrases such as, "ive just sharted in my scundies"... 2) the over use of acronyms in the spoken word....TOWIE for instance...the Americans are utterly, utterly infected with this illness....almost everything in the States is an acronym..even the name of their fkn cuntry...
Try doing business with Apple. I have never seen a company use so many internal acronyms, to the point that you have no idea what they are talking about. You get witless emails stuffed with the things, which gives you the overriding urge to just bin it without reading. Normally you find out later that it was something very important, down there in paragraph 4 of gobbledygook, which you should have acted on. But then let me see: they are in IT (check) from the US (check) and a huge corporation (check): you wouldn't therefore expect them to communicate like normal human beings. In fact you wouldn't expect them to "communicate" at all - and you'd be right.
...and breathe : ) This wouldn't be the same Apple which is accused of hiding 1 BILLION of profits from the Italian tax man???
Glid - have you ever had to deal with the MoD? They make Apple look like amateurs in their use of acronyms and TLA's.
And the U.S. MoD contractor that I work for (G.E. - even the company name's a f'in acronym FFS) makes the MoD look like amateurs
AAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHHH! * Well the next Ashes series starts soon. It drives me fucking mental when for example, if a batting team have scored twenty runs and lost one wicket, their commentators will say that they're "one for twenty", and not the way it should be, i.e. twenty for one. I bought some shampoo a while back and thought : Aha, this is the one I'll buy, it's label claims that it's for "Thinning Hair". Well after quite a bit of useage I reckon thinning is a verb, not an adjective. "Math" must be the worst but there's far too much menstruation going on, period. - I mean, full stop. Oh, and I go to the cinema to see a film. I'm surprised Claudia Winkleman hasn't started presenting "Movie 2013". * It's not that easy for me to convey just how annoying it is but if you watch this bloke then it'll give you some idea of what my AAAAAAARRRRGGGHHH! actually sounds like. - Shame he's not around anymore.:frown:
