I hate

All this front rack frottery going on.
It's a fucking dashboard, put stuff in the boot where it belongs.

Time lapse videos.

If anyone's a year into making one at the moment. Just stop it please.

People singing out of tune. Particularly people who sing loudly out of tune. Company meeting today, forced to listen to staff choir singing feebly humorously reworded song. Almost the entire female section of the choir was a) overly loud compared to the others, b) flat and c) painfully shrill on the high notes.

Have always been able to carry a tune (and to follow the different parts) and this was just like having a nail slowly hammered into my head.

That's truly shocking. I suppose you never know just how badly something like that is going to affect you. You hear of it happening to other people of course but never imagine that one day it will happen to you.
The feelings of horror and shame and guilt, perhaps knowing that if only you had been in the choir possibly, just possibly, you could have done something, all those feelings may seem unbearable now, But there are people you can talk to, in confidence, people who are trained not to laugh. Don't let pride stop you from asking for the help you need.

This modern day retail obsession with segmenting everything by designer brands. It's fucking bullshit, crass and unhelpful.

I'm trying to buy some perfume and I want to go to one place and have an assistant talk me through them. Not have to pick a "brand" one by one.

Same in big department stores now. The whole point of them was that you'd think ooh "I need x, lets go somewhere with a good quality selection of x". Not "let's go from one mini fucking designer store to the next".

I agree, annoying. "excuse me, where can i find belts?" "erm, everywhere and nowhere".

That's truly shocking. I suppose you never know just how badly something like that is going to affect you. You hear of it happening to other people of course but never imagine that one day it will happen to you.
The feelings of horror and shame and guilt, perhaps knowing that if only you had been in the choir possibly, just possibly, you could have done something, all those feelings may seem unbearable now, But there are people you can talk to, in confidence, people who are trained not to laugh. Don't let pride stop you from asking for the help you need.

They did a "humorously" reworded version of Bohemian Rhapsody. Everybody involved should have been shot.

I saw a women once who had such an awful limp. She wasn't hiding it and chose to brazenly shuffle past me in broad daylight. It was a) really 'in ur face', b) overly emphasised and c) painfully flatfooted.

Have always been able to walk normally (and run perfectly too) and this watching this women throw one leg clumsily and awkwardly in front of the other was just like having a nail slowly hammered into my head.

Did somebody make you sit in an airless room for 3 hours with that and other corporate mediocrity, with no escape? With your bosses watching you and expecting you to applaud? Tuneless fuckers that I can walk away from are not a problem.

seems like this has really got to you

ponders

arranges TNRC tone deaf singalong choir with humourless changed lyrics to be sung on return trains for evermore.

Meh. Was just surprised to find people stung by the dislike of incompetence and mediocrity. Next time, they can go sit in the airless room for three hours and celebrate lack of achievement.

When did everyone start using "so" to begin every sentence?

When did everyone start using "so" to begin every sentence?

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Sometime earlier.

When did everyone start using "so" to begin every sentence?

Between 2 and 8 years ago. I noticed it a lot on my return from South Africa 2 years ago. I blame US TV.

When did everyone start using "so" to begin every sentence?

This has been annoying me for ages.

For me, planting 'So' at the start of a sentence immediately invalidates everything that follows.

So what are we suppose to write?

I refuse to read.

For me, your question is invalid.

Even if it is grammatically correct.

Except it should be 'supposed'.

SOd off

The use of the word 'even' in a superfluous way. "What does that 'even' mean".

So that's even worse than using so?

I don't think it's superfluous if it's done stylistically to add effect.

Adding emphasis. Similar to the way Germans use "doch".