Penny Black wrote:
now I remember what I was going to say ...


There's no Coronation Street on Sunday Nights!

So I'll have to go to the Pub earlier..

not sure which I'm moaning about though???

I'll have another think

You're killing me PB, hahaha.
I thought I was bad when I forget summat, I need time to remember these days. But, you took two days!
If Coronation street gets taken off here, folk stay away from me, I'm cramd as heck. Then they put an extra one on and I'm in heaven. Good excuse for a pint tho eh?
Phil.

Hi, Oooh, a chance to rant!!!!

Well, one of the things that somehow has become common here on TV: people keep saying the same thing twice - sort of like a double negative, if you will. Some of the phrases I've heard:

'The animal was returned back to the wild.'
'This place is going to need re-renovating out.'
'You'll have to reverse the car back.'
'You'll want to repaint over this spot again.'

In all these situations, there had been no previous action - IE, the car had not yet been reversed, and the person had not already painted the spot. The word 'back' after 'returned' isn't necessary, and the renovating that was being done in the decorating show was being done on a home that had not been previously renovated.

I can't think of any more right now, but after being taught in school not to use too many words in a sentence, I'm wondering where that ruling has now disappeared to!

Don't get me started on the apostrophe!

It annoys me when I hear "the Prime Minister SEZ" on the news.

what annoys me when you report an urgent repair and it take 2 phone calls in 7 days like all the lights out in a block of flats and also the security lights as well, last year it was 3 weeks before the timer was altered and switched back on we could not see the locks i had to take a torch when i went out to my monday night club, bring back the old Corpy as John the WM calls it, flaming contracters they come when they please. Regards Doris C

Catmum one of my 'favourites' is "rewind it back" aaaaagh!!!!

sheelagh

Ohhh yes!! That's a good one!

What about having to listen to someone's mobile phone conversation on public transport or anywhere else for that matter?? Do people realise we don't want to know about their hernia operation at 7 in the morning??

sheelagh

Why do they say think outside the box what box?,

Allan wrote:
Why do they say think outside the box what box?,

It's illustrated with a puzzle. A square box contains a number of dots, the challenge is to join up the dots with just two straight intersecting lines. The only way that you can do it is to have the lines intersecting outside the box.

Just been out for our now usual Sunday 5 mile walk . Comming back through town yet another PHONE BOX with the glass panels smashed ---What the heck do these idiots get out of smashing these thing . One day I hope to high heven one of these morons need a phone box to make an emergency call ---But they wont find one thats usable cause some morons smashed it up---

Our phone boxes have large sheets of re-enforced glass but that doesn't stop them getting smashed, it happened frequently to one on the main road outside our village. One day I was walking along when a large truck went by, as it passed the phone box the slipstream from the truck shook the phone box and shattered the glass. I did tell the phone company but couldn't make them understand. The person that I was talking to said "did you get the registration number of the truck that threw something at the phone box", I spent some time trying to explain what had happened but in the end just hung up. Several incidents of smashed glass later they did replace the glass with a metal mesh.

John, the bus shelter down the road is always getting bashed in, after tea the kids congregate it did have glass but it is now hard plastic but that got broke a couple of weeks ago, they have nothing better to do but wreck whats in they way the police move them on but back they come after a couple of days. Regards Doris

What does my head in is people who start every conversation of with basicly, another is the ball park figure!!, and i am hearing it more and more of most people on the media and MP's, it's drawring.....where has the r come from?is it, or are we seeing a change in the language?

Everyday on my way to work I hear from the guy on the radio"well the roads are clear on yourway into the office" What office??. I dont work in an office neither do millions of other people they work in warehouses, labs, outdoors, shops, building sites ETC. NOT Darned Offices. What would happen if we all went into the OFFICE.??? GRR.