My grump - people using abbreviations! What does GA or NBM mean? DD, DH etc just drive me nuts. "Daughter" or possibly "Dog" doesnt take that long to type.
My wife has just come off the phone and is in full curmudgeon mode. She cracked a tooth at the beginning of March and couldn't get an appointment at the dentist until 5th May which was frustrating enough. She picked up a voicemail from them this morning asking if she could change the appointment time but on the same day. She couldn't answer at the time because she was driving. She called them to confirm the new time was OK, bear in mind it's still just after 9am, to be told that new time has been taken and they will move her appointment to the 8th of June. When she protested the response was along the lines of "We are very busy you know"
Not a moan but I just noticed that on my can of WD 40 that it says if you spray it on your pots, it stops the slugs climbing up them. Has anyone tried it? It sounds a bit suspect to me.
Combining a couple of grumps into one, the reporting over the last couple of days about the landfill site that's stinking out the local town. What terrible journalism. WHY is it so bad? There are landfill sites all over the country but you don't hear this about all of them, what's causing this particular issue? Even a vague theory? Nah, just "how ill does it make you feel?"
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I wonder how much time is saved by using abbreviations and not writing words in full. I appreciate when one health professional is communicating with another NBM is perfectly acceptable and in the gardening fraternity cues, toms, rhodies etc are widely used (if not by me).
However I do find social media abbreviations like ur for your, no for know, an for and etc just grate and I do just momentarily pause when reading wondering, for example, if ‘no’ was deliberately written as an abbreviation or whether they were too dumb to muster the correct spelling.
But the last laugh is with them. I expect every five years or so, with all that time saved by using abbreviations, they can treat themselves to an extra 5 minutes in bed.
I watched that report @raisingirl and thought exactly the same. The reporter saying how ill it was making him feel,and the children in the school playground saying the same. I was thinking "Where's Roger Cook* when you need him ?"
My husband bought some posh toilet paper the other day. The outer sleeve has full instructions on how to use the toilet paper. It occurs to me that if you didn't know how to wipe your rrrse, you wouldn't be able to understand the instructions either.
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I was thinking "Where's Roger Cook* when you need him ?"
* information for younger members -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Cook_(journalist)
It occurs to me that if you didn't know how to wipe your rrrse, you wouldn't be able to understand the instructions either.