What cheeses me off

WCMO today? Arriving home to find my Hills Hoist lying at a 45 degree angle on the back lawn, having completely snapped off at the base. It appears that it had rusted all the way through and the combined weight of a full load of washing plus a gusty Sydney day seems to have been the final straw. At least this one lasted longer than its predecessor, which had been installed for less than a year before it was demolished by a falling tree branch (from a dying eucalypt that Council would not let us touch :rolleyes:).

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Todays WCMO, travelators.

So to get to the food court in the shopping centre over the road from my apartment here in Singapore it's on Level B3, so 1 escalator and 4 inclined travelators to get there. No stairs :mad: People tend to stand 2 abreast on the travelators, because god knows most people are completely incapable of walking. But what is really annoying is when you get stuck behind people going up, and then when they get to the escalator (where it's not as annoying) they decide to move across and make room for others and go single file 🤷‍♂️

I guess have been programmed by the government to stand to one side on an escalator (for MRT stations) but don't think or apply that logic to the slower moving travelator. Except the older, frailer folk, who are acutely aware that they are slow moving and might hold people up - these people are really very considerate (although at times its seems they too get frustrated be slow moving 20-somethings).
 
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dajop said:
Todays WCMO, travelators.

So to get to the food court in the shopping centre over the road from my apartment here in Singapore it's on Level B3, so 1 escalator and 4 inclined travelators to get there. No stairs :mad: People tend to stand 2 abreast on the travelators, because god knows most people are completely incapable of walking. But what is really annoying is when you get stuck behind people going up, and then when they get to the escalator (where it's not as annoying) they decide to move across and make room for others and go single file 🤷‍♂️

I guess have been programmed by the government to stand to one side on an escalator (for MRT stations) but don't think or apply that logic to the slower moving travelator. Except the older, frailer folk, who are acutely aware that they are slow moving and might hold people up - these people are really very considerate (although at times its seems they too get frustrated be slow moving 20-somethings).
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What's wrong, cat got your tongue. ;)

I was at the supermarket the on the weekend and an older bloke was standing in front of a regrigerated display with his trolley sideways covering most of the display. I usually leave my trolley to one side when I approach a display and as I could not get to the display I said "Excuse me". No response so I said it again louder. Then I needed to raise my voice again saying "Excuse me". So I lightly bumped his trolley. He looked up and said "sorry, I'm deaf" .....
 
Big John said:
WCMO is people who liberally use the word "perfect".
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Although we all have tics of sorts, as a teacher, one time apparently I used to say "OK" a lot. I was under observation by an assessing teacher, and they had a lot of good to tell me about my teaching, but they kept a tally of the number of times I said "OK".

Currently, the word I'm trying not to say too much of is, "so".

I had a lecturer in uni who would start almost every sentence with, "At the end of the day..." This got particularly grating when we were going through worked mathematical problems.
 
anat0l said:
Although we all have tics of sorts, as a teacher, one time apparently I used to say "OK" a lot. I was under observation by an assessing teacher, and they had a lot of good to tell me about my teaching, but they kept a tally of the number of times I said "OK".

Currently, the word I'm trying not to say too much of is, "so".

I had a lecturer in uni who would start almost every sentence with, "At the end of the day..." This got particularly grating when we were going through worked mathematical problems.
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What really highlights the lack of aggregated media vocabulary is the phrase "into the future".
 
prozac said:
What really highlights the lack of aggregated media vocabulary is the phrase "into the future".
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Better than everyone proclaiming, "make <insert word here> great again".

No, this is not a political protest; seriously, people have been lifting that phrase and replacing the word.
 

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