Texting!!!

Bludall · Post by **Bludall** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:24 pm

Grumpy 43 year old woman moment!!

Am I the only one who can't stand texting. HATE IT with a passion!! What's wrong with leaving a short spoken message?

EJJ150847 · Post by **EJJ150847** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:32 pm

I hate it when they will not ( or do not know how to) use punctuation and spell correctly.

I know it saves time but those of us even older than your beautiful young self can remember when we got marked down for poor spelling and punctuation in examinations, even those which were not english.

Woodwork, History, Geography etc.

John

Bludall · Post by **Bludall** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:42 pm

EJJ150847

I could also include my biggest "moan topic" when the the words "number" and "amount" are used in the wrong way! How many times are people measured by "amount"? It should be "number" of people!! It is cringe worthy when even the news readers get it wrong.

The wrong use of "fewer" and "less" is another one that gets me going!

There should be "sound emoticons", growling/ grumbling would be a good one.

EJJ150847 · Post by **EJJ150847** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:47 pm

Blu, we could start our own forum, based on Lynne Trusse's, "Eats shoots and leaves"

Or I could turn that into sailor talk!!

John

Bludall · Post by **Bludall** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:51 pm

EJJ150847 wrote:Blu, we could start our own forum, based on Lynne Trusse's, "Eats shoots and leaves"

Or I could turn that into sailor talk!!

John

I've not read that book yet, I must look in the library. I know I used to be a penpal to a sailor decades ago but I've no idea what you mean by "sailor talk". Captain Pugwash springs to mind though!

EJJ150847 · Post by **EJJ150847** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:55 pm

As in 'roger the cabin boy'?

I am jealous of the modern navy we never had wrens onboard, had to make do with the stewards!!

John

Bludall · Post by **Bludall** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:01 pm

Sounds like the "Carry on" films were true then.

I don't know that much about the navy.
My daughter is learning to play " I am sailing" on her guitar!

Sailor talk

Telmay · Post by **Telmay** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:18 pm

The worse thing about being on ship is the ranch style doors in the heads - always take a roll of harry black (gaffa tape) when using the throne!!!

Wood Magnet · Post by **Wood Magnet** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:19 pm

Bludall · Post by **Bludall** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:29 pm

I've been on a submarine but I think I'd hate being on ship. It'd have to be like a mill pond every day.

feva · Post by **feva** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:55 pm

woodmagnet where do you get that smily from?

bludall, heres another one, why the hell do people who have got contract phones text, what the point the having the minutes if your not going to use them, i refuse to text some who has a contract, they will text me and all i text back is ring me, or dont bother at all! proper p!sses me off.

and whats all the text talk about? m8=mate nor it doesnt are you blind it = M8

p!sses me off more when you get some one in there 30's/40's using text talk! what all that about your not 15 so dont talk like one!

Bludall · Post by **Bludall** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:03 pm

feva wrote:
bludall, heres another one, why the hell do people who have got contract phones text, what the point the having the minutes if your not going to use them, i refuse to text some who has a contract, they will text me and all i text back is ring me, or dont bother at all! proper p!sses me off.

and whats all the text talk about? m8=mate nor it doesnt are you blind it = M8

p!sses me off more when you get some one in there 30's/40's using text talk! what all that about your not 15 so dont talk like one!

Exactly!

I hate it when I Freecycle stuff and I get textease replies, can't they write English anymore? I think it's just lazy.

Telmay · Post by **Telmay** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:16 pm

Its all about your barriers to change

bobbie-dazzler · Post by **bobbie-dazzler** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:22 pm

feva wrote: p!sses me off more when you get some one in there 30's/40's using text talk! what all that about your not 15 so dont talk like one!

Harrumm, BD clears throat

I use Text talk cause I am soooooo bl00dy slow at texting, I hate it

The time it takes me to text a simple answer, I could have rung the person 3 times

It took me ages to get to grips with it, (no suprise there then)

Stoday · Post by **Stoday** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:44 pm

Bludall wrote:
The wrong use of "fewer" and "less" is another one that gets me going!

I notice that Tesco lables the fast lane "5 Items or less" but Sainsburys "5 items or fewer".

Clearly, Sainsburys are trying to appeal to more discerning shoppers such as 43 year old chicks.