What gets your goat on BE?
Aug 24th 2009, 9:23 pm
#31
no I aint
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Re: What gets your goat on BE?
Loads.
Aug 24th 2009, 9:35 pm
#32
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Aug 24th 2009, 9:37 pm
#33
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Re: What gets your goat on BE?
Sadly, my goat left home some time ago, driven away by the sheer boredom of never being 'got' by anything.
Perhaps that's why I can't keep away from the forum.
Perhaps that's why I can't keep away from the forum.
Aug 24th 2009, 10:11 pm
#34
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Re: What gets your goat on BE?
I don't have a goat, if I did I don't think I would like it to have been got.
Personally, me, for myself, and I, I am disappointed by the lack of complaints about the lack of coloured loo roll in Canada. And pretty Kleenex. I'm not sure where I stand on kitchen roll.
I'm pretty certain that thanks should be public and profuse. Well, they should happen, in public, not behind closed karmic doors.
If one objects to other ones not using the search facility, does one also object in real life? "We had this conversation at dinner last Thursday, may I refer you to the minutes of that repast"
And coherant. Posts should be coherant, have a point, and not ramble on.
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Personally, me, for myself, and I, I am disappointed by the lack of complaints about the lack of coloured loo roll in Canada. And pretty Kleenex. I'm not sure where I stand on kitchen roll.
I'm pretty certain that thanks should be public and profuse. Well, they should happen, in public, not behind closed karmic doors.
If one objects to other ones not using the search facility, does one also object in real life? "We had this conversation at dinner last Thursday, may I refer you to the minutes of that repast"
And coherant. Posts should be coherant, have a point, and not ramble on.
and on
and
on
ad
infinitum
Aug 24th 2009, 10:11 pm
#35
Dive Bar Drunk
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Re: What gets your goat on BE?
Immigrants or people wanting to immigrate
Aug 24th 2009, 10:12 pm
#36
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Re: What gets your goat on BE?
And don't get me started on fence sitters!
Aug 24th 2009, 11:49 pm
#37
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Re: What gets your goat on BE?
...Like every discussion forum.
Aug 25th 2009, 2:13 am
#39
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Re: What gets your goat on BE?
Although I don't believe that I'd be critical of anyone's style of writing I do think a post that has absolutely no paragraphs and is just one large piece of text lets the author down because it becomes so hard to read and it's easy to miss parts of what's been typed. I find myself trying to read it but I guess as reluctant as I am to admit it my middle-aged eyes just find it too hard.
Of course I'm a very occasional poster so generally not a lot of good to the BE community but typing a few thoughts out with paragraphs is just good practise to make it easier on the eyes and readers will be able to make more sense of it without missing out maybe whole sentences.
Aug 25th 2009, 5:30 am
#40
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Re: What gets your goat on BE?
Although I don't believe that I'd be critical of anyone's style of writing I do think a post that has absolutely no paragraphs and is just one large piece of text lets the author down because it becomes so hard to read and it's easy to miss parts of what's been typed. I find myself trying to read it but I guess as reluctant as I am to admit it my middle-aged eyes just find it too hard.
Of course I'm a very occasional poster so generally not a lot of good to the BE community but typing a few thoughts out with paragraphs is just good practise to make it easier on the eyes and readers will be able to make more sense of it without missing out maybe whole sentences.
Of course I'm a very occasional poster so generally not a lot of good to the BE community but typing a few thoughts out with paragraphs is just good practise to make it easier on the eyes and readers will be able to make more sense of it without missing out maybe whole sentences.
Aug 25th 2009, 6:03 am
#41
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Re: What gets your goat on BE?
People who forget that mods are just normal posters with a few added extra features, and believe it's perfectly alright to abuse them publicly for no reason.
People who ask questions but when given the answer reply that that wasn't the answer they were looking for. WTF is that all about
People who get arsey on behalf of someone else who apparently couldn't care less.
People who get arsey when someone suggests that using Advanced Search will bring up a wealth of knowledge.
People who don't accept someone else's point of view or sense of humour and who take offence at the slightest thing and then spit the dummy saying everyone's bullying them and they're off.
Best get back to Australia now...........
People who start a thread just to say they've spat the dummy and are off. If you're going just pigging well go will you? Especially when you look daft because you're back a week later
People who jump into a thread about x, to ask about y. Start your own thread.
Sorry, the above makes me look slightly aggressive and grumpy. I'm not, honest Been about for over 5 years and those are the only things that come and wipe the smile off my face.
People who ask questions but when given the answer reply that that wasn't the answer they were looking for. WTF is that all about
People who get arsey on behalf of someone else who apparently couldn't care less.
People who get arsey when someone suggests that using Advanced Search will bring up a wealth of knowledge.
People who don't accept someone else's point of view or sense of humour and who take offence at the slightest thing and then spit the dummy saying everyone's bullying them and they're off.
Best get back to Australia now...........
People who start a thread just to say they've spat the dummy and are off. If you're going just pigging well go will you? Especially when you look daft because you're back a week later
People who jump into a thread about x, to ask about y. Start your own thread.
Sorry, the above makes me look slightly aggressive and grumpy. I'm not, honest
Been about for over 5 years and those are the only things that come and wipe the smile off my face.
Aug 25th 2009, 6:09 am
#42
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Re: What gets your goat on BE?
People who arent British that seem to flock here waiting to pounce on anyone who is British because they think that we're all out to get them - not Aussies of course???!!!???!!! 
Aug 25th 2009, 12:52 pm
#44
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Re: What gets your goat on BE?
Meaning: Make you annoyed or angry.
Origin:The dictionary definition of goat is 'a ruminant quadruped of the genus Capra'. What's that got to do with being angry? Given the meaning of 'get your goat', we might expect to find goat as a slang term meaning anger or annoyance. That meaning is recorded in the US book Life in Sing Sing, 1904, which goat is given as a slang term for anger. The phrase originated in the US and the first entry in print that I can find comes from a fanciful story about a burst water pipe that was printed in the US newspaper The Stevens Point Daily Journal, May 1909:"Wouldn't that get your goat? We'd been transferring the same water all night from the tub to the bowl and back again." The expression took a few years to cross the Atlantic. The first non-US citation isn't found until 1924 in the English author John Galsworthy's story White Monkey, and even there it is clearly seen as a recent innovation: "That had got the chairman's goat! - Got his goat? What expressions they used nowadays!" The following year, The Times printed a piece in memory of the then recently deceased Friedrich Baedeker. This included a side-swipe at American tourists and uses the phrase as a typical piece of Americana: "... goggled Americans whispering aloud, 'Wa-al Sadie, these durned three star things get my goat'!" A commonly repeated story which purports to explain the phrase's origin is that goats were placed with racehorses to keep them calm. When ne'er-do-wells who wanted the horse to race badly removed it, i.e. they 'got someone's goat', the horse became unsettled and ran badly. That's just the sort of tale that gets the folk etymology juices running. Let's just say that there's no evidence to support that story.
Origin:The dictionary definition of goat is 'a ruminant quadruped of the genus Capra'. What's that got to do with being angry? Given the meaning of 'get your goat', we might expect to find goat as a slang term meaning anger or annoyance. That meaning is recorded in the US book Life in Sing Sing, 1904, which goat is given as a slang term for anger. The phrase originated in the US and the first entry in print that I can find comes from a fanciful story about a burst water pipe that was printed in the US newspaper The Stevens Point Daily Journal, May 1909:"Wouldn't that get your goat? We'd been transferring the same water all night from the tub to the bowl and back again." The expression took a few years to cross the Atlantic. The first non-US citation isn't found until 1924 in the English author John Galsworthy's story White Monkey, and even there it is clearly seen as a recent innovation: "That had got the chairman's goat! - Got his goat? What expressions they used nowadays!" The following year, The Times printed a piece in memory of the then recently deceased Friedrich Baedeker. This included a side-swipe at American tourists and uses the phrase as a typical piece of Americana: "... goggled Americans whispering aloud, 'Wa-al Sadie, these durned three star things get my goat'!" A commonly repeated story which purports to explain the phrase's origin is that goats were placed with racehorses to keep them calm. When ne'er-do-wells who wanted the horse to race badly removed it, i.e. they 'got someone's goat', the horse became unsettled and ran badly. That's just the sort of tale that gets the folk etymology juices running. Let's just say that there's no evidence to support that story.
Aug 25th 2009, 2:12 pm
#45
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Re: What gets your goat on BE?
Meaning: Make you annoyed or angry.
Origin:The dictionary definition of goat is 'a ruminant quadruped of the genus Capra'. What's that got to do with being angry? Given the meaning of 'get your goat', we might expect to find goat as a slang term meaning anger or annoyance. That meaning is recorded in the US book Life in Sing Sing, 1904, which goat is given as a slang term for anger. The phrase originated in the US and the first entry in print that I can find comes from a fanciful story about a burst water pipe that was printed in the US newspaper The Stevens Point Daily Journal, May 1909:"Wouldn't that get your goat? We'd been transferring the same water all night from the tub to the bowl and back again." The expression took a few years to cross the Atlantic. The first non-US citation isn't found until 1924 in the English author John Galsworthy's story White Monkey, and even there it is clearly seen as a recent innovation: "That had got the chairman's goat! - Got his goat? What expressions they used nowadays!" The following year, The Times printed a piece in memory of the then recently deceased Friedrich Baedeker. This included a side-swipe at American tourists and uses the phrase as a typical piece of Americana: "... goggled Americans whispering aloud, 'Wa-al Sadie, these durned three star things get my goat'!" A commonly repeated story which purports to explain the phrase's origin is that goats were placed with racehorses to keep them calm. When ne'er-do-wells who wanted the horse to race badly removed it, i.e. they 'got someone's goat', the horse became unsettled and ran badly. That's just the sort of tale that gets the folk etymology juices running. Let's just say that there's no evidence to support that story.
Origin:The dictionary definition of goat is 'a ruminant quadruped of the genus Capra'. What's that got to do with being angry? Given the meaning of 'get your goat', we might expect to find goat as a slang term meaning anger or annoyance. That meaning is recorded in the US book Life in Sing Sing, 1904, which goat is given as a slang term for anger. The phrase originated in the US and the first entry in print that I can find comes from a fanciful story about a burst water pipe that was printed in the US newspaper The Stevens Point Daily Journal, May 1909:"Wouldn't that get your goat? We'd been transferring the same water all night from the tub to the bowl and back again." The expression took a few years to cross the Atlantic. The first non-US citation isn't found until 1924 in the English author John Galsworthy's story White Monkey, and even there it is clearly seen as a recent innovation: "That had got the chairman's goat! - Got his goat? What expressions they used nowadays!" The following year, The Times printed a piece in memory of the then recently deceased Friedrich Baedeker. This included a side-swipe at American tourists and uses the phrase as a typical piece of Americana: "... goggled Americans whispering aloud, 'Wa-al Sadie, these durned three star things get my goat'!" A commonly repeated story which purports to explain the phrase's origin is that goats were placed with racehorses to keep them calm. When ne'er-do-wells who wanted the horse to race badly removed it, i.e. they 'got someone's goat', the horse became unsettled and ran badly. That's just the sort of tale that gets the folk etymology juices running. Let's just say that there's no evidence to support that story.
I bloody hate goats.