Pet Peeves?
Oct 15th 2013, 5:41 pm
#3948
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Oct 15th 2013, 5:46 pm
#3949
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Or indeed, the variety ...
Oct 15th 2013, 5:48 pm
#3950
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Re: Pet Peeves?
STOP SPOILING CHEESE!! 
Oct 15th 2013, 6:01 pm
#3953
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Oct 15th 2013, 8:51 pm
#3954
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Re: Pet Peeves?
On the motorway between Milan & Turin today I saw an Italian fruit'n'veg van with an English phrase correctly punctuated including an apostrophe. How come the Italians get it right and the native speakers mangle it beyond comprehension?
Oct 15th 2013, 8:55 pm
#3955
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Doubtful though.
Where do they even come from?
Complete idiots.
Here's another one I noticed in P de T. Leave a space before your exclamation marks so !!! Immigrants are a big problem !!!
Last edited by Sally Redux; Oct 15th 2013 at 9:25 pm.
Oct 25th 2013, 3:59 pm
#3956
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Instructions to arrive 15 minutes before your appointment. If you want me to turn up at 8.30am for an 8.45am appointment, why don't you just make the appointment time for 8.30am so we all know what time I'm supposed to arrive?
Oct 25th 2013, 4:06 pm
#3957
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Re: Pet Peeves?
At the earliest.
Oct 25th 2013, 4:21 pm
#3958
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Sometimes, though, it works in your favour to be early because they might have a cancellation or something that means you end up getting seen more quickly.
Oct 25th 2013, 5:13 pm
#3960
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Probably. I know in reality it means that they want to go through the whole bloody id/insurance/address/consent rigmarole at reception, then nurses weighing and measuring you and getting you all ready so that doctor can swan in at 8.45am for 30 seconds, poke about and then bugger off and charge my insurance a small fortune.
Getting a smear test done by the practice nurse at my GP might have been more low-tech but there was considerably less (pardon me) fannying about!!!!