British Expats - Pet Peeves?

Not a peeve, but since getting initials/abbreviations/acronyms wrong came up, it makes me chuckle every time I encounter this Title Company which is often :rolleyes:

http://national.wfgnationaltitle.com/

SultanOfSwing

Mar 18th 2014 1:14 pm

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 11179608)

:lol: More fun than pre-paying a cremation anyway.

:nod:

Pulaski

Mar 18th 2014 1:52 pm

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by RICH (Post 11179630)

The Wisconsin Tourism Federation changed its name in 2009. The link includes several other "howlers" that were changed including the Philharmonic Orchestra of Florida, and the Iowa Department of the Elder Affairs which changed its name to the Department on Aging (needless to say, a change that didn't last :lol:), and one that wasn't: Sioux City Gateway asked to change its airport code from "SUX", and the FAA offered to switch it to "GAY". :unsure:

Yorkieabroad

Mar 18th 2014 2:48 pm

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Originally Posted by MMcD (Post 11179492)

Ha ha Yorkieabroad - nope a fellow female....oops...that doesn't sound right..I mean just another woman .....(I'm assuming you're: Yorkie: a broad???)

Err, no, I'm not "a broad", I'm "abroad" as in not in Yorkshire:lol:

Yorkieabroad

Mar 18th 2014 2:52 pm

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Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 11179482)

Agreed, they have their place in the range of payment alternatives, though I have noticed that even tradesmen, such as the heating/ AC service guy, and the plumber (I used for replacing water heater thermocouple - I don't mess with natural gas lines) are equipped to take credit card payments these days.

Its getting so easy to accept card payments anywhere now...like you, I've paid plumbers and A/C guys, and last week in Cicago we used a lot of taxis and paid every one by card - a lot of them had a little white gadget about an inch square that plugged into the iphone and took a swipe. The first time I was given a written receipt, after that I was getting the receipts texted to me, even though I hadn't given the drive my cell number, so I assume the square thingy was hooking into my credit card database and accessing my info...hmmmm.....

Yorkieabroad

Mar 18th 2014 2:54 pm

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by hotscot (Post 11179490)

For things like that I use Wells Fargo bill pay online...it's a doddle.

I use that for a lot too - very easy. And can access it on the run as well. The thing I really like is the mobile deposit, where you just take a photo of the check. Saves me a lot of time, and has never failed yet. Its just a shame that its limited to 2000/day

Yorkieabroad

Mar 18th 2014 2:57 pm

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Originally Posted by MMcD (Post 11179509)

Is "she" a he?
Does it really matter?

Actually, I find (at least for me).... it kind of does....seems to change the way we intuitively relate to each other - at least at the start - when we know nothing else about the person whose posts we read.

PS....okay....found your 1st post....now I know: Yorkieabroad, you're not "Yorkie, a broad" but "Yorkie abroad". But that's likely wrong as well.

I've really got to start reading the thread all the way through before I start answering posts......:o

Yorkieabroad

Mar 18th 2014 3:06 pm

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Acronyms......why do they give you the acronym in brackets after the first time they use the full term in the article, only to never use the acronym again. Or, conversely, why do they use the acronym and not explain what it is the first time?

And why do people insist on using acronyms that no-one knows the meaning of? Our school district has ADA and non-ADA absences on the report cards. I have spoken to the attendance clerks in 4 different schools, and none of them could tell me what ADA stood for. So I called the School District, and no-one there knew either. The best I could get was that ADA counted for attendance for graduation, and non-ADA didn't. Or the other way round...but no-one knew what it stood for.

And on the subject of School Districts, why do they always assume that everyone knows what they are talking about the first time they mention a new subject, especially in schools where more than half of the pupils are from overseas and so their parents haven't come up through the :frown::frown:US system

Sorry, rant over...I'm off for a BOW and to WST then GTB

Sally Redux

Mar 18th 2014 3:08 pm

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad (Post 11179736)

****in' Ada :lol:

Pulaski

Mar 18th 2014 3:15 pm

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Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad (Post 11179722)

Have you ever received a payment by e-mail? To receive funds I had to set up my Wells Fargo account to link to up to five e-mail addresses or phone numbers (for txts) ahead of receiving the payment. I was expecting to have to somehow "forward" the e-mail to Wells Fargo, as one would deposit a check. But no, when I received an email with a payment in it, somehow Wells Fargo had already "intercepted" the e-mail because I received an e-mail from Wells Fargo confirming receipt of the funds just a couple of minutes after I received the e-mail, and without me doing anything. :confused: