Setanta wrote:
"... just a willingness to bully and to attempt to impose on others".
Set, was this really you saying this or did someone steal your login info?
Hypocrisy is the word that immediately comes to mind.
Here's a peeve:
Ticomaya wrote:
Lightwizard might be along momentarily to explain to you why you're wrong.
Momentarily does not mean presently.
And presently does not mean now.
I heard an advert for the Dodge Nitro Glycerine (or some such crap)
"the most awarded vehicle in America"
what the **** does that mean?
I can only think it must mean that the manufacturer is obliged to give it away--one assumes it doesn't sell well.
thats right
award = give
therefore awarded = given
sort of like a prize or medal. Certainly freely given.
It might have been a Chrysler nitro, sorry not familiar with the vehicle.
Americans are always doing that, making adjectives and verbs out of nouns. Very inventive people.
Well if
that's what you want to call it McTag...
Let's hear it for the frontier spirit!
Rah! Rah! Rhubarb!
I say, steady on there, Nodders. :wink:
I've never seen her like this. Usually she's quietly holding her dominion.
All manner of social contradictions escape during the long, last days of winter.
Awww, Noddy.
We've had at least three springtimes already....false starts, I mean.
Another one today, quite sunny outside.
So . . . like . . . if somebody's use of the language really enraged you, you couldn't post here, 'cause that would be much worse than a "peeve," right?
Where do peevopathic people post?
A perfectly plausible placement.
dlowan wrote:Alliteration peeves me.
I remember you telling so. It's all iteration then...
dlowan wrote:Setanta wrote:A perfectly plausible placement.
Alliteration peeves me.
Happy to hear that, Honey.
Francis wrote:dlowan wrote:Alliteration peeves me.
I remember you telling so. It's all iteration then...
by a cyclical process. You're a clever fellow Francis!
Yup, he's a real fart smeller . . .
. . . er, a real smart feller . . .
