I feel your pain. There's a line in a Robert Palmer song (can't remember what it's called - video of red-lipsticked , sulky looking lasses wiggling in the background) that contains the lines: I told you twice/ I was only trying to be nice.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It makes me want to run amok with a chainsaw. The rhyme works, but there's something about it ...the primary school poem thing? the banality? The desperate contrivance of it? that sets off fireworks in my head.
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Thread: Pet Peeves IV
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30-07-2019 06:03 PM #6901
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30-07-2019 06:12 PM #6902This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Addicted To Lurve
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30-07-2019 06:42 PM #6903
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30-07-2019 10:31 PM #6904This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Aye, exactly like Donald Trump.
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30-07-2019 11:53 PM #6906This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThere's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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31-07-2019 01:26 AM #6907This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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31-07-2019 01:40 AM #6908This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
’Got’ is the past tense of ‘get’. My memory of grammar is hazy but I think ‘gotten’ is the past participle, stand to be corrected.
You wouldn’t say I gotten good at something, you would say I became good at something. I’m actually doubting whether ‘became good’ is acceptable but it is certainly better than ‘gotten good’.
Likewise, I gotten lots of presents. I was given lots of presents or I received lots of presents.There's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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31-07-2019 05:28 AM #6909This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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31-07-2019 06:50 AM #6910This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
A better example for the use of “gotten” would be as a part participle in a sentence where “get” would be the present tense and “got” the past tense. So, for example:
I may get promoted.
I got promoted.
I have gotten promoted several times.Last edited by Future17; 31-07-2019 at 06:56 AM.
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31-07-2019 09:22 AM #6911
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At the time of the Mayflower, gotten was in use here in Britain, and it comes from Old English. We ditched it, they kept it. Always assumed it was an Americanism, until I read something about an author dealing with complaints about her use of the word in a historical novel. I looked it up, and apparently that's the case.
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31-07-2019 10:29 AM #6912This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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31-07-2019 11:34 AM #6913
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31-07-2019 12:15 PM #6914
This thread has gotten good.
The way the rain waits for you to leave a building before starting. Soaked last night walking home from the pub. :angry:Mon the Hibs.
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31-07-2019 01:42 PM #6915This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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31-07-2019 10:31 PM #6917
When commentators say that a shot has “just about” crossed the line. Although it has actually crossed the line. If it had just about crossed it then it wouldn’t have quite made it over.
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01-08-2019 11:16 AM #6918
Google on my phone which never works I say "OK google" but jumps into life when someone on the telly says anything that sounds remotely like the same thing, technology is great when it can arsed to work properly.
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02-08-2019 10:06 PM #6919
Ministers who, while officiating at a funeral, spend time proselytising about Jesus to a captive audience sweltering in uncomfortable summer heat.
It's fair enough if the deceased was particularly religious and his/her family have requested it, but too often it's just for the minister's own gratification it seems.
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02-08-2019 10:44 PM #6920This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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02-08-2019 11:25 PM #6921This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
As luck would have it, I was at a funeral during the week for a family member, great guy but liked a peeve. The "humanist" celebrant didn't miss him. I reckon she spent half her oration on his misadventures through his drinking exploits. Perhaps not in keeping with a traditional send off but 100% correct and well received by those in attendance
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09-08-2019 08:36 AM #6922
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When someone sends you a message at work asking "have you got 5 minutes for a call?" which is office speak for "I expect you to drop everything you are doing right now for 45 minutes so you can do what I impatiently can't wait for and I'm going to keep you on the phone until it's done"
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09-08-2019 12:44 PM #6923
The staff tasked with keeping an eye on the self serve checkouts in supermarkets, who are almost always chatting to a pal, standing with their back to the tills, or rather than coming to sort your minor thing out so you can pay and leave, will stop on the way to help out the old dear by removing the security device from her gin, whilst she’s still got plenty to scan.
And, the pressure pads that you place the scanned items on, which never fail to detect phantom objects, and the next moment are unable to detect the 5kg bag of dog food after it’s been scanned and put down on the pad
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14-08-2019 07:49 PM #6924
Persistent use of the word 'backstop'.
For the next few months at least we're not a state of the US, so why have we been using their sporting analogies for the last three years? The correct expression would be 'long stop'. Two words and neither of them 'back'.
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14-08-2019 08:19 PM #6925
Watching Grand Designs on 4OD and you have to wonder if the people that take part have ever actually watched it?
A six month timescale is bonkers short, and they will definitely go over budget.
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14-08-2019 10:52 PM #6926
Not sure it’s a pet peeve but my wife sent me a link to story about Drake (who?) getting a tattoo of him walking in front of the Beatles in their abbey road pose as he apparently beat one of their records.
I have of course heard of him, but couldn’t name you any of his songs. So just listened to his top songs on I-tunes. Does it say more about music today when generic dross like Drake, that could be any song in the charts, is beating records set by the Beatles.
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16-08-2019 09:20 PM #6927
When you’re drinking cider with loads of ice in the glass and it constantly drips water from the glass. It happens on holiday when you’re drinking a beer as well. Why does that happen?
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17-08-2019 10:00 AM #6930
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