Pet Peeves IV

[Future17]

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"London Underground has been known as the Tube since 1890 due to the shape of the tunnels."

You're right, of course, lazy people with no respect for history or language do now refer to the coaches they sit or stand in as the tube. Apparently 'tube' is more convenient than saying 'underground rolling stock'.

'Shuttle' is a fairly commutingy sort of word, don't you think?

Astronauts (or cosmonauts) don't travel by shuttle these days. They travel by spacecraft.

Could your peeve be summarised as "the evolution of language"? ;-)

[CropleyWasGod]

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I'm (fairly) certain it's an acronym. Maybe the pronunciation you refer to is a Greek colloquialism.

Backtracking a bit, here is a handy guide:-

http://www.aek.com/faq/faqen/faqen.htm#stands

It is an acronym, but produced ah-ek. Like you say, probably a colloquialism. But the "A..E..K" is no more used in common speech or the media AFAIA than WBA or ICT.

I think

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[lapsedhibee]

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Could your peeve be summarised as "the evolution of language"? ;-)

Nah, not against evolution of language. I like a neologism as much as the next man, so long as he's someone who likes a neologism. Virulently against the democratisation of language, however.

[Hermit Crab]

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Tubes of fruit pastilles with a poor assortment of colours/flavours - too many yellow ones.

And never enough orange ones!

[Scouse Hibee]

Vegetarians who want to eat “pretend”meat products.

[Alfiembra]

Online form filling for insurance quotes etc. Spending ages filling in details for the form to keep rejecting things you know you have filled out correctly i.e. occupation. Then when it finally accepts it and you try to proceed to the next page you get a Sorry there seems to be a problem with network at the moment please try again later.

[Pretty Boy]

Folk who can't leave football at the door at an event that has nothing to do with football.

I've had tickets to see James 3 times and missed them each time so yesterday I went to Party at the Palace to see them. The place was crawling with folk in Hearts tops. Who wears a football top to a music event? Even allowing for them having a game yesterday and people maybe travelling straight from there is taking a change of top or not wearing a strip for one game that hard?

The tops are bad enough but I got stuck behind a guy; late 50s, cheap fake leather jacket, maroon jumper with Hearts crest on it and ill fitting jeans. He screamed Hearts. Anyway Level by Avicii came on, which I think they kind of adopted in 2012, and he was like a bairn at Christmas. 'Stevie, Stevie **** the Hibs eh', 5-1 fingers in the air and flicking his head towards them as though anyone could miss him 'Stevie, look Stevie. Stevie, Stevie 5-1'. Tbf 'Stevie' looked quite embarrassed by the cretin and gave him the kind of smile you would give a younger sibling who was sent out with you by your parents when you are a teenager.

It wasn't just Hearts fans either. Small groups trying to start Hibs, Rangers and Celtic songs too, that tended to be at the station or walking up the road afterwards though. I love football banter but there's a time and place. Is it really so hard to enjoy a day of music, a few beer and have a laugh without announcing to the world you support a football team.

[vein]

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Folk who can't leave football at the door at an event that has nothing to do with football.

I've had tickets to see James 3 times and missed them each time so yesterday I went to Party at the Palace to see them. The place was crawling with folk in Hearts tops. Who wears a football top to a music event? Even allowing for them having a game yesterday and people maybe travelling straight from there is taking a change of top or not wearing a strip for one game that hard?

The tops are bad enough but I got stuck behind a guy; late 50s, cheap fake leather jacket, maroon jumper with Hearts crest on it and ill fitting jeans. He screamed Hearts. Anyway Level by Avicii came on, which I think they kind of adopted in 2012, and he was like a bairn at Christmas. 'Stevie, Stevie **** the Hibs eh', 5-1 fingers in the air and flicking his head towards them as though anyone could miss him 'Stevie, look Stevie. Stevie, Stevie 5-1'. Tbf 'Stevie' looked quite embarrassed by the cretin and gave him the kind of smile you would give a younger sibling who was sent out with you by your parents when you are a teenager.

It wasn't just Hearts fans either. Small groups trying to start Hibs, Rangers and Celtic songs too, that tended to be at the station or walking up the road afterwards though. I love football banter but there's a time and place. Is it really so hard to enjoy a day of music, a few beer and have a laugh without announcing to the world you support a football team.

I was there too but never noticed all the football tops apart from one guy in a Liverpool top, I was maybe standing at a better bit!

Pet peeve would be that self indulgent set list from James last night. I can get a lack of crowd pleasers at a James gig but that was a festival where the majority were crying out for the hits. Was really disappointed with them.

[Pretty Boy]

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I was there too but never noticed all the football tops apart from one guy in a Liverpool top, I was maybe standing at a better bit!

Pet peeve would be that self indulgent set list from James last night. I can get a lack of crowd pleasers at a James gig but that was a festival where the majority were crying out for the hits. Was really disappointed with them.

I didn't mind it too much as I really like the new album and some of their more 'obscure' stuff but I know what you are saying. A festival crowd expects the hits, you saw the reaction when they played Laid, and it never really came.

I thought Cast were the pick of the bunch yesterday. Couple of new songs, few that most knew and a solid 55 minutes or so.

[Hibee87]

Opening a bag of crisps and the bag splits

[vein]

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I didn't mind it too much as I really like the new album and some of their more 'obscure' stuff but I know what you are saying. A festival crowd expects the hits, you saw the reaction when they played Laid, and it never really came.

I thought Cast were the pick of the bunch yesterday. Couple of new songs, few that most knew and a solid 55 minutes or so.

Agree with that, Cast were really good, they were probably the band I was looking forward to the most. Shocked you didn’t mention mel c’s ‘dj’ set though 😂

About to set off now for day 2 in the rain, so there’s abother peeve, rain at festivals!! Peter hook is the one I’m looking forward to the most today.

[snooky]

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Online form filling for insurance quotes etc. Spending ages filling in details for the form to keep rejecting things you know you have filled out correctly i.e. occupation. Then when it finally accepts it and you try to proceed to the next page you get a Sorry there seems to be a problem with network at the moment please try again later.

This - in bags - for anything you have to fill in on line.

My pet peeve is when they give you a list of options and none apply to your situation yet you have to select one to move on to the next page. How hard is it to have a tick box for "other"?

[Mibbes Aye]

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Tubes of fruit pastilles with a poor assortment of colours/flavours - too many yellow ones.

Not just pastilles - find this with jelly babies, jelly beans etc etc. Always a preponderance of yellow ones and a lack of orange ones.

[Mibbes Aye]

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Vegetarians who want to eat “pretend”meat products.

I find vegetarian haggis is better than meat haggis.

My son doesn't eat meat but he loves a lasagne and I use soy mince or Quorn mince. It's less oily than meat mince and you can bump up the flavour with herbs and spices.

Similarly vegetarian Cumberland sausages are very good and actually have a decent flavour.

We don't really use any other 'like meat' products, but veggie mince and sausages lend themselves to a number of dishes, especially the kind of comfort food that kids like.

On a different note, I made lasagne for a friend who is coeliac. Used gram flour for the bechamel, to make the cheese sauce and it worked better then plain flour and the taste was fine.

[matty_f]

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I was there too but never noticed all the football tops apart from one guy in a Liverpool top, I was maybe standing at a better bit!

Pet peeve would be that self indulgent set list from James last night. I can get a lack of crowd pleasers at a James gig but that was a festival where the majority were crying out for the hits. Was really disappointed with them.

James rarely play a set of hits, festival or not. Tim Booth is quite open about it on Twitter.

As a huge fan, I don't really mind but I can see why folk would be disappointed.

[vein]

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James rarely play a set of hits, festival or not. Tim Booth is quite open about it on Twitter.

As a huge fan, I don't really mind but I can see why folk would be disappointed.

Yeah they told me the same on twitter when they picked up on my tweet moaning about them last night. We have made up now but and are going to call our first born Jim 😄.

Peter hook was unreal today but Texas were different class, sharleen spiteri is a very funny lady!

[lord bunberry]

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I find vegetarian haggis is better than meat haggis.

My son doesn't eat meat but he loves a lasagne and I use soy mince or Quorn mince. It's less oily than meat mince and you can bump up the flavour with herbs and spices.

Similarly vegetarian Cumberland sausages are very good and actually have a decent flavour.

We don't really use any other 'like meat' products, but veggie mince and sausages lend themselves to a number of dishes, especially the kind of comfort food that kids like.

On a different note, I made lasagne for a friend who is coeliac. Used gram flour for the bechamel, to make the cheese sauce and it worked better then plain flour and the taste was fine.

Vegetarian haggis is delicious. I’m not a vegetarian, but I definitely recommend giving it a try.

[pollution]

Censorship of any kind.

[Hibrandenburg]

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Censorship of any kind.

Child pornography?

[Hermit Crab]

Alleged homeless people that sit and beg, especially those that sit next to ATM's. There was one outside the Co-op on ER before the Motherwell game was asking for £20 off people for a bed for the night. When a woman went to the ATM he upped it to £70. Aye, like thats ever going to happen. *****in chancer!

[pollution]

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Child pornography?

No, obviously not.

I was referring to the decision made to close a thread regardng alleged cliques on this site.

[Pretty Boy]

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No, obviously not.

I was referring to the decision made to close a thread regardng alleged cliques on this site.

The one that had descended into puns about periods? It wasn't me who closed it but I'd argue it was a sound decision.

There was an 8 page thread about cliques a while back that had some good points raised. Maybe that would be a better option to make a point about a related topic on?

[Scouse Hibee]

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Alleged homeless people that sit and beg, especially those that sit next to ATM's. There was one outside the Co-op on ER before the Motherwell game was asking for £20 off people for a bed for the night. When a woman went to the ATM he upped it to £70. Aye, like thats ever going to happen. *****in chancer!

Agreed, a whole lot of them out there including some of those selling the Big Issue.

[pollution]

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The one that had descended into puns about periods? It wasn't me who closed it but I'd argue it was a sound decision.

There was an 8 page thread about cliques a while back that had some good points raised. Maybe that would be a better option to make a point about a related topic on?

No, it was your post started 05.37 yesterday " A friendly reminder.. "

I coudn't make my point because it was closed. It wasn't a controversial subject and why was it closed anyway?

Thanks.

[Hermit Crab]

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Agreed, a whole lot of them out there including some of those selling the Big Issue.

Give them f all, I'm willing to bet if you done surveillance on one of them you'd find that they went to house after their hours of begging.

[Pretty Boy]

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No, it was your post started 05.37 yesterday " A friendly reminder.. "

I coudn't make my point because it was closed. It wasn't a controversial subject and why was it closed anyway?

Thanks.

We're thinking of the same thread.

It was closed because a serious issue, or as serious an issue as a thread about an internet forum can be, just got a bit silly.

Of the 21 posts there was my OP, 6 jokes about Zitelli/the telly, 8 posts about periods, a couple of decent suggestions and 4 posts abou a clique. That was about it.

I'd be happy to debate if there is or isn't a clique on here (I don't believe there's a clique as such but we have been running so long there are undoubtedly groups who know each other abd little in jokes amongst such groups). As I said there was a long running thread about that very topic a couple of months ago.

That thread wasn't closed as an act of censorship and it's something I'll admit to getting nippy about. It's been an accusation thrown at us for years, with little foundation, that we are puppets of the Hibs board who manipulate the forum to present a prescribed picture.

[CropleyWasGod]

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Give them f all, I'm willing to bet if you done surveillance on one of them you'd find that they went to house after their hours of begging.

One of them? Any one of them you mean?

There's plenty who would take that bet.

[IGRIGI]

The company I work for is trying to push the big wigs in media as "thought leaders".

If that wasn't enough a friend on Instagram made reference to "travel influencers".

Anyone described as that, or worse describes themselves as that, is a grade A C U Next ..

[wpj]

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The company I work for is trying to push the big wigs in media as "thought leaders".

If that wasn't enough a friend on Instagram made reference to "travel influencers".

Anyone described as that, or worse describes themselves as that, is a grade A C U Next ..

"Direction of travel" and "current landscape" do my nut in

[danhibees1875]

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Give them f all, I'm willing to bet if you done surveillance on one of them you'd find that they went to house after their hours of begging.

Even if we decided that they do have a roof over their heads at night, the fact they choose to sit outside on the concrete begging for loose change makes me think they're in dire need for it - food, clothes, electricity - and don't have any better means to obtain money.

Or have I missed your point?