The Rant Thread

[Armistead]

Ya know, lately my wife is getting on my nerves more. She doesn't appreciate me. Why are women so different today than the women of my mothers generation..

My Mom worked a full time job, came home cooked a full course meal, cleaned house to bedtime. In the morning we had a decent breakfast. Our clothes were ironed, not pulled out of the dryer.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Armistead

Ya know, lately my wife is getting on my nerves more. She doesn't appreciate me. Why are women so different today than the women of my mothers generation..

My Mom worked a full time job, came home cooked a full course meal, cleaned house to bedtime. In the morning we had a decent breakfast. Our clothes were ironed, not pulled out of the dryer.

[Sailor Steve]

I don't mind not having enough money for a place to live, but I sure do wish I could play SH3 and SH4, and have an excuse to rant about SH5!

@ Steeltrap: Bravo! But I really hate people who steal my favorite rant before I get a chance to post it myself! Don' do dat no mo'!


And while you're at it, add people putting apostrophes where they don't belong (torpedo's, wave's) and not putting where they do belong (Steeltraps rant), and sometimes in the same sentence (SH3s torpedo's).

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

And while you're at it, add people putting apostrophes where they don't belong

To true. Its about thyme people new were there apostrophe's should go. Eye say chute the lot off them's. Buy ewe no its about communication. Ass' long as thing's our clear and easy too reed then witch off us is too say that its' bad. Four ewe, it may bee wired but four other's its not grate but ass' long ass' its red OK, its understandable. Ewe no watt eye mean, sow watt is the problem?

[sergei]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

Eye say chute the lot off them's.

[the_belgian]

i recently broke a kneecap while playing airsoft so i bought SHV to kill the time while recovering(i would have bought it anyway).
now my computer is broken(i'm using my wifes laptop to keep in touch)...

so why should i place anything here?...
i have nothing to complain about...

[Steeltrap]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

To true. Its about thyme people new were there apostrophe's should go. Eye say chute the lot off them's. Buy ewe no its about communication. Ass' long as thing's our clear and easy too reed then witch off us is too say that its' bad. Four ewe, it may bee wired but four other's its not grate but ass' long ass' its red OK, its understandable. Ewe no watt eye mean, sow watt is the problem?

Yes, that is a commonly used argument. I'll leave it to Geroge Orwell, a far greater exponent of the English language than I can ever expect to be, to reply (I changed some font to bold type for emphasis):

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly.....: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers.

.......

The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not. This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose


George Orwell, 'Politics and the English Language', 1946

There you go....

Cheers

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by Steeltrap

The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not. This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose

I hoped my post was suitably jarring to make the point that it did matter. I had trouble reading it back when I 'proof read' it.

Sometimes I wonder if by boss really did want me to 'insure' that something happened, rather than ensuring it happened, as I assumed he meant.

[jwilliams]

Ggggrrrraaahhhhh !!!!!! i just died in SH5.

Had TC at 256, and crashed into a ship....

i heard a gun sound, then "we're taking damage" cut to death screen. didnt have time to do anything.



My first death.... and it was only my 3rd patrol.

[Steeltrap]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

I hoped my post was suitably jarring to make the point that it did matter. I had trouble reading it back when I 'proof read' it.

Sometimes I wonder if by boss really did want me to 'insure' that something happened, rather than ensuring it happened, as I assumed he meant.

I know what you mean.....

I received a 'report' from a large law firm today.....it's circulated to subscribers......it pointed out words to the effect that xyz committee had made a bunch of recommendations. Apparently the government adopted some but disguarded others.

Disguarded. I kid you not. From a large commercial law firm in a publication circulated throughout business communities.

I nearly called them. I might on Monday.

Sheesh

You'll find this everywhere. Sometimes I burst out laughing at work because of some of the things people have written where they clearly have no idea that what they really wrote is completely different from what they think they wrote. Journalists do it, too.

So for everyone who says it doesn't matter, I send them those bits of Orwell's essay. I have it saved at work for exactly that reason.

OK, I'm a fanatic, I confess!

Originally Posted by Steeltrap

Yes, that is a commonly used argument. I'll leave it to Geroge Orwell, a far greater exponent of the English language than I can ever expect to be, to reply (I changed some font to bold type for emphasis):

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly.....: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers.

.......

The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not. This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose


George Orwell, 'Politics and the English Language', 1946

There you go....

Cheers

There's no doubt old Georgie Boy was a great writer. But even his own words use the expression 'Modern English', as apart from Old English or Essex English. I'm sure the lads and lasses in Essex are well able to articulate their thoughts sufficiently enough to communicate, as indeed did the medieval users of Old English.

Language is a serial form of communication, used to decompose a thought or an idea with a vain hope the reader/listener will recompose the same image. At best its the noise a modem makes between two computers.

Language evolves as i'm sure Mr Orwell well appreciated.

UG

PS: I apologise in advance if my post comes across as all slovenly like.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I think I've found the perfect girl for him.

[Piggy]

Stupid daylight savings.. I hate it!

Kids go to bed later but still wake up too early, for 5 days I've been a zombie. Every year it gets worse and to top it off they moved it up by 3 damn weeks here this year.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Piggy

Stupid daylight savings.. I hate it!

Kids go to bed later but still wake up too early, for 5 days I've been a zombie. Every year it gets worse and to top it off they moved it up by 3 damn weeks here this year.

I agree, I hate it as well.

At this point it seems like we're on DST 3/4 of the year anyway, why not move the damn clocks up an hour and just LEAVE THEM THERE FOREVER. That way I could get used to the change ONCE and be done with it.

My boss is a ****

My road tax has gone up AGAIN! wHY EVERY YEAR wtf? Do they mend the roads? do they ----.

cOUNCIL Tax up again. CAPS LOCK ON, Ive noticed. Dammit.

PETROL - (caps intentional this time) - £1.20 a litre by Easter and crude half the price it was this time last year...

New Labour Don't get me started.

Oh, and TV licence demand through the post this morning.

Meh, is this a true rant, or does it only qualify as a moan?

Jolly nice thread BTW!