Bar Humbug? Really?

[MorrisZapp]

I've seen this four times now. People actually think Dickens bestowed us with the grumpy seasonal catchphrase 'bar humbug'.

What do these people think bar means? Or humbug, for that matter?

Why say humbug?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbug

I hate things like this.

Seen on another thread just today was someone pointing their wheels to the curb! It’s kerb!

And DH, every single time you day literally, it isn’t; you mean virtually, or almost.

But "curb" is not wrong.

Is it "swings and roundabouts " or "swings in roundabouts?".

And what does it mean?!

I genuinely don't know so tend to alternate each time I (rarely!) use it so to stay off the radar of pedantic old gits like myself!

Swings and roundabouts. I think the longer, original version is 'sometimes you win on the swings sometimes you win on the roundabouts'. Despite neither of those things being competitive.

“Ching ching”

since the gecko
Haven't seen that one before!

Very unreasonable op. They are clearly all dyslexic.

Thanks Captain!

I have been listening to Radio 2 this morning and during a phone in, a dancer from Spearmint Rhino (who thinks lap dancing is a positive force in improving attitudes to body image amongst women, but that’s a whole other issue) proclaimed “Mental health is rifle nowadays!”

I think she meant that poor mental health is rife.

@SenecaFalls in the UK it is kerb

Comment with this...

I know that "kerb" is British English. But this thread is about mistakes. It's not wrong. Also there are quite a few North Americans on MN.

A lot of these mistakes are driven by spellcheckers, which are proof extant that we are nowhere near the level of "AI" people who want you to spend your money on it would have you believe.

There's also a circularity where once a mistaken phrase becomes extant, spell/grammar checkers then offer the mistaken phrase with the correct original making ...

I agree DGRossetti and I think some of the extremes you see could also be voice activated cock ups.

some of the extremes you see could also be voice activated cock ups

DW is partially sighted (visually "fucked" as she'd say) and (literally ) cannot put into words how much she hates voice input. Again, if we are in a world of so called "AI", then it certainly isn't being applied to anything useful. Although DB (whose PHd was in AI) has said he uses it to do his expenses if he has time to check them afterwards ....