To wonder what other posters do that really annoy you?

[atthewelles]

For me it would probably be:

Not reading the OP properly and going off on a tangent
Pulling a thread totally OT in order to have a two way jokey conversation with someone else that goes on for pages and pages
Looking up someone's posting history and saying 'well on 5th April 2006 you said this and now you're saying that.

Are there many slowcookers in skips? Are they all the ones Mners throw out when the recipes don't work?

I never see any

I quite like agenda posters, though. The person who appears mid-thread, zones in on one tiny detail of the problem because it relates to something that happened to them, and then doggedly refuses to let go of the issue, despite other posters trying to distract them/the thread moving on into totally different areas. It's like watching a spaniel single-mindedly shagging a vicar's leg.

Okay, if I have to make some tiny tiny complaints

1. when people get arsey about people chatting on freds. I agree, it can be annoying, but given I've been hanging around here 5 years, if I didn't recognise or chat to anyone it would be tragic
2. People who are deliberately rude or goading. When I see it now, because I'm grumpy, I report it to MNHQ because there's no reason on EARTH to be an arse
3. People with pet "areas of expertise" that they will bang about on any thread, or twist a thread to that topic, and when anyone challenges they play stupid. Or, they ARE that stupid
4. Lol and Hun. Unless in the appropriate setting, e.g. you are actually laughing out loud or it is a discussion about Attila the Hun
5. People who lay into OPs for no apparent reason (like a thread recently, where one arse just went off on one)
6. People who do the whole "fuck off and when ..." BLAH. It was funny ONCE. ONCE move on
7. People who ignore me on threads, the bastards
8. People who have names similar to mine and then act like total arses - you're besmirching the good Abs name. Stop it.
9. People who do horrible trolling to get a rise

10. People who continue to pretend NOT TO UNDERSTAND VERY SIMPLE THINGS just because they've realised they're wrong and they don't have enough cojones to admit it

The lunch/dinner/Tea/supper/snack threads.

Only because everyone seems to be having super posh sounding meals with food items I have never heard of and I'm sat there with my crisp sandwich on white or my ready made lasagne

WOULDN'T SAY NO TO FREDDIE THO, EH? EH?

But why is it Ruth, that makes zero sense?
I don't get it.

Worra o can't be arsed to read this thread, can you give me a summary

Yeah, we're all moaning cunts.

Oh and people who highlight your post but don't correct the typo so everyone gets to see it again...

ruth or roof!

Or Phil Collins....

Drip feeding. Makes fools out of everyone.

I also have an irrational hatred of txt spk. In particular 'u' and 'urs' and 'n' for and. Its just taken me far longer to type those examples than it would to use proper English. So why do it?

Our slow cooker's in a skip. It takes ages to get anything cooked.

Look up the etymology, Randall, it's from the Norse via Original Danish

It is roof of your mouth, not ruth!

Oh Tufty you little terror!

Light a fire under the skip, tif, you's doin it all wrong.

U R mi BFFL buppihunni mwah mwah gawj xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Aah, was a wind up!

Let it go Hully. I am a minor celebrity once removed via a major dead celebrity a few decades ago. You have to let go of the envy. We move in different spheres.

Absy. That list is not very zen like.

Freddie's dead Hilly, would that matter.
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It's ruth because it comes from the Latin word ^desruthable' meaning pinnacle.

It's roof of mouth.

We are not all philologists.

So sod off.

Can't be bothered to read whole thread (!), so don't know if this had been mentioned, but all those people who say "tis" instead of "it's". I think it's down to a secret terror that a pedant might pick them up on it. Does ANYONE in the real world say tis?

11. Hully
12. Txtspk. Though, I have seen it in worse places. I'm on Linked In (get me - the FB for wankers work purposes) including some industry groups, where you discuss stuff about the area of work, and some people shamelessly try and get jobs. Some of those shameless individuals use txtspk. On a professional forum. While trying to get a job. No wonder they're having to resort to this, because they're too dumbass to get a job otherwise (harsh)

Blame the cockneys and the proles for turning ruth into roof.

"4. Lol and Hun. Unless in the appropriate setting, e.g. you are actually laughing out loud or it is a discussion about Attila the Hun"

LOL.

Shit.