To cringe when people start posts with 'Just that really'

[LowMaintenanceVeg]

It never is 'just that'.

They always go on to elaborate their point, so why bother with the prefix 'Just that really'? I find it both lazy and a little annoying.

I am obviously a grumpy old woman and probably BU. But - does anyone else sigh when they see this?

I'm fine with but annoys me because it doesn't look confused, it looks like [you are deluded].

No worries OrangeVase. Do you ever play cards?

Remember when people used to have a long rant then end it by writing "FACT!!"

Oh God yes. That really annoys me too. I always want to reply No it's not a fucking FACT. It's your half-arsed opinion, which I might have even agreed with until you told me it was a FACT, and now I want to disagree with you just to piss you off

"End of."

That makes me want to flick the person very, very hard under the septum.

Oh no. I've only ever started one MN thread and that's definitely how I started it

Does anyone have to read and re-read posts that have a strange use of 'here' in them?

Example, instead of someone saying 'I have four DCs' they'll say 'four DCs here'.

Probably just me not getting the way it's supposed to be read.

Also hate ending anything with 'fact', 'end of' or 'gavel'

I have a friend who is lovely in real life but the most irritating person I have ever met on FB. One of the things that drives me mad is posting something quite contentious then ending it with Just Sayin', complete with apostrophe instead of the missing G

I get more annoyed when I see people spell 'bought' as 'brought (example: I brought a carrycot cringe) or 'carn't' instead of 'can't', or 'draws' instead of 'drawers' ('chester draws' instead of 'chest of drawers'!!! Eeek!!)

It makes me want to boke.

With many things, the title or introduction bears little or only a passing resemblance to the content; books, chapters, headlines, adverts, tv programmes, etc. A title is often a tiny part of the whole thing. We are almost conditioned to expect this in a way.

Examples: The Apprentice. In the early series (I only watched those), sir Alan would introduce each task by taking the teams to somewhere bearing only a passing resemblance. The very first task, he took them to a newspaper printing press, saying that the papers being printed now would be no use the next day. The first task was selling flowers.

From yes minister:
"But your paper is headed 'open government'."
"Yes. Always dispose of the difficult bit in the title; it does less harm there than in the text."

So in the case of "just that, really", it emphasises that the title really is about the content, and saves an introductory paragraph.