Please RSVP - seriously?

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Official correspondence asking me to 'please RSVP'. Why??? There's no need for please... Rant over

"You have two choices" when actually you have one choice to make, between two things.

Byron used medal as a verb in 1822, and the OED has medal as a noun and a verb, so I can live with that.

Mind you, the OED also has podium has a verb.

Why are things private and confidential?

"Deja vu all over again" is a joke phrase.

"Pan fried" means not deep fried.

"Plug socket" is a socket for plugs. There are other types of socket, since we're all being pedantic.

My current time wasting app tells me to 'bloom the big buds'

I wrote 'please rsvp' over a group text the other day...

I knew it was wrong to do, but I have a seriously entitled cunt of a cousin in law who always acts as if I haven't invited her to family events when I do, or says things like 'you didn't tell me I needed to get in touch regarding attendance or not'

which is all very confusing anyway, so figured I'd write 'please rsvp' to everyone in the group message so everyone would know to let me know with a double please iyswim.

you want to know something else I hate?

When assholes confuse condensed milk with evaporated milk and actually say they can taste the fat in evaporated milk.

no you fuckers, fatty sugary milk in cans is called 'condensed milk'.

'irregardless' .
that is all.

Hero the beef? Hero the bluddy beef

That's upset me. I was going to say 'quite unique' but now all I can think about is heroing the beef.

"4am in the morning..." one of the many annoying things about the already annoying Mike Oldfield song Moonlight Shadow

As a structural engineer I have never worked on a building that didn't have an architect involved. Even mass produced bovis and Charles church ones. Simply because structural engineers do not have the training to layout lightswitches, plug sockets, drainage etc. And to be honest I would find that utterly tedious and don't really want to do it. Plus they do all sorts of clever things with dimensions so you use whole bricks instead of having to cut them all over the place and sort out how the staircases turn to maximise the space. They may lots of the same house, but they will all have had an architect involved at some point.

If I were to design a house to be as efficient as possible structurally, all the windows would be small, square and slap bang in the centre as that is the best way to design a masonry panel. Also I can guarantee the electrics would be a mess and the drainage would take me forever to get right.

Yes, I think plug socket is right. As opposed to an aerial socket or a shaving socket.

Also, to the person who pointed us to pedant corner, can I just say "Pedants'."

Thank you.

Actually, the best way to design a masonry panel is to have no openings at all, but I'm not sure those houses would catch on...

MOT test is correct, as the T doesn't stand for test, but nobody says that!

SocksRock got there before me.

All houses, even the new-build ones, have an architect involved. Now, he/she may not have much design freedom and be told to use the house-plan template that Redrow/Barrats have and repeat that across the development (which happens way too often). But the architect is the only person in the design team who can put together the information from the structural engineer, acoustic engineer, M+E engineer, drainage, plumbing etc etc and prevent silly things happening (say, an electrical line drawn to pass through a concrete column) and produce one single drawing that builders can build from.

I love a Personal Identification Number number and a Surface to Air Missile missile.

And a TLA Acronym. My boss LOVED referring to these, as he thought it was his wee in joke and a nose thumb to management speak.

A Three Letter Acronym acronym

Yes, I think plug socket is right. As opposed to an aerial socket or a shaving socket.

Both of those accept plugs.

Summerhouse

Why are things private and confidential?

I think this is a legal thing. In law something can be private but not confidential. This is because to be legally "confidential" it has to have a quality of confidence about it - rather than just be trivial. Private means anything not publicly known - which may not be legally confidential.

For example, if X tells you (say) that today they are wearing white underwear, that's private (in the sense of not publicly known) but it's not legally confidential because it's trivial.

On the other hand, if X tells you the secret recipe for Coca Cola that is legally confidential.

A job application is confidential.

A love letter (from a person who is not your husband yet somehow knows your work address) is private.

Of course, if that is to be worth anything, someone needs to explain that to the poor shmuck at reception who opened them both and then got hauled over the coals for not knowing the difference...

So ime confidential is something the sender doesn't want anyone else to know about, private is something the receiver wants to keep to themselves...

I've heard "Please uplift all Luggage on leaving the train" I haven't heard that, but I rather love it!

I HATE and despise 'medalled', as in athletes medalling. No. No. NO.