to HATE 'simples'

[Floopy21]

Makes me cringe everytime I see it typed. Awful phrase which makes me lose respect for the posters who use it.

at AF

And yes Floopy it's your head!

I always want to say it at the end of a sentence but then i re read and see how twattish it looks so i remove it. Sympathy for both camps in this case.

there is that clicky noise thing as well, isn't there

simples < meerkat squeak thingy >

is that how it goes ?

how would you type that ?

Ahh, Bibbity, but it's not innocuous to me . I'd rather 'See You Next Tuesday' was used, it would grate less - nothing makes me incandescent with rage though, not on here.

whatwasthatagain I started a thread about "should of" versus "should have" recently. DP insists it's "of"

back to OP, I wouldn't say it annoys me, but it does look/sound a bit silly. In fairness though, most MNers seem to only use it in the context Maisie describes, so they're not really serious about using it.

ecow - I think you should divorce him - or at least give him a nasty slap every time he says 'of' instead of 'have'.

totally agree with op. it's a horrendous turn of phrase.

Horrendous??

Hmm, not so sure about people beginning sentences in lower case

I have a colleague who says 'LOL', as in 'elloell'. I want him to die. So I think you are quite reasonable.

And while we're at it.

Please will the person in the UK who laughs at the Go Compare adverts please stand up.

Katiepoes, I want to slap him for you!

Simples is terrible.

Lol that the topic above this had "simples" in the title.

What is it supposed to mean? Just the same as 'simple'?

I hate the should of, could of, would of thing too. Grrrr.

Yes, it means simple - in a sort of "are you stupid" sort of way

My biggest bugbear (well, second, Gordon Brown is my biggest at the moment) is "soz" - as in, I'm ignorant, couldn't actually care less and I'm not at all sorry

I've generally seen it used as short-hand for "as simple as that".

Get annoyed by pedantry? Well buy yourself a dictionary and join in. Simples.

Yo blad

U shud b glad u is not da muvva of a 10 year old girl wot speaks like dis. All the time. Innit.

And I'm an English teacher ffs.

How about "Enjoy" when the waitress puts yer dinner down ?

Not waitress - server

YANBU

Fuck off with your 'simples' you tit.

simples is over-used now but I still find it just-about funny

My DH says that something "gives up too much space", when he means "takes up too much space". When I point this out to him, he calls me a pedantic cow. He is of course right, I AM a pedantic cow. In this case though, I am clearly right and he is clearly wrong.

Simples.

I HATE simples. But the one I REALLY hate though is prolly - as in probably!

YANBU.

I say "prolly" all the time b/c DH goes into a screaming fit but secretly I hate it of course.

I've never heard "simples" - give an example please?

Also hate people saying elloell...or worse: "Lols". UGH UGH UGH! If you're speaking you can just LAUGH you TWIT!

slightly less abrasive than saying "now off you fuck, you thick twat"

Thanks for clarifying, AF. Love all the other examples, esp "loose" and "should of".

One of my hates is use of "momentarily" as in "The plane will be landing momentarily" - I feel like shouting "and then taking off again ?" (they mean "in a moment", of course).

PS AF - maybe you should have put "waiting to be spanked" rather than "snogged"