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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    Your pace or mine.....

    Well, I suppose I'm fortunate not to be a New Zealander. Maybe this will end up in the Journal of Irreproducible Results. As sloppy as some research is, once the popular "press" sniffs a good story, you can expect an over-simplified and sensational piece of reportage.
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    OK, here's a fashion matter than increasingly irks me. Shredded blue jeans. Several times a week I see women below a certain age in blue jeans that have shredded or cut-out sections on the knees or thighs, always on the front. Oddly, you never see the shredding or artificial wear on their...
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    From the New England Patriots regarding the firing of Antonio Brown, a star player who has been with three NFL teams in the past six months. "... we feel that it is best to move forward in a different direction at this time." If this were baseball, I would call this a triple play: move forward...
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    Wait! Nashville? Isn't that where they "walk the line"?
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    Yes, I can see (and excuse) the multi-syllabic alternatives when communicating over a medium where signal drop-outs are common. Still, if the signal drops out at the first syllable, "affirmative" and "negative" would be indistinguishable, with possibly disasterous consequences.
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    Last Fall I went to work for a very large company, one whose name anyone would know. Some of the most senior execs (well, probably sent by their PAs at their direction) are fond of sending mass emails, "From the desk of ... "(senior exec's name here). Gee, his desk sent me an email! I must be...
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    Harkening back to a time when London had a real housing crisis, the doss house, where you could get a "coffin-bed" for four pence a night, and if you couldn't afford that, for a penny, you got a seat on a bench and a rope. https://twitter.com/the_east_end/status/948811903823904769
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In the southern US, barbeque (BBQ) is a religion. Adherents to their local varieties will not tolerate the notion that a variety from another area is any good.
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    Whoa! I just got finished watching "Forged in Fire". I like the show, even if one episode seems much like another, but every .. single ... week, the host challenges the finalists to "recreate this iconic weapon from history". No, Will, an obscure blade from central Africa is not possibly "an...
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    Maybe if we all mentally fill in "As if" before the nonsensical phrase? I do seems to recall a time not too long ago when "Valspeak" (an affliction suffered by teenage girls in certain Los Angeles suburbs) , in which (the affliction, not the suburb), a young woman would exclaim, "As if!", when...
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    I'm home! At last, other people who just as picky about nonsense-speak.
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    It's near the top of my list.
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    "Reach out to so-and-so, then we'll circle back around and huddle and drill-down to the bottom of this."
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    Are dresses coming back in style?

    She doesn't like to stand out or be noticed. Her favorite color is gray.
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    Are dresses coming back in style?

    I was shopping at Whole Paycheck with my wife a few months back when I spotted a young woman who was wearing the full June Cleaver, maybe no gloves, though. There are dresses and there are dresses, but this woman was so unusual that I remarked on it to my wife. My wife hasn't worn a dress since...
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    latinum adducite or adducite latinum With case endings, word order is conventional, but not dispositive. In spoken English (it's the only one I know, but I imagine it's so in others) word order takes second place to vocal emphasis. Take this sentence, for example, "What did he give her?" Now...
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    Someone, please, tell me what that town is so that I can put it on my list of places never to go.
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    From the Memory Hole in George Orwell's 1984 to the Taliban destroying the Bamiyan Buddhas to the destruction of the statues of Confederate soldiers, the same impulse is at work.
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Ah, it reminds me of distinctly non-PC Helen Keller jokes.
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Maybe you should put out a sign in Braille. Perhaps the offender was a "visually-impared" person (blind man, for the non-PC) and the dog was a guide dog not trained in wet cement detection.

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