So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[GHT]

Spellcheckers will not protect one from a choice of the wrong homophone.

People will giggle and sneer, when a poster demonstrates that they don’t know them apart.

On websites where illiteracy is the dominant mode, one can make long (and amusing) lists of such mistakes.

That is what we Brits refer to as a "clanger!" Homophone! I'm going to steal that.

 

[Who?]

That is what we Brits refer to as a "clanger!" Homophone! I'm going to steal that.

The most recent one I can recall was someone who didn’t know the difference between “grizzly” and “grisly”.

We in the Former North American Colonies call that a “howler”. Same idea.

 

[tonyb]

A few years back I had a pleasant exchange with a man who was at the airfield adjacent to Pearl Harbor on that Sunday morning. He was in his 90s when our paths crossed.

A conversation with a Pearl Harbor attack survivor would be about the last thing a person would expect when he does his grocery shopping. I was glad I met the fellow.

Facebook reminded of this post from six years ago. If Tom is still with us, he’d be 100 going on 101.

 

[Who?]

I was seven years old, at that time.

 

[tonyb]

I was seven years old, at that time.

Did it make much of an impression on you at the time?

 

[Who?]

Did it make much of an impression on you at the time?

Yes, I told my mother that if there was a war, I didn’t want my Uncle Bob (her brother) to have to go somewhere and get killed.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Something kind of fascinatiing for me and mabye you can tell me something about it.

When I grew up, I more and more perceived, that women very often carry these smaller "panniers" in everyday life. I don't mean getting groceries or having it on their bicyle or carrying babies.

I mean, when they simply get to the office, with their usual handbag plus a usual backpack, too or meet someone or beeing just on further education or studying or whatever. All this cases, where you normally wouldn't need them extra.
And I can't remember, seeing this all around the 90s.

Has anyone an explanation for this? Sometimes they got flatter panniers, but similar to the above.

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^^
Can’t say I recall that ever catching on in a big way around these parts.

 

[LizzieMaine]

In America, the NPR giveaway canvas totebag fills the same purpose.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Since the ban of free plastic shopping bags in Hawai’i (all plastic shopping bags, really) everyone is carrying canvas tot bags. Probably a good thing. In Vienna I was always amazed to see how many people used two wheeled pull carts to get their groceries home from the store. Now I’m starting to see them here too.

 

[tonyb]

… In Vienna I was always amazed to see how many people used two wheeled pull carts to get their groceries home from the store. Now I’m starting to see them here too.

I recall seeing those things at a since-defunct supermarket on First Hill in Seattle. The store was maybe a third of a mile from a large apartment building housing mostly lower-income oldsters. The little carts were collapsible wire things. Good design, it would seem — lightweight, and large enough to hold two-plus shopping bags (the kind we used to have, the brown paper ones) of groceries.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Is anyone of you active (registered) on Youtube?

If so, I would like to ask for a little little favor!

 

[EngProf]

Since the ban of free plastic shopping bags in Hawai’i (all plastic shopping bags, really) everyone is carrying canvas tot bags. Probably a good thing. In Vienna I was always amazed to see how many people used two wheeled pull carts to get their groceries home from the store. Now I’m starting to see them here too.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Is anyone of you active (registered) on Youtube?

If so, I would like to ask for a little little favor!

No one?

It would simply be posting a "reaction-recommendation" for

on this lovely channel:

Nothing more!

 

[AmateisGal]

Trivial? Maybe, maybe not, but it ticks me off.

I was in line at Barnes and Noble the other night. There was one person at the register, and she was dealing with a customer who had a complicated transaction (I think the customer was buying books for her school, which meant she needed tax free documents or something). The line started to increase and people in the line started to grumble and one actually said something rather rude to the cashier. You could tell the B&N employees were scrambling to get up to the front and help.

I was incensed at these rude customers. Look, if you don't want to deal with long lines in December, DON'T GO SHOPPING. This is the reality. People are out shopping for Christmas. Working retail is HARD during the holidays. I've done it. My daughter is currently working retail. And they do not need your rude comments, your snide remarks, and your grumpy attitudes. They deal with it ALL DAY LONG.

So. I was mad. When I got up to the register, to the one cashier who they'd harassed, I said, rather loudly, "Wow! You have some very grumpy customers in line. Do they not know that it's the holidays and they need to be PATIENT and have some understanding for you?" Yes, I can be passive aggressive. haha. When we were nearly done with my transaction, I told her to hang in there, that she was doing great (she told me this was her first Christmas at this job) and then I said, again, rather loudly, "Everyone should work retail during the holidays at least once in their life so they know how hard it is."

Covid has left stores scrambling. They're short-handed. We need to stop taking it out on the employees. We need to stop taking out our anger and frustration on each other. I GET IT that we all have issues and we're all frustrated. But standing in line and growling and sniping at the cashiers isn't going to make your day any better OR make the line move faster.

Thus endeth the rant.

Happy Holidays!

 

[Trenchfriend]

The other similar thing, that gives me blood pressure in such stores are bonehead people, never having the idea, that young folks may have their first day at (new) work.

And a couple of times, I was not much far from yelling to such people:
"Man, once you were young, too and had your first day at work, so think about it!!"

 

[Bushman]

Trivial? Maybe, maybe not, but it ticks me off.

I was in line at Barnes and Noble the other night. There was one person at the register, and she was dealing with a customer who had a complicated transaction (I think the customer was buying books for her school, which meant she needed tax free documents or something). The line started to increase and people in the line started to grumble and one actually said something rather rude to the cashier. You could tell the B&N employees were scrambling to get up to the front and help.

I was incensed at these rude customers. Look, if you don't want to deal with long lines in December, DON'T GO SHOPPING. This is the reality. People are out shopping for Christmas. Working retail is HARD during the holidays. I've done it. My daughter is currently working retail. And they do not need your rude comments, your snide remarks, and your grumpy attitudes. They deal with it ALL DAY LONG.

So. I was mad. When I got up to the register, to the one cashier who they'd harassed, I said, rather loudly, "Wow! You have some very grumpy customers in line. Do they not know that it's the holidays and they need to be PATIENT and have some understanding for you?" Yes, I can be passive aggressive. haha. When we were nearly done with my transaction, I told her to hang in there, that she was doing great (she told me this was her first Christmas at this job) and then I said, again, rather loudly, "Everyone should work retail during the holidays at least once in their life so they know how hard it is."

Covid has left stores scrambling. They're short-handed. We need to stop taking it out on the employees. We need to stop taking out our anger and frustration on each other. I GET IT that we all have issues and we're all frustrated. But standing in line and growling and sniping at the cashiers isn't going to make your day any better OR make the line move faster.

Thus endeth the rant.

Happy Holidays!

From retail workers everywhere, THANK YOU. I worked retail in my younger years, and I'll never do it again. What broke me was when a customer looked like he wanted to punch my lights out for asking if he had a store credit card.

 

[FOXTROT LAMONT]

I stopped inside a book shop in Bath recently and witnessed a few contremps. All quite unnecessary.
Online works best except books. GF isn't a reader. Maddening for her so we go about our own oppose direction.

 

[AmateisGal]

I stopped inside a book shop in Bath recently and witnessed a few contremps. All quite unnecessary.
Online works best except books. GF isn't a reader. Maddening for her so we go about our own oppose direction.

My boyfriend isn't a reader, either. But he likes to take me to old book stores.

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

I have more books than I have room for. I'm tempted to go "anti-shoplifting". That is, take a bag of books to a used book store, duck behind a tall bookcase, and leave them there before scampering off.