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Quote: TigerWu"Go ahead" is not usually used until the player that could potentially score the lead-taking run is already on base.
It's used in many sports, though. Go ahead TD's in football, for example. I've even heard go ahead FG.
Yeah, I first heard that in a 1960 movie where a six for five man used the expression so if Hollywood knew it then, it must be common. I thought it was weird.Quote: AxelWolfPeople asking for a loan who say, "Can you borrow me some money?"
"I borrow you five, you pay me six".... Whose Got The Action. A Hollywooded version of a supposedly true story about a wife who became her gambler husband's bookie and wound up with a hefty chunk of change, but it is suspiciously similar to Damon Runyon's Little Miss Marker. In the movie she lost heavily and had to meet a banker with a vowel on the end of his name to pay off her husband's winnings.
Do you make sure to learn those people a thing or two about proper grammar? ;)Quote: AxelWolfPeople asking for a loan who say, "Can you borrow me some money?"
Quote: AxelWolfPeople asking for a loan who say, "Can you borrow me some money?"
Haha! I've never heard that, but it sounds like one of those expressions like "What can I do you for?" or when someone is asking how much something costs, they say, "What do you gotta get for that?"
Expressions that barely don't make sense, but you still understand what the person is saying.
I have heard it many times in person. Better yet, they will say, "he borrowed me some money"Quote: TigerWuHaha! I've never heard that, but it sounds like one of those expressions like "What can I do you for?" or when someone is asking how much something costs, they say, "What do you gotta get for that?"
Expressions that barely don't make sense, but you still understand what the person is saying.
If you want to hear it often, watch Judge Judy and other small claims court shows.
FYI Judge Judy is making bank.
Quote: AxelWolfFYI Judge Judy is making bank.
Because people are stupid enough to watch her garbage. Not to mention the idiots that go on the show only to be belittled by her.
We spend our whole lives fascinated with cracks and holes, especially the orally fixated. Didn't the universe come out of one? I've gained a new appreciation, lately, for stuff like "the opposite of one profound reality may be another profound reality", which hinges on the tunneling argument of a photon being captured. Spiritualism is our link to some higher plane of existence, however "defined" and practised. To know what it is is to no know. "A finger pointing at the moon, is not the moon." How to really and actually make sense of nonsense. The nine intelligences other than standard iq.Quote: rxwineYou could write something profound instead of worrying about cracks and holes.
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Perhaps, there exists a plane or "field" of peeves, by which we find ourselves stuck in another overly scientific or pedantic fashion, along with the planes of conscious. learning, and healing, etc.
I take it that's a dig on my improper use of grammar, punctuation and spelling on the forum? I can assure you, that doesn't carry over as to how I to speak in person. I have no doubt I use some "acceptable" slang while speaking, but I would rather talk like a normal person than sound like a complete nerdy a*sh*le.Quote: JoemanDo you make sure to learn those people a thing or two about proper grammar? ;)
Speaking of which, I just noticed a few posts above.
Who are you calling an A***Wol*?Quote: AxelWolf... but I would rather talk like a normal person than sound like a complete nerdy a*sh*le.
Sorry, Axel, that was not a dig at you! I'm not the grammar police! (Although I may be a complete nerdy a*$h*le, depending on who you ask. ;)Quote: AxelWolfI take it that's a dig on my improper use of grammar, punctuation and spelling on the forum? I can assure you, that doesn't carry over as to how I to speak in person. I have no doubt I use some "acceptable" slang while speaking, but I would rather talk like a normal person than sound like a complete nerdy a*sh*le.
Speaking of which, I just noticed a few posts above.
I was attempting to (evidently not so) humorously demonstrate that "learn" is often misused instead of "teach" in the same way that "borrow" is misused instead of "lend" in your example.
No insult intended.
Something else that I've never really liked but somehow have said it myself is when someone says best instead of better. Instead of "you better get home soon" it's "you best get home soon." Or is that actual correct somehow?
Of course not, why would you think that? Guilty conscience?Quote: InTimeForSpace1Who are you calling an A***Wol*?
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Something else that I've never really liked but somehow have said it myself is when someone says best instead of better. Instead of "you better get home soon" it's "you best get home soon." Or is that actual correct somehow?
The way that you are phrasing it is grammatically incorrect, but if you were to say, "You'd best get home soon," then you would be in the clear. The, "You'd best," is a pretty common thing in the South and in some areas of Appalachia, and it is actually considered antiquated (but still correct) in England.
It is important to remember that, 'Best,' is a superlative, so the sentence makes sense if the action being suggested is the most superior of all possible actions. 'Better,' is generally more of a comparative term referring to two choices and choosing the best of those two choices. In a situation in which, 'Best,' could rightfully be used, it would be assumed that you would have more than two options. For instance, the person in your sentence could go home, stay where he/she is, go to the store, jump off a bridge, take a nap up in a tree...but, they'd best go home.
Ultimately, it just ends up being a shortened way of saying, "It would be best if you (action)."
Again, not technically incorrect, just unusual.
It's, "You'd best be getting home now boy" or "We best be getting home now"Quote: Mission146The way that you are phrasing it is grammatically incorrect, but if you were to say, "You'd best get home soon," then you would be in the clear. The, "You'd best," is a pretty common thing in the South and in some areas of Appalachia, and it is actually considered antiquated (but still correct) in England.
It is important to remember that, 'Best,' is a superlative, so the sentence makes sense if the action being suggested is the most superior of all possible actions. 'Better,' is generally more of a comparative term referring to two choices and choosing the best of those two choices. In a situation in which, 'Best,' could rightfully be used, it would be assumed that you would have more than two options. For instance, the person in your sentence could go home, stay where he/she is, go to the store, jump off a bridge, take a nap up in a tree...but, they'd best go home.
Ultimately, it just ends up being a shortened way of saying, "It would be best if you (action)."
Again, not technically incorrect, just unusual.
It's almost always used by older or country people. I seem to remember many old westerns used to give some charaiter for someone like Gabby Hayes.
Quote:Using “better” by itself is fine except in formal English. “In a wide range of informal circumstances (but never in formal contexts) the had or ’d can be dispensed with,” Fowler’s says.
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage calls “had better” a standard English idiom and agrees with Fowler’s that “better,” when used alone in this sense, “is not found in very formal surroundings.”
The Oxford English Dictionary’s earliest citation for the construction without “had” is from a pseudonymous letter to a newspaper by “Major Jack Downing”:
“My clothes had got so shabby, I thought I better hire out a few days and get slicked up a little.” (The letter was published in a book in 1834 but was written in 1831.)
The OED says the abbreviated usage originated in the US, and labels it a colloquialism. But Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) lists it without reservations.
The Merriam-Webster’s editors give the example “you better hurry,” and says “better” in this sense is a “verbal auxiliary.”
It should be noted that even the full phrase, “had better,” was criticized by some in the 19th century on the ground that it was illogical and couldn’t be parsed: an 1897 issue of the Ohio Educational Monthly says many teachers found “had better” and other idioms “very difficult to dispose of grammatically.”
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The best solution is to avoid "acceptably unacceptable" language.
Quote: Mission146The way that you are phrasing it is grammatically incorrect, but if you were to say, "You'd best get home soon," then you would be in the clear. The, "You'd best," is a pretty common thing in the South and in some areas of Appalachia, and it is actually considered antiquated (but still correct) in England.
It is important to remember that, 'Best,' is a superlative, so the sentence makes sense if the action being suggested is the most superior of all possible actions. 'Better,' is generally more of a comparative term referring to two choices and choosing the best of those two choices. In a situation in which, 'Best,' could rightfully be used, it would be assumed that you would have more than two options. For instance, the person in your sentence could go home, stay where he/she is, go to the store, jump off a bridge, take a nap up in a tree...but, they'd best go home.
Ultimately, it just ends up being a shortened way of saying, "It would be best if you (action)."
Again, not technically incorrect, just unusual.
Its easier than saying "Nothing good will come from you staying here. Now go"!
Quote: IbeatyouracesApparently, he didn't know that "I'll learn ya something" is a comedic line.
If comedy is an ass beating.
Quote: rxwineIf comedy is an ass beating.
I prefer how Red Forman said it...
There's nothing like the cacophony of a busy casino. Nothing good to the eardrum anyway. G*****n noise hazard!
Same place referenced in the other thread, on at least a few machines, the volume doesn't even mute or change, and on all, the marquee rewards volume control doesn't do anything.Quote: rxwineAll casino slots should always default to the minimum volume, once not in use. Eh, they don't have to be silent, but the minimum volume setting would do, whereby a new player always has to turn it up manually.
There's nothing like the cacophony of a busy casino. Nothing good to the eardrum anyway. G*****n noise hazard!
But Sire, the moat and town square are full of the corpses of WingStop and PizzaHut WingStreet employees. Where shall we stack the carcasses of the Panda Express staff?Quote: onenickelmiracleMake me your king, and I promise to behead anybody selling boneless wings....
Well I am 65 years old and was walking on the street behind the high roller heading for Koval Street.. I am alone and coming towards me are two guys and two girls, maybe mid twenties walking 4 across. There is a hedge beside the sidewalk and I have no where to go. So I brace my self and bang shoulders with the guy. I mean we really hit and he is pissed. So I said " where did you expect me to go...into the hedge"? I told him you have to share the sidewalk like everyone else. He shook his head and we parted ways but I know one of the girls was mad at him.
Why can't people care about others instead of just themselves. It's all about me...me...me. It's bad enough I have to dodge those with heads down staring at their phones and stopping dead in the middle of the sidewalk.
Maybe Vegas needs arrows to help people know what side of the sidewalk to be on.......no....that would not work either as they feel they own it and to hell with everyone else.
Put them in the wood chipper we've been using for female tv newscasters that sound more like men than me.Quote: AyecarumbaBut Sire, the moat and town square are full of the corpses of WingStop and PizzaHut WingStreet employees. Where shall we stack the carcasses of the Panda Express staff?
Stopping dead on the sidewalk is not all that bad, just annoying.
A) Why should they when they're making billions off of reboots and sequels that you and all of your friends continue to pay to see? Don't tell me you haven't in some way spent money on a Marvel/DC/Star Wars/Harry Potter/Transformers/Terminator/Saw/Bond etc. movie in the last 20 years. You have. You're part of the "problem" you're complaining about.
B) Nobody owes you s***, certainly not an industry that produces frivolous luxuries.
C) I care more about quality than originality. Remake a movie all you want, Hollywood, as long as it's well done.
D) So Hollywood is only allowed to make a movie once and then never again? After Nosferatu, no one should have been allowed to make another Dracula movie, ever, for the entire history of humanity? We're only allowed the one James Bond movie that was made back in the 50's, for all time? Everything after A New Hope should have been thrown in the garbage?
E) You're telling me you've seen all the hundreds of original movies that were put out by independent and studio filmmakers last year? And the thousands of original works that were put out internationally? When you've done all that (which you haven't, won't, and probably physically can't), then you can start running your mouth about originality.
F) Are you the same guy that complains about reboots and sequels, and then also complains that the Oscars and Golden Globes are only recognizing "some artsy-fartsy bulls*** that no one wants to see?"
I haven't spent money on any of the above.
I would rather watch reruns of the weather channel than watch most of the above .
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I haven't spent money on any of the above.
I would rather watch reruns of the weather channel than watch most of the above .
But, do you complain about originality in Hollywood?
Here and there I've said, let's see a movie and everything at the big multiplex sounds absolutely terrible. Like, not even mediocre time killer stuff.
Lack of originality is a big reason. But, as importantly, the stuff they are recycling is mostly garbage or kid's stuff. E.g. spider man, transformers, etc.
Anyway, there are degrees. Sure they've always recycled. But now they recycle exclusively. Its a fast food model. People like familiar and predictable, even if it's made from garbage swept off the slaughterhouse floor.
Quote: TigerWuBut, do you complain about originality in Hollywood?
No,if I like a general theme of a show or a movie I don't mind watching knockoffs.
If you think about it isn't this what most tv shows do,they follow the same theme week after week or year after year.
The money men and show runners making the decisions only know garbage. I recall one producer who showed up at a private screening of Star Chamber thinking it was going to about Star Wars type stuff since Star Wars had just been released. He didn't know about the Star Chamber in real life, the only history he knew was what someones last film had made.Quote: RigondeauxAnyway, there are degrees. Sure they've always recycled. But now they recycle exclusively. Its a fast food model. People like familiar and predictable, even if it's made from garbage swept off the slaughterhouse floor.
Quote: onenickelmiracleI get very angry when I'm in the casino late at night and I have to hear key rings banging, clanging and jangling...
While searching for this pet peeve, I found a page about "misophonia".
A sound I don't like is fingernails on a blackboard. What sounds bother you other posters?
Yeah, jailors do that just to annoy the prisoners.Quote: onenickelmiracleI get very angry when I have to hear key rings banging, clanging and jangling.
Quote: onenickelmiracleI get very angry when I'm in the casino late at night and I have to hear key rings banging, clanging and jangling. I complained to a manager finally and she laughed in my face saying nothing could be done, blamed regulations. I hate the sound of fifteen keys banging on each other. Keeping those damn keys in a pocket or holding them when walking would be polite. On a peeve level, it's a ten for me. I get furious hearing that noise. I might need ear plugs if I go back or just leaving early might be better. All places open 24 hours tend to be unsympathetic that there are even customers at all during third shift.
Guilty and unaware it would bother anyone. Carabiner in the side of my purse. Will change that. Thanks.
Quote: ChesterDogWhile searching for this pet peeve, I found a page about "misophonia".
A sound I don't like is fingernails on a blackboard. What sounds bother you other posters?
"Checks Play."
Really during busy times with lots of people and other noise, cannot notice. During the wee hours when not many people and not many machines being played, that's when it's highly noticed. I'm not really sure if on a purse it would make the same noise as when near the hips, the waist moves more when walking than a purse hanging from a shoulder I think.Quote: beachbumbabsGuilty and unaware it would bother anyone. Carabiner in the side of my purse. Will change that. Thanks.
Keys, ice bouncing in cups of drinks, heels on a hard surface, keyboards being typed, people talking (in quiet environments like libraries, courts), pens clicking, etc. It's always when the environment is otherwise quiet and these noises become nuisances. If everything is louder, I don't notice them. I get angry, because they distract me from whatever I'm trying to do or think about.Quote: ChesterDogWhile searching for this pet peeve, I found a page about "misophonia".
A sound I don't like is fingernails on a blackboard. What sounds bother you other posters?
It's possible I feel this way only when on too many stimulants like caffeine and nicotine.
* The call “Black action!”
* Doubling an 11 and drawing an ace. Thanks, now I have a stiff and the count just went down.
* Drawing an ace as my first card but it’s the house that ends up ripping a natural.
And my biggest pet peeve of all: Getting backed off!
I don't hear too many in the casinos, unless you count some adults losing.
That is probably better than my "I'm terribly sorry, I don't speak a word of English".Quote: WatchMeWin. I always use the same response... 'Play your game and Ill play mine'.
I hate keys being jangled... reminds me too much of jailors who always enjoy doing that. However I can understand that large key ring when they come around to remove one drop box and put another one in. That's okay. Its a timed casino procedure and I'd never complain about it, no matter how irritating the sound of the keys is.
Keys on a purse are usually not all that annoying due to muffling or at least partial muffling. Having them handy can be good but not too handy to others.
High heels on a hard surface is a type of music. Even my late poker player friend who wore her "another day and I've never used any algebra" tee shirt thru casinos would complain that she had to "drag it through the parking lot and through the entire casino just to spin the free play wheel and get a freakin' 1x" knew that she turned heads.
Quote: hitthat16* Getting comments from civilians about my play on any casino game.
* The call “Black action!”
* Doubling an 11 and drawing an ace. Thanks, now I have a stiff and the count just went down.
* Drawing an ace as my first card but it’s the house that ends up ripping a natural.
And my biggest pet peeve of all: Getting backed off!
Your post reminds me of when I hit my soft 18 against a dealer 10 up. I draw a 9 and the dealer winds up with 18.
