jediofthefeet Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Which phrase gets your goat the most??? I am sick of hearing everyone on television, especially reality show, saying they "stepped up to the plate"!!! They say that same crap on nonreality television shows too, such as Oprah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary0618 Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 24 - 7 Not a whole lot of things truly happen 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! Gary0618 FLAT SHOES, LIKE FLAT DRINKS, ARE FOR FLAT PEOPLE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzard Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Anything with excess words. This is usually a North American problem, but British English is starting to silt up. "At this moment in time" is a pet peeve, as "now" or "just now" are equivalent. I've now left HHPlace. Feel free to use the means listed in my profile if you wish to contact me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 This thread could run and run:- For me it's not so much any one phrase, but verbosity, especially in written English, and I'm thinking mainly of work, where people pad out sentences with waffle. In work, we're generally dealing with fairly boring things - therefore an attempt to vary the language is misguided. Pet hate today In terms of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzard Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Not a whole lot of things truly happen 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! Ah. Now I don't mind this one - but I work in the computer business, where many applications genuinely *do* (OK, should) run continuously from the moment they go live to the day they are retired. I've now left HHPlace. Feel free to use the means listed in my profile if you wish to contact me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shafted Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Anyone who inserts noises such as ahh, when thay don't know what to say, so you can't get a word in edgewise. They use them like placeholders in order to avoid letting someone else speak. Shafted, the boots that is! View my gallery here http://www.hhplace.o...afteds-gallery/ or view my heeling thread here http://www.hhplace.org/topic/3850-new-pair-of-boots-starts-me-serious-street-heeling/ - Pm me if you want fashion advice or just need someone to talk to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmc Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 "Think outside the box." I know it is supposed to mean "Let's get creative" but it is a stupid way of saying that. Have a happy time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thighboots2 Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 The use of the word ACTUALLY really gets up my nose. Also the phrase "In Actual Fact" is used so much here in England After all, are not all facts actual? Although I love the diversity and subtleness of english, sometime there are just too many words. TB2 Are you confusing me with someone who gives a damn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris stiletto Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Like ozzard i hate excess words like"at the end of the day" when you mean, ultimately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmc Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 Excessive use of "really" is, like really, really, really, really annoying. Really. Know what I mean? (oops, that's another one.) Have a happy time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Shoe Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 It's not phrases that annoy me so much it's the way that people unneccesarily pluralise words. "Monies" and "Persons" spring to mind along with "chickens". It should be "money", "People" and as for chicken, it already is a plural of chick in the same way that children is a plural of child. Bad punctation grinds my gears too! Graduate footwear designer able to advise and assist on modification and shoe making projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Shoe Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 BTW I regularly deliver to a factory where any wise person would avoid using pedestrian walkways because: "Danger forklifts use pedestrian walkways." Graduate footwear designer able to advise and assist on modification and shoe making projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Shoe Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Firstly: why would a forklift use a pedestrian walkway? I don't know, perhaps it's got something to do with the fact that they don't want their tyres punctuated. Second: the plural of chicken is: chickens. Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Chicken (plural chickens). Actually this is only true because of repeated misuse like many words in the English language. If you look up "Chick" in any quality dictionary you will see both "Chicks" and "Chicken" listed as plurals, though it might add that chicken is an archaic term. The way we use chicken now should be substituted by the word "Fowl" which, like sheep, is both plural and singular. Graduate footwear designer able to advise and assist on modification and shoe making projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Shoe Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Firstly: why would a forklift use a pedestrian walkway? I don't know, perhaps it's got something to do with the fact that they don't want their tyres puntuated. Second: the plural of chicken is: chickens. Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Chicken (plural chickens). Actually this is only true because of repeated misuse like many words in the English language. If you look up "Chick" in any quality dictionary you will see both "Chicks" and "Chicken" listed as plurals, though it might add that chicken is an archaic term. The way we use chicken now should be substituted by the word "Fowl" which, like sheep, is both plural and singular. Graduate footwear designer able to advise and assist on modification and shoe making projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Shoe Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 You're living in the past. Using 'chicken' as a plural is Olde English. ...But "children" isn't! Graduate footwear designer able to advise and assist on modification and shoe making projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Shoe Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 Something else I hate is when we see the use os the term "Oxford Pumps". Oxfords and Pumps are entirely different styles of shoes. Graduate footwear designer able to advise and assist on modification and shoe making projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 Something else I hate is when we see the use os the term "Oxford Pumps". Oxfords and Pumps are entirely different styles of shoes. I have to disagree with you on that Dr Oxford pumps are stilettos based on the design of regular oxfords shoes. they are a unique style of shoe and are not really different from an oxford shoe except they have a heel on them! The proper oxford stilettos (Not the PVC or patent ones) can actually look really sharp and smart if worn with a nice suit/tie combo too. Heels for Men // Legwear Fashion // HHPlace Guidelines If something doesn't look right, please report the content ASAP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Shoe Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 A pump is an open slip-on shoe without adjustment which we call a Court Shoe in the UK. An Oxford is a lace-up shoe that by definition has adjustment, is not open and is not a slip-on. Graduate footwear designer able to advise and assist on modification and shoe making projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 A pump is an open slip-on shoe without adjustment which we call a Court Shoe in the UK. An Oxford is a lace-up shoe that by definition has adjustment, is not open and is not a slip-on. Absolutely, and isnt that why the phrase/name of oxford courts/pumps came about as its a court/pump shoe but has the adjustment of an oxford. Heels for Men // Legwear Fashion // HHPlace Guidelines If something doesn't look right, please report the content ASAP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Shoe Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 Yes but a pump or a court shoe cannot have adjustment otherwise it is no longer a pump it becomes another kind of shoe. Graduate footwear designer able to advise and assist on modification and shoe making projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 And thats exaclt what an oxford court is, a different kind of shoe... It doesnt have the low cut vamp at the front like regular courts do either. Either way, maybe we should come up with a better name for it then.... Any suggestions? Heels for Men // Legwear Fashion // HHPlace Guidelines If something doesn't look right, please report the content ASAP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Shoe Posted October 21, 2006 Share Posted October 21, 2006 But it's not a "court" at all, it's an Oxford. You might as well say Boot Pump or Sandal Pump or Flip Flop Pump or whatever. LOL Graduate footwear designer able to advise and assist on modification and shoe making projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmc Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 I have seen sandals referred to as pumps (on places like eBay) by sellers who clearly do not know anything about what they are selling. Have a happy time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Shoe Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 Indeed. Even on merchant websites.! Graduate footwear designer able to advise and assist on modification and shoe making projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Shoe Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 I think that they should have advertised them as either Oxfords or Derbies. Court shoes were named because they used to be worn to the royal courts in the 18th century. However, this still defines the open shoe without adjustment. Graduate footwear designer able to advise and assist on modification and shoe making projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdf174 Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Life is like a bowl of cherries. It's all good. ~Arron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azraelle Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 9 times out of 10, when someone calls a national talk show host, they waste their time, the listeners' time and the host's time by inanely asking "How are you doing?", to which the host must reply in order to be polite. It REALLY frosts me!! "All that you can decide, is what to do with the time that is given you."--Gandalf, "Life is not tried, it is merely survived -If you're standing outside the fire."--Garth Brooks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Shoe Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Don't you think that it could be because they're nervous and just want to break the ice? Besides, it's only polite. What would you do if you were in that position? Graduate footwear designer able to advise and assist on modification and shoe making projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azraelle Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 ask my question, and get off the air. "All that you can decide, is what to do with the time that is given you."--Gandalf, "Life is not tried, it is merely survived -If you're standing outside the fire."--Garth Brooks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr1819 Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Perception is reality. My counter: Perception isn't reality. It's merely an abstraction thereof, and quite often not a very good one at that. My other counter: If perception were reality there'd be no magicians. My third counter: Ok - I perceive that you need to get out of my face. That's reality, so make it happen. My fourth counter: Ok... How do you perceive this? (and slap them - hard) My fifth counter: Ah, but is reality merely a perception? My sixth counter: Then misperception is unreal, and therefore not possible. My seventh counter: Reall! So what do you think of my new heels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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