Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

[75A]

Microwave ovens that deliberately seem to stop with the handle of the cup, mug or jug at the rear, pointing away from you.

I thought that only happened to me.

 

[Techniquest]

I'm fortunate that I don't use jugs, mugs or similar in my microwave, so it's thankfully not a problem for me

I do have additions for the list though:

1) Use of the word 'grub' for food.

2) Use of the word 'bog' for a toilet.

I feel the eyes turning in their sockets whenever I hear or read someone using such slang!

 

[GusB]

2) Use of the word 'bog' for a toilet.

Quite right. The correct word is "cludgie"

 

[Calthrop]

I'm fortunate that I don't use jugs, mugs or similar in my microwave, so it's thankfully not a problem for me

I do have additions for the list though:

1) Use of the word 'grub' for food.

2) Use of the word 'bog' for a toilet.

I feel the eyes turning in their sockets whenever I hear or read someone using such slang!

(My bolding) -- in my perception, the term "grub" with this meaning, is something decidedly old-fashioned: was, many decades ago, current and much-used slang -- but rarely met with nowadays; and when one comes upon it, having a very "old-timey" feel to it. (Doesn't annoy me -- just has for me, a "P.G. Wodehouse" kind of aura.)

A friend of mine, quite often comes across -- to me, anyway -- as, in his vocabulary, a throwback to a century-and-more ago. Among other verbal anachronisms: he favours using "grub" as synonym for food; also "clobber", ditto for clothes -- I recognise "clobber" as current-ish slang for general junk-and-impedimenta; but its use re clothing, feels to me positively Edwardian. Friend is aware of this oddity of his: ascribes it at least to some extent, to his father (one of course tends to get a lot of one's speech-type ways, from one's parents) having been an old-before-his-time, backward-looking, and rather sour and misanthropic character; this having had some reflection in his use of language.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Pretty sure the last place I encountered "grub" being used was in the pages of The Beano, which would place it well over thirty years ago.

Speaking of food, can we ban:
(a) Supermarket staff who stick reduced labels over cooking or nutritional information.
(b) Supermarket staff who don't understand how barcodes work, so stick a label over a barcode on reduced items which blocks it horizontally rather than vertically. The tills read the lines not the numbers, so you need to block some of the bars from top to bottom, not all of the bars from left to right.

 

[birchesgreen]

I use grub and bog regularly.

I do often re-read my collection of Bash Street Kids annuals though so maybe that affects my vocab.

 

[75A]

Quite right. The correct word is "cludgie"

Dunny in our house.

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I use grub and bog regularly.

I do often re-read my collection of Bash Street Kids annuals though so maybe that affects my vocab.

Bash Street Kids now there's a name from the past.

 

[cb a1]

Bash Street Kids now there's a name from the past.

Nah, it's quite new. Only named in 2014

 

[Herefordian]

1) Use of the word 'grub' for food.

2) Use of the word 'bog' for a toilet.

I don't use those words either, they're a bit cringey.

My Dad and granddaughter both say "The Poo Room" instead of toilet. I expect that's where she got it from!

 

[75A]

Nah, it's quite new. Only named in 2014

The Beano 1956.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

I'd rather people refer to the bog as opposed to restroom.

 

[Gloster]

I am not worried what you words you use as long as they are not too vulgar for the company: don’t say, “Where’s the s***house“, at a royal garden party. (Royal wee is the correct term.) However, I don’t like the various euphemisms that seem to have crept in from the USA: you rest in a restroom, you bath in a bathroom, the little girls’/boys’ room is for kids, and why do you want to examine the fuse box in the smallest room. Just ask quietly.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

One of my mother's friends used to ask if she could use the unmentionable.

 

[gg1]

I don’t like the various euphemisms that seem to have crept in from the USA: you rest in a restroom, you bath in a bathroom, the little girls’/boys’ room is for kids, and why do you want to examine the fuse box in the smallest room. Just ask quietly.

Cloakroom is the worst due to it's ambiguity, at least with the others the meaning is clear.

 

[Busaholic]

I am not worried what you words you use as long as they are not too vulgar for the company: don’t say, “Where’s the s***house“, at a royal garden party. (Royal wee is the correct term.)

You could be misconstrued as to enquiring of the whereabouts of the Duke of York.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

You could be misconstrued as to enquiring of the whereabouts of the Duke of York.

Surely he'd be in the sauna?

 

[43096]

Surely he'd be in the sauna?

Or Pizza Express in Woking.

 

[birchesgreen]

While we are on about this kind of thing, i was watching some pro-wrestling from Australia yesterday and one of the wrestlers was called The Brick S***house.

 

[Calthrop]

While we are on about this kind of thing, i was watching some pro-wrestling from Australia yesterday and one of the wrestlers was called The Brick S***house.

Isn't there the "common / idiomatic usage" thing? -- expression with indelicate connotations gets -- if it's an apt and appealing one anyway -- so widely used, and appreciated, that in respect of that particular expression only: the indelicacy gets forgiven / overlooked / "cancelled", and (only in that context) respectable people happily use the word. Re the above: the dating-from-way-back expression to describe a tough and robustly-made gentleman -- if I may dare the full wording, "built like a brick ****house" -- is an example of it: at any rate, in the discourse of Britons, and Australians -- I don't know about the Yanks.

ETA: automatically censored -- well, I tried.

 

[Busaholic]

While we are on about this kind of thing, i was watching some pro-wrestling from Australia yesterday and one of the wrestlers was called The Brick S***house.

When women police constables achieved theoretical equity in the Met Police a male sergeant was reported in a newspaper as saying ''when I get a call on a Saturday night about a brawl in the Black Cap at Camden Town, I want a couple of 22 stone brick s***houses to attend''.

 

[jfollows]

Televisions, like my previous one, which I broke although not deliberately, which leave a huge orange blob/symbol on the screen when you press the "mute" button to turn the sound off. Although they are out of synchronisation, I still prefer to watch cricket with the radio commentary playing instead of the TV sound. I was very pleased with my replacement TV that it no longer does this (the blob disappears after a few seconds).

 

[43096]

American date format.

 

[Purple Train]

American date format.

Date American format...
Nobody's going to get that, are they?


Anyhow, seconded.

 

[infobleep]

I would ban annoying adverts on the radio. A group of reviewers would review the adverts prior to them potentially going out and decided if they are annoying or not Any that are annoying would be banned.

I find myself turning off LBC because of them. Then because I'm dyslexic and live in the moment, I forget to switch LBC back on when I think the ads are over.

I don't do this all the time as not every advert is annoying but many of them are.

I doubt LBC want their listeners switching off.

 

[Trainguy34]

Date American format...
Nobody's going to get that, are they?


Anyhow, seconded.

I got it!

Thirded aswell.

 

[Techniquest]

I got it!

Thirded aswell.

Likewise, very clever I'll make it fourth'd!

 

[43096]

Date American format...
Nobody's going to get that, are they?


Anyhow, seconded.

Brilliant!

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Date American format...
Nobody's going to get that, are they?


Anyhow, seconded.

Fifth-ed!

On the other hand, perhaps we should just be grateful that Americans don't also have digital clocks that use a mm:hh: ss format.

Can we also ban the forum software for thinking I was trying to place a smiley?

 

[Purple Train]

Fifth-ed!

On the other hand, perhaps we should just be grateful that Americans don't also have digital clocks that use a mm:hh: ss format.

Can we also ban the forum software for thinking I was trying to place a smiley?

I'll second that - it also annoys me when the forum turns : shock: (which I presume was an old smiley) into hock: in old posts.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I'll second that - it also annoys me when the forum turns : shock: (which I presume was an old smiley) into hock: in old posts.

That wouldn't be so bad if it was the correct smiley!

Also why do we call them "smileys" when only a minority of them are actually smiling?