Random Irritations

[Beezerk]

Rebekah Vardy

 

[Voyager EMH]

This week I'm going with:
"pay check" &
"back to back"

Yep. The "back to back" one has been irritating me for about 20 years.

The correct idiom for consecutive things or occurrences is "nose to tail". (One followed by another)

I can not accept that "back to back" and "nose to tail" have the same meaning.

"Nose to tail birdies" seems quite correct and acceptable to me. "Back to back birdies" is utter nonsense.

"The Open champion had five birdies back to back in his final round."
How can five things be back to back?
He had five birdies nose to tail.

 

[bobmac]

The investigation is ongoing. ?
It's an ongoing investigation

The team arrived at their hotel on Friday ahead of the game on Sunday ?
The team arrived at their hotel on Friday before the game on Sunday

He built an extension for his kids to use going forward ?
He built an extension for his kids to use in the years to come

It's a new build ?

It's a new install ?

I could be here all day......

 

[NearHull]

I could be here all day......?

It may take me a while to finish. ?

 

[bobmac]

I could be here all day......?

It may take me a while to finish. ?

As a retired gentleman, I might be here all day.

You should give the latest movie a watch

Me and my mates had a gr8 hang last night

Shop our selection of deals

 

[Foxholer]

Yep. The "back to back" one has been irritating me for about 20 years.

The correct idiom for consecutive things or occurrences is "nose to tail". (One followed by another)

I can not accept that "back to back" and "nose to tail" have the same meaning.

"Nose to tail birdies" seems quite correct and acceptable to me. "Back to back birdies" is utter nonsense.

"The Open champion had five birdies back to back in his final round."
How can five things be back to back?
He had five birdies nose to tail.

Why not simply 'consecutive'?
FWIW. To me 'back to back' seems fine to describe such things as '...birdies'', '...wins'. 'Nose to tail' seems more appropriate for a description of traffic/crowding. As long as the expression is understood, it's fine though!

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Rebekah Vardy

She really needs to employ an advisor with a brain, speak to someone from outside of her own circle, anyone just to tell her to shut up, disappear, spend the next two years doing local charity work and find some redemption. Doing more of the same, through the same media she was paid to leak info on about people she was supposedly friendly with, does not aid her cause. The hole just gets deeper and deeper.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Water companies down south are starting to advise of restrictions, hose pipe bans etc. That's logical, no issue there. The irritation is the amount of notice given that this will happen so I suspect half of the SE of England will spend the next 9 days watering their gardens, making the problem worse. I guess there has to be some statutory warning time but for domestic accounts, make it 1-2 days max.

 

[Crazyface]

I've often wondered, who polices this.

 

[Foxholer]

As a retired gentleman, I might be here all day.
...

And that's just going to the loo!

 

[fundy]

Water companies who make huge profits but are losing nearly 2.5bn litres of water a day through leaks. Weve had 8hrs+ without water 4 times already this year. Turning off the hose isnt going to fix it............

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Water companies down south are starting to advise of restrictions, hose pipe bans etc. That's logical, no issue there. The irritation is the amount of notice given that this will happen so I suspect half of the SE of England will spend the next 9 days watering their gardens, making the problem worse. I guess there has to be some statutory warning time but for domestic accounts, make it 1-2 days max.

If you lived in the South East you would have had many a recent summer where the hose pipe ban is a possibility if not reality, it’s what we have to put up with because no one has the will to actually move water around.
This was one of the main reasons why water meters were made compulsory here. The problem with that is that that then creates the mentality that you’re paying for what you use, and it’s up to you whether you want to pay more or less. Of course it doesn’t help when leaks are left for ages after being reported.

 

[Beezerk]

She really needs to employ an advisor with a brain, speak to someone from outside of her own circle, anyone just to tell her to shut up, disappear, spend the next two years doing local charity work and find some redemption. Doing more of the same, through the same media she was paid to leak info on about people she was supposedly friendly with, does not aid her cause. The hole just gets deeper and deeper.

The Sun interview they showed on BBC breakfast this morning was pathetic, zero eye contact with the interviewer almost like she was reading off a script. Played every card in the book bar the race card. Her husband isn't much better, remember that carry on in the casino with the Asian fella, two peas in a pod it seems.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Water companies who make huge profits but are losing nearly 2.5bn litres of water a day through leaks. Weve had 8hrs+ without water 4 times already this year. Turning off the hose isnt going to fix it............

If you lived in the South East you would have had many a recent summer where the hose pipe ban is a possibility if not reality, it’s what we have to put up with because no one has the will to actually move water around.
This was one of the main reasons why water meters were made compulsory here. The problem with that is that that then creates the mentality that you’re paying for what you use, and it’s up to you whether you want to pay more or less. Of course it doesn’t help when leaks are left for ages after being reported.

Waste is poor at all levels, whether it is leaks from the network or people watering their grass for hours on end.

 

[Voyager EMH]

Why not simply 'consecutive'?
FWIW. To me 'back to back' seems fine to describe such things as '...birdies'', '...wins'. 'Nose to tail' seems more appropriate for a description of traffic/crowding. As long as the expression is understood, it's fine though!

Why not indeed.

It is not understood by me to be correct so I do not consider it to be fine.

Two things back to back are facing in opposite directions and certainly not one following another.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Waste is poor at all levels, whether it is leaks from the network or people watering their grass for hours on end.

It’s not your domestic grass waterer you should worry about, with everyone now having to have a water meter I haven’t seen anyone watering their lawn for years. However that’s not the same for schools/colleges/ or the like that have the sprinklers going for hours.
That includes you Dulwich College yesterday…….

Apart from the above example, I would suggest most business waste is the hand car wash so often employers of our Eastern European friends. The amount of water they waste and throw down the drains is unreal.

 

[PJ87]

Fjf

It’s not your domestic grass waterer you should worry about, with everyone now having to have a water meter I haven’t seen anyone watering their lawn for years. However that’s not the same for schools/colleges/ or the like that have the sprinklers going for hours.
That includes you Dulwich College yesterday…….

Apart from the above example, I would suggest most business waste is the hand car wash so often employers of our Eastern European friends. The amount of water they waste and throw down the drains is unreal.

The car wash near me I think is brilliant , all the water drains out of the car wash into a tank and is used over and over

Better than wasting it

Waste is poor at all levels, whether it is leaks from the network or people watering their grass for hours on end.

Too much money taken in profits out of the network with out the proper maintenance investment done

Much like railways and energy companies

Should be private run style with a set fee to run it but all the "profits" go back into the network for improvement

 

[Foxholer]

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It is not understood by me to be correct so I do not consider it to be fine.
...

I believe you 'understand' it 'fine well', just don't like it. Also 'fine by me'.

 

[Voyager EMH]

I believe you 'understand' it 'fine well', just don't like it. Also 'fine by me'.

I understand it to be an Americanism that is a nonsense and a misuse of an idiom.

It is as bad as, "We'll be back momentarily."

 

[IanM]

The current use of "Literally."

Mind you, comes in handy. When someone starts a sentence with it, you know there is no need to read the rest.