"So" Rant

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

So the one that I find annoying is "I'm gaming" what's that all about?

One of our number came up with that one in a post only very recently !

And last night on some new BBC2 series on leisure time through the decades - the IT Cosultant breadwinner mother of the family moaned - when faced with having to handwash all the clothes as no washing machine - I so miss my tech . TECH??

 

[CheltenhamHacker]

One of our number came up with that one in a post only very recently !

And last night on some new BBC2 series on leisure time through the decades - the IT Cosultant breadwinner mother of the family moaned - when faced with having to handwash all the clothes as no washing machine - I so miss my tech . TECH??

Slightly quisitive post, but a) what's wrong with tech? You shortened information technology to IT, so why not shorten technology to tech?

And b) seems random to point out "breadwinner mother of the family". Could easily have left it at IT consultant.... was it in there for a reason?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Slightly quisitive post, but a) what's wrong with tech? You shortened information technology to IT, so why not shorten technology to tech?

And b) seems random to point out "breadwinner mother of the family". Could easily have left it at IT consultant.... was it in there for a reason?

a) I have never before heard a washing machine referred to as Technology - yet it is tech.

b) Because that is what the trailers and previews describe her as - and the point being made in the programme was that even although today the mother was the breadwinner and not the person in the family who did the daily chores - back in the 1950s she would not have been the breadwinner and she would have been doing the chores. This made her 'pain' at having to do the washing by hand all the more pointed.

 

[garyinderry]

I'm half kerry bai. Grand so!!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

My Mrs laughingly points out that I seem to start half of my sentences in a conversation with "Anyway..."

And I do. Because my folks did.

 

[Piece]

Watching Dragons' Den tonight and I want to smash my TV.

There is an infuriating trend for entrepreneurs to prefix every utterance with "so".

It's not only on DD either, more often than not if you see any so-called expert on the news, particularly from the business or scientific communities answering almost any question, then "so" seems to be de rigueur.

For The love of God please STOP!! STOP NOW!!

Rant over and thank you for allowing me to share with the group.

:mmm:

 

[JohnnyDee]

:mmm:

I couldn't resist it. You're one of the few to spot it, though.

 

[gregers]

SO SO bored of all this reading,
AND this needs to stop now.

coz its been a journey to get to the end.

 

[Three]

:mmm:

Keep up.

So not the first to spot that.

 

[GreiginFife]

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