"So" Rant

[Foxholer]

And on the NFL connection - I continually hear requests to put together the Playbook for such as the build of an IT infrastructure

There are some fantastic examples of American waffle/jargon!

I once saw an impressive description of an item on an invoice for a component for a US Defence contract. The description was 2 paragraphs (of more than 50 words each) with a considerable (obscene imo) number of long words. The cost of $4000 seem almost justified until it was realised that the actual components were a simple nut and bolt!

 

[JohnnyDee]

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Loving your work, buddy!

😄👍

 

[Rooter]

Loving your work, buddy!

😄👍

not my work, shamelessly stolen from a blue sky thinker whom must have had their ducks in a row.

 

[Ethan]

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.

In Kerry and Cork in Ireland, they do it the other way round, so.

 

[Three]

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.

 

[Three]

In Kerry and Cork in Ireland, they do it the other way round, so.

I seem to remember them starting everything with "Now....."

 

[JohnnyDee]

not my work, shamelessly stolen from a blue sky thinker whom must have had their ducks in a row.

It's a cracker anyway! Certainly on a par with -

In Kerry and Cork in Ireland, they do it the other way round, so.

And da Dubs too, as in "Lookit, will we go for a pint of Plain, so?"

Couldn't resist it.

 

[delc]

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That looks like a very simple flow chart. These are more realistic:

http://systemsengineerscholar.blogspot.co.uk/2007/08/flow-chart-on-use-of-oh-snap.html

 

[Crow]

Another ending one which, slightly, gets my goat is delc's habit of ending most of his posts with a smiley face like so.




Why even his signature ends with a smiley face.




Does he not realise that this is a forum for grumpy gits?

 

[JohnnyDee]

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That looks like a very simple flow chart. These are more realistic:

http://systemsengineerscholar.blogspot.co.uk/2007/08/flow-chart-on-use-of-oh-snap.html

Loved this one in particular! :thup:

 

[delc]

Another ending one which, slightly, gets my goat is delc's habit of ending most of his posts with a smiley face like so.


Why even his signature ends with a smiley face.


Does he not realise that this is a forum for grumpy gits?

Sorry, I'll try to be a bit grumpier in future!

 

[Crow]

Sorry, I'll try to be a bit grumpier in future!

That's more like it!

 

[rickg]

Another ending one which, slightly, gets my goat is delc's habit of ending most of his posts with a smiley face like so.




Why even his signature ends with a smiley face.




Does he not realise that this is a forum for grumpy gits?

And......97.46% of his thread titles have an exclamation mark at the end!!!!!!

 

[delc]

And......97.46% of his thread titles have an exclamation mark at the end!!!!!!

Did you actually count them up?

 

[rickg]

Did you actually count them up?

And my stats are now incorrect, as you just posted yet another thread with an exclamation mark at the end.......does everything you post have to be a statement...you seem to be in a constant state of bewilderment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :rofl:

 

[evahakool]

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

 

[delc]

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

I think it means 'I'm playing with'. I find it annoying too.

 

[bobmac]

'You are so supermarket'
I don't know whether to laugh or cry

 

[delc]

'You are so supermarket'
I don't know whether to laugh or cry

So is 'supermarket' now a verb as well as a noun? :mmm:

 

[vkurup]

Actually the 'so' is an important word in consulting, journalism and other review-led work. While writing a report on the status of a project, I could write

'The testing results are in the 3 sigma range.'

..This is a factual statement and may or may not mean anything to the reader, so (sorry) we need to write the 'So What?' and the same stmt would turn to

'The testing results are in the 3 sigma range, thus impacting XX units per YY batch leading to non-conformance blah blah blah'...

without the so, we are so sc*ed and therefore the so prevails