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[Violetmebe]

When you're waiting for a red light and another car is infront of you waiting and it goes green. And they DONT go.. And when they finally do it's on a yellow light. Oh god :|

[Mizk]

When people have a little bubble in their throat. Ya know, you usually get it eating, like, chocolate or something. It makes your voice a slightly higher pitch, and it sounds like you obviously have a bubble in your throat. Yeah, when people DONT CLEAR THEIR THROAT and just continue to talk with the bubble, like no one notices

Also, when people say "whilst". I hate that word. "While" is a better word 99% of the time; why do people use "whilst"?

[Frizzle]

Also, when people say "whilst". I hate that word. "While" is a better word 99% of the time; why do people use "whilst"?

Because they're educated and know when to use correct English?

[Cyo]

Because they're educated and know when to use correct English?

 

>implying whilst being more formal than while

[Muffin]

When people press the button for the pedestrian crossing AFTER they've crossed the road, then you have to sit at a red light whilst nobody crosses the road

[Mizk]

Because they're educated and know when to use correct English?

That's what they like people to think, but that is not the case. I have a minor in English, and I think that "whilst" is only very rarely more correct than "while"

[Lan]

I have to agree with so many of the annoyances here,  which makes me wonder If Codex  attracts Certain types of people or If everyone  likes to annoy  everyone else.  Anyway What-grinds my gears is when  People  flatter me to try to get me to do something they're  too lazy to do themselves.

Edited by Lan, 05 June 2014 - 07:52 AM.

[Frizzle]

That's what they like people to think, but that is not the case. I have a minor in English, and I think that "whilst" is only very rarely more correct than "while"

Maybe in the states

[Dan]

Maybe in the states

 

Yeah, let's be honest, a degree in "English" attained in the US is essentially a degree in "American".

[Frizzle]

Which is a degree in poppy-cock!

[Mizk]

Which is a degree in poppy-cock!

Haha, fair enough. I know it's true

[Waser Lave]

Which is a degree in poppy-cock!

 

Care to remind us what your degree is in?

[Lambie]

People who think because someone is family it allows them a lifetime of "get out of jail free" cards. 

[Cyo]

People who think because someone is family it allows them a lifetime of "get out of jail free" cards. 

I too, hate being a grand judge.

[Frizzle]

Care to remind us what your degree is in?

 

 

In career expansion. Bare in mind, including a masters, it cost £5k. Which is about a third of what people are paying for one year of a degree now

[Waser Lave]

In career expansion. Bare in mind, including a masters, it cost £5k. Which is about a third of what people are paying for one year of a degree now

 

I got lucky with my masters and got a full scholarship and £6k bursary.

[Frizzle]

Wow they do scholarships for sociology?
Plus isn't a masters just one year?

[Waser Lave]

Wow they do scholarships for sociology?
Plus isn't a masters just one year?

 

Who did sociology? And yes.

[Ali]

Who did sociology? And yes.

I may as well have done, my degree is just as pointless.

[Frizzle]

Who did sociology? And yes.

I thought that was your degree?

[Ali]

I thought that was your degree?

I think it was like...Geography or something.

[Frizzle]

Hahaha seriously?

[Ali]

Hahaha seriously?

I might be making that up. I know what his Masters was in, not sure about undergrad. Geography definitely rings a bell though and it wasn't any of the rest of us who studied it...

[Hawk]

 

It was actually one of them

That's pretty funny.  That'd grind my gears for sure.

[Mandie]

Wanting a bowl of cereal and discovering there is not enough milk. Suckage.