Totally OT: Pet hates

[pamela]

OCD is another illness which has entered into everyday speech to describe activities which are not OCD.

[pamela]

There's probably more examples here.

[Sam Crean]

The problem is that there are more ways to reply than just messaging. And facebook where that term is mostly used didn?t have a separate messager initially. And it wasn?t an email, and those who used facebook often hadn't used email. It was a pretty poor term that got commonly used, but it wasn?t due to sloppy, it was an attempt to be more specific than just 'reply'.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Tim Watts escribió:

This one is good for meetings. Play with your colleagues.

[News]

Thanks chaps. Yes, I have a dipped a toe in aue on odd occasions.

[Mike Barnes]

ITYM "There are..." :-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Used to be anally retentive aka anal as well.

[michael adams]

A straightforward plan describes a specific course of action which barring unforeseen consequences will be executed exactly according to that plan.

Forward planning often involves formulating a number of different options or courses of action, depending on how some unpredictable future event turns out. Sometimes known as contingency planning. So that normally at least 50% if not more, sometimes even 100% of the detailed work which goes into forward planning may be destined for the waste paper basket.

Either that, it's or leaked to newspapers when its known as "blue skies thinking"; as in "Govt plans complete shutdown of NHS"

michael adams

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[bert]

Bad as "almost unique", well almost.

[bert]

Add "them" instead of "those"

[bert]

In article , News writes

Sign at our local tip "We do not except tyres and batteries" Which I took to mean we could dump them there. They've corrected it now - they do take batteries.

[bert]

In article , Sam Crean writes

And good old Railway Station has become train station.

[bert]

In article , Mike Tomlinson writes

LOL

[bert]

I really really hate "Colleague announcements" in supermarkets. I AM CUSTOMER YOU ARE STAFF. I AM NOT YOUR F******** COLLEAGUE

There, that's better.

[bert]

AKA "groping"?

[pamela]

That's the error I was referring to.

"Anal retentive" (or excessive perfectionism, orderliness, etc) is a personality trait known as OCPD, whereas OCD is an affective disorder based on anxiety.

The symptoms overlap. Both OCPD and OCD can be present in the same person. However they are very different.

Perfectionism is not OCD although in everyday speech it is called that. That's what I meant.

[bert]

In article , michael adams writes

Whatever happened to green fields?

[The Natural Philosopher]

I nearly went to court for receiving a ticket for parking in a

*prescribed* place.

I reckon I might have got off that one.

[Tim Streater]

Septics never use a short word when a long one will do.

[Tim Streater]

Right. So the correct and most useful phrase is "contingency planning", since it tells what you are doing (planning) and why you are doing it (contingencies).