OT - Daft word being painted on vans.

[Tim Streater]

How about "foot pedal" or "2am in the morning" (not to be confused with

2am in the afternoon).

Or "bored of"?

The list is endless.

[F]

'Must of'...

[geoff]

It's not must of, though, is it

it's must've as in "must have" and lazy pronunciation

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "John" saying something like:

"Celebrate our differences", and "various different", get me a bit stabby.

[PeterC]

"Open all day" on a pub that's open 12:00h - 23:00h

Also '12 am to 12 pm' for 00:00h - 12:00h, or, as for something in a village hall nearby: "Open from 12 pm to 10 pm", so 22 hours!

[PeterC]

Use of "they" for one person :->

[Bruce]

Multiculturalism.

[Frank Erskine]

"Train station" rather than "railway station".

[Tim Watts]

PeterC wibbled on Saturday 30 January 2010 08:19

Our English teacher told us (and he wasn't an idiot) that "they" was acceptable in the singular where gender could not be assumed.

As I don't have a better solution (ha) I'm going to keep using the term. cf "he/she did blah"- horrible.

[Dave Osborne]

12 a.m. is midnight and 12 p.m. is mid-day in my book (and for most people, I suspect), so that works for me.

or, as for something in a

Which is 10 hours, not 22 hours if you take 12 p.m. as midday. ;-)

Quote from the National Physical Laboratory:

"There are no standards established for the meaning of 12 a.m. and 12 p.m. It is often said that 12 a.m. Monday is midnight on Monday morning and 12 p.m. is mid-day. This puts all the times beginning with 12 and ending with a.m. in the same one-hour block, similarly with those ending with p.m. It can also be argued that by the time you have seen a clock showing 12:00 at mid-day it is already post meridiem, and similarly at midnight it is already ante meridiem. Times in the first hour of the day are sometimes given as, for example, 00:47 a.m., with 00:00 a.m. corresponding to midnight, but with a time twelve hours later given as

12:47 p.m."

Quote from National Maritime Museum.

"Is noon 12 a.m. or 12 p.m.?

12 noon is neither a.m. nor p.m.

To avoid confusion, the correct designation for 12 o'clock is 12 noon or

12 midnight. Alternatively, the 24-hour clock system may be used.

The abbreviation a.m. stands for ante-meridiem (before the Sun has crossed the line) and p.m. for post-meridiem (after the Sun has crossed the line). At 12 noon, the Sun is at its highest point in the sky and directly over the meridian. It is therefore neither 'ante-' nor 'post-'."

[Dave Osborne]

OK, I'll bite. Chloroform? Rohypnol?, Ketamine?

[Mike]

Cool .. where can I get this stuff !!

My pet hate ... "at this moment in time" ..... is there any other moment ?

Mike Peters

[The Natural Philosopher]

Ah, as in Lewis Carroll's, "Jam every *other* day, but never JAM TODAY!!"

[Another Dave]

Used to be called "haulage".

Still should be in most cases.

Another Dave

[Jon Fairbairn]

To repeat something I heard recently:

Middle aged person (smugly): "My partner and I f*ck like rabbits"

Young person (horrified): "My partner and I f*ck, like, each other."

[Mike Barnes]

Frank Erskine :

But "bus station" is OK presumably.

[Mike Barnes]

Mike :

[Steve Firth]

Have you been asleep for the best part of a decade?

The nadir of the use of the word "solutions" was IMO Tesco who feature "Meal Solutions" in their supermarkets. This brought to mind the image of chavs dressed in pyjamas sucking their nourishment through blotting paper like a plague of flies.

[Steve Firth]

That's like just so old?

[Steve Firth]

Point of order, that's a solvent, not a solution.