So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[LizzieMaine]

The technical term for such usages as "he and myself" is "hypercorrection" --it comes from a fear of being seen as incorrect, under the assumption that a more ornate phrase is always higher prestige than a simple one. I've often noticed that this type of speech is very common among middle-class strivers.

Real upper class, highly-educated people are often refreshingly blunt in their speech. I remember one old-money Harvard WASP type who was a theatre regular turning to his wife upon entering and saying "you get the popcorn, I'm going to the can."

 

[GHT]

^^^^^^
That’s it, I think. The more syllables, the more words, the more learned the speaker attempts to portray him- or herself.

That narcissistic image Tony describes is akin to those debatable celebrity "A" listers, meaning, those who think that they are "A" listers, and their behaviour. They will do anything to keep themselves famous.

Posing nude, being in fake relationships, wearing scandalous outfits, sleeping around, make controversial statements.

And it works. Journalists thrive on the gossip and editors know that it will sell newspapers.
Beat me, bore me, but don’t ignore me.

 

[Trenchfriend]

"Always make that present, yourself." instead of "Always remember that."

 

[Turnip]

Last week my girlie found something like a small crater on my back that easily bleeds and doesn‘t look overly sympathic.. So possibly just that notorious small but nasty pimple but having alteady enjoyed one full cancer boat tour, that really ticks me off.

Going to see my doc this morning…

 

[Woodtroll]

Last week my girlie found something like a small crater on my back that easily bleeds and doesn‘t look overly sympathic.. So possibly just that notorious small but nasty pimple but having alteady enjoyed one full cancer boat tour, that really ticks me off.

Going to see my doc this morning…

Best wishes to you! I hope it turns out to be nothing unusual.

 

[Turnip]

Thank you very much!

My doc suspected a basalioma. Got a referral to a dermatologist and already made an appointment for an examination in November.

So nothing overly amusing so far but could have also come worse. At that small size it’s just cutting out the tumor plus some safety surcharge and that is it. We‘ll see.

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^^
Damn! Here’s hoping it’s just a small speed bump along the road to a truly advanced age.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I've officially reached my final threshhold of endurance for the word "stochastic", which has gone from being an obscure term used almost exclusively by statisicians to a woefully overused synonym for "Random:" thanks to neckbearded Redditors, weird cousins on Facebook, and the sort of Yoo Toob pontificators who want to create the impression that they are privy to inside information gleaned from deep within exclusive think tanks and secretive government institutions instead of just cutting and pasting from Reddit...

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^^
I suppose I can be happy not to be putting up with that particular annoyance.

It’s been a couple decades or more ago that “derivative” was the standard put-down for creative efforts that somehow didn’t meet the speakers’ standards for originality.

But isn’t it that everything is derivative to some significant degree? And isn’t labeling anything “derivative” itself derivative?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Ninety percent of the internet is oneupsmanship.

 

[rogueclimber]

Ninety percent of the internet is oneupsmanship.

Ninety one percent!

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

Ninety-five percent of statistics are made up on the spot.
(That's plus or minus two standard deviations from the mean for those of you keeping score at home.)

 

[Tiki Tom]

I’ve told you ten million times: don’t exaggerate.

 

[GHT]

Hardly trivial, what is it about the compulsion of reading text messages whilst driving?
The cell phone has become as much of a curse as it is a blessing.

 

[GHT]

https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-...cer-caught-texting-while-driving-before-crash

TULSA, Okla. New dash cam video released shows a police officer texting while driving, just seconds before getting in a wreck.

Authorities determined the other driver was at fault after police say the driver crossed the median on Aug. 15.

It's something motorists are taught not to do -- texting while driving -- a danger on the roads no matter who's behind the wheel.

In this case, a Tulsa police officer was caught on camera texting while driving seconds before the other vehicle crashes into him, his airbag deploying in his face.

Video inside the patrol car shows the unnamed officer on the phone, and dash cam video clearly shows the other car jumping a curb between some trees and slamming into him.


So endemic is texting whilst driving even the police are not exempt.

 

[Zombie_61]

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Hardly trivial, what is it about the compulsion of reading text messages whilst driving?
The cell phone has become as much of a curse as it is a blessing.

Anyone who knows me IRL knows I don't touch my cell phone while I'm driving, in a movie theater, having a meal, or doing any of the things the rest of the imbeciles on this planet interrupt every time their damned phone alerts them to an incoming call or message, and I honestly don't understand why so many people can't simply ignore their own phones until a more opportune moment to check them arises.

And then I walk among them and remember, "Oh, right, the average human is a complete moron with an IQ lower than his/her waist size."

 

[tonyb]

On Sunday afternoon, as I was driving eastbound on a major arterial, a fellow noodling on his phone stepped off the curb to cross the street against the traffic light RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. Had I been similarly distracted I would’ve hit him.

 

[LizzieMaine]

It becomes harder and harder to doubt that such devices do permanent damage to the human brain.

 

[GHT]

"Oh, right, the average human is a complete moron with an IQ lower than his/her waist size."

Waist size? Since the advent of McDonalds and their ilk the IQ test score has soared.

 

[Edward]

Anyone who knows me IRL knows I don't touch my cell phone while I'm driving, in a movie theater, having a meal, or doing any of the things the rest of the imbeciles on this planet interrupt every time their damned phone alerts them to an incoming call or message, and I honestly don't understand why so many people can't simply ignore their own phones until a more opportune moment to check them arises.

That's what always throws me. Both about those who are phone zombies, and those (fewer in number by far than was once the case) who smugly announce their lack of mobile phone ownership as the reason they're not phone zombies. I've never found it difficult to switch off the ringer or ignore texts until later. What is it with so many people who either feel controlled by their device - or are so scared they will be that they refuse to have one?