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tourproven
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Posted: 25 December 2010 03:17 pm |
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Life is full of little annoyances. I think I may have more than my fair share. annoyances that I do, or happen to me, or simply things that I witness others doing. Either way, they are things that irk me to no end.
What are some of your 'Pet Peeves'?
I will start out with a Pet Peeve of mine regarding the spelling of the word "lose" and "loose". For all of those that do not know...
I need to LOSE weight, so that my clothes will then be LOOSE on me.
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Nancy_in_GA
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Posted: 25 December 2010 07:00 pm |
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Oh, don't get me started...
Number 1: Drivers who enter a limited access highway (ramp) and expect you to yield to them, even when someone is about to pass on your left. 
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Nir
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Posted: 25 December 2010 08:41 pm |
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Food packets with no nutritional information (one of my Christmas presents is "wasabi peas" - how am I supposed to account for these?)
EDIT: I've merged the new item with the existing one
EDIT EDIT: ...and later I unmerged it (using the magic of hand-written SQL queries)
Last edited on 29 December 2010 01:32 am by Nir
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BostonBlazer
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Posted: 25 December 2010 09:57 pm |
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I got one...people who refer to all types of electronic music as "techno". Why does this annoy me? Well, where do I begin?
I've been listening to electronic music since my 16th birthday (not counting that generic, poppy sound that gets mainstream attention). I know this stuff more than most other people, especially in my neck of the woods. Not all electronic music is techno. Techno is a sub-genre to electronic music. Other sub-genres like house, trance, electro, drum 'n' bass, italo disco, etc. are different from techno, yet most people call it techno anyway.
Another thing that bothers me is people who do stupid things in an attempt to be "cool". I don't try to give the impression that I'm cool, hip, or trendy. I just be myself. I know one person who at one time decided to wear a bath robe at his birthday party trying to be like the guy from the Playboy Mansion. That was just wrong!
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tourproven
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Posted: 26 December 2010 03:26 pm |
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It is no wonder that this site is nearly dead, with no activity on it.
Who thought it necessary to take my new post and lump it onto a post that is as old as the hills (started in March of 2007)?
ridiculous.
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Nir
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Posted: 26 December 2010 04:46 pm |
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It seemed to be about a similar subject, and merging the topics had the advantage of drawing the existing item to the attention of those who have not spotted it simply because it was a bit older.
but there must be a downside, what is it?
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tourproven
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Posted: 26 December 2010 05:08 pm |
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| I think it is best to keep things fresh. Nobody wants to be responding to a thread that is 3 years old. Thus making responses seldom and activity at an absolute halt.
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Nir
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Posted: 26 December 2010 08:35 pm |
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one of my pet peeves are forums that are too fast-going.
In 2008 I was made a moderator of the livestrong.com forums and so briefly took an interest, but realising I could never hope to keep up with them was a turn-off. Ditto for a few others (Right now I am visiting the Dr Fuhrman pay-for forums and am struggling to keep up with just one of the sub-forums). I probably wouldn't have liked  if it was much busier. Just my taste, I guess.
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tourproven
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Posted: 26 December 2010 09:34 pm |
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| This forum is like a small store that is going out of business.
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Nir
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Posted: 26 December 2010 09:48 pm |
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this forum was never that busy, the 'board stats' show we're about the same now as we were during 2008 and 2009 (and about double the pre-2008 figures).
an exclusive club, a well-kept secret. Just 51 different users posted in the last 7 days. Mind you the reader-to-poster ratio is quite high. I get 800 hits a week on my diary and only rarely someone posts a comment.
it is a perssonality thing, give one of the busier forums a try and tell us how you like it. Perhaps you're already getting your 'fix' somewhere else, two-timing us 
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Bamagirly
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Posted: 27 December 2010 01:48 pm |
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Nir, you just basically told Derek to hit the road and go find another forum. You did the same thing to me when I asked an innocent question about how to add a signature line to my posts. You told told me that it was disabled on purpose and that if I didn't like it, I should find another place to hang out. Is this really how you want to treat your members? By deliberately telling them to kiss your tail and leave? I was wondering how you expect to grow this forum with this kind of attitude, but you just answered that in your last reply to Tour. You have this forum like you like it so that you can keep up.
That's bassackwards thinking if you ask me. You can have a happy, busy forum without having to police every post. That's what mods are for. You have been helpful to me, and I appreciate it, but you're an over-the-top control freak when it comes to this board. And I'm sure this post won't last long without being edited to #%@&! and back or deleted altogether.
He was simply trying to create freshness and newness. Add some liveliness to this dead place. For a thread to be over 3 years old and have only 3 pages is pitiful.
I wonder how many of those 51 different posters were spammers, bloggers or trolls. Those are the people you should be discouraging.
Last edited on 27 December 2010 02:06 pm by Bamagirly
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tourproven
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Posted: 27 December 2010 01:49 pm |
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| I guess I should add 'stubborn people' to my pet peeves list.
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Hellrazor
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Posted: 27 December 2010 03:04 pm |
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Bamagirly wrote: Nir, you just basically told Derek to hit the road and go find another forum. You did the same thing to me when I asked an innocent question about how to add a signature line to my posts. You told told me that it was disabled on purpose and that if I didn't like it, I should find another place to hang out. Is this really how you want to treat your members? By deliberately telling them to kiss your tail and leave? I was wondering how you expect to grow this forum with this kind of attitude, but you just answered that in your last reply to Tour. You have this forum like you like it so that you can keep up.
That's bassackwards thinking if you ask me. You can have a happy, busy forum without having to police every post. That's what mods are for. You have been helpful to me, and I appreciate it, but you're an over-the-top control freak when it comes to this board. And I'm sure this post won't last long without being edited to #%@&! and back or deleted altogether.
He was simply trying to create freshness and newness. Add some liveliness to this dead place. For a thread to be over 3 years old and have only 3 pages is pitiful.
I wonder how many of those 51 different posters were spammers, bloggers or trolls. Those are the people you should be discouraging.
In all fairness this has never been a busy forum in the time I have been here. It is simple follow the rules or move on. Nir does everything he can and I think he does a fine job. I never seen anyone else but nir on moderating things. As for policing everything it has to be done here. Too many spammers and trolls coming in here post stupid links which is against the rules. Did you by chance read the rules of the forum
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Nir
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Posted: 27 December 2010 04:12 pm |
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This website's "growth policy" is not a secret. Here is a quote from the home page http://www.caloriesperhour.com
Our new home is new at LIVESTRONG.COM
The Calories Per Hour site and calculators remain accessible, but by visiting LIVESTRONG.COM, you will find more healthy lifestyle related content and be able to join our vibrant community of users committed to making healthy changes to their life EVERY DAY. Start by tracking your calories daily with The Daily Plate at LIVESTRONG.COM and join the movement!
Join over 836,198 members who have lost weight using LIVESTRONG.COM's free Daily Plate application.
The forum at http://www.livestrong.com/forums/ is lively and yes signatures are permitted.
Although the owners favour growth of their other website, this forum is still open for new people to register and as a direct result it is not sustainable without volunteer moderator(s). At the moment I am the only person who has stuck around to keep this forum 'working'. I've returned to the forum after a 4 hour break to discover 7 new items of spam. (no, the count of 51 represents genuine users but I can assure you that real users would quickly be overwhelmed by the spam if it was not regularly trimmed.) Should you be interested in giving your free time to the forum by joining the moderating team feel free to send me a PM.
As I hinted in a different post, it is possible to be a member of more than one forum.
It does sound as though one or two people are disgruntled with the free service here.
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Bamagirly
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Posted: 27 December 2010 04:44 pm |
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It's not the policing of trolls that is the issue. Everyone would agree that is a necessary job. The issue is the attitude toward anyone who asks a question that happens to strike one of your nerves, or challenges something you do whether they be a new member or someone whose been around quite awhile and contributes richly to the community.
The standard issue answer you have for them is "Like it or don't let the door hit you in the behind on your way out." And that is a very distasteful turnoff.
And I'm not speaking for anyone else. Tour's problem was that you chopped, butchered, and mangled a topic that HE started and threw it in the trashpile of a 3 year old thread. Maybe he wanted the credit of starting something fresh around here.
Last edited on 27 December 2010 04:47 pm by Bamagirly
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Hellrazor
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Posted: 27 December 2010 05:10 pm |
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To be honest Bamagirly you just joined here and you are making such a quick judement of Nir. I have been here a very long time and Nir has never been like that towards me ever. He is the only one moderating this forum and like he said if you wanna help send him a pm. I think it is distasteful for you to jump the gun only being here what a couple weeks. Stick around longer an you will see how Nir is. If you still feel the same way in lets say 5 months ( if you stay that long) and see if you still the same way about Nir
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tourproven
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Posted: 28 December 2010 04:48 pm |
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My whole problem with this is here is a forum that is DEAD AS A F***ING DOORNAIL, and you get somebody who actually wants to get conversations going, but they are controlled into not wanting to be here at all.
Nir, I think you are a bit of a control freak. You can't have anything out of line or it will drive you nuts.
What is the fun of a forum where there is only a response posted every 4 or 5 days? Its ridiculous. Who cares about spam? At least someone is posting something. I log on here everyday only to find that nobody has posted anything, for the exception of updating their own journals. People only care about themselves.
With the reasoning of adding my post to a 3 year old thread, I suppose you could say that everything that has anything to do with a diet has already been covered by someone on this site over the years, so why have any new threads at all? Why not lump all new topic posts onto ancient threads? What more could possibly be said about weight loss that has not already been covered. The answer is nothing, so you might be better off just closing down the entire forum altogether, as there is no need to talk about anything else.
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Nir
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Posted: 28 December 2010 06:28 pm |
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obviously the suggestion to never start new thread is ridiculous in general, but funnily enough there is a section of the forums where this facility has been deliberately disabled. In the relatively-busy Fat Loss 4 Idiots the constant influx of clueless users starting their own threads has eventually forced us to do it to railroad those users into using the existing forum topics.
about wanting to see the spam - for about 5 minutes I considered leaving the forum for a few days to show people how much builds up but I'm obsessively drawn into it. I literally can't help myself from checking the forum for spam. Please trust me though, you are not missing anything. There was a recent sexually explicit one but generally they're all just trying to sell diet products.
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tourproven
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Posted: 28 December 2010 08:51 pm |
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Nir wrote: obviously the suggestion to never start new thread is ridiculous in general...
So how old does a thread have to be in order to start a new one...4 years?
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Hellrazor
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Posted: 28 December 2010 08:56 pm |
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tourproven wrote: My whole problem with this is here is a forum that is DEAD AS A F***ING DOORNAIL, and you get somebody who actually wants to get conversations going, but they are controlled into not wanting to be here at all.
Nir, I think you are a bit of a control freak. You can't have anything out of line or it will drive you nuts.
What is the fun of a forum where there is only a response posted every 4 or 5 days? Its ridiculous. Who cares about spam? At least someone is posting something. I log on here everyday only to find that nobody has posted anything, for the exception of updating their own journals. People only care about themselves.
Why don't you step up an ask to be a moderator then. This forum has never been a super active forum since I started here. Like most forums they all have dead times and real busy times. I used to be a moderator on a real busy music forum( 500 active users) and when it was dead it sucked to be a moderator . All the regulars always had something to complain about but did nothing to help out the forum (like bring in new people). As for people only thinking about themselves who else should they think about ?? You know people have these things their called lives. It seems anytime anybody says "Boo" to you and you dont like it you go off like 10 yr old child. You ever think that maybe people don't wanna deal with reactions like that an chose not to come back based on that
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tourproven
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Posted: 28 December 2010 09:43 pm |
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Hellrazor, no offense...but go and f*** yourself. When it comes to saying boo you are the king of going off like a 10 year old. By the way, your taste in music sucks.
Besides, everybody on here that actually posts stuff on a regular basis is already a moderator. It is a forum for moderators, with the occassional guest comment.
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suenos
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Posted: 28 December 2010 10:18 pm |
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My pet peeve...people who argue on the inter net
@ Tour: IMO you have a valid point...I'd probably be irritated if I started a new thread and it was smooshed into an existing thread that was a couple years old. Also, I know that when I visit other forums (not necessarily fitness related), one of the things that kill my interest level is when there are more dead threads than current ones...and, I agree (though I don't have any stats) that while this has never been an exceptionally busy forum, there was a time when it was much more active in terms of member interaction in the threads outside of individual diaries. I do think that makes it a much more interesting forum.
That said, I don't think you have any idea of how much of a time suck it is to keep the forum relatively spam free - and how quickly that spam totally overtakes the site when someone isn't actively controlling it. You might not think it's important, but believe me, even a couple of days of letting it go unchecked would change your mind quickly. Of all the designated mods on this site, poor Nir is the only one who consistently takes care of not only the spam, but responding to questions and greeting new members. Like all of us, he has a life, but he continues to make time to keep this forum running - he deserves a great deal of credit for that. I'm a mod - and I'm guilty of completely abandoning mod duties for months at a time when I'm too busy....totally unfair to Nir on my part.
@Hellrazor: wazzzup?
@ Nir, just a suggestion...as far as controlling spam, a lot of forums simply "lock" threads with no new responses after a certain period of time...do you think that would a) reduce the number of treads that spammers could latch onto as well as b) encourage people to start/respond to fresh threads? And p.s.....I'm going to try to make time to help you mod.
@ Bamagirly, hi and a belated welcome to CPH from me. I'll come visit your diary.
Last edited on 28 December 2010 10:21 pm by suenos
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AshIdiot
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Posted: 29 December 2010 01:54 am |
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My pet peeve? Pretty much everything on the planet. 
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Nir
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Posted: 29 December 2010 01:59 am |
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I can see I'm in the minority about reviving old threads. That was unexpected. Oh well. I figured out how to untangle the combined thread.
Suenos, if we locked threads that were older than a week then our less frequent diarists (cough, cough) might object, and either way there will always be enough newish threads to reply to. Not to mention that spammers (like the rest of us) can start new threads. Yes we do sometimes get an attack where a spammer replies to many threads (it was about 17 this morning - and about 100 a few months back) but basically this is quite rare. Most often they'll just spam 3 threads and move on (hoping to 'blend in'). So on balance I don't think it is worth it.
Suenos, of course I don't begrudge you having a life that precludes moderating. In fact, I dread the day my life gets so packed I have no time to diarise.
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tourproven
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Posted: 29 December 2010 03:18 am |
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Suenos, just for the record I never intended to come across as unappreciative of the moderators, and I know that Nir spends a lot of time helping people and crunching numbers. I am just pointing out that the moderators here probably contribute to half of the comments on here. I just think the whole purpose of a forum is that it belongs to everyone.
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Bamagirly
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Posted: 29 December 2010 12:30 pm |
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Woo-hoo! We have a lively conversation going on here! That's a start....
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Hellrazor
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Posted: 29 December 2010 01:55 pm |
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You can complain about things Nir is doing or isnt doing but unless you do his job you have know idea what it is like. I say all the people complaining right now need to take over as and be a MOD for 2 weeks to see what it entails .
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Bamagirly
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Posted: 29 December 2010 05:29 pm |
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Hellrazor,
What is your avatar? I'm sure it's obvious to some people but I just can't make out what it is. My guess is some kind of alien baby in an egg shell  Please tell.
Shannon
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Hellrazor
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Posted: 30 December 2010 04:13 am |
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That is my knee after my 2nd of 3 knee surgeries
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Bamagirly
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Posted: 30 December 2010 12:35 pm |
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| That's pretty cool...
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Bamagirly
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Posted: 31 December 2010 01:49 am |
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Well, getting back to topic, my pet peeves tend to affect me in the wallet. I can usually let most things roll off my back but when it comes to costing me, I get mad!
We've recently made the switch from prepaid cells to having a phone plan and man, it sucks. Bye-bye Alltel, I'll miss you....
So, we're a family of 6. That's bigger than most families, but not THAT unusual. And we need 6 phones, but they all say the maximum # of phones on a family plan is 5, so sorry, one of you will have to do without.
Unless, of course I pay for two plans! Or get a business account. I could understand the reasoning when you have several different family members all piling up in 1 house, but we're a man, a woman, and 4 children of our own. And by the way, each phone has a $50 activation fee.....
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zenobia
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Posted: 31 August 2011 07:53 am |
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a lot vs. alot or allot
a lot is to have a bunch of something. an abundance perhaps, a significant number- "A lot of mean thoughts run through my head when i see a lot of misspellings of the word "a lot." you see? "a lot" is 2 separate words. now, we also have the word allot, as in to allot something to something else: I will allot 30 minutes a day to practicing the correct way of spelling 'a lot' and 'allot.'"
and finally, alot is not even a word.
yup, i make a lot of typing errors, but this is one of my biggest annoyances. ever. The following comic is from The Oatmeal. I was hoping for more sarcasm, but this will do...
Last edited on 31 August 2011 07:54 am by zenobia
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Grapevine
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Posted: 9 August 2012 04:27 pm |
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 Hello! One of my pet peeves, as a bus driver, is the way certain other motorists cut me up then toss abuse at me as if its my fault! The way the local police protect them but refused to protect me when I got head-butted by a yob!
The way certain passengers moan about being late for something 'highly important' like the pub or hairdressers when I'm stuck jam-packed in a traffic hold-up & can't just move my 12 ton 44 long bus out the way! I'm sorry passengers are held up for appointments etc but its not my fault I have to deal with some drunken moron on a Friday night who threatens to slash my throat or savage the cute little old person sat in the wheelchair on my bus! 
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