Assume v. Presume

[EEPhil]

WTF is the oxymoron passive aggression all about

I never really understood what passive aggressive is supposed to mean. A form of sadomasochism?

 

[EEPhil]

Yep, I knew about 'planning', but I've not heard the 'preparation' version in my 26 years in t'RAF.

I'd not heard the 7P version either. But I used the search engine looking for the 6p version and was redirected to the 7p version.

 

[Trev]

The 7 Ps seems a bit too cumbersome to me.

 

[Black Hole]

I never really understood what passive aggressive is supposed to mean.

It's another snowflake thing, but from before they were called snowflakes. I assumed that's what the snowflake meant by "muted aggression" and put in my translation. So far as I know, "passive aggressive" was coined by people who feel threatened by the slightest little thing, whether there was any actual aggression or not.

 

[Trev]

Like putting a full stop at the end of a sentence

 

[Black Hole]

I demand compensation for the trauma of reading your post and finding it has no full stop.

 

[Trev]

how much jeez my autocorrect did not capitalise how wats is it playing at

And don't get all aggressive at me with your scary periods

 

[gomezz]

Like putting a full stop at the end of a sentence

If you like it why did you not do it?

 

[Black Hole]

And don't get all aggressive at me with your scary periods

That could mean something completely different!

 

[Trev]

Well, I'm guessing that if a . upsets snowflakes, I suspect that the words full stop will upset them even more period

 

[Black Hole]

You're giving me period pains

 

[Trev]

Well, get over it!

 

[prpr]

Why should we be more concerned with "racism" in this country that they are in their's,

To go along with your's, hi's, her's, it's, and our's no doubt.
Do the kiddywinks get upset by apostrophes as well? Not that I care what they do and don't get upset about.

 

[EEPhil]

Oh dear - seen on the TV a few days ago (also on the EPG):

There is a big caption at the beginning of the film - the word is Incident!

Hidden in an article about bank closures is a reference to a new shop I've never heard of - Pizz Express (https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/uk-world-news/co-operative-bank-close-18-4454750). Wonder what they sell.

 

[RobH1]

From the BBC website:
History making Black Hole seen to do a shimmy.
From the Independent:
Black Hole is wobbling and rotating.

BH joining Strictly?

 

[EEPhil]

BH joining Strictly?

No. Maybe Dancing on Ice.

 

[RobH1]

In Andrew Neil's note on leaving the BBC, he used the word 'adumbrate' - hadn't come across that one before.

 

[gomezz]

Sounds like what the Treasury nearly pushed the base rate to on Black Wednesday back in 1992.

 

[RobH1]

Sounds like what the Treasury nearly pushed the base rate to on Black Wednesday back in 1992.

Nice one.

 

[Black Hole]

In Andrew Neil's note on leaving the BBC, he used the word 'adumbrate' - hadn't come across that one before.

I've been doing a daily crossword since lockdown, and I believe I have a good vocabulary but it surprises me how many crossword answers aren't in it (including that one). I think the problem is the general dumbing down of language in common use - the masses don't understand fine distinctions of meaning and connotation, so plump for the simplest word which vaguely fits (and then everyone else follows by example). And then it gets into dictionaries. Case in point: "train" v "railway" or "locomotive".