"over" hyperbole.
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- mikotondria3
Pisses me off when people are trying to talk-up the amount of something by just using the word "over", then subtracting one from the amount..
Try our new confabulator with over 6 options !!
- You mean 7, then ? If it was more than 7, you'd say 'over' 7.
Strictly, using the unprecise term 'over', should only occur where the amount being stipulated is represented unprecisely itself.
"Plumber with Over 50 years Experience". Here, the 50 has a +- 5 year error. It is redundant - and here's the really significant part - it REALLY PISSES ME OFF to say something like "over 51 years experience".
No, you fuck-wad, just tell me how long the fucking plumber has been traipsing through people's front rooms with their shoes on, eyeing up your wife while you're at work, and generally being invertedly snobbish about your house and yard, for.
27 years ? - brilliant - I have the ability to recognise that that is a significantly high number. "Over 26 years? " Fuck off. How much "over" 26 years ?
1.
Thought so.
Stop trying to tell me how to think about what you're telling me. Im not that fucking stupid.
What the fuck next...."Come to Denny's to buy food. (for chewing)."
I fully expect this thread to generate "OVER" (number of responses - 1).
- lukus_W0
how about 'more than'?
- mikotondria30
NO...
Why this sudden rush to express simple everyday numbers formulaically ?
Just
tell
me
the
fucking
number.Jeez..
- mikotondria30
This!!
This is nearly what I sort of mean, only much funnier...- hehehlukus_W
- fucking LOVE this.doesnotexist
- Peter is a very smart chap indeed :)mikotondria3
- lukus_W0
I might have 4 months more than 15 years experience doing 'stuff' .. 'over 15 years'
- No. You have 15 years.
That is enough to tell people. The 'over' bit adds nothing.mikotondria3 - It's like you think that 15 years isnt' 'quite' good enough for some people. I'd hire you on the spot with just 15 years.mikotondria3
- you have a point, yeah.lukus_W
- No. You have 15 years.
- Corvo20
best thread over.
- monospaced0
Six minute Abs.
- doesnotexist0
I think stuff like this works when you're in say, the attorney/lawyer/precise fab work/lab work. Because it does mean something when you say, "over 100 years of combined experience" that's grouping everyone's experience, but that always changes so I doubt they'd be the ones to say, "over 101 years of experience," they probably just pick a nice, big, integer.
- mikotondria30
Exactly - a nice big, rounded, imprecise figure.
You're saying that you don't want to be that precise by prefixing the amount with an 'over'. So to then go on and use a very precise figure, eg 7, or 157 is ludicrous.
If he were alive today, controversial ex Queen frontman Freddie Mercury would have been far more vocal than I, and probably worn an outrageous leather one-piece that emphasized his man-parts using textured fabric inlays and highlighting appliques when he voiced his growing displeasure with the current trend in formulaic hyperbolic expression.
- Antonelli0
"Conveniently located at 12th St. and Wilshire!"
Convenient for WHO?!
- people on 11th and wilshire7point34
- for those at 13th and wilshiredoesnotexist
- possibly 11th and wilshire as welldoesnotexist
- people at 13th and wilshirebaseline_shift
- oh fuck you guys and fuck Wilshire.Antonelli
- but it's so convenient!doesnotexist
- then GO! and DON'T COME BACK!Antonelli
- *I think you meant
"Convenient for WHOM"...mikotondria3
- ukit0
- Antonelli0
Probably unrelated, but I hate it when commercials tell you to "click blahblahblah.com". You're not CLICKING anything dammit. There's nothing there to click. You have to TYPE-IN URLs, FFS. These are the same fucks that call it the "internets".
- Sugary0
yeah we all know its the intarweb
- MondoMorphic0
The all time most annoying thing to me is when you sit down at a restaurant and the waiter or waitress asks "how are WE doing today?"
What the fuck?!?
Since I can't speak for the slut-faced waiter or anybody else at the table, it's really impossible for me to know how WE are doing.
- oui oui. would you like some bread with that whine?Antonelli
- no, i agree actually.Antonelli
- its the editorial 'we'baseline_shift
- Bam0
i love 'i hate' threads
