What's annoyed you today??

[tony.mon]

Nope.
"Authorisation " is not spelt with a z.
No Eton or Cambridge educated judge will uphold it.

[legendlives]

'For free'
That phrase boils my piss. I see it everyday in advertising, on TV, and even hear in music.
Now I know that language has to evolve. I have no problem with abbreviating words and phrases. I understand why my television is a TV, why my computer is a PC, why my microwave oven is just a microwave, and why my telephone is a 'phone (more and more without the apostrophe).

But 'for free' makes no sense at all. Free itself is an abbreviation of the phrase 'free of charge', so why add a superfluous 'for' in front of it.
Free has come to mean 'for nothing' (without charge), so 'for free' must therefore literally mean 'for for nothing'.

Thankyou advertising gurus for pissing me off every day!

Rant over.

[Pete.L]

I think you are going to fit in nicely

[lloydie]

Public transport.
I went on a bus today for the first time in ten years,
What a waste of time that was.

[MacV2]

Public transport.
I went on a bus today for the first time in ten years,
What a waste of time that was.

I thought you rode one...

[lloydie]

Ha ha wished I had .
Think I'm going to have to get my lad kitted out asap

[BrianC]

Shooting myself through the end of my finger with the nail gun!!!!

Note to self - dont put hand under wood !!!!!

[agentpineapple]

Shooting myself through the end of my finger with the nail gun!!!!

Note to self - dont put hand under wood !!!!!

it's never a good thing when you hurt fingers, I hope you mend fast buddy....

[BrianC]

Its ok

Nail isnt in there !!!!

Buildong yet another storage shed !!!

[grumpyfrog]

It's not another shed you need, it's to stop hording all those bikes and parts, for example that "tattie " blade, I'm sure I could find a good home for her!
You still got that carbon look belly?

[lloydie]

Riding to work in the pissing rain , the rain ran straight down my arms into my gloves :-(.
Time for a new jacket me thinks

[MacV2]

Riding to work in the pissing rain , the rain ran straight down my arms into my gloves :-(.
Time for a new jacket me thinks

Or have the sleeve's over the gloves not inside...Surly if the water is running down the jacket the jacket is fine...

Been there, seen that, wrung the gloves out...

[Virt]

Or have the sleeve's over the gloves not inside...Surly if the water is running down the jacket the jakect is fine...

Been there, seen that, wrung the gloves out...

Glad I'm not the only one who sometimes thinks sensibly

[lloydie]

The trouble is the sleeves don't fit over the gloves otherwise they would be .
Not stupid you no !

[lumpyv]

'For free'
That phrase boils my piss. I see it everyday in advertising, on TV, and even hear in music.
Now I know that language has to evolve. I have no problem with abbreviating words and phrases. I understand why my television is a TV, why my computer is a PC, why my microwave oven is just a microwave, and why my telephone is a 'phone (more and more without the apostrophe).

But 'for free' makes no sense at all. Free itself is an abbreviation of the phrase 'free of charge', so why add a superfluous 'for' in front of it.
Free has come to mean 'for nothing' (without charge), so 'for free' must therefore literally mean 'for for nothing'.

Thankyou advertising gurus for pissing me off every day!

Rant over.

well that's just being pedantic

what annoys me about "free" is all the stuff you are told you get for "free" with a phone /telly/broadband/insurance contract that you get as part of the deal you have paid 20 or 30 quid a month for !! that aint free !