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daz1927 Oct 2012 8:12pm, 13 Oct 2012 4,485 posts	Quote Pin daz1927 Agreed faz - there should be a minimum spend for using a credit/debit card, not one fucking item. Me - going to the gym with the deliberate intention of NO exercise due to resting for Cardiff Half tomorrow, and with the aim of sweating some of the beer out from last night. Simply planned steam room, sauna & jacuzzi as a lazy morning. Undressed and entered poolside area, steam room and jacuzzi OUT OF ORDER. Pissed off or what?
Caterpillar Oct 2012 8:19pm, 13 Oct 2012 7,003 posts	Quote Pin Caterpillar Have we had "inappropriate use of the word 'literally'"? "He literally exploded with pride," and so on.
JenL Oct 2012 8:53pm, 13 Oct 2012 22,688 posts	Quote Pin JenL All superfluous adverbing literally drives me mad, actually
faz1967 Oct 2012 9:33pm, 13 Oct 2012 44 posts	Quote Pin faz1967 Is that like ... Basically
faz1967 Oct 2012 9:35pm, 13 Oct 2012 45 posts	Quote Pin faz1967 If you literally explode with pride are you just writing about it?
fleecy Oct 2012 9:46pm, 13 Oct 2012 4,008 posts	Quote Pin fleecy My ds2 is king of the adverbs. It's cute in a 7 year old. After that it's clearly superfluously unnecessary.
JenL Oct 2012 10:17pm, 13 Oct 2012 22,690 posts	Quote Pin JenL Fleecy, it must be a second child thing. When my son #2 first started to talk in sentences, he often used to start them with adverbs - any adverb would do and we were frequently treated to sentences that began with "Perfectly" or "Magically" or similar He's in his 20s now and he doesn't do that any more, or not around here anyway.
Velociraptor Oct 2012 6:46am, 14 Oct 2012 21,898 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor My second child is 18 and still hasn't discovered adverbs. This doesn't grind my gears, because my youngest daughter has more that enough "basicklys" for everyone.
heebiejeebie Oct 2012 7:05am, 14 Oct 2012 2,681 posts	Quote Pin heebiejeebie "YOLO, miss, YOLO" when I tell a student off for doing something arseholeish. Yeah, YOLO so make it last and make it count.
Bru-Bru Oct 2012 7:07am, 14 Oct 2012 1,814 posts	Quote Pin Bru-Bru Starting everything with "so". As in "what did you do today?" "So, what we did was..." It is vaguely patronising, as though someone as dense as you needs a little starter before trying to understand the difficult explanation to come