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Is your peeve the spelling mistake or the fact the machines dispense foreign money?


I saw a van today which, going by the professional decal sign on the side, indicates that the owner promises to "deliver parcells."

On an advert on Bloomberg today, I saw the following strapline in Times New Roman: Green Economy: Asia's choice for a stronger future (or words to that effect). Fine you think, except the apostrophe in Asia's was a 6-shaped one, not a 9-shaped one.

My other pet peeve is little shops charging 99p for something and then almost expecting you to put the 1p change in the strategically placed charity box. Sorry, but my 1ps go in my jar at home until one day when I take the jar to the bank, walk out with a few £20 notes and spend them.

GMTV2009 wrote: For that, there's a line between acceptable and just annoying, as I will except a LOL & occasionally a Kl, but when they start talking like: WUU2, Yh I'm Gd, u? How r u? WTH, OMG, IDK - I just loose track of the conversation.

How absolutely disgraceful of myself. I do apologise, I am usually extremely Vigilant on these sort of things and to be moaning about doing things like that and then doing it myself is disgraceful.

Alexia wrote:Is your peeve the spelling mistake or the fact the machines dispense foreign money?

Unfortunately people from NI generally have to try and take Bank of England notes to the mainland as a large percentage of shop staff there look at an Ulster Bank note (with sterling written on it in large letters) and then hand it back to you telling you they "don't take Irish money".

If they do that to me, they do regret it quickly.

Course the joy of the "leeeegal tender" complaint is due to the bizzare legal system, they're NOT. Especially not in Scotland where no notes are leeeegal tender.

Clydesdale notes are a bugger though, the self service machines in Tesco used to never accept them and they used to keep the till under the supervisor's panel stuffed with RBS notes to swap for the things.

nodnirG kraM wrote:I was given the obligatory Scottish five pound note in change the other day. I love spending Scottish notes down here. A pity Michael McIntyre wasn't around when I handed it over later that evening. Sadly no Scot was around to call out "I think you'll find, pal, that's leeeegal tender". So I had to do it myself. Only took 2 supervisors' approval too. Impressive.

Thouogh they are not technically legal tender...

Bank of England website wrote: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknote ... aqs.htm#16
Are Scottish & Northern Irish notes legal tender?
In short ‘No’ these notes are not legal tender; only Bank of England notes are legal tender but only in England and Wales.
The term legal tender does not in itself govern the acceptability of banknotes in transactions. Whether or not notes have legal tender status, their acceptability as a means of payment is essentially a matter for agreement between the parties involved. Legal tender has a very narrow technical meaning in relation to the settlement of debt. If a debtor pays in legal tender the exact amount he owes under the terms of a contract, he has good defence in law if he is subsequently sued for non-payment of the debt. In ordinary everyday transactions, the term ‘legal tender’ has very little practical application.

ashley b wrote:
Thouogh they are not technically legal tender...

Bank of England website wrote: Are Scottish & Northern Irish notes legal tender?
In short ‘No’ these notes are not legal tender; only Bank of England notes are legal tender but only in England and Wales.

Pah, I shall still continue to use them down here, just to cause havoc.

ashley b wrote:Thouogh they are not technically legal tender...

Though of course as your quoted text points out, "legal tender" is a pointless and virtually meaningless phrase.

GMTV2009 wrote:someone bent down, put their Can of Coke on the floor and walked off.

Sorry, but one of mine is when people say 'floor' referring to ouside in a street instead of 'the ground'.

My worst annoyance is people who use the phrase 'pet peeve'. It is very American. Being in Merry England I would have thought that people would use English phrases, wouldn't you?

Not really

The Southerner wrote: Merry England

Is that anywhere near Broken Britain?