Yeah, I think it’s common in other contexts in the UK too. “I’m not taking on any more work at the moment” a freelancer might say.
― Alba, Friday, 12 November 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
Might be nice to expand it usage though. “I’m sorry - I’m not taking on any more sexual partners at this time”.
― Alba, Friday, 12 November 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
"I'm not taking on any more accusations of sexual assault, sorry"
― foley track out of sync (Matt #2), Friday, 12 November 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
Irrationally angry when i hear our provincial health minister, a Brit, say "at the weekend". No one here knows what the hell you are saying.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 12 November 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
'On the weekend' has the same effect on me.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 12 November 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
divided by a common language.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 12 November 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
can't relate to joy, huh
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 12 November 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
i mean it's usually talk of covid cases "at the weekend" so uh...well my mind first goes to a nonexistant nightclub called "the weekend", that brings a little joy to it.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 12 November 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
is "over the weekend" us only
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link
No.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
"out on the weekend" is the only acceptable way to say this
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:11 (two years ago) link
Not here it isn't.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
I actually remember when I first heard the Neil Young song, "Out on the Weekend", thinking it was an odd title!
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:15 (two years ago) link
"the weekend" is correct imo
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
if Uncle Neil says it's right, we all must obey
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
i get unnerved over 'dock/docked' when referring to wages
how about when referring to the tails or ears of domesticated animals?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
“Cinematic universe”
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
Lol first used on ilx in 2011 in reference to... David Lynch.
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 12 November 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
how do you feel about "docking"
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 November 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
keep it out of my universe
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 12 November 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
lol
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 12 November 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link
Docking/sounding combo, now that’s living.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 12 November 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link
I can't begin to say
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 12 November 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link
"Up with this I will not put."
Once upon a century ago this was a funny riposte by Churchill to criticism that he occasionally ended sentences with a preposition. 5000 years later, British politicians and journalists are still wont to trot out this phrase, apparently unaware of the original context, for no reason other than Colin Hunt-like jocularity... or so it seems. Just stop.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 09:15 (two years ago) link
You know what annoys me?
Asking someone about a meeting and the following happens:
"Let's meet at [location] on Tuesday."
"When?"
"On Tuesday."
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 10:45 (two years ago) link
When you’re making plans via WhatsApp and reply quickly, only for the person to leave you hanging over the final FINAL confirmation. I am very much a ‘make plan, stick to plan’ person who does not require reconfirming an hour before the agreed time of activity. Or person presents you with a bunch of options, you choose one, and then *tumbleweeds*.
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 11:07 (two years ago) link
(x post)
There's room for ambiguity about 'Tuesday, which I've never fully mastered:
This Tuesday?
No - next Tuesday
Tuesday 23rd?
No - not this Tuesday, next Tuesday - Tuesday coming
???
Tuesday 30th obv - dummy!
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 11:42 (two years ago) link
no way is "Next Tuesday" 13 days away, you are having a laugh
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:36 (two years ago) link
suzy otm. Get out of here with same day confirmations on our very important cup of tea summit
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:39 (two years ago) link
Possibly - I do find there's room for surpising ambiguity with this and next.
Has this thread had people answering a question with 'So... (pause) (answer)' ? That's quite annoying, with its inference of 'you don't quite grok the full meta-level implications of this issue as clearly as I do. Let me enlighten you a little'
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:57 (two years ago) link
Oh god
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
A hardy stablemate of “Um, ”
I thought Alfred was complaining about them not saying what time on Tuesday.
― Alba, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
^^ yes
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
I was using ‘Tuesday’ as a point of departure for another related complaint of difficulty of fixing meeting times.
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
Tuesday planning terrible all round.
― Alba, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
Reminds me of that exchange in The Naked Gun 2 1/2:
- I promised Jane we'd meet her in the rear.
- Where's that, Frank?
- In the back.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
Beware - all of these people are just asking to meet on that day of the week in order to exploit the acrostic potential of "C" "U" Next Tuesday! Only agree to meet on days that don't start with 'T'.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
I began to doubt myself - so had to check that this confusion is indeed a thing.....(Another inarticulate phrase that slightly annoys.
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
It is a thing
but it only happens when the Tuesdays in question are occuring in the present week (so the question would have to be asked on a Sunday or Monday) and the subsequent week
no one would use it when referring to a Tuesday two weeks hence
― Number None, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
never could get the hang of Tuesdays. We should scrap them really.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:00 (two years ago) link
that Morrie fella is passed by now right
Yep, in my experience, once the day in question has passed in that week, there is no room for confusion. After Thursday, “next Thursday” always means Thursday of the following week. On Mon-Wed (or Sun-Wed if you’re in one off those weird places where the week starts on Sunday) then “next Thursday” can be ambiguous. Actually not even a Wednesday, as if you meant the next day you’d just say tomorrow. As for Tuesdays, there is no way today that “next Tuesday” means anything other than the 23rd.The later the day in the week, basically, the bigger the window of ambiguity. It comes up most for Saturdays and Sundays. In theory “next Sunday” could be a whole 13 days away, but you’d be weird not to just to say “Sunday week” or “a week on Sunday” on that Monday instead.
― Alba, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
I offer sincere apologies for implying that this obvious and logical grammatical rule ever strays from the path of efficient self-policing, and agree I should have chosen my words more carefully.(#kwasilwarteng)
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
Tuesday is tuesday
Next tuesday is tuesday
Tuesday coming is Tuesday
Tuesday week is tuesday after tuesday
Tuesday two weeks is the one after, and so on
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFNbTdLfBwQ
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
People say 'new jack', what jack?You wanna get slapped, JackOr get flipped like a flapjack?I been rockin rhymes and I been rockin micsEver since you was on BMX bikesYou was busy braggin bout the mags on your honeyI was in Flatbush tryin to get moneyBrooklyn, crookin up the whole damn placeWant to truck jewelry, don't turn your faceBut I don't resort to those sort of thingsI don't wear big chains or big ringsGold was stole from caves full of slavesNow black-on-black, and you're free as wavesIn the ocean, without a notionAm I surfin fast over your head?Maybe you need glasses or classes in Special EdLet me see -I can fit you in on Monday at 3Tuesdays is use daysAnd Wednesdays is friends daysAnd Thursdays is her's daysAnd Fridays is my daysAnd Saturdays is fun daysAnd Sunday's the one dayI rest, give thanks and blessAgain on Monday I will be backYo Ak - get ready to attack
Special Ed
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
'artsy'
tell me more about how you have absolutely no imagination or whimsy in your soul
― maelin, Saturday, 27 November 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
Everybody needs to stop using "netizens"
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Sunday, 28 November 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
'once more for those in the back'
― Sam Weller, Monday, 29 November 2021 08:42 (two years ago) link