Annoying Words & Phrases

Truth.

But at the same time, something like a house might automatically get filtered off of a buyers search parameters if they type in search for houses under $7m.
 
scotchandcigar said:
Speaking of which...

When are we, as a nation, going to grow-up and stop this 0.99 foolishness? I'm not a particularly big purveyor of upscale restaurants, but they generally dispense with the 0.99 bullshit and just price menu items in whole dollars. Also, in the better (pricier) mail-order clothing catalogs, they just use whole dollars.

But even in high-priced situations, they might still treat people like idiots. Here's the highest priced house currently on the market in our town.

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If they just said $7 Million, it would drive everyone away, right? So take $5k off, and it'll sell like hotcakes. Well, apparently not.

And don't get me started on gas prices.

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I wouldn’t mind if we did like most of Europe and retailers would show the actual price which includes the sales tax or (value added tax).

But that’ll never happen because America likes it the way America does things.
 
House Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News" Maria Bartiromo that a huge tax increase will "happen automatically at the end of next year if we don't get our ducks in a row." What a dumb expression! I hope Johnson doesn't mean it literally. That wouldn't accomplish anything other than irritating the ducks.
 
Again...

When talking about yourself and another, you never should say "Me and..."

"Chris and I went to the zoo" because "I went to the zoo" is a sentence by itself.

"Me and Chris went to the zoo" WHY IS THIS A THING??
 
scotchandcigar said:
Speaking of which...

When are we, as a nation, going to grow-up and stop this 0.99 foolishness? I'm not a particularly big purveyor of upscale restaurants, but they generally dispense with the 0.99 bullshit and just price menu items in whole dollars. Also, in the better (pricier) mail-order clothing catalogs, they just use whole dollars.

But even in high-priced situations, they might still treat people like idiots. Here's the highest priced house currently on the market in our town.

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If they just said $7 Million, it would drive everyone away, right? So take $5k off, and it'll sell like hotcakes. Well, apparently not.

And don't get me started on gas prices.

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Yup. That's exactly it.

There's a psychological reason why it's something like $7.99 or $7.95 instead of eight dollars even.

Some stores even have purposes for .95 vs .99 but I forget why that is.
 
Mister Kryptonite. Kris Kristofferson's Me & Bobby McGee, Rachel Proctor's Me & Emily, Rixton's Me & My Broken Heart and Helen Kane's Me & The Man In The Moon are grammatically correct because in the lyrics "Me" is used in the objective case – but there are many songs which are not grammatically correct because "Me" is used as the subject. Here are a few:

Me & Baby Brother – War
Me & God – Josh Turner
Me & Jack Daniels – Sandy Mason
Me & Jesus – Bobby Bare
Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard – Paul Simon
Me & Mr Hohner – Bobby Darin
Me & Mrs Jones – Billy Paul
Me & My Arrow – Nilsson
Me & My Baby Got A Good Thing Going – Lyn Collins
Me & My Guitar – Chet Atkins
Me & My Imagination – Ovations
Me & My Shadow – Whispering Jack Smith
Me & The Elephants – Bobby Goldsboro
Me & The Moon – Bing Crosby
Me & You & A Dog Named Boo – Lobo
 
Kryptonite said:
There's a psychological reason why it's something like $7.99 or $7.95 instead of eight dollars even.

Some stores even have purposes for .95 vs .99 but I forget why that is.
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I may be wrong, but I think that $7.99 is too easily converted into $8 mentally, whereas $7.95 is not. And then they may mix it up (using 0.87 and whatnot) to further negate the tendency to round-up. Also, I think some stores use certain amounts to indicate different things to the inventory people. Like prices ending in .93 are temporary discounts, or it may denote the time period of the discounted price.

I say, just make it whole dollars, eliminate the fucking penny already. It costs like 3 cents to make a penny. It's just stupid.
 
We have no pennies in Canada. If you are one of these quaint people from yesteryear who still pay cash and take home delivery of a local paper, when you pay cash you round to the nearest nickel. $7.98 would indeed round to $8 while $7.97 would round down top $7.95. Of course, if you use a credit or debit card, you get charged $7.98.
 
scotchandcigar said:
I may be wrong, but I think that $7.99 is too easily converted into $8 mentally, whereas $7.95 is not. And then they may mix it up (using 0.87 and whatnot) to further negate the tendency to round-up. Also, I think some stores use certain amounts to indicate different things to the inventory people. Like prices ending in .93 are temporary discounts, or it may denote the time period of the discounted price.

I say, just make it whole dollars, eliminate the fucking penny already. It costs like 3 cents to make a penny. It's just stupid.
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Yeah, that's what I was going for.
 
IdRatherBeSkiing said:
We have no pennies in Canada. If you are one of these quaint people from yesteryear who still pay cash and take home delivery of a local paper, when you pay cash you round to the nearest nickel. $7.98 would indeed round to $8 while $7.97 would round down top $7.95. Of course, if you use a credit or debit card, you get charged $7.98.
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So it's the people who pay cash who end up paying the transaction fees.

The big problem? If everything goes digital, it'll only be a matter of time until government figures out to charge taxes on the babysitting and yard work that teens do, tips, etc. If someone makes $20 cash in tips off one table, are they really gonna remember that come tax time several months later?
 
scotchandcigar said:
I may be wrong, but I think that $7.99 is too easily converted into $8 mentally, whereas $7.95 is not. And then they may mix it up (using 0.87 and whatnot) to further negate the tendency to round-up. Also, I think some stores use certain amounts to indicate different things to the inventory people. Like prices ending in .93 are temporary discounts, or it may denote the time period of the discounted price.

I say, just make it whole dollars, eliminate the fucking penny already. It costs like 3 cents to make a penny. It's just stupid.
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You ain't wrong.
 
I had a teacher who absolutely RAILED against two:

1) Kindly. Like WTF... "Kindly please..." No. Just say please. "Kindly exit at the back." Just say "exit" or throw the word "please" in there, you dopes!

2) "Enclosed please find." No! It's not a treasure hunt. Just say "Here is the check" or "I am including all keys."
 
This week there have been several huge fires in the Los Angeles area. The largest are the Eaton Canyon fire and the Pacific Palisades fire. There is also the Kenneth fire, Creek fire, Archer fire, Hurst fire, Sunset fire and Lidia fire. I have been listening to news reports on our local NPR station and I've heard four people, including a sheriff and a fire chief, say "It's an all-hands-on-deck situation." Huh? Are they in the Navy now?

And one reporter discussing the Hurst fire announced that "a ton of cops are directing traffic." How does she know? Did she weigh them?
 
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