Cruise Curmudgeons of the World Unite

[Mokat76]

I would really like this to die now. I did get perfect scores on my essays. Honestly I am not sure how, but I did. I took several AP exams in High School and passed all of them. I will say this, the English one made the Physics one look like simple math. That English one had me sweating big time. Now I think it is time to move onto other rants. Oh I got it. People who think they should not have a passport or insurance. I think you should have both.

What? Passport? But I'm special. Wait. My new passport arrived yesterday. Never mind.

 

[prattpak]

I loathe the cheerleading cast members. That much perkiness must addle the brain. I also despise being spoken to like I'm a rather dimwitted 2 year old.

At the last pirate party insanity descended om me and I queued for cake. It took forever to wind my way to the table, and they were out of forks. I asked the cast member for a fork and she made a hand gesture to me that I should eat the cake with my hands. I wanted to make a finger gesture back at her but opted to just snarl politely.

I finally found a fork and went up to deck 10, where promptly a strong gust of wind came and blew my piece of cake off my plate and over the railing. It would have been poetic justice had the wind-launched cake hit the fork gesturing cast member in the face. I would have then considered the evening a great success.

OH DEAR LORD!! IT we are going to need a new monitor over here! Our 1st trip on a boat ( yes did that on purpose) is on October. Subbing to his hilariousness!! Thank you VB for starting this! I too am a CH!!! REJOICE IN IT!!!

 

[cypressmom]

I don't think the teachers are teaching it incorrectly, I think many people just think it "sounds" correct. Same issue with the word "myself." If anyone watches reality television, count how many times that word is used incorrectly!

I find that TV writers are notorious for incorrect grammar. This may be part of the reason so many feel that the incorrect is correct.

 

[flexsmom]

I find that TV writers are notorious for incorrect grammar. This may be part of the reason so many feel that the incorrect is correct.

I think you are right.

If I hear the so-called word "irregardless" on another TV show or in a work meeting, I will scream. I'm already repeating it early & often to my 8-year old....."regardless", or "irrespective"....but never IRREGARDLESS! I have a hard time not sputtering and alienating clients when some guy who thinks he's all that and a can of whipped cream whips that one out on me.

 

[iankh]

OK, so there I am on the bus today thinking about grammar (as one does), and I found myself wonder about the evolution of English.

Certainly there are grammatical forms that have fallen out of use? One never hears the word "mayn't," yet it was once quite correct (Mayn't I go to the party).

Perhaps we are going through a change in the language akin to the great vowel shift between the 15th and 16th centuries, and we all know how traumatic that was!

Oh, on a completely different note, I believe it's been at least two weeks since someone has created a thread with, "Tell me about ... (the ocean, the stairs, nuclear fission, macrame, you name it)". That may very well be some sort of record.

 

[SLK1]

I think you are right.

If I hear the so-called word "irregardless" on another TV show or in a work meeting, I will scream. I'm already repeating it early & often to my 8-year old....."regardless", or "irrespective"....but never IRREGARDLESS! I have a hard time not sputtering and alienating clients when some guy who thinks he's all that and a can of whipped cream whips that one out on me.

"Supposably" drives me nuts, as does "I could care less", which means you CAN care less and if you COULD care less, it means you are caring right now. Argh....

 

[ibouncetoo]

I think you are right.

If I hear the so-called word "irregardless" on another TV show or in a work meeting, I will scream. I'm already repeating it early & often to my 8-year old....."regardless", or "irrespective"....but never IRREGARDLESS! I have a hard time not sputtering and alienating clients when some guy who thinks he's all that and a can of whipped cream whips that one out on me.

Disirregardless of that ....my pet peeve was always 'orientated'. Now after checking up on that, it is in the dictionary, but usually referred as English/British usage. I just want to scream ORIENTED! Which is really pretty funny, because I find I'm guiltiy of adding extra syllables to words.

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[dylan'smom]

Disirregardless of that ....my pet peeve was always 'orientated'. Now after checking up on that, it is in the dictionary, but usually referred as English/British usage. I just want to scream ORIENTED! Which is really pretty funny, because I find I'm guiltiy of adding extra syllables to words.

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That's really ironical...

 

[ThePhantomsGirl]

How about: Revert back?

Next: loose weight. (or any item or thing) It's lose.

 

[ibouncetoo]

How about: Revert back?

Next: loose weight. (or any item or thing) It's lose.

And pre-planning! PLANNING is 'pre'.

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[girl_barrie]

Really????
The Cruise Curmudgeons thread had descendified to grammar peeves???

Irregardless, I'd prefer to revert back to supposably discussifying and pre-planning whether or not we'll need our passports to have other cruisers on the boat tell us ALL about the ocean, while we spendify too much moolah on our no-touch spa treatments, while our DH, DS, DD, DDIL, DFIL & DMIL all push to the front of lines because THEY are "The Important Ones".

Mmmmm-kay???

 

[iankh]

Really????
The Cruise Curmudgeons thread had descendified to grammar peeves???

Irregardless, I'd prefer to revert back to supposably discussifying and pre-planning whether or not we'll need our passports to have other cruisers on the boat tell us ALL about the ocean, while we spendify too much moolah on our no-touch spa treatments, while our DH, DS, DD, DDIL, DFIL & DMIL all push to the front of lines because THEY are "The Important Ones".

Mmmmm-kay???

ICAWYM!


(I couldn't agree with you more)





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[yargrnhoj]

Ok, time to join the curmudgeons. I can't stand Shutters photogs taking photos at dinner.

My mouth is full of food, there is half-eaten food on the table, but I need to stop and huddle with my family for a photo?

Oh, and can you move your drink 10cm to the left, and hide the macerated cow?

And when you are sharing a table with another family, you have to explain which kids belong with which parents and then get out of your seat to go stand behind them?

I don't want to remember the way my kids eat.

 

[SLK1]

Ok, off the grammar path...how about spending a small fortunate on a facial and then sitting through the sales pitch??? Please spend near $500 for a face cream that will fix your baggy eyelids, get rid of skin blotches, hide all your imperfections, and make you an all around happier person?!? Uh, no thanks, I'll just keep buying my L'oreal moisturizer at Target. But thanks!

 

[melonz]

Nope!! Not from your pic... my well-dressed Disney familiar whispered this in my ear while I focused during a "No-Touch, Hovering Hot Rock, Energy Balancing Treatment".

And I KNEW I heard big feet running in those hall at 2 a.m. with the kiddy feet!!! It was YOU!!!!

EXCEPT I haven't been on a cruise yet!

The WBTA is going to be my first EVER cruise

 

[iankh]

EXCEPT I haven't been on a cruise yet!

The WBTA is going to be my first EVER cruise

Very exciting. Please don't let anything you may have read here dissuade you from trying and experiencing everything. If you've joined your meetip thread sign up for activities. Try the fish extenders exchange.

We have made some very cherished friends that way.

I think I'm right in saying that many of us are curmudgeons because we were open to trying things, and in that way formed our opinions.

(That was way too Pollyannaish for me. I'm now returning to my curmudgeony self. )

 

[flexsmom]

Ok, off the grammar path...how about spending a small fortunate on a facial and then sitting through the sales pitch??? Please spend near $500 for a face cream that will fix your baggy eyelids, get rid of skin blotches, hide all your imperfections, and make you an all around happier person?!? Uh, no thanks, I'll just keep buying my L'oreal moisturizer at Target. But thanks!

And to add insult to injury, you get this pitch from a barely-20-something-pert-and-perky-chick-with-perfect-skin while you sit there oily, disheveled, and generally groggy.

 

[RileyRoo]

Ok, off the grammar path...how about spending a small fortunate on a facial and then sitting through the sales pitch??? Please spend near $500 for a face cream that will fix your baggy eyelids, get rid of skin blotches, hide all your imperfections, and make you an all around happier person?!? Uh, no thanks, I'll just keep buying my L'oreal moisturizer at Target. But thanks!

That's the worst. "Now that we've helped you relax, let's stress you out even more by refusing to take 'no' as an answer." Between the outrageous prices and less than stellar service (my massage was "eh"), the spa is just not worth the hassle in my opinion.

 

[SLK1]

Ok, off the grammar path...how about spending a small fortunate on a facial and then sitting through the sales pitch??? Please spend near $500 for a face cream that will fix your baggy eyelids, get rid of skin blotches, hide all your imperfections, and make you an all around happier person?!? Uh, no thanks, I'll just keep buying my L'oreal moisturizer at Target. But thanks!

Good thing I got off the grammar path...spending a small "fortunate"??

 

[girl_barrie]

OK - We LOVED our Spa days - and probably had too many of them!!!! We LOVED our treatments - even the one with the hot rocks!!! Even LOVED our Spa girls - still friends with them on FB!!!
So, after our 5th time at the spa (on a 7 day cruise!!!) when the ladies offered to make a "take home" pack of our spa products, we just said, "sure" without even asking the prices. But when we received our bag of products from our massage, we were SHOCKED to discover that it was well over $800 for five tubes/bottles!!! CRAZY!! I did something I rarely do - returned them!!

And as for the photogs at Dinner - I agree, although we did get some great pictures - and bought them ALL!!! (Can you say, SUCKER????) NOW what do we do with over 40 - 8 x 10's??? Am I going to have to take up scrapbooking????