December 2011
2 posts
225 - Phone keypad menus
“Press 3 for your account balance” and so on. They never have the department you want, so you press the closest thing and end up getting cut off, or stuck at a dead end and hanging up and starting again and often something distracts you mid way through and you realise you didn’t listen to all the options either.
224 - Misusing the word literally
This was one that came to mind after seeing The Young Apprentice winner Zara tell us she could “literally taste the end of the competition”.
I shall however leave this to The Oatmeal to explain (the following bit of work isn’t by me - but go and check out more of the Oatmeal stuff on the site http://www.theoatmeal.com and buy some stuff there if you fancy)