donoreo
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Re: What Grinds My Gears
I hate that damned "please advise" as well. It always makes me say WTF? It is even worse then they do a "please advice" 
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B
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| Actually the OP first wrote "Please adivse."
But while many things grind my gears (including assumptions that other people know anything about a particular TV show), "Please advise" just isn't among them.
It sounds like a perfectly reasonable request. Please advise me... on what to do next, on what the above means, on what you think. It's a perfectly valid way of asking for your thoughts on the matter.
Sure, it can approach the meaninglessicity (TM) level of a "sincerely" or "very truly yours", but so what? We know what they mean. It's certainly no worse than "ASAP" or heaven forfend "LOL". You know what I mean? Please advise.
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donoreo
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| It is actually a dumbass comment to make. The person is sending email asking for help, of course you are going to let them know, ending it with "please advise" is redundant.
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sporkme
drop the crantini and move it, sister
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May 14th, @12:38PM
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said by donoreo  :I hate that damned "please advise" as well. It always makes me say WTF? It is even worse then they do a "please advice" Just say "GOOD DAY SIR"!
edit: I think next April 1st Justin should modify the posting code so that every post ends with a few blank lines and then a "please advise...". |
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ross
join:2000-08-16
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said by donoreo :It is actually a dumbass comment to make. The person is sending email asking for help, of course you are going to let them know, ending it with "please advise" is redundant. Perhaps what they meant to say was; Please get off you arrogant lazy ass and provide a solution. After all, I paid for this so-called "support service", that would be totally unnecessary if your product didn't suck in the first place...
just saying |
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B
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| Exactly. They're just being polite. I often end requests with "thanks in advance for any help you can provide", which can be interpreted as equally meaningless or superfluous. But it's just a small attempt at common courtesy on the part of the requester (the "please" in "please advise" should have been a hint). Please consider accepting it in that spirit...
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P.S. How else would one expect them to end the message, "So fix it, *(#Y$R(@#*!&(^@#@#! !" ?
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AMD Phreak
Please do the needfull
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join:2003-12-14 | I would be ok with "So fix it, *(#Y$R(@#*!&(^@#@#! !"
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B
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join:2000-10-28 | Hah! I just went to stick a thumb in you and noticed your shiny new tag.
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OmenQ
Spazz
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said by donoreo :I hate that damned "please advise" as well. It always makes me say WTF? It is even worse then they do a "please advice" Sounds like you've worked with my company... Fricken everyone does that "please advice" crap, and it's annoying as hell.
What grinds my gears is people trying to sneak computers, printers, and other devices onto the network, like I won't notice. There's a reason the inactive wall jacks are unplugged, dork.
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Devanchya
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Pickering, ON | reply to donoreo
I hate "do the needful"
god I hate that word 'needful'. |
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