Is a fucking idiot with too much time on his hands.
You can sign off with “regards”, which means, quite literally, “I have no regard for you at all”. Or you can use the more extreme “warmest regards”, which means, “never contact me again you insufferable bastard”. Then there’s “yours”, which means, “I don’t even know who you are or what you wrote to me about”, and its cousin, “yours sincerely”, which means, “you owe me money and I will make your life a living hell until I get it”.
I don’t know what planet this cretin lives on, but none of those things means what he seems to think they mean. If it is an attempt at humour, it fails dismally because it isn’t remotely funny. Humour in this context requires a logic to it and this has none. It’s just this man’s made-up claptrap.
I tend to sign off with “regards” as it is simple and rounds off the correspondence. So what? I’ve never given it any thought until now. Out here in the real world as opposed to the rarified offices of the Grauniad where they have nothing better to think about, we just write our emails and get on with our lives. We don’t agonise about fucking email etiquette, because there is no such thing.
I find best wishes quite useful especially for emails, of which i tend to send a lot for my boss, she also favours Best Wishes. 🙂
Unsurprisingly, this berk writes(?) in The Grauniad.
But I suppose that having Ms Toynbee as a workmate would have the most erudite reduced to a gibbering moron in a short time…
You’l probably get better quicker if you stay away from The Guardian for a few day…
Touché.
That said, I should be at work, not looking at the Guardian…
If this twonk was really concerned about etiquette, he would write a bloody letter (and possibly sign it off with “I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant,”) instead of sending emails. Lazy Twat!
I’ll just rub it in and say he probably got £300 quid for this bit of sh1te