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As I am becoming a grumpy old man, I find myself getting more annoyed than is necessary with the various ways people end work emails
Examples today include
Kind Regards (I saw you by the water cooler 3 minutes ago, no need to give me your regards)
Kindest Regards (like kind regards, but betterer)
KR (lazy)
Best Regards (what does this actually mean)
BR (Lazy)
Regards (?)
Rgds (lazy)
I tend to just write my name, perhaps with 'Thanks' if I am feeling appreciative.
What is the collective opinion here?
I end mine with;
L8RZ
Whatever you like.
Most people don't care.
Cheers or Best Wishes
Oh and why is it whenever anyone comes on to have a grump about the way other people write they always make some karmic error?
Regards, Best or Cheers for me, depending on who the email is to.
Regards, Best or Cheers for me, depending on who the email is to.
Best what? does the recipient have to fill in the blank?
Cazart
TTFN
This week i am using 'from the Tomb of The Emperor of Mankind and Holy Terra'.
Next week i will pick another.
What do you write, Frank?
your name? I've just opened the email from you. I already know who you are.
Yesterday's
may you burn in hell.
3rd Earl of Windthorp
Good heavens man...one must use one's title.
Where would one be without standards
Well, I'm not holding a glass aloft at the end of my other emails, but in general I mean that I wish them well and hope they're getting on OK.
Don't let pedantry get in the way of semantics.
Cheers or Regards usually, Mvh sometimes.
Depends on the recipient.
Missing you already!
Jamie.
Sent from a device you aspire to owning.
Toodle pip
boomshanka
NOW 'KOF
Mvh sometimes
WTF?
SWALK
Mvh sometimes
WTF?
My Veritable Hospitables
Someone on Twitter observed that when it changes from "Best Regards" to "Regards", you know they're just about to lose it.
WTF?
Med vennlig hilsen (With friendly regards) 😀
For work stuff I use "love and kisses", if it's personal I just use "BR".
boomshanka
May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman.
Bazinga
boomshanka
May the seed of your loins grow fruitful in the belly of your woman
Neil?
Ftumch
kthxbye
Also what do you start emails with? Hi, Hello, Dear?
Get a lot of emails from our continental cousins written in perfect English with a cheery wiedersehen or salut or ciao on the end so I do the same it makes me seem more cosmopolitan
Also what do you start emails with?
Darling Facist Bully Boy,
Give me some more money, you bastard.
May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman.
Neil
May the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your woman...
LOL great minds etc
"You haven't heard the last from me."
FG - MemberWTF?
Med vennlig hilsen (With friendly regards)
Cool, Swedish?
Close this email at your peril
--or--
N'goto Mombazi
Harvester Of Finest Bank And Credit Card Details
Thanks For Yours
Don't like e-mails.
Usually finish correspondence with 'Please don't eat this pigeon'.
may the seed of your loin be ever fruitful in the belly of your woman, you bastard
"Regards, Grunkalunka".
It leaves you with the option for the best sign-off ever - "Retards," which you can then claim was an innocent typo.
Cool, Swedish?
Norwegian. Work in Oslo so use it occasionally.
Danish: hilsen fra
French: @+
English: whatever ...
gesundheit
Cheers / regards sometimes, depending on context, but usually I just end with my initial and a full stop. It appears to be catching on, I've noticed a few people at work doing it now.
Cheers,
A.
I'm with the Mvh crowd too unless it's A+ if I want to be a show off.
In related ranting,
What is it with companies and bloody email signatures? Most of the emails I receive contain a body that's just a single line of text, followed by half a page of someone's personal biography with little pictures of envelopes and telephones and some nonsense about the green issues of printing out emails, then the company's automatic boilerplate text which is a full page of pseudolegal bollocks that probably isn't legally binding and no-one ever reads ever anyway.
And, breathe.
some nonsense about the green issues of printing out emails
Which, if you do need to print the email, doubles the number of pieces of paper.
I often send very, very short emails. No opening or closing. Sometimes I just send a subject line and no text. I blame Twitter.
At work, we need some staff training on email. We still have staff sending email with no subject line, or misusing reply/reply-to-all.
While I'm on, we also need to remove the '!' key from the keyboard of whoever updates our Facebook page !!!
I tend to go with
"hugs, kisses and every inch of my love
Hora"
On an automatic signature thingy its "Kind regards" but it depends if the email is asking/telling someone to do something then I change it to "Many thanks" or Cheers if I am more familiar with them.
Many thanks/thanks/cheers/ta
Depending on who/how formal!
*insert name of recipient*
*body of message goes here*
Thanks
*your name goes here*
is usually how mine go.
I like to use comic sans or similar to make it look like I signed the email with my own fair hand
Kind Regards,
Many Thanks, (which thinking about it sound a bit like when Billy Ray pretends to be African in Trading Places).
If I know them well or it's internal I put "Cheers,"
One thing that really winds me up is people who have "Best Regards, Bob" as part of their auto signature. They then write an e-mail using a different colour text and still sign off with "Thanks, Bob" even though they have it as part of their auto signature.
One thing that really winds me up is people who have "Best Regards, Bob" as part of their auto signature. They then write an e-mail using a different colour text and still sign off with "Thanks, Bob" even though they have it as part of their auto signature.
+1
Another thing... my email address is "Nicholas", but I always sign it off as "Nick", really irritates me when people reply "thanks for this Nicholas...", one person even called me Richard. Very odd.
I know, I know... it really is beautiful, isn't it?
Hora
'Muchly' was the sign off in an Email that I received yesterday 👿
Pray for me,
Larry.
Mainly 'cheers', 'thanks' if it's more formal
'Cheers N Gone'
Some, they call me......
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Tim
Nanoo-Nanoo
Shazbot.
Kind Retards
I mostly sign off with a 'thanks'. Way too many people I come into contact with at work, sign off with 'Best' and I don't get it at all. What does it mean? Where did it come from? Who started it?! It's like best wishes but they can't be arsed to finish the sentence 🙄
Regards, Best Wishes, All the Best, depending on circumstances.
holla @ me l8r fam
Ta
Cheers
Thanks
Many thanks
BURMA
Something appropriate to the content of the email and recipient. Plus masses of regulatory information more often than not. I have a 2 line sign off for internal non client stuff.
On an automatic signature thingy its "Kind regards" but it depends if the email is asking/telling someone to do something then I change it to "Many thanks" or Cheers if I am more familiar with them.
Pretty much this although I tend to initial stuff if it's informal.
What annoys me is all those email signatures asking you to 'think before printing this email'. I don't need to print it, I already have a place to keep my emails. It's called Outlook.
'M'
+1 Cougar
+1 miketually
If you're external you might see your name and my name, but none of this regards shiz. waste of my life.
'Kind Regards' from me because I have to put something and I genuinely couldn't give two shits what it is or what someone else thinks of it...surely to god nobody actually pays attention to this stuff
Kind Regards
Duggan
Bit old fashioned, usually depends on the recipient and tone of the message. But I sometimes add this footer:
#######
This e mail is intended for the individual addressee(s) above and may contain material that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs, singly or in any combination.

