Things that bug me

greg66_tri_v2.0

Moped riders. Whether I'm on a bike or in the car, a death ray is too good for them.

rjsterry

t4tomo wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

bails87 wrote:

London_Falcon wrote:

"I'll reach out to ...."

"Let's socialise that"

Schedule has no "K" sound, its "shedule" not "skedule"

The letter after "G" in the alphabet is not "Haitch"

What is it then? :?

aitch

Thats a north - south thing like bath & barth.

And an east-west thing. Bath with a short flat a = northern; with a long flat a = West Country; with a short round (lumpy?) a = London/South East.
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Also: It's 'shouldn't have', not 'shouldn't of', and 'different from', not 'different to'.

EKE_38BPM

People who say "garidge" rather than "garage". Yes, I'm looking at you, Mrs EKE!

jzed

People who say aksed rather than asked

Ben6899

t4tomo wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

bails87 wrote:

London_Falcon wrote:

"I'll reach out to ...."

"Let's socialise that"

Schedule has no "K" sound, its "shedule" not "skedule"

The letter after "G" in the alphabet is not "Haitch"

What is it then? :?

aitch

Thats a north - south thing like bath & barth.

No it isn't. It has nothing to do with accents or pronunciation. "Haitch" is incorrect on every conceivable level.

SimonAH

Queen's English as wot she is spoke.

EKE_38BPM

SimonAH wrote:

Queen's English as wot she is spoke.

Liz speaks differently now then (sic) she she used to. Compare the Queens Speech from the 50s to her more recent ones. If she stays on the thrown for much longer she'll be throwing in a few "ennit do"s and "you get me, blud?"s.

I think people should speak proper England, like wot I do.

deptfordmarmoset

EKE_38BPM wrote:

People who say "garidge" rather than "garage". Yes, I'm looking at you, Mrs EKE!

But do you pronounce ''porage'' to rhyme with ''garage?''

CiB

EKE_38BPM wrote:

People who say "garidge" rather than "garage".

Why have you put the same word twice?

It's garidge. That's the correct way to say it, not some ponsey pretentious drawn-out mid-Atlantic pronunciation that no-one had ever heard until 1985 was invented and a load of yuppies decided to adopt their own weird dialect.

itboffin

Ben6899 wrote:

JZed wrote:

Airlines who always allocate the extra legroom seats to the vertically challenged so I am crammed in an unhuman space with the person infront immediately reclining their seat, whilst the entertainment system packs up, and the kid behind me crys and kicks my seat for the whole 11 hour journey. South African Airways.

Which reminds me...

American Airlines. Has anyone else had the misfortune to fly with these feckless wankers? Old 'planes, older entertainment systems (movies on a sCHedule; not on-demand) and the cherry on the top of the dog-shit cake: alcohol is not thrown in with the flight price, no matter how far you're flying. AND it can only be purchased with a CREDIT card. Now I don't own a credit card - I only buy what I can afford - so I am never flying with these jokers ever again. Because I like a drink when I'm on a 12hr red-eye!

"Hello, welcome aboard sir. Welcome to 1986."

I'm with you on all of that having had the misfortune once but wait you DONT own a credit card? :roll:

Welcome to 1886 :P

Jay dubbleU

Blue sky thinking - WTF ?

People who make punctuation marks with their fingers - usually in the wrong place

It's pronounced 'aitch' not 'haitch'

The all-time dumbing down of TV - Essex, Scousewives, Amy, Big Brother

rolf_f

JZed wrote:

People who say aksed rather than asked

Mainly black female teenagers as far as I can tell. Or maybe an East London thing? Though why they in particular should be incapable of getting the letters of a 3 letter word in the right order is anyones guess. It can't be that hard. One benefit from living in Leeds is not having to hear that!

I hate (despite it apparently being optionally correct) people referring eg to 'an hospital'. No - it should clearly be 'a hospital'. Unless there is no haitch in an Ospital. An Hospital sounds wrong. Badly wrong. If you do it, don't.......

Stone Glider

How about an hotel?

Waiters who treat the request for a jug of tap water and some glasses as the most unusual thing they had heard in their entire experience.

rolf_f

itboffin wrote:

I'm with you on all of that having had the misfortune once but wait you DONT own a credit card? :roll:

Welcome to 1886 :P

I survived without a credit card until about 10 years ago - and I only got that because I was going to the states (on American Airlines!). Even now, mostly I just use it for foreign trips and internet purchasing. I could easily manage without.

Mind you, on the subject of aged aircraft I did notice on KLM recently that my seat still had ashtrays!

t4tomo wrote:

Americans - yes all of them.

Have you actually met any? Almost all of them that I've met have been really nice and friendly. I have mostly been to the nicer parts though (Colorado, Oregon, Washington State etc) but it really strikes me every time I go how nice they are. Of course, politically they are terrible but individually its a different story. I wish Brits were more like them in many ways.

Stone Glider wrote:

How about an hotel?

Stop it - stop it!! It's no different. Its 'a hotel'. Not "an 'otel". Now please be good

deptfordmarmoset

Rolf F wrote:

JZed wrote:

People who say aksed rather than asked

Mainly black female teenagers as far as I can tell. Or maybe an East London thing? Though why they in particular should be incapable of getting the letters of a 3 letter word in the right order is anyones guess. It can't be that hard. One benefit from living in Leeds is not having to hear that!

I hate (despite it apparently being optionally correct) people referring eg to 'an hospital'. No - it should clearly be 'a hospital'. Unless there is no haitch in an Ospital. An Hospital sounds wrong. Badly wrong. If you do it, don't.......

Talking of aitches and ospitals reminds me how much French bugs me. The French gave up pronouncing their aitches centuries ago but they still insist on having 2 different aitches. According to them, one's aspirate and the other is not aspirate. As they don't bother sounding the letter, the difference is a completely pointless exercise and it completely screws up the liaisons.

Like the gender of nouns, it's just an arbitrary division of words into groups of two. Ok, so you have to learn the gender of nouns (because it wouldn't be French otherwise) - but when it comes to deciding which silent aitch is aspirate and which isn't, well, that's taking a pointless exercise to extremes.

Flyingbogey

The word Robust. I hate it and switch off whenever I hear it.

BigJimmyB

"Can I get...."

No you effing can't 'get', but if ask if you can/may have it, the person serving will get it for you, you CNNT! :twisted:

veronese68

+1 to most of the above. And probably also to most of what's to follow.

EKE_38BPM

Aks and ask. I think its a Jamaican/West Indian thing. I used to say "aks" until a schoolfriend pointed it out when I was about 13. Never said it since.
Garidge and garage.
I know I'm right on this one and I did a bit of googling. I found a thread on a forum where someone asked the correct pronunciation of 'garage' compared to 'storage' and 'mirage'

This proves EKE is right wrote:

Yes, garage and mirage (most likely) come from the French.
But "storage" is English, there is no such verb as "storer" in french. It was probably constructed on the model of the others.
What is interesting (to me at least ) is that in French, "storage" is "stockage", from the English "stock" and the French suffix -age.
-age is added to a verb to express "the action of..."
(se) garer -> to park, un garage -> a place where you can park a car (parking lot, car-park; garage : where they are parked to be repaired)

So, CiB, you can now talk proper like me and the Queen.

msmancunia

Kieran_Burns wrote:

msmancunia wrote:

People at the BBC (my employers) who say "are you across this?"

What
The
Hell

does that mean?????

it means " are you aware of this" or "have you got this covered?" A la "are you across the new reach figures for BBC 3?"

And I've got another one. My family assuming I'm a lesbian when I Just. Haven't. Found. The. Right. Bloke. Yet.

EKE_38BPM

msmancunia wrote:

And I've got another one. My family assuming I'm a lesbian when I Just. Haven't. Found. The. Right. Bloke. Yet.

Is this the kind of bloke you are after?


His name is Andrej Pejic. I guess I'm not helping with your search much.

greg66_tri_v2.0

msmancunia wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

msmancunia wrote:

People at the BBC (my employers) who say "are you across this?"

What
The
Hell

does that mean?????

it means " are you aware of this" or "have you got this covered?" A la "are you across the new reach figures for BBC 3?"

And I've got another one. My family assuming I'm a lesbian when I Just. Haven't. Found. The. Right. Bloke. Yet.

Have you considered, well, you know, "experimenting"? Just to see whether it's for you. Maybe around a hot tub. Wearing tennis shoes.

You never know. You might really get into it.

Just sayin'...

<Goes off to prepare "THIS THREAD IS USELESS WITHOUT PICTURES" follow up post>

msmancunia

Greg66 wrote:

msmancunia wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

msmancunia wrote:

People at the BBC (my employers) who say "are you across this?"

What
The
Hell

does that mean?????

it means " are you aware of this" or "have you got this covered?" A la "are you across the new reach figures for BBC 3?"

And I've got another one. My family assuming I'm a lesbian when I Just. Haven't. Found. The. Right. Bloke. Yet.

Have you considered, well, you know, "experimenting"? Just to see whether it's for you. Maybe around a hot tub. Wearing tennis shoes.

You never know. You might really get into it.

Just sayin'...

<Goes off to prepare "THIS THREAD IS USELESS WITHOUT PICTURES" follow up post>

You know the thing that really would put me off driving on the other side of the road? PMT twice a month - mine, and hers. It's just not worth it. Give me a bloke who's taller than me, supports Man City, reads actual books and knows the difference between a mountain bike and a road bike, and I'd be happy. Not that easy to find though :roll:

EKE_38BPM

PMT twice a month - Not a problem, you'd sync in a few months so it would just be one big PMT-fest, rather than two 'little' ones.
Bloke who supports Man City - Mutually exclusive. Real men support teams who play in red. London teams who play in red. North London teams who play in red.
Reads actual books - You are looking for a bloke in Manchester, right?
Mountain bike vs Road bike - I thought Mancunians needed mountain bikes to ride on the roads because of all of the cobbles?

matt581

People who when walking around shops suddenly stop in the middle of the walk way to pick up objects they have no desire of buying and block the way for people to get passed. Also seen on walkways, train platforms or any where else they can be a general pain in the arse.

I HATE, HATE the managment bullshit that gets thrown wround my work, mainly by the directors and there followers. Use normal English or I will ignore you even if you are the MD

msmancunia

EKE_38BPM wrote:

PMT twice a month - Not a problem, you'd sync in a few months so it would just be one big PMT-fest, rather than two 'little' ones.
Bloke who supports Man City - Mutually exclusive. Real men support teams who play in red. London teams who play in red. North London teams who play in red.
Reads actual books - You are looking for a bloke in Manchester, right?
Mountain bike vs Road bike - I thought Mancunians needed mountain bikes to ride on the roads because of all of the cobbles?

Hmm, you've got a point there. Ok, how about...
Doesn't support Man U
Can read
Can ride a bike.

That's casting the net a bit wider, don't you think?

And I do have a soft spot for Arsenal - I lived across the road from them for four years, but when push comes to shove City will always be my team.
And real Mancunian girls have road bikes to ride over our cobbles - it's a bit like our version of the Paris-Roubaix...

SimonAH

Do you come this way often?



sorry! but with a feeder line like that......

Jay dubbleU

Its 'an hotel' not 'an 'otel' - FACT

'Innit' just makes me want to slap people

Oh and garage is not garidge - it was not some invention of the eighties - to my knowledge its been pronounced that way since the forties

rolf_f

Jay dubbleU wrote:

Its 'an hotel' not 'an 'otel' - FACT

Now don't you block captial me - I've already explained; its 'a hotel'. 'An hotel' just sounds wrong which is why everyone who says it drops the 'h'. 'An hotel' sounds ridiculous - as ridiculous as 'an bicycle'!

Kieran_Burns

msmancunia wrote:

You know the thing that really would put me off driving on the other side of the road? PMT twice a month - mine, and hers. It's just not worth it. Give me a bloke who's taller than me, supports Man City, reads actual books and knows the difference between a mountain bike and a road bike, and I'd be happy. Not that easy to find though :roll:

Ermm.... I guess a few missed this... how tall are you exactly?