This poxy rain in August during holidays ..

It’s not just a little rain. It’s a constant drizzle that soaks you right through :(

The guy in the supermarket reading out the weight of something by sounding out the letters "k" "g". Say "kilos" you twat.

Dont know why I found it annoying but I did.

They won't though.

Was it Malarkey from the good ship BBS ? :)

Insects! What’s happened?!? Don’t know about you down south, but here in Edinburgh I’ve never noticed more wasps, bees, moths and spiders than I have this summer. WTF is going on??? Is there some kind of breeding program going on or have these little shits converted to Catholicism?

Should he not have been saying kilograms? :rolleyes:

Kilos always sounds so Australian to me.

Originally Posted by Reps AJ View Post
The guy in the supermarket reading out the weight of something by sounding out the letters "k" "g". Say "kilos" you twat.

Dont know why I found it annoying but I did.

Went to a butcher in Romford mkt a couple of weeks ago and asked the young bird serving for 12 oz of diced lamb. Cue confused looks and "Sorry I don't know what that is" lol. Butcher came over to help out:D

S'pose it was my own fault:p

If Rees-Mogg has his way, in ten years she won't know what grams are....

….that annoys me!

I'm older than Rees Mogg, never did imperial measurements at school don't understand them and will be confused as hell if he mamages to bring them back. That annoys me.

Flu in the summer

Good job you did, men look like idiots trying to dance

Before you press send, save it to drafts, you can send it from there, plus you can correct all your spelling, punctuation,and grammar mistakes before you send.

Im sure Gene Kelly would agree.

Hospitals. Stressed? Potentially being diagnosed with a terminal illness? Let’s add to it by being really ******* unhelpful, directing you to a special entrance and then having zero signs and maps to help you reach your appointment on time. Our staff will pretend to not hear you when you ask for directions. By the time you do see the doctor you will wish you were dead anyway. Still, that water feature where the old map used to be won a design award, don’t you know.

People who insist on keep trying to make you dance when it's the last thing in the world you want to do, just above squeezing lemon juice into an infected eye socket.

'Come on, it's fun! Don't be so boring!'.

Usually these are the sorts of people with zero ambitions, hobbies or interests aside from sitting in front of a TV waiting to die. You go off and have your fun, stop worrying about where I'm going to get mine.

People who do dance. Attention seeking pr1cks. Sit down and grudgingly nurse a drink like normal people.

I’m on the south coast and there’s so many bleeding little flies about (getting in my beer and all sorts) they’ve forced me indoors. Certainly didn’t have this earlier in the Summer. I blame that weird Swedish Greta kid.

Funny, my experience is usually the opposite! Non dancers are maybe 80% of the time awkward, socially inept types who have sitting on their arse with pizza and Netflix right at the top of their list of ‘hobbies.’

But this is in the teens-early 20s demographic.

Disco bar. Is it still the 80's in Worthing?

Didn’t know what to call it :D Halfway between a bar and a club.

Was in Shoreditch, not Worthing.

Discobar sounds like Nadsat. I like it.

Use of the term 'meta' in discussing a point about pop culture to sound pseudo- intellectual regarding the meaning of something's contextually. More of a cringe reaction than annoyance.

Try asking for a lb of 6” nails in a hardware store, it was like I had just landed from the planet Zog.

Try this on them... this one confuses the heck out of me:

Penny Nails

Bloody well said, Sir. Stuff & nonsense.

Twats who walk down the street looking at their phones oblivious to other pedestrians.

I've decided; the reason others get in your way is because they crave human interaction or, as with tourists, it's because they want to practise their English. There is no other explanation for it, sometimes. I'm convinced.

Try finding a hardware shop. shop sounds better to me.

DIY shop in UK, Hardware store in USA.


I'm bilingual in English and American.

You know how they have Spangish... I think I talk Engrican or Amerish!

Some may say gibberish - but not I :supergrin:

Tricky when you forget where you are and ask for a shopping trolley:


"Oh you mean a cart - I just love your accent."

Related to a thread on here, I had to ask my wife (the American) how she said garage... I had confused the heck out of myself which was which. I have the same problem with vitamin.

Garidge if you're from Croydon, Garaaage if you're posh English or American.

Never got vie-tamin.

Actually, it annoys me.:D

Also the way they call herbs "'errbs"

And Math...

I've never "reached out" to anyone in my life apart from my mother when I was a baby.


Plus the number of plastic bags they use in Walmart. Why the hell do they put single items in a bag? There's a Global crisis with single plastic use and I reckon Walmart is responsible for the majority of the USA's contribution.

Talking of herbs, their pronunciation of 'Oregano' is the ultimate crime of a gazillion centuries.

And "bay-sil."

Ha! I use that now just to annoy the wife. :D

Now this could be a minefield. I would say o-re-gaan-o.

What is the crime of which you speak? Is it or-reg-in-oo?

I am 50 and still switch between metric and imperial without really realising. I will dip to say 100mm and tell the machine driver to remove 4 inches.

And paaarrrsta

And daaaaaata

Considering we went Metric about a 100 years ago, it was your fault's, who talks in lbs and oz's nowadays. Well i do, but im a old fart.

And Rowt (Route)

Most drug dealers.

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

And pawrmajean. (Parmesan)

Tunafish. Yes, I know it's a fish so just tuna will do. What next? Salmonfish?

Sceptics pronounce it "Or reg ah no"

Have you ever owned a gold? :p

The crime is that the yanks stress the second syllable, not the third.

They can't say Aluminium either. Uneducated wankers.

Or nukular.

Cat and dog are wildly different with the added fish.

Anyway they say Toona so they are wrong either way.

And people that can't say Asked or Ask.

When they can actually pronounce a word properly they still get things wrong.


Uneducated fannies.

Wrong. We pronounced it that way, so the world copied it. Then we changed it. So both are correct. Mind you when a Septic says it, it's very annoying, a bit like yourself.

Or Garage 😉

:bash:

Internet searches.... If for example I search prime or netflix for 'Quentin Tarantino fims' I dont want 30 films not that were not made by Quentin Tarantino - On prime the first result is The Death of Starlin...!

When did searches get so shit.

Should there be a g on that?:angel:

Where do Americans get their pronunciation of buoy?

Death of Starlin is an excellent filum

And i will check it out :D

How do they say it? I say Boy.

Same here.

Boo ee

Put Quentin tarantino in quotation marks. Currently your search will return everything including Quentin Tarantino and films.

It annoys me that 'aitch' seems to be dying out. Seems to be more and more people using 'haitch' (apart from when they say NHS!)

I overheard some shop assistants the other day, couldn't have been much older than 20, and one said, 'she was saying aitch, have you ever heard that before?'

I fight this battle often. When people say they're studying for their HSC (High School Certificate) and pronounce it 'haitch' I feel compelled to say I can only presume English isn't one of their chosen subjects.

:p

It’s bass not seabass the use of the word sea is redundant as we in this country do not have fresh water bass so we do not need the distinction. I correct anyone I hear using the term. It is only a small thing but god it winds me up. Even to the point of shouting at the TV when some pretentious prick of a chef nestles his sea bass on a bed of wilted green leaves. You cock womble.

One of my most hated things.
There's no such letter as haitch.

I did once stand behind a woman in the fishmongers, who asked if they had any Bass, as in 'bass guitar'.

They wouldn't have dared in front of Big Mouth Billy.

Brilliant - I love pedatic rants like this.

One of my long standing annoyances is automatic doors that don't open quickly enough, forcing me to check my advance.

They're supposed to help me, not hinder me, FFS.......

People that flap their arms like limp noodles when they walk

Don't knock it.

Bet she paid with a tenor.

Hope she's realised and is now singing a different tuna

Or-regg-in-no. Wankers.

Singing scales I expect

That Jaffa cakes have got smaller as have most other biscuits lately

Eat two.

EFA

If we are slagging off the American pronunciation of things where do the English come up with the pronunciation of:

Greenwich (Even Americans call Greenwich Village in NY Gren-ige)
Woolwich
Norwich
Thames

Another one for the Yank mockers is their pronunciation of any of the 'shires, as in Hampshire or Worcestershire... with the over pronunciation of the Shire.

And don't forget about Jaguar being Jag-u-wah.

What about ‘Leye-Cest-Er’ for Leicester? When they won the title it was fun hearing all the silly pronunciations from around the world.

Why say lift when you can say elevator?

Oh, and the ground floor being the first floor, so the English first floor is The US's 2nd floor.

Not to mention fannies and rubbers...

And you guys thought it was easy living in America! It's a minefield of faux pas I tell you.

I'm not sure I like how they pronounce Crystal Palace either.

I like the way they pronounce Crystal Palace in places like Liverpool and Leicester, with a "f***ing" in the middle.

:supergrin: :p

A bit like that old joke about thinking Palace's name was Crystal Palace Nil...

Or Weed fans ordering shirts with the name "Dunk OG" on the back.

Phew!

People trying to tell me what to do, in my own house.

Uh oh. Tell us more Bigs

My Hyundai had its first service today. Bargain £68 as its an EV. They gave it a valet as part of the service. So far so good. Got in the car - nearly threw up - they had let loose the foulest smelling cheap 'air freshener' all over the interior. It has ruined that nice, nearly new car smell. That'll teach me to try out a Corby car dealer!

The smaller the better - until they are invisible- nearly as bad as Wagon Wheels

Having no internet for nearly two weeks

They are your sisters.