it will always be a marathon bar not snickers and don't get me started on the amount of time I tell the kiwis its football not soccer
blokes, lads, gatherings of mixed gender and ethnicity........ PS when I first noticed this thread I thought it was called "Pederast's Corner".....
If I want some vegetables with my meal, then I want some vegetables, I do not want a "side" of vegetables. If I want cheese on my burger, I want cheese and not some luminous plastic-like mastic gun applied gloop called Jack or Colby Cheese. I have and will never "diss" someone as I do not recognise "diss" as a verb. I am not so ancient at 46 to fail to understand "diss" to be a way for certain children to say the word disrespect without them suffering the awful trouble and apparent difficulty in pronouncing a full three syllables. Seems ironic to me that the type of person who might complain about being "dissed" is exactly the sort of person who could perhaps struggle to earn respect. Oh yes, and the salutation "respec".
People who chew with their mouths open. People who don't know the difference between Take and Bring. People who blame America for everything. Restaurants in the U.K. who charge extra for peas or a second cup of coffee.
OK here are a few although i find threads like this rapidly turn me into a full on grumpy old man quickly, so I'll try and stop at 4... 1. An expression of a percentage as anything more than 100% - i.e. 'I am going to give it 110%' - **** right off. 2. Pointless Abbreviations Emails that end 'thnks' or 'Bst Rgds'! How busy are you that you haven't got time to insert the letter a into the word thanks? I am also doubting the sincerity of your best regards if you can't even be bothered to write the actual words... I can forgive a lot of text speak as the evolution of language based on the technology of the time but some modern language makes no sense at all 'cray cray' instead of crazy... i have shortened the word crazy by one letter then repeated it making it longer ??? 'what evs'... what ever was annoying enough, abbreviating it makes it worse. 'kk' instead of OK - what? 3. The use of acronyms in meetings when i have no idea what they mean. i.e. 'We need to make sure that the BCMA is passed by the VOC before we put it in front of the BML'. - we need to start talking in English is what we need to do. 4. The use of the word 'Season' when describing a TV series... there is no such thing as a 'season finale' it is the last in the series. Stop this now please.
To be pedantic, we seem to have moved away from pedantry and onto pet hates. tr.v. text·ed, text·ing, texts 1. To send a text message to: She texted me when she arrived. 2. To communicate by text message: He texted that he would be late It is not 'she text me', or 'he texed' me. It's texted.
Yanks who say "could care less" , its even in TV shows now and virtually none of them know they are saying the exact opposite of what they think they are saying. Teenagers who use a z instead of an s, eg girlz.
