Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]
Discussion
rohrl said:
RobinOakapple said:
marmitemania said:
Have I missed something here? WTF is "it's dusty in here" supposed to mean? Is this another TW@TISH Americanism we have adopted? Or is it just a general comment on the standard of someones house work? Why can't we just calll a spade a spade nowadays? FML sh!t like this just makes me want to spew.
Speaking of daft euphemisms, what about "sleeping with"? There's all sorts of expressions (and single words) which are much more to the point. Such as f
k.The word you're looking for is died.
marmitemania said:
I think people watch to many programmes like Big bang theory and all of these FU@KING idiotical boxed sets that Idris Elba keeps fawning over in that ludicrous and cringeworthy Sky advert. I can only assume this type of FU@TARDNESS comes from these sources as I have never watched any of them, but I dare say theres a pretty high chance. I despair for the future.
What's that then, American for idiotic?marmitemania said:
Roy Lime said:
Last month I attended a meeting at which a town planner was present. For almost an hour I was presented with an explanation of the problems facing our little town and his ideas for tackling them. His far-reaching proposals included a list of on-trend themes such as sustainable development, integrated public transport and increased accessibility for bicycles. For the best part of sixty minutes he sat, wearing bellend fking sandals, and evangelically outlined the proposals he would be doing his level fking best to force through.
Though the town has existed for hundreds of years, weathering storm, war and recession, this meddlesome little prick has identified how it should be improved. It was, in fact, doing perfectly well by itself, thank you very much. So who is he? Long-standing resident perhaps? Family with history in the area? Nope – he rocked up here two fking years ago from the other end of the country. If the interfering little st didn’t like what he found when he got here, why didn’t he fk right off back whence he came?
Tonight, I think I’ll pop next door and rearrange the furniture. Oh, hang on, no I won’t, because that would be the complete fking height of absolute fking cheek.
I fking, fking, fking, fking, fkING hate people who do this.
I FU@KING despise with every fiber of my body people who interfere with places they do not live or originate from. My town Raunds has had 700 houses foisted upon us, no one from the town and no one from the district council wanted them but the county council and that fat little C@NT Eric pickles OK'ed them on the basis that they would be good for the town. So yep a load more fking sandals, and evangelically outlined the proposals he would be doing his level fking best to force through. Though the town has existed for hundreds of years, weathering storm, war and recession, this meddlesome little prick has identified how it should be improved. It was, in fact, doing perfectly well by itself, thank you very much. So who is he? Long-standing resident perhaps? Family with history in the area? Nope – he rocked up here two f
king years ago from the other end of the country. If the interfering little st didn’t like what he found when he got here, why didn’t he fk right off back whence he came? Tonight, I think I’ll pop next door and rearrange the furniture. Oh, hang on, no I won’t, because that would be the complete f
king height of absolute fking cheek.I f
king, fking, fking, fking, fkING hate people who do this.king londoners and general st and driftwood can come and live here, driving up house prices so the locals cant afford the houses. Crime, congestion and unemployment will rise, it's all fking good and great oh and some faceless st will be getting a nice fat envelope no doubt. Build houses where they are suitable and there are jobs and the inferstructre and capacity to cope with them. C@NTS ALL OF THEM. 
Similar here. Another large development, on a green-field site, been given the green light on appeal by central government.
This despite:
- There has been almost non-stop building of houses here over the last 20+ years, in a rural market town where the infrastructure, schools, surgery etc can already not cope with the increased population.
- Local residents almost unanimously against.
- Planning permision turned down by County Council.
rohrl said:
RobinOakapple said:
marmitemania said:
Have I missed something here? WTF is "it's dusty in here" supposed to mean? Is this another TW@TISH Americanism we have adopted? Or is it just a general comment on the standard of someones house work? Why can't we just calll a spade a spade nowadays? FML sh!t like this just makes me want to spew.
Speaking of daft euphemisms, what about "sleeping with"? There's all sorts of expressions (and single words) which are much more to the point. Such as fk.The word you're looking for is died.
hole as a husband. Of course, I'd completely misunderstood, "with hilarious consequences" as they say.
JonRB said:
whoami said:
JonRB said:
Also, even more ironically, "spew" is an Americanism. 
It's not.
Spew goes way back before that film, it's of European origin, not from The Meercans.
227bhp said:
JonRB said:
whoami said:
JonRB said:
Also, even more ironically, "spew" is an Americanism.
It's not.Spew goes way back before that film, it's of European origin, not from The Meercans.
marmitemania said:
I FU@KING despise with every fiber of my body people who interfere with places they do not live or originate from. My town Raunds has had 700 houses foisted upon us, no one from the town and no one from the district council wanted them but the county council and that fat little C@NT Eric pickles OK'ed them on the basis that they would be good for the town. So yep a load more fking londoners and general st and driftwood can come and live here, driving up house prices so the locals cant afford the houses. Crime, congestion and unemployment will rise, it's all fking good and great oh and some faceless st will be getting a nice fat envelope no doubt. Build houses where they are suitable and there are jobs and the inferstructre and capacity to cope with them. C@NTS ALL OF THEM.
Folk with houses who have decided how many other houses is the right number. They ALWAYS include their own house in the ok column. They NEVER protest about their own house. NEVER.king londoners and general st and driftwood can come and live here, driving up house prices so the locals cant afford the houses. Crime, congestion and unemployment will rise, it's all fking good and great oh and some faceless st will be getting a nice fat envelope no doubt. Build houses where they are suitable and there are jobs and the inferstructre and capacity to cope with them. C@NTS ALL OF THEM. Even if their own house has a nice view, which therefore means the nice view only has a spoiled view. That's ALWAYS ok.
227bhp said:
JonRB said:
whoami said:
JonRB said:
Also, even more ironically, "spew" is an Americanism.
It's not.Spew goes way back before that film, it's of European origin, not from The Meercans.
It's a tad older than Wayne's World.
whoami said:
227bhp said:
JonRB said:
whoami said:
JonRB said:
Also, even more ironically, "spew" is an Americanism.
It's not.Spew goes way back before that film, it's of European origin, not from The Meercans.
It's a tad older than Wayne's World.
"Blow, winds! Blow until your cheeks crack! Rage on, blow! Let tornadoes spew water until the steeples of our churches and the weathervanes are all drowned."
whoami said:
It's a tad older than Wayne's World.
Many words are, but they come in and out of fashion and sometimes gain new meanings through new usage. Anyway, regardless, there is still the irony quotient for the use of 'WTF' and 'FML' even if we drop my observation on the use of 'spew'.
matchmaker said:
227bhp said:
JonRB said:
whoami said:
JonRB said:
Also, even more ironically, "spew" is an Americanism.
It's not.Spew goes way back before that film, it's of European origin, not from The Meercans.
Not that I don't find so-called Americanisms annoying, but to do so is very much beyond reason.
SilverSixer said:
Many people don't realise that much demotic American English usage is actually older English than much of the terminology we use in modern British English. American English is to a great degree the more original and authentic version of our shared, diverging language.
Indeed. When the languages diverged, a lot of their spellings stayed the same whilst ours were heavily influenced by French, which was the language of the aristocracy, and mutated as a result. In fact I seem to recall that there was a period where the King couldn't even speak English. RobinBanks said:
SilverSixer said:
Not that I don't find so-called Americanisms annoying, but to do so is very much beyond reason.
Please note the difference between 'beyond reason' and 'without reason'.SilverSixer said:
RobinBanks said:
SilverSixer said:
Not that I don't find so-called Americanisms annoying, but to do so is very much beyond reason.
Please note the difference between 'beyond reason' and 'without reason'.However much of American English is also odd grammatically in the use of tenses and the full range of tenses is used far less (if ever) than in British English. The theory goes that this is largely due to people having to learn English as a foreign language upon moving to the US and sticking to the simple tenses. It would make sense as that is still the telling sign for even most of the very best speakers of English to whom it's a second language and is by far the hardest thing to learn and use correctly in everyday English.
Another day, another annoyance.
Clothing made with loops (for the hooking up of).
Family members unable/unwilling to locate said loop and apply to the hooks provided along the wall.
If you choose not to utilise the loop, then the hook capacity is reduced according to the volume of the clothing carelessly draped over the hook. Looks unsightly too.
They tell me the loop is insufficient to support the garment. Or somehow it will spoil the 'hang' of the Superdry bri-nylon god-awful-jacket-thingummy.
My house. My hooks. My rules. Sermon over.
Clothing made with loops (for the hooking up of).
Family members unable/unwilling to locate said loop and apply to the hooks provided along the wall.
If you choose not to utilise the loop, then the hook capacity is reduced according to the volume of the clothing carelessly draped over the hook. Looks unsightly too.
They tell me the loop is insufficient to support the garment. Or somehow it will spoil the 'hang' of the Superdry bri-nylon god-awful-jacket-thingummy.
My house. My hooks. My rules. Sermon over.
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