Phrases that annoy you the most
Discussion
Antony Moxey said:
CaptainScarlet1967 said:
PSA: 'PSA' has now become the introductory way of someone writing knowledge, something factual, advice or a warning. Yep, PSAs, the American thing we all supposedly had.
Except, many people sleepwalking into being Americanised will talk about 'we in Britain had some scary PSAs', 'have you seen those British PSAs about seatbelts and electricity pylons?', when the UK (and Ireland for that matter) did not have PSAs. We had public information films (PIFs).
Of course, if you try and point that out to oblivious Brits, they'll deny it, insist they are/were PSAs and not PIFs, or use the now common response that everyone uses: 'it's just semantics'.
Sorry, I haven t the faintest clue what you re on about.Except, many people sleepwalking into being Americanised will talk about 'we in Britain had some scary PSAs', 'have you seen those British PSAs about seatbelts and electricity pylons?', when the UK (and Ireland for that matter) did not have PSAs. We had public information films (PIFs).
Of course, if you try and point that out to oblivious Brits, they'll deny it, insist they are/were PSAs and not PIFs, or use the now common response that everyone uses: 'it's just semantics'.
RichB said:
Antony Moxey said:
CaptainScarlet1967 said:
PSA: 'PSA' has now become the introductory way of someone writing knowledge, something factual, advice or a warning. Yep, PSAs, the American thing we all supposedly had.
Except, many people sleepwalking into being Americanised will talk about 'we in Britain had some scary PSAs', 'have you seen those British PSAs about seatbelts and electricity pylons?', when the UK (and Ireland for that matter) did not have PSAs. We had public information films (PIFs).
Of course, if you try and point that out to oblivious Brits, they'll deny it, insist they are/were PSAs and not PIFs, or use the now common response that everyone uses: 'it's just semantics'.
Sorry, I haven t the faintest clue what you re on about.Except, many people sleepwalking into being Americanised will talk about 'we in Britain had some scary PSAs', 'have you seen those British PSAs about seatbelts and electricity pylons?', when the UK (and Ireland for that matter) did not have PSAs. We had public information films (PIFs).
Of course, if you try and point that out to oblivious Brits, they'll deny it, insist they are/were PSAs and not PIFs, or use the now common response that everyone uses: 'it's just semantics'.
Antony Moxey said:
CaptainScarlet1967 said:
PSA: 'PSA' has now become the introductory way of someone writing knowledge, something factual, advice or a warning.
Yep, PSAs, the American thing we all supposedly had.
Except, many people sleepwalking into being Americanised will talk about 'we in Britain had some scary PSAs', 'have you seen those British PSAs about seatbelts and electricity pylons?', when the UK (and Ireland for that matter) did not have PSAs.
We had public information films (PIFs).
Of course, if you try and point that out to oblivious Brits, they'll deny it, insist they are/were PSAs and not PIFs, or use the now common response that everyone uses: 'it's just semantics'.
Sorry, I haven t the faintest clue what you re on about.Yep, PSAs, the American thing we all supposedly had.
Except, many people sleepwalking into being Americanised will talk about 'we in Britain had some scary PSAs', 'have you seen those British PSAs about seatbelts and electricity pylons?', when the UK (and Ireland for that matter) did not have PSAs.
We had public information films (PIFs).
Of course, if you try and point that out to oblivious Brits, they'll deny it, insist they are/were PSAs and not PIFs, or use the now common response that everyone uses: 'it's just semantics'.
ETA: beaten to it.
Edited by Strangely Brown on Saturday 4th April 18:16
Strangely Brown said:
Antony Moxey said:
CaptainScarlet1967 said:
PSA: 'PSA' has now become the introductory way of someone writing knowledge, something factual, advice or a warning.
Yep, PSAs, the American thing we all supposedly had.
Except, many people sleepwalking into being Americanised will talk about 'we in Britain had some scary PSAs', 'have you seen those British PSAs about seatbelts and electricity pylons?', when the UK (and Ireland for that matter) did not have PSAs.
We had public information films (PIFs).
Of course, if you try and point that out to oblivious Brits, they'll deny it, insist they are/were PSAs and not PIFs, or use the now common response that everyone uses: 'it's just semantics'.
Sorry, I haven t the faintest clue what you re on about.Yep, PSAs, the American thing we all supposedly had.
Except, many people sleepwalking into being Americanised will talk about 'we in Britain had some scary PSAs', 'have you seen those British PSAs about seatbelts and electricity pylons?', when the UK (and Ireland for that matter) did not have PSAs.
We had public information films (PIFs).
Of course, if you try and point that out to oblivious Brits, they'll deny it, insist they are/were PSAs and not PIFs, or use the now common response that everyone uses: 'it's just semantics'.
ETA: beaten to it.
Edited by Strangely Brown on Saturday 4th April 18:16
Also, 'it's semantics' has arisen as a response whenever someone is being corrected about something like a choice of word or spelling.
snuffy said:
In the same way that "side hustle" has replaced "second job/sideline", "income stream" seems to be replacing "salary/wage".
With that comes 'living paycheck to paycheck'.The 'hustle' one doesn't make sense either, as the meaning of hustle is trickery, deceipt or swindling (unless that's what someone is doing) - if anyone remembers the BBC series in the 2000s 'The Real Hustle'.
Also, an increasing number of people, evidenced in the comments sections of videos, seem to be unable to distinguish between 'journalists/journalism' and a mere host who is presenting a TV or radio programme that may or may not have an interview segment.
You are guaranteed to read comments praising/criticising the 'journalism' of, and bestowing the title of 'journalist'upon the likes of Shelagh Fogarty, Nick Ferrari or Julia Hartley-Brewer, Iain Dale or whoever else whenever they've got a guest on.
That isn't journalism, just because it may be about current affairs.
CaptainScarlet1967 said:
The UK didn't have PSAs and there are Brits confused when they are told this
Well colour me shocked! I would have sworn, and maybe even bet money on having heard, "That was a public service announcement" at the end of certain messages on TV when I were a nipper.False memories are a bugger.
snuffy said:
redrabbit29 said:
It's a good life hack though
;-)
Here's my life hack; keep your milk in the fridge to stop it going off quickly - who knew?;-)
"Plumbers agree that blah blah blah".
"Electricians don't want you to know this"
Totally made up. There is nobody hanging about trade counters asking if the tradesmen agree or disagree with whatever b
ks the post is trying to promote.Watchthis said:
"Math"
It's maths or mathematics ffs
That one is quite annoying. Arithmetic, geometry, algebra etc. The collective set is a plural, mathematics. So we abbreviate it to maths.It's maths or mathematics ffs
Aeroplane is often abbreviated to plane. We pluralise that to planes. Motorcar, abbreviated to car, pluralise to cars. I've heard Americans pluralise abbreviations, they don't say "there were lots of plane waiting to take off at the airport" or "this parking lot has space for thousands of car." Very silly.
On a related note, whichever f
kwit in the ECB or EC decided to make the English plural of the currency "Euro", "Euro" instead of "Euros"? It sounds so awkward when I hear someone say it "correctly". donkmeister said:
Watchthis said:
"Math"
It's maths or mathematics ffs
That one is quite annoying. Arithmetic, geometry, algebra etc. The collective set is a plural, mathematics. So we abbreviate it to maths.It's maths or mathematics ffs
Aeroplane is often abbreviated to plane. We pluralise that to planes. Motorcar, abbreviated to car, pluralise to cars. I've heard Americans pluralise abbreviations, they don't say "there were lots of plane waiting to take off at the airport" or "this parking lot has space for thousands of car." Very silly.
On a related note, whichever f
kwit in the ECB or EC decided to make the English plural of the currency "Euro", "Euro" instead of "Euros"? It sounds so awkward when I hear someone say it "correctly". ky.jet_noise said:
swisstoni said:
I'm still miffed that Pence became the ridiculous Pee after decimalisation. Fifty pee sounds so wky.
Originally new pence IIRC. Became pence again in the early eighties.ky.p was introduced to denote a decimal penny from the old penny which used d.
People started using Pee in speech to save themselves from saying New Pence all the time.
I can see why they did it but it would be nice if it died out now after 55 years. Fat chance I suppose.
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