Yes = 100%
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Uglychild

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98 posts

21 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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Really does my head in when people say 100% to a question when they mean "yes"

Do you like chips? The answer is either yes or no, it's the s who say 100% instead of yeah/yes that makes me want to kill

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essayer

10,410 posts

224 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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100%

gotoPzero

20,895 posts

219 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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101%.

TownIdiot

3,527 posts

29 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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Totally.

Absolutely.

1000%


snuffy

13,402 posts

314 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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Why don't people say 0% when they mean 'no'?

GAjon

4,104 posts

243 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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I’m 50/50 on this.

xtruss

200 posts

242 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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I only like chips at lunch time, not a big fan of the chippy dinner, so im on the fence on that qustion. Or is it dinner and tea.. Fek knows

CloudStuff

4,267 posts

134 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, look - one million percent.

Uglychild

Original Poster:

98 posts

21 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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Completely blindsided me with the 100% comments

Skyedriver

23,583 posts

312 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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xtruss said:
I only like chips at lunch time, not a big fan of the chippy dinner, so im on the fence on that qustion. Or is it dinner and tea.. Fek knows
You're a northerner aren't you, you have dinner in the evening. Southerners have tea in the evening, dinner is midday.


AlexC1981

5,854 posts

247 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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snuffy said:
Why don't people say 0% when they mean 'no'?
It's becoming quite common to day zero instead of no these days.

"There is zero chance of this proceeding"

Instead of:

"There is no chance of this proceeding"

I think someone told me once that it was better English to say:

"There isn't any chance of this proceeding"

But don't quote me on that smile

GAjon

4,104 posts

243 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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Skyedriver said:
xtruss said:
I only like chips at lunch time, not a big fan of the chippy dinner, so im on the fence on that qustion. Or is it dinner and tea.. Fek knows
You're a northerner aren't you, you have dinner in the evening. Southerners have tea in the evening, dinner is midday.
I’m a northerner and we 100% have tea in the evening.

Wacky Racer

41,398 posts

277 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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Uglychild said:
Really does my head in when people say 100% to a question when they mean "yes"

Do you like chips? The answer is either yes or no, it's the s who say 100% instead of yeah/yes that makes me want to kill
I wouldn't like to knock your drink over in a pub.

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Cotty

42,264 posts

314 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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I like chips but not with a Chinese or Indian meal so not yes or 100% but more like not always.

dxg

10,806 posts

290 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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I'm more "daddy" than "chips"

Gary C

15,322 posts

209 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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Skyedriver said:
xtruss said:
I only like chips at lunch time, not a big fan of the chippy dinner, so im on the fence on that qustion. Or is it dinner and tea.. Fek knows
You're a northerner aren't you, you have dinner in the evening. Southerners have tea in the evening, dinner is midday.
WTF ?

In the north where I come from, its a chippy tea at the end of the day

posh people have dinner in the evening.

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5,766 posts

79 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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xtruss said:
I only like chips at lunch time, not a big fan of the chippy dinner, so im on the fence on that qustion. Or is it dinner and tea.. Fek knows
So, 50%? If we ignore chips for breakfast as a thing.

dave123456

4,023 posts

177 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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Skyedriver said:
xtruss said:
I only like chips at lunch time, not a big fan of the chippy dinner, so im on the fence on that qustion. Or is it dinner and tea.. Fek knows
You're a northerner aren't you, you have dinner in the evening. Southerners have tea in the evening, dinner is midday.
Dinner is just the larger meal of the day wherever you live.

If you have dinner in the middle of the day you have tea. If you have dinner at the end of the day you have lunch.

Avoid, like the plague, anyone who has supper…

Radec

6,009 posts

77 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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1 hunna

Uglychild

Original Poster:

98 posts

21 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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Wacky Racer said:
I wouldn't like to knock your drink over in a pub.

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Did you call my pint a puff?