Yes = 100%
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Uglychild

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98 posts

14 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

10,358 posts

217 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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100%

gotoPzero

20,019 posts

212 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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101%.

TownIdiot

3,527 posts

22 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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Totally.

Absolutely.

1000%


snuffy

12,401 posts

307 months

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

GAjon

4,008 posts

236 months

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

xtruss

199 posts

235 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

4,129 posts

127 months

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

Uglychild

Original Poster:

98 posts

14 months

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

Skyedriver

22,351 posts

305 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

5,595 posts

240 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

4,008 posts

236 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

40,680 posts

270 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

41,920 posts

307 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

10,141 posts

283 months

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

Gary C

14,716 posts

202 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

72 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

3,723 posts

170 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

5,402 posts

70 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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1 hunna

Uglychild

Original Poster:

98 posts

14 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?