Yes = 100%
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Uglychild

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98 posts

20 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

223 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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100%

gotoPzero

20,656 posts

218 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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101%.

TownIdiot

3,527 posts

28 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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Totally.

Absolutely.

1000%


snuffy

13,202 posts

313 months

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

GAjon

4,075 posts

242 months

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

xtruss

200 posts

241 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

4,245 posts

133 months

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

Uglychild

Original Poster:

98 posts

20 months

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

Skyedriver

23,320 posts

311 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

5,748 posts

246 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

4,075 posts

242 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

41,248 posts

276 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

42,216 posts

313 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

10,705 posts

289 months

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

Gary C

15,219 posts

208 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

78 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

3,899 posts

176 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

5,928 posts

76 months

Tuesday 28th January 2025
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1 hunna

Uglychild

Original Poster:

98 posts

20 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?