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Annoying Americanisms
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Too fucking right, pisses me off no endWeaver99 said:Winningest.
As in, someone who has won the most games.
"the winningest coach in pro-football history"
Makes my skin crawl everytime I hear it.
daveduke67
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Hi, hello, good afternoon - in fact anything at all in an American accent annoys me.
Never Mind The Pollocks
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'I could care less' when they're trying to say they don't care.
Esteban de la Sexface
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more annoying than any of that is when some fucker from work goes on a 10 day holiday to New York and comes back with all of the above mannerisms, talking about fucking baseball and hot dogs. Shut up you dopey ****, you had your hand stuck up a sheeps arse not 2 days before you left for the big apple.
daveduke67
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Esteban de la Sexface said:more annoying than any of that is when some fucker from work goes on a 10 day holiday to New York and comes back with all of the above mannerisms, talking about fucking baseball and hot dogs. Shut up you dopey ****, you had your hand stuck up a sheeps arse not 2 days before you left for the big apple.
Slightly off-topic but what exactly is it that you do at work?
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daveduke67 said:Esteban de la Sexface said:more annoying than any of that is when some fucker from work goes on a 10 day holiday to New York and comes back with all of the above mannerisms, talking about fucking baseball and hot dogs. Shut up you dopey ****, you had your hand stuck up a sheeps arse not 2 days before you left for the big apple.
Slightly off-topic but what exactly is it that you do at work?
Ambassador for Wales.
Esteban de la Sexface
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daveduke67 said:Esteban de la Sexface said:more annoying than any of that is when some fucker from work goes on a 10 day holiday to New York and comes back with all of the above mannerisms, talking about fucking baseball and hot dogs. Shut up you dopey ****, you had your hand stuck up a sheeps arse not 2 days before you left for the big apple.
Slightly off-topic but what exactly is it that you do at work?
I'm a software engineer, but the lad in question farms sheep on the side. It is quite a normal occurance here.
green pennies
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People from different places speak in different ways. What's the problem exactly?
I mean this post has been fun to read, but none of this really gets you guys (sorry, sorry, "you lot?") that angry, does it?
For what it's worth, I quite like (better, see?) all of the Englandisms and several of them might be an improvement over what we say (see #3 below), but a few I have seen on here just don't seem to matter all that much.
Here's what I will say though:
1 - As an fairly educated American who understands geography/history/football at at least a passable level, I also find it quite annoying when people cannot tell the difference between a Manc accent, a Cockney accent, a Scottish Accent, and Irish accent, a South African accent, and an Australian accent. That is more than a little idiotic. Granted, I couldn't place every little English accent in every part of the country, but I think I can at least place the basics. I too would be annoyed were I from England and everyone thought I was Australian.
2 - There is literally (ahhh sorry!) TRULY I mean, truly no better commentator for the sport of football than an English one. (Some Scots are fine too.) As someone else mentioned earlier in the thread, the FA Cup final had an American play-by-play man on the broadcast in the States and he was beyond horrific. Far too much yelling in American sport play-by-play announcing. I love how most of the English television (fair compromise between tv and telly?) commentators understand that you don't have to say the name of every man who touches the ball every time and there is a way to build excitement in a subtle way without just screaming when something "important" happens. The English are also much more knowlegable it would seem on the game itself. I noticed when watching online streams of English broadcasts that the halftime commentary is far more in depth and intelligent than the usual Fox Soccer fair that we get. They actually trust their audience a bit.
3 - On an obvious note, "Football" is superior to "Soccer", "Pitch" is superior to "Field", "Physio" is superior to "Trainer", "Lovely bit of skill there" is superior to "AWESOME DRIBBLING SKILLZ DUDE", "Club" is superior to "Team", and "Fit" is superior to "Healthy Enough To Play" (though I will say that calling an attractive woman "fit" is one I've never quite been able to wrap my head around... so prepare for this question if you call a woman "fit" in front of an American: "Yeah, yeah but is she hot though?".. because fit here could mean she has a nice body but you are pointing it out to avoid mentioning that she has the face of a basset hound.
So yeah, we can be annoying, but are there no cultural relativists over there? We mean well.
I mean this post has been fun to read, but none of this really gets you guys (sorry, sorry, "you lot?") that angry, does it?
For what it's worth, I quite like (better, see?) all of the Englandisms and several of them might be an improvement over what we say (see #3 below), but a few I have seen on here just don't seem to matter all that much.
Here's what I will say though:
1 - As an fairly educated American who understands geography/history/football at at least a passable level, I also find it quite annoying when people cannot tell the difference between a Manc accent, a Cockney accent, a Scottish Accent, and Irish accent, a South African accent, and an Australian accent. That is more than a little idiotic. Granted, I couldn't place every little English accent in every part of the country, but I think I can at least place the basics. I too would be annoyed were I from England and everyone thought I was Australian.
2 - There is literally (ahhh sorry!) TRULY I mean, truly no better commentator for the sport of football than an English one. (Some Scots are fine too.) As someone else mentioned earlier in the thread, the FA Cup final had an American play-by-play man on the broadcast in the States and he was beyond horrific. Far too much yelling in American sport play-by-play announcing. I love how most of the English television (fair compromise between tv and telly?) commentators understand that you don't have to say the name of every man who touches the ball every time and there is a way to build excitement in a subtle way without just screaming when something "important" happens. The English are also much more knowlegable it would seem on the game itself. I noticed when watching online streams of English broadcasts that the halftime commentary is far more in depth and intelligent than the usual Fox Soccer fair that we get. They actually trust their audience a bit.
3 - On an obvious note, "Football" is superior to "Soccer", "Pitch" is superior to "Field", "Physio" is superior to "Trainer", "Lovely bit of skill there" is superior to "AWESOME DRIBBLING SKILLZ DUDE", "Club" is superior to "Team", and "Fit" is superior to "Healthy Enough To Play" (though I will say that calling an attractive woman "fit" is one I've never quite been able to wrap my head around... so prepare for this question if you call a woman "fit" in front of an American: "Yeah, yeah but is she hot though?".. because fit here could mean she has a nice body but you are pointing it out to avoid mentioning that she has the face of a basset hound.
So yeah, we can be annoying, but are there no cultural relativists over there? We mean well.