Stupid little things that bug you

DiscoSteve said:
This gets my goat as well, the number of f**king half wits who simply cannot pronounce the letters 'TH' in words is off the scale - seems to be some 'urban sh@te' that they love on BBC1 as well as Radio 1 and 2.
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It was always something taught from a very early age so I have no idea why so many don’t pronounce the TH.
 
Cockneys.
I've just had a nice week away, but why is it that you can hear one of the fuckers drowning out everybody's conversations, three tables away.
And dont get me started on their pronunciations
Meeeeeeeeshew (Michelle)
Diiiiiiiiiiianne (Diane)
Thannnn Kyou (Thank you)


Tossers
 
The fact that those same disruptive little shites who ruined everything for others (in my day) are now simply ADHD-sufferers, for whom we should all make allowances.

Worse are the crappy parents - never at fault at all, of course - who hide behind this. Give it a set of initials, and that's fine - nothing to do with us.

I remember an old client complaining that 'our Ryan's been diagnosed with ADHD, so the school will have to deal with it now', as though it completely absolved him of any responsibilities.

Usually, I'd just nod and tell myself that his money was as good as anybody else's, but just the day before my 7-y-o daughter had been cut on her forehead by a pair of scissors thrown by one of these little c@nts, because her teacher was a designated 'special needs' teacher and every time one of them played up, they were sent to join her class, by definition already hyped-up. Ridiculous policy.

I told him what I thought and that he should find another IT support company, because it riled me so much, with the memory of that phone call informing us of what had happened to my little girl still raw. Not very professional, but at least I didn't thump him - because I don't have ADHD, so it would have been my fault.
 
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Stood behind a woman at a cash machine where you pay in as well as take out.

She pushed all the relevant buttons, but seemed amazed when the machine told her to pay her notes in. It was as if this was a totally unexpected order, like it asking you to take your shoes off. The said notes had then to be extracted from some obscure crevice in her bag, and it took what seemed like ages. Then she had to re-sort the notes to get them all in one direction, as the machine requires.

Call me Mr Efficiency of 2025, but when I pay in, I have the notes in my hand ready before I push the first button.
 
noseve said:
Many years ago, we moved my 8-y-o daughter to a tiny private school, from classes of 30-odd to classes of 8 or 9.
First open evening, one of the teachers - as British as you like - pronounced the letter 'Z' as 'Zeee'.
I asked her to repeat herself, because I couldn't believe it, and there it was again - 'Zeee'.
We stood up, took her home and she never went back.
£1250 per term (which was a real struggle) and the English teacher couldn't speak fucking English!
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Zee rain in Spain
falls mainly on zee plain, gringo.....
 
DiscoSteve said:
This gets my goat as well, the number of f**king half wits who simply cannot pronounce the letters 'TH' in words is off the scale - seems to be some 'urban sh@te' that they love on BBC1 as well as Radio 1 and 2.
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Ditto "ing" at the end of words, instead using 'estuary' in'
There's one prominent hard line Tory minister, sacked numerous times for crimes to English.... (oh, and mysterious off record meetings with notorious genocidal governments while on "holiday")...who never uses the g. Thinkin', Goin', walkin' deportin' travellin' briefin' plottin' helpin'
Hence her nick name Priti (vacant) Patel
 
philfodenswristsock said:
Ditto "ing" at the end of words, instead using 'estuary' in'
There's one prominent hard line Tory minister, sacked numerous times for crimes to English.... (oh, and mysterious off record meetings with notorious genocidal governments while on "holiday")...who never uses the g. Thinkin', Goin', walkin' deportin' travellin' briefin' plottin' helpin'
Hence her nick name Priti (vacant) Patel
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And far too many who have completely lost the ability to pronounce the T sound in the middle of words
 
KS55 said:
Sadly, the OED now allows ‘should of’ etc through usage.
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That's terrible - and every time they do this it means that there's no longer any way to reinforce your argument when trying to teach your children/grandchildren the correct way to speak.


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Also, and this one doesn't annoy me, but it always registers and is increasingly heard, even from those who should know better:

Something like
"We can't underestimate the importance of what just happened", when what they mean is "we shouldn't underestimate... etc" or "we can't afford to... " or even "we can't overestimate ..."

They're actually saying the polar opposite of what they mean :-/
 
noseve said:
That's terrible - and every time they do this it means that there's no longer any way to reinforce your argument when trying to teach your children/grandchildren the correct way to speak.


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Also, and this one doesn't annoy me, but it always registers and is increasingly heard, even from those who should know better:

Something like
"We can't underestimate the importance of what just happened", when what they mean is "we shouldn't underestimate... etc" or "we can't afford to... " or even "we can't overestimate ..."

They're actually saying the polar opposite of what they mean :-/
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‘Underestimate’ almost always used incorrectly.
 
noseve said:
That's terrible - and every time they do this it means that there's no longer any way to reinforce your argument when trying to teach your children/grandchildren the correct way to speak.


******
Also, and this one doesn't annoy me, but it always registers and is increasingly heard, even from those who should know better:

Something like
"We can't underestimate the importance of what just happened", when what they mean is "we shouldn't underestimate... etc" or "we can't afford to... " or even "we can't overestimate ..."

They're actually saying the polar opposite of what they mean :-/
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This can't be overstated..... .
haha.
 
Things being put "into perspective", when some tragic event occurs. It really doesn't, so kindly stop saying it.
 
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KS55 said:
Sadly, the OED now allows ‘should of’ etc through usage.
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I accept that our language changes over time, we would be hard pressed to have a conversation with Geoffrey Chaucer. Bad enough (to me anyway) to hear wudda', shudda', cudda' spoken, but now it's appearing in written form as well and, I dare say, in time, will also appear in the OED.
Apparently, it known as connected speech or fast English
 
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