TheScarf Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 ‘Cregslist’ fuck off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 On 15/07/2022 at 08:39, FK1Bairn said: Also, bus stops at roundabouts. Means big queues as there's usually traffic islands so nobody can pass I give you the magnificence that is the St Machar Rd/King St roundabout in Aberdeen. The roundabout has four exits, and each one has a pedestrian crossing within a cars length of the exit, and two have a bus stop within a bus length of the crossing. Throw in some shops with parking and timed bus lanes that no-one seems able to understand they can use when it not peak time, and two of the exits going from two lanes to one almost immediately and you have almost the complete bingo card of road planning stupidity in one spot. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 8 hours ago, BFTD said: I could care less. Oh god, absolutely that one. And how about 'momentarily', as in "He'll be here momentarily." That means 'for a very brief time', not 'very soon'. And when you table something at a meeting, it means to put it on the table for discussion, not the exact opposite. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 16 hours ago, philpy said: Despite it being warm as f**k, we are not allowed to wear shorts at work in the yard/warehouse areas for "health and safety reasons". Slap on one of the missus' skirts. Has anyone mentioned Graham - or "Gram" - yet? The Americans are a big fan of his crackers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Oh, another thing that makes me wish the entire continental USA would just sink into the ocean - the number of times one of their sentences contains an entirely superfluous "of". Example I saw on Twitter yesterday - "I made ramen noodles inside of a washing machine". Sentence works perfectly well without the "of" you thick, uneducated colonial fuckwit. And yes, I know Scots are guilty of this too, e.g. "Eh got bitten aff of a dug", but educated Scots tend not to do it, whereas I see it all the time with Yanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 2 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said: Oh, another thing that makes me wish the entire continental USA would just sink into the ocean - the number of times one of their sentences contains an entirely superfluous "of". Example I saw on Twitter yesterday - "I made ramen noodles inside of a washing machine". Sentence works perfectly well without the "of" you thick, uneducated colonial fuckwit. And yes, I know Scots are guilty of this too, e.g. "Eh got bitten aff of a dug", but educated Scots tend not to do it, whereas I see it all the time with Yanks. I do this exclusively for people or things off of the telly usually for a mildly comedic effect. I admire your commitment to pedantry that it was a superfluous word that irritated you about that tweet, and not the attention seeking cuntery behind the content. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 8 minutes ago, coprolite said: I do this exclusively for people or things off of the telly usually for a mildly comedic effect. I admire your commitment to pedantry that it was a superfluous word that irritated you about that tweet, and not the attention seeking cuntery behind the content. It's somewhere South of mildly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Actually, if "Americans" can be considered a petty thing, then "Americans". They get on my fucking nerves. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 1 hour ago, coprolite said: "I made ramen noodles inside of a washing machine". Sentence works perfectly well without the "of" you thick, uneducated colonial fuckwit That's another pet hate of mine. 'Of' only works if the sentence includes a 'the' - i.e. The inside of a coal mine is very dark. Not 'Inside of a coal mine'. And their inability to use the word 'here' without a prefix of 'right'. Especially when they're a bit vague about the place they mean and say "right about here" which is fucking meaningless. "It's in this exact spot, more or less." And tacking the word 'already' onto any instruction they give somebody. "Turn that music down already!" If they've already done it you don't have to tell them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 31 minutes ago, GordonD said: That's another pet hate of mine. 'Of' only works if the sentence includes a 'the' - i.e. The inside of a coal mine is very dark. Not 'Inside of a coal mine'. And their inability to use the word 'here' without a prefix of 'right'. Especially when they're a bit vague about the place they mean and say "right about here" which is fucking meaningless. "It's in this exact spot, more or less." And tacking the word 'already' onto any instruction they give somebody. "Turn that music down already!" If they've already done it you don't have to tell them. Still nobody else annoyed at them putting noodles in the washing machine then 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curmudgeon Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Two Americanisms in the sentence " An intruder was shot to death while a house a being burglarized." It's a bizarre way of putting things. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 I'll be honest, english people annoy me more than the yanks at times. "I went to asdar and brought a carton of ribenar" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 22 minutes ago, philpy said: I'll be honest, english people annoy me more than the yanks at times. "I went to asdar and brought a carton of ribenar" Did you see that cooking programme called Pizzarandpastarwithjessicarennishill? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 10 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkay said: Did you see that cooking programme called Pizzarandpastarwithjessicarennishill? And NicolarAdams 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Americanisms: "I guess" somehow means "I agree, but a bit reluctantly". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Enough already with the Americanisms eh? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Yeah, you're not getting a full-time permanent job if your cover letter begins "I am a digital nomad." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 58 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkay said: Enough already with the Americanisms eh? You want we should stop the Americanisms? Geddoudahere! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 54 minutes ago, DiegoDiego said: Yeah, you're not getting a full-time permanent job if your cover letter begins "I am a digital nomad." I take it he lost his house because he bought NFT. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Was in a meeting today where the guy kept saying "Vi sah ver sah" and it got me raging. He kept talking and I seen his mouth moving but I was just zoned out staring at him thinking "Say Miami Vice". 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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