Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...

[peasy23]

There is only one card number. The number on the back isn't your card number.

It can be, my latest card doesn't have any numbers on the front.

[DiegoDiego]

It can be, my latest card doesn't have any numbers on the front.

Fair point. There's still only one card number though.

[Silvio Tattiescone]

30 minutes ago, BFTD said:

"Hi-oon-dae" must be what they decided to use when the internal combustion engine makes it to Fife.

I look forward to the new Hyundai Shahoorsir 

Edited October 6, 2022 by Newbornbairn

[hearthammer]

27 minutes ago, Newbornbairn said:

I look forward to the new Hyundai Shahoorsir 

That'll be the estate version of the slightly smaller Hyundai Caant.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Hillonearth said:

That was one that crossed my mind - after spending years happily pronouncing it as "Hi-oon-die" it's apparently now "Yoon-day".

Conversely, Volvo seem to have shelved their attempt to get people to pronounce their brand (which isn't even a Swedish word anyway...it comes from Latin) as something biscuit-arsed along the lines of "Woolwah."

 

Nowhere near as bad as "PorschA"

Edited October 6, 2022 by Empty It

[Hauzen]

Motorcycle Emptiness played on Absolute Radio earlier today, I think it's an incredibly petty thing but it really annoys me that they seem to have a radio edit of the song to shorten it for broadcast, but they have removed two full lines from the song but left in the one with the sweary word - it is sung in enough of a Welsh accent that means you probably can't make it out if you didn't know what it was meant to be..

Lines in italics are the ones dropped from the radio edit, it would surely make more sense to drop the first two as at least it would rhyme..

"Drive away and it's the same

Everywhere death row, everyone's a victim

Your joys are counterfeit

This happiness corrupt political sh*t"

['WellDel]

5 hours ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:

Welcome to Kinucher.

Those mad Fifers. Had an occasion years ago where an accident had closed off a road in the Lochgelly/Lochore area and a policeman was at the closure point advising folk of an alternate route around it. Still fairly certain to this day that he was speaking an entirely different language.

[buchan30]

Welcome to Kinucher.

I was on a flight from vegas to new york and we ended up in a holding pattern when the yank next to me chose that point to ask where i was from. I told him I was from Scotland (of course, he had played golf at St. Andrews) and Kirkcaldy specifically. Queue a very tedious back and forth with him asking if i was from Kilconquhar and me trying to explain, no Kirkcaldy. Before i gave up and just said yes to him.

[tamthebam]

6 hours ago, welshbairn said:

Leachkin in Inverness being pronounced "Larkin". If they want Gaelic pronunciation why don't they just use the Gaelic name, An Leacainn?

"First slum of Europe,

A role it won't be hard to win,

With a cast of crooks and tarts"

[welshbairn]

46 minutes ago, tamthebam said:

"First slum of Europe,

A role it won't be hard to win,

With a cast of crooks and tarts"

"Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.”

 

[johnnydun]

14 hours ago, Hillonearth said:

Conversely, Volvo seem to have shelved their attempt to get people to pronounce their brand (which isn't even a Swedish word anyway...it comes from Latin) as something biscuit-arsed along the lines of "Woolwah."

This reminded me of an old joke...

Why does Edward Woodward have so many D's in his name?

Spoiler

Because if he didn't, he would be called Ewar Woowar.

 

[Hedgecutter]

20 hours ago, pozbaird said:

In this vein, it gets on my tits the way that the big Swedish furniture store ‘Eye-Kia’ is now apparently ‘Ikk-e-ah’. Just literally seen an advert on TV for the car company ‘Skoda’. Now seemingly ‘Shhh-koda’.

That’s bad enough, but don’t get me started on the kunts who live in the village Culross. Apparently calling it Culross is a hanging offence. It’s ‘Coo-ris’. Why has it got a fcuking ‘L’ in it then, cuntos.

You should go for a walk to calm down.  I certainly would.

Anyway, the German girl I work with gets pissed off with folk here pronouncing Lidl as liddle, rather than leedle as it is in Germany.

Thing is, the Lidl adverts here say liddle on it, maybe simply because "leedle on price" doesn't work and the marketing team are bereft of other ideas.  Such selling-out just riles her even more.

 

Eta: I can be a bit of a pronunciation nazi when it comes to place names.  Moh-ray Firth is probably the one that gets on my tits the most, but central belters on TV saying mal-ay-g rather than mall-ig (when saying Mallaig) is a close second.

There are a few oil fields that were clearly named by folk in London reading mountains / place names off a map, and things like Foyne-aven rather than Foy-na-vin (for Foinaven) are annoyingly too well engrained.  Plenty of other things like this ending up in lectures etc, and I'm guilty of shoehorning in terms just to say them properly.  Nothing petty about ignorance.  

Edited October 7, 2022 by Hedgecutter

[vikingTON]

20 hours ago, pozbaird said:

In this vein, it gets on my tits the way that the big Swedish furniture store ‘Eye-Kia’ is now apparently ‘Ikk-e-ah’. Just literally seen an advert on TV for the car company ‘Skoda’. Now seemingly ‘Shhh-koda’.

It was always Shko-da because that's how its actual name - Škoda - is pronounced. That the gammons who have contributed so much to Benidorm's cultural diversity weren't able to grasp that at the time is irrelevant. 

Fun fact: The word 'škoda' means pity or shame, as in when something unfortunate happens to you. Like buying any of their cars from the 1990s. 

Edited October 7, 2022 by vikingTON

[scottsdad]

1 hour ago, virginton said:

It was always Shko-da because that's how its actual name - Škoda - is pronounced. That the gammons who have contributed so much to Benidorm's cultural diversity weren't able to grasp that at the time is irrelevant. 

Fun fact: The word 'škoda' means pity or shame, as in when something unfortunate happens to you. Like buying any of their cars from the 1990s. 

I learned to drive in 1997, and was on the look out for a car. My mum came in one day and told me she had found the perfect car for me at a garage in Stirling. Low mileage, no rust, good condition, low price, etc.

She was really excited by this find. We went through to look at it, and arrived at the garage. Mum didn't actually say "Ta-da!" when we got there but just about.

It was a brown Skoda. Not just any brown. What my dad (who came for a look as well) termed "Shit brown". Just a jobby on wheels. Mum and the sales guy were really getting enthusiastic about this car for me. Dad and I exchanged glances but didn't want to burst her bubble. We both knew that we were looking not only at a shite car, but my life as an 18 year old would be at an end if I got this. No girls would ever go out with me if I rode around in this. Bullies at school and university would batter me senseless and it would be well deserved.

We managed to escape with a "we'll have a look at one or two more, but this is the front runner" line. The next week I bought a Vauxhall Nova that lasted 9 months.

Looking online, this is the closest approximation I can find to the car. Imagine this, but a darker brown.

[Stellaboz]

My dad had a jobby Skoda Favorit at one point. Utterly stinking car, couldn't cringe hard enough anytime I was driven in it. 

This was after an old Triumph Acclaim and was eventually byxthe same model but bottle green.

That ended up replaced by a tiny Perodua that could have been sold as a clown car. Utterly horrendous. 

 

Now that I'm 36 and driving a Dacia Duster, I'm not sure if I've fallen into the same trap. Great car though. 

[Bairnardo]

My dad had a jobby Skoda Favorit at one point. Utterly stinking car, couldn't cringe hard enough anytime I was driven in it. 
This was after an old Triumph Acclaim and was eventually byxthe same model but bottle green.
That ended up replaced by a tiny Perodua that could have been sold as a clown car. Utterly horrendous. 
 
Now that I'm 36 and driving a Dacia Duster, I'm not sure if I've fallen into the same trap. Great car though. 

I'm 100% sure, as regards the trap.

[scottsdad]

16 minutes ago, Stellaboz said:

My dad had a jobby Skoda Favorit at one point. Utterly stinking car, couldn't cringe hard enough anytime I was driven in it. 

This was after an old Triumph Acclaim and was eventually byxthe same model but bottle green.

That ended up replaced by a tiny Perodua that could have been sold as a clown car. Utterly horrendous. 

 

Now that I'm 36 and driving a Dacia Duster, I'm not sure if I've fallen into the same trap. Great car though. 

I, too, drive a Duster. great car. Had it 4 years, no breakdowns, no repairs needed, nothing.

[Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo]

I have a duster. It's like a jacket only it's longer, thicker, and far more bad ass.

[pozbaird]

3 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

You should go for a walk to calm down.  I certainly would.

Anyway, the German girl I work with gets pissed off with folk here pronouncing Lidl as liddle, rather than leedle as it is in Germany.

Thing is, the Lidl adverts here say liddle on it, maybe simply because "leedle on price" doesn't work and the marketing team are bereft of other ideas.  Such selling-out just riles her even more.

 

Eta: I can be a bit of a pronunciation nazi when it comes to place names.  Moh-ray Firth is probably the one that gets on my tits the most, but central belters on TV saying mal-ay-g rather than mall-ig (when saying Mallaig) is a close second.

There are a few oil fields that were clearly named by folk in London reading mountains / place names off a map, and things like Foyne-aven rather than Foy-na-vin (for Foinaven) are annoyingly too well engrained.  Plenty of other things like this ending up in lectures etc, and I'm guilty of shoehorning in terms just to say them properly.  Nothing petty about ignorance.  

I went for a walk. Went to Cam-ell-on near Falkirk. Apparently it’s Came-ell-on.

Should have went somewhere else.

[TheScarf]

The classic up here is Avoch which is pronounced 'Och'.  Nigels pronouncing it 'Ae-vok' is amusing.