Pearl Ram Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Just watched the last episode of Portrait Artist of the Year, the female presenter, posh bint, can't remember her name, kept saying yurrs as opposed to years. And the other day, I heard another posh bird saying medsun instead of medicine. Accents/dialects I actuallly like but the hoi polloi with their pronunciation sicken me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stive Pesley Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 5 minutes ago, EastHertsRam said: Just watched the last episode of Portrait Artist of the Year, the female presenter, posh bint, can't remember her name, kept saying yurrs as opposed to years. And the other day, I heard another posh bird saying medsun instead of medicine. Accents/dialects I actuallly like but the hoi polloi with their pronunciation sicken me. People who say onvalope not envelope JoetheRam, DarkFruitsRam7, Pearl Ram and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jono Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 25 minutes ago, StivePesley said: People who say onvalope not envelope Hummmm not a problem for me. It's a French derived word and although unusual these days still perfectly valid. .. We might as well argue about tomato or often or aunt only thing that matters to me is clarity and there is a total lack of it in a lot of newspeak. I'd rather listen to Kate Winslett than anyway but Essex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWC1983 Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 "Soz" and "my bad" Usually straight after each other, followed by a daft smile and shrug of the shoulders. Plus, people at my work, supposedly professionals, in the 25 - 35 age bracket that speak like they are straight from the ghetto, innit, you get me........ jono and Chester40 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 1 hour ago, CWC1983 said: "Soz" and "my bad" Usually straight after each other, followed by a daft smile and shrug of the shoulders. Plus, people at my work, supposedly professionals, in the 25 - 35 age bracket that speak like they are straight from the ghetto, innit, you get me........ yeah, it's sick. I think I did that wrong..... Grimbeard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 The current vogue to start replies to questions with 'so'... I heard some posh historian do it a few weeks ago then everybody on the BBC has started doing it... I know it's now going to spread to management meetings at work now because they will have seen it on breakfast TV and can't help but immediately copy it...... Dimwits StringerBell and Grimbeard 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1of4 Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 2 hours ago, kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong said: The current vogue to start replies to questions with 'so'... I heard some posh historian do it a few weeks ago then everybody on the BBC has started doing it... I know it's now going to spread to management meetings at work now because they will have seen it on breakfast TV and can't help but immediately copy it...... Dimwits So are you saying, so he said so and now all the BBC say so also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sith Happens Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Tradesman...builders, plumbers, roofers etc...ok not all but some. Why do some not seem to care about peoples property? The amount over the years we have had, or those working on neighbouring houses that think nothing of driving over/parking on your lawn, or dumping stuff all over it or your property. Those who think nothing of using your land as a right of way when working on a neighbours house. Then those that need to work inside think nothing of muddy boots on carpets,or not clearing up properly. We had one bloke who did our bathroom, was brilliant, always put them bags over his boots, laid proper covers over all the carpets etc..but most just seem to turn up and not worry how much mess they make. Not always those working on your house, we have gas people in the next street working right now and one seems to think its ok every morning to use my drive every day to pull onto to turn round, including the fact he misses sometimes and drives over the corner of my lawn which is just one big tyre print now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 ^^ I had my drive block-paved recently. Nice job. A week later some bloke came to do some work in the kitchen, parking his Transit or whatever on the paving. I now have sump oil spots on said new paving. Thanks mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Ram Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 http://m.wikihow.com/Clean-Oil-Off-a-Driveway or... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spenno Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Sorry if it's been mentioned but management speak and ridiculous business terms. I have a client at work who refers to businesses in their target market as being in their 'sandbox'. I'm sure it's not intentional but it sounds like they are talking about an old woman's vagina! i-Ram, I know nothing, Wolfie and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StringerBell Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 On 23/03/2017 at 22:52, kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong said: The current vogue to start replies to questions with 'so'... I heard some posh historian do it a few weeks ago then everybody on the BBC has started doing it... I know it's now going to spread to management meetings at work now because they will have seen it on breakfast TV and can't help but immediately copy it...... Dimwits I almost put this up the other day after I noticed someone start a thread with a "Right, so..." for the second time in a few days. Starting a thread like that's even worse. What do you mean 'so?' I always think. 'So' is a coordinating conjunction but that's the first thing you say? We weren't even talking. What does your 'so' reference? This is the first post in the thread! Grrr! So (correct usage) yeah I find it irritating too. Mark Zuckerberg does it all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chester40 Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 On Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 19:39, JoetheRam said: The death of the handshake amongst men. Replaced by some "bro" style high-ish five. My brother in law who is in his 50s insists of touching fists. So awkward!! PS Kane and Dele Alli. .those hand shakes make you look about 10. It's like Tom Hanks in Big! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chester40 Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 When you have a moment of inspiration and write the most erudite, amazingly constructed, intelligent, hilarious post....and not one person likes or comments on it. Later on still sulking you simply post 'Martin had a reasonable game ' and get 10 likes...WTF! DarkFruitsRam7, jono, ramit and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spenno Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 This is quite cathartic. Other peoples kids especially those little psychopaths at soft play centres who spend their whole time terrorising every other child, parents of above said children who seem to be completely oblivious to the way their children are behaving or completely unwilling to do anything about it, soft play centres, people who insist on you vacating their reserved seat on a train despite there being a whole carriage free, the inability of our country to run an efficient public transport system, people who think it's ok to perform illegal manoeuvres or park in a dangerous or completely inappropriate place if they put their hazards on, the over and inappropriate use of the word 'like' particularly from children, American tween TV programmes, MTV why is it still called this despite no music? Adverts particularly those from banks that claim 'to be with you for the journey' yet will rip the roof from above your head, contrived speeches by politicians with deliberate pauses and sound bites, general dumbing down of the population and eggs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1of4 Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 10 minutes ago, Spenno said: general dumbing down of the population and eggs! So is a dumbed down egg like Humpty Dumpty like.? jono and Steve How Hard? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spenno Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 12 minutes ago, 1of4 said: So is a dumbed down egg like Humpty Dumpty like.? So, like, I would say as far as eggs go, like, Humpty was like quite highly functioning (before the fall of course) then he was like totes a complete mess! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramit Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Calling some public office or other and getting a recorded voice who after announcing that i have indeed called them inform me that this phone call may be recorded. i just don't like that, it's a not so veiled threat. If i am calling because of some irritation of mine of their services, i have on occasion let loose a string of profanities, ending with did you get all that? By the time some nice calm voiced assistant takes my call i am all worked up and what was a small matter has now ballooned into the bane of my existence requiring instant resolution. i guess i am not the only one who reacts like that at times for some of the nice assistants have learned a diabolical response to it, the meaner i get, the nicer they are to me, leaving me with no outlet for my rage and soon the conversation is urgently requiring a mumbling apology on my part for being a brute and so deflated i accept wholeheartedly the unacceptable routine office mumbo jumbo explanation from said nice assistant. Buying a movie on CD, slipping it in the player and the first thing i see is Unlawful Distribution Of This Product May Result In Prosecution. i just bought that CD mofo's, it's mine and i'll chuck it out the window if i feel like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coneheadjohn Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 The use of the word c*nt. It's just used too free and easy these days. It should be saved for genuine cases,Saville,terrorists etc. Use it sparingly,it's much more effective. rynny and Animal is a Ram 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostyn6 Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 9 minutes ago, coneheadjohn said: The use of the word c*nt. It's just used too free and easy these days. It should be saved for genuine cases,Saville,terrorists etc. Use it sparingly,it's much more effective. don't be a c.... This is part of my every day vocabulary, in a mockney accent. jono and Coneheadjohn 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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