Beduth 202 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 Affer; I'm really like fed up with it like too like! And a nuver fing, my old English master Mr. Arthur Footsache said English should allus start wive a capital E. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smiffy49 590 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 Train Station as opposed to Railway Station. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 bring back hanging for misplaced apostrophe's (but give them a damn good birching first!!! Erm ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 Have you noticed that bargains in your local shops are now 'Better than half price?'....Whatever happened to 'Less than half price?' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 #2 Mrs TBI has has recently adopted the upspeak tendency. I'm pondering on the best way to draw it to her attention. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 I'm glad to say I don't know what 'upspeak' means. (It's OK, I'm quite happy not knowing). 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 OH NO TBI, that must be awful, merthyr if you don't know,............you could have it!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 Why are we becoming a nation of morons! Bring back hanging for misplaced apostrophe's (but give them a damn good birching first!!! In Loughborough we have a Bernados NOT a Bernado's Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 Yes, the same with Barnardo's too. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 Passengers sat on a bus / sat in the pub / sat in the park or for that matter sat any bleddy where FIDDLING WITH THEIR BLEDDY PHONES GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 It's not that gets me worked up but the idiots playing with their mobile devices while they are walking & not looking where they are going Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crankypig 457 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 Potatoes that have been washed and put in plastic bags while still wet,have to take them out and dry them or they rot very quickly. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 Been on a bus trip lately? people who stand talking in the aisle whilst others queue to get on. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 What pees me off you've just watered yer flowers and it bleddy rains. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 #127 even when it's -10 centigrade ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 What pees me off you've just watered yer flowers and it bleddy rains. Easier if cleaned your car then? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 Bleddy Weather Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 What pees me off you've just watered yer flowers and it bleddy rains. I usually get my wife to sing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 can yer let me know when bubblewrap it'll save water. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 It only works locally But I could always send you a recording. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arthur-Robin 15 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 Water fluoridation.Sugar and salt in otherwise good food (ingredients lists in order of amount).Sprayed food (even "organics" spray apparently).Smart meters being subtly forced on us.Phone books removed from phone boxes (and sounds like phone boxes been removed in UK too [because of vandals?]).Raised reflector studs in middle & side of roads.Day light savings.Noisy neighbours (stereos, souped up cars, etc).Can't get normal woolen longjohns here in NZ (can in UK) only merino or poly....Too baggy legs trousers (new / in shops).People making noise in libraries.Windows 7/8 (too many distractions, etc).Churches all having same block of singing followed by block of sermon format.Scammers and spammers.(Thats just a few minor/major off top of my head.)-----To be fair re ignorance of English some of us haven't had a very good upbringing/education etc. "Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression." ~ Bronson Alcott. "Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays." ~ George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872."I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way." ~ Mark Twain. "When I split an infinitive, god damn it, I split it so it stays split." ~Raymond Chandler "Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world." ~ Henry Louis Mencken, The American Language. "Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason." ~Richard C. Trench "This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put."~ Attributed to Winston Churchill, rejecting the rule against ending a sentence with a preposition, c.1948, may instead have been said by an anonymous official (*) "Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!" ~Owens Lee Pomeroy(All in good humour/balance/fairness no offense meant.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 People who moan about every single thing. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Probably said it before, litter droppers, fly tippers, inconsiderate smokers, inconsiderate pet owners the list goes on ! Oh my latest is the "Nanny governments or states" in our case that have to protect you from yourselves, with ridiculous new rules and regullations, whatever happened to common sense. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arthur-Robin 15 Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 People who don't care and/or are judgmental.(Esp people who have/had it all (partner/married, etc) judging or not caring about people who are worse-off (single/alone, etc).) ---- (it is true that governments have too many rules/laws against us, but there are some things in libertarianism that peeve me.) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Good grief, what a start to the day. I'm glad it's not just me. ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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