D6130
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....not to mention 'I was like....' meaning 'I said....'.
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Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you
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You're on a bus and the traffic lights always seem to give priority to those roads with no bus routes.
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"I would like to complain about people who hold things up by complaining about people complaining. It's about time something was done about it!"
(massive weight drops)
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"I would like to complain about people who hold things up by complaining about people complaining. It's about time something was done about it!"
(massive weight drops)
It's all about cash. Usually, the actual vehicle shown is LHD and cruising around in places more scenically impressive than the M25 or North Circular. Often the images are reversed to make them appear RHD.
Strat-tastic
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Does that mean you wish to keep it?Noooooo!
*waves arms about in yoof culture kinda way (like)*
Gloster
Veteran Member
Another small one, but one that has, for obvious reasons, become quite common over recent days: the misspelling of Arctic as Artic. Artic Circle sounds like an HGV doing doughnuts. It is as irritating as the frequent spelling of Attlee with one ’T’.
I was just now listening to the news and someone was pronouncing the word this way as well.
Purple Train
Established Member
Or "Kier" Starmer.
Indeed - indifference to incorrect spelling and punctuation overall. Yes - people make mistakes (and there is no shame in that) - but when spotted they should be corrected.
Lewisham2221
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The term "content creator". It's awful, it makes me cringe when I see/hear the term used. Have some pride in whatever it is you do. Call yourself a travel vlogger or fashion podcaster or something. "Content creator" tells me nothing - are you a teenager recording (not even slightly)"hilarious" pranks, an "adult entertainer", a make-up artist, sharing travel tips, discussing politics? Tell me!
Falcon1200
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Price labels attached to things which may be given as gifts; Not sure my fingernails will ever recover.
In a similar vein to this -- stickers on books which tell you that the story is "Coming soon to Netflix" or similar, and which are a pain in the proverbial to remove. I'd also add (though it's not something which really irritates me that much, but it does niggle) price stickers on charity-shop books which are stuck on to the book and then have the price written on with a Biro or similar, thereby leaving an imprint of the price on the book cover. I get that it's a convenient way to do it though, so it doesn't annoy me all that much really.
-Peter
Worse is when someone refers to a world-class artist (e.g. painter, playwright, composer, author) as a "content creator". It demeans the specific seriousness of what those people do and lumps them together with the kinds of people you mention...
(I've nothing against travel vloggers, but they are not the same category of person as the late Tom Stoppard!)
People who have a lack of knowledge about basic geography. We sometimes laugh at the American stereotype of poor geography knowledge, but we don’t seem that much better.
I knew someone once who came from Hertfordshire, and they were convinced it was south of London.
I told someone I was going to Belgium for a holiday, and they claimed to have never heard of it. How can you not hear of a country that’s less than 100 miles away from Kent?
Maybe the best one I’ve heard is someone thinking the Isle of Wight is abroad.
I realise we can’t be experts on everything, but knowing basic local geography is surely as important as knowing how to read and write?
I knew someone once who came from Hertfordshire, and they were convinced it was south of London.
I told someone I was going to Belgium for a holiday, and they claimed to have never heard of it. How can you not hear of a country that’s less than 100 miles away from Kent?
Maybe the best one I’ve heard is someone thinking the Isle of Wight is abroad.
I realise we can’t be experts on everything, but knowing basic local geography is surely as important as knowing how to read and write?
To be fair we are much better. Yes there are people in this country that don’t know some basic geography, but I bet that a good majority would be able to identify a map of Africa, or Australia, or know that Delhi was in India. In my experience the opposite would be true in the US.
Gloster
Veteran Member
They, our transatlantic cousins, also seem to have little knowledge of their own country. A friend combined his honeymoon with a business trip to the US. They encountered a local in Georgia (*) who was most amused that my friend’s Italian wife came from a town named after his hometown: Rome.
My newsfeed frequently trawls a selection of idiot comments from the Internet, mostly, although not all, from the US. The answers show a complete lack of European geography, up to believing that Europe is one country. A lack of understanding that US law, currency, etc. are not the norm in Europe or elsewhere. Complete failure to understand that there are languages other than US English. All too often any correction is met with a belligerent attitude that the responder is wrong because they aren’t American: ‘If ah say that Spanish people come from South America, ah‘m right’. (Genuine example.)
* - That there is also a country called Georgia completely bamboozles some of them.
It does explain how they can be so gullible when choosing their own leaders.
My newsfeed frequently trawls a selection of idiot comments from the Internet, mostly, although not all, from the US. The answers show a complete lack of European geography, up to believing that Europe is one country. A lack of understanding that US law, currency, etc. are not the norm in Europe or elsewhere. Complete failure to understand that there are languages other than US English. All too often any correction is met with a belligerent attitude that the responder is wrong because they aren’t American: ‘If ah say that Spanish people come from South America, ah‘m right’. (Genuine example.)
* - That there is also a country called Georgia completely bamboozles some of them.
It does explain how they can be so gullible when choosing their own leaders.
Some examples I or my close relatives have experienced personally with US citizens
1) when saying that yes, we were from England, being asked if we had driven there (we had a hire car)
2) having an argument about the price of petrol (had to say gas so they understood) as they were convinced it was cheaper in the UK when they visited. They didn’t understand the concept of pricing in litres, but did think that their hire car fuel tank, and fuel consumption, was very much higher than in the US. Roughly 3.8 times higher, oddly enough.
3) same couple who thought everything was cheap when they visited the UK. On probing, it turns out they didn’t understand the concept of exchange rates that were not 1:1 with the US$
4) I was asked where I was from. “York”. “no way, I’m from just across the Hudson in Joisey” (Jersey, ie New Jersey). No, I said, York. As in the original York. In England. What New York is named after. (Blank face).
5) being asked if “you speak English in England”
I have many more examples.
DM352
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Related to the prior transatlantic comments, when each model of a vehicle in North America grows each year or two, and the same manufacturers stop making some smaller models or make the small vehicle model range more limited with options.
Is the case seen first hand here in Canada when recent car shopping. I still drive a smaller vehicle which is not too expensive to fill (in litres!) and is crazy when a truck in front vacates the petrol pump and it had cost them $200+ to fill.
Is the case seen first hand here in Canada when recent car shopping. I still drive a smaller vehicle which is not too expensive to fill (in litres!) and is crazy when a truck in front vacates the petrol pump and it had cost them $200+ to fill.
pokemonsuper9
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Disagree, it's the best font.
Sure, let's abolish all font choice, courier should be universally mandated everywhere.
Purple Train
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Also disagree. Quite a few of my favourite schoolteachers used Comic Sans in their slides, such that now, use of Comic Sans makes me more predisposed to like someone!
That being said, nothing can beat Microsoft Sans Serif (except possibly Rail Alphabet, or Johnston).
I understand the hatred of Comic Sans. If ever I see it anywhere, it instantly transports me back to school, with garish colours, tatty displays, mouldy changing rooms, smelly disgusting lunch food, and being bullied pretty much throughout my school life. All that from just seeing a font 
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My friend is a teacher and his school has banned the use of comic sans on displays because the head teacher hates it so much
.My friend is a teacher and his school has banned the use of comic sans on displays because the head teacher hates it so much
Strat-tastic
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According to a podcast I was listening to last night (Words Unravelled) with a couple of pretty good etymologists, New York was named after the Duke of York.
Of course, the Duke of York was named after the city, so I'm not disagreeing with your statement. I just thought it was in interesting aside.
Might be time to consider renaming New York to disassociate
Gloster
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Might be time to consider renaming New York to disassociate
Don’t suggest that: he will want to call it Trumpton.
D6130
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Vance, Miller, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Thug!
Gloster
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People who reckon that seeing a TV drama made in another country gives them the knowledge needed to pontificate on all manner of things related to that country. Yes, you did see a couple of episodes of The Bridge, but that doesn’t mean that you are are able to discuss Denmark’s relationship with Greenland. Nor does a series of Wallander, which isn’t even set in Denmark.
Or even watching a BBC News summary of what's going on in another country. Most of us have no clue what's really going on in Iran or even Minneapolis in any depth