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Noticed more than ever on last weekend's trip to Blighty that you lot have joined us in Americanaland in that you now do your shopping in a 'store' rather than a 'shop'. Now I was always thought that the store was the dingy room at the back of the shop where they actually, y'know, stored stuff. Or, more precisely, the room where the lad went for a smoke while pretending to check whether they had any spare bogroll. This pretence at looking is annoying, by the way, but it is infinitely better than you asking if they have any spare stock and him, without listening, giving you the lazy-assed automaton reply 'everything we have is on the shelves', which makes you ask him why the fugg they built the huge fugging room out back so with the price of real estate.
What reminded me of all this is that I'm in a doctor's waiting room (knee injury - nothing serious) and as every person comes to the desk and does the 'morning, how are you?' routine their standard answer is 'I'm good'. What?
Are you? Are you 'good'? Are you well-behaved? Morally sound? A beacon of goodness in this bad, bad world? Well, nice to know, I'm sure. But are you well? That, after all, is more pertinent info and would be an appropriate answer to the question while we're at it.
Good! Californian Disney Ar$e-scutter! Away with you!
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Not a problem, in response to any perfectly normal request. How could it IN ANY CONCEIVABLE UNIVERSE be a problem to have a menu in a restaurant or a ticket at a train station?!
Don't know if it's American but it drives me crazy? Aaaaarrggghhhh!
Ahem, sorry, in foul mood today.
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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:12 - Nov 12 with 13813 views
I'm good is more an Australianism than an Americanism, but it is widely used by the Yanks as well as the Brits and the Irish and any other English sorry, American/Aussie English speaking country.
'Awesome' still gets to me. Bugger off and just say big or great!
There aint half been some clever bastards.
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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:19 - Nov 12 with 13787 views
Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:07 - Nov 12 by nix
Not a problem, in response to any perfectly normal request. How could it IN ANY CONCEIVABLE UNIVERSE be a problem to have a menu in a restaurant or a ticket at a train station?!
Don't know if it's American but it drives me crazy? Aaaaarrggghhhh!
Ahem, sorry, in foul mood today.
I'm in a more foul mood than you.
Math.
That really annoys me. So much so that I think we should close the US Embassy and break off all diplomatic ties until further notice. I told you I was in a bad mood.
"Thank you for supporting Queens Park Rangers Steep Staircase"... and I thought I'd signed up for a rollercoaster.
Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:19 - Nov 12 by Mytch_QPR
I'm in a more foul mood than you.
Math.
That really annoys me. So much so that I think we should close the US Embassy and break off all diplomatic ties until further notice. I told you I was in a bad mood.
"Math" horrible word and the one that really gets me, does it save so much time leaving off the "s".
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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:26 - Nov 12 with 13753 views
Least Favourite Americanisms on 08:57 - Nov 12 by TheChef
'Can I get?' instead of 'May I have?'
I hate that too and am completely guilty of it.
F**K!
Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore.
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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:31 - Nov 12 with 13732 views
Without doubt it's "like", as in "He was like ... and I was like..."
Heard a conversation between two girls (women) on the train the other day; one of them was joining a chambers at the Temple as a junior lawyer and if she spoke like that in court I'd imagine the judge sending her down.
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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:36 - Nov 12 with 13705 views
Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:34 - Nov 12 by Michael_Hunt
Without doubt it's "like", as in "He was like ... and I was like..."
Heard a conversation between two girls (women) on the train the other day; one of them was joining a chambers at the Temple as a junior lawyer and if she spoke like that in court I'd imagine the judge sending her down.
That riles me as well.
So does the whole "oh my gosh" and "nah bruv innit" of kids trying to sound like a gangster on their way to school. Although that may just be a chav thing.
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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:36 - Nov 12 with 13701 views
I know almost nothing about the Premier League even though I try to catch the big games every now and then at the end of the season. But I will say this, Queens Park Rangers is just a fukking sick ass team name. Just sounds so cool.
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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:38 - Nov 12 with 13690 views
I turn into a grumbly, crumbly grumpy old bugger when a shop assistant or any waiting staff ask me "Can I help you TODAY". TODAY??.
Unless you have a 'kin time machine, you've missed your chance to do it yesterday, and you might be able to help me tomorrow, but let's leave that until then shall we??
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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:40 - Nov 12 with 13683 views
stop making statements and ending them like they are a question.. originated in california apparently although Aussies are guilty of it too.. it does my fukin head in it really does
The spelling of such words as center or color or any word that has an 's' substituted for a 'zeeeeee' not even a fcuking zaid for Christs sake! I mean, I'm sorry but whose fcuking language is it any way. Bunch of fcuking jerks, sorry I meant to say vvankers. And worst of all the scourge of the ever growing industry of the ambulance chaser. How many times a day do you get a call from someone advising you that you can make a claim against a fast food chain for such things that their products make you fart more. Hate America and I hate their self-righteous imposition on the rest of the world. (I'll probably be hit by a cruise missile in the next few minutes fired from a drone hovering in the middle of the red sea once the CIA have scanned this message and pin-pointed my whereabouts!
Like. I don't think it's even a brain pause anymore, it seems it's actually become part of deliberate conversation. Sentences are structured to include the word.
Can I get
Probably a whole load more too.
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Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:06 - Nov 12 with 13603 views
Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:59 - Nov 12 by Juzzie
Going forward
Reaching out
Awesome
Like. I don't think it's even a brain pause anymore, it seems it's actually become part of deliberate conversation. Sentences are structured to include the word.
Can I get
Probably a whole load more too.
Reaching out can fu ck right off. I have colleagues say things like, “Can you reach out to Dave and see if he can cover the early shift, tomorrow?”. Yesterday, a colleague said he was going to “Reach out to Brian to see if he can turn the heating down”. What a bunch of cu nts — do you mean, “Can you ring/speak with Dave?”. You’re not some Mafia boss calling in a favour from a corrupt Congressman, you fu cking idiots; stop saying it! This is entirely attributable to over exposure to our US offices.
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