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Least Favourite Americanisms 08:55 - Nov 12 with 31177 viewsBrianMcCarthy

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.

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Least Favourite Americanisms on 08:57 - Nov 12 with 14330 viewsTheChef

'Can I get?' instead of 'May I have?'


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Least Favourite Americanisms on 08:59 - Nov 12 with 14324 viewsMrSheen

My bad.
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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:07 - Nov 12 with 14295 viewsnix

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 14266 viewsMonahoop

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 14240 viewsMytch_QPR

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.

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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:24 - Nov 12 with 14224 viewsMetallica_Hoop

Helloween

Don't mind thanksgiving as it is historically linked to the motherland (us) Not that we celebrate it mind.

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EDIT: Halloween even
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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:26 - Nov 12 with 14210 viewsQPR_John

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 14206 viewsMick_S

To deplane. There is just no need - period.

Did I ever mention that I was in Minder?

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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:27 - Nov 12 with 14203 viewsNorthernr

Upcoming.

It's forthcoming you heathens. Sky Sports love a fcking upcoming event or upcoming match. Cnts.
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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:30 - Nov 12 with 14184 viewsBluce_Ree

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!

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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:31 - Nov 12 with 14185 viewsSuffolkHoop

I don't know if its an Americanism but sentences should read,

He or she could/should/would HAVE done whatever.

it is not,

could/should/would OF
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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:31 - Nov 12 with 14185 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Movie.

It's a film, or - if you're Irish like me - a fillum.

Fuggin' movie, my ar$e.

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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:34 - Nov 12 with 14167 viewsMichael_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.
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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:36 - Nov 12 with 14158 viewsSuffolkHoop

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 14154 viewsBushman

At the" top" of the show instead of the begining.

Is thar an Americanism?.....Annoying "Whatever"

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 14143 viewsBrisbaneR

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 14136 viewsLewes_r

Uptalk gets right on my tits..

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

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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:41 - Nov 12 with 14132 viewsMytch_QPR

Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:31 - Nov 12 by BrianMcCarthy

Movie.

It's a film, or - if you're Irish like me - a fillum.

Fuggin' movie, my ar$e.


That blasphemous fillum????

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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:41 - Nov 12 with 14129 views2Thomas2Bowles

outage WTF

When willl this CV nightmare end
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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:50 - Nov 12 with 14109 viewsLythamR

"can i get" already mentioned but really winds me up

When I retire i think i would like to get a part time job working a shop counter so i can be like the "Soup Nazi" from Seinfeld

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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:55 - Nov 12 with 14087 viewsBasingstokeR

"Waiting on" in place of "Waiting for"

e.g. "I'm waiting on the train to arrive"
or "I'm waiting on you to send me that report"
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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:59 - Nov 12 with 14075 viewsDWQPR

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!

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Least Favourite Americanisms on 09:59 - Nov 12 with 14076 viewsJuzzie

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.
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Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:06 - Nov 12 with 14056 viewsTheBlob

"Look at the warheads on that cellist"

Most uncouth.

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Least Favourite Americanisms on 10:10 - Nov 12 with 14035 viewsKonk

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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