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geofflambert -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/11/2015 2:47:50 PM)
Here's a little one. I was just watching "Saving Private Ryan" for the umpteenth time, what a masterpiece. After the commercials we get a warning "This feature contains strong language yada yada yada. Viewer discretion is advised." What is everything else? Weak language?

Chickenboy -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/11/2015 3:11:24 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: geofflambert Weak language? I dunno. What do you think? Oooh....I don't have an opinion and certainly don't want to offend. I've also got diverticulitis! How's that? [;)]

witpqs -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/11/2015 3:24:02 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: m10bob quote: ORIGINAL: wdolson I cringe when people say "warsh". My mother was a grammar nazi. I have a friend who says as a teen he transported untaxed alcoholic beverages in Alabama. He had a 50s Chevy with the back seat replaced with a tank and an emergency dump valve. He could dump the entire load on the road at any time. One time he got chased and the local sheriff ended up stranded in the middle of a corn field with the owner of the corn field standing over him with a shotgun. After that the local judge gave him the choice of jail or the military. He was sure his uncle owned that judge, and wondered what was going on. Later he learned his mother had a discussion with the uncle and convinced him to get out of the transport business. This was the early 60s. He was still in the Air Force when Vietnam got going and ended up in theater. He was technically a non-combatant, but got three purple hearts in six weeks. After the third one, he took an opportunity to get out and do something more laid back. Bill +1...Oh yeah.....I cringe when I listen to sports figures being interviewed who cannot speak English. Supposed to have been to college and use the word "warsh"...."axe"(instead of ask)....the phrase "you know" as a sentence filler every 5th word.....etc.. Pet peeves...Oh...I think we are just getting started......[X(] Many years ago at work someone in the sales dept got promoted. I heard a couple of the people who reported to him joking about who was going to tell him he had to stop saying 'yous guys'. [:D]

geofflambert -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/11/2015 3:38:35 PM)
Yeah, I just looked up Argleton again. [:D] "NYC" I guess. Did his sales pitch go "I have an offer for you you can't refuse". I had a boss once from there who talked like that. He was a hothead. I think he was an in-law to the owner. He didn't last very long anyway, and I went back to answering to the president or sometimes the owner.

witpqs -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/11/2015 3:42:04 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: geofflambert Yeah, I just looked up Argleton again. [:D] "NYC" I guess. Did his sales pitch go "I have an offer for you you can't refuse". I had a boss once from there who talked like that. He was a hothead. I think he was an in-law to the owner. He didn't last very long anyway, and I went back to answering to the president or sometimes the owner. It was Boston. Being an in-law to the owner might be why they were able to fire your boss. If he was an out-law to the owner they might not have risked it.

geofflambert -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/11/2015 3:44:09 PM)
I remember cracking up the owner once. We were an electrical and plumbing wholesaler and I was in charge of the plumbing part and inventory control on all of it. He came into my office and asked me "What's the difference between a round front toilet and an elongated toilet?" I said "Well if your peter touches the edge of the seat it's a round front, if not it's elongated." He was laughing so hard everybody in the place wanted to know what happened.

geofflambert -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/11/2015 3:47:43 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: witpqs quote: ORIGINAL: geofflambert Yeah, I just looked up Argleton again. [:D] "NYC" I guess. Did his sales pitch go "I have an offer for you you can't refuse". I had a boss once from there who talked like that. He was a hothead. I think he was an in-law to the owner. He didn't last very long anyway, and I went back to answering to the president or sometimes the owner. It was Boston. Being an in-law to the owner might be why they were able to fire your boss. If he was an out-law to the owner they might not have risked it. That's Baaaston.

geofflambert -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/11/2015 3:53:54 PM)
"We all breathe the same aayah..." JFK also "nucular". Also "Ich bin ein Berliner" which actually means "I am a jelly doughnut". [:D] They knew what he meant. He should've said "Ich bin von Berlin" or something like that. Good thing he wasn't in Wien. "Ich bin ein Wiener" wouldn't have gone over the same. [:D]

wdolson -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/11/2015 10:49:33 PM)
He got points for trying to speak another language during a major speech. Also a good thing he didn't make any reference to a Heishund. My German teacher in high school was a WW II vet. He said after the war an American was running around the shops asking for a Heishund and everyone was wondering what he wanted with a dog in heat. Bill

m10bob -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/12/2015 5:21:09 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: wdolson He got points for trying to speak another language during a major speech. Also a good thing he didn't make any reference to a Heishund. My German teacher in high school was a WW II vet. He said after the war an American was running around the shops asking for a Heishund and everyone was wondering what he wanted with a dog in heat. Bill My 2nd permanent party was in Frankfurt am Main...The sidewalk vendors (schnell Imbuss)had menus which said "Heisse HOT DOG" and "Heisse Hamburger"..It was printed as such for the GI's who refused to learn the language, (except for the words Bier, Schatz' etc.. In this case, the word Heisse meant "It is called"...(Heis means "Hot" as Bill sez..)

bomccarthy -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/12/2015 8:44:32 PM)
"Warsh" is just how people raised in the Beltway speak. My dad (BME, Catholic Univ) still says "warsh" 60 years after he moved to SoCal. His brother (Georgetown - BS and MS Econ, LLB and LLM) says "warsh", as do my cousins (all UVA grads). My grandfather said "waash", but he grew up in "PEEbuhDEE".

CaptBeefheart -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/13/2015 1:15:59 AM)
Speaking of strange pronunciations, I went to uni in Michigan, and noticed everyone there adds a "t" to the end of "across," and yet if you asked someone what a certain common religious symbol was, they'd get it right. Cheers, CC

Chickenboy -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/13/2015 1:46:45 AM)
In veterinary school, we had two main instructors for our systemic pathology course. One from Australia and one from New Zealand. They were good friends with one another and were both good instructors. The Kiwi provided some guidance on how to tell them apart based upon their accent. One simply needed to get them to pronounce the number after "five". The New Zealander would pronounce it like "sex". The Australian would not be able to count that high. At a later point in time, the Aussie asked the class if they knew the difference between yogurt and New Zealand. It turns out, he told us, that yogurt has a living culture.

m10bob -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/13/2015 1:29:02 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Chickenboy In veterinary school, we had two main instructors for our systemic pathology course. One from Australia and one from New Zealand. They were good friends with one another and were both good instructors. The Kiwi provided some guidance on how to tell them apart based upon their accent. One simply needed to get them to pronounce the number after "five". The New Zealander would pronounce it like "sex". The Australian would not be able to count that high. At a later point in time, the Aussie asked the class if they knew the difference between yogurt and New Zealand. It turns out, he told us, that yogurt has a living culture. LOL

geofflambert -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/14/2015 2:58:29 AM)
This joke is way under the top! I have to say "under" since it's in the Southern hemisphere.

JeffroK -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/14/2015 6:52:53 AM)
I love the need foe documentaries from the USA which seem to think there is a need for sub titles when foreigners talk, plus African Americans, Hispanics, Southerners, I suppose anyone not from New York!

aspqrz02 -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/14/2015 7:15:12 AM)
New Zealand. Where men are men ... and sheep are nervous. Last I looked, there was somewhere around 200 sheep for every single Kiwi ... [X(] Phil

aspqrz02 -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/14/2015 7:19:18 AM)
Some years ago you would occasionally see reports from Hicksville USA TV stations (in the Deep South) where local reporters were johnny on the spot, subtitled for Australian TV News [:D] It's not just northerners who have trouble understanding them, evidently! (Course, to be fair, never ran into anyone in the several weeks I spent driving all over the US south of the Mason-Dixon line who was impossible to understand ... TV has a major homogenising effect everywhere, it seems) Phil

HansBolter -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/14/2015 11:25:22 AM)
Nothing in this world less feminine or appealing to the a man than a Brooklyn or New Jersey accent. Nothing quite like a Brooklyn or New Jersey accent for turning a ten into a two. Just something seriously buzz killing about a woman who tauhks like a truck drivah.

geofflambert -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/14/2015 12:01:43 PM)
A woman speaking cockney, however, is the opposite. Think Billie Piper pushing her best cockney in Dr. Who.

geofflambert -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/14/2015 12:06:24 PM)
Somewhere in Tennessee at a filling station, paying by credit card. Older gentleman at the register "Wuts yer taig?", that's a long i in "taig". Me "huh?" Him, more insistently "Wuts yer taig?" Figured out he wanted my license plate number, as in "What's your tag?"

Lecivius -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/14/2015 1:52:38 PM)
Another peeve. Going to a different country & finding out your CC is no good. Everyone else on planet earth uses chipped cards, but here in the U.S. it is cheaper to just keep rolling them outta the machine, and making the users suffer fraud.

Treetop64 -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/14/2015 4:19:26 PM)
People who pronounce Jaguar like "Jag-wire". "Ooohhh! You drive a JAG-wiiire?!" :/

Lecivius -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/14/2015 4:20:42 PM)
Jag-u-war or just 'Jaug' [8D]

wdolson -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/14/2015 9:55:34 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL geofflambert A woman speaking cockney, however, is the opposite. Think Billie Piper pushing her best cockney in Dr. Who. Americans have a weak spot for any UK accent. I once worked with a guy from Scotland who said his accent placed him on the bottom of the pecking order in the UK. It was a working class Scottish accent. He was brilliant and had gone to school at Cambridge or Oxford on a scholarship (I forget which, I know the distinction between the two is a big deal to those in the UK). He said he couldn't get a date in the UK with his accent, but once he emigrated to the US, suddenly he was cool and exotic and got a lot of attention. I know another guy from Petersburough who has a working class accent (though he grew up middle class and his sister was in the Royal Ballet company). He was initially very wary of hanging out with people with college degrees here in the US, but nobody cared and most thought the accent was cool. quote: ORIGINAL: Lecivius Another peeve. Going to a different country & finding out your CC is no good. Everyone else on planet earth uses chipped cards, but here in the U.S. it is cheaper to just keep rolling them outta the machine, and making the users suffer fraud. US credit card companies are rolling out the new cards. Over the last year all of my credit cards have been replaced with the new chipped ones. The last one was replaced yesterday. Bill

Treetop64 -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/14/2015 10:15:20 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: wdolson US credit card companies are rolling out the new cards. Over the last year all of my credit cards have been replaced with the new chipped ones. The last one was replaced yesterday. Bill Got mine changed over a year ago, almost as soon as it was possible in the States. Though, it's kinda like NASCAR - held up by "tradition" - belatedly and hesitantly adopting fuel-injection only in 2014 or whatever, while everyone else around the world have been racing with fuel injection for decades. [:D]

Bullwinkle58 -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/14/2015 11:49:54 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: wdolson quote: ORIGINAL geofflambert A woman speaking cockney, however, is the opposite. Think Billie Piper pushing her best cockney in Dr. Who. Americans have a weak spot for any UK accent. I once worked with a guy from Scotland who said his accent placed him on the bottom of the pecking order in the UK. It was a working class Scottish accent. He was brilliant and had gone to school at Cambridge or Oxford on a scholarship (I forget which, I know the distinction between the two is a big deal to those in the UK). He said he couldn't get a date in the UK with his accent, but once he emigrated to the US, suddenly he was cool and exotic and got a lot of attention. I had the same experience in Oz. Attention American men! Go to Oz before you get married! That is all.

rustysi -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/15/2015 12:36:46 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58 quote: ORIGINAL: wdolson quote: ORIGINAL geofflambert A woman speaking cockney, however, is the opposite. Think Billie Piper pushing her best cockney in Dr. Who. Americans have a weak spot for any UK accent. I once worked with a guy from Scotland who said his accent placed him on the bottom of the pecking order in the UK. It was a working class Scottish accent. He was brilliant and had gone to school at Cambridge or Oxford on a scholarship (I forget which, I know the distinction between the two is a big deal to those in the UK). He said he couldn't get a date in the UK with his accent, but once he emigrated to the US, suddenly he was cool and exotic and got a lot of attention. I had the same experience in Oz. Attention American men! Go to Oz before you get married! That is all. Can I go now that I'm divorced?[:D]

aspqrz02 -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/15/2015 12:48:19 AM)
Not by boat! [;)] Phil

wdolson -> RE: OT Pet Peeves (7/15/2015 2:32:57 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: wdolson Americans have a weak spot for any UK accent. I once worked with a guy from Scotland who said his accent placed him on the bottom of the pecking order in the UK. It was a working class Scottish accent. He was brilliant and had gone to school at Cambridge or Oxford on a scholarship (I forget which, I know the distinction between the two is a big deal to those in the UK). He said he couldn't get a date in the UK with his accent, but once he emigrated to the US, suddenly he was cool and exotic and got a lot of attention. quote: ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58 I had the same experience in Oz. Attention American men! Go to Oz before you get married! That is all. I know an American who wouldn't exactly be considered a "catch" here (overweight, bad PTSD with night terrors, physically disabled from multiple injuries, introvert to the point of being anti-social, divorced three times) who moved to Australia and got remarried a few months after moving there. Once you get to know him, he is entertaining (very quick wit), but it takes a long time to get to know him that well. Bill

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