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Keef Wrote:

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> One more little gripe, which isn't about a phrase,

> but rather an accent. The other day, there were a

> group of local 18-20 year olds in the pub, all

> white, and most looking like they're from

> comfortable backgrounds. Most of them nice guys,

> but they all spoke with this stupid kind of lazy

> "you knw dat broooo" sort of lingo/accent. Very

> very annoying.


"Wigger" "as in shut up you stupid Wigger..." as I heard one black kid call his white mate who was using same lingo. Must say, very inventive that and made I larf!

Coming back from Bournemouth in First some years ago fairly packed carriage and the guy just over from me was on his mobile on about a meeting he'd had with the Secretary of State (for what I don't know) but every time he said 'secretary of state' he said it really loudly and he was getting on everyones t*ts. Suddenly my mobile went off (Mrs Oldie) and with unusual (for me) quick wittedness I answered, as loudly as I could, "Ah, Prime Minister". It was quite funny at the time, but you probably had to be there.

Had to endure hearing how some gay guy's otherhalf was not actually who he said he was on the train back from London Bridge the other night. Although annoyed at first, hearing this guy playback his entire relationship failure to his friend and revealing the lies told by the partner and the efforts he had gone to find out "who he really was!" He had even changed his name was one of the most interesting train journeys I have ever had! So much so I didn't want to get off. Just call me nosey!!


On the subject of annoying phrases!


"Let's get the ball rolling..."


"mash up"


"In all due respect...."

Ahh yess, off topic a minute but I do this sometimes to car drivers. I'm riding me motorcycle and see some idiot driving really badly in front of me and sure enough she or he is on their mobile. I ride up next to them, their window is open and I check I can escape quick. I grab the phone and throw it on their side seat screaming CONCENTRATE ON YOUR DRIVING then bomb away very quickly. I have been applauded for this, too. Though it's very difficult to applaud when you're riding a motorcycle. The scooter riders find it VERY hard to clap AND do their texting at the same time, but sometimes people on the pavement witnessing applauded me.


On topic:


"New Years Resolution."

"Let's be clear"

"Special Offer"

"It was quiet" (when being asked how someone spent Christmas and New Year).



mockney piers Wrote:

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> I have seen a chap walk over to a girl on the

> train, pluck the phone out of her hand and throw

> it out of the window. She was rightly shocked and

> yes, it was wrong, but when looking around for

> support all she saw were approving glances,

> including mine.

atila the gooner Wrote:

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> MOTHERF**KER. Absolutely disgusting, I hate it.

> (6)


So how do you suggest we refer to those who have incestuous relationships with their mother?


Must say 'Yummy Mummy' does p**s me off quite a bit as well as there seems to be ABSOLUTELY no quality control!

"At the end of the day"


"I'm not being funny, but"


"Coolio" instead of cool


"Pacific" instead of specific


"Peeved off" instead of just peeved


"Obligated" instead of obliged


"Should of" instead of should have


"Finickety" it should be finicky or pernickity, no? Although I'm being particularly pernickity in saying that one....

Not quite on the verbal vein but I am driven insane by people who talk on their mobile phones and remove it from their ear to in front of their face in order to talk, then return it to their ear. I want to scream "It has a f***ing microphone built in, you muppet, they can hear you even when it is held at your f****ing ear!" I don't wish to appear racist (impossible to avoid actually in they eyes of some PC freaks if one actually expresses the evidence of one's own senses) but this is a practice that I have only observed in young people of a certain racial group and apparent socio-economic class. Any ideas why that might be? Is this a kultural thang?

ChavWivaLawDegree Wrote:

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> 40 something white women of chavvy origin?

>

> It's very difficult to talk quietly into your

> mobile on a packed bus and I've done that before

> to try to say what it was I wanted to say without

> the whole bus being able to hear.


The phenomenon I am referring to is more related to people standing in public places, holding their phone in front of them and shouting at them as if the person him/herself was present. I always wonder how the person in question can hear what the other party might be trying to get in with while they are mouthing off.


Old ladies with mobile phones???? You are taking the piss. Or are all those hearing aids really discrete Bluetooth headsets?

I do worry for the sanity of people who talk loudly into their mobile phones and are also gesticulating wildly at the same time. Or should this phenomenom be called testiculating - to wave your arms about like a lunatic and talk bollocks at the same time.

It's American I think. And I wince when I hear Americanisms. But there are so many!


So as the first word of a story. So I went shopping... And I'm so over that.


Show = programme. Did you see that show last night?


Store = shop. Click here for our list of stores


What's that all about?

People telling me about a conversation they had with somebody and they say "So she turned round and said....so i turned round and said...and then phil turned round and said". Does that mean they were all facing away from one another in the first place?

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