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Original poster

To think people are scared of ME?

32 replies

ChaosTrulyReigns · 09/09/2015 15:36

With a myself here,
And a myself there,
Here a myself,
There a myslef,
Everywhere a fucking myself.

Why? Obviously people don't realise it is full of wrong. Hmm.

I'm fearful that the correct little old me is a dying species.

OP posts:
KanyeWestPresidentForLife · 09/09/2015 15:42

I don't do that myself.

KanyeWestPresidentForLife · 09/09/2015 15:42

I don't do that me.

Sodder · 09/09/2015 15:46

IME police officers are terrible for this. Ourselves, yourselves etc.

DirtyMugPolice · 09/09/2015 15:46

A woman I used to work with used to say this when she answered the phone?

Hello?
Caller: can I speak to xxx
It's myself speaking

CantSee4Looking · 09/09/2015 15:46

Who sir? You sir? Me sir?

No not I, I am not afraid of me.

Original poster
ChaosTrulyReigns · 09/09/2015 15:47

NINE YEARS AGO?

Crepes, thoight it was a passing fricken fad.

Glower.

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User543212345 · 09/09/2015 15:51

I had to dump a man around a decade ago because he did this. When I explained it was wrong he explained how himself was right and wouldn't be told.

I fear it's here to stay.

TheTravellingLemon · 09/09/2015 15:51

I am no pedant (check out my numerous and ridiculous typos for proof), but this drives me insane with rage. Likewise 'yourself'.

'I spoke to yourself a few days ago' AngryAngry

Why? WHY? WHY?

I think people do it when they are trying to be formal. Stop. It.

EponasWildDaughter · 09/09/2015 15:53

I agree. I notice it a lot in people trying to be officious when they're indignant about something.

''I rang yourselves last last week to ask if myselves issue has been sorted out''. It makes me :)

ifgrandmahadawilly · 09/09/2015 15:54

allow myself to introduce......myself.

MrsTerryPratchett · 09/09/2015 15:57

I read it in an Irish accent. Is it regional?

EElisavetaOfBelsornia · 09/09/2015 15:59

I have a colleague who does this. And uses shall instead of will whenever she's being formal.

MsTargaryen · 09/09/2015 16:02

Letting agents are the worst for this! And/or estate agents too.

ME ME ME

cailindana · 09/09/2015 16:09

It's an Irish thing originally. In Irish you say 'an bhfuil tu fein agus x ag dul go dti...' Or 'an bhfuil tusa agus x ag dul go dti...' Which translates as 'are yourself and x going...' Similarly 'mise' or 'me fein' which means myself when talking about something you think or are doing. It's a quirk of Irish - I find it hard to say 'you' in certain contexts. But I have heard people saying it in strange contexts. I wouldn't say 'he'll talk to yourself' for example - that's not how you say if in Irish.

afussyphase · 09/09/2015 16:10

Somewhere in this world there is a secret training course for estate agents where they are told that dire consequences will come to them if they ever use the word "me".

confusedandemployed · 09/09/2015 16:12

YY TravellingLemon it's definitely what people perceive as the English version of 'vous' in French.
Grips my shit an' all.

BoomChickenSoup · 09/09/2015 16:15

Estate agents are definitely the worst for this although I did overhear DH on the phone the other day using "myself" incorrectly. Thanks for the reminder I had forgotten to berate him for it.

wasonthelist · 09/09/2015 16:18

We were taking the piss out of a colleague for this 30+ years ago. Sadly the idiots seem to be winning again.

UntilTheCowsComeHome · 09/09/2015 16:19

DH does this on the phone all the time.

I have to shove my fist in my gob to stop myself me laughing at him, he sounds so ridiculous. Grin

wasonthelist · 09/09/2015 16:19

Actually extra points for the sentence ending in an uptick/valley girl/Aussie upwards intonation

If you need more information please don't hesitate to contact myself..

ShatnersBassoon · 09/09/2015 16:20

A call centre operative once said to me "Bear with myself, please".

I think people use it because they get confused with when to use me or I. So they don't bother working it out and go for myself Confused

Moln · 09/09/2015 16:23

Me is also replaced with I. Mostly to sound clever I find.

Have to say I don't hear many irush people use myself wrong, though certainly have worked with one Irish man that did, very, very frequently. Mind you I don't hear many people say the Irish grammatical "I'm after having" either.

TooExtraImmatureCheddar · 09/09/2015 16:30

I did it by accident yesterday - I had the rage at myself! It was in an email and I wrote "shall I just get ourselves up and come straight over". Actually, now I'm not sure what the correct word would be. "Shall I just get us up" doesn't sound right either.

Shall we just get up and come over?
Shall I just get the kids up and come over?

...falls into grammar hellfire screaming

Original poster
ChaosTrulyReigns · 09/09/2015 16:35

I tried to explain it very badly to someone saying you only just it when doing something to yourself.

But that's a different story. [lewdwink]

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FuzzyWizard · 09/09/2015 18:28

This is a pet hate of mine. People look at me like I'm mad when I mention it though. I sat through some training sessions last week wincing at it... My colleagues couldn't see why it bothered me. Even the English teachers. Only the MFL teachers sympathised.