So irritating

[Lewwat]

This really bugs me

People confusing bought with brought.

AIBU

[KingJoffreyLikesJaffaCakes]

Chavvy used to be a way of dressing or a sub-culture.

Like goth or jock.

Now it's become an insult. But I'm not entirely sure of the criteria.

I was called a chav once. I was wearing a nurses dress and a yak wool poncho. Not doing anything outlandish.

[GreaseIsNotTheWord]

When I was at school if I I ever asked can I do something instead of may I the teacher always retorted "I don't know can you?''

I do this to the dc

I also correct their use of 'me and Bob went to the park' to 'Bob and I went to the park'.

[KingJoffreyLikesJaffaCakes]

But you're wrong about one thing.

Grease is the word.

[Lewwat]

Tried to explain to my 7yo DS recently that as he "ain't got none" he must have some!

[pictish]

Has anyone ever in the entirety of their life heard anyone use, "I can't be asked." in the same context as CBA?
I know I haven't.

[ExtraHotLatteToGo]

No Pictish, but it doesn't stop some people arguing black is white 😁

[timelytess]

Can't bear it when people write they 'can't bare' something.

[pictish]

Starryillusion
That quote from the internet that you have provided as evidence of your 'can't be asked' righteousness is simply two random posters' drivel on a generic Q&A chat forum. It has no credible basis in fact whatsoever.

[pictish]

And having had a short look elsewhere I have found nothing else to support your claim. Credible or otherwise.

[Zenzie]

I do love the irony of a pedant being incensed at the wrong use of CBA, when it's entirely correct. 😶

[ExtraHotLatteToGo]

Just back from holiday with a family where I enquired nervously were they okay with my correcting about fewer vs less for the kids

Seriously? You asked the family you were on holiday with if you could correct their children in this way?

I'd have told you to fuck right off 'no'.

[mrgrouper]

"I no I am not aloud to do that."
Also people who pronounce the word specific as Pacific.

[toadgirl]

Also people who pronounce the word specific as Pacific

Reminds me of "Kath + Kim" where Sharon asked, "So where pacifically in the Specific did they go on the cruise?"

[whyayepetal]

Defiantly unasseptable if you ask me. But then again, I can't be asked

[JudyCoolibar]

From the Oxford dictionary:

can't be arsed: not want to do something because one has no interest in or enthusiasm for it.

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

I keep reading something on MN that I though was originally a typo but I've come to the conclusion it's regional - 'it needs washed' instead of ' it needs washing' or ' it needs scrubbed' instead of ' it needs scrubbing'

I can't imagine someone saying that in RL but it pops up on here a lit and it's the only thing that really, really annoys me but then I have a word with myself

[KickAssAngel]

chav has been used, fairly consistently, to refer to gypsy culture and people, as an insult. As the traveller community see themselves as a separate ethnic group then it's a pretty racist term. Pikey is another word that carries the same level of insult.

Both words have then had their meaning extended to be insults for someone who appears dirty/rude/cheap/loud/violent.

It's about as acceptable as calling someone a Jew if they won't lend you money.

Or any other racist term.

Please note - I only use these words in this context, for the sakes of explanation. I don't ever use them in actual, normal speech. In the same way I don't call people other racist terms or use lazy racist stereotypes to insult people. I just think it's easier to explain things using the language to explain the problem.

[KickAssAngel]

Question - I can't bear it = I can't stand it.

But "I bore his insults" is the past tense of "I can bear his insults". How did that happen?

[Daisygarden]

Judy To me, "can't be arsed" is a commonly used or well known phrase. Have never heard of "can't be asked" as per some posters upthread. It's my opinion that "can't be asked" is "can't be arsed", misheard, in a Southern accent.

Seperately, "pikey" definitely has derogatory/offensive connotations. I am surprised that some posters aren't aware of this?

[Daisygarden]

*separately! Typing one handed here

[JudyCoolibar]

That's what I said, Daisygarden.

[Daisygarden]

Yes, I know - was agreeing with you! (admittedly it didn't read like that, but one-handed typing distracted me...)

[MerchantofVenice]

Find it hilarious that someone was so sure it was 'can't be asked' that they raised it as an issue! Obviously it's ^can't be arsed'.

I find it absolutely maddening that people have started to say (and write) 'could care less' when they clearly mean 'couldn't care less.' The former makes absolutely no sense in the way people are trying to use it. I find it's part of a wider issue whereby people pay no attention to the stream of gibberish that's spewing out of their mouths, as long as it roughly sounds like words/phrases they have heard before. The bastards.

[MerchantofVenice]

(embarrassing typos. Am one of the very fools of which I speak.)