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WoofWoofMooWoof · 18/10/2017 20:33

I'll start this off:

The mom outside school today who said to her 3-year old: "Move it! Fuckin' hell, why are you so slow!"

Skinny jeans on men.

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Carouselfish · 18/10/2017 23:48

People who say judging/judgey etc when all they really mean is, the person expressed an opinion they didn't like.
Black clothes that fluff sticks to.
Children not eating anything you've actually put effort into cooking.

PurpleWithRed · 18/10/2017 23:48

‘Sat’ when it should be ‘sitting’. As in ‘I was sat on the chair...’. NO. Unless someone picked you up and plonked you on the chair you were SITTING on the chair.

SparklyUnicornPoo · 18/10/2017 23:48

threads that have me repeating random words over and over to see how i say them (drawers and draws are subtly different, in the same way as saws and sores are different but i can't think how to explain it)

People who sit at the front of the bus and leave their kids to run to the back, shout and muck around.

Parents who are too busy chatting or playing on their phones to talk to their kids at pick up/drop off, or acknowledge staff trying to talk to them.

People who get on/off the bus slowly, or ask the driver stupid questions, or in any other way make my journey longer than it needs to be.

SparklyUnicornPoo · 18/10/2017 23:50

I should add I mean people who dawdle getting on and off, chatting, looking at their phone etc, not people who have mobility issues.

Willow2017 · 18/10/2017 23:51

People who say "draw-ers". It's written that way, but it's pronounced "draws"!

No its not!

radiosignal · 18/10/2017 23:52

People blowing their disgusting e cigarette smoke out and me having to breathe it in. E cigs generally.

People who post endless selfies I. Facebook and then wait for the 'you look amazing' comments. No you don't. You look bloody stupid.

Spitting in the street

Throwing rubbish out of car windows

Out of control dogs jumping up on me and the owner just ignoring it.

Dog poo bags left all over the place. Who do they think will pick them up?

Call centre staff asking if it's okay to use your Christian name

Call staff speaking in Whiney American accents, but barely speaking English

Incompetent people who don't do their job properly and don't care either

People who walk around drinking takeaway coffee ALL THE TIME

Wing asked 'did you want a cake with that? ' every time I ask for something in a cafe.

SiimonJeffrii · 18/10/2017 23:53

"Alot" - how is that people think this is a word?! How does that happen?? See also: "justnow"

TWO. SEPARATE. WORDS.

People who can't spell queue. Que.

"I seen that" "I done that" (Glaswegian)

Also, when you make a good point on a thread and no one says anything, then seven posts later someone better known makes the exact same fucking point and everyone starts quoting it and giving it "omg you're soooo right" - this should not annoy me, I like to think I'm above being annoyed by trivial forum-related things, but it does.

My sister in law. Fucking copies me in everything. Not one original or independent thought in her head.

People who indicate the wrong way on a roundabout. Even worse than people who don't indicate at all.

People who forget to switch off their indicators and drive for ten miles with it flashing.

People who hog the overtaking lane.

Carouselfish · 18/10/2017 23:54

Purple I used to fight that fight. It's no good. Even the award-winning 'There's a Bear on my Chair' has a 'sat' (yes, I binned it) so that means the author, publisher, awarding body and all the kids reading it are all fucked.

Willow2017 · 18/10/2017 23:55

trainers with toes in them! WTF? It just looks like you have some weird foot disease, your feet are green man see a doctor!

Jeans that are so ripped there is hardly any material left but are more expensive than the whole ones! Who ever thought that stroke of genius up will go far! (well not with my money!)

OkPedro · 18/10/2017 23:59

Claws pronounced Clorz?! I thought people pronouncing Drawers and Claws were saying draws and claws not adding an r to claws Confused

SiimonJeffrii · 19/10/2017 00:00

Siobhan in the Apprentice

biscuiteer · 19/10/2017 00:07

Liam Gallagher. What a twat.

Twillow · 19/10/2017 00:08

Mrskeats Are you me?

Protectingmydaughterfromfilth · 19/10/2017 00:11

WoofMoo The line of dust! GrinGrinGrin Really made me laugh out loud! X

whattheactualflump · 19/10/2017 00:18

Drawers

it really is pronounced 'draws' (unless you are saying it in a West Country accent, in which case draw-errrs would be correct). I don't understand how it could be anything else!?

See this: www.macmillandictionary.com/pronunciation/british/drawers

whattheactualflump · 19/10/2017 00:20

Scrap that, by 'I don't understand how it could be anything else' I mean 'how else could it be said, phonetically speaking?'. No offence intended, I am genuinely interested!

Migraleve · 19/10/2017 00:26

It really is pronounced 'draws'

But your link doesn’t pronounce it ‘draws’ Confused you can hear the R sound after the ‘awe’ which makes it ‘drors’

whattheactualflump · 19/10/2017 00:33

I genuinely can't hear that! If you were to play that as part of a sentence that said 'Timmy draws a cat' that is exactly the same to me. I would understand a regional difference in pronunciation, but not being able to hear a difference is baffling - he really sounds like he is saying 'draws' to me! If you turn it around, how would you phonetically describe the pronunciation of 'draws'?

OkPedro · 19/10/2017 00:39

I wouldn't say "Timmy drors a cat" I'd say "Timmy draws a cat"
I'd say "I own those chest of drors"

Migraleve · 19/10/2017 00:48

If you turn it around, how would you phonetically describe the pronunciation of 'draws'?

I’m not even sure what you are asking here, why are we turning things around? Draws rhymes with awes. Drawers rhymes with wars. I am so confused that you can’t hear the R sound at the end of that link

puckingfixies · 19/10/2017 00:49

'I learned him that.'

SingingBabooshkaBadly · 19/10/2017 00:51

'Can I get' e.g. 'Can I get an espresso'
'Try and' instead of 'try to'
Myself/yourself instead of me/you
Less when you mean fewer and vice versa

The drawers thing has me baffled though. All those examples quoted sound the same to me. Surely draws and wars rhyme?

Apparently I say 'one' in a way that is really weird to my fellow southerner's ears. It seems everyone else south of Watford pronounces it 'wan' and I say 'won'. I can't hear that I'm saying it differently to anyone else - or indeed that they are all saying 'wan' Confused

OkPedro · 19/10/2017 00:53

Yes " My mother learnt me how to ride a bike" "why don't you learn him how to read"
it's so ingrained where I live, it bugs the shit out of me but I just tell my children it's teach or taught

Willow2017 · 19/10/2017 00:56

You dont pronounce wars waws
Drawers has ers in it why wouldnt you pronounce them?
dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/drawer

Migraleve · 19/10/2017 00:57

Surely draws and wars rhyme

How?? Just how??

The R near the end gives the words entirely different sounds Confused

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