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Pissed or Pissed Off.

32 replies

DemolitionLover · 17/01/2018 17:53

I really hate it when posters say they are pissed at something when they should be saying pissed off.

It annoys me so much. Aibu?

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CherieBabySpliffUp · 17/01/2018 17:54

Yes
Different sayings for different parts of the world

ifitquackslikeaduck · 17/01/2018 17:56

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Namechangetempissue · 17/01/2018 17:56

I'm in the pissed off camp.

RedSkyAtNight · 17/01/2018 17:57

Is it a generational thing or regional?

Everyone my age (40s) I know would say "pissed off" but DS and his mates (teenagers) seem to say "pissed".

And yes, it annoys me too.

DriggleDraggle · 17/01/2018 17:58

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Popfan · 17/01/2018 17:58

Think it's an Americanism that's filtering through here. For me pissed = drunk. Pissed off = annoyed.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 17/01/2018 17:59

Yanbu it needs an "off" or is unfinished.

WorraLiberty · 17/01/2018 17:59

YANBU, it's gotten me annoyed too

It should be pissed off

Period!

Butterymuffin · 17/01/2018 18:05

Pissed meaning annoyed = American. You can usually work it out from context though!

lidoshuffle · 17/01/2018 18:05

There's so many creeping Americanisms that seem to have been adopted as the norm now; movie/s not film/cinema, truck not lorry, mail not post, even "bathroom" when people mean loo.

LynetteScavo · 17/01/2018 18:09

It's just American.

I nearly fell off my chair when a prim and proper American relative recently told me she was "so pissed" at a children's party.

It would be weird for a Brit to say it in every day conversation.

ShinyMe · 17/01/2018 18:09

If you used pissed to mean angry, then how would you phrase the continuous verb, as in "you're really pissing me off"?

PanPanPanPing · 17/01/2018 18:14

YADBU, OP. There are MNers from all over the world.

Sisinisawa · 17/01/2018 18:14

"You're really making me pissed"??

Spangles1963 · 17/01/2018 18:14

I've found that Americans tend to use the term 'pissed' when they are annoyed about something. To my mind,being pissed means being drunk. The proper term IMO is 'pissed off'!

Sisinisawa · 17/01/2018 18:14

That was to ShinyMe

CocoLoco87 · 17/01/2018 18:16

@DriggleDraggle Grin cuntychops

MyRelationshipIsWeird · 17/01/2018 18:24

My DP started using Americanisms since spending lots of time in the USA last year, including "pissed" for pissed off and fucking "anyways".

Pissed means 'drunk' or 'urinated' in this country.

TenancyTroublesAgain · 17/01/2018 18:26

Pissed off. To me, pissed means drunk. Pissed seems to be an American thing.

SinisterBumFacedCat · 17/01/2018 18:39

Actually it makes me laugh when someone says pissed meaning angry as I always take it to mean drunk. But it feels a bit lazy dropping the off, you couldn't abbreviate fucked off to fucked.

crackerjacket · 17/01/2018 18:40

We did this already

Skowvegas · 17/01/2018 18:47

It annoys me so much. Aibu?

More just a bit petty...

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DemolitionLover · 17/01/2018 18:47

crackerjacket

Well we're doing it again because I didn't see it the previous time.

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Sparklesocks · 17/01/2018 18:50

I don’t really let it get it to me, variations of language are what make it interesting..it’s always evolving and changing.

MarieNostra · 17/01/2018 18:53

Either way it's an awful insult to a perfectly normal bodily function. So there!