'I'm pissed'

[MarthasGinYard]

Aibu that this little saying that's crept in and dropped its 'off' gives me a mini rage

'Aibu to be pissed at dp'....

'I'm so pissed with Mil'....

'So pissed that dc won't eat their greens'....

It's OFF

You can certainly blame Americans for their silly pronunciation of tinfoil.

I actually prefer arsehole

As you were

Oh this annoys the shit out of me. Or should that be, this annoys the shit? I mean, why bother finishing any sentence?

Yes because no English person has ever said "half five".

Sorry what time? what the hell does 'half five' mean?

Im pissed i fucked up my arsehole.
That has to be said slowly or there could be misinterpretations
Let's have a do over
Arsehole

It means half five, obviously.

Unpure? Impure...?🤫

Lose my shit is used a lot here, in some quarters. Even my predictive text wants me to use SHIRT!

I much prefer 'shirt' personally 🤔

Actually do like 'and how' though

Say it occasionally

Gee I'm a hypocrite

I always think that people who get confused by or annoyed at small variances of language due mainly to location a bit thick, insular and narrowminded.

Its not hard to understand is it?

'a bit thick'

Now, I much prefer Solid as a rock.

I wonder if popgoestheweaz realised the irony when she used ‘already’ incorrectly!! Somehow I doubt it but I knew my fellow pissed off mumsmetters would pick up on it!

Pissed
Of
Already
Urbs
Risotto
Buoy ( have you ever heard an American say this?? I seem to develop Tourette’s and scream at the tv ‘ it’s BOY ffs’ every time, without fail.

marthas
We say assssss hooooole in tribute to little jack too!!

Thanks ladies for bringing a smile to my (currently) very miserable face. I’m glad I’m not the only person who gets severely pissed off by the Americanisation of our perfectly good language.

And g@MissionItsPossible - thank you v v much for making me laugh with the ripping my own ears off* comment. It does the same to me, I just didn’t realise until I read your perfectly worded comment.
God, I love being a pedantic English arse hole!!! ( arse is much better than ass)

The gotten thing is particular annoying. British people who use it on here claim it’s an old English word - ill gotten gains and all that. Yes OK I know that, but it has not been used in this country for generations, whilst it’s used all the time in America. Do the defenders of “gotten” seriously expect me to believe they’ve just picked it up from reading some old English texts, rather than watching too much American TV and trying to sound cool?!

Minty

And how

Yes, irony is completely missed by me.

Unless of course you mean it's another americanism in which case surely that just reinforces my point?

Yes. I totally agree. Fucks me right off. I’ve been watching The Handmaids tale. I can’t understand some of it. Lesbian / gays are called what sounds like ‘gender trader’ (but a half pronounced d). Never made sense to me. I finally read something about the series the other day, it’s traitor. I had the ahaaaa moment.

Prepositions mean something:

I’m fucked = I’m in the shit
I’m fucked off = I’m pissed off

@SchnitzelVonKrumm
Will likely
Christ yes, that one really pisses me off. It's 'is likely to' ffs!

Minty
Yes I agree and some. 🙄

That’s another one.

Mumsnet is a real education in how plain old-fashioned snobbery, in the guise of concern for language, is alive and well. The unpleasant disparaging tone in some of these posts I'm not a fan of all Americanisms either. But I don't consider them inferior! This must be a hangover from colonialism (and an awareness of Britain's diminishing status in the world, making the presumedly superior language something to hang on to?). There's no other sensible explanation.

Yorkshire

Glad it's cheered you up

It's gotten a smile on my chops too

awareness of Britain's diminishing status in the world, making the presumably superior language something to hang on to?

yes.

in spades.

AnElderlyLady
Or perhaps wanting to keep onto our identity and not have it eroded. I’m not American. There’s nothing disparaging in that statement.

I can just see myself now when /if dd starts to swear “it’s not pissed darling, you’re totally sober. It’s pissed off.” Pedant that I am.

”I always think that people who get confused by or annoyed at small variances of language due mainly to location a bit thick, insular and narrowminded.

Its not hard to understand is it?”

What makes you think people don’t understand it? It’s perfectly easy to understand, that doesn’t mean we have to like it!

Language evolving is fine. People watching too much American telly and using Americanisms as a result to try and be cool isn’t the language evolving naturally IMO. It isn’t the language changing anyway. Most people use the normal British version of these terms. It’s just some people are choosing to use an American version for no good reason at all. It comes across as trying to be cool, which doesn’t make them look cool at all.

Sorry what time? what the hell does 'half five' mean?

in German "half five" (halb funf) means half past four (as in half way to five)

I also hate "meet with" - as in I met with secretary of state Clinton. You didn't meet with her, you just met her.

I had an American colleague who once said "Let's get this document signaturised"

as in I met with secretary of state Clinton. You didn't meet with her, you just met her.

But these mean two different things. The former means you spent time with the person to discuss something, the latter means you met them either for the first time or as a one off.

I don't agree PopGoesTheWeaz

"I had a meeting with Clinton yesterday" or "I met Clinton yesterday"

The Septics have confused the two. In UK English "to meet" can mean for the first time or just to have a meeting with. If I was having a meeting with a colleague I would report "I met my colleague yesterday" That wouldn't mean for the first time