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HellaFitzgerald · 2022-08-29T20:23:09+00:00

Today, in the supermarket, I saw a woman (I actually heard her before I rounded the corner and saw her, to be accurate) of about 40 loudly berating a man who worked there about something she wanted not being in stock. She then started to jump up and down on the spot stamping her feet like a toddler and then sat cross-legged on the floor in the middle of the aisle, arms folded, bottom lip pouted out. I was mortified for her, the worker, the people witnessing it, for everyone involved. It was so bizarre (though I was secretly glad to witness it as everyone on here always shares bizarre stories from people in public and I always feel left out I'd never seen anything before) [grin]

CaptaNoctem · 30/08/2022 14:14

hotdiggetydog · 30/08/2022 09:48

One panino
Several panini

No such thing as "paninis"

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I think this almost every time we go into tea shops in Britain!

harriethoyle · 30/08/2022 14:17

WeepingSomnambulist · 30/08/2022 13:31

On a thread about immature behaviour, we have an excellent example of immature behaviour. Well done, people.

😂

Herejustforthisone · 30/08/2022 14:21

Toomuchtrouble4me · 30/08/2022 07:59

Weird - I can’t believe I did it.
pregnant with DC1, I put together a cot that was delivered, pleased with my efforts, when I heard DH coming home I hid (literally 8months pregnant) under the cot (why?).
he came in the bedroom, saw the cot but not me, because I was under it, and I then came out after 10 minutes sobbing because he hadn’t looked for me. He was confused and said he’d presumed I was out but I wouldn’t be placated and insisted that he should have looked for me. I cried for ages. He was totally bemused. It all seemed so rational at the time!

Christ.

DoItAfraid · 30/08/2022 14:24

Fraaahnces · 30/08/2022 04:59

My mother on my DD1’s first Christmas Day. Because we had split families and associated politics to deal with and grandparents as well, we decided to invite people to ours for different meals all through the entire day and evening. (Exhausting but better than schlepping around all day between them with an exhausted baby.) I invited my parents to have breakfast with us and enjoy DD1 opening her first presents. She thought that was a lovely idea and we arranged everyone else around that. On Christmas Eve, she informed me that I was to take DD1 to hers for her big Christmas lunch. I explained that it was impossible because I had guests coming to mine, and reminded her that she and dad were coming for breakfast. “Oh, yes, yes, yes….” I cooked a fabulous breakfast and of course they didn’t show up. When I rang to see where they were, she blamed Dad and said he had wanted a sleep in, but it’s okay as we would see her at lunch. Explained once again that we were not coming. She hung up on me. Later that day she rang me because there were lots of her friends at her house and she wanted to show DD1 off, asking when we were getting there, and berating me for being late. Once again I told her that we had never agreed to come to her house. Late in the afternoon, she drove up my driveway, right through our garden and onto our lawn (WTAF) and started screaming profanities at us through the window, saying how she’d never been so embarrassed… paying no attention to the fact that we had some of my DH’s relatives at our place, including his very elderly grandmother. He told her to leave. Next thing, she was still screaming and threw the presents she had bought for DD1 over the high fence (into newly planted flowers) shrieking about how ungrateful we were. I cried, DH’s grandmother cried for me and of course she promptly “forgot” about her tantrum the next time she wanted to see my baby.

@Fraaahnces ok you win the thread!

AchatAVendre · 30/08/2022 14:26

AssignedSlytherinAtBirth · 30/08/2022 14:13

If you were going to Paris with a British (or Irish) airline, would you pronounce it Paree?

BloodAndFire is correct.

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God no, I'd pronounce it "CDG" or Orly!

G with a Y...

neilyoungismyhero · 30/08/2022 14:28

5foot5 · 30/08/2022 00:07

TBF this is the first thing I thought when I read the OP. This behaviour sounds more extreme then just entitled and spoilt behaviour

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A woman posted on our local FB page the other day. She reached out and thanked a lady who had seen her in a similar situation in a shop in town. The stranger had stopped, collected her up, spoke to her calmly and taken her home in her car. The woman having the meltdown had MH issues and was prone to panic attacks like this. She was mortified poor woman.

Lndnmummy · 30/08/2022 14:33

Toomuchtrouble4me · 30/08/2022 07:59

Weird - I can’t believe I did it.
pregnant with DC1, I put together a cot that was delivered, pleased with my efforts, when I heard DH coming home I hid (literally 8months pregnant) under the cot (why?).
he came in the bedroom, saw the cot but not me, because I was under it, and I then came out after 10 minutes sobbing because he hadn’t looked for me. He was confused and said he’d presumed I was out but I wouldn’t be placated and insisted that he should have looked for me. I cried for ages. He was totally bemused. It all seemed so rational at the time!

😂 made my day

FettleOfKish · 30/08/2022 14:33

@AchatAVendre Did you say the whole sentence in Swedish though? DH is Swedish and in the same situation he'd pronounce it the Swedish way if he was asking 'Är det här flyget till Göteborg?' but the English pronunciation 'Gothenburg' if he were asking in English.

Likewise German friend who lives in Britain tells people when asked by an English speaker that she is German. If she was asked in German then she'd reply in German and say Deutsch. Replying to an English Speaker 'I am Deutsch' would be odd...

AchatAVendre · 30/08/2022 14:37

FettleOfKish · 30/08/2022 14:33

@AchatAVendre Did you say the whole sentence in Swedish though? DH is Swedish and in the same situation he'd pronounce it the Swedish way if he was asking 'Är det här flyget till Göteborg?' but the English pronunciation 'Gothenburg' if he were asking in English.

Likewise German friend who lives in Britain tells people when asked by an English speaker that she is German. If she was asked in German then she'd reply in German and say Deutsch. Replying to an English Speaker 'I am Deutsch' would be odd...

I did not. I could have done but I heard her speaking English. But we were very close to Göteborg. It tickled me though, the way she slowly pronounced "Gothenburg", with a real emphasis on the "u" in "burg" as if I were very stupid and it hadn't occurred to her that it was a non-English name. What with being in Denmark.

BloodAndFire · 30/08/2022 14:38

FettleOfKish · 30/08/2022 14:33

@AchatAVendre Did you say the whole sentence in Swedish though? DH is Swedish and in the same situation he'd pronounce it the Swedish way if he was asking 'Är det här flyget till Göteborg?' but the English pronunciation 'Gothenburg' if he were asking in English.

Likewise German friend who lives in Britain tells people when asked by an English speaker that she is German. If she was asked in German then she'd reply in German and say Deutsch. Replying to an English Speaker 'I am Deutsch' would be odd...

Yes, exactly.

If you're asking for 'a panini', are you speaking English or Italian?

Do you think @hotdiggetydog goes into coffee shops and asks for 'two cappuccini'? Then shouldn't it be 'due cappuccini'? And shouldn't the rest of the sentence then be in Italian?

Obviously not, if the conversation is taking place between two English speakers, in English.

Language evolves and it does so through usage. Trying to look clever by using french/swedish/Italian grammar or pronunciations when speaking English is just a failure to grasp how language actually works.

Saltyandvinegar · 30/08/2022 14:38

We went out for dinner with another couple at the weekend. They just sat there and waited for us to pay. We earn more so we paid but thought the behaviour was ridiculous. Won't be doing that again.

Chubbyspud · 30/08/2022 14:47

How old was she at the time?

Rabblemum · 30/08/2022 14:47

This woman probably has a learning disability. I used to work on a Job Centre, some of my customers with learning disabilities were stuck at a certain age and couldn't behave any differently or change.

Many of these people looked like grown ups but they didn't behave or think like adults. The world is a nasty place for these people, they are often exploited and asked to do way more than is possible for them by the DWP just because their disabilities aren't always obvious and they can't explain themselves very well.

People with learning disabilities know they're different and have very difficult lives, so be nice when they behave in strange ways.

Chubbyspud · 30/08/2022 14:50

Ignore that - I meant the woman who mentioned her step daughter in Superdrug

FettleOfKish · 30/08/2022 14:51

@AchatAVendre She was probably confused that you didn't say 'Gøteborg'. What with being in Denmark.

TeacheeTeacherson · 30/08/2022 14:56

Hoppinggreen · 30/08/2022 08:45

MILs ex was full of these, despite being in his 70s.
He was from a wealthy and quite well known family in his small town and felt he could do what he wanted because he was a “ surname”. He had never worked and lived on rental income from property he inherited.
The 2 that stand out are once when we couldn’t find some keys that we needed urgently and asked him if he had them, he said he had never had them (untrue as I had handed them to him). DH asked him to check his pockets but he refused as he had never had them. Someone was standing there waiting for these keys.
DH insisted he checked his pockets and he literally jumped up and down in a toddler style tantrum - the keys rattled in his pocket!! Moment of silence then he threw them on the floor and stormed out, refusing to speak to us for the rest of the day.
The other one was when we were out for a meal and as we went to sit down DS(about 4) darted ahead of him and got to the chair at the head of the table. As DS went to sit down he pulled the chair out so DS would fall - luckily I saw this and blocked it with my foot. I challenged him (only one who ever did) but he denied it and I was told I was mistaken by MIL as he “would never do that”.
Thankfully MIL dumped him a few years ago but is very cross that we won’t visit him and take “his grandchildren” to visit.

Haha, I’m totally picturing Mr Morris from Friday Night Dinner here! 😂

RunAwayTurnAwayRunAwayTurnAway · 30/08/2022 15:00

"I've never been slandered. They never slandered me, did they Nellie!"

Idliketothankyouforajobwelldone · 30/08/2022 15:05

I was teaching some Middle Eastern students a few weeks ago, one of them was 18 so very young but still, should've known better.
I was teaching them English and had the lowest level group.
On his last day, the guy burst into the room and without even saying hello or anything, demanded to know why he wasn't being given an 'intermediate' level certificate, given that he'd scored highly on his test (that he cheated on)
He was huffing and puffing and looked really mad. I and even the other students were trying to explain to him, he was just sighing and giving us daggers.
Found it pretty intimidating tbh, I didn't think he'd have done that to me if I were male.

Cigarettesaftersex1 · 30/08/2022 15:06

WeepingSomnambulist · 30/08/2022 13:31

On a thread about immature behaviour, we have an excellent example of immature behaviour. Well done, people.

Totally agree, wish they'd feck off and have their petty argument elsewhere

Flounces out

Idliketothankyouforajobwelldone · 30/08/2022 15:07

I also had a male student in his 50s refuse to have a lesson with me as I wasn't the teacher he'd requested, even if it was only for one day as his usual teacher was off sick, then he was ranting about how the school had wasted his time and money

SavageTomato · 30/08/2022 15:09

BloodAndFire is correct. I learnt a bit of Italian and went over this exact point while doing so, because whether words are from Italian or other languages, once they are co-opted into English usage, we do what we like with them. So in Italian it's panino/i and in English it's panini/s. It's no good banging on about how it's said or pluralised in the original language, it's moved away from that. Otherwise you end up being one of those people who make a point of saying bolognese in the Italian way and sounding stupid. Phonetically it's bollonaise in English!

Soubriquet · 30/08/2022 15:16

Anyone else imagining the poster educating us plebs about paninis furiously typing on their keyboard? Cos I know I am

harriethoyle · 30/08/2022 15:18

Soubriquet · 30/08/2022 15:16

Anyone else imagining the poster educating us plebs about paninis furiously typing on their keyboard? Cos I know I am

😂
I'm fasting today @Soubriquet and I'm just really hungry with all of the sandwich based chat!

SpinCityBlues · 30/08/2022 15:18

Soubriquet · 30/08/2022 15:16

Anyone else imagining the poster educating us plebs about paninis furiously typing on their keyboard? Cos I know I am

In full 'someone is wrong on the internet' mode? Yup.

Hydrangeatea · 30/08/2022 15:25

ThisIsAddiction · 30/08/2022 00:20

I nearly murdered DH in Tesco once in a ridiculous argument over whether we usually bought Paninis loose from the bakery or wrapped on the shelf. It went on for the entire shop and I knew I was being utterly ridiculous but couldn’t bring myself to back down from it.
I went to my GP a few days later and begged for HRT. All is well again 😂😂
and I was right we bought them from the bakery

This has had me howling! Sort of thing I would do ha ha ha