To ask the most immature or spoiled behaviour you've seen from an adult?

[HellaFitzgerald]

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)

Yes, it is absolutely the type of 'correction' that a bright sixth-form boy/first-year undergraduate feels compelled to make.

Patronising, irrelevant, wrong, and, as you say, makes you look like a massive dick.

Don't you mean squabblo? It's only one.

😂😂😂😂😂

The sentence is the result of a boring attempt at derailment about the singular and plural forms of the word. In actual fact the poster is correct in that, in Italy, what we refer to as a ‘panini’, is in fact a ‘panino’, so ‘panini’ would be the plural and ‘paninis’ is bad grammar. However, since the word was borrowed from the Italian and came to us via the French, the grammar has been distorted and according to my dictionary ‘panini’ is now accepted as both the singular and plural forms of the word in English. The same goes for other Italian words such as spaghetti and zucchini. I’m even boring myself to death now, so I won’t subject you to any more. I’m sure the poster will be along soon to correct my own grammar because I didn’t use capital P’s for panini !! And in case you’re wondering, apparently it’s a criminal offence in Italy too order a Cappuccino (Cappuccini??) after 11am.

Squabblo sounds like it could be a good board game 😂

Otherwise you end up being one of those people who make a point of saying bolognese in the Italian way and sounding stupid.

I know someone like this. She sounds like a right knob.

At last. Someone with a bit of knowledge.

Had experience of this as one of two PA’s sharing an office many years ago. Old style manual typewriters. The other lady got so mad at something her boss had criticised about her work that she was jabbing furiously at the keys and flinging the carriage across so violently that I genuinely worried it was going to fly off and hit me. Hilarious.

You could play it while eating your panino, or spaghetto with zucchino !!

And consequently the plural would be squabbli if you had two !!

Are we squabbellini?

Next time see whether she’s serving it with spaghetti and you can be just as irritating by telling her that no self respecting Italian would !!

I think we all know that that poster is correct about Italian grammar, but has failed to grasp the concept that when words are adopted into a new language, they follow the grammatical rules of that language.

Apparently, no number of examples of how it's actually used in English would be sufficient to communicate that (fairly basic) concept.

I think they're on a wind-up anyway, but sadly I can no longer use Advanced Search, which I'm sure would reveal some gems.

I have no wish to squabbeloono with you @Rosscameasdoody , @FourChimneys , @TheOrigRights or any of the other posters who have correctly adjudged this particular poster to be a derailing cazzone.

No, va tutti bene. No squabbelirini qui.

‘We’ would be squabbellini, you are correct - that would be the plural of ‘squabbellino’ which would refer to one of the participants of the game of squabblo !! If you take the word ‘squabblo’ in it’s original form, meaning ‘disagreement’ or colloquially ‘punch up’ presumably a bar fight, or similar, would be a squabbli as there would be individual conflagrations (conflagrino/grini ?) I could do this all day !!

Just to put the panini argument to bed (unless anyone wishes to argue with the OED):

panini - noun (also panino)
(plural: panini, paninis)

a sandwich made with Italian bread, usually toast

Oxford Learners' Dictionaries

Cheers for that. I don't think it will carry any weight with our resident Italian 'expert' [sic] though.

The Tesco marketing department is going to be extremely confused as to why pani... long flat Italian bread roll sales have suddenly spiked for no discernible reason.

Out of curiosity, do all Italians agree that it is panini/panino? Do they have any geographic bread divide similar to the great British roll/bun/bap/cob/barm discourse?

What about masculine / feminine? We may as well get this right now we've over committed.

This squabblino is the funniest derailment I’ve read in a while 😂😂😂

Pannini, panning

Seriously, nobody gives a shit

OXFORD
ENGLISH
DICTIONARY

"The funny thing about facts is that they are quite hard to argue with"

Was at an attraction last week that needed a waiver signing before. You're told as you book, you get told in your confirmation email, on arrival there's signs everywhere saying if you haven't done so you can use the special screens to do so.
Woman in queue family of at least 6, hadn't completed, was directed to the screens, shouting at the young man checking off arrivals that it was 'ridiculous' and he should do it for them. (Timed event so staff trying to process queue quickly) she then said 'well I'm not queuing again, can I come to the front?' Young man just said 'no sorry, you need to queue' then gestured for the next in the queue to come forward. She stamped her foot and marched off like Kevin the teenager saying how it was 'so unfair' as the rest of the family just looked like this was the norm. The queues were moving super quick so she wouldn't have waited long, in fact she was the only person holding the queue up.

I'll add perhaps she didn't know how to use the screens/couldn't read/some other reason, but of at least 6 I'm surely one could

Yes, but I think it also needs to be a drinking game @FourChimneys. To make sure you get the full effect.

My then boyfriend left me stranded miles away from home because I said hello to a guy I'd gone to school with.