Does you speak proper England like?

[Arfie]

My pet hates are things such as:
 
"Can you borrow me a tenner?"
 
or
 
"Can I lend a tenner?"
 
NO! I'm skint
 
Footballers seem incapable of finishing words which end in "ly" so they do fings proper, rather than properly, brilliant rather than brilliantly. in fact theres another one, the replacement of "th" with "f" fings, fink, fought
 
And text talk really annoys me things like "C U l8r" we don't pay by the letter and with predictive text is it really too much eff ort to type "see you later"?
 
Anyway, I'm off to grumble in a corner somewhere and wait for Endoman to arrive, he is even worse than I am
 
Arfie
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[broady]

20 years ago I worked with a pleasant young girl who had a propensity to chuck the work 'actually' into everything she said. We nicknamed her 'Actually Angela'

A conversation would go along the lines of

Customer - 'blah, blah, blah.....can you help me with that?'

Angela - 'Actually it's probably better if you actually speak to my section head about this actually'

Drove me nuts I tell ya !!!

Graham

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[Adrian Kelland]

Originally Posted by hogen-deifar

And of course, how they hold their knife!!!!

And what they use it for.

[Can't beat 'em, join 'em]

Originally Posted by Finless

A friend always starts any sentence that is questioning or disagreeing with "with all due respect ....."

Which of course means "With no respect whatsoever you brain dead Ar*e"
Things I hate:

People who say

"I won him" not "I beat him"
"I've got a scatch I need to itch"
"Can I 'ave a borrow of your...."
"Will you learn me 'ow to......?"
"She learnt me this"
"I ant dun nowt"

I had a lecturer at collage who used the phrase "It's like, right, ya know...." in seemingly every sentance

Oh, and people who seem compelled to make a complete revolution before every utterence "She turned around and said......., So well I turned around and said.......So he turned around and said........" I feel like jumping in and saying "Didn't you all get dizzy?"

[gerbil]

erm.........guilty

[Gram43]

Originally Posted by gerbil

erm.........guilty

Ain't we all!!

I used to always say things like "the thing is that" and "at the end of the day", both before starting a sentance. Drove the missus mad.

[yazzyfooty]

A couple months ago on the way to the Stoney we stopped at the services and while waiting for our meal the woman behind the counter must have called me 'lurve' at least 10 times. I wanted to grab her by neck and tell her I wasnt her 'lurve' and for her to show some respect for paying customer.

[endoman]

Originally Posted by Arfie

My pet hates are things such as:

"Can you borrow me a tenner?"

or

"Can I lend a tenner?"

NO! I'm skint

Footballers seem incapable of finishing words which end in "ly" so they do fings proper, rather than properly, brilliant rather than brilliantly. in fact theres another one, the replacement of "th" with "f" fings, fink, fought

And text talk really annoys me things like "C U l8r" we don't pay by the letter and with predictive text is it really too much effort to type "see you later"?

Anyway, I'm off to grumble in a corner somewhere and wait for Endoman to arrive, he is even worse than I am

Arfie
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Why it's taken me some time to find this but I can only agree. Double negatives, incorrect verbs, the whole lot drives me bonkers.

[endoman]

Originally Posted by yazzyfooty

A couple months ago on the way to the Stoney we stopped at the services and while waiting for our meal the woman behind the counter must have called me 'lurve' at least 10 times. I wanted to grab her by neck and tell her I wasnt her 'lurve' and for her to show some respect for paying customer.

Had you stopped at a services around here you would have been called " duck". My how that bemused my colleague from Santa Barbara I was entertaining last week

Beats that Cockney phrase " Do me a Lemon"

[Alun]

How do you think that went?

Brings me out in a cold sweat...