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little things that annoy the shit out of you


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15 hours ago, Elite said:

Quite the contrast in hobbies that.

Depends on how my mind decides I'm feeling that day. If I feel like I'm 20 again, I get on the decks but if I need to shut the world out for a few hours, I sit myself at my modelling bench and lose myself for a bit. Brilliant for de-stressing is model building, until you lose a piece.

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42 minutes ago, Jose Jones said:

Aluminum is actually the original name. The Brits didn’t like the sound of it so put an extra i in there.

The language is called English, therefore whichever version is spoken by the English is the correct version

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29 minutes ago, Remmie said:

Americans are keen to mention they speak the old fashioned version of English saying sidewalk, fall and faucet like that somehow makes them correct. No, however we speak is correct, now fetch your fuckin' shine box.

A few Americanisms are original English word that left on the Mayflower, died out here  and are only just coming back. Garbage is the best example, it’s used in Hamlet. 
 

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10 minutes ago, Captain Willard said:

A few Americanisms are original English word that left on the Mayflower, died out here  and are only just coming back. Garbage is the best example, it’s used in Hamlet. 
 

Yes, that is what I am referring to.

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44 minutes ago, Remmie said:

Yes, that is what I am referring to.

Ok. As I get older, I’m trying to be more accepting of change generally. Languages evolve and getting annoyed about it only diminishes my quality of life. My children will still say “like” instead of “said” whatever I think about it. 

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2 minutes ago, Captain Willard said:

Ok. As I get older, I’m trying to be more accepting of change generally. Languages evolve and getting annoyed about it only diminishes my quality of life. My children will still say “like” instead of “said” whatever I think about it. 

Haha I am getting less tolerant of it which is pretty unhelpful as I occasionally catch myself using a yankism or my daughter from TV.

 

The most noticeable one picked up by British people is using the illogical American dating system and saying August 11th instead of 11th August. It's absolutely everywhere now and I am sure in some cases insisted upon when promoting a boxing match or a movie or something.

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1 hour ago, Captain Willard said:

A few Americanisms are original English word that left on the Mayflower, died out here  and are only just coming back. Garbage is the best example, it’s used in Hamlet. 
 

Those Pilgrim blerts lived in Leiden for 20 years before heading off to annoy America. 

 

The city doesn't really make a big thing of it. There's a small plaque where they sailed from and a tiny pilgrim museum. Loads of the leaders are also buried in Pieterskerk. 

 

I assume it's kept quiet to keep the numbers of US tourists down. 

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27 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

Those Pilgrim blerts lived in Leiden for 20 years before heading off to annoy America. 

 

The city doesn't really make a big thing of it. There's a small plaque where they sailed from and a tiny pilgrim museum. Loads of the leaders are also buried in Pieterskerk. 

 

I assume it's kept quiet to keep the numbers of US tourists down. 

There’s a tiny pub called the Mayflower on the Thames where the ship was moored. You’d think it would be a tourist attraction but I took an American client there once and he wasn’t that fussed, said he preferred Madam Tussauds. 

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