Phumfeinz Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 That I can't park my motorbike in a well-lit and CCTV-covered car park for literally 5 minutes without some word removed trying to steal it. The steering bar is now bent to hell and I'm gonna have to spend money getting it sorted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 ‘sent from my blackberry/iphone’ Its time someone was shot for that ‘I have better technology than you’ statement bobbed on the bottom of so many emails and posts. Which misses the point that most people choose their own favourite technology and actually think you’re a w*nk*r for using whatever you chose Sent from my sinclair zx81 It's actually quite useful. When I'm e-mailing a client on the run I want them to know I'm doing it on the run, that way I get to be as short and sweet (read "abrupt") as I like while maintaining the image that their bullshit is important to me. This And you can blame typos on predective text wjen you are half cut at 1pm on a Tuesday down your local Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Mike hitting 20000 posts and bringing out my competitive nature so that I feel I have to post frivolous things that piss me off just to increase my post count Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 The way Americans say 'mobile'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiggyrichard Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 The way Americans say 'mobile'. Do they not still refer to it as a 'cell-phone'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 12, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted January 12, 2012 People who attach their sat navs slap bang in the centre of their windscreen just under the mirror. How on earth have you a clear view of the road. See them every morning on the M42, morons. I've posted exactly the same thing in here before. Sometimes they're eevn closer to the driver's line of vision, like right in front of their face. I'm tempted to crash into someone like that and then blame it on their sat nav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 12, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted January 12, 2012 People who say "When you assume you make an ASS out of U and ME" thinking they're being really clever, when everyone in the whole world has heard that phrase before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irreverentad Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 People who say "When you assume you make an ASS out of U and ME" thinking they're being really clever, when everyone in the whole world has heard that phrase before Thats clever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 The way Americans say 'mobile'. Do they not still refer to it as a 'cell-phone'? Nah, as in the way they pronounce it. "Moh-bull". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 12, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted January 12, 2012 On the whole I have no issues with American English vs. British English (spelling or pronunciation) - US English is a perfectly acceptable local variant. Except for a couple of blind spots - one of which is the way they turn "mirror" and "squirrel" into one-syllable words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 On the whole I have no issues with American English vs. British English (spelling or pronunciation) - US English is a perfectly acceptable local variant. Except for a couple of blind spots - one of which is the way they turn "mirror" and "squirrel" into one-syllable words. The palace of meeers Where dog soldiers are reflected The endless road and the wailing of chimes The empty rooms where her memory is protected Where the angel's voices whisper to the souls of previous times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 typinglikethisbecauseitsohsocuteandkooky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 12, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted January 12, 2012 On the whole I have no issues with American English vs. British English (spelling or pronunciation) - US English is a perfectly acceptable local variant. Except for a couple of blind spots - one of which is the way they turn "mirror" and "squirrel" into one-syllable words. The palace of meeers Where dog soldiers are reflected The endless road and the wailing of chimes The empty rooms where her memory is protected Where the angel's voices whisper to the souls of previous times.Exactly. He also threw me for years with: "She's delicate and seems like the mirror" - which I thought was either "like veneer" or "like Vermeer". (Visions of Johanna, BTW) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 12, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted January 12, 2012 typinglikethisbecauseitsohsocuteandkooky. NeArLy As BaD aS tYpInG lIkE tHiS bEcAuSe It'S kEwL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 12, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted January 12, 2012 "Introducing the Waterstones Book Club. "Our new Book Club brings you the best books to lose yourself in. These are guaranteed, cover-to-cover, life-changing, day-making, unputdownable stories". Oh **** off. "Guaranteed"? One man's greatest book ever is another man's potboiler. That's what's good about them. Incidentally, the books are here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 12, 2012 Moderator Share Posted January 12, 2012 The way Americans say 'mobile'. Do they not still refer to it as a 'cell-phone'?Yeah like that place, cell-phone, Alabama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 When you message a girl you like on Facebook and the reply is 'Who's this?'. My dreams, crushed. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 12, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted January 12, 2012 The way Americans say 'mobile'. Do they not still refer to it as a 'cell-phone'?Yeah like that place, cell-phone, Alabama.Need confirmation from one of our USAians. I would say that the cellphone is "moble", and the place in Alabama is "Mo-BEEL". :?: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 12, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted January 12, 2012 I think it's "mobl" when they say "mobl phone" (on the rare occasion). But when they say Mobile on it's own, as in the town in Alabama, or the thing you hang above a baby's bed, they say "mobeel" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 12, 2012 Moderator Share Posted January 12, 2012 The way Americans say 'mobile'. Do they not still refer to it as a 'cell-phone'? Yeah like that place, cell-phone, Alabama.Need confirmation from one of our USAians. I would say that the cellphone is "moble", and the place in Alabama is "Mo-BEEL". :?: Is the right answer I was being smart on an ironic level if ya get me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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