When asking for a beer the word "please" comes in to play if you are polite.
Also i was brought up to say may rather than "can". The answer to can I get a beer is "this is a bar, so yes....next please" or alternatively"no I'll need to get it for you....next please". Do you now see why some of us more ancient folk find it grating?
Can refers to the person's ability to have (or get) a beer. ie 'can I have' well can you, are you allowed? And 'can I get' meaning well can you? Are YOU (the person asking) able to get a beer?
Anyhowz, i ain't sayings this coz i wants to get dragged into an argument about weather or not YOUR allowed to say can i haves it rather than get it, you get me? If anything i don't have to arkse for a beer innit, i take it
I love cricket & especially Ashes series, but if I hear one more effing Aussie begin a sentence with "aw look mate" I think I will bloody scream. It is right up there with "can I get" when ordering food, or the morons who intersperse each sentence with a half dozen uses of the word like.
Couldn't agree more about the can I get thing.
But then I thought, Marvin Gaye would've sounded a bit of a berk singing May I Have a Witness.
I've heard a lot of people say this, but I don't really understand it. Is it that you think it should be "Can I have..."?
That seems strange to me - you go up to the bar to get a beer, not to have a beer. The having denotes possession, the getting denotes receiving - I can't understand why it would be better to say "Can I possess a beer?" rather than "Can I receive a beer?"
Do explain it to me though, I could be persuaded.
Why would I want to? You carry on getting mate. You can get me one whilst you're there. I'll happily have it.
So... I know you're framing that in the context of a joke, but surely the subtext there is that I am right? 'Get' is an acceptable verb for when you're purchasing it.
I love cricket & especially Ashes series, but if I hear one more effing Aussie begin a sentence with "aw look mate" I think I will bloody scream. It is right up there with "can I get" when ordering food, or the morons who intersperse each sentence with a half dozen uses of the word like.
Couldn't agree more about the can I get thing.
But then I thought, Marvin Gaye would've sounded a bit of a berk singing May I Have a Witness.
I've heard a lot of people say this, but I don't really understand it. Is it that you think it should be "Can I have..."?
That seems strange to me - you go up to the bar to get a beer, not to have a beer. The having denotes possession, the getting denotes receiving - I can't understand why it would be better to say "Can I possess a beer?" rather than "Can I receive a beer?"
Do explain it to me though, I could be persuaded.
I've tried this one before. I agree with you on "can I get", but you won't make any headway. People who hate "can I get" see "get" in that context as a synonym for "fetch", which, to be fair, would sound a bit silly.
By the way, "have" may also denote consumption.
In any case, there are two commonly used phrases for the same thing. I don't understand why one of them has to be 'correct' and the other 'wrong'
I thought that as well, and that's even stranger - why would you go to a bar and effectively say "Can I drink a beer?"?
For the record, I'm easy with 'get' or 'have', but I just don't get (or should it be have?) why people get(have) angry about it one way or the other!
Not at all. I'm framing it in the context of responding to a stranger who doesn't know how to use the language and thinks that they're clever, when they aren't. I don't know you and really don't want to interact with you.
Sorry mate, my mistake - didn't realise you were a knob.
Are a knob! Are a knob! You aren't very good at this language lark.
I love cricket & especially Ashes series, but if I hear one more effing Aussie begin a sentence with "aw look mate" I think I will bloody scream. It is right up there with "can I get" when ordering food, or the morons who intersperse each sentence with a half dozen uses of the word like.
Couldn't agree more about the can I get thing.
But then I thought, Marvin Gaye would've sounded a bit of a berk singing May I Have a Witness.
I've heard a lot of people say this, but I don't really understand it. Is it that you think it should be "Can I have..."?
That seems strange to me - you go up to the bar to get a beer, not to have a beer. The having denotes possession, the getting denotes receiving - I can't understand why it would be better to say "Can I possess a beer?" rather than "Can I receive a beer?"
Do explain it to me though, I could be persuaded.
Why would I want to? You carry on getting mate. You can get me one whilst you're there. I'll happily have it.
So... I know you're framing that in the context of a joke, but surely the subtext there is that I am right? 'Get' is an acceptable verb for when you're purchasing it.
I love cricket & especially Ashes series, but if I hear one more effing Aussie begin a sentence with "aw look mate" I think I will bloody scream. It is right up there with "can I get" when ordering food, or the morons who intersperse each sentence with a half dozen uses of the word like.
Couldn't agree more about the can I get thing.
But then I thought, Marvin Gaye would've sounded a bit of a berk singing May I Have a Witness.
I've heard a lot of people say this, but I don't really understand it. Is it that you think it should be "Can I have..."?
That seems strange to me - you go up to the bar to get a beer, not to have a beer. The having denotes possession, the getting denotes receiving - I can't understand why it would be better to say "Can I possess a beer?" rather than "Can I receive a beer?"
Do explain it to me though, I could be persuaded.
I've tried this one before. I agree with you on "can I get", but you won't make any headway. People who hate "can I get" see "get" in that context as a synonym for "fetch", which, to be fair, would sound a bit silly.
By the way, "have" may also denote consumption.
In any case, there are two commonly used phrases for the same thing. I don't understand why one of them has to be 'correct' and the other 'wrong'
I thought that as well, and that's even stranger - why would you go to a bar and effectively say "Can I drink a beer?"?
For the record, I'm easy with 'get' or 'have', but I just don't get (or should it be have?) why people get(have) angry about it one way or the other!
Not at all. I'm framing it in the context of responding to a stranger who doesn't know how to use the language and thinks that they're clever, when they aren't. I don't know you and really don't want to interact with you.
Sorry mate, my mistake - didn't realise you were a knob.
Are a knob! Are a knob! You aren't very good at this language lark.
Oh dear. That's poor and pretty embarrassing for you seeing as this is a discussion on language and you're playing 'oneupmanship' games. He was correct to say 'were' because he was referring to the past when he said he 'didn't realise'. He could have further clarified by adding something like 'now I realise you are a nob' but it would've been redundant as this realisation was inferred by his statement. First rule of correcting people: don't be wrong when you do it.
Videos uploaded online in particular on Facebook that insist you watch the video to see "what happened next was simply amazing" and other similarly worded crap.
Bloody Arsenal fans on social media singing the virtues of their 1-0 community shield win over Chelsea. Idiots. Will they ever learn? They set themselves up for failure and ridicule every year. Let's see what serial winner Jose says about the community shield defeat in May
Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but half and half scarves at major footbal matches. Getting the tube through London just now and the number of fans with half red and half blue scarves coming back from the match at Wembley is just atrocious - it's the woollen embodiment of the death of English football as we knew it !
I love cricket & especially Ashes series, but if I hear one more effing Aussie begin a sentence with "aw look mate" I think I will bloody scream. It is right up there with "can I get" when ordering food, or the morons who intersperse each sentence with a half dozen uses of the word like.
Couldn't agree more about the can I get thing.
But then I thought, Marvin Gaye would've sounded a bit of a berk singing May I Have a Witness.
I've heard a lot of people say this, but I don't really understand it. Is it that you think it should be "Can I have..."?
That seems strange to me - you go up to the bar to get a beer, not to have a beer. The having denotes possession, the getting denotes receiving - I can't understand why it would be better to say "Can I possess a beer?" rather than "Can I receive a beer?"
Do explain it to me though, I could be persuaded.
Why would I want to? You carry on getting mate. You can get me one whilst you're there. I'll happily have it.
So... I know you're framing that in the context of a joke, but surely the subtext there is that I am right? 'Get' is an acceptable verb for when you're purchasing it.
I love cricket & especially Ashes series, but if I hear one more effing Aussie begin a sentence with "aw look mate" I think I will bloody scream. It is right up there with "can I get" when ordering food, or the morons who intersperse each sentence with a half dozen uses of the word like.
Couldn't agree more about the can I get thing.
But then I thought, Marvin Gaye would've sounded a bit of a berk singing May I Have a Witness.
I've heard a lot of people say this, but I don't really understand it. Is it that you think it should be "Can I have..."?
That seems strange to me - you go up to the bar to get a beer, not to have a beer. The having denotes possession, the getting denotes receiving - I can't understand why it would be better to say "Can I possess a beer?" rather than "Can I receive a beer?"
Do explain it to me though, I could be persuaded.
I've tried this one before. I agree with you on "can I get", but you won't make any headway. People who hate "can I get" see "get" in that context as a synonym for "fetch", which, to be fair, would sound a bit silly.
By the way, "have" may also denote consumption.
In any case, there are two commonly used phrases for the same thing. I don't understand why one of them has to be 'correct' and the other 'wrong'
I thought that as well, and that's even stranger - why would you go to a bar and effectively say "Can I drink a beer?"?
For the record, I'm easy with 'get' or 'have', but I just don't get (or should it be have?) why people get(have) angry about it one way or the other!
Not at all. I'm framing it in the context of responding to a stranger who doesn't know how to use the language and thinks that they're clever, when they aren't. I don't know you and really don't want to interact with you.
Sorry mate, my mistake - didn't realise you were a knob.
Are a knob! Are a knob! You aren't very good at this language lark.
Oh dear. That's poor and pretty embarrassing for you seeing as this is a discussion on language and you're playing 'oneupmanship' games. He was correct to say 'were' because he was referring to the past when he said he 'didn't realise'. He could have further clarified by adding something like 'now I realise you are a nob' but it would've been redundant as this realisation was inferred by his statement. First rule of correcting people: don't be wrong when you do it.
I love cricket & especially Ashes series, but if I hear one more effing Aussie begin a sentence with "aw look mate" I think I will bloody scream. It is right up there with "can I get" when ordering food, or the morons who intersperse each sentence with a half dozen uses of the word like.
Couldn't agree more about the can I get thing.
But then I thought, Marvin Gaye would've sounded a bit of a berk singing May I Have a Witness.
I've heard a lot of people say this, but I don't really understand it. Is it that you think it should be "Can I have..."?
That seems strange to me - you go up to the bar to get a beer, not to have a beer. The having denotes possession, the getting denotes receiving - I can't understand why it would be better to say "Can I possess a beer?" rather than "Can I receive a beer?"
Do explain it to me though, I could be persuaded.
Why would I want to? You carry on getting mate. You can get me one whilst you're there. I'll happily have it.
So... I know you're framing that in the context of a joke, but surely the subtext there is that I am right? 'Get' is an acceptable verb for when you're purchasing it.
I love cricket & especially Ashes series, but if I hear one more effing Aussie begin a sentence with "aw look mate" I think I will bloody scream. It is right up there with "can I get" when ordering food, or the morons who intersperse each sentence with a half dozen uses of the word like.
Couldn't agree more about the can I get thing.
But then I thought, Marvin Gaye would've sounded a bit of a berk singing May I Have a Witness.
I've heard a lot of people say this, but I don't really understand it. Is it that you think it should be "Can I have..."?
That seems strange to me - you go up to the bar to get a beer, not to have a beer. The having denotes possession, the getting denotes receiving - I can't understand why it would be better to say "Can I possess a beer?" rather than "Can I receive a beer?"
Do explain it to me though, I could be persuaded.
I've tried this one before. I agree with you on "can I get", but you won't make any headway. People who hate "can I get" see "get" in that context as a synonym for "fetch", which, to be fair, would sound a bit silly.
By the way, "have" may also denote consumption.
In any case, there are two commonly used phrases for the same thing. I don't understand why one of them has to be 'correct' and the other 'wrong'
I thought that as well, and that's even stranger - why would you go to a bar and effectively say "Can I drink a beer?"?
For the record, I'm easy with 'get' or 'have', but I just don't get (or should it be have?) why people get(have) angry about it one way or the other!
Not at all. I'm framing it in the context of responding to a stranger who doesn't know how to use the language and thinks that they're clever, when they aren't. I don't know you and really don't want to interact with you.
Sorry mate, my mistake - didn't realise you were a knob.
Are a knob! Are a knob! You aren't very good at this language lark.
Oh dear. That's poor and pretty embarrassing for you seeing as this is a discussion on language and you're playing 'oneupmanship' games. He was correct to say 'were' because he was referring to the past when he said he 'didn't realise'. He could have further clarified by adding something like 'now I realise you are a nob' but it would've been redundant as this realisation was inferred by his statement. First rule of correcting people: don't be wrong when you do it.
I don't recall ever being so embarrassed.
If the quality of wit you're displaying here is your usual standard, I seriously doubt that.
People's outpouring of grief for people they don't know. Internet ambulance chasers.
I think it's called empathy, but your right up to a point.
After watching a "Song for Jenny" about a young 24 year old lady who was in the wrong place on 7/7 and the 6 days it took her mother to have it confirmed she was dead. You would have to be quite cut off from any emotions not to share her grief.
I love cricket & especially Ashes series, but if I hear one more effing Aussie begin a sentence with "aw look mate" I think I will bloody scream. It is right up there with "can I get" when ordering food, or the morons who intersperse each sentence with a half dozen uses of the word like.
Couldn't agree more about the can I get thing.
But then I thought, Marvin Gaye would've sounded a bit of a berk singing May I Have a Witness.
I've heard a lot of people say this, but I don't really understand it. Is it that you think it should be "Can I have..."?
That seems strange to me - you go up to the bar to get a beer, not to have a beer. The having denotes possession, the getting denotes receiving - I can't understand why it would be better to say "Can I possess a beer?" rather than "Can I receive a beer?"
Do explain it to me though, I could be persuaded.
Why would I want to? You carry on getting mate. You can get me one whilst you're there. I'll happily have it.
So... I know you're framing that in the context of a joke, but surely the subtext there is that I am right? 'Get' is an acceptable verb for when you're purchasing it.
I love cricket & especially Ashes series, but if I hear one more effing Aussie begin a sentence with "aw look mate" I think I will bloody scream. It is right up there with "can I get" when ordering food, or the morons who intersperse each sentence with a half dozen uses of the word like.
Couldn't agree more about the can I get thing.
But then I thought, Marvin Gaye would've sounded a bit of a berk singing May I Have a Witness.
I've heard a lot of people say this, but I don't really understand it. Is it that you think it should be "Can I have..."?
That seems strange to me - you go up to the bar to get a beer, not to have a beer. The having denotes possession, the getting denotes receiving - I can't understand why it would be better to say "Can I possess a beer?" rather than "Can I receive a beer?"
Do explain it to me though, I could be persuaded.
I've tried this one before. I agree with you on "can I get", but you won't make any headway. People who hate "can I get" see "get" in that context as a synonym for "fetch", which, to be fair, would sound a bit silly.
By the way, "have" may also denote consumption.
In any case, there are two commonly used phrases for the same thing. I don't understand why one of them has to be 'correct' and the other 'wrong'
I thought that as well, and that's even stranger - why would you go to a bar and effectively say "Can I drink a beer?"?
For the record, I'm easy with 'get' or 'have', but I just don't get (or should it be have?) why people get(have) angry about it one way or the other!
Not at all. I'm framing it in the context of responding to a stranger who doesn't know how to use the language and thinks that they're clever, when they aren't. I don't know you and really don't want to interact with you.
Sorry mate, my mistake - didn't realise you were a knob.
Are a knob! Are a knob! You aren't very good at this language lark.
Oh dear. That's poor and pretty embarrassing for you seeing as this is a discussion on language and you're playing 'oneupmanship' games. He was correct to say 'were' because he was referring to the past when he said he 'didn't realise'. He could have further clarified by adding something like 'now I realise you are a nob' but it would've been redundant as this realisation was inferred by his statement. First rule of correcting people: don't be wrong when you do it.
I don't recall ever being so embarrassed.
If the quality of wit you're displaying here is your usual standard, I seriously doubt that.
Not sure what I've done to upset you mate, but whatever it was it was worth it.
I love cricket & especially Ashes series, but if I hear one more effing Aussie begin a sentence with "aw look mate" I think I will bloody scream. It is right up there with "can I get" when ordering food, or the morons who intersperse each sentence with a half dozen uses of the word like.
Couldn't agree more about the can I get thing.
But then I thought, Marvin Gaye would've sounded a bit of a berk singing May I Have a Witness.
I've heard a lot of people say this, but I don't really understand it. Is it that you think it should be "Can I have..."?
That seems strange to me - you go up to the bar to get a beer, not to have a beer. The having denotes possession, the getting denotes receiving - I can't understand why it would be better to say "Can I possess a beer?" rather than "Can I receive a beer?"
Do explain it to me though, I could be persuaded.
Why would I want to? You carry on getting mate. You can get me one whilst you're there. I'll happily have it.
So... I know you're framing that in the context of a joke, but surely the subtext there is that I am right? 'Get' is an acceptable verb for when you're purchasing it.
I love cricket & especially Ashes series, but if I hear one more effing Aussie begin a sentence with "aw look mate" I think I will bloody scream. It is right up there with "can I get" when ordering food, or the morons who intersperse each sentence with a half dozen uses of the word like.
Couldn't agree more about the can I get thing.
But then I thought, Marvin Gaye would've sounded a bit of a berk singing May I Have a Witness.
I've heard a lot of people say this, but I don't really understand it. Is it that you think it should be "Can I have..."?
That seems strange to me - you go up to the bar to get a beer, not to have a beer. The having denotes possession, the getting denotes receiving - I can't understand why it would be better to say "Can I possess a beer?" rather than "Can I receive a beer?"
Do explain it to me though, I could be persuaded.
I've tried this one before. I agree with you on "can I get", but you won't make any headway. People who hate "can I get" see "get" in that context as a synonym for "fetch", which, to be fair, would sound a bit silly.
By the way, "have" may also denote consumption.
In any case, there are two commonly used phrases for the same thing. I don't understand why one of them has to be 'correct' and the other 'wrong'
I thought that as well, and that's even stranger - why would you go to a bar and effectively say "Can I drink a beer?"?
For the record, I'm easy with 'get' or 'have', but I just don't get (or should it be have?) why people get(have) angry about it one way or the other!
Not at all. I'm framing it in the context of responding to a stranger who doesn't know how to use the language and thinks that they're clever, when they aren't. I don't know you and really don't want to interact with you.
Sorry mate, my mistake - didn't realise you were a knob.
Are a knob! Are a knob! You aren't very good at this language lark.
Oh dear. That's poor and pretty embarrassing for you seeing as this is a discussion on language and you're playing 'oneupmanship' games. He was correct to say 'were' because he was referring to the past when he said he 'didn't realise'. He could have further clarified by adding something like 'now I realise you are a nob' but it would've been redundant as this realisation was inferred by his statement. First rule of correcting people: don't be wrong when you do it.
I don't recall ever being so embarrassed.
If the quality of wit you're displaying here is your usual standard, I seriously doubt that.
Not sure what I've done to upset you mate, but whatever it was it was worth it.
People's outpouring of grief for people they don't know. Internet ambulance chasers.
I agree, but it doesn't make it right to be disrespectful & joke about someone's death, although I could make exceptions for downright nasty/evil people. Cilla, doesn't fall into this category.
I queued for an hour in the early hours of Sunday morning just after junction 10 (anti clockwise) because those C**** at the highways agency, TFL or whoever it is in charge of the M25 decided it would be a wizard wheeze to put the cones out so that four lanes become one ho, ho ho! I saw three fluorescent jacketed gentlemen scratching their heads in amongst the miles of cones and an unused machine of some description.
What was the motive other than to fuck up the lives of decent working people?
At that time of night with driver fatigue the stress of that wasted hour could be the difference between having an accident and not.
C****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry to swear even with asterisks but I was extremely annoyed as the self same thing happened in the same sort of area three or four weeks before.
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Can refers to the person's ability to have (or get) a beer. ie 'can I have' well can you, are you allowed? And 'can I get' meaning well can you? Are YOU (the person asking) able to get a beer?
Anyhowz, i ain't sayings this coz i wants to get dragged into an argument about weather or not YOUR allowed to say can i haves it rather than get it, you get me? If anything i don't have to arkse for a beer innit, i take it
He was correct to say 'were' because he was referring to the past when he said he 'didn't realise'. He could have further clarified by adding something like 'now I realise you are a nob' but it would've been redundant as this realisation was inferred by his statement.
First rule of correcting people: don't be wrong when you do it.
;-)
They infuriate me
The arsenal
Which is now hairy.
After watching a "Song for Jenny" about a young 24 year old lady who was in the wrong place on 7/7 and the 6 days it took her mother to have it confirmed she was dead.
You would have to be quite cut off from any emotions not to share her grief.
Since then I don't do it anywhere near as much... certainly not in a cnuty way.
I queued for an hour in the early hours of Sunday morning just after junction 10 (anti clockwise) because those C**** at the highways agency, TFL or whoever it is in charge of the M25 decided it would be a wizard wheeze to put the cones out so that four lanes become one ho, ho ho! I saw three fluorescent jacketed gentlemen scratching their heads in amongst the miles of cones and an unused machine of some description.
What was the motive other than to fuck up the lives of decent working people?
At that time of night with driver fatigue the stress of that wasted hour could be the difference between having an accident and not.
C****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry to swear even with asterisks but I was extremely annoyed as the self same thing happened in the same sort of area three or four weeks before.