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  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,344
    "Todays Premier League match involves Crystal Palace"
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    "Can't be bothered to read the whole thread, can someone tell me what's going on"
  • StigThundercock
    StigThundercock Posts: 3,722
    starting every ontribution with "So..."

    "sort of" used as punctuation or (hard of)thinking time

    "can I get" when you mean 'may I have' or 'I would like'

    "back in the day" - straight red followed by shovelling into the refuse burning power station in Bermondsey
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    As I said.

    If you said it you don't have to repeat it.... But you didn't say it, did you, you moron.
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    Corporate.

    When used as a noun. It's an adjective.
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    mendonca said:

    Can I get???
    I can't see anything too annoying with this phrase.

    It's "can I have" in this country - always has been. "Can I get" is a yankism, said by people because they think it's cool. There's one word in the English language that sounds better in an American accent. One word. Moustache.

    Actually, once upon a time it used to be "please may I have..." but you are right about mustdash.
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    No disrespect to: (Barnsley/ Doncaster/ Charlton/ insert name of small club) when uttered by some prick of a pundit before disrespecting...
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    "I'm good" in answer to "how are you?"

    You probably mean you are well or very well.
  • limeygent
    limeygent Posts: 3,217
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    mendonca said:

    Can I get???
    I can't see anything too annoying with this phrase.

    It's "can I have" in this country - always has been. "Can I get" is a yankism, said by people because they think it's cool. There's one word in the English language that sounds better in an American accent. One word. Moustache.
    I think most Americans would agree with you.

  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,159
    Some of my job involves a customer service element and one thing that drives me crazy is when I answer the phone, someone beginning a conversations with 'yeah'. 'Yeah, so what it is yeah..' Maddening.
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  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Medal is a noun not a verb.

    Also pacifically instead of specifically? Really?
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,405
    Leroy Ambrose said:

    mendonca said:

    Can I get???
    I can't see anything too annoying with this phrase.

    It's "can I have" in this country - always has been. "Can I get" is a yankism, said by people because they think it's cool. There's one word in the English language that sounds better in an American accent. One word. Moustache.
    LoL button! I am still struggling to get would up by the use of GET rather then HAVE. Can we settle on MAY I HAVE.


  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    I use to sit in a cafe in Golden Square most mornings listening to the office knobs saying "Can I get this" "Can I get that", use to put me off reading me Daily Mail
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    Laters
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    Charlton are too close to the relegation positions
  • donnyaddick
    donnyaddick Posts: 315
    Being told to "Work smarter not harder" - generally when being given shed loads of extra work to do.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,206
    edited December 2013
    The eighth letter of the alphabet being pronounced as if is starts with an "H" rather than an "A"

    "We are Charlton, coming in"
  • Sir Chrissy
    Sir Chrissy Posts: 609
    Can I grab ... ugh really p*sses me off
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Sir Chrissy said:

    Can I grab ... ugh really p*sses me off

    Mate of mine said that in a bar in reference to some peanuts. A simple "if you can reach" silenced him amongst the hoots of mirth.
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    Henry Irving said:

    The eighth letter of the alphabet being pronounced as if is starts with an "H" rather than an "A"

    Not just me then. I have had several conversations with colleagues who insist on pronouncing it that way and that I am the one in the wrong. Had more than one tell me I only say it like that because I'm from London and therefore incapable of pronouncing my aitches...

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  • superdulvertonred
    superdulvertonred Posts: 1,137
    ITK
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    "I don't do...". Usually utterd by some stuck up idiot who thinks they are too important to use public transport, shop in supermarkets or do whatever else it is that common people do.
  • kigelia
    kigelia Posts: 2,582
    Anyone referring to 'freedom of speech' or 'it's my opinion' to allow them to have an ill thought out or offensive rant online or in person.

    Bollocks, get informed first (and not by a friend/bloke at work/Wikipedia) and then you can demand your right to have an opinion.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,206
    Bournemouth Addick said:

    Henry Irving said:

    The eighth letter of the alphabet being pronounced as if is starts with an "H" rather than an "A"

    Not just me then. I have had several conversations with colleagues who insist on pronouncing it that way and that I am the one in the wrong. Had more than one tell me I only say it like that because I'm from London and therefore incapable of pronouncing my aitches...

    I think that is exactly the problem. It is rarely written out and people have assumed the proper pronuciation is a "lazy/common/cockney" mispronunciatiion.
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    takeover rumour
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    Sir Chris Powell
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    Do the math
    Have you got a Nector Card?
  • crookester
    crookester Posts: 1,327
    On here, it has to be "The PC brigade.." followed by a nasty sexist/racist/homophobic rant.
  • Redskin
    Redskin Posts: 3,112
    edited December 2013
    kigelia said:

    Anyone referring to 'freedom of speech' or 'it's my opinion' to allow them to have an ill thought out or offensive rant online or in person.

    Bollocks, get informed first (and not by a friend/bloke at work/Wikipedia) and then you can demand your right to have an opinion.

    Unfortunately, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and sadly they now have the opportunity to 'share' it with us through social networks etc.

    What these these people fail to grasp is their entitlement to an opinion doesn't preclude it from being no more meaningful than a small pile of old toe-nail clippings.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    edited December 2013
    Henry Irving said:

    Bournemouth Addick said:

    Henry Irving said:

    The eighth letter of the alphabet being pronounced as if is starts with an "H" rather than an "A"

    Not just me then. I have had several conversations with colleagues who insist on pronouncing it that way and that I am the one in the wrong. Had more than one tell me I only say it like that because I'm from London and therefore incapable of pronouncing my aitches...

    Henry said: I think that is exactly the problem. It is rarely written out and people have assumed the proper pronuciation is a "lazy/common/cockney" mispronunciatiion.

    I think the same happens with quite a few words. Herb is another favourite where people assume that the h is sounded.

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