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    Angry This is starting to get on my nerves

    Would people stop describing things as "sick".

    What the hell is happening to the standard of English ?
    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    And by trying to force me to like small pants, they've alienated me.

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    Gotta say im guilty of this occaisionally, i admit i have a problem

    there are certain words that annoy me aswell

    minging being one of them

    why do people (normally women in my experience ) say that

    other ones that annoy me are when people walk up to you and say "safe/sound/blade/brethren" or a mix of all 4

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    Strange one that, its lads round here that use the word minger/minging mostly to describe girls...

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    I've never heard anyone other than on tv describe something as "sick" (except for it's normal use )......must be a southern thing

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    What annoys me is when people use 'memory' to explain hard disk space. Or the misconception of Megabytes and Mebibytes (No, I don't like them either but we're supposed to use them now). Or Megabits (Kilobits, bits) and Megabytes, kilobytes and bytes. Its hard explaining you can still transfer a 10GB file over a 100Mb/s network.

    There's also many others. Here's some which I had whilst an IT support:

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    'My PCs not working' - It was, monitor was just off
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    I too think all these new variations of the English language are stupid.
    "Proper bo" sounds so much dafter than just "excellent" or something.

    And why say silly stuff like "safe bredren (which is infact a mis pronounciation of brethren, silly townies) when you can just say "hi mate"
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    I've moved to Stoke.
    In Stoke somebody stole every dictionary and removed the word "To".
    So, I get Stokeys spouting this crap at me...
    I'm going Hanely
    I'm going Pub

    And all the time:
    I'm going MAD.

    BTW: My Gf does it....and if I correct her....I get it in the neck for half an hour for speaking down to her!!!
    DAMN STOKE GRAMMAR.

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    "Wicked" "Bad"

    why why why why ???

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    The only thing that really annoys me in this kind of category is the way people spell the word "tongue" as "tounge". It's wrong! You're dumb!

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    Getting really annoyed with people using the saying "fair play" when it makes FA sence. "Safe" is also another word which is also gettin on my nerves.

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    you guys have too little to worry about!

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    what annoys me the most is when newsreaders mispronounce the word police. they miss out the O, so it sounds like pleese... really gets on my tits. other than that, stuff like "what u chattin about", meaning "what are you saying" is kinda ironic, as what they are saying doesnt really make any sense anyway. It is however inadvisable to tell these people that, as their comebacks are neither humorous, nor verbal

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    da wrd sick iz bad, man. wots ur prob
    It annoys the hell out of me too.

    And the stoke thing annoys me as well as
    "goin down t'pub"
    Grrrrrrrrrr
    Speak English people

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    Originally posted by tonicblue

    Speak English people
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    From your user text...

    oh the irony
    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    And by trying to force me to like small pants, they've alienated me.

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    Originally posted by Knoxville
    Gotta say im guilty of this occaisionally, i admit i have a problem

    there are certain words that annoy me aswell

    minging being one of them

    why do people (normally women in my experience ) say that

    other ones that annoy me are when people walk up to you and say "safe/sound/blade/brethren" or a mix of all 4
    Kinda like this: "your safe and sound my blade brethren"


    It annoyes me as well Knox... we are in for a term of annoyances at college looking at the new year1's. 50/50 mix of Townies/Morons and normal/alt's... should be an interesting year.

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    Originally posted by Agent
    From your user text...

    oh the irony
    As Planned

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