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  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    'can I get' - Stop this nonsense, its 'can I have'.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    soapboxsam said:

    People who ask me "how are you" ?
    yet when i start to tell them all my problems, they walk away.


    Them therapists are a waste of money mate.
  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,491
    Greenie said:

    'can I get' - Stop this nonsense, its 'can I have'.

    May I have
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    IA said:

    An adjective would be appropriate, not an adverb.

    "I'm doing well" makes sense grammatically but "I'm well" doesn't. You wouldn't say "I'm happily".

    People have real bugbears about this sort of thing. Use of the word awesome say. "How are you?" "I'm awesome" that sort of thing. Doesn't bother me but I know some get wound up by it

    What does bother me though is Thierry Henry's Twitter handle - 'Amateurs call it Genius, masters call it practice'

    What an absolute cock
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    edited June 2015
    cabbles said:

    What does bother me though is Thierry Henry's Twitter handle - 'Amateurs call it Genius, masters call it practice'

    'Amateurs call it Genius, masters call it practice, the rest of us call it handball'
    Fixed it for him. "French ponce"
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    IA said:

    An adjective would be appropriate, not an adverb.

    "I'm doing well" makes sense grammatically but "I'm well" doesn't. You wouldn't say "I'm happily".

    Have you ever heard of the expression "fit and well"? I guess not. Otherwise you wouldn't have posted that.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,598
    IA said:

    An adjective would be appropriate, not an adverb.

    "I'm doing well" makes sense grammatically but "I'm well" doesn't. You wouldn't say "I'm happily".

    Unless you you are happy and the person who asked you is called Lee
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    Bryan_Kynsie said:

    IA said:

    An adjective would be appropriate, not an adverb.

    "I'm doing well" makes sense grammatically but "I'm well" doesn't. You wouldn't say "I'm happily".

    Have you ever heard of the expression "fit and well"? I guess not. Otherwise you wouldn't have posted that.
    "Well" in that context is about health, ie no sicknesses, not mood. The question is usually a general one about mood not specific about health

    "Get" and "have" have different meanings. It's possible (and when ordering food and drink it will always be) to "get" (ie receive) then "have" (ie eat/drink/photograph and post on facebook). I think the issue is more that people see "get" as an alternative for "fetch" but don't people ask children "what did you get?" at Christmas.

    In terms of food, "have" is usually a synonym for "eat" and ordering "may I eat..." seems strange to me. There is also the general meaning regarding possession (eg "I have a brand new combine harvester") which makes sense if you're going to sit and admire it.

    Can't say any of these issues annoy me. It's a living language. And the "rules" were only ever a description of how certain people who could afford to publish books in the 18th/19th century spoke. Lots of people's bugbears (eg ask/ax/arks) are valid language as spoken through the years, just not documented in one of These Books.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    We all talks ow we wanna talk it's got nuting to do with any of u as it ya noisy fukas
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    nth london addick said:

    We all talks ow we wanna talk it's got nuting to do with any of u as it ya noisy fukas

    If I can hear ya NLA, the I'm entitled to be annoyed, ain't I or should I say innit?
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  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    IA said:

    Bryan_Kynsie said:

    IA said:

    An adjective would be appropriate, not an adverb.

    "I'm doing well" makes sense grammatically but "I'm well" doesn't. You wouldn't say "I'm happily".

    Have you ever heard of the expression "fit and well"? I guess not. Otherwise you wouldn't have posted that.
    "Well" in that context is about health, ie no sicknesses, not mood. The question is usually a general one about mood not specific about health

    "Get" and "have" have different meanings. It's possible (and when ordering food and drink it will always be) to "get" (ie receive) then "have" (ie eat/drink/photograph and post on facebook). I think the issue is more that people see "get" as an alternative for "fetch" but don't people ask children "what did you get?" at Christmas.

    In terms of food, "have" is usually a synonym for "eat" and ordering "may I eat..." seems strange to me. There is also the general meaning regarding possession (eg "I have a brand new combine harvester") which makes sense if you're going to sit and admire it.

    Can't say any of these issues annoy me. It's a living language. And the "rules" were only ever a description of how certain people who could afford to publish books in the 18th/19th century spoke. Lots of people's bugbears (eg ask/ax/arks) are valid language as spoken through the years, just not documented in one of These Books.
    You are entitled no to be annoyed. When I was brought up, "how are you?" was always an enquiry after your health rather than your mood. You could always just say "hey, my man, wassup?" innit?
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Just turn up the dre's blud ya can't ear nutting then bawsy
  • brogib
    brogib Posts: 2,128
    Carter said:

    English people who say 'ass' instead of 'arse'

    What if I'm talking about a female donkey?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022
    image
  • brogib
    brogib Posts: 2,128
    Stig said:

    image

    Lovely dog/mule combo
  • AllHailTheHen
    AllHailTheHen Posts: 3,063
    Undisclosed fees
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,977
    Liverpool fans.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022
    brogib said:

    Stig said:

    image

    Lovely dog/mule combo
    I was thinking it was a lovely bitch ass combo.
  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,224
    Have you had a row with someone at a wedding or in the pub about it, they've fucked off home but its not settled yet!
    brogib said:

    Stig said:

    image

    Lovely dog/mule combo
    How much do you charge for a donkey and small dog? Buy one get one half price?
  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,224
    <b
    You are entitled no to be annoyed. When I was brought up, "how are you?" was always an enquiry after your health rather than your mood. You could always just say "hey, my man, wassup?" innit?</bloblockquote

    Going to try that in the newsagents in the morning, 'hey my man, wassup slaphead, have you got that Mail On Sunday, Escort, and Locomotives Monthly I asked you to save?'
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  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    edited June 2015
    Bryan_Kynsie said:

    IA said:

    Bryan_Kynsie said:

    IA said:

    An adjective would be appropriate, not an adverb.

    "I'm doing well" makes sense grammatically but "I'm well" doesn't. You wouldn't say "I'm happily".

    Have you ever heard of the expression "fit and well"? I guess not. Otherwise you wouldn't have posted that.
    "Well" in that context is about health, ie no sicknesses, not mood. The question is usually a general one about mood not specific about health

    "Get" and "have" have different meanings. It's possible (and when ordering food and drink it will always be) to "get" (ie receive) then "have" (ie eat/drink/photograph and post on facebook). I think the issue is more that people see "get" as an alternative for "fetch" but don't people ask children "what did you get?" at Christmas.

    In terms of food, "have" is usually a synonym for "eat" and ordering "may I eat..." seems strange to me. There is also the general meaning regarding possession (eg "I have a brand new combine harvester") which makes sense if you're going to sit and admire it.

    Can't say any of these issues annoy me. It's a living language. And the "rules" were only ever a description of how certain people who could afford to publish books in the 18th/19th century spoke. Lots of people's bugbears (eg ask/ax/arks) are valid language as spoken through the years, just not documented in one of These Books.
    You could always just say "hey, my man, wassup?"
    I could but I don't own the man nor do I want to use an advertising slogan of Budweiser from 2000 but thanks for the suggestion
  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,919
    People who think I am actually interested in their well being when I say "how are you?"

    It's just a ritual that has to takes place before a conversation.

    Players know a game of football is about to start by the ref blowing a whistle, or a boxer is about to fight by a bell ringing.

    People need to know they are about to have a conversation by something more than a nod or "hi" which means "move on" I don't want to talk right now.

    You wouldn't approach a friend in the street and start a conversation by blurting out "I'm gutted about Gomez going". You would first get his attention with "hey my man wassup" as if it's him who has sumit wassup when really it's you.

    That's why the correct response to "hey my man wassup" is "hey my man wassup". That gives the opening to say what we actually want to say, We then avoid all this confusion and having to worry about disclosing our recent medical history or the last row we had with the missus.

    Perhaps those 18th/19th century book publishers talked some sense.
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    Annoying drunks at gigs.
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    Password recovery/reset where the email doesn't come within 5 minutes of requesting the reset.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Waiting
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,977
    When you're just dropping off to sleep and a spider crawls across your face. Yeah that just happened. Can't sleep now.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,993
    A-R-T-H-U-R said:

    Annoying drunks at gigs.

    This.

    There was some right annoying twat at the Blur gig last night. (Apart from me).
  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,224
    ValleyGary said:

    When you're just dropping off to sleep and a spider crawls across your face. Yeah that just happened. Can't sleep now.

    Just go home, you're gonna get a few creepy crawlies crashing out in Danson Park
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    When one of your drivers puts unleaded in a van at 130 in the morning and not derv
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    The fact it is nearly July and it is still around 10 degrees outside until 10-11 in the morning.
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