You know what really grinds my gears?

macdanger2 · April 10, 2015, 01:03:44 PM

Quote from: JoG2 on April 09, 2015, 09:22:17 PM
wee oranges that are labelled ' easy peel' but are a bastid to peel

An awful pain in the hole, false advertising if ever there was

CD · April 10, 2015, 07:05:06 PM

Quote from: macdanger2 on April 10, 2015, 01:03:44 PM
Quote from: JoG2 on April 09, 2015, 09:22:17 PM
wee oranges that are labelled ' easy peel' but are a bastid to peel

An awful pain in the hole, false advertising if ever there was

And the seedless ones that are full of seeds! Grrrr

gawa316 · April 10, 2015, 07:06:54 PM

Quote from: laoislad on April 09, 2015, 02:37:25 PM
A week long dose of the runs.

My childer have had them for nearly 2 weeks now!

muppet · April 11, 2015, 08:55:10 PM

Quote from: AZOffaly on April 09, 2015, 01:53:44 PM
Quote from: andoireabu on April 09, 2015, 01:33:32 PM
People saying sentences back to front. Instead of "it is very busy today" they say "very busy today it is".

Do you work with Yoda or something?

Thinking was I what exactly is that.

seafoid · April 12, 2015, 08:16:15 PM

The gaago ad before videos on the rte site. No character at all.

Sidney · April 12, 2015, 08:34:55 PM

Plastic wrappers on Cadbury's Dairy Milk and Fruit and Nut bars.

So, so wrong.

Hardy · April 13, 2015, 10:27:21 AM

Denn for down, kenty for county, Culdare, Culkenny. Five hours in a locked room with a continuous loop recording so that you can listen to yourself.

The proof is in the pudding.

It's not FOR free; it's free.

I'm only getting started.

AZOffaly · April 13, 2015, 10:29:20 AM

Who says Kenty Denn? Or Kenty Culkenny?

Is it the AA Roadwatch crew? Rindabaht?

Hardy · April 13, 2015, 10:39:24 AM

Quote from: AZOffaly on April 13, 2015, 10:29:20 AM
Who says Kenty Denn? Or Kenty Culkenny?

Is it the AA Roadwatch crew? Rindabaht?

Those, multiple readers of sports bulletins and a sizeable proportion of the under-30 cohort.

They also say cancel for council, debt for doubt. It's the D4 accent, but I hear it now in Passage West, Knocknagoshel and Ballylanders. And usually with an upward inflexion at the end of each sentence to to turn a statement into a question. I know it's all been given out about before, but it's not working. It's getting worse.

And don't get me started on "so".

AZOffaly · April 13, 2015, 10:40:28 AM

I say 'so', and I also say 'Lookit'. I apologise so.

Hardy · April 13, 2015, 10:51:48 AM

Quote from: AZOffaly on April 13, 2015, 10:40:28 AM
I say 'so', and I also say 'Lookit'. I apologise so.

Lookit is great. And "so" at the end of the sentence is OK, though I don't know where you picked it up if you haven't lived in Cork. (You can't buy anything in Cork without being told "that's four-fifty so".)

I'm talking about this sort of stuff that makes my ears bleed:
Cathal Mac Coille - Professor Hairyears, tell us about this research.
Prof. H. - So we've been looking at how atoms of horseshit coagulate to form molecules of trendyspeak ...
CMcC - And what have you found?
Prof. H. - So it turns out that bulldung is actually the key ingredient ...
CMcC - What are the implications of this discovery?
Prof. H. - So it appears that this stuff is a fuckin epidemic.
Etc., etc.

(Speaking of which - excetera for etcetera.)

deiseach · April 13, 2015, 10:58:20 AM

Quote from: Hardy on April 13, 2015, 10:27:21 AM
I'm only getting started.

All these years and you still haven't started!

Hardy · April 13, 2015, 10:59:58 AM

I've started, so I'll finish.

AZOffaly · April 13, 2015, 11:05:46 AM

We say so at the end of sentences in Offaly, at least I think we do. Between marrying a Kerry woman, living in Limerick, Tipp and Arizona, who knows where I pick stuff up.

Hardy · April 13, 2015, 11:08:46 AM

Jayz, I'd say you have to Google yourself to find out where you live.