Bob

Errr....things get moved because plonkers post in the wrong forums, things get deleted because it's still supposed to be a family site.

dgsyd1

One of my pet peeves is when people say" Hi, How Are You Today?", and don't actually expect you to answer. On more than one occasion I've tried to reply, only to find the person has walked away. My other one is when I hear of people describing World War II as starting in 1941, as President Bush has done on more than one occasion.

ScousePete

Use MSG

NC Penguin

US checking account bank statements!

I don't know about yours but when I try to reconcile my bank statements with receipts, the check ledger, etc. it's a real pain.

The space for the description of the vendor does not usually contain its name, the most obvious identifier. It's usually their address!

And my no. one peeve while on the subject of things financial is why the heck are all the bank notes/bills the same color and size? Is it that when the bills were first being printed, they only had green ink?

Reminds me of the scene in the Grifters when the John Cusack character's in a bar and cheekily hands the barman a lower denomination bill than the bartab (the value of the bill is not seen 'cos the bill/bills is/are folded).

Englishmum

I'm peeved that it's legal in the USA to allow cats to be de-clawed.

It seems to be so cruel (and I'm not overkeen on cats). One lady in our street has six "indoor" cats - they have all been de-clawed and have never been outside. I see the poor things gazing out of the windows.

Don't even get me started on the popularity here of newborn baby boys being circumcised...in many cases just "so they'll look like their father" (There is a huge cut/uncut thread about this currently taking place in "The Lounge" forum.....)

NC Penguin

This is so true! Also, adding more fat and sugar creates more "taste".

I blame those labs in NJ that formulate the artificial flavors!

Celtic_Angel

aww well i don't think it's fair to call that an American phenomenon.......you get that everywhere you go especially amoungst teenagers and the like..........the town i'm from everybody tends to say "yeah" it's something you tend to outgrow....well most of us

hehe actually if i remember correctly we'd answer our own questions.......
you don't want this , no?

shall we go to the store,yeah?


Awww god hee hee it's all coming flooding back! :scared:

sibsie

You get some karma for that one but I wish you hadn't mentioned it. It's a real huge, gigantic, epic proportion peeve of mine too. It's not declawing, it's amputation. They actually remove the bones. It's cruel, barbaric and the US is one of the few countries that hasn't outlawed this hideous procedure.

There are also people who will have their dogs debarked too. Not as common but it happens.

Celtic_Angel

[QUOTE=Englishmum]..in many cases just "so they'll look like their father" /QUOTE]

Well obviously you're talking about me Englishmum because i'm the only one who did circumcise my son for that very reason...and so he'd look like all the other boys in the country

do you even live in the U.s? if you do you'll know that most mothers don't even go through this decision process and their son just gets cut
so your theory on them getting cut just to look like their father is moot they actually believe the health issues arguement presented to them and don't even question circumcision

slowly but surely i hope this to eventually change

Patrick

Errr....you moved something about naturalization from a forum with many naturalized people or people going through naturalization to a forum full of people asking which visa they can enter the country on. People who arent even here yet, never mind naturalized - so yes some plonker does post it on the forum.l Yet a question about I-94 is left on the USA forum, the I-94 which is a visa is not moved to visa forum which is full of visa information but left on the USA site - there is no consistancy (well yes there is, threads that should not be moved are and threads that quite possibly could be moved are not - consistantly).

If you want a family sight go to Disney.com, the problem is that posts are deleted based on the standards of the moderator and not the standard of the forum. We are all adults and as such people should be treated as such, deciding that a post does not meet your approval and deleting it is treating posters like children with the mod as the teacher. It is not in the moderators job to set the moral standard of the forum

dunroving

Actually, adding the word "yeah" at the end of a statement (not question)seems to have crept into the UK vernacular since I left in 1983. I don't remember anyone back then saying "Well, we were going to the pub, yeah?, when we came across this bloke, yeah?" etc.

Am I imagining things? What's the point of it (sounds to me to be saying "are you understanding what I'm saying?")?

Englishmum

[QUOTE=Celtic_Angel] Yes, I live in New Jersey. However, we lived in Singapore before that which has a huge expat community from all over the world. The local population is 80% Chinese and they don't normally circumcise baby boys, so it isn't offered as a matter of course at the maternity hospitals there (on the other hand there are what we Westerners would consider to be weird practices/celebrations amongst the Chinese/Malay/Tamil population but nothing as barbaric as circumcision).

I was very aware of the circumcision debate though....many expat wives have babies when on a posting and in the clubs, associations, coffee mornings etc. it was often a topic the pregnant mums would discuss; it wasn't just American mums who would think it a necessity, but a surprising amount of Aussie mums did too. I was informed that a lot of little boys run around naked in Oz and so were at risk of picking up an infection through the soil....I really don't know how valid that is to be honest.

Celtic_Angel

Argh!! it's nuts heehee
it's funny you said all that cos that's how it is back home, it's yeah after everything, lol this sounds really stupid lol but we'd even go so far as to say it twice!!!!

LMAO like in your above statement you proceeded with" and he was holding a shovel yeah, and that was really weird yeah? and I'd reply with "yeah,yeah"

I've outgrown it all now though yeah

Pimpbot

Saturday night is the night the TV executives least worry about. Thats why you get the repeats of the big shows like Survivor and the Apprentice at the weekends. The one night the Apprentice was moved, was due to the presidential debate.

ScousePete

Welcome back Patrick