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The little shits I raised who leave about 2 oz milk in the jug and put it back in the fridge. FFS finish the last of it, throw the jug in the recycling bin and tell someone we're out! :frown:

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People who 'correct' my spelling to the US way.

**** off FFS. I know what I am saying, and believe it or not my grasp of English, written and spoken, is way better than the average American, who reads, writes and speaks AMERICAN. They are not the same language, it only looks that way...

And the First Amendment applies to me too and I choose to express myself using English.

That also goes for self righteous religious pricks who tell me I offend them for saying faggot... As in faggot, chips and peas, not 'gay'... That these words I use are the words of the Devil blah blah blah. Sanctimonious, hypocritical arse wipes. And anyway, I didn't offend them, they chose to be offended. There's a subtle distinction. and I choose to rant about them. And take responsibility for that too... Though from a distance, because some of them are armed too...

Right, I'm done. Back to watching some more Poirot...

Edit

I'm not done. Just seen an advert for Calzones.

It is pronounced Calzon-ay (sort of), not calz own. This is not an English-American thing, this is an American thing. Speak your own language properly you knobfacedarsebucketsmeghead.

And don't get me started on Parmesan.

Ok. Done.

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... or those TV commercials for cars that refer to them as being a "sports coop" :eek:

a "coop" is something that chickens live in so, unless you are going to have chickens living in your car, you had better learn how to pronounce "coupé" ..

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What about bruschetta?

Bugs the shit out of me each time I hear it pronounced bru-shetta.

It's supposed to sound like it's got a K in the middle.

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Oh cripes... What about Porche, gnocchi, ptarmigan etc?!

And ALUMINIUM... There's an extra I in there you know. Or did the multiple 'U's confuse?

And Route 66 is 'root 66' not 'rout 66' which something entirely different altogether... And you connect to the Internet via a 'rooter' and not some dangerous piece of machinery for carving out wood & metal stuff..

And you sit on your ass if it has 4 legs & looks like a donkey, otherwise it's an arse...

Actually most of this isn't really a peeve. Except the Porche and the metal it is partly made from (and that my iPad insists on miss spelling. If I want miss spelling I will talk to Aaron...)

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What about minestrone? FOUR syllables, not bloody three. Plus which, you probably can't even get decent minestrone over here.

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This brings me to a comment on food. Last night, for the first time in 4 years, we had a night out, dinner and the theatre, early birthday treat to myself, combined with job perks and guests' generosity. :thumbup:
Anyway, we went to this place for dinner, which I've never been to, and which is rated the best place for Italian in Savannah. http://www.bellascafe.com/

Hole in the wall, in a strip mall OUTSIDE THE HISTORIC DISTRICT, not fancy, cozy and OMG, it was one of the BEST meals I have ever had in the almost 20 years I've lived here. We learned our lesson, do NOT eat second helping of bread sticks AND order an appetizer.......... I had tortellini and wanted to lick the plate, the sauce was that good.

Finally, my point, :D, I spent the afternoon, trolling through Trip Advisor for comments on restaurants and had seen that someone had posted that it was not authentic Italian food. What makes for authentic? Flown in from Italy???

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The way some people pronounce "Parmesan" in the USA, as parmeshan. It is said Parmezan. I did hear that from an Italian in Italy.

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Or people who pronounce "glacier" as "glay-shar" ... :eek:

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Crocs...I hate them...but damn it, have to wear them as they are so comfy in the summer and I can't wear flip flops, anything with a toe thong just rips my toes apart...I hate flip flops, they're all so naff for men.

USB connections, the various different sized connections and how half of our devices use either...and really annoying how some won't charge unless it is connected to a USB device rather than plugged into a plug adapter, or the other way around....FFS, just charge.

Why do these things always have loads of power, then when you really need them that they run out of juice.

Kids meals, how they're usually both expensive and shit...why can't they be smaller and cheaper adult version of meals? What is up with charging $5 for knocking up a 60c box of Kraft McCheese and calling that a meal?

Crap software names, I'm looking at you Apple....those various animal names, they mean nothing to me...I don't give a toss what mountain melt you're calling things these days, I don't know what order they are or how old this shit is.

What's also the deal with shit numbering of versions, if it's 10.5.3 I don't give a toss if we're suddenly on v 10.7.5.7.11 whatever the cock it is, that's not a product version. Also, stop using crap years, just incrementally knock the number up by one when it's a new version and all the others crappy product fixes as that is all they are you janky knob shites.

What the snot is also the deal with offering multiple versions of the same product? Windows, you just need a home version and a enterprise/business version, you do not need a billion home versions to confuse people, it's shit.

Adobe, you're even worse with your hundred different versions of Photoshop and stop charging hundreds more in other countries than the US, it's the same product, you don't even have a distribution or production problem, it's just annoying. Sodding well stop it with 3D Studio Max, I don't give a toss for half the features in one version, nor in the other, but there's always at least one tool chain that you need that you can't get in the one that is most useful for you.

It's crap...and whilst whinging about 3DSM, for the love of monkey sex, just plucking well fix that one stupid bug that has been pissing the living shit out of me that has been filed since 2000...it's not difficult, I'm not the only one, edge loop, inset and then extrude should not randomly crash the program out and randomly corrupt the working file nor the previous 3 incremental backup files just because you're a knobend.

Fix that, just that...I don't give a shit about all the new useless features that you keep releasing that don't actually work very well...I just want bug fixes...I just want that one bug fix...

hmmmm....and breath.

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I was appalled back in 1980 when Red Lobster wanted 3.99 for a kid's meal. My son at age 2 ate every little and 3.99 waa bridge too far. :frown:

for the love of monkey sex eh Bob? I just don't want to know..............:blink:

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And so begins a torrent of monkey porn... Allowed under the category of educational: natural history... Like Swedish home movies from the early 70's:eek:

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Whoa.. remember those movies? Happy days! I hardly recognise myself now when I watch them!

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- When people type "loose" instead of "lose"

- leaving the tea bag in the tea cup..

That's all that comes to mind for now.

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Actually making a cup of tea with a bag in a tea cup should be the real peeve.

That is just so wrong:frown: