British Expats - Pet Peeves?

I volunteer in the school lunch room on Thursdays. Part of the "job" involves marshaling the classes in lines ready to dump their finished trays and go out of the cafeteria....they have 3 lines duct taped on the floor, round the perimeter of the cafeteria, and after they've dropped off their trays at the hatch, they progress, class by class through each position until they get to the door. The now accepted call to progress to the next position is " move down de bus please"... The principal is perplexed as to where this came from, or what it actually means. :whistle:

Yorkieabroad

Mar 21st 2014 3:19 am

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Originally Posted by AmerLisa (Post 11184027)

I agree with you, Cardie. "Love" just sounds nicer than "ma'am" any day.

My kids call the school principal "ma'am"
I'm not sure I can get away with telling them to start calling her "love" as part of the "embrace the diversity" movement.......be fun to try though, and they're only in Elementary, so may just get away without being expelled :lol:

Nutek

Mar 21st 2014 3:25 am

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Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad (Post 11184229)

How about "Duck"?

Yorkieabroad

Mar 21st 2014 3:28 am

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Originally Posted by Nutek (Post 11184237)

How about "Duck"?

On hearing that round here, most folk would hit the floor, executing a roll on the way down, emerging on one knee with sidearm drawn........

AmerLisa

Mar 21st 2014 3:32 am

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Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad (Post 11184229)

That's the Southern way to do things. While I believe in respect, I also think that's a bit over the top.

Nutek

Mar 21st 2014 3:37 am

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Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad (Post 11184242)

On hearing that round here, most folk would hit the floor, executing a roll on the way down, emerging on one knee with sidearm drawn........

:lol:

Pulaski

Mar 21st 2014 3:46 am

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Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad (Post 11184242)

On hearing that round here, most folk would hit the floor, executing a roll on the way down, emerging on one knee with sidearm drawn........

Surely some would pull out their double-barrel and point it skyward? :unsure:

SultanOfSwing

Mar 21st 2014 3:54 am

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Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 11184278)

Surely some would pull out their double-barrel and point it skyward? :unsure:

"Have you ever fired your gun up in the air and gone "ahhrgh"?"

Yorkieabroad

Mar 21st 2014 4:50 am

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Originally Posted by AmerLisa (Post 11184249)

That's the Southern way to do things. While I believe in respect, I also think that's a bit over the top.

A lot of the local kids, well, the few we know, call their parents sir and ma'am. Doesn't sit well with me, and I think my eldest has realized because whenever he is in trouble he calls me sir, the only time he does it, and it totally puts me off my stride:lol:

I don't have a problem with calling the principal ma'am (our principal in secondary school was always "sir"), and in fact, I have been known to mutter it on occasion, mainly to elderly ladies or police officers. My problem is I can't really say it properly.....I can't find a happy medium between calling a total stranger my mam, and sounding like a demented sheep on steroids:(

Hotscot

Mar 21st 2014 4:59 am

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zargof

Mar 21st 2014 7:57 am

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Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad (Post 11184242)

On hearing that round here, most folk would hit the floor, executing a roll on the way down, emerging on one knee with sidearm drawn........

Bless your heart.

zargof

Mar 21st 2014 8:06 am

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Originally Posted by ellegiselle (Post 11183031)

I've had it up to the top with Brits in America who do not accept our culture, are rude and think they're better than everyone.

This is simply not true, we don't *think* we're better. We know we are. We've owned pretty much the whole planet at one time or another, we just let everyone else live on it now. I find that very magnanimous personally.

Hotscot

Mar 21st 2014 10:01 am

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Originally Posted by zargof (Post 11184707)

Is this not clear to everyone by now?

SultanOfSwing

Mar 21st 2014 10:21 am

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Originally Posted by hotscot (Post 11184838)

Is this not clear to everyone by now?