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Its the Yorkshire way! Jump in with both feet, think "oh shit!" later.

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That's the Yorkshire way. :D

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I like our new poster :lol:

Ah yes, so often is the way one things of what one should have said. Sir Thomas Moore, for example, burned at the stake for refusing to recant his Catholicism, must have been kicking himself as the flames licked higher when all he should have said was 'I recant my Catholicism' ...

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Just kick them between the legs - hard - irrespective of gender they'll join you very quickly with the whole squinting thing...:p

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pet peeve - but only a little one, and usually it's game for a laugh...

car type - coupe - it's pronounced COU-PAY - not a COOP - that's a house for chickens - and their shit...

router - it's pronounced ROOTER unless you're wanting to remove material from a piece of wood or metal etc...

imagined pet peeve from the 'other' perspective - confusing spellings & pronunciations - 'rough', 'bough' - just spell it the way it is said!!!

People who think there are just 2 kinds of music - country AND western...

People who really tell you how they feel when you ask them how they are...

People who ask me how I'm feeling when clearly my world has just ended - and then get offended when I actually tell them how I'm feeling...

Stalls at the State Fair that deep fry everything on the planet and then try to make out it's tasty AND healthy - evidence for the prosecution: deep fried Kool-Aid, deep fried melon, deep fried zucchini, deep fried turkey legs

my quick app launch short cut thingy on my 'puter that keeps firing up 'Mail' when ever I press 'M'

People who want to give you a long story about why they don't have their lighter on them so that you're more likely to say 'yes' when they finally get around to asking to borrow yours - w*nkers - just *****ing ask... or die of nicotine deprivation - whatever, just do it quickly & quietly. Unless you're good looking...

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It's "aluminium" dammit!

"solder" is pronounced the way that it is spelled not as if it were "sodder" :eek:

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Because I can't stand to talk to someone whose eyes I can't see, I always ask them to remove the sunglasses. Some respond with apologies (forgot they were wearing them), others respond with a snort as though my request is silly, and one person turned around and walked away rather than take them off! :blink:

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He had his head chopped off ................. but I get your meaning.

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Bill Bryson has a piece in one of his books about why it is aluminum in the US. From what I recall it started off as aluminum everywhere, but then was changed to aluminium to make it consistent with the other 'iums'. US didn't bother to change.

'Sodder' drives me crazy too. Older daughter takes a jewellery and metals class at school and the first time she came home and started going on about 'soddering' I had absolutely no idea what she was going on about. We are trying, in vain it seems, to get her to say 'soldering'.

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We were in Greece, this past August... I never stopped wearing my sunglasses (well I took them off at night, lol) But if someone would have asked me to take them off (and we were with a lot of family) I would have refused. I would have had a really bad headache had I constantly took them off every time I talked to someone.

Even back here, if its bright sun out, they stay on! If people think I'm being rude (and no one has ever asked me to take them off) then I'd probably explain it was better than suffering a very bad headache. :)

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I ripped it off Blackadder the Third :o

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I think I should have clarified my distaste for sunglasses wearing - It doesn't bother me when outdoors as I'm probalby wearing sunglasses, too - which helps me see the other person's eyes. It's when we're indoors that it really gets my goat! :)

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I should clarify, its not so much when outside although if it can be helped all the better, its the inside meetings, I was in a conference the other day and this twat sat there, a exec FFS with his goggles on for over an hour :frown:

I have lived all over the world and there is no excuse for this nasty rude habit.

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Reading between the lines ... I concur

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I was in my local store yesterday it's a bit uppity and there is this old bint walking around in her designer jeans with rhine stones on them.....back combed bleach blonde hair thick make-up and huge black sunnys...I mean come on get real you old lush we know the wrinkles are there so why hide them she looked more stupid with the shades on.



(scary thing minus the shades could that be me in 20 years :lol:)