British Expats - Pet Peeves?

Why is everything named backwards? The Defense of Marriage Act sought to prevent marriages, the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act prevents states from making laws to label food as GMO, and the Women Betrayed movement seeks to prevent women from being able to have abortions.

zargof

Jul 28th 2015 8:53 am

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by Anian (Post 11710480)

Because if you tell a lie enough times it becomes the truth.

Jerseygirl

Jul 28th 2015 10:10 am

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Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 11710470)

It sounds like they should be hung from the ceiling. :lol:

Now I've mentioned it you will hear it all the time...and it will drive you mad. :sneaky::lol:

Pulaski

Jul 28th 2015 10:16 am

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Originally Posted by Jerseygirl (Post 11710582)

Now I've mentioned it you will hear it all the time...and it will drive you mad. ......

Thank you for presuming that I am not already mad. :unsure:

username.exe

Jul 28th 2015 11:54 am

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The proliferation of the word 'actuality'.

Nutek

Jul 28th 2015 12:16 pm

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 11710470)

It sounds like they should be hung from the ceiling. :lol:

It's cool. You can use it when you are conversating with people.

zzrmark

Jul 28th 2015 12:20 pm

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The commonly held belief that an Iranian's one goal in life is to threaten/endanger the US or that they'd consider launching nukes against a highly trained nuke ready country like Israel.
And God help anyone who happens to slip the word 'Communist' into a conversation...

Pulaski

Jul 28th 2015 1:53 pm

Re: Pet Peeves?

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Originally Posted by zzrmark (Post 11710634)

And God help anyone who happens to slip the word 'Communist' into a conversation...

That wouldn't happen. Everyone knows that God doesn't like communists. :nod:

Bahtatboy

Jul 28th 2015 6:21 pm

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Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 11710327)

I suspect your house has wiring, and flooring, not just "wires" and "floors". :nod:

That's old hat. Mine has a flooring system.

Beaverstate

Jul 28th 2015 6:26 pm

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Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 11710669)

That wouldn't happen. Everyone knows that God doesn't like communists. :nod:

What about all the Catholic communists?

sir_eccles

Jul 29th 2015 5:40 pm

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The chain emails my grand father in law forwards.

No really it isn't true it took five whole seconds to look it up on Google but I knew instantly it was made up bull purely on the basis that it had a dozen forwarding indents, blamed obama and the aca and ended with "you must forward this".

moneypenny20

Jul 29th 2015 9:38 pm

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Originally Posted by sir_eccles (Post 11711851)

More annoying is when you read one of those poxy things but then realise they'd posted it over a week earlier so it's too late to tell them they're dumb.

Nutek

Jul 29th 2015 10:51 pm

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Originally Posted by moneypenny20 (Post 11711988)

More annoying is when you read one of those poxy things but then realise they'd posted it over a week earlier so it's too late to tell them they're dumb.

It's never too late to tell people they are dumb.

Pulaski

Jul 30th 2015 1:16 am

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Originally Posted by Nutek (Post 11712040)

It's never too late to tell people they are dumb.

But you don't have very long after they yell "Hey, y'all, watch this!" :unsure:

Anian

Jul 30th 2015 3:30 am

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My inlaws and parents stopped sending me those dumb emails because I kept responding with facts and links to snopes.