Pet Peeves?
Sep 24th 2011, 1:22 pm
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Sep 24th 2011, 3:37 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
I hate the put on "squeaky little girl voice" thing too.. irritating when it's a woman in her 30's.
Sep 25th 2011, 12:56 am
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Another time asked if they speak French in England.
This one gets me though, local young man from S.E. VA took a trip to rural N.Y. and stated in amazement "They have trees up there."
Sep 25th 2011, 4:41 am
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Re: Pet Peeves?
The French one is interesting, because we do speak it, but usually only until you're done with your GCSEs. Not sure if that counts though.
Sep 25th 2011, 1:49 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
To which you affect your most patronising, yet drippingly polite tone and say "Why, English of course. What do you speak here?"
The French one is interesting, because we do speak it, but usually only until you're done with your GCSEs. Not sure if that counts though.
The French one is interesting, because we do speak it, but usually only until you're done with your GCSEs. Not sure if that counts though.
) at work last week, had guests from Germany, Netherlands and France all in one day. They always get a big kick out of me attempting to speak their languages, but it does please them, that I try.
Sep 25th 2011, 7:57 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Sep 26th 2011, 3:31 am
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Doubt it worked but I'd love to have see it it
Sep 26th 2011, 12:58 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Talking about history teachers & Germans, I had a history teacher who had served as a fighter pilot in the RFC in the Great War. He taught us a certain amount of history, but mainly filled the allotted time with anecdotes about his past life. One was that in performing a loop in a plane with an open cockpit, he'd forgotten to strap himself in, so fell out and luckilly fell back into the cockpit at the bottom of the loop.. carried on flying and no doubt shot down a Boche. We all believed this story.
Sep 26th 2011, 1:14 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Sep 26th 2011, 1:48 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Talking about history teachers & Germans, I had a history teacher who had served as a fighter pilot in the RFC in the Great War. He taught us a certain amount of history, but mainly filled the allotted time with anecdotes about his past life. One was that in performing a loop in a plane with an open cockpit, he'd forgotten to strap himself in, so fell out and luckilly fell back into the cockpit at the bottom of the loop.. carried on flying and no doubt shot down a Boche. We all believed this story.
Quite possibly
Sep 26th 2011, 3:59 pm
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Re: Pet Peeves?
Did I mention people that post made-up stories on the internet to make themselves look big and clever?
Sep 26th 2011, 4:00 pm
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