Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

4 pages, 1 for each place

I would wager that most Americans could not explain the differences and/or relationship between Great Britain, The UK, Scotland, England, etc.

That's a bet you would win. I only know the difference bc I've made a concerted effort to learn it.

smdh

@ phil's coworker, not u carl ;)

my last name is p3nny & its common that ppl accidentally call me by my last name bcz they are easily confused idk but it annoys me

TWICE i was addressed to my face as p3nny by 2 coworkers who I have worked with for 10+ years & say hi to almost every day

COME THE FUCK ON

they called her... VEGGIEPENNY

I called our neighbor Mrs. Hill yesterday even though she's actually Mrs. Hall. Then I called her Leah when her name is Lydia.

I used to get called a weird amalgamation of my first and last names. A LOT. my first name it's only 4 letters!

I would wager that most Americans could not explain the differences and/or relationship between Great Britain, The UK, Scotland, England, etc.

― kate78, Tuesday, November 12, 2013 5:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Probably, but . . . She's been here over a year and all of our materials refer repeatedly to "the UK." Nowhere do we use the word "Britain," ever. We have an office in London, and that office is referred to as "the UK office."

I'd wager there's a high percent of English people that don't know the difference between UK and GtBritain.

Re: names (for context, I am chilling in the hospital waiting to deliver a baby (MONDAY!) after a high risk pregnancy), I would estimate about 30% of people I encounter here pronounce my last name, which is not an uncommon name and is a two syllable English word (albeit one no longer in common use), right. I don't even correct the ones who get it wrong anymore.

My favorite consistent mispronunciation was the nurse who rhymed it with "Ferguson," which not only got the "g" sound wrong but gave me a whole extra syllable.

http://stokereport.com/files/joe-124.jpg

lol and xp lol

I am filled w sympathy for your name woes, carl. Also, hilariously, I went a few weeks ago to an awards ceremony that required the head of a local botanical garden to pronounce some tooootally normal British/American history-ish street names and he couldn't say at least 3 of them. ONE OF THEM IS A NOTABLE AMERICAN CITY IN GEORGIA. COME ON. He was very creative though.

I still never pronounce Nevada properly. Sometimes I'll catch myself, but it's usually after I've said it.

Nev-Aid-Ah

nuh-VAH-da is what my brain's going to go with each and every time.

There's a Nevada County in my state that's pronounced nuh-VAY-da. I was doomed from the beginning.

Overreliance on GPS/mobile navigation apps, and people who insist on going with what the apps say against common sense.

I lack all common sense when driving, so the GPS easily exceeds my level of knowledge.

targeted ads that keep showing you things you have looked at (and sometimes things you have already ordered) for days afterwards -- "NO I DO NOT WANT THAT BUTT-UGLY "MODERN" WALNUT DRESSER WITH BRIGHT ORANGE AND RED DRAWERS THAT I HAPPENED TO LOOK AT THE AD FOR!"

My watch catching painfully on my wrist hairs. Some days this seems to happen every 30 minutes, and then it won't happen for a week.

Still have never used GPS in a car. Guess I'm one of those drivers who knows where he's going before he starts driving there.

That's why I don't wear watches or bracelets on a stretchy band.

I have such a horrible sense of direction, if I could get a GPS device implanted in my brain I would do it in a heartbeat. That's about 90% of the reason I'm not as horrified by "Google Glass" as I probably should be. I just imagine a HUD telling me where to go and it reduces my baseline anxiety level by like half.

websites that offer to remember your login and password, that you log into daily, that never remember your login and password EVER

and of course it's the one with the 10+ digit special character password that for the life of me I can never remember on my own anyway

My grocery store's website does that: "Want us to remember your information? Is this your personal computer? Check the box now!"

Next time I go there, my username's waiting for me, but I still have to fill out the password part. "OH, you meant remember SOME of my information, I see..."

God forbid Russian hackers sneak in and add a bunch of coupons to my card that I don't need.

that's an issue with yr browser + cookies, not the websites

But if I cleared my cookies, wouldn't ALL the information disappear?

even if it's only that site & my browser remembers all my other passwords?

My fucking school's web services force you to change your password every 8 weeks. Even worse:

- When your password expires, you get no notice except "Invalid user account information"

- The school makes you maintain accounts on 3 different systems, with different user names

nuh-VAH-da is what my brain's going to go with each and every time.

There's a Nevada County in my state that's pronounced nuh-VAY-da. I was doomed from the beginning.

Which way is the state pronounced? I have only ever heard the first pronunciation.

"Viking"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmUf9FDUOTk

Who knew! Thanks J!

Ok - I hate when you either invite someone to do something, either directly, or an open invite and they try to change your plans.

Example:

"Alberthalomew and I are going to Arnold's Roasted Figs and Sports Bar tonight to watch the Dolphins game. Any takers?"

'Would you guys consider maybe going to Uncle Anthony's Table Leavins instead? It's closer to where I live.'

NO, BECAUSE WE ALREADY MADE OUR PLANS AND ARE ANNOUNCING THEM, NOT SOLICITING IDEAS.

OT to the motherfucking M!!!!!

word

those people are jerks and need to cut it the fuck out

lol nevada is pronounced the canadian way?

i'm sure this is mentioned somewhere in the previous 2100 posts, but i hate when machines use the first person, eg the atm that says 'i'm getting your money now!'

sorry i only eat table leavins!

We say "ne-vah-da" up here iirc, I would transcribe video pronunciation as "Neva(h)-da"

how do you say 'pasta' and 'mazda'

The way they're spelled :)

I don't know enough about describing language to do so accurately but pasta/Mazda do have similarities to Nevada imo

exactly!

i think most americans say (not quite, but more or less) posta and mozda and nevoda

I bet people in the countries of England or Scotland or Manchester couldn't even tell you how you're supposed to pronounce Nevada.

darragh how do you englishes pronounce things

What? "nevoda" (or "ne-vah-da") is rare, IME. I think most Americans pronounce it the right way: with the a in "va" pronounced as it is in "apple."

Also, it's Colora(as in "apple")do, not GD "Colorahdo."

I say ne-vah-da.

never contradict me in front of the canadians, je55e

at least not until darragh kicks my ass