Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

it's cos every time ye open yer mouths the hot air just forces its way out ime

oh ho now

that's the way of it

Lol this thread. I am totally the person that throws a massive paddy about stupid things but have never had a problem with Ikea furniture. I also used to hate cooking, lived on 5-for-£4 asda meals and learned to make approx 1 pasta dish in three years from copying my housemate (this = a great shortcut btw). As long as you have a really basic book with pics (or www.bbcgoodfood.com) and decent pans and a SHARP knife you can totally get into it. Would be nice if I'd learned some basics to start off with, e.g. I never cooked steak or anything because I was scared of cooking anything on a high heat AND undercooking meat so it'd sit drying out in the pan or under the grill. Eventually figured out that 'get the pan smoking hot' first was in the recipe for a good reason. Stuff like that is key. (I actually have a book called 'how to boil an egg', ha)

lol @ darragh and ronan thinking they have name prblms

i actually dread having2 intrduce myself

"T1arnan"

"What?"

"T1arnan"

"What?"

"T1arnan"

"What?"

Herewith the names that I have been at Sbucks -

Sherrin
Sherry
Sher
Shan
Karen
Kerrie

etc

My co-worker always checks my cup to see 'what name do you have today'.

I mean, I don't think I mumble, infact I over-pronounce my name.
"SHA_RON!"

It's not that unusual of a name, surely. Sometimes wonder if I should just change my name to Bill.

tbf darragh and ronan are grand names, not made up like tieirenieain

darragh's a real name? dang...

patron st of dadjokes

how's it pronounced? is it like Darren?

depending on the shop assistant.....

Dara

one of my bff's from Australia is Mairead <3

my mother in law is also Mairead but her Mom changed the spelling the birth ceritificate to Mauraid so that she'd have a fighting chance of being able to have her name spelled correctlly

but it makes me sad bc Mairead is just such a lovely looking name, yknow

changin the spellin of names like that is innocuous but annoying

i actually dread having2 intrduce myself

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At least I just flat out asked you to correct me and repeated myself until I got it right. I knew I would have butchered it otherwise.

Darragh - it's not Dahhhhra like we would pronounce Daria tho, right? It's more of a hard a sound? Like the comedian Dara o'briain? Dara must just be the non-Irish spelling, right?

That's no good, Darragh - they don't know how to pronounce it even when its approximately phonetic: witness how everyone on UK TV calls Dara Ó Broin -'Daw-Raw' The short 'a' is illegal south of the Wash/ Bristol line at least.

xp

they're all kosher spellings tbh, but yeah the same pronunciation. Daire also valid.

Ó Briain obv.

xp to self

dawraw, man i'd glass the first fucker to try it

TBF I only know how to pronounce it because I've heard him say his own name. I would have gotten it wrong if I'd just gone with instinct.

Daire? That's just crazy.

how about durr for short :p /joeks don't glass me plz

my birthcert's dara but a girl spelt her name that way in my class when i was six, so i started signing it this way. Everyone but my dad came along with it eventually.

I like your spelling

I think in my head yr username has always rhymed with Caramac

Also lol display name!

That's right. i think.

My father spells my name Tré, which I hate.

Worst part is that I didn't really notice him doing this until I was 12 or 13.

lol

my last name gets butchered constantly. BENTOOTIE?? Really....fuckwad.

yah but id say it like thara also so

Sometimes i think people do it just to annoy me. and get the bentootie wrath.

My sister in law is Renee (with the thing over the e that I can't reproduce on a keyboard but w/e) ... there are seriously people who call her "Renny" or pronounce the 'nay' part like "knee"...that would make me kill people

No joke, I've had ppl pronounce Erica by stressing the 2nd syllable and making it sound like eureka. Like, are you kidding me?

eh, i might do that out of habit, my dad's last partner was a dutch eereeka

Wow ENBB, that's insane! The stupidity of some people is truly mindboggling

these aren't dutch ppl dawraw

None of this is as bad as what our northern neighbor does to the name "Regina." I work-know a Reggie who lamented her trip to Saskatchewan.

oh you're right - it's so unfortunate

you should see when people try to pronounce my wifes name....its very norwegian....she gets SHINEY a lot. Nice one.

lolol I can just picture a giant FAP where we call mispronounce each other's names on purpose and see who gets in a brawl first

you'll have to try pretty hard to mispronounce any part of my name

Not quite the same thing but this drives me batty: My last name is Penny and I swear to you, the amount of times I get called "Penny" by people who have my first name sitting there right in front of them on my EMAIL SIGNATURE is mind boggling.

Yeah I had a woman email back and for with me for a good six months where my name was not only in my email address but also in my signature and she called me Emma the entire time.

via email is truly weird, no excuse whatsoever. have had that before.

The email thing doesn't faze anyone. Shoot, I've had people call me Trey on my facebook page.

I think i mentioned on some thread before that sometimes when I introduce myself, people go, "Case?" like "Case" is even a name. I know I talk fast, but I don't drop my t's or anything...

Yeah I've mentioned this before but I once gave my name to someone over the phone who then sent me a letter addressed to AQUA BACKRAT because it's perfectly plausible that someone would be called that.

I mean I can also talk quickly but I'm pretty sure I've never said my name in a way that sounded even remotely like "aqua".