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

Like I've always called it "flahn" due to first learning about it in Spanish I in high school.xpost

I just read that there are apparently 2 types of flan - English flan and Spanish/Mexican flan, and that the Spanish/Mexican version is the overpronounced version.

Ah see, I did not know that there was an English version!

Custard sounds less pretentious

Et tu, San Te?

Ha, yeah, pretty sure I first learned "flan" in high-school Spanish class, too.

Lol sorry VegemiteGrrrl, we'll always have Paris...

lol I didn't know there was a Spanish version til now!

Well I'm pretty sure this would drive anyone around the bend, no matter how you pronounce it:

" Hey, (x) has flaaaaahn at her desk. You have to go try some"
"You must try the flaaaahhhn"
"Have you tried the flahhhn?"
"Omg this flaaaahhhn is amazing"
"Oh I love flaaahn"
"This flaaaahn is so good!"
"...flaaaahn"
"....flaaahn"

tbrr overly pronouncing words doesn't bother me that much unless that person corrects my probably-okay pronounciation — "well actually it's..." just stfu dude

I accept that I'm an island on this one.

xpost yeah correction is definitely worse

However you say it, to my tastebuds flan just tastes like gooey sponge with syrup

I have never once heard anyone pronounce flan to rhyme with van.

pleased to meet you

Does anybody say hamburger "ham boo gah" cuz if so pls get out of my sight

Harm booger

I call them hamboogers to be silly. Sorry dude.

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

haahahah

- people who say 'I'm on a seafood diet', then pause for like five seconds and insist on saying 'whenever I SEE food, I EAT IT!!!!!!!' even though everyone in the universe has heard the punchline a billion times

you wd hate my Mum :)

ok this ain't innocuous but I've given to putting anything that makes me angry in here lately, so here goes:

My roommate watches Oprah, and right now she's doing a segment on "miracle detectives": one of the guys a former Rolling Stone writer who claims to have been in a bad situation, then saw nuns praying, prayed with them, and they 'disappeared', which he claims made him believe in God. The other a scientist who needs hard evidence.

I mean it was all in the wording, she talks about the 'faith' guy reverently, and then when it's time for the scientist, she talks about how the detective needs 'hard evidence' in air quotes like that's inherently a bad thing. God forbid we actually require evidence before drawing conclusions!

I mean could you find two bigger caricatures to represent either side? and Oprah's trying to get the scientist to disprove the other dude's miracle, how the hell do you do that, nobody was there, nobody can replicate what happened....fucking so ridiculous.

next time you're being horribly scatological on a thread i will think back to you being annoyed right now by oprah and i believe it will cheer me up.

might be waiting a while!

xp reminds me of Montel Williams getting psychics in to give false hope to people with missing sons and daughters, "he is alive and well" etc etc. Sickening charlatans preying on the weak and desperate (and the psychics are no better, b'dum tish).

The people who rhyme flan with Stan also pronounce "pasta" as "pass-ta".

Flan is just a gross word — it reminds me of phlegm.

xp wrong way round shirley

In addition to Sherry, Cher, Karen, Kerry, Sherin, etc, you can now add "Jen" to the list of names on my "Okay sbux thats not my name but whatever" list

Sha-ron. I get that its a loud place but it happens often enough that I wonder if I have a speech impediment

The people who rhyme flan with Stan also pronounce "pasta" as "pass-ta".

My name is Stan, and I say Flan to rhyme with it - and I say pass- ta. I've never heard anyone say 'Flaaahn', and 'Pawh' sta' in that Lloyd Grossman way is filling- stripper.

Pass-ta is Northerner British English, right?

See now this fake pronunx guide is confusing me. "pass-ta" just sounds like "pasta" in my mind in an aussie accent (long a sound - ie "parsta").

Tho I assume it means short-a "passta" like "canasta"

Linguists to thread, lol

linguinists

NICE

Pass-ta is also a Canadian thing; pah-sta is American.

Yeah, reporting from Denver here (which, for all the international ilxors of mystery here, is entirely devoid of the twang common in the surrounding states), pah-sta is the pronunciation Stateside.

I've always called (English) flan flan rather than FLON which is why that Friends episode where they go on and on about flon confused me no end. But I thought par-sta was an aussie thing, at least that's what they called it on Neighbours, EVEN THE TIMMINS FAMILY. Pasta as in "Asda" is all British (not just northern) afaik, if you call it "parsta" you're poe-sh.
This is relevant to my interests because they have a similar problem with my name which basically doesn't really exist in US English.

Great now I'm hungry

Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry

Getting hungry when you read about food.

It's my own fault. Bloody stupid flan

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