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

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

ders

hee hee

I'm sorry I couldn't help it ;_;

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/149/346168078_e773db131f.jpg

Hens love roosters
Geese love ganders
everyone else loves
NED FLANDERS

NOT ME

(yay!)

everyone who counts

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

My wife always takes the piss out of me for saying passta with a short A instead of pahsta, but then someone told me that the shorter A sound is actually closer to the Italian and that Americans pronounce it with a long A because they are used to Spanish pronunciations? Or is that a load of old bollocks?

"colonel poo"

I pronounce flan and pasta like van and canasta because I from Yorkshire and always pronounce everything with a short flat A.

what does kind of weird me out is that thing that some Yorkshire people and also Geordies do which is to pronounce all words with a flat A ...except the words master and plaster

Only the other week I was wondering if (US) Americans even have the long, back-of-mouth "ah" sound, because every word I could think of that I would use one in gets a sometimes elongated version of the front "a" of "van" instead (compare the two pronunciations on http://www.forvo.com/word/plaster-cast/#en ) so I guess this thread is timely

but is the "ahh" sound that people are getting so excited about being in "flan" and "pasta" the same as the second sound on that page or something else entirely?

people who refer to 2010 as "oh ten". it's not 20,010, so that's wrong. it's just "ten", or "twenty ten", not "oh ten".

tbh there is an oh sitting right in front of that ten.

I think I'm not good at this thread.

yea but like there were two "ohs" in front of the 9 in 2009 and nobody said "oh oh nine"!

I was sad when 2010 started that I couldn't keep thinking of the year as "the oh-X" but then I realized there's still that oh there, and that unless I live to be 117, I won't have to worry about this.

Are we finally going to start saying "20" instead of 2-thousand? I'm ready for that.

2010

you're 20 late, m8

I refer to it as JesusWatch 2k10

MMX, y'all.

two thousand and hate
two thousand and fine
two thousand and zen
two thousand and heaven

I still say two thousand. Can't do the twenty-thing, for some reason. Stubborn I guess :D

twenny-ten, twenny-leven, twenny-twelve

as far as passta vs. pawsta goes, i'm with the paws. suppose that relative to italian, the correct pronunciation is a shorter, sharper "a" sound, but even that short-sharp italian "a" sounds like "ah" from over here.

this one KFC always gets my order wrong when they first repeat it, always gotta correct em. it's like they have pig shit in their ears!

As opposed to just the food!

Biscuits in their ears?

Thinking abt pasta: I say pasta like "pahsta". I dont know what this means.

i say 'pah-sta,' and 'flon,' but i'm not really sure why.

Rarr why do u say flon /joeks :)

flonson

flon de river, flon de bank

flon flon sausage and flon
flon flon eggs and flon

-garden hoses

Dog poop update: came home from New Year's Eve and family visit today, FOUR turds on my pavement.

That's it.
Registered an official complaint with the neighborhood police officer. ("I can't guarantee that I won't hurt the owner if I ever catch him, so I'm asking for your help" :-) )

you should write a threatening note and tie it around the turd, and fling it through their window from a moving car.

I'll have to catch him first, I still don't know who it is or where they live. :-(

Maybe the police will give me a gun or the temporary permission to put electrical wire in front of my house, who knows.

set up cameras outside the house, then pounce later in the week

also four turds suggest either two dogs or one big dog dropping multiple logs

Looks like one dog, doing the cha cha while pooping. (not sure about the dance, could be a rumba too)

might need forensics to come out