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

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

I'll take pictures next time before I sweep them in the gutter. ENHANCE!

DSI Belgium (dog shit investigation)

lols

I know ILX (including myself) loves its pronunciation arguments, but they always boil down to:

-People who pronounce it X are clearly retarded and/or putting on airs

-What? I always pronounce it X and have never heard it pronounced Y, you savage!

(ad nauseum)

-Oh right, WE ARE ALL FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES/REGIONS THAT PRONOUNCE CERTAIN WORDS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENTLY.

FWIW, flan is a Spanish word pronounced "flahn" goddamn it.

how do they pronounce it on the moon

xpost: why must you take my irrational anger away from me

Its pronounced throat wobbler mangrove.

Irrewillipe you jerks lol

That stupid infomercial with the teenybopper girl talking about going to school in your pajamas. HATE

This is relevant to my interests because they have a similar problem with my name which basically doesn't really exist in US English.

― Not the real Village People, Friday, 31 December 2010 14:28 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I used to work with a Warwick. Nobody ever had a problem saying his name, except a load of American callers who couldn't get past 'war-wick' despite trying. I don't know why it was just some Americans and nobody else.

btw before the usual butthurt kicks in notice (a) I am merely wondering aloud why this was the case and (b) 'a load of' and 'some' are not generalisations.

nah it's def a thing. cf being unable to pronounce Gloucester or Worcester correctly.

websites with ridiculous password reset protocol.

This thread has made me wonder how Dionne Warwick pronounces her name. For some reason my worldview would be kind of dented if it turns out to be Worr-wick, but don't know why I care when it isn't my name.

Apparently my worldview is officially dented!

"C'mon Jake" lady is back outside my window. brb, going to throw rocks at her

Wonder if Dionne gets all IA with Britishers and Austrayans "Lovely to meet you Miss Warrick!"

I had no idea until now that the second W was silent in the mouths of Britishes.

At least in Australia we will rake the shortest route through any given word...and if we can't skip syllables/vowels we'll just say it fast to get it over with, lol

Rake? Take

She just sings 'Do you know the way to say my name?' da, da, dada, DA,da,da,dada...

XP to VG

LMAO

Wonder if Dionne gets all IA with Britishers and Austrayans "Lovely to meet you Miss Warrick!"

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, January 2, 2011 11:04 AM (30 minutes ago)

She probably wouldn't get too IA about it --

Warwick was born Marie Dionne Warrick ....
Warrick's name was misspelled on the single's label, and she began using the new spelling (i.e., "Warwick") both professionally and personally.[4]

Ooooh that bloody traitor

Britishers who pronounce a certain city in Texas Who-ston instead of Hugh-ston.

they're all just copying Terrence Stamp

It's TERENCE. /ia

Britishers who pronounce a certain city in Texas Who-ston instead of Hugh-ston.

― pwn de floor (suzy), Monday, 3 January 2011 05:58 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Isn't that a Scottish thing? I've a friend whose surname is Houston (pron. 'hoo-ston') because he's descended from Scots. Loads of people think he's American because of the surname.

In Georgia there's a Houston county but it's pronounced "How-ston".

there's also Houston St. in Manhattan. tourists can always be spotted when they pronounce it like the Texas city.

same with Gough St. in SF. despite it's appearances, it is pronounced "Goff," which is really stupid, but also good for spotting tourists.

We had a PM called Gough (pron 'goff').

There's a Houston about ten miles down the road from me (in Scotland). It's pronounced Hoo-stin.

xpost, that's how you pronounce Gough!

Mr Veg and I call Gough Street GOKKH! Street, like Klingon pronunciation why bc it's funny

The fact that Dionne Warwick's surname is pronounced War-wick is BLOWING MY MIND, btw. I don't know why I've never noticed anyone doing this before.

Wait, how are people pronouncing that American Gough St if not 'goff'?

"go-guh"
"goach"
"gock"

O_O

"Go"

why bcz it looks like the word 'dough'

ah okay

But it looks like cough too

I would say Gough like Goff anyway bc of Whitlam

they all sound like blood gurgling from a slit throat