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

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

Though, Thorough, Cough, Bough, Lough, Through......think there's one more possible pronunciation of -ough as well?

rough

- off topic. Got a long email from close friend asking me to help her make her life better in 2011. And Im like rarrr have enough problems with myself why do I have to help you

But I dug this hole by becoming her wailing wall/cheerleader so its my own dumb fault

When I lived in a Br0ough4m St, we didn't know the correct pronunciation and just used the British place name as a guide. The hilarious thing was the number of people who insisted we were saying it incorrectly, but every one of those people used a completely different pronunciation! In the end we just told them all to get fucked.

er Br0ugh4m

assholes setting off fireworks outside my room.

HELLO, IT'S JANUARY 2ND, AND 4:30 IN THE AFTERNOON, FUCK OFF.

There are EASTER EGGS in the shops this week. EASTER EGGS.

Are they skipping Valentines?

Easter Eggs already? fuckers!

> tourists can always be spotted when they pronounce it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth

No fireworks here, amazingly. After July 4th it took them like a month to stop lighting firecrackers.

Lol at Goguuugghh St; we had European friends trying to find Lyon St in SF and all the locals apparently called it 'Lion st'.
Also one of them is called Philip and every. single. person. in the US attempts to spell it 'Phillip' with 2 'l's. Is it really that much more common over here?

- ppl who drive down the middle of a narrow rd when you are coming in the other direction

-ppl who sit in parking spaces with gearshift in reverse fucking around & generally NOT REVERSING

/driving/ia

people on bicycles who ride the wrong way in the bike lanes (ie against the flow of traffic rather than with). just much less safe, if something dangerous happens, you're both converging on each other and critically reducing reaction time. not to mention if another biker is riding correctly you may collide with him.

WHY DO PEOPLE NEVER KNOW WHAT 'MERGE' MEANS WHEN THEY FUCKING DRIVE. NOPE, JUST KEEP SPEEDING AWAY, NO YOUR LANE ISN'T DISAPPEARING, THAT ISN'T THE SHOULDER YOU;RE DRIVING ON, THAT WASN'T ME YOU JUST CUT OFF WITH YOUR SPORTS CAR, JESUS IF ONLY THERE WERE WRITING ON THE STREET THAT SIAD 'MERGE' WITH AN ARROW TO WARN YOU MAYBE THIS WUODN'T HAPPEN

people who ask you point blank "what church do you go to"?

way to assume I'm one of you -- I'm an atheist and then I get to enjoy either avoiding the question or answering honestly, where inevitably the reply is "ohh......"

"whichever one the wedding is in"