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Pet Hate - Unfiltered Americanisms

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Cedrus


    Dates starting with the month then the day then the year.
    March 1st 2012 - OK, this is alright, illogical but understandable
    mar 1 2012 - Illogical and starting to slide
    3-1-12 - Illogical and open to error Third of January or First of March?

    It should rise (or fall) in proportionate scaled progression.
    It's like saying Bigger, Big, Biggest or Pounds, Pence and Shillings


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Speaking of dates, one American trend, which thankfully doesn't seem to have spread here, is the way they say dates at the end of tv ads for films.
    It was mildly annoying when they'd just say " out January fifth," leaving out the "the" (and if I were being pedantic, putting the words in the wrong order) as that's how most Americans say it.

    But then I noticed that they started saying "out January five!" Oh my. Perhaps they're worried that people won't know what "fifth" means, or that the extra letter it has over "five" would be too much hard work to say.

    But it got worse: "Out Jan five!" Oh dear, oh dear.
    Is January really that hard to say? Really!? "Jan!!??"

    I know it hasn't seeped into usage here, but the principle behind it is that of over-simplification, the principle behind most Americanisms, and something that's definitely influencing the way people speak here in a general sense.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    i hate how americans call an arse a "fanny"... a fanny is a vagina not an arse....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    I'm beginning to notice the word "diaper" creeping in. It's called a nappy ffs. Anyone else noticing this?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,276 ✭✭✭readyletsgo


    Douchebag....whatever happened to just calling someone a gobshyte?!


    Douche Lord!!!!!

    Love that one.. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    americans call jam - jelly and jelly is called jello


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭FTGFOP


    I'd love some grape J in my PB&J.


  • Registered Users Posts: 893 ✭✭✭danslevent


    I can't stand "Awesome". It's just so wrong coming out of the mouth of an Irish person and a load of people say it. Sick.


  • Registered Users Posts: 240 ✭✭mrkite77


    americans call jam - jelly and jelly is called jello

    Actually, we use both jam and jelly.. they're different. Jam is made with fruit pulp, jelly is made with fruit juice, and preserves are made with fruit chunks.

    And Jello is gelatin.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    i hate how americans call an arse a "fanny"... a fanny is a vagina not an arse....


    lolololol:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 709 ✭✭✭Robdude


    I think it's cute that so many people are trying to adopt American culture. No sense in fighting it.


  • Site Banned Posts: 1,856 ✭✭✭paddy kerins


    Dude, lame

    Americanisms are totally lame, dude


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    The Ny Mets are my favourite squadron.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 ✭✭✭Darkginger


    'I'm making chicken for dinner' - no, you're not, chickens make other chickens, what you are doing is cooking it. You can make a 'made' dish, like chicken pie, but you can't make a chicken. I don't want to know that you're 'fixing' a chicken, either. I only fix things that are broken...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    can i get a is a common phrase in freakin ballybrack. alri mister can i geh a batter burger and chips


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    i hate how americans call an arse a "fanny"... a fanny is a vagina not an arse....
    :D:) :pac: :D:) :pac: :D

    Brilliant, its also true :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭jakobgallagher


    Cilantro.


  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭bridget84


    "pissed" instead of "pissed off".

    "write you" instead of "write to you".


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    PHENOMENOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON

    AWESOMMMMMMMMMMMME


    WOW

    especially when said in their loud protuding voices, just in case nobody hears them ten miles away.
    :D:D:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    why do gay guys & women call the toilet the "loo"? i don't think i know of any straight guys that call it the loo.... most straight guys say toilet, john, or bog


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    why do gay guys & women call the toilet the "loo"? i don't think i know of any straight guys that call it the loo.... most straight guys say toilet, john, or bog

    Im straight and I say loo.

    Thats another myth busted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 517 ✭✭✭rich.d.berry


    i hate how americans call an arse a "fanny"... a fanny is a vagina not an arse....

    Was in a hotel lounge in Waterford a couple of months back when an elderly American tourist walks in and announces in a Southern drawl:

    "I'm dead beat, is there someplace I can set my fanny?"

    They must be used to it down there because as far as I could tell I was the only one who found it amusing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,276 ✭✭✭readyletsgo


    why do gay guys & women call the toilet the "loo"? i don't think i know of any straight guys that call it the loo.... most straight guys say toilet, john, or bog


    Eh, What?

    I'm gay, I know of no one who calls it the loo.
    Just the toilet, jacks, bog...

    Mammys call it the 'loo' :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭FTGFOP


    why do gay guys & women call the toilet the "loo"? i don't think i know of any straight guys that call it the loo.... most straight guys say toilet, john, or bog

    Wrong thread.

    I call it loo too, alternating with 'the shit-eating porcelain gimp'.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    syklops wrote: »
    Im straight and I say loo.

    Thats another myth busted.

    You're only lying to yourself lad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭Jev/N


    "Can I get a" - usually said in Coffee Shops. You don't say Can I get a when you ask for something anywhere else.

    Can I get a whoop whoop? :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 498 ✭✭FueledByAisling


    Tazio wrote: »
    My bad.


    ;)

    A teacher actually went mental at a classmate of mine recently when he said that. Everyone just stared blank faced at her random outburst!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭irishguitarlad


    fall instead of autumn


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Say what?!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    May not be an Americanism as much as a "boards"ism but people who put "simples" at the end of their posts. It's starting to drive me mad! :mad:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Pataman


    Guestimation, I assume thats how you spell it. I refuse to look it up as its NOT a reall word.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 638 ✭✭✭flanders1979


    mom
    fail
    epic


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