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Pet Hate - Unfiltered Americanisms

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    #62
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,975 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Feckin cookies


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    #63
    lucylu
    Registered Users Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭lucylu


    Carlos_Ray wrote: »
    I've never heard the term "Queen Cakes" either. I prefer cupcakes.

    another one for the plane


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    #64
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Whateva!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz7_3n7xyDg


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    #65
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Happy holidays
    A company I worked in used to insist on staff saying this because they were an American multinational - ffs they were in Ireland where we celebrate Christmas, I'm not gonna say "Happy Holiday" to any politically correct fecker :eek:


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    #66
    Carlos_Ray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭Carlos_Ray


    lucylu wrote: »
    another one for the plane

    I wish...


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    #67
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    lucylu wrote: »
    another one for the plane
    And you can take your British slang back to the UK too :P

    Anyway... Elevator. It's a fkn lift!


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    #68
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    syklops wrote: »
    "Can I get a pint of Guinness please?"

    Whats wrong with that? :confused:

    I just think it sounds wrong, I'm more used to "Can I have"...


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    #69
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Immaculate Pasta wrote: »
    You don't say Can I get a when you ask for something anywhere else.

    Yes people do. Since when is that an Americanism??


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    #70
    PhlegmyMoses
    Registered Users Posts: 11,906 ✭✭✭✭PhlegmyMoses


    syklops wrote: »
    "Can I get a pint of Guinness please?"

    Whats wrong with that? :confused:
    Yeah, I don't see what's American abotu that. I'd probably say "Can I have a ...." but it doesn't seem like an exclusively American thing to me, like say, calling someone a douche.


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    #71
    mikemac1
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    If you had a good barman in your local then a subtle nod of the head is all that's needed to order a pint :cool:


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    #72
    syklops
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    smash wrote: »
    So you make queen cakes in fairy cake papers, with fairy cake mix? :confused:

    From Wikipedia:
    Fairy cakes may refer to:
    Cupcakes (British English), a smaller version of a cupcake

    and it appears queen cakes aren't cupcakes: http://www.greatbritishkitchen.co.uk/recipebook/index.php?option=com_rapidrecipe&page=viewrecipe&recipe_id=843&Itemid=28

    Also worth noting that they're English! :P
    And you can take your British slang back to the UK too

    Wrong thread, this is the rant against Americanisms thread. Go start a rant against an English-isms thread.


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    #73
    lucylu
    Registered Users Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭lucylu


    smash wrote: »
    And you can take your British slang back to the UK too :P

    Anyway... Elevator. It's a fkn lift!

    huh??


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    #74
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,969 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    If you had a good barman in your local then a subtle nod of the head is all that's needed to order a pint :cool:

    And if your a borderline alco, you dont need to nod your head, they just plonk it down in front of you. Over here in many places you dont ask for another one, instead you just tell them when you want to stop.


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    #75
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    lucylu wrote: »
    huh??
    Fairy cakes / queen cakes = British phrases


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    #76
    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users Posts: 7,834 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    AngryBollix wrote: »
    Wheres the restrooms?

    Have a nice day
    fückin right

    Although its nice of Aer Lingus to use such phrases when Im gettin on a plane from germany to Ireland to save me from the culture shock of landing in the 51st state of the US.

    Not to mention using the word "bathroom" rather than toilet.
    on a plane?
    A room with a bath?
    muppets.

    Especially when serving routes to germany and france who call the room where you find the bog in their languages Toilette or toilette .

    Why cant our national airline use the ENGLISH word for toilet which is toilet.

    Or do you have to fly Ryanair with east european staff speaking british english to escape stupid americanisms?


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    #77
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,398 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Jealous much?

    Any sentence that is 2 words, an adjective followed by the word "much"


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    #78
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    I disagree period
    You're having a laugh OP, full stop

    I think these originally came from the days when you told the clerk your message and he'd write it down and telegraph it

    I don't like it anyway


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    #79
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Paparazzo wrote: »
    Jealous much?

    Any sentence that is 2 words, an adjective followed by the word "much"

    Don't be such a hater.com :D


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    #80
    lucylu
    Registered Users Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭lucylu


    smash wrote: »
    Fairy cakes / queen cakes = British phrases

    the topic is about Americanisms not about Britisms


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    #81
    milehip1
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭milehip1


    syklops wrote: »
    Are you saying the pro-weed lobby is against gay marriage?


    omg there like totally anti-abortion also allready y'all

    Immaculate Pasta wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnGPgCVJUsI

    He got Scottish people problems and I found him annoying, so I guess I gots them too:(.

    I blame them dam gangsta rappers,stuff like "getting my creep on" dosent sound right either side of the Atlantic


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    #82
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    lucylu wrote: »
    the topic is about Americanisms not about Britisms

    But.... from the op "But I cannot stand the people who won't filter it for the Irish context."

    Sure you're replacing the filtering of Americanisms with Britisms and putting them into Irish context. Just as bad :D


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    #83
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,606 ✭✭✭Feisar


    I never heard the "I'll get" one when I worked as a barman, it was always:

    I'll take a ...

    No, I'm going to serve it to you. There'll be no taking done here. Now go sit down and your pint will be over in a minute.


    My brother says semi with an i, garbage, my bad and a few others. Not happy with the lad at all!

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #84
    Stercus Accidit
    Registered Users Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    There is a fierce close mindedness in Ireland, anything that you pick up abroad or ideas outside of our wee island and you are mocked and criticised by people who barely made it to the pale let alone abroad for anything more than their holiers.
    It's a big world out there full of ideas and different people, coming back to ireland and the petty, snarky criticisms people actively seek to justify their own stagnant mindset is a bit draining.
    Raging about some slang people picked up off the torrents of US media they consume, or heaven forbid some British slang because they lived there for a few years. Small town, small island mindset, same difference.


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    #85
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Stercus Accidit wrote: »
    coming back to ireland and the petty, snarky criticisms people actively seek to justify their own stagnant mindset is a bit draining.
    Better leave again then :pac:


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    #86
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,267 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    But douche is a French word :p


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    #87
    Stercus Accidit
    Registered Users Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    smash wrote: »
    Better leave again then :pac:

    Are the pigs kicking me out of the sty? :(


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    #88
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Tazio wrote: »
    My bad.


    ;)


    Yeah that one really bugs me, my bad what??? My Bad attempt at an americanism?

    I was in a deli recently and the fella in front of me was ordering his sandwich/wrap and he asked for Tom-ay-toes on it in his finest north donegal accent...he so deserved a slap in the face for it!!!


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    #89
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Stercus Accidit wrote: »
    There is a fierce close mindedness in Ireland, anything that you pick up abroad or ideas outside of our wee island and you are mocked and criticised by people who barely made it to the pale let alone abroad for anything more than their holiers.
    It's a big world out there full of ideas and different people, coming back to ireland and the petty, snarky criticisms people actively seek to justify their own stagnant mindset is a bit draining.
    Raging about some slang people picked up off the torrents of US media they consume, or heaven forbid some British slang because they lived there for a few years. Small town, small island mindset, same difference.


    I hate a lot of the phrases mentioned already. Not because they came from America or wherever but because they sound stupid! 'My bad' for example. That's just stupid no matter where it originated from


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    #90
    BraziliaNZ
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    "Can I get a bagel". Please stop saying "Can I get", as a poster said previously, this is not "Friends".

    "Could I have?". What's wrong with that?


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    #91
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Can I get a hell yea!!!!!


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