Can I get a bagel?

ShreddedHumans · 21-07-2005 11:57PM

I blame the Chinese

Wez · 22-07-2005 12:12AM

Pigman II wrote:

Even worse than americanisation is Aussie style 'moronic interogative'* thats creeping our lingo. Its a kind of way of speaking that automatically removes phrases such as 'dya know what I mean?' or 'dya falla kelly?' by automatically phrasing every statement of fact in the form of a question.

Scene Person 1 describing chain of events to person 2:

Person 1 : "First I went to the shops? And then I picked up a newspaper? And then I gave some money to the guy behind the counter but it was too much so he gave me change? And then I read the paper? And now I'm here talking to you?"

* = copyright Rory McGrath (afaik?)

OMG!! My friend does that! I hate the guy! He says everything as a question! Except he says, in the most Dublin accent 'right' at the end of every sentence!

e.g.

I went to the shop? Roight, and I like pulled a smoothie out of the fridge? Roight, and then like walked over to the counter and paid for it? Roight

Sorry, just HAD to say it, I hate the guy, and it gets to meh..

Crucifix · 22-07-2005 12:18AM

I usually say can I have, except I say it fast and it's more like "cnave".

*Page* · 22-07-2005 12:27AM

assistant asks~what would you like?
I say ~ I'd like a bagel please.

or
me~ hi could i have a bagel with.....

i dont know many people who say "can i get a bagel?"... only "can i get it to go?"

Prior Of Taize · 22-07-2005 12:31AM

for all you health freaks out there...

[CAPSLOCK]

A BAGEL IS THE EQUIVALENT OF 5 SLICES OF WHITE BREAD YOU IDIOTS

[/CAPSLOCK]

Sparky · 22-07-2005 12:33AM

id say (depends on mood)

"I think i might have a bagel" or "Would you have a bagel"

Good day: "Can i have a bagel please"
Bad day: "can i get a bagel now", 10seconds later, "ah here will you hurry up with it like"**

**Piss take

*Page* · 22-07-2005 12:37AM

luckily i'm not a health freak!!
But i do make sure to have a bagel vary vary rarely. usualy its wrapos(obriens) for me

Sparky · 22-07-2005 12:39AM

*Page* wrote:

luckily i'm not a health freak!!
But i do make sure to have a bagel vary vary rarely. usualy its wrapos(obriens) for me

Had bagels in NY and TBH i got sick of them altogether.

Dave · 22-07-2005 08:24AM

Superquinn bagels are the business really.

Sleipnir · 22-07-2005 08:55AM

fischerspooner wrote:

all 5 people in front of me said "can I get" this or that, instead of "could I have".

Could I have?!?!?!
Could I have???

I think you mean "may I have"

Oh the ignorance.....!

boo4842 · 22-07-2005 09:06AM

Sparky_S wrote:

did you check out the first link, class like.

I guess Irish don't notice that they put "like" at the end of a sentence, where Americans/Canadians put it in the middle. I find it infinately more annoying the way the Irish do it...like.

I'm Canadian and noticed it right away. If your going to act American at least to it properly ffs.

They also replace "like" with "so" at the end of the sentence, so they do. I never understood the whole repeating thing, and its far more obvious in the north....so it is.

And the whole correcting someone asking for a "bagel" is hilarious because a bagel is, in itself, an American product. Its like correcting someone for ordering weiner schnitzel the German way...

dalk · 22-07-2005 09:19AM

I'm pretty sure that bagels came to America via Polish Jews (making bagels originally Polish)... but i could be wrong.. So where does that bring the argument?

And whats wrong with eating five slices of bread anyway?

As was pointed out earlier, Corkonians have been sticking 'like' (loike) at the end of sentences long before they decided to 'act American' Boo...

SparkyLarks · 22-07-2005 09:25AM

Can I get is so not an americanism like.

However analog is, drives me mad, it's analogue unless you talking about the company.

If you really want how to see how american culture is influencing us. Take halloween coming up. Pumpkins everywhere. and people who put up turnips are looked down on. Esp kids who's parents put them up.

But turnips were cut out for hundreds of in europe years, and it was because american settlers couldn't find turnips they use pumpkins. But cos that's what we see in the movies we not think that pumpkins are the right thing to do. When in fact it should be turnips all along.

and is it not "may I please have a bagel" or 2May I have a bagel please"

joejoem · 22-07-2005 09:29AM

Can I get a holla?

Throw up both my hands?

Woah! This aint livin!

- The beautiful and wonderful soul of Mr Marvin Gaye

Pigman II · 22-07-2005 10:16AM

Wez wrote:

My friend does that! I hate the guy!

simu · 22-07-2005 11:08AM

"Can I get a ..." - this isn't an americanism or if it is, it's been in Ireland my whole life (25 years). It is more something a child would say, to my ears, though.

Dave · 22-07-2005 11:23AM

boo4842 wrote:

I guess Irish don't notice that they put "like" at the end of a sentence, where Americans/Canadians put it in the middle. I find it infinately more annoying the way the Irish do it...like.

I'm Canadian and noticed it right away. If your going to act American at least to it properly ffs.

They also replace "like" with "so" at the end of the sentence, so they do. I never understood the whole repeating thing, and its far more obvious in the north....so it is.

And the whole correcting someone asking for a "bagel" is hilarious because a bagel is, in itself, an American product. Its like correcting someone for ordering weiner schnitzel the German way...

When Irish people (mainly south of the country, Kerry, Cork) put like at the end of a sentence it's not in any vain attempt to sound American, it's because it's a regional way of speaking, which I found myself doing more and more having been hanging around with a few Kerry lads. Being Canadian you wouldn't know this.

Sleepy · 22-07-2005 02:37PM

Nyeh, if people wanna be dumb let 'em. It's something for the rest of us to feel special about and we all know how important our therapists tell us that is!

simu · 22-07-2005 02:39PM

Yup - no matter how bad life gets, flawless bagel-ordering techniques will be an asset.

Shabadu · 22-07-2005 02:45PM

"My wife just died, but at least the Itsabagel staff will be pleased with my ordering skills."

Widower: "May I have a Holy Cow bagel with Basil Mayonnaise instead of Horseradish Sauce, please? I would like that in a bag."

Staff: "¿Qué?"

simu · 22-07-2005 02:50PM

They can take our land, they can take our freedom... but they'll never take our flawless bagel-ordering technique! Who'll take my place? etc etc

Sarky · 22-07-2005 02:52PM

simu wrote:

They can take our land, they can take our freedom... but they'll never take our flawless bagel-ordering technique! Who'll take my place? etc etc

/me steps forward over Simu's corpse in the bagel queue

simu · 22-07-2005 02:54PM

The ghost of robert emmet will be ordering bagels in your sleep tonight.

Sarky · 22-07-2005 02:55PM

As long as he's not giving any bloody speeches.

simu · 22-07-2005 02:57PM

Sarky wrote:

As long as he's not giving any bloody speeches.

Well, he likes many toppings on his bagels...

Sarky · 22-07-2005 02:58PM

Goody. Toppings make me so hot.

Shabadu · 22-07-2005 02:59PM

simu wrote:

The ghost of robert emmet will be ordering bagels in your sleep tonight.

^ best mental image evar.

'woooooOOOOOOOOooooo I demand a bagel, and FrrEEEEeeeeedommmm'

Staff: "¿Qué?"

simu · 22-07-2005 03:04PM

My attendant:

What have I to say why purchase of bagel should not be pronounced on me according to law? I have nothing to say that can alter your predetermination, nor that it will become me to say with any view to the mitigation of that order which you are here to make, and I must eat by. But I have that to say which interests me more than life, and which you have labored (as was necessarily your office in the present circumstances of this oppressed bagel store) to destroy. I have much to say why my bagel should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it. I do not imagine that, seated where you are, your minds can be so free from impurity as to receive the least impression from what I am going to utter--I have no hopes that I can anchor my character in the breast of a kitchen constituted and trammeled as this is--I only wish, and it is the utmost I expect, that your lordships may suffer it to float down your memories untainted by the foul breath of prejudice, until it finds some more hospitable harbor to shelter it from the storm by which it is at present buffeted.

And some sundried tomatoes please.

Sarky · 22-07-2005 03:06PM

/me salutes with tears in his eyes

simu · 22-07-2005 03:07PM

Sarky wrote:

/me salutes with tears in his eyes

Do you want mayonnaise with that?

Can I get a bagel?

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