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Trivial things that annoy you Part 43

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  • #3452
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Lidl stuff ain't that bad! :P

    Apart from everything else, when I see the name I think of midgets :D


  • #3453
    MsBubbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭MsBubbles


    speaking of Lidl, I hate when people call it Lydol, It's Lidle or Leedle


  • #3454
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    I want to complain about work but they might recognise me...


  • #3455
    Frigga_92
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Frigga_92


    MsBubbles wrote: »
    speaking of Lidl, I hate when people call it Lydol, It's Lidle or Leedle

    The fella in the ad says Leedle (I think).
    The worst is Liddles and Aldees.


  • #3456
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    I have it on good authority that LEE-del is the correct pronunciation, but I deem Lidle to be acceptable since we're Irish, not German.


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  • #3457
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,516 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    MsBubbles wrote: »
    speaking of Lidl, I hate when people call it Lydol, It's Lidle or Leedle
    Me too. Same goes for IKEA. Should be I- (short 'i' as in 'pig')-kay-ah, not Eye-key-ah.


  • #3458
    MsBubbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭MsBubbles


    I was in Germany when I first came across Lidl so I've always called it Leedel.


  • #3459
    Mitchell Pitiful Llama
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Mitchell Pitiful Llama


    I say leedl

    I do NOT say nuuuu-tella


  • #3460
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    I have it on good authority that LEE-del is the correct pronunciation, but I deem Lidle to be acceptable since we're Irish, not German.


    Well whaddya know -


    http://www.pronounceitright.com/pronounce/3141/lidl


    MsBubbles I have to apologise for pronouncing it wrong all this time! Yep, Lydol... :o

    I thought 'Liddle' and 'Leedle' were just the way they enunciate in certain parts of Limerick :pac:


  • #3461
    MsBubbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭MsBubbles


    Czarcasm no need to apologize.


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  • #3462
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    The Irish ad says "Lee-dull." As in, not Needle but Leedle i.e. Lidl.

    Re: Ikea. In my experience 99% of the world says "Eye-key-ah." I've never heard it pronounced any other way.


  • #3463
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,516 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    Well whaddya know -

    http://www.pronounceitright.com/pronounce/3141/lidl

    Great site, and to prove my point ...

    http://www.pronounceitright.com/pronounce/1490/ikea


  • #3464
    MsBubbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭MsBubbles


    The other mispronunciation that bothers me is Eyetalian not Italian.


  • #3465
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    People who post everything on Facebook. Saw a guy proposing to his girlfriend. Either he got someone to take pics while he did it or they posed after the proposal so they could get pics for Facebook. They also posted his exact proposal words, least romantic proposal ever. I won't say what it was as I don't want to identify them. I was going to say I didn't want to embarass them but they're generation O, so nothing embarrasses them.
    26sdrawkcab wrote: »
    Is that not the sort of thing you keep to yourself? I've only told a couple of my very close friends how my husband proposed. I think it's a really private thing.


    It's the current attention-seeking generation that's evolved. They put attention above everything else, even proposing and having a baby.

    They're the kind of people who, when conceiving the baby, are getting their rocks off to the amount of Facebook likes they're gonna get when they announce the pregnancy on FB or when the baby they're currently conceiving is born.

    They're the kind of people who announce the pregnancy on FB even though they might only be 3 weeks pregnant, and even though something like 50% of all pregnancies don't make it past 12 weeks.

    We have birthed a generation of people who are doing most things for attention. Unfortunately, we now find ourselves surrounded by these people.


  • #3466
    MsBubbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭MsBubbles


    whirlpool I agree with you 100 percent. Nothing is private anymore. Everything must be documented on facebook. For example I saw a post today, a photo of a child in uniform standing between two gravestones 'Nanny and Daddy side by side must be so proud of you'


  • #3467
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I had a really crappy time at the hospital this morning and now I feel all weepy. Now I'm annoyed with myself for crying. I feel like an idiot having a cry, the cats are hiding. I don't do crying.:(


  • #3468
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    I had a really crappy time at the hospital this morning and now I feel all weepy. Now I'm annoyed with myself for crying. I feel like an idiot having a cry, the cats are hiding. I don't do crying.:(
    Aw what's up?


  • #3469
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    MsBubbles wrote: »
    The other mispronunciation that bothers me is Eyetalian not Italian.

    Yep, there are millons of them,

    Also people who eat scallons and onons.


  • #3470
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Yep, there are millons of them,

    Also people who eat scallons and onons.


    And scons by the billons!


  • #3471
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,096 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Couples who sit beside instead of opposite eachother in bars and restaurants.

    Extremely trivial but extremely annoying.


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  • #3472
    MsBubbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭MsBubbles


    The worst one I came across was tanks a meeyon !

    Dial hard that drives me mad too. my oh used to sit beside all the time but I have subtlely brought him around to my way of thinking


  • #3473
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    Couples who sit beside instead of opposite eachother in bars and restaurants.

    Extremely trivial but extremely annoying.
    If you sit beside then you can cop a feel ;)


  • #3474
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    The standard of spoken English by irish people is fairly woeful.

    I daily have to ask multiple people to repeat themselves after they've mumbled their way through a sentence, slaughtering the correct pronunciation along the way.

    Speak clearly so people can understand you and please actually say the correct words for things in the correct place.


  • #3475
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    smash wrote: »
    If you sit beside then you can cop a feel ;)

    If they are copping a feel in a public, they aint married, at least not to each other:D


  • #3476
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    smash wrote: »
    If you sit beside then you can cop a feel ;)
    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    If they are copping a feel in a public, they aint married, at least not to each other:D


    Lol, I assumed the first post meant "one" can sit beside the couple and cop a feel and I was trying to figure out the logistics of that and also why you would want to - but the couple copping a feel of each other makes way more sense :);)


  • #3477
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,923 ✭✭✭Wossack


    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    The standard of spoken English by irish people is fairly woeful.

    I daily have to ask multiple people to repeat themselves after they've mumbled their way through a sentence, slaughtering the correct pronunciation along the way.

    Speak clearly so people can understand you and please actually say the correct words for things in the correct place.

    ^^ dis, a meeyon times, dis!


  • #3478
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Lol, I assumed the first post meant "one" can sit beside the couple and cop a feel and I was trying to figure out the logistics of that and also why you would want to - but the couple copping a feel of each other makes way more sense :);)

    "Table for one sir?"
    "Em, no, I will sit beside a couple if you can manage that, thanks":D


  • #3479
    JP85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭JP85


    Writing a message on a card for somebody in work, if they are leaving or had a baby etc


  • #3480
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    JP85 wrote: »
    Writing a message on a card for somebody in work, if they are leaving or had a baby etc

    There's never any space on them things. I remember a friend of ours was leaving a number of years back so my mate bought the card, was the first to sign it and put twenty quid in to get the ball rolling. Pretty generous of her I thought ...she took it back out at the end when everyone had taken their cue from her wrt how much to donate. Loved it :P


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  • #3481
    MsBubbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭MsBubbles


    JP85 I never know what to write, I want to seem friendly but still be polite


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