Just heard on BBC1 news

[Apache]

Newscaster says "Nuculer technology"

No wonder the country is thick!

[MattF]

Newscaster says "Nuculer technology"

No wonder the country is thick!

They're terrible. It's like 'drawring' instead of drawing, (another favourite of
newscasters).

[Apache]

They're terrible. It's like 'drawring' instead of drawing, (another favourite of
newscasters).

More pedantic pet peeves :-

Loose - in the context of "I dont want to lose it"
Cheep - in the context of "inexpensive"

[Bogus]

somebody else sharing my pet hates,

Dont loose the nucular waste, Ive left in the aloominum kitchen draw for safety AAAAAgggggghhhh.

[da SLUG man]

i hate English people who say French words with a French accent!!

GGgrrrr...

like calling Norbert Dentressangle, Norbare dontresongla!!
then take the pee cos i sometimes say Ken and Oxter!


and that you can't call a chinese takeaway a Chinky anymore... how's that racist?... can you be racist about a building??

[Apache]

i hate English people who say French words with a French accent!!

GGgrrrr...

like calling Norbert Dentressangle, Norbare dontresongla!!
then take the pee cos i sometimes say Ken and Oxter!


and that you can't call a chinese takeaway a Chinky anymore... how's that racist?... can you be racist about a building??

You're a trucker aren't you?

Whats Willy Betz all about? I always thought it was a drinking game.

[MattF]

Outu Kumpu, BTW. Sorry. different thread I know, but the exact name was
killing me.

Fetched is another word that should be banned from ever being muttered.

[da SLUG man]

You're a trucker aren't you?

Whats Willy Betz all about? I always thought it was a drinking game.

erm... some dutch fella?

i think i played the game with some germans once... lost miserably too!!

Kuehne & nagel is a good un!... always said Koon and naygle... dunno what it is though

De Rijke... apparently is De Ryker, not De ridgekey

[Apache]

erm... some dutch fella?

i think i played the game with some germans once... lost miserably too!!

Kuehne & nagel is a good un!... always said Koon and naygle... dunno what it is though

De Rijke... apparently is De Ryker, not De ridgekey

It's always entertaing when I travel up from Folkstone way reading the writing on the foreign trucks. Some real double-entendre (pronounced double en-ten-drer) fodder on them! Especially the dutch lorries. Mad as a sack of badgers!

[da SLUG man]

David Gest's friend "Verginica Seaman" could start Trucking!!

[Apache]

David Gest's friend "Verginica Seaman" could start Trucking!!

"Furchenschlapper" - or something similar had me nearly crash due to excessive mirth a few weeks back on the M25 clockwise.

[Tallyman]

Had to process details for an austrian guy recently, surname of "$$$$e". That got a few laughts!

Edit:: Damn, the system got at it. Well, the name was spelt W A N K E.

[jockthelad]

i hate English people who say French words with a French accent!!

GGgrrrr...

like calling Norbert Dentressangle, Norbare dontresongla!!
then take the pee cos i sometimes say Ken and Oxter!


and that you can't call a chinese takeaway a Chinky anymore... how's that racist?... can you be racist about a building??

I think oxter is a vastly underused word,but after half a bottle of port, most words in my vocabularly are underused. Hic

[jockthelad]

Vocabulary, that's another wee bugger when you're nissed as a pewt

[legendgamesmaster]

nissed as a pewt?

when pulled over by the 5-0, what not to say:

im not a c**t, drunkstable....