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Post by Sam Tyler on Dec 12, 2018 22:45:14 GMT
The one that I've had to correct our son with is when we have gone up to a bar and he's asked "Can I get two pints of Guinness please?"
I've always answered him with "No, you can't get it, you have to let the barman get it for you!"
Last time I said it his reply to me was "Okay you smart-arsed ****, can we have two pints of Guinness please?"
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Post by Steve Austin on Dec 12, 2018 23:03:00 GMT
People who spell on-route instead of en-route or say brought instead of bought irritate me no end. There are many, many more instances and examples of this kind of thing but these two spring to mind.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Dec 15, 2018 16:35:32 GMT
The one that I've had to correct our son with is when we have gone up to a bar and he's asked "Can I get two pints of Guinness please?" I've always answered him with "No, you can't get it, you have to let the barman get it for you!" Last time I said it his reply to me was "Okay you smart-arsed ****, can we have two pints of Guinness please?" I got into a friendly argument with my mates American wife about that (ordering drinks at a bar and how you say it) and I don't think she quite understood my criticism by saying "What's wrong with that? I would have thought it was good manners to ask if that drink's available" (or something on those lines) but I was trying to explain about that it was better English to say "Can I have" rather than "Can I get" as it sounded wrong to us English! Still I haven't fallen fallen out with them as far as I know! Lol!
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 15, 2018 20:07:44 GMT
Our parents generation would have said 'may I have', which is really the correct & polite way of asking for something. 'Can I get' sounds aggressive, you can imagine a New Yorker saying 'can I get a toona fish sandwich & a cup of cawfee?' with no please or thank you either. To them it's not impolite, it's just how they communicate, but it just doesn't sound right coming from a Brit or Irish person. I think we've lost an awful lot of the politeness we were once noted for.
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Post by Del Boy on Dec 16, 2018 23:35:15 GMT
Politeness? It's virtually disappeared in that there London
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Post by Villain on Dec 17, 2018 10:37:35 GMT
Politeness? It's virtually disappeared in that there London Tell me about it... in recent months we've been working a lot of freight trains to London which usually means travelling on the tube to get back home, the general air of aloofness, entitlement, argey-bargey and downright selfishness amongst (mostly) the younger population down there is astonishing and rather sad. Good manners and politeness seem to be looked on as a weakness by some folk. I get sick and tired of the 'up their own arses' hipster types looking down their noses at me just because I'm in railway uniform! Mild rant over Villain
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Post by Del Boy on Dec 17, 2018 11:03:10 GMT
When the public are given an instruction they don't react especially when queing. Or is it called huddling these days. A game of British Bulldog ensues when the bus pulls up
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Post by Charles Bronson on Dec 17, 2018 20:36:49 GMT
One of the things I dislike about this time of year is going into stores and supermarkets and hearing all the trashy Christmas records. The one I hate most of all is the Michael Jackson one 'Santa Claus is Coming To Town' Michael made it with The Jacksons when he was very young. It drives me up the wall.
I enjoy the good ones of course I was in a Budapest Christmas Market a year ago and they started playing a version of John Lennon's 'And so this Christmas.' over the speakers . It wasn't a bad version and I found it very moving in the setting. John's Christmas song is definately one of the very best.
I noticed Paul McCartney's 'Wonderful Christmas Time.' getting slated the other day on the Internet. Have to say it's not one of my favourites, but there are worse Christmas songs.
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Post by Del Boy on Dec 17, 2018 21:16:33 GMT
Christmas songs are great at the right time and that is in the pub or on telly xmas specials etc from the week before Christmas. On loop in the shops just devalues them.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Dec 17, 2018 21:59:48 GMT
Good point Del. It wasn't as bad one time as it is now.
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