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Pet Hate - Unfiltered Americanisms

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


    Another: "Loving the x,y,z" posts on fb etc. What's wrong with, "I love this picture". Why does it have to be "loving this picture"? Urgh.... It does NOT make you sound cool...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭lucylu


    smash wrote: »
    You can't come and complain about the phrase cupcake (which is correct) and then say "queen cake"... Sounds like something you made up. I've never heard it in my life.

    And also, this is a bun!

    go on hop on the nearest plane off to AmeriK with you and your Cupcake...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    syklops wrote: »
    Thats what we call them at home too.

    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    Agree with all of these. "Can I get" is definitely the most annoying. Also (though this may not necessarily be an "Americanism" as such) but when people say, "that's so funny" instead of just laughing because it's funny.

    "Can I get a pint of Guinness please?"

    Whats wrong with that? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭lucylu


    syklops wrote: »
    1lb of flour
    1lb of sugar
    1lb of butter
    4 eggs

    Mix ingredients in food processor, spoon mixture into fairy cake papers, put in pre-heated oven for about an hour at 250C. Then eat(possible all in one sitting)

    sounds about right ;)


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


    Do the math already

    There's another - it's maths


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


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

    I dont use fairy cake mix. I use:

    1lb of flour
    1lb of sugar
    1lb of butter
    4 eggs.

    And I said fairy cake papers because i dont know the name for them. At home we called them queen cake papers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭Carlos_Ray


    I've never heard the term "Queen Cakes" either. I prefer cupcakes.


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


    Wheres the restrooms?

    Have a nice day

    People in work saying, "thanks for coming in today" (ok sorry I know its not strictly on topic but had to vent) :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Happy holidays


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,129 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Feckin cookies


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭lucylu


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

    another one for the plane


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin




  • 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:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭Carlos_Ray


    lucylu wrote: »
    another one for the plane

    I wish...


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  • 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!


  • 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"...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    You don't say Can I get a when you ask for something anywhere else.

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Jealous much?

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


  • 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


  • 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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭lucylu


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

    the topic is about Americanisms not about Britisms


  • 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


    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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  • 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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,709 ✭✭✭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...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    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:


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    But douche is a French word :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    smash wrote: »
    Better leave again then :pac:

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    "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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Can I get a hell yea!!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    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

    Tru dat.
    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    "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?

    Can I get a breakfast roll, no hash browns? Can I get a chicken baguette? Can I get a pint there Michael when you're ready?

    Sounds like something out of Friends all right.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    "I got stuck in the elevator!"

    Not sure how that was possible as we only have a lift!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    "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?

    If you're going to be pedantic it should be "may I have".


  • Registered Users Posts: 313 ✭✭Nyan Cat


    A lot of the stuff in this thread seems fine to me. Except perhaps 'so like.... Like ... Like...'
    The rest was picked up. We see plenty of American tv and read books by American authors so of course some lingo rubbed off!

    For all we know they picked up 'top I the mornin to ye' :p

    Jus' sayin'
    (now that phrase grates on the nerves a bit for some reason '


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


    TheZohan wrote: »
    If you're going to be pedantic it should be "may I have".
    Or bring your own lunch - there's a recession ;)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    kfallon wrote: »
    Heard somebody call someone a 'jerk' the other day :rolleyes:

    Get it right, it's not 'jerk' it's 'wanker' ffs!

    Please tell me this was intentional.

    Wanker is from England so it's just as bad to use that as jerk is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    kraggy wrote: »
    Please tell me this was intentional.

    Wanker is from England so it's just as bad to use that as jerk is.

    So we have to use amadán from now on based on the above?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭Conway635


    I would say most people believe the laws of the land are those they hear argued in American TV courts.


    My (now ex) wife, when we were on the verge of splitting up, having watched to many episodes of Melrose Place and Ally McBeal announced that she was going to ask her lawyer to "attach your future earnings".

    C635


  • Registered Users Posts: 148 ✭✭marnie d


    TheZohan wrote: »
    "mom", fuck off you numpty, this is Ireland. Same goes for "prom", it's a fucking debs.


    In Donegal it was never debs, always was the prom.

    Yeah about mom / mommy, I hear my nieces say it and it goes through me.

    Hearing an Irish person say 'awesome' is horrible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    The worst is hearing someone say "My tax dollars" on the Irish economy forum.


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