Irritating American names for things

sbsquarepants

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

Calling someone's fringe 'bangs' just annoys me.

Is that what that means?


I've often heard americans say it and i never had a clue what they meant!

Kaybaykwah

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Presumable also rugby hand egg as well

Def more eggshaped than American or Canadian football, lol.

Ash.J.Williams

larchielads wrote: »

But why? And is it why they called the jacks the John?

John harrington

US2

Sem-eye final or a sem-eye truck.

Kaybaykwah

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Because thereare so many American programmes on our telly. It's and invasion be...ahem...'culture'.

Is it time for a frog in a blender? :pac:

I always like that in Stargate, when the characters referred to a Zero Point
Module (technobabble), the Americans would call it a Zee Pee Emm while the Canadians called it a Zed Pee Emm.

The things that annoy me are their Pronunciations of Iraq (EYE-raq), Iran (EYE-ran), and Moscow (Mos-COW like a bovine animal).

Another thing is when somebody accidently does something, they say they did it "on accident" instead of "by accident". I haven't heard it very regularly, but enough to annoy me.

Yep, Eye-talian always cracks me up.

The Tetrarch

Resisting arrest = we shot him

sbsquarepants

They have this shítty cheap pressed meat called balogna - somehow it's pronounced baloney.

breezy1985

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

A desert is something you see in eye-rack, not eye-ur-land

Damn it I hate getting things wrong in a thread about how dumb other people are

Kaybaykwah

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Do or did Canadians call cigarettes fags? I've a vague memory of it being called that in an episode of Kids From Degrassi St, think it was that show anyway or one of the spinoffs.

Maybe some do, but I've never encountered anyone that did.

breezy1985

scotchy wrote: »

Using the word freaking instead of fu@king.

:rolleyes:

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Golly that does annoy me

A.Partridge

Yes, the way americans speak can be so, like, "fruss-trating".

US2

"I could care less" is a really annoying phrase they use, it's supposed to be "I couldn't care less"

A.Partridge

"Are you done with this?".

Yes, I reply. I am finished.

A.Partridge

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Bathroom... when someone just wants to sit on the pot. They are so ridiculous about that.

But that's their way.

"Excuse me, but where's your restroom?"

Gregor Samsa

The call the band Blink 182 "Blink One Eighty Two", and not "Blink One Eight Two".

breezy1985

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

The call the band Blink 182 "Blink One Eighty Two", and not "Blink One Eight Two".

The accents on that band are actually a pretty good example of what I can't stand about American voices

Kaybaykwah

A.Partridge wrote: »

"Excuse me, but where's your restroom?"

Lol. I can imagine a Peggy Sue in a bouffant hairdo in nineteen sixties Houston. She just downed a lot of pink ladies and is now frantically scoping out the "powder room".

Kaybaykwah

breezy1985 wrote: »

The accents on that band are actually a pretty good example of what I can't stand about American voices

The one thing about bands in general, wherever they are from is the need to give a Southern twang to their delivery.

I always got a kick from Mick Jagger putting on his fake Cockney in reg'lar speech and go for that Texas drawl in his lyrical delivery.

Rothko

Takeout instead of takeaway.

ShatterAlan

Kaybaykwah wrote: »

They used to call John Kennedy "Jack" in fact

"I'll have a John Daniels."


"Don't you mean Jack?"


"When you know him as well as I do you can call him John."

batman_oh

I could care less
So you could care less? Therefore you care a bit.

pawdee

Plow.

breezy1985

I've seen Americans go crazy on more then one occasion when the find out your regular pub in Ireland/UK doesn't do cocktails because they assume everywhere is like the US.

Best of all is the horror when they ask for a Martini expecting some James Bond thingy and getting a grannys aperitif

breezy1985

pawdee wrote: »

Plow.

The man you are "making love to" = your Daddy.
Ed Byrne had a great sketch about it a few years back

Hamsterchops

Kaybaykwah wrote: »

Canadians used to say arse for a long time and now, I suppose more of us have erased the anglo influence over time.

My dad used to say arse, I still do.

Arse it is, on this side of the pond.

Gregor Samsa

3 things Americans call by the wrong name:

Biscuits:



Sausages:



Beer:

breezy1985

Very good Gregor

Faucet. (water tap).

Who came up with that one?

breezy1985

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Faucet. (water tap).

Who came up with that one?

Farrah Watertap doesn't really have the same ring to it though, just not as sexy soundin

km991148

Movie. Season.

Fcuk off - I am watching a film, or a television series.

km991148

breezy1985 wrote: »

I've seen Americans go crazy on more then one occasion when the find out your regular pub in Ireland/UK doesn't do cocktails because they assume everywhere is like the US.

You'd get a lager shandy or a half n half in most pubs tbh?

:pac:

breezy1985

km991148 wrote: »

You'd get a lager shandy or a half n half in most pubs tbh?

:pac:

Ha.

Used get English lads in London trying to look cool asking for screwdrivers so ide always pretend I had no clue that meant a vodka and orange just cause I refused to give in to their nonsense

breezy1985

breezy1985 wrote: »

Farrah Watertap doesn't really have the same ring to it though, just not as sexy soundin

You'd still "tap that" whatever she was called. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.....

scotchy

breezy1985 wrote: »

I've seen Americans go crazy on more then one occasion when the find out your regular pub in Ireland/UK doesn't do cocktails because they assume everywhere is like the US.

Best of all is the horror when they ask for a Martini expecting some James Bond thingy and getting a grannys aperitif

I had American relations staying, so brought them to the local. When I asked what they were drinking, the cousins wife asked for a Shirley Temple.

Yea, I think they're out of that:rolleyes:

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Stovepipe

Mom. I was raised by my Mam, or at worst,Mum. This is Ireland, not America.

dxhound2005

Stovepipe wrote: »

Mom. I was raised by my Mam, or at worst,Mum. This is Ireland, not America.

People in America could be reading this.

Kiith

Soccer cleats for football boots

Silver33

Chick! Always assumed it was a young hot female. Apparently the term refers to any age of any kind of female.

Toona...

Its TUNA - I pronounce it CHOONA.. .:rolleyes:wrong or right I don't know..

An irish person saying the word "awesome" drives me mental. It just sounds fake..:D

breezy1985

scotchy wrote: »

I had American relations staying, so brought them to the local. When I asked what they were drinking, the cousins wife asked for a Shirley Temple.

Yea, I think they're out of that:rolleyes:

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There's a beautiful simplicity to the range of spirits in an Irish pub that blows Yanks minds and a lot of English too.

I used pretend to be horrified and offended to when they would assume I knew how to make an Irish Car Bomb shot. Or when the Yanks would try look Irish in front of us by pouring a whiskey into a Guinness.

ohnonotgmail

breezy1985 wrote: »

There's a beautiful simplicity to the range of spirits in an Irish pub that blows Yanks minds and a lot of English too.

I used pretend to be horrified and offended to when they would assume I knew how to make an Irish Car Bomb shot. Or when the Yanks would try look Irish in front of us by pouring a whiskey into a Guinness.

who does that?

Rezident

Restroom - I'm just going for a rest.

Rezident

Happy Holidays! It's Christmas you spanner.

breezy1985

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

who does that?

Americans. But worse they do it over there because they think it's something we do. It's called a boilermaker I think

Gregor Samsa

breezy1985 wrote: »

pouring a whiskey into a Guinness.

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

who does that?

Had an American lecturer in college years ago that used to do that. In fairness, they probably poured whiskey on their cornflakes too.

scotchy

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

who does that?

Savages, That's who.



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jmayo

TheValeyard wrote: »

Useless sack of fcuking Yankee doodle dandy sh1te.

Isn't that a Hershey chocolate bar.


Station wagon as in an estate car.
Truck as in a pickup.
Semi as in an articulated truck.
Jelly as in jam.
Jello as in jelly.
Booger as in snot.

Realtor as in born liar (alright an estate agent).
Parking Lot as in carpark.
Drugstore as in Pharmacy or Chemist.
Liquor as in booze/alcohol
Overpass as in flyover.
Budweiser as in beer.
Football as in only one person ever kicks the fooking ball and he is on the pitch for a couple of minutes a match.

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Deeepo instead of depot (deh.pow)
Zee instead of zed.

The only time Zee works is in the name of a band from Texas.

ohnonotgmail

breezy1985 wrote: »

Americans. But worse they do it over there because they think it's something we do. It's called a boilermaker I think

I've never seen that in ireland.

scotchy

Cooties.

I'm not even sure what it means.

Kids seem to use it to put down other kids they don't like.

Yewww, she has cooties. ie, some kind of imaginary germs.


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For Forks Sake

scotchy wrote: »

Cooties.

I'm not even sure what it means.

Kids seem to use it to put down other kids they don't like.

Yewww, she has cooties. ie, some kind of imaginary germs.


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Is that not yank terminology for headlice?

sbsquarepants

breezy1985 wrote: »

Ha.

Used get English lads in London trying to look cool asking for screwdrivers so ide always pretend I had no clue that meant a vodka and orange just cause I refused to give in to their nonsense

Should have used the Basil Fawlty line on them "Just a screwdriver, nothing at all to drink then?":D