Misheard and MisunderstoodRachelswipe says: My niece - after months of begging - was finally allowed to get a hamster, and her grandfather was utterly horrified to learn that it had been called "Nipples", a pretty good name for a pet if you ask us. Alas, it was only the more mundane "Nibbles" - what have you misheard or misunderstood, with truly hilarious consequences?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 28 Aug 2014, 21:35)
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Had to deal with someone who'd made up their own NATO alphabetThe NATO alphabet was designed to be unambiguous and easy to pronounce by non-native English speakers, over bad radio connections. Hers made would have made no sense to twins standing face-to-face.
Spelling her postcode over the phone, "Right, that's E as in Eye..."
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chthonic, Tue 2 Sep 2014, 21:25,
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A for loafB for mutton
C for thisself and
D for daft
Copyright my grandad.
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edjogs Collared doves are shit., Tue 2 Sep 2014, 21:40,
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A for horses. R for loaf. Was your grandad gonz?(
Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 2 Sep 2014, 23:13,
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Nah Lancastrian, Half a loaf being Airf a loafTeaching you elocution now is it?
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edjogs Collared doves are shit., Wed 3 Sep 2014, 9:46,
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bet he worked in manorfatturing or manafacturing(
d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Wed 3 Sep 2014, 10:00,
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"S for sugar" always makes me cringe.You might as well have P for pterodactyl.
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I had one particularly disinterested customer service drone come up with "B for, uhhh, "bee"".
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Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Tue 2 Sep 2014, 22:23,
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It's too orangey for crows.(
stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 3 Sep 2014, 12:07,
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have actually memorised the whole thing now but I used to have trouble with it and used the names of English towns instead....
'yes, the numberplate is Aylesbury blah blah blah Norwich Portsmouth Portsmouth....'
Worked surprisingly well.
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I've talked to RAF aircrew over the phone who couldn't fucking remember the NATO alphabet.:/
Mind, they also had a Nav who didn't know where Turkey was on his briefing charts. Despite the fact that they flew there EVERY FUCKING WEEK.
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stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 3 Sep 2014, 12:05,
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nobody joins the RAF because they were a brainiac(
Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 3 Sep 2014, 12:11,
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I use it at work to unambiguously issue credentials over the phone.About once a week you'll get someone who thinks you're telling them to enter the whole word, not just the initial character.
Oddly enough though, I've never experienced someone who thought of using the word "Number" which precedes a digit, use the word four instead of 4, or the word "symbol" which happens after the non-alphanumerics we use.
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The NATO letters are one thing to clarify. The numbers sound like a retarded Brummie si reading them out.Wun Too Tree Fower fife six sev-en ate nine-r (OK, that one would be Noin in Brum).
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Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Wed 3 Sep 2014, 20:35,
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