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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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when they mean yes or yeah. I don't know where it has come from and I find it stupid and annoying.
What do you find stupid and annoying? other than me, my mum and Kaol
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 11:27, 50 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Have you actually had your hair cut?Was that not the source of your insult gobliness?
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 11:47, Reply)

but fortunately I managed to avoid that and so I still look like me.
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:00, Reply)

Mine has been met with universal approval too. It just feels wrong to hear The Deftones out at a club and not have something to swish around, pissing off all and sundry in your near vicinity.
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:09, Reply)

I knew they called you Samson for a reason.
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 11:55, Reply)

well, it's cleared that up. doesn't stop it being stupid and annoying though.
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 11:30, Reply)

I find the harsh realities of life to be annoying (or perhaps I should say the harsh realities of MY life).
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 11:32, Reply)

I really am shit at it.
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 11:38, Reply)

and that's what matters. I have to wait until friday before I go getting drunk.
This is unnacceptable.
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:07, Reply)

I'm on weekly at the moment, and I've gotta say that although it's better for cash-flow, it's shit for saving.
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:14, Reply)

and I do save, but the 36 hours with £10 isn't tough enough to bother transfering funds.
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:16, Reply)

Also, is your username anything to do with this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopomp ?
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:22, Reply)

( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:23, Reply)

where's the evidence?
(I'm fully prepared for there to be some)
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:30, Reply)

if such a thing exists.
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 13:18, Reply)

really boils my piss. It's only used by people who watch far too much mawkish and sentimental American romcoms and/or shit sitcoms like Friends.
When did what is essentially a shout for attention become an acceptable way to greet someone with sensitivity? Fucking outrage. 'Hey'. Say hello, you bastards. That's what you mean. Don't hey me.
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 11:57, Reply)

( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:00, Reply)

as it would mean I should also be against saying 'cheers' to mean goodbye
also, and I might be wildly off the mark, but I'm pretty sure hello or a variation thereof was used to hail someone or get there attention in much the same way as hey
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:09, Reply)

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, hello is an alteration of hallo, hollo, which came from Old High German "halâ, holâ, emphatic imper[ative] of halôn, holôn to fetch, used esp[ecially] in hailing a ferryman." It also connects the development of hello to the influence of an earlier form, holla, whose origin is in the French holà (roughly, 'whoa there!', from French là 'there').
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:15, Reply)

But I don't like this change. This language change in particular gets my goat.
There's still an element of rudeness to hey. Would you use it to meet potential in-laws for the first time? At a job interview?
So why use it to otehrs? It's not like there aren't any other options - Alright? Wotcha? How-do? Hi?
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:26, Reply)

I like to be rude to my friends, so a greeting that is rude is perfectly acceptable to me.
frequently I will answer the phone with the word "cunt" if I know who is calling.
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 13:19, Reply)

for "hey".
And get it right up yez a greeting from watching gratuitous Scottish sitcoms
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:11, Reply)

Honest to God, it grates me so. Every time I hear it I wonder where people have picked it up from, and why. And that makes me think that too many people watch Friends and romcoms.
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:24, Reply)

the 'you' I'm referring to is not b3tans, just a you plural sense to mean the entire world. Nowt personal.
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:27, Reply)

or at least the fact that you're living in a house that has food in it.
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:34, Reply)

Go on, try not thinking about your mum when you're doing it. giggity
( , Wed 26 Aug 2009, 12:43, Reply)
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