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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)
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)
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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