"You're doing it wrong"Chthonic confesses: "Only last year did I discover why the lids of things in tubes have a recessed pointy bit built into them." Tell us about the facepalm moment when you realised you were doing something wrong.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:23)
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People don't correct people, not because of racebut because you'd look like a fucking prick.
People all across the country speak with different accents, pronunciations, slang, and colloquialisms.
Deal with it, you boring pedants.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 12:35, 2 replies)
imma not.it was neither accent, pronunciation, slang nor colloquialism. It was affectation. Unnecessary, futile and intentional in its' aim.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 16:10, closed)
It's actually something that is very common in the Caribbeanand, judging by your fear of racism, the professional was black, it would not be uncommon to think that they grew up in a family surrounded by older Caribbean people, who spoke like that. Making it perfectly normal for them to say that.
After all, everyone knows what is meant by it.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 16:47, closed)
and in Dublin,my Grandfather would call that a load of bollox but he certainly wouldn't do so in the office even though, everyone knows that it is.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 18:18, closed)
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