nevermind

[snyprrr]

Your thoughts?








Look, ok,... it's what, going on 2am?,... whaaat? Must be low blood sugar.

[snyprrr]

Herman, what are you doing up so late? (let's see if he looks, tee hee)

[The Six]

And what is it about moving to a foreign country that makes Americans start to refer to the U.S. as "the states?" I get it when non-Americans do it because that's just how they talk, but if you're from the US and you start to call it "the states," you should not be allowed back in. Well, I guess that's too harsh. Maybe you could just get some kind of sticker on your passport that lets everyone know you're turning into a Brit or an Aussie or Kiwi or whatever. Oh, nevermind.

[MDL]

I saw a band called The Six performing in a pub in Clerkenwell on Saturday. Are you them?

Oops, edit: Clerkenwell, London.

[The new erato]

And what is it about moving to a foreign country that makes Americans start to refer to the U.S. as "the states?"

Currently they don't look too united.

[Brian]

And what is it about moving to a foreign country that makes Americans start to refer to the U.S. as "the states?" I get it when non-Americans do it because that's just how they talk, but if you're from the US and you start to call it "the states," you should not be allowed back in. Well, I guess that's too harsh. Maybe you could just get some kind of sticker on your passport that lets everyone know you're turning into a Brit or an Aussie or Kiwi or whatever. Oh, nevermind.

Reminds me of Hugh Laurie's song "America"

http://www.youtube.com/v/lyHSjv9gxlE

[The Six]

And what's with these companies and their flavored teas? Do they think Americans are unable to grasp the concept of unsweetened, unflavored tea? I go into a store and see green tea....with berry flavor.

GREEN TEA IS THE FLAVOR. IT DOESN'T NEED ANYTHING ELSE.

In Japan you could see 2 vending machines next to each other, each with nothing but tea, all different brands, all of them natural and unsweetened. In the US I get Lipton's Passion Fruit Pomegranate High Fructose Corn Syrup extra Sugar with Lemon Amalgamation of the Apocalypse. Even in a so-called "super"market the only bottled teas I can find are the Japanese ones, which are heinously overpriced, even if they aren't actually imports. Why does freaking normal tea cost more than tea with tons of extra crap in it? Why am I paying more for less? WHY CAN'T I GET SOME NATURAL TEA UP IN HERE? Oh, nevermind.

[eyeresist]

I agree
about the tea

[The Six]

I don't like telling the time as "quarter to" or "quarter past." A quarter past one? Just say one fifteen! When telling the time you should do it the easiest way possible. When I hear quarter, I think of 25. 25 cents is a quarter. 25 percent is a quarter. Not 15. I don't want to do division just to figure out what time it is. "Half past" can go fly a kite, too. Oh, nevermind.

[Szykneij]

I don't like telling the time as "quarter to" or "quarter past." A quarter past one? Just say one fifteen! When telling the time you should do it the easiest way possible. When I hear quarter, I think of 25. 25 cents is a quarter. 25 percent is a quarter. Not 15. I don't want to do division just to figure out what time it is. "Half past" can go fly a kite, too. Oh, nevermind.

It's a concept that's become lost to young people who can't read analog clocks.

[Mn Dave]

I don't like when people say, it's "marshmallow o'clock". 

[Szykneij]

I don't like when people say, it's "marshmallow o'clock". 

[mahler10th]

I don't like when people say, it's "marshmallow o'clock". 

Never heard anyone say that.  Did you make it up?  Never mind. 

[RebLem]

What I hate most about habits of relating the time is the use of what I call a repetitive redundancy, i.e., "It's 3 AM in the morning."

[mahler10th]

What I hate most about habits of relating the time is the use of what I call a repetitive redundancy, i.e., "It's 3 AM in the morning."

I agree.  It is unlikely to be 3 AM in the afternoon.  Oh aye, and while I was at the shops I bought a 'loaf of bread' instead of a loaf of teabags.  Your rejection of repetitive redundancy theory is GOOD.  Hang on, this should be in Catos Grammar Grumble....

[zamyrabyrd]

And what is it about moving to a foreign country that makes Americans start to refer to the U.S. as "the states?" I get it when non-Americans do it because that's just how they talk, but if you're from the US and you start to call it "the states," you should not be allowed back in. Well, I guess that's too harsh. Maybe you could just get some kind of sticker on your passport that lets everyone know you're turning into a Brit or an Aussie or Kiwi or whatever. Oh, nevermind.

I know all about that. People ask you where you are from and you can say "America" but it sounds too all-inclusive - South America, North America as in Canada? "United States" is too long, so it is usually shorted to "States".  These says I usually answer the particular state I come from, as most of them are known anyway. One can also just say "US". Nevermind if you are an American not venturing out of the US.

ZB

[springrite]

I hate it when people say "as you know". I don't need them to tell me what I do know, not to mention much of the time they are WRONG!

I hate it when people telling me they don't want something by saying "I like it like I'd like a hole in my head". I'd often imagine that they people has had a head wound or brain surgery and really would like to re-live the experience.

I hate it when people refer to themselves in the third person.

Wait a minute on that one, Kimi does that... I take it back.

[Mn Dave]

What would Carl Nielsen do?

[The Six]

I agree.  It is unlikely to be 3 AM in the afternoon.  Oh aye, and while I was at the shops I bought a 'loaf of bread' instead of a loaf of teabags.  Your rejection of repetitive redundancy theory is GOOD.  Hang on, this should be in Catos Grammar Grumble....

So you just just say that you bought a loaf?

[mahler10th]

So you just just say that you bought a loaf?

Yes.  Is that unusual?   Nothing else is described as being a 'loaf' in Scotland, other than Meatloaf, which is uncommon food up here, and not referred to as a singular 'loaf'.   Loaf.  What a funny word.