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Americanisms, what words/terms/sayings piss you off?

Here's mine:
Y'all.
The way they turn the word "vehicle" into 4 syllables.
The way they use "already": Will you shut up already!

Lightning McQueen wrote:

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:

dedja wrote:Dear dickhead drivers, when there’s a sign stating 40km/h school zone between 8am-9:30am and 2pm-4pm, it means that your max speed in that zone is 40km/h during those times.

Just because I can read signs and you can’t, doesn’t entitle you to flash your lights and blast your horn.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

i had that yesterday arvo.
The drongo would have made a great conductor for the orchestra

I had a chick in the right hand lane (of 3) doing about 71 in an 80 zone, I was in the middle lane but needing to get into her lane for a right turn up ahead, I was sitting on about 81-82 but then thought I'd give it a little to get past her and into the right lane, she then sped up to which point I was thinking she just didn't want to let me in.
I got next to here and she started going boonta at me, I said no worries and she then indicated to get into the middle lane and then made her way across to the left hand lane for a left turn on to Montague Road off ot Pt Wakefield Road.

If only she had of indicated prior to me reaching her then she wouldn't have risen her blood pressure, better still drive in one of the left two lanes if you aren't overtaking. Shits me when someone is getting shitty about not being let in yet they don't have an indicator to let other drivers know, I have a couple of friends that do it.

Heading down South Road in peak hour in the right lane. Doing a mite over 60. Cars immediately to my left, and traffic in front of me. Old mate behind drives right up my arse and starts wildly gesticulating towards the left lane.

No, champ. Unless you've got a flashing siren and wailing klaxon, I'm not getting out of your way when I'm doing the stipulated limit, the road is chockers with traffic, and I want to stay in the right lane to turn off a little ways up ahead. Suffer in your jocks.

I don't know why people find it so hard to use their indicators. The indicator stalk* literally could not be in a more convenient location. Where are these people's hands while they're driving? I don't understand how you can drive a motor vehicle in a manner that does not involve your hands being extremely close to the indicator.

Lightning McQueen wrote:Americanisms, what words/terms/sayings piss you off?

Here's mine:
Y'all.
The way they turn the word "vehicle" into 4 syllables.
The way they use "already": Will you shut up already!

The way they say "I could care less" when they mean "I could not care less".

RB wrote:I don't know why people find it so hard to use their indicators. The indicator stalk* literally could not be in a more convenient location. Where are these people's hands while they're driving? I don't understand how you can drive a motor vehicle in a manner that does not involve your hands being extremely close to the indicator.

Some people I'd rather not know.

RB wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:Americanisms, what words/terms/sayings piss you off?

Here's mine:
Y'all.
The way they turn the word "vehicle" into 4 syllables.
The way they use "already": Will you shut up already!

The way they say "I could care less" when they mean "I could not care less".

The way they say "president" when they mean "raving loony nutbag".

(thankyou Alexei Sayle)

RB wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:Americanisms, what words/terms/sayings piss you off?

Here's mine:
Y'all.
The way they turn the word "vehicle" into 4 syllables.
The way they use "already": Will you shut up already!

The way they say "I could care less" when they mean "I could not care less".

get-go

Nator for alternator

Folks

And FFS, it’s al-u-min-I-um

RB wrote:I don't know why people find it so hard to use their indicators. The indicator stalk* literally could not be in a more convenient location. Where are these people's hands while they're driving? I don't understand how you can drive a motor vehicle in a manner that does not involve your hands being extremely close to the indicator.

Best method is to start the turn, then indicate, much more better-er.

Thanks to the Orange imbecile, fuel is now 90c dearer than when I last filled the car.

Only $50 more to fill the tank.

Filled up this morning, first time Ive ever seen it over $100, thankfully its a work car - my colleague who knocked back the offer last year is not regretting it

I’d never paid over $2 before, it was a tough fill on Tuesday

Filled up with Diesel last night
WTF

ACCC to investigate to price gouging. Nice gesture to make some feel warm and fuzzy, but I doubt waving a wet lettuce will change behaviour.

Of course there’s price gouging, servos aren’t pricing to reflect what they paid fuel for, they’re dynamically gouging based on the volatility of the price of a barrel of oil, and perhaps reflecting low supplies because the same idiots who hoarded dunny paper are now doing the same with fuel.

dedja wrote:ACCC to investigate to price gouging. Nice gesture to make some feel warm and fuzzy, but I doubt waving a wet lettuce will change behaviour.

Of course there’s price gouging, servos aren’t pricing to reflect what they paid fuel for, they’re dynamically gouging based on the volatility of the price of a barrel of oil, and perhaps reflecting low supplies because the same idiots who hoarded dunny paper are now doing the same with fuel.

Always hear this line but they simply don't by the looks of it.

The bowser prices vs barrel prices aren't aligned and the variance from station to station magnifies this.

Joint near my work was $1.46 every day of the week for months, other places within 15kms reached up to $1.89 leading into weekends then dropeed back down to high $1.50's

I'm not sure where this post belongs.

I had to upgrade my phone recently and lost all my apps.

Got the new phone and reinstalled the apps. One those was Amaysim, my mobile network provider.

I couldn't log on.

I did the usual password reset but wasn't receiving an email from them with a link to reset my password.

After several attempts, I got on the online chat. I went through the rigmarole of providing my details and why I was requiring assistance.

The online help reset my password so I could get into the app. Essentially it became 16 characters in length.

I went to change my password and when I entered my existing 16 character password in the field, it came back with an error advising me that my password could only be between 6 and 15 characters.

So, I went back to them and asked them how this could be possible and they didn't know and haven't come back to me yet. I work with business systems as a living and wonder how this could even be possible.

Hopefully it's just a field attribute at the front end but you'd like to think you've tested it before rolling this 'new' system out.

Spent 2 hours on a chat with Optus trying to update our NBN...

All good, just need to complete the process by entering License number and Medicare number for final verification purposes to sign up to the new plan

"I'm sorry, the license number is not the same one as on our system, have you gotten a new license number?"

"Yes, i had to get a new one because of your massive data breach"

"do you happen to remember your old license number"

"no"

"you will have to head into a store to update your NBN"

FFS

The 6am alarm, after getting home at midnight, following a good win, and ample beverages at the footy last night.

Thursday night games suck.

Jase wrote:Spent 2 hours on a chat with Optus trying to update our NBN...

You’re never going to win from there … go to a real NBN provider, you’re wallet and sanity will thank me later.

gadj1976 wrote: … I work with business systems as a living and wonder how this could even be possible.

Hopefully it's just a field attribute at the front end but you'd like to think you've tested it before rolling this 'new' system out.

After a gazillion years in the tech industry, nothing surprises me.

These sort of clusterfaarks are much more common than people realise.

With the trend to ‘replace’ software engineers with ‘AI’, it’s going to get a lot worse.

dedja wrote:

gadj1976 wrote: … I work with business systems as a living and wonder how this could even be possible.

Hopefully it's just a field attribute at the front end but you'd like to think you've tested it before rolling this 'new' system out.

After a gazillion years in the tech industry, nothing surprises me.

These sort of clusterfaarks are much more common than people realise.

With the trend to ‘replace’ software engineers with ‘AI’, it’s going to get a lot worse.

Ditto Dedja. I'm in software (a Business Analyst). My job is making sure systems work before they are released to the business users/public and this sort of error should not occur, ever!

I agree, if AI is involved, anything could happen.