what makes me annoyed is when Americans say British instead of English when Britain consists of England, Wales, Scotland and northen Ireland.
Which misconseption annoys you more?
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I personally hate it when someone thinks that lactose intolerant people are only in danger of milk, and not all dairy products. Or when people slap you on the back when your coughing, it doesn't help, dang it, just makes you cough more or messes you up a bit.
This happened with the iPod too, don't you remember? Apple is composed of marketing gods.Griffolion said:
That stereotype actually makes it sound like people get Canadians confused with Scottish people.conithegreat said:
That was mostly Rome, if I recall correctly, and it seems that the bastard children of the dominant world power have been inheriting the world ever since.harmonic said:
Do they have a video somewhere on how daddy long legs hunt? I am quite interested now.Mimsofthedawg said:
Trying living with the misconceptions about Canada.
Its always cold.
We are polite.
We always add "eh" at the end of our sentences whether its a question or not.
We all have he same postal code. (thats a new one I just heard the other day)
That the queen rules our country. Or that we have a president.
That we have one or two major cities.
As for the original misconception quoted, their both dumb.
Its always cold.
We are polite.
We always add "eh" at the end of our sentences whether its a question or not.
We all have he same postal code. (thats a new one I just heard the other day)
That the queen rules our country. Or that we have a president.
That we have one or two major cities.
As for the original misconception quoted, their both dumb.
Wut?Alex Tollitt said:
No seriously, please explain to me the context of this peeve. Were they talking about accents, or where something was from, what?
I'm taking Philosophy next year, and whenever I tell people that, they look at me like a fucking Messiah, because everyone round here has the philosophical depth of a brick and to them, it's as mysterious as the magic flickering thing that cooks our food. We call it fy...urr, I think. Anyway, we accused the bloke round here who showed us it of witch-craft, and ironically burned him at the stake with his own fire.Ultra-Chronic Monstah said:1.) That all white people that listen to hip-hop want to be 'gangsta'.
2.) All Philosophy students are just lazy and need to do a 'real subject'. Sorry, by 'real' do you just mean 'harder'? I don't see how taking analytical chemistry will blow open the world of opportunity for you...
(No offense to anyone studying analytical chemistry)
In all seriousness, I am taking philosophy, and nobody (save the fat version of me I am friends with) has taken the piss.
As for the white guys thing. I hate rap, and pop and stuff (especially gangster culture in modern times) I listen to 90s rock.
I like 20th century gangsters, though, with their stylish trilbies.
(I had a picture to show which would illustrate my hatred of "gangstas", and went to hell and back to find it, but alas, I return empty handed.
I feel like I'd like to make the same distinction of iPods and MP3 Players. I've never owned an iPod, namely because I don't need the same amount of Gigs that's on my effing desktop just to hold my music, but I hate how every time I have to speak to my parents on this subject - and they're about as oblivious of technology as you can get - they insist on calling both my MP3 Player and theirs an iPod.Griffolion said:
Also, though it's kind of a douchebag annoyance, I hate the whole "Mac vs. PC" argument. Yes, it's been said to death, "PC means Personal Computer. Macs are Personal Computers." I won't get into that. I just hate how everyone who has a Mac treats it like it's some godsend, and always say how they'll NEVER revert back to Windows. I have a buddy who's got everything from Apple except an iPad - and despite him denying it I know THAT stupid piece of tech is only a year or so away from being in his grasp - and I regularly have to rub my eyes in exasperation as I tell him about this awesome new game I just found, and how it'd be awesome if we could both play...oh, wait, he has a @#$%ing Mac. Scrap that thought.
It's not so much butchering, to me, as a lack of empathy or sympathy with said classes, and assuming that a policy that works well in the upper class and with large corporations will have similar effects all the way down the food chain. To me it's just flawed logic, and isn't actually malicious. As far as I've seen conservatives tend to paint in very broad, high contrast strokes, if you'll forgive the metaphor.wammnebu said:
I work in a shop in the UK that sells souvenirs to a lot of American tourists, and sheer number of idiot Yanks who refer to our country as 'Yerp', (you just try saying Europe in an American accent, you know that's what it sounds like) it's just obscene.
Please, Americans, you need to learn geography, world history and English and you need to do it quickly, before another of your precious generations grows up as ignorant and self-centred as the others.*
*Disclaimer, I do not, in any way, believe in or condone the view that all Americans are ill-educated, poorly spoken, over-patriotic, emotionally expulsive, overweight, overpaid, bigoted God-botherers. However, in the same way that not all Brits are uptight, prudish, backward thinking, arrogant Royalists, it is the few that dictate the stereotype of the many.
Please, Americans, you need to learn geography, world history and English and you need to do it quickly, before another of your precious generations grows up as ignorant and self-centred as the others.*
*Disclaimer, I do not, in any way, believe in or condone the view that all Americans are ill-educated, poorly spoken, over-patriotic, emotionally expulsive, overweight, overpaid, bigoted God-botherers. However, in the same way that not all Brits are uptight, prudish, backward thinking, arrogant Royalists, it is the few that dictate the stereotype of the many.