mjmooney Posted April 6, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted April 6, 2013 The sudden loss of suffixes from dates, especially in adverts. For example, a chap would say an event is happening on March Twenty Two, instead of the Twenty Second of March. Well, it's the American thing again. Expect to hear "one hundred eighty" (instead of "one hundred AND eighty") before too long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 Fifteen hundred instead of one thousand five hundred is my pet hate when I watch us TV shows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 (edited) Fifteen hundred instead of one thousand five hundred is my pet hate when I watch us TV showsIsn't that a british way of saying it, though (up to a point - possibly 2400 as in hrs)?Edit: I'd certainly say eleven hundred rather than one thousand one hundred. Edited April 6, 2013 by snowychap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 6, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted April 6, 2013 I remember the Austin One Thousand, One Hundred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 I remember Basil Fawlty beating the shit out of a red one 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 6, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted April 6, 2013 The sudden loss of suffixes from dates, especially in adverts. For example, a chap would say an event is happening on March Twenty Two, instead of the Twenty Second of March. Well, it's the American thing again. Expect to hear "one hundred eighty" (instead of "one hundred AND eighty") before too long. I have a friend who says that. Granted he's Russian, so English isn't his first language (although you'd never know, apart from a slight twang in his accent his English is genuinely remarkable) so I guess you can let him off a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 this was all faked up you've only got to look at the shadows, the branch is out of focus, also, if you zoom in, they've put the car on the pavement massive hoax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted April 7, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted April 7, 2013 The sudden loss of suffixes from dates, especially in adverts. For example, a chap would say an event is happening on March Twenty Two, instead of the Twenty Second of March. Well, it's the American thing again. Expect to hear "one hundred eighty" (instead of "one hundred AND eighty") before too long.March Twenty-Two isn't American... March Twenty-Second, on the other hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 7, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted April 7, 2013 Sports commentators and their crap metaphors. On the triathlon coverage today: "The chasing pack is starting to reel the leader in. That invisible piece of elastic is getting tauter and tauter". It would be getting tauter if the leader were pulling away. If the gap's closing it would be getting slacker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houlston Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Rafa Benitez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Rafa Benitez the general consenus amongst liverpool fans that he is one of the top 3/4 managers in world football and that they would have won the league and toppled utd if the owners had only backed him means that i cant help but smile when it comes to rafa, he's an absolute gold mine on RAWK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knoppy1987 Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 (edited) Rafa Benitez the general consenus amongst liverpool fans that he is one of the top 3/4 managers in world football and that they would have won the league and toppled utd if the owners had only backed him means that i cant help but smile when it comes to rafa, he's an absolute gold mine on RAWK Really? When I go home 8/10 people would never have said that. Sounds like RAWK might be full of people from Hertford (sort of like me on VT ) The feeling I get is that they might be getting into Europe, probably through better cup runs but as for being a top manager, I think his stubborn ways pissed a lot of Plop fans off in the end. Edited April 7, 2013 by knoppy1987 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 People who mispronounce "derby" even after having been told multiple times that they are supposed to PRONOUNCE IT AS "DAR-BY" YOU COCKSUCKERS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 This whole Paris Brown fiasc. She annoys me, but more than that the people who thought it was a good idea to put a 17 old girl in the limelight and have her life scrutinised by the press as an 'advisor' to the police and pay her £15,000 of public money too. Young people need representation but not in such an 'official' capacity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 John Motson. How he's still commentating I'll never know. **** dreadful. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 John Motson. How he's still commentating I'll never know. **** dreadful. a special mention for his little laugh when he thinks he's found an amusing fact or observation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shillzz Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 This whole Paris Brown fiasc. She annoys me, but more than that the people who thought it was a good idea to put a 17 old girl in the limelight and have her life scrutinised by the press as an 'advisor' to the police and pay her £15,000 of public money too. Young people need representation but not in such an 'official' capacity. I agree. Someone taking a job on with the police should have a little more resilience before turning on the water works infront of the nation's press. She could barely get more annoying. Though her comments about the cast of Made In Chelsea were forgivable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Commented in another thread - but if she is the best Kent have to offer we're all **** here in the Garden of England. Did no silly bastard think to check her social networking stuff before appointment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shillzz Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Commented in another thread - but if she is the best Kent have to offer we're all **** here in the Garden of England. Did no silly bastard think to check her social networking stuff before appointment? Yes ofcourse, but unfortunately the only silly bastard bright enough to do so happened to be working for the nation's media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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