Pet Peeves... Got any? (The Jade Goody thread!)

[Jake_Sully]

WTF is a shissa? Is that like a hookah? And how the hell did that catch on? I thought it was limited to Rajputs.

[spare wheel]

People who call and say just a quick call when vie just sat down to eat

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[Steff]

Yeah same same as a hookah. Bunch of guys sitting around an octopus of hoses sucking away at whatever is burning. The smoke goes through a common vessel of water. Really hygienic for sure...

[daveduke007]

(Lefty @ Sep. 26 2010,18:04)

(Jake_Sully @ Sep. 19 2010,08:04) Quite simply that Filipino's have bad English teachers who are masters at butchering English.

Brownout - Its a blackout!
CPU - Its a pc!
Comfort room - Its a bathroom!
office mate - co-worker!
board mate - room-mate!

And the grammer is horrible too. I deal with filipino's everyday at work. The fresh of the boat ones are speaking terrible english generally, but the ones who have been here a while learn and adjust very well.

That is not English that their teachers are teaching. I would fire them and find teachers with a better command of English because at the rate the teachers are butchering it, we will need a dictionary or a website to translate in 50 years.

Apparently I'm not the first person to come up with this conjecture. Look here someone reached the same conclusion more than 3 years ago.  

That stuff means little IMO. Look at all the differences in terms between Americans and Brits or Aussies. They have a different term for bathroom, louve or some such. They call an elevator a lift. The hood of the car is a bonnet. When we say we are pissed, we mean angry or upset, they mean drunk.

So there are similar differences between Filipino English speakers and Americans. Big deal. All that matters to me is the typical Pinoy is easier for me to understand than the typical person from the UK. If you want to rag on a country about their English, consider India rather than Philippines. Indians are also much more difficult to understand for me. Probably because their English originated from Britain.  

I have been trying to teach Tan "proper" English and to spell it correctly

e.g. A Sidewalk is a Pavement
A Windshield is a Windsceeen
A Fanny is a Pussy etc etc

and most of all for her to lose that American accent

[rxpharm]

(Jake_Sully @ Sep. 26 2010,18:59) WTF is a shissa? Is that like a hookah? And how the hell did that catch on? I thought it was limited to Rajputs.

Same same, shisha - is the term for the tobacco smoked in the water pipe, aka hookah.

It has caught on because some think it is less harmful than cigarette smoking - however, some studies have shown similar harmful effects to cigarettes.

[Jake_Sully]

(daveduke007 @ Sep. 26 2010,19:29)

(Lefty @ Sep. 26 2010,18:04)

(Jake_Sully @ Sep. 19 2010,08:04) Quite simply that Filipino's have bad English teachers who are masters at butchering English.

Brownout - Its a blackout!
CPU - Its a pc!
Comfort room - Its a bathroom!
office mate - co-worker!
board mate - room-mate!

And the grammer is horrible too. I deal with filipino's everyday at work. The fresh of the boat ones are speaking terrible english generally, but the ones who have been here a while learn and adjust very well.

That is not English that their teachers are teaching. I would fire them and find teachers with a better command of English because at the rate the teachers are butchering it, we will need a dictionary or a website to translate in 50 years.

Apparently I'm not the first person to come up with this conjecture. Look here someone reached the same conclusion more than 3 years ago.  

That stuff means little IMO. Look at all the differences in terms between Americans and Brits or Aussies. They have a different term for bathroom, louve or some such. They call an elevator a lift. The hood of the car is a bonnet. When we say we are pissed, we mean angry or upset, they mean drunk.

So there are similar differences between Filipino English speakers and Americans. Big deal. All that matters to me is the typical Pinoy is easier for me to understand than the typical person from the UK. If you want to rag on a country about their English, consider India rather than Philippines. Indians are also much more difficult to understand for me. Probably because their English originated from Britain.  

I have been trying to teach Tan "proper" English and to spell it correctly

e.g. A Sidewalk is a Pavement
      A Windshield is a Windsceeen
      A Fanny is a Pussy etc etc

and most of all for her to lose that American accent    

Windsceeen?

I'm curious what you call a driveway or a parkway.

We seem to drive on a parkway and park in a driveway if that makes any sense.  

[daveduke007]

 OK I meant Windscreen  

Back to school for me  

"We seem to drive on a parkway and park in a driveway if that makes any sense "

That does make sense to me

[Rocket J. Squirrel]

"Robodialers" that call you at 6pm with a recorded message to sell you car warrantees, satellite dishes, relief from credit card dept etc.

It is totally out of control here in the States.

[pacman]

(Lefty @ Sep. 27 2010,00:12) Pet Peeve of my own: Fucking sisha joints springing up all over South Pattaya like a fucking plague. Anyone has to be a fucking fool to suck smoke from one of those hoses. Just go wrap your lips around an exhaust pipe if you want to fuck up your lungs.

I agree with all the comments about these stupid 'sheeshas'. And the fact that they are proving popular confirms something very worrying in the mindset of those who choose to use them.

They simply cannot connect the dots between what they desire right now & what price they will pay with their health soon enough. I watch these young Arab guys night after night & wonder what on earth they are doing here. They don't drink, they don't have any 'style' or 'culture' or 'awareness' of their own. They have this weird relationship with the girls where they can only gawk at them & make silly remarks.

They mimic hip-hop style dress with all the accessories, the blingy watches, the backwards baseball caps, the half-pants with the crutch almost to the ground, yet despite it all, they are completely empty vessels. They have not one clue as to how to interact, they go through the motions of high fiving each other with the follow-up fist crunch & all the little actions they have learnt by rote.... then nothing!!

They have played their card, they just stand there wondering what to do next. It is amazing to watch, they simply have no clue. Then they decide that they need to retire to do something cool. Thus the sheesha, they can sit & get a nicotine buzz that stupefies them until they have to go home.

It could be worse, they could finish up aggresive arseholes making trouble but they don't even have the testerone to do that. They just go through the motions night after night. And fuck their health up by sucking vast amounts of nicotine straight into their lungs. Poetic justice really.

[kahuna]

(Jake_Sully @ Sep. 27 2010,07:13) I'm curious what you call a driveway or a parkway.

We seem to drive on a parkway and park in a driveway if that makes any sense.  

George Carlin...

Who also told us, "You can say I pricked my finger, just don't say you fingered your prick."

[guydesavoy]

(strocube @ Sep. 20 2010,06:10) people who will not deal with their own SHITE but instead project all their fears and insecurities on to you.

I'll ask my mother to stop calling you

[manarak]

(Lefty @ Sep. 27 2010,00:04) If you want to rag on a country about their English, consider India rather than Philippines. Indians are also much more difficult to understand for me. Probably because their English originated from Britain.  

If only I could understand the words of their "english".
Then I could at least guess what they mean, that would be a point from where to start...

[Bumpa STIKKA]

Have you watched any Bollywood movies?

There seems to be several languages spoken at once including a smattering of English. Very difficult to follow.

[Lefty]

(pacman @ Sep. 27 2010,10:35)

(Lefty @ Sep. 27 2010,00:12) Pet Peeve of my own: Fucking sisha joints springing up all over South Pattaya like a fucking plague. Anyone has to be a fucking fool to suck smoke from one of those hoses. Just go wrap your lips around an exhaust pipe if you want to fuck up your lungs.

I agree with all the comments about these stupid 'sheeshas'. And the fact that they are proving popular confirms something very worrying in the mindset of those who choose to use them.

They simply cannot connect the dots between what they desire right now & what price they will pay with their health soon enough. I watch these young Arab guys night after night & wonder what on earth they are doing here. They don't drink, they don't have any 'style' or 'culture' or 'awareness' of their own. They have this weird relationship with the girls where they can only gawk at them & make silly remarks.

They mimic hip-hop style dress with all the accessories, the blingy watches, the backwards baseball caps, the half-pants with the crutch almost to the ground, yet despite it all, they are completely empty vessels. They have not one clue as to how to interact, they go through the motions of high fiving each other with the follow-up fist crunch & all the little actions they have learnt by rote.... then nothing!!

They have played their card, they just stand there wondering what to do next. It is amazing to watch, they simply have no clue. Then they decide that they need to retire to do something cool. Thus the sheesha, they can sit & get a nicotine buzz that stupefies them until they have to go home.

It could be worse, they could finish up aggresive arseholes making trouble but they don't even have the testerone to do that. They just go through the motions night after night. And fuck their health up by sucking vast amounts of nicotine straight into their lungs. Poetic justice really.

Most of you who have been here lately have probably noticed that our friends at Famous Bar have a shisha pipe out front now, so the lbs can pollute their lungs same as the camel fuckers next door.  Actually I've read that shisha is more dangerous health wise than cigarettes. A couple of times I have made a negative comment about the pipe to the lbs using it, probably loud enough for the Arabs next door to hear me.  

Heck, I've even seen one out front of PD's and my favorite massage place, Sai Massage, Soi VC. There is an old, rather homely ladyboy who works there, but she is really  nice and give the best massages of anyone there IMO. She was fooling around puffing on one of those gawd forsaken shisha pipes one evening. I politely but firmly pointed out to her that it wasn't good for her to do that. Again not caring if any rag heads are within ear shot.

If it wasn't for the greed of the western multi national corporations selling technology to them, the Ayrabs would all still be riding around on camels and horses and fighting each other with swords and spears, sling shots or what have you.

[Jake_Sully]

Lefty start jotting down the list of non smoking lb's now! I'll be needing that list when I hit town!