Things That Annoy You

[mellenORL]

You get extra cookies for the Breaking Bad citation, Mlle

[Ghoti]

Not something that annoys me so much as bothers me, but I've got a story:
About half an hour ago, I went into the "downtown" area of my hometown to pick up some ingredients for tonight's dinner. I got my groceries, told the cashier to have a nice day, yadda yadda yadda. As I was carrying my groceries back to my car, I heard someone shout "hey sweetheart, wanna suck my dick?" Without thinking, I whipped around and growled "What the fuck is wrong with you, faggot?" in my best "I'm totally don't sing soprano" voice and was treated to the sight of a teenage boy in a Ford pickup looking like his grandma'd just caught him masturbating. He quickly apoligized, calling me "dude" and/or "bro" and least twice a sentence before speeding off.

[RavynousHunter]

Not something that annoys me so much as bothers me, but I've got a story:
About half an hour ago, I went into the "downtown" area of my hometown to pick up some ingredients for tonight's dinner. I got my groceries, told the cashier to have a nice day, yadda yadda yadda. As I was carrying my groceries back to my car, I heard someone shout "hey sweetheart, wanna suck my dick?" Without thinking, I whipped around and growled "What the fuck is wrong with you, faggot?" in my best "I'm totally don't sing soprano" voice and was treated to the sight of a teenage boy in a Ford pickup looking like his grandma'd just caught him masturbating. He quickly apoligized, calling me "dude" and/or "bro" and least twice a sentence before speeding off.

Dongy, don't ever change, lol.

[chitoryu12]

The scroll wheel on my fancy-looking mouse that came with my new computer broke out of nowhere. Now I'm stuck with the crappy old one that has a working scroll wheel that doesn't work if you click it, and lacks three of the buttons the other one had.

And I finally got it in my head to jailbreak this damn iPhone....after upgrading to iOS 7.1.1 and finding out that apparently Apple has blocked 5s users from downgrading.

[I am lizard]

Southern U.S. English pronunciations;

Filet = fill-ay

Fillet = fill-ett

Foyer = foy-yay (over-enunciated Vs French)

Garage = gah-rahj

Tomato = toe-may-toe

More like toe-thenegroidscummustbedrivenoutpraisethesouth-Toe

[The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist]

Out of curiosity, how would all of you non-Canadians pronounce "Calgary", "Toronto" and "Quebec"?

[Cerim Treascair]

Out of curiosity, how would all of you non-Canadians pronounce "Calgary", "Toronto" and "Quebec"?

Dunno if I'm any indication, since I'm west coast USA born and bred and living on the east coast for about the last five years, but personally, it's 'calg-ah-ree', 'toe-ron-toe' and 'kweh-beck'.  Having spent a week in Newfoundland visiting friends, that's apparently pretty accurate.

[Witchyjoshy]

Out of curiosity, how would all of you non-Canadians pronounce "Calgary", "Toronto" and "Quebec"?

Dunno if I'm any indication, since I'm west coast USA born and bred and living on the east coast for about the last five years, but personally, it's 'calg-ah-ree', 'toe-ron-toe' and 'kweh-beck'.  Having spent a week in Newfoundland visiting friends, that's apparently pretty accurate.

I pronounce them the same way.

[The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist]

Heh, Newfies are a pretty bad indication of how things are pronounced in the rest of the country.

Calgary: Almost always "Cal-gree" for locals, and "Cal-guh-ree" for the rest of the country. I often hear Americans say it as "Cal-gare-ee", like the name "Gary".

Toronto: Canadians often drop the second T ("Tor-on-oh"), and many of us shorten it to "Tron-oh" when we're speaking quickly (though Torontonians will usually just go with the "Tron-oh" pronunciation, or even replace the first T with a subtle "Ch" sound).

Quebec: Proper pronunciation is kind of like "Ka-bek", though many Anglophone Canadians call it either "Kwuh-bek" or "Cue-bek". "Kweh-bek" is what I usually hear from Americans.

Edit: Speaking of fucked up pronunciations, anyone know where the bizarre pronunciation of "Newfoundland" came from?

[mellenORL]

NewfundLAND is how I've heard it pronounced, but I can't remember if that was by a Newfie, or another Canadian. If the emphasis really is on the last syllable, as pronounced by locals, indicates the name has not really changed pronunciation since the onset. "The New Found Land", or "New Found Land" is pretty archaic sounding, but it has really only been a few centuries since it's naming.

[The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist]

^^ Usually the first D gets omitted, but I do hear the odd person (rarely a Newfie) use the "Newfundland" pronunciation (with the first D being quite subtle, when used by Canadians). "New-fun-LAND" or "New-fin-LAND" are more common.

[Søren]

I have to to go in to uni at 1:30 to do a stupid 5 min thing but i also have to be there for an hour

[chitoryu12]

Our Uverse receiver is down. Internet and TV are dead until the tech can get here Tuesday morning.

[Veras]

My laptop keeps going to sleep for no apparent reason.  It only seems to happen when I have multiple tabs open on Chrome.  Virus/malware scans have found nothing, but it has also been running very slowly lately.  If this dies, I cannot replace it, and will be computerless.

[Ironchew]

Toronto: Canadians often drop the second T ("Tor-on-oh"), and many of us shorten it to "Tron-oh" when we're speaking quickly (though Torontonians will usually just go with the "Tron-oh" pronunciation, or even replace the first T with a subtle "Ch" sound).

The superiority evident in these posts must be somewhat blunted by the fact that Canadians use batshit pronounciations for everything.

I'll stick to "Kwuh Beck", the way God intended. At least "Tor-on-toe" is phonetic; I feel bad for the kid in the spelling bee that has to spell "Chrono".