Grumpy Old Reds

I only mentioned it due to the thread we are in, and it’s no where near the grumpy level of “Can I get …”

https://grammar.collinsdictionary.com/english-usage/what-is-the-difference-between-have-and-take

I am also from the West Country - it should have been “I 'ad a espresso” :wink:

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I always love this Paul Rudd scene
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2d1_VAEKkS8

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But I didn’t have an espresso, I wanted an espresso my kids ordered an espresso and I got something disgusting! :rofl:

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I hate it when interviewers take five minutes to ask a question that could have taken 10 seconds.
Like: 'So, what were your feelings when you walked out on that stage, you know after everything that had gone on in the year before with your divorce and your health problems, which we all hope have cleared up, and bearing in mind all the great names who’ve appeared at that great venue like The Rolling Stones, Shirley Bassey, who we all know you’re a big fan of, and Half Man Half Biscuit, who’s performance was interrupted by a swarm of bees, apparently, was the experience what you’d hoped for when you were singing in front of your bedroom mirror with a hairbrush for a microphone and your mother, who’s somewhere in the audience, can we pan a camera on to Jill? Oh there she is… etc etc

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You get this in prematch press conferences a lot. The journalist basically gives the answer in the form of a question. I wish the interviewees would just give one word answers.

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Liam again.
I like the cut of his jib

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A lass at the ‘till’ said to me I’d save money if I bought the stuff that was promoted for card holders.
I said how’s that I don’t eat that stuff so it’d just sit in the cupboard or fridge until I threw it out :woozy_face:.

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American butchering English words with their spelling and inserting a ‘z’ for an ‘s’.

Worst thing being in NZ I have the use English (US) as we have NZ dollars, for the dollar key.

So auto correct keeps changing my correct spelling, bloody yanks :face_blowing_a_kiss:

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Isn’t there a specific NZ English option? One of my minor annoyances is that I set up our servers at work to have a UK English option as well as the German, and there are so many regional options that “Vereinigtes Königreich” typically comes at the bottom of the list.

Oh, and then it gets stuck in English and starts producing gibberish when I type on my German keyboard.

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Not as I know of may have to do some digging.

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There never used to be a $NZoption and there isn’t in Oz either.US or En,take your pick,gives me the shits big time but it seems to be part of a pattern to Yankify everything.

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Yeah when you realize :exploding_head: how they eff everything up it irks

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You know when you get older, your views tend be more conservative, to the right of centre and think your era was better growing up. :slightly_smiling_face:

Well, I think I have gone the other way, my generation are doing my head in, I am more sticking up for the kids and gone abit more to the left and am even questioning religion’s rules..
:see_no_evil_monkey:

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Scrambling what is left of their brains very sad.

Spot on!

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I am the worst victim as soon as I am in position to receive the goods they hurl them at you like missiles in the end I give up putting things in bags I just pile them back in the trolley as soon as I can.

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totally agree Maria,the older I get the further left I get, given I have always been a lefty, contempt for many of todays crop of politicians has reached yelling at the TV etc.

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Don’t get me started on the politicians, I am surprised I haven’t damaged by tv yet.

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And these billionaire techs interfering in govt politics which indirectly effect the public.

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International matches, and especially those where players come away injured, make me extremely grumpy.

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