I'm not a snob but I draw the line at....

[jefmcg]

Or even "May I have".

This reminds me of something that used to drive me crazy as a child. Back then you could only contact your friends in the evening via their parents (the landline, or as we called it, the phone). There was one friend's grandfather who would lecture angrily "Is that a way for one young lady to ask to speak to another young lady?", attempting harangue me into good manners, but just making me terrified to call. The irony was that good manners are all about making someone feel welcome and comfortable - just the opposite of what he was doing.

I knew I couldn't have told him "it's very rude to correct the speech of a stranger" (and that too, would have been rude and to his mind, impertinent), but other parents' relaxed and easy phone manners taught me more about good manners than that man ever did.

 

[Trickedem]

Or even... If it please you, may I be so impertinent as to request...

Or anything really that doesn't indicate that you want to go behind the counter and serve yourself

 

[Fnaar]

Or anything really that doesn't indicate that you want to go behind the counter and serve yourself

It's just an example of language changing. It's inexorable. Otherwise we'd still be saying "ug ug coffee uggity ugoccino"

 

[speccy1]

So you don't have any Apple products or from almost any other manufacturer a computer, camera, cell phone or anything electronic that is either made wholly or contains parts from China?

I have a very old Dell computer and an equally antique Nokia phone, I don`t give a bugger where they were made, they do a job and I could quite happily live without either of them. I`m not one of these people who`s life revolves around technology, I hate and despise it - my job involves repairing it, so the last thing I want to do at night when I get home is to continue faffing around with it. Also, speaking as somebody technical, I know what dangerous/cheap/plain nasty crap they turn out, and I don`t want it in the house. That`s why I said "stuff made in China"

 

[Trickedem]

It's just an example of language changing. It's inexorable. Otherwise we'd still be saying "ug ug coffee uggity ugoccino"

I know, but I'm a language snob, innit!

 

[speccy1]

I know, but I'm a language snob, innit!

That should say "but I`m like a language snob, innit!"

Seems fashionable nowadays, and gets right on my tits!!

 

[Fnaar]

That should say "but I`m like a language snob, innit!"

Seems fashionable nowadays, and gets right on my tits!!

It places itself dexterously upon my mammaries, puh-leaze!

 

[speccy1]

It places itself dexterously upon my mammaries, puh-leaze!

Sorry, yes I should have said that

 

[Crackle]

Otherwise we'd still be saying "ug ug coffee uggity ugoccino

That's pretty much my morning speech pre-coffee.

 

[snorri]

..........wearing anything made of denim.

 

[PaulSecteur]

One is not a snob, but one will send ones butler into aldi when the bike sale stuff is on.

 

[Hill Wimp]

I don't like the current trend of being told i will be "inboxed" instead of emailed, messaged or PM'd.

Why change it ?

 

[stephec]

I don't like the current trend of being told i will be "inboxed" instead of emailed, messaged or PM'd.

Why change it ?

If you really want to know I'll inbox you.

 

[Hitchington]

ITV

+1

 

[tyred]

I'm not a snob but some people ride plastic bicycles