Things We Hate

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Over cautious drivers driving at 30 on a 60 single carriageway with no overtaking opportunities. Bastards, the lot of them.

 

[appletablepenny]

Bah humbug. Fuck em, they're golfers anyway

Fixed that for you.

 

[Saddlerrad]

Telephone voice.

My mom is sat next to me speaking to my brother's teachers and her voice is just going right through me.

Fuck off and speak normally.

 

[Luke Imp]

Mom?

Get out.

 

[Saddlerrad]

MUM, soz. I'm over the pond at the min.

 

[JaseTheVillain]

MUM, soz. I'm over the pond at the min.

I think it's a local thing mate, everyone around here I know spells it as Mom.

 

[Saddlerrad]

Mum is a northerners term, Mam is a southerners term. Mom is the midlands term.

 

[TomPNE94]

that's utter bullshit. mum is the English term, mom is a yank variant

 

[G.B]

Mum is a northerners term, Mam is a southerners term. Mom is the midlands term.

You've got that backwards surely? Mam is very much a northern thing. Mum/mummy is used by that soft posh lot darn sarf.

 

[JaseTheVillain]

that's utter bullshit. mum is the English term, mom is a yank variant

http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-differential-history-of-mom-and-mum

 

[TomPNE94]

http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-differential-history-of-mom-and-mum

Pretty conclusive, cheers...

 

[JaseTheVillain]

Yes, but if you notice the midlands, there is quite an abundance of 'Mom'

 

[HertsWolf]

Pretty conclusive, cheers...

Which only goes to prove that in Mauretania, a desert country on the West coast of Africa, where no-one speaks a word of English, instead of using the Arabic word, 68% of the population say...er..."mum".

 

[TomPNE94]

Which only goes to prove that in Mauretania, a desert country on the West coast of Africa, where no-one speaks a word of English, instead of using the Arabic word, 68% of the population say...er..."mum".

fuck off

 

[HertsWolf]

fuck off

" والدة ليمارس الجنس", as they say in Mauritania when faced with a spurious and statistically insignificant survey.

 

[mistermagic]

Spanish people speak too fast. Not that I try and understand them.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Dining out alone.

Mr B. Nomates

 

[HertsWolf]

BBC Sport putting up league tables for the coming season in June.
It may be accurate, I'm not disputing that, but even so, we are only bottom on goal difference.

 

[JaseTheVillain]

BBC Sport putting up league tables for the coming season in June.
It may be accurate, I'm not disputing that, but even so, we are only bottom on goal difference.

We're 2nd.

 

[HertsWolf]

We're 2nd.

The PL advance table is in the Things We Like thread!

 

[SALTIRE]

Mum/mummy is used by that soft posh lot darn sarf.

We use the word 'mum' up here and I'm certainly not posh or soft!

 

[Saddlerrad]

Too clarify, I work with a girl from South East London and she calls her mother 'mam' at least 5 times a day.

 

[Stevencc]

I don't think I've ever heard an English person use "mom" or "mam".

 

[JaseTheVillain]

I don't think I've ever heard an English person use "mom" or "mam".

For the first one, come and visit Walsall, for the second, go visit Newcastle.

 

[RavenBish]

Old people in Nottingham use it, both my grandmas refer to their mums as 'mam'.

 

[Skinner]

Too clarify, I work with a girl from South East London and she calls her mother 'mam' at least 5 times a day.

She's clearly an oddball

 

[silkyman]

I don't think I've ever heard an English person use "mom" or "mam".

Have you never met a mancunian then?

 

[silkyman]

You've got that backwards surely? Mam is very much a northern thing. Mum/mummy is used by that soft posh lot darn sarf.

Addition to the things we hate list..

Grown adults who call their parents Mummy and Daddy.

My daughter moved from Daddy to Dad when she was three! Unless she wants something.

 

[Stevencc]

Have you never met a mancunian then?

Yeah, plenty. Like I said I've never heard an adult refer to their mum as anything other than mum or mother when being formal. I've heard little children say "mam" or "mammy" and plenty of Americans use "mom".

 

[mnb089mnb]

My mum calls her mum mam.