What gets your knickers in a bunch?

[Meggers]

Oh, if we are getting on to words and their meanings - What is with "lucked out"? To my mind that means "out of luck" - or maybe not! Who knows - it depends which country you are in.

Regards

Chas

nah it means you used up all of your luck on that one thing and now you....need....to replenish...your luck?.....idk.

I am a very unlucky lady so I dont get to say that. lol. I have the luck of the Irish!

You wanna know what got my knickers in a bunch today? Some punk with his pants around his a$$, pants on the way to falling to his knees called me a "fag in a skirt." He can't even dress himself! What makes him think he's qualified to cast any kind of dispersion on me? Gods... People can be so incredibly stupid.

omg...this story is about to get WAY too "TMI" but if you want to read a particularily disturbing story about one of these guys, read on:

One of these punk a$$es came to my store last year with his pants around his thighs too...boxers pulled up where they needed to be....

but apparently these people think that the boxers are sufficient for pants which they certainly are not. See, boxers have a tiny little cloth hole in the front and pants have a zipper...FOR GOOD REASON!...the tiny little hole, in this mans boxers, was wiiiiiiiide open. I. saw. everything.

Hey now, watch it! Lol some of us Southerners get peeved at things you Yankees say too!

I say "eh" all the time like Canadians. And my accent is...pretty much disgustingly stereotypical of a state-next-to-canada-and-minnesota accent. Wide A's and nazaly O's... Egg nog becomes "egg nahg" and Wisconsin becomes "Wis-cahn-sin"....with the "ah" said right through the nose.

"You're from Wiscahnsin, eh? Do you like egg-nahg?" <---

[J_Mimbs]

Ah, Meghan you're bringing back college memories (which admittedly weren't that long ago) with that accent. Even though my school was in IL it seemed like every other person was from Wisconsin or Minnesota, and you could always tell! But hey, I've got no beef with Wisconsin. Lots of great people up there.

Although hearing everyone say "pop" when they mean soda always gets to me!

[ForresterModern]

Meghan

After spending 7 years in Madison myself I discovered that Wisconsin is really pronounced by the natives as Wuh-SCON'-sn, with the first syllable a simple soft lead in to the dominant central SCON accented syllable, and the -sin allmost a fallaway afterthought. The rest of the world puts the first s in the first syllable and pronounces all three syllables more evenly accented. And conversations are peppered with lots of "yah's" and "yups" and "for sures". Fun place though, we visit regularly due to friends and family there and it only takes one day for me to pick the accent and vernacular back up, although I am far from a native.

jeff

[Meggers]

^ haha. You two are so right. The other funny thing that we Wisconsinites say that I was made fun of a lot for in California was "come here once" or "come look at this once." It's meant to simply tell someone to come over here for a sec but we say "once" for some reason at the end of it. The Californians used to tell me "oh just once? not twice?" I never noticed that I say that until they said that.

And dont forget good old Wisconsin deep fried cheese curds. Can't get them anywhere else besides here and maybe MN and IL.

and yep, I say pop. Not soda

[Spartan Tartan]

To be fair, the word is being shortened in the North and the South...it is Soda Pop. I have never understood why people concern themselves with which half I select to use.

On the other hand, if I order a "Coke", there is no room for discussion. There should be only ONE drink brought to me. There should be no additional clarification (i.e. Oh, would you like a sprite, pepsi, etc...).

[Meggers]

On the other hand, if I order a "Coke", there is no room for discussion. There should be only ONE drink brought to me. There should be no additional clarification (i.e. Oh, would you like a sprite, pepsi, etc...).

My mom used to have such issues with this in Virginia

[Dixiecat]

Although hearing everyone say "pop" when they mean soda always gets to me!

When I say pop, I mean pop, not soda. Soda is that white powder used for washing or baking. Then of course there's soda water to complicate things further.

[James Hood]

Stupid, mean people are even more frustrating than rude ones, to this soul.

Rude is barbaric; the deliberate combo platter of stupid and mean is savage. Makes y' have to look twice to see if their knuckles are dragging on the ground..

[LANCER1562]

Years ago a friend of mine had what I thought was a pretty good cure for tailgaters, he had two bumper stickers on his car reading from left to right: "Warning! I break for tailgaters" and "Go ahead, make my day". It was pretty effective too, have you ever seen the end result of someone rearending a 1977 Ford LTD Brougham (if you're not sure what one looks like, check out old episodes of The Streets of San Franfrancisco. It's the car Michael Douglas and Karl Malden drive around in.)

People who bump into you and don't apologize really frost me. My daughter had recently broken her arm and had to wear a sling to support the arm which was in a sling. That sling was like a flame to a swarm of moths; everyone within twenty feet of her bumped into her and only on that side never the unijured arm. When she would tell people to watch where they were they were going they said "Oh, I'm sorry I diddn't see you." What I want to know is how the ^&#* can you not see a freaking NEON PINK full arm cast and white sling? She's almost as tall as I am and I"m 5'-07" tall, so it's not like she was so short they were looking over head. After the third time I walked in front of her to make sure no one ran into her.

[Jack Daw]

Well Meghan, your example reminds me of what does bother me to the Nth degree and that is being required to wait in a long, slow line/queue. I was talked into going on a gambling cruise out of Galveston. We heard the bell for lunch, but instead of getting escorted to a table, we had to wait in line for about an hour while people ahead loaded their plates from a small buffet table. I didn't want to gamble anyway, but thought seeing the water and sky would be relaxing. The lunch line ruined it for me. I hate being treated like cattle.