Phrases that get up your nose?

bakewell said:
"will only sell to competitive home"
There are lot of group activities that a horse can enjoy/ get excited about without it being competitive. Unless you bred it you have no reason to make this demand. Also, what are you going to do, ask to see my BD record? Decide I'm insufficiently "competitive"?
/maybe I'm just very easily irritated!
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This annoys me too. As if the horse gives a rat's ass whether or not it's competing!
 
bakewell said:
"will only sell to competitive home"
There are lot of group activities that a horse can enjoy/ get excited about without it being competitive. Unless you bred it you have no reason to make this demand. Also, what are you going to do, ask to see my BD record? Decide I'm insufficiently "competitive"?
/maybe I'm just very easily irritated!
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It stops novices and numpties enquiring about the horse.
 
SpringArising said:
This annoys me too. As if the horse gives a rat's ass whether or not it's competing!
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I'd have more sympathy for "rather hot". Besides, if you have the finance, you can go to all the competitions you like and still be cack.

cptrayes said:
It stops novices and numpties enquiring about the horse.
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I've seen enough poor horse sense at shows/ competitions that it sadly isn't the case. Experienced home/ rider would be more truthful.
 
CBFan said:
The term 'quality' being used when the angle of the photos suggest anything but...

Welsh Cobs being described as having 'Nebo lines'... don't they all??!! Somewhere...
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Not necessarily.. Would you prefer my mare be 'Thorneyside, Brynithon & Nebo' lines? I think Nebo lines would be fine.. or go on horsequest where I can state all of them!



My Fern get's turned to 'Ferny' my Cartoon has always been nicknamed 'Tooni/Toon' .. Fern is spooky.. like really spooky - shy to me is maybe crabstepping away from it. Spooking is spin, bolt or literally jump at it.

People not liking 'Not a Novice Ride' - Trust me, Fern isn't - I put a novice on her and they were gripping with legs while yanking her in the mouth - Her mouth is already quite sensitive and she is sensitive to leg! It just made her run more.
 
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I hate it when, if a horse is bolting with you, you hear the screams of "SIT BACK!!!" As if I'm really going to concentrate on my position in this time of absolute terror, I know I'm meant to sit back but at the moment I'm making myself as small as possible to avoid trees two foot above my head and am holding on to my horse for dear life.

I also hate it when someone tells you not to let your horse 'mess around with you' well, I'm trying to stop her cantering around the school like a madwoman throwing in a buck every time she thinks I'm regaining a little bit of control but sorry, for you, my darling friend, I'll try harder because I know that you could do better even though you've never sat on a horse in your life!
 
kalliwally14 said:
I hate it when, if a horse is bolting with you, you hear the screams of "SIT BACK!!!" As if I'm really going to concentrate on my position in this time of absolute terror, I know I'm meant to sit back but at the moment I'm making myself as small as possible to avoid trees two foot above my head and am holding on to my horse for dear life.

I also hate it when someone tells you not to let your horse 'mess around with you' well, I'm trying to stop her cantering around the school like a madwoman throwing in a buck every time she thinks I'm regaining a little bit of control but sorry, for you, my darling friend, I'll try harder because I know that you could do better even though you've never sat on a horse in your life!
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Haha! your so right, I knew this as i shouted "sit tight" across the field to my daughter recently who was being bronced with at speed....She fell off and asked me what the hell i shouted that for, did i think she wasnt trying to stay on!
Good point but for me i guess it was a panic reaction ;)
 
poiuytrewq said:
Haha! your so right, I knew this as i shouted "sit tight" across the field to my daughter recently who was being bronced with at speed....She fell off and asked me what the hell i shouted that for, did i think she wasnt trying to stay on!
Good point but for me i guess it was a panic reaction ;)
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'sit up' that is my cry when I see the kids in trouble and they hate it, I always get told off when the excitement is over
 
May I add 'gotten' instead of 'got' that seems to be prevalent here. That really gets my goat! I assume it's an Americanism that has filtered through.
 
autumn7 said:
May I add 'gotten' instead of 'got' that seems to be prevalent here. That really gets my goat! I assume it's an Americanism that has filtered through.
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Two Americanisms that get up my wick are: "off of" (instead of just "off") and "go ahead and..." as in "I'm going to go ahead and tack up". Argh! Discusting! :frown3:
 
Everythink and anythink. 'I never did nothing'. One that really gets me is 'You's two' or 'Are you's coming with me?'...Gargggh
 
Moomin1 said:
Everythink and anythink. 'I never did nothing'. One that really gets me is 'You's two' or 'Are you's coming with me?'...Gargggh
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"You's" is such a central belt Scottish dialect thing to say. Almost everyone I know says this! (Unless they are 'posh' or English). However it does bug me when people try to WRITE it.... it's one thing speaking in dialect, another thing trying to write it as British English.
 
Moomin1 said:
Doesn't everyone pronounce 'J' as 'Jai'??
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As far as I can see, everywhere in the world apart from Scotland pronounces J as jay (rhymes with pay). In Scotland, it's pronounced jai (rhymes with pie). I find it very endearing and after twenty years have learned to use it when appropriate ;)
 
Brightbay said:
As far as I can see, everywhere in the world apart from Scotland pronounces J as jay (rhymes with pay). In Scotland, it's pronounced jai (rhymes with pie). I find it very endearing and after twenty years have learned to use it when appropriate ;)
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Apparently our 'a' sounds like 'e' as well - every time I go to the States, I end up having my surname spelled as 'ey' instead of 'ay', no matter how hard I try to enunciate. And don't talk to me about voice recognition software. Even if I try and talk like David Cameron it stills says it can't recognise me. *sigh*
 
khalswitz said:
Apparently our 'a' sounds like 'e' as well - every time I go to the States, I end up having my surname spelled as 'ey' instead of 'ay', no matter how hard I try to enunciate. And don't talk to me about voice recognition software. Even if I try and talk like David Cameron it stills says it can't recognise me. *sigh*
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I moved from an ex-pat community in Trinidad to Glasgow when I was five.

It took me about a year to be able to communicate with anybody! I think my first riding instructor up there thought I didn't speak English!
 
Brightbay said:
As far as I can see, everywhere in the world apart from Scotland pronounces J as jay (rhymes with pay). In Scotland, it's pronounced jai (rhymes with pie). I find it very endearing and after twenty years have learned to use it when appropriate ;)
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It seems very odd, but one pronunciation is no more inconsistent than the other really. You could argue:

a) The letter J (pronounced jai) follows the letter I (pronounced ai), which rhymes.
or
b) The letter J (pronounced jay) comes before the letter K (pronounced kay), which also rhymes.

equally well. (But then, why don't they say "ai-jai-kai" here in Scotland?)

khalswitz said:
Apparently our 'a' sounds like 'e' as well - every time I go to the States, I end up having my surname spelled as 'ey' instead of 'ay', no matter how hard I try to enunciate. And don't talk to me about voice recognition software. Even if I try and talk like David Cameron it stills says it can't recognise me. *sigh*
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As in "Take the ee-eaty-eat (A88) road from Stenhousemuir to Larbert"? ;)
 
Oh, this reminds me of a passage in Bill Bryson's Notes From A Small Island. Writing of Glasgow... quote:

Among the city's many treasures, none shines brighter, in my view, than the incomparable Burrell Collection, and after checking into my hotel, I hastened there now by taxi, for it is a long way out.

"D'ye nae a lang roun?" said the driver as we sped along a motorway toward Pollock Park.

"I'm sorry," I said for I don't speak Glaswegian.

"D'ye dack ma fanny?"

I hate it when this happens -- when a person from Glasgow speaks to me. "I'm so sorry," I said and floundered for an excuse. "My ears are very bad."

"Aye, ye nae hae doon a lang roon," he said, which I gathered meant, "I'm going to take you a very long way around and look at you frequently in the mirror with these menacing eyes so that you'll begin to wonder if perhaps I'm taking you to a disused wharf where I will beat you up and take your money," but he said nothing further and delivered me at the Burrell without incident.

:D

Made me laugh anyway.
 
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