#221

My Mum has IBS which is severely triggered by gluten and oils (amongst other things). When we go anywhere out for dinner, she will always have plain fish, cooked only with butter. She would not have been happy with a pizza.

#222

I do a lot of training with europeans and will ask anyone with a name I’ve not seen before how to pronounce it at the start of the session to avoid completely butchering it.

Had a Jan in my class yesterday and thought it was a nice easy one, turned out he was Catalan and it’s pronounced differently

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#223

I went for some time playing football at work without correcting people who thought my surname ended with an “m” rather than a “rn” cause they’d only seen it written down. And by some time I mean I never corrected them and have long since left.

#224

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I can see that.

#225

Must admit I’ve never been to a gala event buffet and am eager to rectify this.

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#226

Anon polls

  • Rude
  • Acceptable

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#227

Pronunciation is an interesting one though as surely people from different places/dialects have a more difficult time with certain pronunciations than others. Outside of nationalists making a point of pride about it to intentionally highlight the differences, people shouldn’t need to pronounce things the same imo as long as the meaning is understood.

#228

While we’re on name pronunciation, i can report that our IT team still think my name is Alexa

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#229

When I searched on my phone for the fish and chips photo i got nostalgic at all the dinners I ate there in the space of my 36 hour layover. I had to stick to indoor ones because it was monsoon season, but still.

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Swensons is a very weird place- late night I’ve cream chain done up like Cheers that’s everywhere and also does fry ups

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The airport canteen (it’s upstairs in the car park)

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Second less huge plate of the mystery Chinese food because it was so good.

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#230

Nobody expects perfection when pronouncing names from a different language/dialect but refusing to try, or being put out when corrected, is really rude and very brits at it again

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#231

Think people can like or not like anything they want to.

#232

I am also in this very ‘no butter’ camp and have politely declined sandwiches for this very reason. I’d rather just say no thanks and not make a fuss but unfortunately, in this and many other similar situations, some people just demand to know why you don’t want something. I find this subset of people also tend to be the ones who roll their eyes and mutter when presented with food dislikes.

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#233

Also learning how to say things like food ordering in another language, making zero effort to pronounce it right, but still feel entitled to be understood perfectly on their holiday in that country.

#234

Yes but it’s a thread of people posting their faces so what else can you imply if you are selective with liking people’s faces?

#235

this has absolutely done me

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#236

That you didn’t want to like it for any number of reasons.

#237

OOONO SIR VAY ZAR POUR FAVOUR

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#238

Maybe try him on chicken nuggets. They were pretty much all I ate at that age

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#239

It depends if it’s performatively done, I’m not going to affect the way Spanish or Italian people roll their rs to get the correct pronunciation for example

#240

also I’m not going to correct European people who pronounce my name differently. Why would I need to hear other people say my name the same as my parents did?