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The older I get, the crankier I’m becoming. I have all these Things That Annoy Me that go on a mental list inside my mad head, and high up there is the adding of extra ‘s’ onto words that just do not require them. This is just about enough to make my brain want to explode in a million fussy pieces. Someone said ‘Wagamammas’ to me the other day and I actually didn’t hear anything else she said, such was the fizzing inside my head and the wringing together of my anguished hands.
Of course, anyone who knows me also knows about this little ‘quirk’, so you can imagine what nights out are like. Pints of ‘millers’ are ordered, pals ponder going to ‘RiRas’ etc.
But the worst. The very, very very WORST on my long list of ‘oh I cannot STAND that’, is Dinner Hair. Oh lord holy God above and mercy Mary mother of the saints, to me, there is no greater beauty transgression than smelling stew from someone’s barnet. This, dear people, is what extractor fans, windows and fresh air are there for. I daresay shampoo would also aid in this situation. And hats.
I was reminded of this awful affliction the other day when someone walked past me and there was an unmistakable bang of Mammy Dinner offa them. This then recalled the time Aphrodite slagged our other sister about her gruaig smelling of gruel, and said sibling went ba-naaaaaaaaaa-nas: “How DARE YOU!! OHMYGOD It does NOT!” were the screams of high-octane outrage, before a monster sulk ensued.
Oh yes, it is indeed a Vile Thing to be Accused of.
Is this just a me thing though? I’m willing to admit to my own peculiar, ahem, ‘idiosyncrasies’. Or do you too curl your lip, come over all faint like a well-corseted Victorian lay-dee and have to scuttle away at the merest whiff of food from a follicle?
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Oh yes!! The worst is that awful greasy smell of a fry/chips that seems to cling onto peoples follicles forever-yuk.
Oh God, I remember a few months ago being in bed and hubby suddenly going “You smell lovely, but your hair smells of….roast potatoes!”
It’s all that steam when you open the oven!!
Ha ha – the random pluralisation (or is it… possessive-isation?) of everything drives me mad to – I particularly hate “BTs”
But yes, Dinner Hair is fairly bad too, and yet doesn’t seem to strike as often as the dreaded unnecessary S.
I completely agree. Hate dinner hair, and dinner clothes for that matter. The worst is when someone cooks burgers, horrible!
euroS – drives me MENTAL, my eye starts twitching and everything – its EURO in the plural as well people – and lots of people who should know better – newsreaders, politicians, teachers!! aaaghhhh!!
As I was getting ready to go out yesterday evening, the hubby was cooking hamburgers for the kids – no perfume could cover up the smell!
Erm…wasn’t it you Kirsty who had a case of “faggy hair” at a spa recently?
Smell of stale smoke (sorry smokers). It’s awful.
Combined with BO and you could sink a ship….
LOL dancingqueen
At least there is a logical reason for pluralising Euro with an s, even if it isn’t officially correct. It’s when there’s no logical reason for adding it on that it gets to me!
TescoS is another one, meant to be just Tesco! Aaaagh
Dinner Hair – oh it’s terrible! Little sis was going on a date that time and I could tell what she’d had for dinner from the bang off her hair – it was fried fish!!
She went MAD – but it wasn’t my fault
ooh i have a list of these in my head too, should i ever become famous and be called upon to appear on room 101
happily i haven’t come across dinner hair, yet!
hurrah !!!
xgirl it’s me and you against the world!!
‘BT’S’
FFS.. really, FFS.. the shop is called ‘Brown Thomas’
There is no need to exclaim to someone that you had just been into ‘Brown Thomas’s shop’
Brown Thomas is the shop, when you go into it, you go into Brown Thomas, the shop!!!!!!
Brown Thomas is clearly the name of the shop, not the name of the owner!! [as in if i had a shop called ‘Glitter’, you still be correct in saying ‘i was in Glitter, you know that shop on such and such a street’, if my shop was called ‘Kitty’, you’d be correct in saying ‘I was in Glitter’s shop, ‘Kitty’ or ‘I was in that shop ‘Kitty ‘ on such and such street’
Oh lord!!
I have to stop
Can you tell that this drives me beserk ???
And even after someone says ‘I was in BT’s', i’ll say straight away, ‘Oh, you were in BT?’ and no one ever notices
Kirstie.. if ‘mammy hair’ causes you to rant and rave this much, i totally understand!!!!
“Lidl’s” gets me every time.
dancingqueen, I was going to post that as well!I HATE it, everytime some says it to me in the shop, I really feel like correcting them. Pisses me right off and makes me so grouchy.
Saying that, I’ve always called Lidl ‘Lidls’ :/
Ha ha i used to never believe this as a kid. My mother was constantly keeping us out of the kitchen while she was cooking dinner cause there would be a smell off us….i just thought she was being weird!! Now i know why she had a “cooking cardigan” aswell! ha ha.
I rarely get a “cooking smell” from other people….maybe cause ive constantly got a blocked nose……………
This is one of my pet hates i absoltely hate dinner hair, clothes thought i was d only one out there!!
Glitterkitty – VERY true re the whole BT thing.
I have to say the ‘S’ that gets added on to ‘Euro’ (and to lots and lots of other words – which makes absolutely no sense) drives me nuts.
The one that I cannot stand is when people eat with their knife. It drives me crazy!! You’re not meant to put it in your mouth its only supposed to be used for cutting. My mother drilled it into us as kids not to do this. My roommate does it and i cringe everytime, i just want to grab it from her. Of Course that’s only when she uses a knife… there’s another pet peeve.
lidl is pronounced “LEEEDILL” apparantly……
Some of my big bug bears include:
People who feck rubbish out their car windows – they are nothing but bloody skangers. Wish we could round them up and ship ‘em out.(this is on my mind today as it happened on the way to work) Some yolk fecked his plastic coffe cup thingy out the window
People who eat/drink on public transport – we all know of the woman who used to be on my train with the stupid sushi. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Fussy eaters – they should be rounded up and shipped out.
Can’t stand it
I must say, this is an Irish thing tho… Im spanish, and this has never happened to me in Spain.
I have been living here for nearly 10 years, and for ages i just couldnt figure out why people smelled like fried food. With time, i just came to the conclusion that houses are very old and their kitchens dont have fan or extractor AND people fry way TOO much. Everything is fried.
nevdev – omg i feel the exact same about the knife thing, it makes me feel ill when someone puts their knife in their mouth, or they treat it like a spoon and scoop stuff up on it, ugh!
Oh Mindy, my list for Room 101 would go on for ever and ever!
I am SUCH a grammatical pedant! I do admit that I always pluralise the word euro when talking about more than one, but it feels grammatically incorrect to me to use the singular as the plural. I also hate the word euro, so I regularly still refer to our currency as pounds. I tense up when I hear unnecessary pluralisation and long to openly correct people.
I used to work with a girl who regularly punctuated her statements with the expression “purely because” instead of commas and full stops. An entire paragraph would be uttered before she’s start a new sentence but “purely because” would have uttered half a dozen times. It drove me NUTS listening to her; in fact, half the time, I tuned her out because her grammar was appalling. Even writing e-mails, she had poor grammar and what the hell is spellcheck for if not for checking grammar?!
Yes…. Dinner hair! Boyf can never understand on weekends why I always want to wait until after the “Grill up” to shower etc. I’m like simple – I don’t want to smell of food! Same with him cooking up something mingin’ like liver *YEUCH* with a basket of freshly washed laundry in the kitchen. Result – Me grabbing basket and legging it out of room like rugby player heading over the line for a try!!
My mother always says that the smell of spuds (from mashing) off her clothes, hair etc could actually make her puke!
Actually I have so many pet hates, it would take me a very long time to go into them all…..so i’ll spare you. Am very smell sensitive though, so any sort of BO can have me wretching. Once walked into a supermaket and quickly got faint but horrible smell. Continued on my way, until I rounded a corner and came face to face with an old, and tragically, very neglected old lady. I swear girls, the smell was so bad that I had to drop my basket and run out of the shop and I was in serious danger of being violently ill.
At first I mis-read this as “Dinner Lady hair”. Last night on Room 101 Siralan was on and quoted Boy George talking about Elton John: “All those millions and he still has hair like a dinner lady”. HAHAHAHA!
I used to hate having a shower after a big night out and suddenly the shower would fill with the stink of fag smoke. You’d cringe. It was one of the reasons I gave up the fags actually!
I HATE bad spelling too! grr! mixing up your/ you’re. a friend of mine puts an apostrophe s EVERY time she makes something plural – she recently text me ‘no worrie’s'!!!
It’s weird – I dont’ take much notice of the ‘s’ added on to words in conversation, but seeing unnecessary apostrophies is like nails down a blackboard. Must say I’ve never come across the dinner hair phenomenon. Now I’m paranoid that everyone I know, including myself has it and we just don’t notice!
BBQ hair! Charcoal with added aromatic woodchips with sausage and fish. BBBX
Bea, it definitely isn’t just an Irish thang, I lived in Spain for a good while and I was sick of the smell of fish and stale smoke off people there…not to mention an obvious aversion to deoderant that a lot of Spanish men seemed to have, given the bang of BO off them!!
I think every country has a certain population afflicted with “dinner hair” syndrome!
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