What grinds your gears ?

[nokgod]

Hahaha, very strange.. it appears that the Wikipedia page I linked to has been edited in the last few minutes to remove any reference to Mom or Mommy being used in the West Midlands.... spooky coincidence or what

Does the idiot not realise the date and time of the edit are at the bottom of the page... w@nker...

I fully agree with sexyWayne on this one. Everyone i know from the Blackcountry says Mom, and have done for at least the last 42 years that i know to . In fact, i'm sure she still has a few cards i made for her in Primary school that say MOM on them. I didn't even know it was supposed to be an American term.

[noobish hat]

Saying 'mom' and writing it are two different things. If we all wrote in our dialects the forum would be illegible.

[SexyWayne]

Saying 'mom' and writing it are two different things. If we all wrote in our dialects the forum would be illegible.

Especially if you're from Dudley... it would probably go something along the lines of: I core goo up to Dudlay today, or I doe wanna goo to scuel today

Scottish accents are the ones that get me though, my Scottish relatives are from Aberdeen and I can understand them perfectly, then I have a friend of a friend from Fife and I can't understand the stuff she says half the time

Btw... in the West Mids we say mom exactly how its spelt

[koopa42]

Btw... in the West Mids we say mom exactly how its spelt

No, we don't, but then again Cov is only in the West Midlands after some dodgy voting scam years back, we used to be Warwickshire

[clarance]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_A61O1u5jE

[lanky316]

One last point and one I make frequently and is partly related to my last point. Stop selling Landlord Insurance , PPI claims and Madbid auctions via childrens TV channels. They are simply not your target audience. Whatever happened to selling toys and badly shaped maize snacks.

Aren't they banned from advertising toys and stuff to kids because if a kid sees an advert they MUST be bought everything they see?

[koopa42]

One last point and one I make frequently and is partly related to my last point. Stop selling Landlord Insurance , PPI claims and Madbid auctions via childrens TV channels. They are simply not your target audience. Whatever happened to selling toys and badly shaped maize snacks.

Aren't they banned from advertising toys and stuff to kids because if a kid sees an advert they MUST be bought everything they see?

Being a house husband? I can only assume they are aimed at the parents in this compo generation. It does actually get my goat too

Underdog
PPI
The TEAM of lawyers
Andrew censored Castle

[crusto]

I cannot believe how anal some people are about the word mom. I am from the west mids and say mom, all of my family do, and almost everybody else I know does. If people don't like it they can go forth and multiply. I couldn't give a flying feck how people spell it or say it. Jesus, this place is going downhill.

Gears massively ground.

[koopa42]

I don't give a monkeys if you say mom, I do give a monkeys when you say everyone in the west mids says mom - because I don't and no-one I know or speak to in Cov says that either.

[crusto]

I don't give a monkeys if you say mom, I do give a monkeys when you say everyone in the west mids says mom - because I don't and no-one I know or speak to in Cov says that either.

Where did I say that then?

[koopa42]

I am from the west mids and say mom, all of my family do, and almost everybody else I know does

That's close enough for me, I don't give a monkeys about yoru 'almost' either

[crusto]

I am from the west mids and say mom, all of my family do, and almost everybody else I know does

That's close enough for me, I don't give a monkeys about yoru 'almost' either

So from reading my post you have come to the conclusion that I know everybody in the west midlands. What does not giving a monkeys about almost mean? You don't care about a word?

[koopa42]

Yes, you just carry on. You know what you meant and disecting it won't change it.

[crusto]

Yeah right oh mate. I said one thing and meant another. If that's what you believe then fine, whatever floats your boat.

[koopa42]

Yeah right oh mate. I said one thing and meant another. If that's what you believe then fine, whatever floats your boat.

Cheers man, I appreciate it