Recycling

Getting a new mobile can be a pain when you have to learn new technology and also tell people that you have a new number. It's so very irritating to have to change your number within 3 months of getting it because you keep getting phonecalls and messages for the last person to have that number. Apparently, no new numbers can be generated, so old ones are recycled - but only after they've been out of action for 2 years (allegedly).

Well, if your name is "Sam" and you used to have the number: 07976 938 365, thank you very much! You could've told your huge circle of associates (and I've heard from most of them) that you've changed your number. Thanks very much also to the muppets who want to contact "sexpot" Sam after over two years without being in touch. Dickheads. Thanks also to the mobile networks for providing second hand numbers; perhaps they should wait for a number to be out of use for 5 years before they fob it on to somebody else.

Some advice for our American friends. We British are pretty good at deciphering your odd spelling, grammar and punctuation, but I know for a fact that the Americans are pretty stuck in their ways when it comes to their quaint interpretation of the English language. Not only stuck in their ways, but annoyingly crap with it. So, a "mobile" is what those in the States would insist on calling a "cellphone" or even worse "cell" (dur!).

It's the fact that they insist on continuing to use their odd spellings and words when in the UK that is rather tiresome. If an American was in France, speaking French, they'd speak French (one would assume). So why then do they speak American when in the UK? They throw in words that we don't use here, use stupid spellings that make words look ridiculous. Arrogance, that's what it is.

One of the most annoying things is computer software such as the Microsoft Office applications that always default to American English, no matter how many times you set the default to UK English. A frexample is e-mailing using Microsoft Outlook: you can set the default language to UK English, but as soon as you reply to a message or forward one on, it reverts to US English and changes the spellings of everything - making the author look a complete tosser.


Some may think this "analyzation" a little over the top (seriously, some Americans make up words like this and how they ever managed to sneak a "z" into analyse in the first place is beyond me), but it really does piss me off. It's bad enough having their crap spelling forced on us in books and webpages, but us lot in the UK and the rest of the English speaking world accept it as them being too stupid to learn how to spell properly. However, when Americans tell us that we're spelling things incorrectly or using the wrong punctuation because we're using our own language? That really gets my goat up!


The bastards!