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What really grinds your gears?

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McGoohan Feb 2017 2:22pm, 17 Feb 2017 28,063 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan Is that the "AndyI is a fake" comment or am I missing something? Or were you attacked on another thread?
Nicholls595 Feb 2017 2:39pm, 17 Feb 2017 10,688 posts	Quote Pin Nicholls595 ~ wanders in, reads back a bit, wanders out again, closing the door softly behind me ~
McGoohan Feb 2017 2:45pm, 17 Feb 2017 28,064 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan Chimps being called monkeys - that grinds my gears. Also tortoises and terrapins being called turtles (albeit mostly by Americans). Basically, the US tries to classify all fauna as either a turtle or a monkey. Bunch of stupid turtle-monkeys.
Nicholls595 Feb 2017 2:46pm, 17 Feb 2017 10,691 posts	Quote Pin Nicholls595 Teenage Ninja Mutant Tortoises just doesn't sound right though?
McGoohan Feb 2017 2:54pm, 17 Feb 2017 28,066 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan They were newts in the original comic book, but in the US that gets rounded up to 'turtle'
Nicholls595 Feb 2017 2:59pm, 17 Feb 2017 10,693 posts	Quote Pin Nicholls595 You say original, but research shows the US comic book was based on the Dickens novel "Teenage pregnant mutant urchins".
McGoohan Feb 2017 3:04pm, 17 Feb 2017 28,067 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan True. I rounded up 'Dickens novel' to 'comic book'
Nicholls595 Feb 2017 3:06pm, 17 Feb 2017 10,695 posts	Quote Pin Nicholls595 It was based in DORCHESTER I believe
swittle Feb 2017 3:08pm, 17 Feb 2017 42,868 posts	Quote Pin swittle Newt Gingrich!
decorum Feb 2017 4:03pm, 17 Feb 2017 1,629 posts	Quote Pin decorum Falling down tthe rabbi hole [Auto-corrected from 'rabbit'. I could change it but it's making me smile :- ) ]