Monday, 7 September 2009

Why is it these days...

...that when you hear two people having a conversation, the person listening will invariably keep saying "yeah yeah yeah" as the other person speaks? I know it's intended to indicate that they are engaged in the conversation, but it always sounds as though they are being somewhat dismissive of what the speaker is saying. I hear this all the time: "yeah yeah yeah". Please, please stop!

Have people no manners any more? Or do a large proportion of the UK population have some kind of nervous tic that causes them to say "yeah yeah yeah" entirely involuntarily? Is it just a Birmingham thing? Or is it just me being pedantic?

It seemed a lot funnier when these guys did it:

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