What gets you goat?

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  1. Red Thunder

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    4x4 s where the only offroading they get is mounting a curb!
     
  2. TEZ 217

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    #22 TEZ 217, Jun 15, 2016
    would it be called -
    France's got Grumpy Old Buggers ?
    (we know that)
     
  3. thebiglad

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    #23 thebiglad, Jun 15, 2016
    No mate, it'll be called "Les Vieux Connards" - or in English The old bastids
     
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  4. Sceptic Al

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    #24 Sceptic Al, Jun 15, 2016
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    Just about sums it up nicely
     
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  5. Rooster

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  6. Dougie D

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    #26 Dougie D, Jun 15, 2016
    all of the above..apart from the vaping..sorry Dave!..also i have a thing about time keeping..there's no excuse for being late..unless it's a really good one o_O
     
  7. thebiglad

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    #27 thebiglad, Jun 16, 2016
    Me too !! Can't be done with peeps who don't respect other people's time. That REALLY gets my goat - Strange expression that, when you come to think about it.

    What is it about certain facets of life that upsets one's roumenant(??), even if one doesn't actually own one !!!!

    Is this a brother expression to "That really gets on my tits!"?
     
  8. Rooster

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    #28 Rooster, Jun 16, 2016
    He's at the top of mine. When zee war iz overz.......
     
  9. Rooster

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    #29 Rooster, Jun 16, 2016
    Here's another one.

    Shop assistants who don't speak. They just hold out their hand for your hard earned cash.
     
  10. Havit

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    #30 Havit, Jun 16, 2016
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    Push bikes riding up to four wide...ahhhhhhh
     
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  11. Havit

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    #31 Havit, Jun 16, 2016
    What i Have noticed is, the older i get the more things annoy me :mad:
     
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  12. Rooster

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    #32 Rooster, Jun 16, 2016
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  13. Havit

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    #33 Havit, Jun 16, 2016
    Don't get me going ......Im Like Victor Meldrew when it comes to these clowns.:mad::D
     
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  14. Havit

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    #34 Havit, Jun 16, 2016
    The dictionary definition of goat is 'a ruminant quadruped of the genus Capra'. What's that got to do with being angry? Given the meaning of 'get your goat', we might expect to find goat as a slang term meaning anger or annoyance. That meaning is recorded in the US book Life in Sing Sing, 1904, which goat is given as a slang term for anger.

    The phrase originated in the US and the first entry in print that I can find comes from a fanciful story about a burst water pipe that was printed in the US newspaper The Stevens Point Daily Journal, May 1909:

    "Wouldn't that get your goat? We'd been transferring the same water all night from the tub to the bowl and back again."

    The expression took a few years to cross the Atlantic. The first non-US citation isn't found until 1924 in the English author John Galsworthy's story White Monkey, and even there it is clearly seen as a recent innovation:

    "That had got the chairman's goat! - Got his goat? What expressions they used nowadays!"

    The following year, The Times printed a piece in memory of the then recently deceased Friedrich Baedeker. This included a side-swipe at American tourists and uses the phrase as a typical piece of Americana:

    "... goggled Americans whispering aloud, 'Wa-al Sadie, these durned three star things get my goat'!"

    A commonly repeated story which purports to explain the phrase's origin is that goats were placed with racehorses to keep them calm. When ne'er-do-wells who wanted the horse to race badly removed it, that is, they 'got someone's goat', the horse became unsettled and ran badly. That's just the sort of tale that gets the folk etymology juices running. Let's just say that there's no evidence to support that story.
     
  15. Andy68

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    #35 Andy68, Jun 16, 2016
    Drivers using fog lights when not needed, they are not a fashion accessory.
    Chris Evans, cock womble.
    Loose women, the TV series and not anything else.
    Queue jumpers.
     
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  16. Havit

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    #36 Havit, Jun 16, 2016
    Tractors on busy roads
     
  17. Havit

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    #37 Havit, Jun 16, 2016
    Slow drivers on streight roads . Find second gear will ya ahhhhhh
     
  18. Rooster

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    #38 Rooster, Jun 16, 2016
    Oh - and smart arse's
     
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  19. Havit

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    #39 Havit, Jun 16, 2016
    Its just a shame the rest of me isnt:D
     
  20. Sceptic Al

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    #40 Sceptic Al, Jun 16, 2016
    This is for Wayne
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