I've seen this a lot on here. People really say this? Like..."I got pulled for going 45 in a 55"

I've never heard anyone I know say it this way.

What's the deal with this?

It annoys the shit out of me.

3/3/2012 12:01:23 AM

lolwut

of course people say it you dumbass

3/3/2012 12:02:28 AM

well technically they pulled your license plate up in there system

so you got pulled

3/3/2012 12:02:32 AM

seems like a pretty dumb thing to get upset about

3/3/2012 12:04:11 AM

Are you kidding?

3/3/2012 12:05:01 AM

I too have been trolled on the internets

3/3/2012 12:06:32 AM

Are you yanking my crank right now?

3/3/2012 12:07:11 AM

No, I'm dead serious.

Nobody I know says it like this.

Its always "I got pulled over for speeding"

or

"Yeah, that dumbass cop pulled me over for running a stop sign"

Just saying "pulled" sounds fucking retarded IMO

3/3/2012 12:08:14 AM

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3/3/2012 12:11:04 AM

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3/3/2012 12:11:10 AM

Saying "I got 'pulled'" can mean nothing other than "I got pulled over by the police"


It's like saving breath. "over by the police" takes too long to say when people know what you mean by the time you get to the word 'pulled'

3/3/2012 12:13:00 AM

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"Saying "I got 'pulled'" can mean nothing other than "I got pulled over by the police""

No shit.

I was just using it a sentence.

Its pulled over, not pulled.

I got pulled over for going 45 in a 55.

Its not

I got pulled for going 45 in a 55.

That just sounds stupid.

3/3/2012 12:14:41 AM

Give it a week, month, or year. You'll be saying it naturally


It's just one of those things.

3/3/2012 12:16:18 AM

3/3/2012 12:16:55 AM

^^Highly unlikely.

3/3/2012 12:17:13 AM

It's like beer. You hate it the first time you try it, but you like it a little bit more each subsequent time.

3/3/2012 12:18:10 AM

I hear people say both, frequently, both IRL and online. get a job, hippy

3/3/2012 1:03:07 AM

This is one of those things where I've probably heard and said both about equally, but now that I know that there's somebody out there that is faggy enough to care about this one way or the other, I'll probably go out of my way to say "pulled" from now on in the hopes that someone gets annoyed about it.

What an epically stupid thing to get angry over.

3/3/2012 1:26:24 AM

Great direction you're taking, TWW.

3/3/2012 2:19:51 AM

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"Be thoughtful/humorous - Hundreds of people browse the message board each day. Before you post something, think to yourself, "would the majority of the users want to read this?". If the answer is "no", then don't post it."

3/3/2012 2:38:01 AM

^out of all the poorly made threads in the world of TWW, you picked this thread to post that as an insult?

3/3/2012 3:16:26 AM

I say "There's a park." instead of "There's a parking space." It drives my husband CRAZY.

3/3/2012 2:58:48 PM

people who get annoyed at certain words people use typically have deep rooted emotional problems.

3/3/2012 3:11:56 PM

what a dickhead cop to pull you for going 10 mph under the posted speed limit

you could fight that in court. just say you were accelerating up to 55 at the time, or that you were uneasy about road conditions so that's why you were driving so slow

3/3/2012 3:29:59 PM

this is the biggest fucking thread in history

3/3/2012 6:43:54 PM

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"I say "There's a park." instead of "There's a parking space." It drives my husband CRAZY."

Why don't you say "space"

It's just as short and not as retarded.

3/3/2012 6:44:57 PM

Its "I was" not "I got". What is this jerry springer?

I'm Krallum and I supply the grammarz

3/3/2012 6:51:27 PM

this guy is my new "i don't like this guy..." on TWW

3/3/2012 7:48:20 PM

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"now that I know that there's somebody out there that is faggy enough to care about this one way or the other, I'll probably go out of my way to say "pulled" from now on in the hopes that someone gets annoyed about it. What an epically stupid thing to get angry over."

this

3/3/2012 7:52:24 PM

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"I say "There's a park." instead of "There's a parking space." It drives my husband CRAZY. "

WTF?

Thats grounds for divorce.

"Spot" or "Space" is fine.

But "park"?????

3/3/2012 7:55:56 PM

My mother also says "park" and I've never really thought about it. I didn't realize that it was unusual until my husband started WTF'ing me about it.

3/3/2012 7:59:19 PM

Aw man! I got pulled!

3/3/2012 7:59:31 PM

how come most of our new posters are generally mouthy opinionated idiots?

3/3/2012 8:02:25 PM

It's how they survive the general hazing.

3/3/2012 8:03:14 PM

^^a) they're probably aliases.

b) to be fair, most of us old users are mouthy opinionated idiots as well.

3/3/2012 8:04:17 PM

my mom also says "there's a park." we pick on her about it, but i've never really thought it was a big deal.

and everyone says "pulled"...

3/3/2012 8:15:07 PM

Apparently not everyone.

I'm from Florida and literally nobody says that.

Perhaps it's a NC thing?

3/3/2012 8:18:13 PM

doh.

My husband is from Virginia and hasn't heard the "park" thing. But even he says "pulled."

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3/3/2012 8:20:06 PM

regional phrases?

whodathunkit??

3/3/2012 8:23:04 PM

I think everyone here is a mouthy opinionated idiot.

3/3/2012 8:30:02 PM

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"lolwut of course people say it you dumbass "

3/3/2012 11:33:53 PM

alias

3/3/2012 11:35:21 PM

in b4 another dnl alias

3/3/2012 11:36:46 PM

ENGLISH. HOW DOES IT WORK.

Seriously, how the fuck does "pulled over" make literal sense to begin with? Does the cop lasso your car with rope and then you get "pulled over"? Why get butthurt when someone uses one idiom over another?

3/3/2012 11:39:59 PM

man I got led off the road the other night

3/3/2012 11:41:08 PM

Cop car got behind me with his lights on and tailgated me until I parked the car on the side of the road with him parking behind me. 80 in a 55.

3/3/2012 11:45:45 PM

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"."I got pulled for going 45 in a 55" I've never heard anyone I know say it this way. "

I've never heard anyone say they've been pulled over for going 10 under the speed limit either.

3/4/2012 12:54:32 AM

it probably started as "pulled"

as in "pulled from traffic" or "pulled off the road"

but, since 90% of the time the person pulls over to the shoulder, the phrase "pulled over" developed

I am not an etymologist. This is merely conjecture.

3/4/2012 6:04:21 PM