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...to say myself when they really mean to use me or I?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Airline cabin crew and announcers on trains seem to do the same thing pretty consistently.
"If you have any questions, please come and talk to myself." 
"Myself" is for people who don't know whether to say "me" or "I", and aren't satisfied with only being wrong 50% of the time.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: "Myself" is for people who don't know whether to say "me" or "I", and aren't satisfied with only being wrong 50% of the time.
Spot on. It just gets on my tits whenever I hear it. Always those dopey Gen Y bastards who are always talking about their four-head and spending a four-choooon.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: It just gets on my tits
Man boobs? 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Richard Deeming wrote: "If you have any questions, please come and talk to myself."
People in America talk like that? I've never heard that. 
I do talk to myself but I wouldn't tell someone else to come talk to myself. That is ridiculous.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I don't know about America, but I seem to hear it every time I'm on a plane, every time I'm on the Eurostar, and frequently on UK train announcements.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I've never heard anyone in America do that except by mistake. Could be due to extended exposure to bad elements from overseas
"Seize the day" - Horace
"It's not what he doesn't know that scares me; it's what he knows for sure that just ain't so!" - Will Rogers, said by him about Herbert Hoover
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The words myself, yourself etc are reflective pronouns. So "I saw me on tv" would be utter tosh as the person is the same so we use the reflexive form "I saw myself on tv".
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: The words myself, yourself etc are reflective pronouns. So "I saw me on tv" would be utter tosh as the person is the same so we use the reflexive form "I saw myself on tv".
So you speak fluent twat. You would say 'I was on TV' or 'Did you see me on TV?'. How do you explain the use below from a post several pages down I read an hour or so ago?
...and to compete with bigger companies have needed to react faster and produce better stuff, so its myself who decides this to launch products quickly...
'So it's me who decides' or 'I decide'.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Who can you see in the mirror? I can see myself.
I need a bottle of gin for myself.
Would you like some run for yourself?
etc, etc, etc.
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....then again, the educational system has been getting crappier for years...
"Seize the day" - Horace
"It's not what he doesn't know that scares me; it's what he knows for sure that just ain't so!" - Will Rogers, said by him about Herbert Hoover
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There are times when "myself" / "yourself" is the correct word. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't seem to know when that is. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The correct time is when object and subject match.
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Quote: Merkan
You're going to give grammar lessons? 
Do you have any examples. If so, can you share them with myself? 
I've never heard Americans talk the way you are suggesting.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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And? 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Must be a Southern thing... I can't recall myself ever hearing that up here.... myself...
Actually, sometimes people say "Talk to [these other people] or myself"... It's how they try to sound sophisticated. Unsuccessfully, I might add.
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That ain't no Southern thing either.
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No, I've heard it in England too.
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It's creeping into the UK, too. 
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I, myself, am not sure, but myself am Merkan and it makes me laugh to hear someoneself refer to themselves as themselves. Usually a simple "me" or "us" would do, but I, myself, hypothesize that the uneducated think using a longer word makes themselves appear to be more sophisticated than themselves actually are.
I, myself, suspect that the custom of using a reflexive grammatical construct was imported from other languages where such constructs are normal.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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So you've arranged to have beer and pizza eh?
That's my dinner most nights 
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HomerTheGreat wrote: That's my dinner most nights
That's probably the reason you're so great big... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Yes I've arranged for it ...
Beer is in fridge and Pizzas are being ordered ... for me this is a treat (I live a very sheltered life)!
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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