ecuk268 Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 Up at the crack of Dawn. How does Dawn feel about that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snopper Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 "Incredible." Everything`s incredible these days - no longer very good or excellent. I would have thought that `incredible` relates to things that are not capable of being credible.....which most things are. Unless they`re truly incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 When people change the names of football teams into some 'hilarious' nickname Wet Spam Spuds Manure Pimply Poopey Foolham Chelski Utter, utter Helmets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notnowcato Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 People who repeat the same word in a sentence. Total, total sausage jockeys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Hando Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 People (often dumpy woman in middle management whose tiny little bit of power has gone to their head) always seem to say "I'm good but I'm not that good". Gets right on my tits, mainly because almost everyone that says it isn't good at all their s**t at whatever it is their claiming to be good at. If your actually good, then people will realise without having to be told every 5 minutes. Cvnts!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 People (often dumpy woman in middle management whose tiny little bit of power has gone to their head) always seem to say "I'm good but I'm not that good". Gets right on my tits, mainly because almost everyone that says it isn't good at all their s**t at whatever it is their claiming to be good at. If your actually good, then people will realise without having to be told every 5 minutes. Cvnts!!! A few years ago I had a middled aged women boss who was useless and said exactly that with annoying regularity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 People (often dumpy woman in middle management whose tiny little bit of power has gone to their head) always seem to say "I'm good but I'm not that good". Gets right on my tits, mainly because almost everyone that says it isn't good at all their s**t at whatever it is their claiming to be good at. If your actually good, then people will realise without having to be told every 5 minutes. Cvnts!!! I'm not wonder woman you know? Living in London, I also love "Is it?" meaning Is that right or really. I used to reply, "is it what" but after a couple of times I felt like an elderly teacher so now I just join them innit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snopper Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 Made up ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 'Take a view on......' - why not just say 'think about'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deano6 Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 Because "take a view on" means "come to a conclusion about". Nothing wrong with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Bateman Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 I've just got this f***ing gem in an email, I mean seriously, speak in English please; "If so lets stack rank our asks (from a leakage perspective) and then we can discuss" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 I've just got this f***ing gem in an email, I mean seriously, speak in English please; "If so lets stack rank our asks (from a leakage perspective) and then we can discuss" Yet another irritating example of using one part of speech as another - using a verb, here, as a noun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Saint Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 When people change the names of football teams into some 'hilarious' nickname Wet Spam Spuds Manure Pimply Poopey Foolham Chelski Utter, utter Helmets. This goes for changing user names e.g. Dunce, dull days etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suhari Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 Hospickal or Bockle etc ****, have you met my exe's mum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suhari Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 Chimley & skelington You have too. Can't understand how I didn't ever bottle her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 The word film pronounced as though it were a two-syllable word - filum. Where did that come from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 The word film pronounced as though it were a two-syllable word - filum. Where did that come from? Ireland, I believe. That's always been the Irish pronunciation of it as far as I am aware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 When an advert is for 'Best ever....' or 'New improved...' - how cr@p was the product previously ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 (edited) When an advert is for 'Best ever....' or 'New improved...' - how cr@p was the product previously ? Oh don't get me started on adverts Badger. The worst one for me is those painkillers like Nurofen etc... Their adverts claim "No other painkiller works faster" - while that's technically true, no others work any slower either because the active ingredient in a £3 box of Nurofen is exactly the same as in a 31p packet from Asda. The difference is the shiny, eye-catching packaging and the flashy, expensive marketing campaign. Never ceases to amaze me how many people are fooled by it and insist the branded product is better/more effective. Edited 31 July, 2012 by Sheaf Saint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 Oh don't get me started on adverts Badger. The worst one for me is those painkillers like Nurofen etc... They're adverts claim "No other painkiller works faster" - while that's technically true, no others work any slower either because the active ingredient in a £3 box of Nurofen is exactly the same as in a 31p packet from Asda. The difference is the shiny, eye-catching packaging and the flashy, expensive marketing campaign. Never ceases to amaze me how many people are fooled by it and insist the branded product is better/more effective. "Nothing works better than Advil" - so, use nothing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 On the adverts theme, it reminds me of the woman who bought a particular brand of tampons only to take them back complaining " I bought these a week ago, but I still can't dance, swim or ride a horse". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 31 July, 2012 Share Posted 31 July, 2012 On the adverts theme, it reminds me of the woman who bought a particular brand of tampons only to take them back complaining " I bought these a week ago, but I still can't dance, swim or ride a horse". Or the man who had been prescribed a month's-worth of suppositories to deal with a medical condition. After a few days he went back to the chemist to complain: "These things are useless - for all the good they do me I might as well shove them up my ar*e." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 1 August, 2012 Share Posted 1 August, 2012 When people come up to me at work and say "Hi, how're you doing?" They're not wrong in saying it, and yes it's polite, but what do they think, I'm stuck at work when I'd rather be in the pub/knobbing the wife/be anywhere but there. Short of replying "Well I'll be happier when I'm finished", customer service dictates that "I'm good". :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 1 August, 2012 Share Posted 1 August, 2012 When people change the names of football teams into some 'hilarious' nickname Wet Spam Spuds Manure Pimply Poopey Foolham Chelski Utter, utter Helmets. Whatever Dorkish, you just don't like it because you can't come up with your own rhythming name change. You can't even do it with your (ready?).... Charmless man or pie and mash logins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimond Geezer Posted 1 August, 2012 Share Posted 1 August, 2012 When people come up to me at work and say "Hi, how're you doing?" They're not wrong in saying it, and yes it's polite, but what do they think, I'm stuck at work when I'd rather be in the pub/knobbing the wife/be anywhere but there. Short of replying "Well I'll be happier when I'm finished", customer service dictates that "I'm good". :-D There's another one, good at what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimond Geezer Posted 1 August, 2012 Share Posted 1 August, 2012 When people come up to me at work and say "Hi, how're you doing?" They're not wrong in saying it, and yes it's polite, but what do they think, I'm stuck at work when I'd rather be in the pub/knobbing the wife/be anywhere but there. Short of replying "Well I'll be happier when I'm finished", customer service dictates that "I'm good". :-D There's another one, good at what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 1 August, 2012 Share Posted 1 August, 2012 When people change the names of football teams into some 'hilarious' nickname Wet Spam Spuds Manure Pimply Poopey Foolham Chelski Utter, utter Helmets. Stains? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 1 August, 2012 Share Posted 1 August, 2012 Stains? Do they play at St fairies? See what they have done there? St Fairies hahaahaha St Fairies, it sounds like St Mary's but Fairies also sounds a bit girly, so we must all be fairies. Oh, those witty Skates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 1 August, 2012 Share Posted 1 August, 2012 Wow factor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 1 August, 2012 Share Posted 1 August, 2012 There's another one, good at what? Good at being in the pub/knobbing the wife/being anywhere but at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 2 August, 2012 Share Posted 2 August, 2012 "incredible" - nothing against the word but certainly overused today at the Olympics, heard one medal winner using the word in every sentence. But then Gabby Logan has repeatedly addressed the assembled group in the studio as "guys" , that p1sses I off . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 3 August, 2012 Share Posted 3 August, 2012 I've been fretting on here about people who take a word that exists as one part of speech (e.g., medal - a noun) and then turn it into another (to medal - a verb). Here's another gruesome example of this from earlier today. A poster on here used the word 'navalise' in a thread about the military. And then a little later he used the word 'navalisation'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank's cousin Posted 3 August, 2012 Share Posted 3 August, 2012 Attempts by insecure middle and senior 'management' people to sound intelligent by using 'metaphor' that is incomprehensible bull. teh instead of the proactive - we used to do things, then we were encouraged to do them actively, now its proactive... yet we are still doing the same fecking thing!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 3 August, 2012 Share Posted 3 August, 2012 I've been fretting on here about people who take a word that exists as one part of speech (e.g., medal - a noun) and then turn it into another (to medal - a verb). Here's another gruesome example of this from earlier today. A poster on here used the word 'navalise' in a thread about the military. And then a little later he used the word 'navalisation'. Entering New York last year we were all 'immigrated'. I call the process 'immigratificationalisation'. A company I know very well produces the patient registration systems for doctors' surgeries. The welcome screen says 'touch the screen to arrive for your appointment'. When I had a problem the girl behind the desk said 'I can arrive you manually'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 3 August, 2012 Share Posted 3 August, 2012 Attempts by insecure middle and senior 'management' people to sound intelligent by using 'metaphor' that is incomprehensible bull. teh instead of the proactive - we used to do things, then we were encouraged to do them actively, now its proactive... yet we are still doing the same fecking thing!!! It's NHS newspeak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 3 August, 2012 Share Posted 3 August, 2012 Entering New York last year we were all 'immigrated'. I call the process 'immigratificationalisation'. A company I know very well produces the patient registration systems for doctors' surgeries. The welcome screen says 'touch the screen to arrive for your appointment'. When I had a problem the girl behind the desk said 'I can arrive you manually'. lol that echoes the old gag about posh folk having sex, they dont come, they arrive.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redbul Posted 3 August, 2012 Share Posted 3 August, 2012 Aitch. The 8th letter of the alphabet is pronounced aitch, not ****in' haitch. There, I've said it, it's out there now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 3 August, 2012 Share Posted 3 August, 2012 Entering New York last year we were all 'immigrated'. I call the process 'immigratificationalisation'. A company I know very well produces the patient registration systems for doctors' surgeries. The welcome screen says 'touch the screen to arrive for your appointment'. When I had a problem the girl behind the desk said 'I can arrive you manually'. That's classic! Once in a while, I'll come across this notice posted on a door: "Caution, this door is alarmed". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 3 August, 2012 Author Share Posted 3 August, 2012 Was reading the comments page on the Guardian's piece on Gabrielle Douglas. In the original article, the author used the word "niggardly" in the correct context. Small crapstorm happened on the comments page. One of the commentators mentioned that US broadcasters don't use the word anymore because most people who hear it out loud aren't educated enough to know what it means, and think it's something else. That's a bit annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 3 August, 2012 Share Posted 3 August, 2012 That's classic! Once in a while, I'll come across this notice posted on a door: "Caution, this door is alarmed". Our local library has a sign saying 'this door will not open automatically unless you press the button'. Work that one out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 3 August, 2012 Share Posted 3 August, 2012 On a slightly different note, I saw a sign in Australia: 'abseiling office upstairs'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monk Posted 3 August, 2012 Share Posted 3 August, 2012 Mush* ****ing hate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raging Bull Posted 3 August, 2012 Share Posted 3 August, 2012 Plush Anyone who uses this word is a chav and smokes weed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesfp1 Posted 3 August, 2012 Share Posted 3 August, 2012 There, they're and their being used in the wrong place. Most infuriating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearsy Posted 4 August, 2012 Share Posted 4 August, 2012 I've been fretting on here about people who take a word that exists as one part of speech (e.g., medal - a noun) and then turn it into another (to medal - a verb) When I was driving home last night I was channel hopping the radio trying to find something that weren't adverts, and this dude on radio 4 grabbed my ear cos he was talking bout nouns becoming verbs. I don't normally linger on radios 4 but I thought of you lot and stopped to have a listen! Turns out he was from the Oxford Dictionary and he was saying to "medal" is now officially a verbs! Apparently they do this thing where they count up the dumb things people say and if enough of them say it they change it in the dictionaries. Who knew? Seems a lot of you is just out of touch with modern thinkings and should buy new dictionaries! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 4 August, 2012 Share Posted 4 August, 2012 He reads the Times, he listens to radio 4, he is polite is 3 somes, I knew Bearsy was an intellectual gentleman acting all bads at the English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearsy Posted 4 August, 2012 Share Posted 4 August, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 4 August, 2012 Share Posted 4 August, 2012 He reads the Times, he listens to radio 4, he is polite is 3 somes, I knew Bearsy was an intellectual gentleman acting all bads at the English. Tokyo's right, I reckon Bearsy is a right hinterlectuals. All this bollix about being down wid da yout, I bet he's 62 years old, votes ukip or conservative, listens to Brahms or Wagner on his Linn Sondek turntable and Quad valve amplifier and has his radio tuned to 92.9fm at all times. There is a copy of the Iliad on his coffee table, slightly covered by the latest issue of Stamp Collector UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearsy Posted 4 August, 2012 Share Posted 4 August, 2012 I reckon I totally am getting posh! I just quoted Churchill on another thread! Churchill! Does anyone want a game of Scrabble or whatever? I think I can fit you in between the ballet and the opera! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 4 August, 2012 Share Posted 4 August, 2012 I think I can fit you in between the ballet and the opera! You, sir, are in luck. The English National Ballet are performing at the Mayflower Theatre next week, enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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