| Author | Message | ||
     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2977 Registered: 05-2005 |
One word that is really starting to annoy the effin hell outta me is the word Look. its mostly the way politicians have been using it lately. Virtually every response to a question on the Radio 4 Today programme or on the news on TV starts with the word "Look". FU*K OFF!!!!!! It so effin infuriates me I could quite happily round em all up (MP's) and... I won't go there, its condescending, its rude, its vulgar, its everything a sentence should NOT start with. "Look its like this, Look, I took the money because, Look we fu*k things up because, Look you are a prole and I am not beacuse".. the list goes on. Look! STOP IT you effin morons. Phew, glad that's over. Mind you I quite liked the teenage mag Look-in in the 70's! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1406 Registered: 01-2005 |
Right on Spence! Those "Look" people remind me of the American man in this scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UBQFXQUq xE | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 136 Registered: 05-2005 |
Isn't it an Australian thing? Australian cricketers always seem to answer questions with the word 'Look'. Mine at the mo is 'en route' as in 'this train will divide en route at Shoreham by Sea' well I for one do not want to be ona train that divides off route. Too much commuting I know... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1409 Registered: 09-2006 |
I agree it's a completely arrogant usage, spence, tied in to a modern attitude that says that being "strong" means never questioning your actions, getting irritated when others do, to the point of acting like they're the asshole for having the effrontery to call you out. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2673 Registered: 05-2005 |
"Going forward" is the phrase I hate. It's utterly meanlingness (at least until time travel makes "going backwards" an option). | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1412 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Just sayin'..." Tack it on the end of your opinion and make it sound like you're injecting it into the conversation with a great deal of humility, though the exact opposite is true. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 216 Registered: 05-2005 |
"Clearly" - as used at the beginning of sentances - mainly by politicians answering difficult questions - e.g.: "Clearly there is a level of public unease over huge bonuses being guaranteed to bankers - but contracts must be honored because they are the cornerstone of our legal and financial system". Functions a bit like 'Look' mentioned by Spence above - i.e. f**k off you prole - I know what I'm talking about and you don't. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1947 Registered: 03-2005 |
I don't use "just sayin'" but I'm sure I use the others from time to time. I'm going to dinner tonight with friends. I've got to find a way to work "F**k off you prole" into my conversation. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 137 Registered: 05-2005 |
Theres a good toilet book called 'She's Literally Exploded..' on all of this kind of stuff. But look, one thing that really gets me going forward is these people who think we need witty books full of this shite, just saying. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2983 Registered: 05-2005 |
C Gull, OK, let's touch base, at the end of play to see how the required criteria pans out which should be easily accessed on the agenda re: tomorrow's crisis meeting entitled 'the reasons for making things perfectly clear', parts 1 to 350, and on no account may we deviate from the road map, or we'll have to assume there are weapons of mass destruction, predominantley around the water cooler area of the divisional seminar lounge. get me? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1414 Registered: 09-2006 |
C, thanks for (obliquely) mentioning "literally," one that's always just killed me. I'm well aware that language is a fluid, ever-changing thing, but in this case there's not even a vestige of the original meaning left...unlike, say those two victims of kick-ass culture, "awesome" (which used to describe the Grand Canyon and now is exclaimed when one finds a sale on Pepsi) and "ultimate" (The Ultimate 10-disc DVD Edition of Killer Fleas...until we release the Ultimate Ultimate 14-disc version next year...) | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 899 Registered: 08-2004 |
Look, allow me to run this past you. I'm not being funny but, to cut a long story short. Quintessentially, the juxtapositional transition of the climate within the penultimate fiscal annum. After seasonal adjustment & allowing for future profits banked. Clearly to summarise: Off you fuck, proles!!! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1417 Registered: 01-2005 |
I think we need to rollout our new product only after benchmarking our companies core interal practices and finding synergy within. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 138 Registered: 05-2005 |
I just got home from work but it does n't feel like it. Awesome. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2674 Registered: 05-2005 |
Look, I'd like to see more of this HR/corporate speak here, going forward. Just sayin'. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1588 Registered: 10-2004 |
Look, clearly we'll need to be mindful of the need for more patronizing corporate-speak, going forward. It is crucial that you join me in literally altering the collective tone of our writing across all threads to reflect this directive. Going forward, of course. This will, no doubt, clearly serve to slow the increased attrition we've been experiencing over the course of this fiscal year. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 325 Registered: 04-2005 |
Working in Local Government, we use the following during meetings.... http://www.corporatebingo.org/ Cheers Jon | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 473 Registered: 05-2005 |
People who hate "Yeah no" who fail to realise that it is short for "yeah you know". | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2987 Registered: 05-2005 |
yeah yeah No!, a great band from the midlands. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 139 Registered: 05-2005 |
Putting the fun back into being pretentious, Spence! | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 121 Registered: 08-2005 |
We pay a fine in the office for use of phrases like "going forward". And I literally love the misuse of the word "literally", particularly by hyperbole-spouting sports commentators. I'm also amused by the phrase "forward planning". Yes, it seems natural, but what other type of planning is there? Similarly, "pre-booking". Isn't that, er, just "booking"? Hey ho. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2990 Registered: 05-2005 |
I love Motson though eh Si!? | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 901 Registered: 08-2004 |
Pre-booking requires another charge. It's a way of keeping the little man or proles down. 'Direct Debit failed' that has to be the worst written phrase. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2993 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spandau Ballet. I dislike Gary Kemp, no there's a cu*t if ever there was one, with his smarmy face and piss holes in the snow for eyes, yes, he's on the way back with all the rest of the crew who he sued the bollocks off 10 years ago! And they are set to earn Ł12,000,000 FU*K ME! Sorry everyone, am in a cynical mood today. on the upside, I quite liked a few of their early singles, even though they resembled badly painted faux Scottish camp warriors, the ind you find on the side of a tin of crap Scottish shortbread. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 903 Registered: 08-2004 |
Not in a good Highland games way like the porridge fella.  | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1952 Registered: 03-2005 |
It's funny you mention Spandau Ballet, Spence. I was sitting in a little restaurant a week or so ago where they played the radio for a soundtrack and one of those sappy Spandau Ballet songs came on. (I think it was "True" but they all blur together for me so I'm not sure). I was wondering if they might be a band who were good until the record company leaned on them to go commercial. "Piss holes in the snow for eyes" is a hell of a description. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 123 Registered: 08-2005 |
Blimey Spence! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1421 Registered: 01-2005 |
Rawk on Spence! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2682 Registered: 05-2005 |
You go Spence! Their reformation featured on the commercial TV news here last night (that'll teach me to watch anything other than ABC/SBS). That Ł12,000,000 figure has got to be based on them selling out every ticket to every concert. That's not going to happen. Surely... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2683 Registered: 05-2005 |
Action when used as a verb. "Can you action that?" No, I can't because that makes no sense. Speak properly you moron. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2997 Registered: 05-2005 |
Another one, is can we "park that", which means can we put it on hold, me thinking it will start up again soon, but ACTUALLY means, we'll put it on hold never to resurrect it again and what's more we'll defer paying your invoice!! BASTARDS! See you in court mothers! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3103 Registered: 05-2005 |
i'm back! This is what I am on about, STOP IT YOU SILLY SILLY WOMAN, DON'T FU*KIN LOOK ME MATE, RIGHT!!?? JUST GO AWAY, FOR EVER, AAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8 042261.stm | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 142 Registered: 05-2005 |
So - Why is everyone starting every sentence with 'So' these days. So - the new Basically. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3116 Registered: 05-2005 |
"I quit for unacceptable expenses and allowances for my second, third and fourth homes, including my lodge on the Downs in Devon, the villa in Bordeaux, oh and the London apartment that my daughter stays at whilst at Uni. Sorry." | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3121 Registered: 05-2005 |
I forgot another one: Another Conservative MP, Douglas Hogg, will also repay Ł2,200 in expenses after admitting the clearing of his moat! "FU*K me buddy, talk about lord of the f*ckin manor, a fu*in bastard moat!!!???? JEEEEEEEEEEEEZUS! Where doth he live?????? at urqhart castle on the shores of freakin Loch ness????? ..."probably mate!" | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 435 Registered: 04-2005 |
Sting. And his lovely wife Trudie. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/l ostinshowbiz/2009/may/15/lost-in-showbiz -trudie-styler "To summarise, Trudie took a private jet from New York to Washington DC for the dinner. For the trip, she was accompanied by an eight-person entourage, which included her Manhattan-based hair guru – and there are those now questioning her integrity. An outraged Trudie responded: "My life is to travel and my life is also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of oil companies. I can't think of a cleverer answer than that." | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 227 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice find Andrew. I like the title of this article: "Trudie Styler: saving the world one private jet at a time" Tossers. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3128 Registered: 05-2005 |
Unbefu*kinlievable eh!? Tonight Matthew, i am Mr Angry. Next week, I'll be Mr Calm! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1998 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's a scream. That's really funny. I've long had a big big problem with the socially conscious posturing of celebrities. It's virtually always self-serving and usually also very two-digit IQ in terms of substance. This woman should be pilloried. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1486 Registered: 01-2005 |
She couldn't take a commercial flight? I guess those are for the peons who buy her husbands albums and concert tickets. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2796 Registered: 05-2005 |
Well I think you're all just perfectly horrible. How many of you know what it's like to have to live on $20-$30 million a year? How many of you have dozens of staff to support and seven houses to maintain? About none of you I imagine. Don't be so quick to criticise another man (or consort) unless you have walked a mile in his or her shoes. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 233 Registered: 02-2007 |
All I want for birthday (which is today by the way folks) now that Liverpool cant win the premiership is my own personal jet and a big fkn moat!! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1488 Registered: 01-2005 |
Happy Birthday David!!!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2798 Registered: 05-2005 |
And then you could charge the UK taxpayers to have the moat drained. Happy birthday David. Are you anywhere near the Celtic game today? | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 234 Registered: 02-2007 |
Am in Edinburgh. Will be in Glasgow for next weeks crunch game. Thanks Padraig and Michael | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2800 Registered: 05-2005 |
David, Celtic are playing Brisbane on July 12 in Brisbane! Will you be back? I'm going up for it. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3137 Registered: 05-2005 |
Happy Birthday David! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 422 Registered: 01-2007 |
MPs particularly Hazel Blears | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3143 Registered: 05-2005 |
ditto jerry! is that right, only 422 posts after 4 years jerry?? | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 424 Registered: 01-2007 |
I know been a bit bogged down with work, Spence I did have a change of name after my concerns re internet security | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 235 Registered: 02-2007 |
Wont be back for game Padraig. Hope they get a big crowd for it. Thanks Spence. Pet Hate: Spitting on ground. Almost got hit when passed by yobbo in street in Edinborgh. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 925 Registered: 08-2004 |
David, my daughter & I have to walk through an alleyway full of teenagers, past a secondary school on the way to her primary. If spitting & smoking were Olympic sports, we'd win gold silver & bronze in mens & womens. Dirty tardy scumbags, the lot of them. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3147 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have to admit to spitting as a young lad, (if you are ainto sports its a natural thing, I still do if I go out on my bike or go for a run) mainly when I was about 9/10, its totally disgusting obviously, looking back on it I was around the time hanging with the mods, skinheads and local mates, some of them could be quite unpleasant characters, though not in a drugs, knives or guns way, but a playful bullying, (as I was never really scared, and mostly everyone in our road got on, and it was over the next minute) if there can be such a thing, but compared to the kinda projectile mucus spitting I see nowadays, (I live close to one of those horrible old main high streets tho we try and avoid at all costs from going/shopping there), full of, I am sorry to have to report, horrible scummy people, spitting everywhere you look, and spitting out chewing gum. The concrete and tarmac outside the shops is now a carpet of chewing gum! I seem to remember spitting being referred to as a flob. The other day, an Argos lorry came into our road to deliver something next door. The driver came out of his door, pulled up his trousers a bit, as men do, scratched his balls looked around and stretched, then coughed up a great big greeny based spittle and let it hang and drop before my ver eyes, then proceeded to walk around to the back of the van to continue his delivery. needless to say I imeediately got on my mid life high horse and emailed a complaint to Argos customer services.! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 927 Registered: 08-2004 |
That sounds like a 'grolly' too far. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2001 Registered: 03-2005 |
This has become a very funny thread. My father and uncles used to do it and I just assumed it was a hick anachronism because I seldom see anybody spitting on the ground now except for kids who do it, I'm sure, as a means of establishing physical prowess. I was a geek as a kid and simply never learned how to spit. Jerry, your "dirty, tardy scumbags, the lot of them" is priceless. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 929 Registered: 08-2004 |
I remember when I was doing my art GCSE around 1988/89. Myself & 3 friends were doing murals as part of our coursework at a nearby primary school. One morning the caretaker had a real raging pop at all 4 of us cos there was some spit on the ground. He was like The Parky from Viz, absolutely inconsoleable. "Gobbing, it must have been you lot. We don't do that 'ere". All of us innocent proclaimed "Neither do we, now fuck off & do some work." | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1567 Registered: 09-2006 |
A small peeve, but one which niggles every time I see it, as it's just one more sign of creeping subliteracy: how it's become nearly universal to refer to those things we get money out of as "ATM machines." As if the knowledge of what the acronym stands for has vanished from our collective consciousness. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3003 Registered: 05-2005 |
PIN number is the same deal Allen, but it's a losing battle. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1569 Registered: 09-2006 |
Dunno how I forgot about that one, Padraig...by force of will, probably. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1705 Registered: 10-2004 |
Allen, calling them ATM machines *is* Universal, or at least I thought. I've never heard them called by any other name. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1706 Registered: 10-2004 |
Here's one that grates for me: hetero couples who refer to their significant other as "partner". Now, when this is done in the gay community, it's understandable given that there are times when, sadly, it's necessary to use this non-gender-specific term to avoid awkwardness or discrimination from homophobes. But when hetero people do this, I want to gouge their eyes out! It's so *un*sexual, so hyper-PC, etc... And because I live in the Bay Area, I've occasionally heard people use the term "life partner" as well, which is equally nauseating. Are we just too stodgy, repressed, and sexless to use boyfriend/girlfriend? Granted, this isn't rampant or anything, but it's irksome nonetheless. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2075 Registered: 03-2005 |
I actually like the use of "partner." I think I first encountered that with Australians. I remember thinking "he's not gay, is he?' and then I eventually realized no, of course not. Personally, I appreciate the way it levels the playing field between gay and hetero and between men and women and even married and not married. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1708 Registered: 10-2004 |
I'm all for leveling the playing field, but *that* word in that context just really, *really* bothers me. I'd rather we come up with a new or different word. Hell, even "significant other," as silly as it sounds, doesn't have the violently nauseating affect on me that "partner" has. What do we have in other languages? Italians say "la mia ragazza" and "il mio ragazzo," which, literally, is just "my girl" and "my boy," respectively. The French have petite amie/petit ami. But those are still gender specific, obviously. Are there any languages that have a *good* word that isn't gender specific? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1570 Registered: 09-2006 |
Jeff, if it wasn't clear: they've always been called ATMs as far as I know, the beef is with the redundant addition of "machine." | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 470 Registered: 04-2005 |
Entering the fields of pedantry here, but isn't 'ISBN number' a similiar misuse of language. As for 'partner', I used to use it although it always sounded too 'business' like. But girlfriend just sounded daft when you were in your 30s and even had children and I got bored explaining that we were not married. Now that I have given up the fight of political correctness (and speak French more than English) I use the term 'femme'; in the sexist language that is French the term is interchangeable for wife/woman. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3006 Registered: 05-2005 |
But femme sounds so sexy Andrew! Femme Fatale and all. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 255 Registered: 02-2007 |
Just introduce people by their name, no other reference is required. Couldnt give a shit whether people want to know if shes my wife or my girlfriend or a partner or whatever. I hate using any label. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2077 Registered: 03-2005 |
David, it usually comes up when someone is referring to his or her partner in the third person. If you just start referring to Judy out of nowhere, the unfamiliar listener will be puzzled. Translated into English, "my woman" sounds kind of horrifying, very possessive, like an object. Oh well, there will be something wrong with any choice. Since I'm perpetually single it's moot for me. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1712 Registered: 10-2004 |
Personally, I have no problem with "boyfriend" or "girlfriend," regardless of age. Yeah, "my woman" should only be used in cases of extreme irony, tongue firmly planted in cheek. Otherwise it sounds pretty dreadful in English. "Partner" does sound so business-like, as if every element of fun and sexiness has been stamped out of the relationship. Of course when I've talked about this with friends, the one question that inevitably comes up is, what would I do were I to enter into a relationship with somebody who insists on using "partner"? That's a tough one. It would depend, but it could potentially be a dead-breaker. You know, those deal breakers that seem super trivial, but really they're not, like sandals with socks, for example. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 347 Registered: 10-2008 |
you guys have too much time on your hands!! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 958 Registered: 08-2004 |
What's wrong with 'trouble & strife'! or ''er indoors'. They're old hat but do the job. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3294 Registered: 05-2005 |
kev knowing that i am indeed,...pissed! but sober! |