Phrases that annoy you the most

Phrases that annoy you the most

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TameRacingDriver

18,166 posts

275 months

Thursday 4th July
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Deranged Rover said:
snuffy said:
"Reality TV".

When applied to shows like Big Brother, Love Island, I'm a Celebrity and so on.

Since those shows are entirely manufactured situations, how can they be reality TV ? They are the complete opposite of real life.

In a similar vein - Dragons' Den.

They're not dragons, they're Capitalists. And dragons don't live in dens anyway; they live in lairs.

Consequently, Capitalists' Lair would be a far more accurate title.
Plus it's completely fixed anyway. I can't remember her name but in the latest series there was someone peddling some snake oil cure for something and the dragons were basically all licking her arse and surprise surprise she got a deal, with Stephen Bartlett, who, it later turned out, was friends with this person so he already had a vested interest in it.

Load of crap!

Bobupndown

1,939 posts

46 months

Thursday 4th July
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Americans and Canadians who do everything "right off the bat". furious

Honourable Dead Snark

474 posts

22 months

Thursday 4th July
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Topical but “if you don’t vote you can’t complain!!”

Yes, yes I can.

“Shouldn’t complain” would still be annoyingly naive but at least it wouldn’t be objectively wrong.

loskie

5,451 posts

123 months

Thursday 4th July
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Had the usual email from one of our inept managers today. Full of the usual "myself and yourself" wrongly used in what they think is an intelligently worded email but is actually just abysmally written flannel showing their lack of intelligence.



Edited by loskie on Thursday 4th July 21:30

loskie

5,451 posts

123 months

Thursday 4th July
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Honourable Dead Snark said:
Topical but “if you don’t vote you can’t complain!!”

Yes, yes I can.

“Shouldn’t complain” would still be annoyingly naive but at least it wouldn’t be objectively wrong.
You should go and ballot a spoiled paper otherwise it just shows as apathy.

M4cruiser

3,811 posts

153 months

Thursday 4th July
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Monkeylegend said:
There seems to be an increase in posters saying "for sure"

That makes me wince a little bit every time I read it.
Same for "dear me".
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Honourable Dead Snark

474 posts

22 months

Thursday 4th July
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loskie said:
You should go and ballot a spoiled paper otherwise it just shows as apathy.
A non vote just shows apathy in the same way that a spoiled paper just shows you didn’t know how to fill out a form correctly…

Either can be interpreted as an intentional protest or something else. Only one of these could be argued as a waste of time.

loskie

5,451 posts

123 months

Thursday 4th July
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I disagree.

Short Grain

2,996 posts

223 months

Thursday 4th July
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"It's coming home!"


It's not 'coming home'. It wasn't 'home' in 1966! It was on fkin holiday, possibly! The '66 team did well to win it but that doesn't make England its fkin home you tts! Just fk Off! And then fk Off a bit more!

911hope

2,900 posts

29 months

Thursday 4th July
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Short Grain said:
"It's coming home!"


It's not 'coming home'. It wasn't 'home' in 1966! It was on fkin holiday, possibly! The '66 team did well to win it but that doesn't make England its fkin home you tts! Just fk Off! And then fk Off a bit more!
Less than eloquent, expletive laden rants are quite annoying.

snuffy

10,047 posts

287 months

loskie said:
I disagree.
Tell me what spoiling your ballot paper actually achieves?

Short Grain

2,996 posts

223 months

911hope said:
Less than eloquent, expletive laden rants are quite annoying.
Don't read them then! smilebyebye

Monkeylegend

26,740 posts

234 months

snuffy said:
loskie said:
I disagree.
Tell me what spoiling your ballot paper actually achieves?
An enormous sense of smugness and self satisfaction.

Blown2CV

29,273 posts

206 months

Monkeylegend said:
snuffy said:
loskie said:
I disagree.
Tell me what spoiling your ballot paper actually achieves?
An enormous sense of smugness and self satisfaction.
genuinely though, is it counted as a protest or does some old lady volunteer just tut and throw it in the bin?

pb8g09

2,472 posts

72 months

Blown2CV said:
genuinely though, is it counted as a protest or does some old lady volunteer just tut and throw it in the bin?
rofl

I can actually picture a Hyacinth Bucket doing exactly that

snuffy

10,047 posts

287 months

Blown2CV said:
Monkeylegend said:
snuffy said:
loskie said:
I disagree.
Tell me what spoiling your ballot paper actually achieves?
An enormous sense of smugness and self satisfaction.
genuinely though, is it counted as a protest or does some old lady volunteer just tut and throw it in the bin?
It's recorded as what it is; a spoilt ballot paper. There's no counting it as a protest, that only occurs in some people's heads.

So it's counted, recorded, and finally destroyed with all the other ballot papers.

Wheelbrace

70 posts

90 months

Short Grain said:
Don't read them then! smilebyebye
How does anyone know they don't like them unless they read them?

I'm confused.

RATATTAK

11,699 posts

192 months

'Reach out' has now become 'reach back out'. Saw it in an email yesterday.

irked

jet_noise

5,708 posts

185 months

RATATTAK said:
'Reach out' has now become 'reach back out'. Saw it in an email yesterday.

irked
Something which not even a Four Top would do.

21st Century Man

41,207 posts

251 months

jet_noise said:
RATATTAK said:
'Reach out' has now become 'reach back out'. Saw it in an email yesterday.

irked
Something which not even a Four Top would do.
But the tribute band might.