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Said it before, will say it again - you all do it, you know you do: For Free. It's free, or for nothing.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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MaybeOriginally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostI blame Richard Mabey
Why not 'Free food'?
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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"Hard working families" is a phrase which has become common recently, and which we will hear a lot more of in the next fourteen weeks.
"Hard working" now seems to be added to "families" in much the same way that "close-knit" is added to "community".Comment
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One I have noticed from all political sides is ...."To be clear"...."We have been clear"...."We have made it clear"....
....have you hell you disingenuous *¬¬*>¬/@}*sbong chingComment
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"Introduced/Presented by Tom Service....""...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Going forward.
I expect this phrase has been mentioned before on this thread, but it's everywhere and all the time, now, and it's driving me bonkers! Why not "in future", or "in the future"?
I even heard an unfortunate woman, being sympathetically interviewed on the radio the other day, whose daughter had been murdered, speaking of needing to adjust to realities, going forward.
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Because they don't always mean quite the same thing - going forward establishes a stronger connexion between what's happening now and what's going to happen.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
And no, I don't know what we used to say instead before we invented it.Comment
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Again this may have been mentioned already but I cringe at the current strange habit of an interviewee commencing the answer to every question with the word 'so' ...
Of course this is common in America, so ....
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its a so and so....Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View PostAgain this may have been mentioned already but I cringe at the current strange habit of an interviewee commencing the answer to every question with the word 'so' ...
Of course this is common in America, so ....
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Australian cricketers who start every reply with " Look".....I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Oh blimey yes me too. "This is the plan going forward" ... or the most common perpetrator at work says "...forwards"Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
I tend to mutter "as opposed to backwards" or something similar, and tend to stop listening."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Friends of Radio 3Comment
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I know exactly what you mean. The idea that in the 21st Century there are still people wandering about loose with these titles.Originally posted by teamsaint View PostComment
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