Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[teamsaint]

O

Just a suggested alteration in the punctuation, sir.

(As the Nurse said to me.)


- I shall pass this on to the ex-Head of Drama at one of my last schools - we used to get told off for inventing vocabulary when visiting speakers came on INSET days full of the stuff. It was such a joy to see the ice of mild panic freeze the edges of their fixed grins as she suggested to them that we might "wardrobe" an idea.

I imagine the were narnia the wiser.

i used to make a point of asking my son,who was studying Business Studies, to find out the latest nonsense buzzword just before we had a sales meeting, and One of us would drop it casually into the conversation to baffle the bosses.


We discovered the error of our ways, when it became obvious that they were baffled without any help from us.

[Serial_Apologist]

Invites.

When I were a nipper we were expected to issue or receive invitations.



OTOH I suppose invites take up less room.

[Pianorak]

"Customer experience" - usually spouted by someone oozing insincerity.

[ahinton]

"Customer experience" - usually spouted by someone oozing insincerity.

Some firms call their customer services/relations departments "customer experience" teams and, in my experience they're usually populated by teams who have no experience of customers.

[Stanfordian]

Some firms call their customer services/ relations departments "customer experience" teams and, in my experience they're usually populated by teams who have no experience of customers.

Hiya ahinton,

Pass me the sick bag!

[ahinton]

Hiya ahinton,

Pass me the sick bag!

I'm afraid that I've long since run out of those!

[Stanfordian]

I'm afraind that I've long since run out of those!

Hiya ahinton,

Well if you have run out then it's time for some blue-sky thinking.

[ahinton]

Hiya ahinton,

Well if you have run out then it's time for some blue-sky thinking.

OK; just give me time to get outside the box, then...

[MrGongGong]

"Customer experience" - usually spouted by someone oozing insincerity.

According to Laurie Taylor anything that calls itself an "experience" with the exception of The Jimi Hendrix Experience is by definition crap

[teamsaint]

Academisation.

[vinteuil]

Academisation.

... you mean this -

http://gonzalocamacho.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Makadam.jpg

?

[teamsaint]

... you mean this -

http://gonzalocamacho.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Makadam.jpg

?

The other sort.

http://www.schools.norfolk.gov.uk/view/NCC123509

[Radio64]

"...based out of..."

[ahinton]

The other sort.


http://www.schools.norfolk.gov.uk/view/NCC123509

But aren't both tarred with the same brush?

[Serial_Apologist]

Patriot, pronounced PAITRIOT, as by... Lord Howard (he with a "touch of the night about him" in that telling description of Anne Widecombe) on the Sunday Politics Show yesterday.

Whilst I would be hard put to decribe myself as a patriot, being more a man of the universe, I would not wish to be described as an American missile!