Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

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  • BBMmk2
    Late Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 20908

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    "Theresa May will not debate Jeremy Corbyn ahead of election"

    - The Telegraph, covering the fact that there will be no head-to-head between TM and JC.

    Dropping the 'with' after 'debate' clearly changes the meaning completely. Surprised at the Toryrag.
    It will be strong and stable!!
    Don’t cry for me
    I go where music was born

    J S Bach 1685-1750

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    • ahinton
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 16122

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      "Theresa May will not debate Jeremy Corbyn ahead of election"

      - The Telegraph, covering the fact that there will be no head-to-head between TM and JC.

      Dropping the 'with' after 'debate' clearly changes the meaning completely. Surprised at the Toryrag.
      Oh, I don't know; perhaps that's exactly what the DT actually meant. After all, one might argue that there's room for debating Mr Corbyn himself...

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      • ahinton
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 16122

        Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
        It will be strong and stable!!
        "Strong" as in policies / manifesto pledges locked up in the strong box with the key thrown away and "stable" as in "locking", "door", "horse", &c...

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26440

          Originally posted by ahinton View Post
          Oh, I don't know; perhaps that's exactly what the DT actually meant. After all, one might argue that there's room for debating Mr Corbyn himself...
          The thought had occurred, and I agree; but it's clear from the context that that's not what the DT were on about... Although maybe the headline writer was being mischievous....
          "...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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          • BBMmk2
            Late Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 20908

            I was thinking along those lines as well, ahinton!
            Don’t cry for me
            I go where music was born

            J S Bach 1685-1750

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            • ahinton
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 16122

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              The thought had occurred, and I agree; but it's clear from the context that that's not what the DT were on about... Although maybe the headline writer was being mischievous....
              It was indeed the latter that had crossed my mind; after all, despite the paper being nicknamed the Torygraph, its editorials during the Cameron years displayed little sympathy for him...

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              • Pianorak
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 3123

                Radio interviewers: And briefly . . .
                My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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                • Serial_Apologist
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 37318

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  The thought had occurred, and I agree;
                  Sure, obviously has to be something wrong with someone in politics who gives straight answers, facing his interrogator straight on, leaning into the questions, unlike the Jeremy Hunt who followed, seated half-facing away, blinking all the time (a sure sign of something) hardly glancing at Andrew Marr.

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                  • Serial_Apologist
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37318

                    Originally posted by Pianorak View Post
                    Radio interviewers: And briefly . . .
                    "... because we haven't got much time, in twenty seconds if you would".

                    Always the loaded question that should have prefixed the interrogation to be given time for articulate reply, rather than concluding the whole programme.

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                    • P. G. Tipps
                      Full Member
                      • Jun 2014
                      • 2978

                      'We are out knocking on doors, meeting real people ... '

                      A real dog as well if you come anywhere near my door ...

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                      • Serial_Apologist
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37318

                        Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View Post
                        'We are out knocking on doors, meeting real people ... '

                        A real dog as well if you come anywhere near my door ...


                        At least we haven't quite gone back to "the working man and his wife", although I heard a caller this morning referring to the former as not being appealed to by any of the candidates in his area.

                        I don't believe we've had "hardworking familes" yet - sure to come.

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                        • ahinton
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 16122

                          Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View Post
                          'We are out knocking on doors, meeting real people ... '

                          A real dog as well if you come anywhere near my door ...
                          Well, I wouldn't give a dog, real or otherwise, houseroom but then no one's likely to come around here campaigning anyway (and in any case a dog is supposedly for life, not just for an election).

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                          • ahinton
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 16122

                            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post


                            At least we haven't quite gone back to "the working man and his wife", although I heard a caller this morning referring to the former as not being appealed to by any of the candidates in his area.

                            I don't believe we've had "hardworking familes" yet - sure to come.
                            Oh, I bet we have (the latter, that is), however antediluvianly Cameronesque (Camoronic?) it might sound!

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                            • P. G. Tipps
                              Full Member
                              • Jun 2014
                              • 2978

                              Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View Post
                              'We are out knocking on doors, meeting real people ... '

                              A real dog as well if you come anywhere near my door ...


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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37318

                                She scares me too!

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