Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[jean]

The correct technique, though, is to answer the door and keep them talking for hours to severely curtail the amount of time they can spend talking to people they might actually persuade to vote for them.

[ahinton]

The correct technique, though, is to answer the door and keep them talking for hours to severely curtail the amount of time they can spend talking to people they might actually persuade to vote for them.

Correct as that is insofar as it goes, do you not consider it an imposition to have to waste the amount of time that this would involve just in order to protect others from similar doorstep knocking!

[MrGongGong]

And to end the thread

"Strong and stable"

[jean]

...do you not consider it an imposition to have to waste the amount of time that this would involve just in order to protect others from similar doorstep knocking!

I'm not doing it for them, though, I'm doing it for me!

[teamsaint]

We'll keep you across that one....


What does that even mean?

[vinteuil]

.

... and what's this loop I'm supposed to be kept in?

[Pulcinella]

We'll keep you across that one....


What does that even mean?

Is that advice that came with your rail tickets?
Might be instructions getting you over a bridge from one platform to another?
(Still doesn't make sense, though!)

[jean]

I hadn't noticed keep across, but the messageboards are alive with it.

Perhaps 'keep abreast of' is open to charges of sexual harassment?

[ahinton]

I'm not doing it for them, though, I'm doing it for me!

But what do you get out of it?

[ahinton]

I hadn't noticed keep across, but the messageboards are alive with it.

Perhaps 'keep abreast of' is open to charges of sexual harassment?

No more than "keep across" might be open to charges of religious incitement, I suspect.

[Serial_Apologist]

I hadn't noticed keep across, but the messageboards are alive with it.

Perhaps 'keep abreast of' is open to charges of sexual harassment?

It would probably been all right, so long as you returned it!

[P. G. Tipps]

Perhaps 'keep abreast of' is open to charges of sexual harassment?

Very likely these days ...

[teamsaint]

Is that advice that came with your rail tickets?
Might be instructions getting you over a bridge from one platform to another?
(Still doesn't make sense, though!)

Advice ?with rail tickets?!

Anyway, speaking of railways..

" if you see anything suspicious......."

[Serial_Apologist]

Anyway, speaking of railways..

" if you see anything suspicious......."

... tell that non-existent member of staff we've put on 'other duties'".

[jean]

But what do you get out of it?

Fewer people voting Tory.