Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[ahinton]

Well, my dear ahinton, with the benefit of hindsight I subsequently arrived at my second and final conclusion that, though my first conclusion was derived from simple human experience and a keen personal perception, it is also true that there are those others who appear to be blissfully unaware of their own hypocrisies and I often feel I can greatly assist by relieving them of their ignorance in the matter.

It is also, as I'm sure you might well agree, richly more satisfying pointing out the hypocrisies of others rather than advertising one's own, don't you think ?

I really have no idea; perhaps I should try it sometime and hope to find out...

[Serial_Apologist]

Well, my dear ahinton, with the benefit of hindsight I subsequently arrived at my second and final conclusion that, though my first conclusion was derived from simple human experience and a keen personal perception, it is also true that there are those others who appear to be blissfully unaware of their own hypocrisies and I often feel I can greatly assist by relieving them of their ignorance in the matter.

It is also, as I'm sure you might well agree, richly more satisfying pointing out the hypocrisies of others rather than advertising one's own, don't you think ?

You would be more likely to get a job on the minimum wage than the living wage with a CV that declared that.

[gradus]

'You know what...' repeatedly used by politicians as an assurance of candour in the comment that follows.

[Serial_Apologist]

'You know what...' repeatedly used by politicians as an assurance of candour in the comment that follows.

James Watt has been dead for quite some time - like much of today's politics.

[cloughie]

James Watt has been dead for quite some time.

....and many of his inventions were Trevithick's.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

....and many of his inventions were Trevithick's.

[cloughie]

Yes, and much of it was superheated!

[french frank]

'You know what...'

It's a common expression of the "So … " generation:

https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=you_know_what&action=history

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yes, and much of it was superheated!

[P. G. Tipps]

....and many of his inventions were Trevithick's.

Come on, how could these possibly be Trevithick's inventions if these were 'his' ... ?

Members can be so (due apologies to french frank) illogical ...

[french frank]

Come on, how could these possibly be Trevithick's inventions if these were 'his' ... ?

Members can be so (due apologies to french frank) illogical ...

Puncuation error? Many of 'his' inventions were Trevithick's?

[cloughie]

Come on, how could these possibly be Trevithick's inventions if these were 'his' ... ?

Members can be so (due apologies to french frank) illogical ...

I think they were absolutely Trevithick, but it's not patently obvious, but don't get all puffed up about it.

[Serial_Apologist]

I think they were absolutely Trevithick, but it's not patently obvious, but don't get all puffed up about it.

Tippsy's been overindulging on the Scotch, I expect, and it's made him a bit grumpy!

[Lat-Literal]

Mebbi, Bonnie Raitt? Elkie Brooks? Janis Joplin?

When I read this part of the discussion, I thought it was veering towards that mainly eighties phrase "blue eyed soul".

I never had a problem with it other than it was often applied to music that shouldn't ever really be described as soul.

[P. G. Tipps]

Tippsy's been overindulging on the Scotch, I expect, and it's made him a bit grumpy!

On the contrary, I suspect (in all modesty, of course!) I may be slightly ahead in the forum game here, and therefore enjoying it thoroughly, S_A ...