Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

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  • Stanfordian
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    • Dec 2010
    • 9308

    "It is what it is!"

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    • LMcD
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      • Sep 2017
      • 8405

      'Tarified' - newly coined by President Trump to describe what will happen to countries that don't agree to deal with him on his terms.

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      • oddoneout
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        • Nov 2015
        • 9142

        Originally posted by LMcD View Post
        'Tarified' - newly coined by President Trump to describe what will happen to countries that don't agree to deal with him on his terms.
        '
        Isn't that just the american pronunciation of 'terrified'?

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        • Pabmusic
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          • May 2011
          • 5537

          Originally posted by jean View Post
          Not garbled I would say, but elliptical.

          As your version makes clear, the speaker is, consciously or unconsciously, politely taking the blame for forgetting the other's name, even though it is quite likely that the other never revealed it in the first place.
          I think you're spot-on.

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          • LMcD
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            • Sep 2017
            • 8405

            Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
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            Isn't that just the american pronunciation of 'terrified'?
            Are you suggesting that Trump or his advisors lack the intellectual capacity to make a play on 'tariff'? His statement clearly lays claim to this linguistic witticism.

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            • kernelbogey
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              • Nov 2010
              • 5735

              Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
              In a hotel, or car hire office etc. “What was the name?” or “ What was your name?”

              Prompts one to think of alternative answers “I used to be Fred, but now I’m called King Kong”.
              The radical psychotherapist R D Laing was once asked in a train 'Didn't you used to be R D Laing?'



              (They used it as the title of a tv dccumentary about him and his work.)

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              • Bryn
                Banned
                • Mar 2007
                • 24688

                Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                The radical psychotherapist R D Laing was once asked in a train 'Didn't you used to be R D Laing?'



                (They used it as the title of a tv dccumentary about him and his work.)
                Don't be so negative. The title was/is "Did you used to be R D Laing?" and, without appropriate credits, is to be found on Youtube.




                Would that Luke Fowler's All Divided Selves was also so easily available to watch.
                Last edited by Bryn; 18-09-18, 09:52. Reason: Addition.

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                • kernelbogey
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 5735

                  Thanks for the correction, Bryn.

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                  • Serial_Apologist
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                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37589

                    Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                    The radical psychotherapist R D Laing was once asked in a train 'Didn't you used to be R D Laing?'

                    Ah, the conundrums of identity! - as the postmodernist muslim said to the transexual dressed in a Lyotard.

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                    • cloughie
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                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22114

                      Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                      Ah, the conundrums of identity! - as the postmodernist muslim said to the transexual dressed in a Lyotard.
                      Perhaps he was thinking of KD Lang but misread the Lyotard!

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                      • Serial_Apologist
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                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37589

                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                        Perhaps he was thinking of KD Lang but misread the Lyotard!

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                        • vinteuil
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12786

                          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                          Perhaps he was thinking of KD Lang but misread the Lyotard!
                          [a pedant writes]

                          ... I think you mean - k. d. lang




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                          • cloughie
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                            • Dec 2011
                            • 22114

                            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                            [a pedant writes]

                            ... I think you mean - k. d. lang




                            .
                            I know what I meant!

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                            • Lat-Literal
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                              • Aug 2015
                              • 6983

                              "Let them eat cake". Commonly attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette, there is no record of her having said it. Instead it appears in book six of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiography, "Confessions". Oh to have so many volumes. Recently resurrected by a bloke who speaks like he has a damp flannel in his mouth and has far less charisma than a depressed vole with something of the night about it. I am not one who has ever had the intolerance not to grind through all the interminable gears. Ideally one does chomp through gateaux for so long that it sends others at the table mad and any dignity they ever had goes awol. They will ultimately disgrace themselves with a childish blurt that loses the tentative support of an additional 10% of people. While the main aim is a genuine seeking of jaw jaw whatever the gross ambitions of sundry bogus others alongside personal dalliances, in this way wars are lost or won.

                              "Croydon cat killer":

                              For three long years, an irrefutable truth, much as in the times when the earth was, without question, flat. It transpires it was simply foxes, certainly Russian, who had the Novichok.
                              Last edited by Lat-Literal; 20-09-18, 22:07.

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                              • Bryn
                                Banned
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 24688

                                Originally posted by Lat-Literal View Post
                                "Let them eat cake". Commonly attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette, there is no record of her having said it. Instead it appears in book six of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiography, "Confessions". Oh to have so many volumes. Recently resurrected by a bloke who speaks like he has a damp flannel in his mouth and far less charisma than a depressed vole with something of the night about it. I am not one who has ever had the intolerance not to grind through all the interminable gears. Ideally one does chomp through gateaux for so long that it sends others at the table mad and any dignity they ever had goes awol. They will ultimately disgrace themselves with a childish blurt that loses the tentative support of an additional 10% of people. While the main aim is a genuine seeking of jaw jaw whatever the gross ambitions of sundry bogus others alongside personal dalliances, in this way wars are lost or won.

                                "Croydon cat killer":

                                For three long years, an irrefutable truth, much as in the times when the earth was, without question, flat. It transpires it was simply foxes, certainly Russian, who had the Novichok.
                                Don't forget the car drivers.

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