"It is what it is!"
Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.
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Originally posted by jean View PostNot 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.
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Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostIn 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”.
(They used it as the title of a tv dccumentary about him and his work.)
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostThe 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.)
Would that Luke Fowler's All Divided Selves was also so easily available to watch.
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"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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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.
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