Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Lat-Literal]

Don't forget the car drivers.

Regrettably, they will never let us forget.

They seem to be everywhere these days.

[LMcD]

Interviewed on BBC News last night, the corporation's Head of Content - a job title surely filched from 'W1A' - described 'Killing Eve' as bingeworthy...

[cloughie]

Interviewed on BBC News last night, the corporation's Head of Content - a job title surely filched from 'W1A' - described 'Killing Eve' as bingeworthy...

Do they have a ‘Head of Discontent’ also?

[LMcD]

Do they have a ‘Head of Discontent’ also?

Not as far as I'm aware, but I have heard that they were going to give the Head of Content to a chap called Mal, but then thought better of it.

[Stanfordian]

Interviewed on BBC News last night, the corporation's Head of Content - a job title surely filched from 'W1A' - described 'Killing Eve' as bingeworthy...

'Killing Eve' - Cringeworthy more like!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

'Killing Eve' - Cringeworthy more like!

Eye agree!

[cloughie]

Not as far as I'm aware, but I have heard that they were going to give the Head of Content to a chap called Mal, but then thought better of it.

There’s also a guy whose surname is Winter!

[ahinton]

Do they have a ‘Head of Discontent’ also?

Cutbacks determine that they have one only in winter.

Oh, just seen cloughie's post #4342 above...

[Serial_Apologist]

Do they have a ‘Head of Discontent’ also?

[Serial_Apologist]

"I've voted Labour all my life, but never will while that Corbyn's in charge. Now, when I were a lad, they made us lick the entire A1 before we went to school..." ... (Continued page 2001).

[french frank]

"So what bit of XXXXXXX do you not understand?" meaning you're too thick to understand why I'm right.

[LMcD]

"I've voted Labour all my life, but never will while that Corbyn's in charge. Now, when I were a lad, they made us lick the entire A1 before we went to school..." ... (Continued page 2001).

You got off lightly! After we'd finished licking the A45 (as it was then) we had to finish building the school. AND we had to provide our own hods (for the bricks) and hoods (for the rain).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You got off lightly! After we'd finished licking the A45 (as it was then) we had to finish building the school. AND we had to provide our own hods (for the bricks) and hoods (for the rain).

"'Ods" LUXURY! We 'ad to scrape the mud to make our own bricks and then carry 'em on us shoulders seventeen mile. An' if it weren't raining, t'gaffer'd turn 'osepipe on us.

But we were 'appy.

[LMcD]

'Those dear dead days beyond recall'
(We had to do double shifts down t'pit so that we could pay for our own flying lessons and then do treble shifts at the glue factory so that we could then afford to hire our own plane in order to seed the clouds so that it would rain and the ground would turn to mud.)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"t'Pit"??!! Tha's soft, tha is! We 'ad to use us feet to dig 'ole and bite t'coal from t'earth. t'Bosses 'ud club together to offer a prize of sixpence for whoever got t'most coal up in a year. Billy "golden gums" Ormsthwaite won every year for ten years - an' 'e were dead for four of 'em.