Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[LMcD]

65000 Shed of (Whatever colour).

This particular one is cream and white with grey panels on the roof.
Apparently this morning's 'Breakfast' was due to feature 'found sounds', whatever they are. I also read, in today's Times, that the PM's hair style has been described as 'performative'.

[cloughie]

This particular one is cream and white with grey panels on the roof.
Apparently this morning's 'Breakfast' was due to feature 'found sounds', whatever they are. I also read, in today's Times, that the PM's hair style has been described as 'performative'.

I wish Lizzie would lose the ones she’s prone to broadcasting!

[Serial_Apologist]

Apparently this morning's 'Breakfast' was due to feature 'found sounds', whatever they are.

Sons trouvés, I would expect: the equivalent of Duchamp's objets trouvés, eg a urinal or bottle rack presented as art. And probably curated, too.

I'm trying to remember who it was who urinated in the urinal presented as art, thereby de-contextualising its decontextualisation, as the German philosopher Hegel might have said. Will Self?

One day, when the masses take over the BBC and run it under democratic control with an elected board of governors, all footage of worthwhile programmes currently never seen or heard will be presented in the genre of objets non perdus, I predict.

[LMcD]

Sons trouvés, I would expect: the equivalent of Duchamp's objets trouvés, eg a urinal or bottle rack presented as art. And probably curated, too.

I'm trying to remember who it was who urinated in the urinal presented as art, thereby de-contextualising its decontextualisation, as the German philosopher Hegel might have said. Will Self?

One day, when the masses take over the BBC and run it under democratic control with an elected board of governors, all footage of worthwhile programmes currently never seen or heard will be presented in the genre of objets non perdus, I predict.

Brian Eno?
I thought 'objets trouves' was the French for 'lost property'.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Sadly, successive cutbacks to the County Police's budget led to the cancellation of the local Night-Time Beach Huts Patrol, and volunteers who felt strongly enough about the issue to volunteer have now also withdrawn after being pelted with copies of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' purchased in local charity shops, so it's difficult to tell what goes on after dark. (The one that went for £65000 has electricity and is almost opposite a pub).

This is slightly cheaper, and should provide a similar maritime vista https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/28/this-...0000-14670113/

Why, oh why did I move from Cornwall??

[LMcD]

This is slightly cheaper, and should provide a similar maritime vista https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/28/this-...0000-14670113/

Why, oh why did I move from Cornwall??

Is that East Loo or West Loo?

[cloughie]

Sons trouvés, I would expect: the equivalent of Duchamp's objets trouvés, eg a urinal or bottle rack presented as art. And probably curated, too.

I'm trying to remember who it was who urinated in the urinal presented as art, thereby de-contextualising its decontextualisation, as the German philosopher Hegel might have said. Will Self?

One day, when the masses take over the BBC and run it under democratic control with an elected board of governors, all footage of worthwhile programmes currently never seen or heard will be presented in the genre of objets non perdus, I predict.

If the masses took over the BBC R3 would probably be democratically abolished!

[cloughie]

Is that East Loo or West Loo?

Or maybe Flushing!

[LeMartinPecheur]

Or maybe Flushing!

[LeMartinPecheur]

From elsewhere on these boards, "expectation of standees" (at the Proms). A standee must be a person who has been stood, whatever that means. One who stands is a stander. I'd prefer to be a sittee (new coinage), a person who has been sat down(?). Nice at the Albert Hall anyway, in the right seat

Or would being a sittee make me a sofa?

[LMcD]

From elsewhere on these boards, "expectation of standees" (at the Proms). A standee must be a person who has been stood, whatever that means. One who stands is a stander. I'd prefer to be a sittee (new coinage), a person who has been sat down(?). Nice at the Albert Hall anyway, in the right seat

Or would being a sittee make me a sofa?

Some buses display signs indicating their passenger capacity in terms of 'seated' and 'standees'.

[LMcD]

Or maybe Flushing!

Do you happen to know whether there's a chain?

[cloughie]

Do you happen to know whether there's a chain?

King Harry Ferry?

[kernelbogey]

Slow radio.

What is this supposed to mean? Neither the output nor the bit of kit itself can be slow. So I suppose this is meant to indicate that the listener slows down.

Is the news fast? Is Gardener's Question Time medium-paced?

[cloughie]

Slow radio.

What is this supposed to mean? Neither the output nor the bit of kit itself can be slow. So I suppose this is meant to indicate that the listener slows down.

Is the news fast? Is Gardener's Question Time medium-paced?

Televisions are very much slower than they were. Switching on was much quicker in pre digital days!