Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Nick Armstrong]

What are we trying to discuss, then... ?

[ahinton]

What are we trying to discuss, then, since it was my comment on the use of 'showcasing' which started this sub-thread and elicited your Sargent story?

Quite simply, the thread topic is supposed to be about what phrases and/or words set people's teeth on edge; if "showcasing" does that for you, then so be it, but then the question arises as to whether you object to it per se or only in the particular circumstances in which you drew attention to its use, so a full answer to that in your case (and perhaps also others) would need to distinguish between whether a word or phrase sets your teeth on edge whenever it's used or only if and when it's used in particular circumstances and contexts. Wishing that you'd never asked might now be something on which we can find agreement...

[JFLL]

Quite simply, the thread topic is supposed to be about what phrases and/or words set people's teeth on edge; if "showcasing" does that for you, then so be it, but then the question arises as to whether you object to it per se or only in the particular circumstances in which you drew attention to its use, so a full answer to that in your case (and perhaps also others) would need to distinguish between whether a word or phrase sets your teeth on edge whenever it's used or only if and when it's used in particular circumstances and contexts. Wishing that you'd never asked might now be something on which we can find agreement...

I give up. (And I think our moderator is trying to tell us something.)

the question arises as to whether you object to it per se or only in the particular circumstances in which you drew attention to its use.

Both.

Wishing that you'd never asked might now be something on which we can find agreement...

OK, I take your point. Don’t ask a question on which you might have views which ahinton might disagree with.

[Nick Armstrong]

I think our moderator is trying to tell us something

Shall we move on?

[JFLL]

Shall we move on?

[:anything for a quiet life emoticon]

[handsomefortune]

and also 'work the look'..... ?

hideous!

[Nick Armstrong]

[:anything for a quiet life emoticon]

How about this one?

[ahinton]

I give up. (And I think our moderator is trying to tell us something.)

That's your prerogative, of course and, if our moderator is indeed trying to tell us something by moving certain threads to another location (as has already occurred with at least one), then we may witness more of the same if that is deemed to be the most appropriate course of action.

Both.

Thanks for your clarification on this.

OK, I take your point. Don’t ask a question on which you might have views which ahinton might disagree with.

If that's your conclusion it is clear that you do not take my point at all, which is nothing like that; I merely point out that, when you get responses that you might find more tiresome than you can bear (even though I do not claim and indeed have not claimed mine to represent factual correctness in an instance such as this particular one and have merely expressed a personal opinion on the subject such as I had assumed you also to have done), you do not have to respond as you have here and could instead have more sensibly have accepted that two forum members happen to disagree on a particular issue which is in any event hardly earth-shatteing in its importance. Simples.

[Nick Armstrong]

if our moderator is indeed trying to tell us something by moving certain threads to another location

Huh?

[ahinton]

Huh?

Marriage? Gay? At your leisure, Caliban - but, in the meantime, what is it that you might suppose was meant by JFLL when writing "And I think our moderator is trying to tell us something"?...

[Nick Armstrong]

Marriage? Gay? At your leisure, Caliban - but, in the meantime, what is it that you might suppose was meant by JFLL when writing "And I think our moderator is trying to tell us something"?...

I haven't done anything to the Marriage thread(s).

The answer to your question is in message #724 above.

[jean]

Three times in a short report on "PM" this evening: "I am stood........"

Listen to the comments read out just before the News at 6 o'clock this evening on Radio 4!

[mangerton]

Listen to the comments read out just before the News at 6 o'clock this evening on Radio 4!

Yes! Thank you. Glad to see/hear I'm not alone. I have just "listened again", and have pm'd you.

[ahinton]

Listen to the comments read out just before the News at 6 o'clock this evening on Radio 4!

I'm afraid that I'm still reeling from the second item on that news programme and which has since been aired elsewhere. Back to the topic. Can't write about it now...

[handsomefortune]

i heard the comments on pm too!

i've another to add to this thread: 'click bait' (relating to online requests for likes or dislikes ... and the things people say & do in order to get attention ..... in a competitive market place going forward with a raft of etc s. )