Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Serial_Apologist]

five live weather reporter informed yesterday AM us that the night time /early morning mist on the night of 5/6 november had been "exasperated" by the particulates from fireworks an bonfires.

[mangerton]

Reading about Gove's inanities reminds me....

When did "pupils" become "students"?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

When did "pupils" become "students"?

Around the same time that "Heads of Departments" became "Line Managers"? Late '80s/early '90s Birtspeak.

(I don't mind youngsters who study being called "students" nearly as much! Why "pupils" in the first place? Because teachers have to keep their eyes on them all the time?)

[Nick Armstrong]

Around the same time that "Heads of Departments" became "Line Managers"?

And patients became 'clients'
And passengers 'customers'
(Or similar)...

[Anna]

And Personnel Department became Human Resources ..... and ceased caring about humans and merely ticked boxes for a living.

[3rd Viennese School]

Quote. "When did "pupils" become "students"? "

When Schools became Colleges!

3VS

[teamsaint]

back the the OP


"Sales meeting ".

or worse
"two day sales meeting".

[Mary Chambers]

Quote. "When did "pupils" become "students"? "

When Schools became Colleges!

3VS

Eton and Winchester have always been Colleges!

[EdgeleyRob]

We need to grab the low hanging fruit before we shake the tree.(ex boss of mine,no joke that's what he used to say).

[Ferretfancy]

I do a voluntary job once a week at a quite well known institution, and rather enjoy teasing the Human Resources Manager by asking him " How are things in Personnel ? "

[Flosshilde]

We need to grab the low hanging fruit before we shake the tree.(ex boss of mine,no joke that's what he used to say).

Just the sort of thing that makes you want to grab their low-hanging fruit, isn't it.

[teamsaint]

Just the sort of thing that makes you want to grab their low-hanging fruit, isn't it.

The ROFLcopter just took a spin round the block!

[mangerton]

Eton and Winchester have always been Colleges!

As is my alma mater, but we were still pupils. (From the Latin, ferneyhg)

[teamsaint]

lots of the posh ones are schools though...westminster..charterhouse...Harrow (?)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

(From the Latin, ferneyhg)

Oh! I thought that was discipuli? (As in Discipuli pictoram spectatae.)


... as I have said before, I could have been a High Court Judge, but ....