Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[scottycelt]

Perverse isn't it? - you hate yourself as you're coining it

'coining it' ... especially when it is used incorrectly ... french frank could not really be credited with 'coining' the term, merely cunningly adapting it to describe quite separate events?

[ahinton]

Thde gates should definitely be locked - with the 'community' on the inside unable to get out.

Er, wait abit - I thought that a "gated community" was one comprising people who had been implicated in scandals of one kind or another, real or imagined, true or false. Anyway, I'm quite sure that most members of such a community would be perfectly able to "get out" both by snapping the locks and by using the internet as and when they so chose...

[rauschwerk]

Had a meeting next door. Now, this is a new one on me.

"Your hospital can purchase this scanner, with all the Bells and whistles.

Or they can have this one. With all the Bells and Whistles."

You couldn't make it up!

3VS

You can see here http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/b...-whistles.html that that expression is several decades old. It was certainly current during most of my engineering career, and was generally used in connection with test gear endowed with advanced features.

[mangerton]

You can see here http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/b...-whistles.html that that expression is several decades old. It was certainly current during most of my engineering career, and was generally used in connection with test gear endowed with advanced features.

Quite. I wonder if it started here.

Does anyone else remember this from the fifties?

Edit: Or conversely, did the expression gave rise to the programme?

[scottycelt]

Maybe in a similar category to 'all singing and dancing' which I've often seen used to describe new Linux operating systems.

I'd have much preferred if some had simply concentrated on 'doing the day job' properly instead ...

[ahinton]

Maybe in a similar category to 'all singing and dancing' which I've often seen used to describe new Linux operating systems.

Whilst I accept that argument in principle, at least in the context you mention, I'm not so sure that it would be likely to go down especially well with professional dancers who sing or professional singers who dance - which obliquely reminds me - I seem to recall that it was Stravinsky who said something along the lines of "if music doesn't sing or dance or at least produce a semblance of such, what else is it expected to do?" (although I can't track down the precise source of this now). Mind you, even Nietszche said that "we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once", a notion that strikes me as being at least as bizarre and improbable as is the fact that it appears to have passed Sir Bryce Forsooth by...

[ahinton]

I'd have much preferred if some had simply concentrated on 'doing the day job' properly instead ...

Careful, scotty - you might risk invoking the ire of S Grew here...

[mangerton]

Here are two pieces of management newspeak which I've just read:

embedment, and the verb "to baseline".

Has anyone any ideas? I haven't a clue.

[ahinton]

Here are two pieces of management newspeak which I've just read:

embedment, and the verb "to baseline".

Has anyone any ideas? I haven't a clue.

Yes, I think so; a judicious amount of the first is what's deemed necessary in order successfully to climb the greasy career pole and the second has two quite distinct connotations, the first being a plea from orchestral double bass players for the rest of the orchestra to take due notice of what they're playing and the second an exhortation in Russian to search for the Vaseline (the sounds for the Cyrillic equivalent of "b" and "v" being to some degree interchangeable)....

[Serial_Apologist]

Here are two pieces of management newspeak which I've just read:

embedment, and the verb "to baseline".

Has anyone any ideas? I haven't a clue.

Embedment was used with ironic ineluctability to describe that young woman's alleged relationship with two top US military figures while she was "embedded" in various military postings.

[Richard Tarleton]

Has anyone mentioned "with respect", meaning the exact opposite, when rersponding to an argument?

[Serial_Apologist]

Has anyone mentioned "with respect", meaning the exact opposite, when rersponding to an argument?

I have actually - with all due disrespects!

[ahinton]

Embedment was used with ironic ineluctability to describe that young woman's alleged relationship with two top US military figures while she was "embedded" in various military postings.

Well, that's just one example of what I had earlier implied as occurring on a considerably larger scale all over the workplace...

[Richard Tarleton]

I have actually - with all due disrespects!

[mangerton]

Yes, I think so; a judicious amount of the first is what's deemed necessary in order successfully to climb the greasy career pole and the second has two quite distinct connotations, the first being a plea from orchestral double bass players for the rest of the orchestra to take due notice of what they're playing and the second an exhortation in Russian to search for the Vaseline (the sounds for the Cyrillic equivalent of "b" and "v" being to some degree interchangeable)....

Thank you ahinton and S_A for your very helpful responses. I am sure that between you you are correct.

It's just occurred to me to that not only are the sounds for the Cyrillic equivalent of "b" and "v" (being) to some degree interchangeable but they are next to each other on the keyboard. Could it be a simple typo? In the context "vaseline" makes as much sense as "baseline".