Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Sir Velo]

I always find it a little irritating when rock or jazz musicians are referred to as "classically trained" as if this somehow confers some legitimacy on what the writer obviously thinks is a suspect musical genre.

I usually take it to mean that they're no good in either genre.

[EdgeleyRob]

Manchester City five

[soileduk]

Absolutely

[MrGongGong]

Manchester City five

I always though it was Dave Clark ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"New, improved recipe".

[vinteuil]

"natural"

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[scottycelt]

He and the idiot he commentates with ...how did they ever get jobs.

I often wonder much the same but it seems to apply to most organisations these days.

Most of these commentators are ex-footballers who didn't know the rules of the game when they played and still don't know the rules.

Such as '' the ball definitely hit his little finger so it was a cast-iron penalty'. Not necessarily, the action has to be DELIBERATE ... didn't you know?

Also the annoyingly inane 'referees are paid to GET THINGS RIGHT' ... no they are not, they are paid to make decisions based on the rules of the game.

They are human beings like the rest of us who can make occasional errors, but they can still expect to be paid just like footballers who dive and miss open goals that my granny could have tapped in while blindfolded ... '

[teamsaint]

I often wonder much the same but it seems to apply to most organisations these days.

Most of these commentators are ex-footballers who didn't know the rules of the game when they played and still don't know the rules.

Such as '' the ball definitely hit his little finger so it was a cast-iron penalty'. Not necessarily, the action has to be DELIBERATE ... didn't you know?

Also the annoyingly inane 'referees are paid to GET THINGS RIGHT' ... no they are not, they are paid to make decisions based on the rules of the game.

They are human beings like the rest of us who can make occasional errors, but they can still expect to be paid just like footballers who dive and miss open goals that my granny could have tapped in while blindfolded ... '

Feel better now ?!

Good rant, TBF.

[scottycelt]

Feel better now ?!

Good rant, TBF.

Well. it was you, yourself, who instigated and encouraged the rant, TBF ...

[EdgeleyRob]

Serving suggestion.

[Flosshilde]

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...

Gated communities are 'communities' - in reality housing estates - of wealthy/rich people who want to be exclusive & keep the hoi-polloi out, hence access being restricted by locked gates. They're up-market gettos.

[Boilk]

"With regards to"

Aaaaaghhh!! Regards with an 's' are something you send at the end of a letter.

It's either "with regard to", or as regards, which is probably a corruption of "regarding".

[Nick Armstrong]

"With regards to"

Aaaaaghhh!! Regards with an 's' are something you send at the end of a letter.

It's either "with regard to", or as regards, which is probably a corruption of "regarding".

One of my bugbears too, Boilk!

[Sir Velo]

Every sodding pub website has a chef who's "passionate" about "sourcing" the best local produce.

[teamsaint]

Well. it was you, yourself, who instigated and encouraged the rant, TBF ...

me , myself and I ? I would never do such a thing on the FoR 3 forum. Certainly not !