Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

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  • Paul Sherratt

    What other way is there to test its pressure ?

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    • Serial_Apologist
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 37318

      Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
      It's the new,caring sensitive corporate speak from a softer, more caring world.
      No: that's outreach!

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      • jean
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 7100

        Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
        ...the one which currently is doing me in...
        Only marginally less irritating than doing me 'ead in.

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        • Eine Alpensinfonie
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 20563

          Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
          "Award winning".
          It seems that nearly every fish and chip shop in Whitby makes this claim.

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          • arancie33
            Full Member
            • Jan 2011
            • 137

            Number One Best Seller - every paperback in the library

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            • LeMartinPecheur
              Full Member
              • Apr 2007
              • 4717

              Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
              "Kicking the tyres (tires)" is the one which currently is doing me in. I mean, who has ever kicked, or felt the need to kick a tyre?
              Basil Fawlty?
              I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 29882

                "There are only two kinds of music - good and bad."

                (If anything would persuade me to reinstate the 'DOH' emoticon ...)
                It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                • vinteuil
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12664

                  Originally posted by french frank View Post
                  "There are only two kinds of music - good and bad."

                  ... but as Chabrier said - ""There is good music, there is bad music, and then there is Ambroise Thomas."

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                  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                    Gone fishin'
                    • Sep 2011
                    • 30163

                    Originally posted by french frank View Post
                    "There are only two kinds of music - good and bad."

                    (If anything would persuade me to reinstate the 'DOH' emoticon ...)
                    - you and Milton Babbitt alike, frenchie. ("It's no more useful than saying 'There are only two types of Music - that which is in G major, and that which isn't'!")
                    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    • french frank
                      Administrator/Moderator
                      • Feb 2007
                      • 29882

                      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                      - you and Milton Babbitt alike, frenchie. ("It's no more useful than saying 'There are only two types of Music - that which is in G major, and that which isn't'!")
                      It's one of my favourite games. It always starts: "There are are two types of X: A and B." And when you've said it you think: "But, that's either wrong, or totally useless." :-/

                      I just read the original one about good and bad music on R3's Facebook page.
                      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26440

                        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                        ... but as Chabrier said - ""There is good music, there is bad music, and then there is Ambroise Thomas."
                        One's mind naturally drifts to variants of that. But a good one from old Emmanuel
                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • amateur51

                          Originally posted by french frank View Post
                          It's one of my favourite games. It always starts: "There are are two types of X: A and B." And when you've said it you think: "But, that's either wrong, or totally useless." :-/

                          I just read the original one about good and bad music on R3's Facebook page.
                          It's the way you tell 'em, frenchie

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                          • Stillhomewardbound
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 1109

                            "The programme is so unique – it was the first reality show" !!! (Clemency Burton Hill on The Young Musician of the Yearshow)

                            What an utterly, inane and pointless remark to make.

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                            • french frank
                              Administrator/Moderator
                              • Feb 2007
                              • 29882

                              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                              It's the way you tell 'em, frenchie
                              I know They're really musings, not a game. The most recent was: "There are two kinds of people [that's how it usually starts]: those who think you can't have too many books and those who think you can't have too many clothes."
                              It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37318

                                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                                It's the way you tell 'em, frenchie
                                Algebra, innit.

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