Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Paul Sherratt]

What other way is there to test its pressure ?

[Serial_Apologist]

It's the new,caring sensitive corporate speak from a softer, more caring world.

No: that's outreach!

[jean]

...the one which currently is doing me in...

Only marginally less irritating than doing me 'ead in.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

"Award winning".

It seems that nearly every fish and chip shop in Whitby makes this claim.

[arancie33]

Number One Best Seller - every paperback in the library

[LeMartinPecheur]

"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?

[french frank]

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

(If anything would persuade me to reinstate the 'DOH' emoticon ...)

[vinteuil]

"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."

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"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'!")

[french frank]

- 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.

[Nick Armstrong]

... 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

[amateur51]

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

[Stillhomewardbound]

"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.

[french frank]

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."

[Serial_Apologist]

It's the way you tell 'em, frenchie

Algebra, innit.