Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[french frank]

I knew, I just KNEW somebody would ask.
And I had a short list of likely candidates.


Both the board and the shop had contents that had undergone curation. Well, I assume, as they didn't make it clear.

I know. Wrong thread

It was one of those posh west country towns.

There's only one, isn't there? Typical of them

[Don Petter]

getting worse , this one.

I noticed a shop with an A board the other day, describing its contents as " Curated".

No doubt the curator had a 2 day residency.

What is an A board? Something that only adults are allowed to look at?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What is an A board? Something that only adults are allowed to look at?

You know when you're walking along a shopping street and suddenly somebody walks into you because they're trying not to walk into a board (advertising the shop right next to it, "Fish & Chips Open" or "Delicious Fish & Chips" if customers need to be reassured) on the pavement outside a shop? That's an "A Board", supposedly because when you look at it from the side, it looks like a letter A - but I think it's because that's the noise you make when somebody treads on your foot trying to avoid it.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

But, go on, ts - what was the shop selling? How can goods in a shop be "curated"? (It wasn't a butcher trying to be posh about the bacon, was it?)

[teamsaint]

I think Ferney is indefinitely correct.

[teamsaint]

But, go on, ts - what was the shop selling? How can goods in a shop be "curated"? (It wasn't a butcher trying to be posh about the bacon, was it?)

I rather brushed past indignantly, I'm afraid, not noticing too carefully, and then paid in Karma points by leaving my bank card in the cash machine. (But not the fiver, thankfully ).

At the risk of being sexist, it wasn't bacon, or herbal remedies, I think it was girly nik naks, bangles, pot pourri, that sort of stuff.

I don't know how stuff in a shop can be curated. I don't think I ever will.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

pot pourri

Ah! The sort of shop Ian Paisley would have avoided.

[Don Petter]

You know when you're walking along a shopping street and suddenly somebody walks into you because they're trying not to walk into a board (advertising the shop right next to it, "Fish & Chips Open" or "Delicious Fish & Chips" if customers need to be reassured) on the pavement outside a shop? That's an "A Board", supposedly because when you look at it from the side, it looks like a letter A - but I think it's because that's the noise you make when somebody treads on your foot trying to avoid it.

Not a term I'd ever heard, though it makes perfect sense. I'd always called them 'sandwich boards', even though they were without their filling (i.e. the sandwich man).

I can't imagine how you would curate one. Compare and contrast with Babylonian cuniform tablets, perhaps?

[Padraig]

Ah! The sort of shop Ian Paisley would have avoided.

....and the sort that might have sold red socks.

[Don Petter]

....and the sort that might have sold red socks.

W A Poucher (he of 'lofty coign of vantage' fame) always wore red socks so that if he were to become stuck head down in a snow drift he might be seen and rescued.

A useful tip for all winter photographers.

[Serial_Apologist]

Not a term I'd ever heard, though it makes perfect sense. I'd always called them 'sandwich boards', even though they were without their filling (i.e. the sandwich man).

I can't imagine how you would curate one. Compare and contrast with Babylonian cuniform tablets, perhaps?

Back in the '60s there was an old guy who paraded a sandwich board through Soho. On the front it said "Prepare to meet thy doom!", and underneath was a quote, probably from Revelation. On the back the sandwich board had a poster which read, "Eat at Joe's"!

[Nick Armstrong]

Back in the '60s there was an old guy who paraded a sandwich board through Soho. On the front it said "Prepare to meet thy doom!", and underneath was a quote, probably from Revelation. On the back the sandwich board had a poster which read, "Eat at Joe's"!

There's still a lugubrious bloke who wanders around Speakers' Corner of a Sunday with boards saying "It's Going To Get Worse" front and back!!





I don't think he's talking about Radio 3...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There's still a lugubrious bloke who wanders around Speakers' Corner of a Sunday with boards saying "It's Going To Get Worse" front and back!!





I don't think he's talking about Radio 3...

Possibly not ... but rumour has it that he's got a single rail ticket to Aldeburgh.

[Radio64]

I was just trying to parson some information.

There must be something to cure it.

[Nick Armstrong]

There must be something to cure it.

I'm on the verger banning this discussion....