Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[P. G. Tipps]

Let's hear it for Katie Cutler!

What a truly wonderful and inspiring young lady!

[ahinton]

Someone's obsessions are showing.

...The social engineer imagines that by telling children about homosexuality, they will come to see it as normal. That is nonsense. People who don't have their wires crossed feel a simple biological revulsion to the thought of homosexuality, the same as to foul smells and bitter tastes...

Sadly for Rawls, those he thinks of as 'social engineers' have been quite successful.

People who don't have their wires crossed (and also those who do, for that matter) have no need of this kind of social engineer whose engineering abilities seem to be limited to throwing someone else's spanners into someone else's works. A load of rawls, anyone?...

That said, our resident P.G. still seems to be quite coy about providing what he might think to be better alternatives to the series of phrases that cause him to need to call his dentist.

[Flosshilde]

http://www.rawls.org/non-ideal_backfire.html

Best laugh I've had in a long time (well, a minute or two, as Gloomsbury has just finished)

[Flosshilde]

'unreconstructed males' ... 'grumpy old men' ...

I suppose it must help with cleaning your teeth if they are set on edge every time you look in the bathroom mirror.

[french frank]

#Trending

[P. G. Tipps]

Novak Djokovic

[french frank]

Novak Djokovic

Says it all, really.

[Flosshilde]

'Margaret Juntwait and Ira Siff'

(I assume that as they're not R3 presenters we can name them?)

[Nick Armstrong]

"so-called designer babies"

[MrGongGong]

"Trickle-Down Economics" (trickle down your leg more like)

[ahinton]

"Trickle-Down Economics" (trickle down your leg more like)

...in the sense that it's used principally by those who couldn't organise a p***-up in the House of Commons Strang(l?)ers' Bar, let alone a brewery, d'ya mean?...

[MrGongGong]

...in the sense that it's used principally by those who couldn't organise a p***-up in the House of Commons Strang(l?)ers' Bar, let alone a brewery, d'ya mean?...

Yup

It's part of the whole 'hard working families' nonsense script

[P. G. Tipps]

"Trickle-Down Economics" (trickle down your leg more like)

'Industrial Action' ... (industrial inaction more like).

[gurnemanz]

"Trickle-Down Economics" (trickle down your leg more like)

Reminds me of the term "cascade", a word with inherent implications of something exciting and dynamic, but which is used in organisations for a mostly rather dreary and dispiriting process whereby an individual is instructed to attend a meeting or briefing, take notes and then report back to unsuspecting workmates on insights and findings. This means that the poor individual concerned actually has to pay attention and concentrate, however tedious, pointless and riddled with annoying buzzwords the meeting might be.

[ahinton]

Yup

It's part of the whole 'hard working families' nonsense script

Quite; I've often wondered (at least at times when I seem to have had little better to do) just how "hard" "working families" actually are - do they have equal durability or does that vary and, if so, in accordance with what parameters? - nature of work undertaken? amounts of money paid for said work? number of members of which each of said families consists? or whatever else anyone might care to posit?...