Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[french frank]

'It's a really good read ... '

A big ask.

It's an interesting psycho-linguistic fact (I think I mean fact) that some people slip very quickly into the latest jargon or sayings (youthspeak, mediaspeak, soap-operaspeak, catchphrases) and are consciously inserting them into their own speech; whereas others bring out the garlic and - like me - feel very uncomfortable about using words and phrases which aren't 'their own' (unless they're in a foreign language, which is perfectly all right), mimicking .

I really hate (hmmm, is there a better phrase? - well, it's very noticeable to me, is that better?) to hear older people saying 'awesome, cool, I'm good, thanks, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah'.

[teamsaint]

A big ask.

It's an interesting psycho-linguistic fact (I think I mean fact) that some people slip very quickly into the latest jargon or sayings (youthspeak, mediaspeak, soap-operaspeak, catchphrases) and are consciously inserting them into their own speech; whereas others bring out the garlic and - like me - feel very uncomfortable about using words and phrases which aren't 'their own' (unless they're in a foreign language, which is perfectly all right), mimicking .

I really hate (hmmm, is there a better phrase? - well, it's very noticeable to me, is that better?) to hear older people saying 'awesome, cool, I'm good, thanks, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah'.

Wicked post.

[french frank]

Wicked post.

Oh, pur-lease

[Don Petter]

Oh, pur-lease

Mas-sive

[MrGongGong]

yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah'.

Paul McCartney IS an "older person"

[ahinton]

Paul McCartney IS an "older person"

...but we're all older people in the sense that each of us is older than someone else; that said, he's less honoured than you, as he has only one gong...

[MrGongGong]

...but we're all older people in the sense that each of us is older than someone else...

"Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah"

[Don Petter]

...but we're all older people in the sense that each of us is older than someone else; that said, he's less honoured than you, as he has only one gong...

72, gong on 55.

[teamsaint]

Our long term economic plan.

Southwest trains wishes to apologise....


Road ahead closed.
( which bloody one ?!?!?!?!?!)

[MrGongGong]

Our long term economic plan.

This is a bit of a mantra a the moment

(and assumes that having a "plan" is always a good idea)

[ahinton]

This is a bit of a mantra a the moment

(and assumes that having a "plan" is always a good idea)

...but carefully omitting the fact that the anticipated duration of its full implementation will be considerably greater than a single term in office; no real risk there, then!...

[P. G. Tipps]

...but we're all older people in the sense that each of us is older than someone else; ...

Which then makes me very much older but, at the same time, less older than Paul McCartney!

[ahinton]

Our long term economic plan.

Southwest trains wishes to apologise....


Road ahead closed.
( which bloody one ?!?!?!?!?!)

...or, in these times of belt-straightening economies almost everywhere, "Southwest Trains wishes to apologise that, in the absence of a long term economic plan, the road ahead has had to be closed and therefore no replacement bus services will run"...

[P. G. Tipps]

'There now follows a party political broadcast on behalf of The *!@!*#*&*!*! Party ... '

[ahinton]

'There now follows a party political broadcast on behalf of The *!@!*#*&*!*! Party ... '

I've never heard of them; is that by chance the new name for the Monster Raving Loony Party?