Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Beef Oven!]

... happy memories - I was a regular in the late 1970s, on the way home from Persian evening classes in Red Lion Square.

Main stand-bys were char siu, siu yook 叉燒 燒肉 with rice; or beef black bean flat noodle.

Probably got change out of £3...



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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... and which of them was you?

Oh, I've often had ciu sing!

(Was it that transparent! )

[muzzer]

Ah the famous and infamous Wong Kei. An unmade Perry/Croft sitcom if ever there was.

[Nick Armstrong]

"We have to grasp the metal" - UKIP woman on 'This Week' last night

[Don Petter]

"We have to grasp the metal" - UKIP woman on 'This Week' last night

Watch out for springs?

[french frank]

"We have to grasp the metal"

Obviously meant, show our metal, or nettle, or mettle.

[visualnickmos]

"We have to grasp the metal" - UKIP woman on 'This Week' last night

UK...... what are the other letters?

[visualnickmos]

You obviously never went to eat here

Used to love this place - endless jasmine tea, and if I recall, you could take you own wine???? (well, us lot used to.... )

[LeMartinPecheur]

UK...... what are the other letters?

IP stands for Intellectual Property, so it's probably a spin-off from the Patents Office.

Or maybe UKIP = UK Intellectual Propriety?

Yeah, that'll work

[Nick Armstrong]

Obviously meant, show our metal, or nettle, or mettle.

The phrase she was attempting was "grasp the nettle".

A hose by any other name...

[Serial_Apologist]

"Radio 1 Glastonbury Festival

Saturday, Sunday from 7.00am R1, R1Xtra, R2, 6 Music
More than 100 artists perform, from Burt Bacharach to Paul Weller, so there really is something for every taste this year"

Radio Times 27 June-3 July, P.5

[Serial_Apologist]

"We seem to have problems with the line".

- This, from a call to Today from the S Yorks police chief on the current child abuse enquiry!

This happens nearly every day - rarely used to. Progress now means they can get photos back from Pluto but the technology can't manage a straightforward call from Leeds or wherever to London.

[P. G. Tipps]

"We seem to have problems with the line".

- This, from a call to Today from the S Yorks police chief on the current child abuse enquiry!

This happens nearly every day - rarely used to. Progress now means they can get photos back from Pluto but the technology can't manage a straightforward call from Leeds or wherever to London.

This now occurs about three or four times a day on average, I reckon ...

One does have to smile, though, at the mock expressions of surprise by Humphrys & Co when the almost endless stream of 'gremlins on the line' ruin yet another planned interview. Talk about patronising the unsuspecting and seemingly stupid listener!

I'm afraid the days of anyone outside the BBC believing that the once justly admired organisation stands for excellence and professionalism are long gone.

To be fair, Radio 4 does occasionally produce some excellent stuff as does BBC Four on TV.

As for the rest ...

[Richard Tarleton]

Whenever something bad has happened (e.g. in healthcare, local authority childcare, security etc.) and an organisation or individuals therein are clearly at fault, and they are challenged about it, the stock response is not to address the substance of the complaint but to issue a statement saying "We take (x) very seriously".

[LeMartinPecheur]

Not just 'Death' but 'Tragic death'

Reading a news report on a technical/legal forum about a recent safety issue, it jarred on me that at the mention of the very relevant fact that somebody had actually died, it didn't simply call it a death: it had of course to be flagged as a 'tragic death'.

No doubt every death is 'tragic' to some degree, for some if not for all. But do we really need always to have this emphasized as if we might otherwise forget?