Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Usually replaced by the grammatically incorrect "high call volumes"

Unless they mean all those callers shouting "Just answer the sanguineous 'phone!"?

[Ferretfancy]

Usually replaced by the grammatically incorrect "high call volumes"

Whenever I phone HSBC, after the high call volume message saying that there may be a delay of 25 minutes, they then recommend going online.

I ignore this, and seconds later I'm welcomed to HSBC, in other words there's no delay at all. It's all a scam to convert you to the internet service.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Whenever I phone HSBC, after the high call volume message saying that there may be a delay of 25 minutes, they then recommend going online.
I ignore this, and seconds later I'm welcomed to HSBC, in other words there's no delay at all. It's all a scam to convert you to the internet service.

EXACTLY my experience, too, Ferretf.

[alycidon]

"The bad news is, Joey here is going to have to remove your boll cack..."

I've never been able to figure why it is that advertisers make "humorous" adverts.

Seen the first time, they're funny, to some people. (Maybe). The second time, merely amusing. Thereafter - like any repeated joke, as anybody can tell you - more and more irritating on each showing. The above one for an insurance company, which has been showing for so long most of the actors are probably either dead or very old, now has me seizing the remote the moment that presumably famous American actor I've never heard of appears on the doorstep; others have me either rushing out of the room or fantasising what I would do were I to have a brick to hand.

I expect that the advertisers think that if its funny, people will keep watching it every time it appears, but you seem to have hit that one squarely on its head!

Actually, a few years ago, Tesco ran one with Prunella Scales and Joanne Horrocks which amused me, so I did watch every time it came on, but possibly more for Scales and Horrocks than for anything Tesco-wise!

[teamsaint]

Best not to get annoyed by these things, but if you were going to be a bit irritated, drivel like this sales pitch for a mobile phone might do the trick:

Go everywhere, make epic memories, and live to your own soundtrack. Satisfy your craving for bold, irresistible design while mastering the art of taking selfies. The ------ is a smartphone that inspires you to color outside the lines.

mind you , looks a great deal......

[Stanfordian]

"Our call is important to you".

If it was I would not be hanging on this phone seemingly for ever.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

"We had no way of foreseeing this."

[Serial_Apologist]

Anti-establishment.

[burning dog]

President Trump

[teamsaint]

Anti-establishment.

I'd look up Antipasti establishment, for starters, S_A.

[MrGongGong]

"Will of the people"

[ahinton]

"Will of the people"

That was Shakespeare, yes?

"The people have spoken"

[Serial_Apologist]

"Will of the people"

I thought his name was John.

[CGR]

That was Shakespeare, yes?

"The people have spoken"

The full quote is "The people have spoken. The bastards." Said in 1966 by Dick Tuck on failing to win a seat in the California State Senate.

[ahinton]

The full quote is "The people have spoken. The bastards." Said in 1966 by Dick Tuck on failing to win a seat in the California State Senate.

Ah, I had in mind something more recent but which I will desist from identifying here and in which I do not recall any reference to the marital status of the parents of those who had allegedly "spoken"...

Not sure if this one's been mentioned before (although I'd not be surprised if it had), but "thinking outside the box" - something to which I've never yet heard anyone refer at funerals...