I'm going to be meticulously checking my sentence beginnings for the rest of the day
― mh, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link
Also, anybody who starts a sentence with "Look, _____"
our dear prime minister does this a lot
― kinder, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
― WilliamC, Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:05 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
An SVP at my company starts nearly EVERY sentence with this and I would like to strangle him.
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
I always expect those sentences to turn into "Look, you do what I tell you." or something equally noxious.
― Au Jus On My Dungarees (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
― kinder, Tuesday, April 21, 2015 10:47 AM (9 minutes ago)
So does Obama -- I hate it so much.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
No, you look, pal.
― Au Jus On My Dungarees (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 15:59 (nine years ago) link
Look, a scissor-tailed flycatcher!
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
http://www.audublog.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/scissor-tailed-flycather.jpg
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
oh, fuck you
― neetsooh ebebay (wins), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link
No, you look, a scissor-tailed flycatcher, chief!
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
http://stevenageliberaldemocrats.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2012/09/250px-Liberal_Democrats_Logo.svg_1.png
― Mark G, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
"Look out!"
"Go fuck y--"
― neetsooh ebebay (wins), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
"Look, ____" basically means "My perspective is clearly superior to yours and I no longer have the patience to point out all of the facets of your stupidity, so just shut your cakehole and trust me, idiot."
― Au Jus On My Dungarees (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
Did Old Lunch just "look" us by explaining what that phrasing implies.
― pplains, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
Look, this is just how it is.
― Au Jus On My Dungarees (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/YZiG2ff.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
Look, I've obviously struck a nerve here, so I'll withdraw my complaint.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
Hear me out, it's not that big of a deal.
― pplains, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
gaaaaaaahh
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
I think that this is similar to adding ", right." to every sentence.
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/gw6XV8m.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
Elvis Presley: What? Why?
― kinder, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for catching what might be the funniest magazine cover copy ever.
― Honey Mustard On My Tunic (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
pplains would appreciate this -- someone in my city owns the original LOOK magazine logo that was on the building and had it in their front yard, or at least they did when I used to drive through their neighborhood years ago.
Look was a bi-weekly, general-interest magazine published in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1937 to 1971, with more of an emphasis on photographs than articles.
― mh, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
I did not know that.
Definitely did not know about the sign in the front yard either.
― pplains, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
if I have occasion to drive that way I will take a picture
― mh, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
IT'S STILL THERE?
I am showing enormous restraint on my part here, but I have to post this one:
http://i.imgur.com/RYabjwa.jpg
THIS LADY RIGHT 'CHEER, AMIRITE?
― pplains, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
"The Child – Divorce's Big Problem"
― pplains, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
The front yard sign is still there, I think! It was just in front of someone's house
You can live in the former LOOK magazine headquarters, though: http://111citylofts.com/
― mh, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link
My wife says any time I start a sentence with "So listen," she braces for bad news.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
God yeah. That's like opening a conversation with, "We need to talk."
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
"Don't be alarmed, but-"
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
"I need to tell you something"
I've done that to Jeff a few times without realizing how bad it sounded.
"I need to tell you something. The chicken didn't thaw so we need to order a pizza for dinner."
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 23:14 (nine years ago) link
Hahahaha, I did that to my boss today. "I need to give you some news...something that's been going on since November but I haven't told you about." I had her in a total panic but then just told her I'm diabetic and that she needs to quit putting sweets in the gift baskets she sends me at Christmas and Easter.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 23:30 (nine years ago) link
I misread one of the captions on that last LOOK mag as "boy firemen - touching children safely"
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 03:20 (nine years ago) link
Also WTF at that Roosevelt pic, was he drunk!?
My dad's 'I'm about to get at you' opener is always, "I'm not getting at you, but--"
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 04:35 (nine years ago) link
LOL I admit I do that with "look I'm not having a go, but..." sometimes.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 04:45 (nine years ago) link
I need to tell you something
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 05:22 (nine years ago) link
Men of a Certain Age was cancelled
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 05:23 (nine years ago) link
I think you should sit down. You only have two more...punches on your card until you get a free sub.
― Honey Mustard On My Tunic (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 11:06 (nine years ago) link
that Look cover looks like a precursor to Inside Edition teasers
NEXT: CATS WASHING DOGSTHEN: PLANTS THAT CAN KILL AND: WHAT IS IN THIS WOMAN'S EAR?THEN: CHILD PIMP
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
who is to blame for advertisers urging us to 'join the conversation' via various internet methods
(i think it was one of hillary's slogans in '08, tho obviously she didn't start it)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 23:41 (nine years ago) link
the idea of needing to have a "conversation" about anything is really pissing me off right now. we just need to have a conversation about police brutality. ok.
― computer champion (harbl), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 23:43 (nine years ago) link
a national conversation, too
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 23:50 (nine years ago) link
I hate this phrase soooo much.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 23 April 2015 00:00 (nine years ago) link
Will there be a 'listening exercise' as part of this national conversation?
― camp event (suzy), Thursday, 23 April 2015 06:16 (nine years ago) link
think this goes back to some point in the 90s when politicians decided that the public didn't hate their horrible policies, they just weren't "getting the message"
― Pat Condell tha funkee homosapien (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 April 2015 06:19 (nine years ago) link
feel like this is v much true to the original premise of the thread because it is hard to have any kind of emotion about a beatles cover band never mind anger but at a couple recent shows i have seen advertisements for forthcoming appearances by the 'Fab Faux' accompanied by photos of the crumbs who make up this shitcircus, old enough to be the actual beatles btw except with the advantage of being alive i guess, and there are five (5) of them. maybe another band it wouldn't have mattered so much but they were particularly famous for having 4 ppl, in fact it is in their nickname which these guys have even acknowledged with their garbage rote pun name. it seems like whatever the challenges of being a beatles cover band are, this is the easiest part to get right. i am v worked up about this for some reason.
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 24 April 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
I always wonder if there are beefs between Beatles cover bands...or if audiences clearly prefer some over others.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 24 April 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link