I don't remember what her actual weight was
― Neanderthal, Friday, 11 August 2017 18:42 (seven years ago) link
Lol President
― Neanderthal, Friday, 11 August 2017 18:43 (seven years ago) link
"muh"
― Hilarity Winner (doo dah), Saturday, 12 August 2017 13:04 (seven years ago) link
"cuppa tea". Either say "cup of tea" or "cuppa" but to say "cuppa tea" is just wrongWHO'S WITH ME?
― kinder, Sunday, 13 August 2017 10:57 (seven years ago) link
otm
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 August 2017 10:59 (seven years ago) link
"cup of" only if a saucer is involved
― wtev, Sunday, 13 August 2017 11:14 (seven years ago) link
mugga
― mark s, Sunday, 13 August 2017 11:18 (seven years ago) link
^^^this wd please the shit out of me tbh
― mark s, Sunday, 13 August 2017 11:19 (seven years ago) link
Turkey absolutely piss on England in annual per capita consumption of tea, so I wish shit comedy writers on R4 + dickheads like Rees Mugga would stop presenting it as something quintessentially English. Everyone knows in the UK only the Scottish actually grow any tea, and it costs a bomb and tastes like pish.
― calzino, Sunday, 13 August 2017 11:28 (seven years ago) link
I'm from the West of Scotland, we don't pronounce the word 'of'. Nonentheless, 'cuppa' seems very 70s, see below...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6qxDPmOGM
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Sunday, 13 August 2017 11:59 (seven years ago) link
"and so on and so forth", i.e. I don't know what to say next but please hold the line while my Celeron brain buffers the next sentence
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 13 August 2017 12:34 (seven years ago) link
A new low
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Sunday, 13 August 2017 12:35 (seven years ago) link
Cornwall grows some
― wtev, Sunday, 13 August 2017 19:11 (seven years ago) link
"great"
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 August 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
Very specifically, the "great" in "great britain"
Very very specifically, as uttered by the vapid pondscum procured by british television to offer what might laughably be excused as analysis or commentary on sporting events in which british athletes compete
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 August 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
sorry, "compete"
The original usage is fine, just means the biggest island of the British Isles, sounds fair enough. The use of it to describe everything as the "Great British Whatever" really puts my teeth on edge though.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 13 August 2017 19:31 (seven years ago) link
It's the ringing declamation aspect in the specific offered
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 August 2017 19:34 (seven years ago) link
"Cornwall grows some"
there ought to be laws against those inbred racists selling foul tasting tea with union jack type marketing for 30 quid a fucking box!
― calzino, Sunday, 13 August 2017 19:41 (seven years ago) link
Did someone itt just assign a ukness to cornwall
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 August 2017 20:39 (seven years ago) link
http://d25hqtnqp5nl24.cloudfront.net/images/products/11/LN_598377_BP_11.jpg
― calzino, Sunday, 13 August 2017 20:46 (seven years ago) link
The original usage is fine, just means the biggest island of the British Isles
That's all it's ever meant.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Sunday, 13 August 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link
(xp) The Cornish should be up in arms about that, what's this 'England' shite?
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Sunday, 13 August 2017 21:40 (seven years ago) link
Yes. But let me introduce you to thousands of cutesy products and services that apparently have a different idea. (I haven't seen GBBO so dunno if that should be included)
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 13 August 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
Oh, I know, "Putting the Great back in to Great Britain" etc, ugh, anyone saying that should be strung up.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Sunday, 13 August 2017 22:00 (seven years ago) link
the great in GBBO always referred to the bake-off IMO, tho now of course it refers to paul hollywood's treachery
― mark s, Sunday, 13 August 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link
any country with the prefix "Great" has major psychological problems imo, like when Eddie decided he was henceforth actually an Eagle.
― calzino, Sunday, 13 August 2017 22:12 (seven years ago) link
I hear Great Missenden is pretty crazy tbf.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Sunday, 13 August 2017 22:19 (seven years ago) link
"doggie" as an insult
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 05:10 (seven years ago) link
"Antifa" instead of "antifascist" seems like the same sort of inane infantilism of political language that gave us gems like "Brexit", etc
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 06:09 (seven years ago) link
came here to post 'healing', but I can see it was posted a couple of months back. Lots of new-agey wellness and healing retreats and workshops being advertised round here, but the people going on them don't appear to be injured.
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 09:13 (seven years ago) link
did you expect bloodied and bruised people to go to a healing retreat?
― ogmor, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 09:24 (seven years ago) link
seems like the same sort of inane infantilism of political language
more accurately -- and historically -- it derives from what it is: the abbreviation of the 30s german movement antifaschistische aktion, according to the usual precepts* of german shortening of very long somewhat tongue-twisting terms (which german is somewhat prey to)
*ie that you string together bits of the words into something memorable, as opposed to just using acronyms
(on the whole i think abbreviations are good not bad -- useful rather than infantile -- but i'm a sub-editor so i professionally favour moves that bring down unneeded word- and letter-count: in my opnion writing that rigourously sticks with the full long-form versions of wordy terms will be unreadable, certainly less read)
(grexit -- the parent-word for brexit -- was apparently coined by citigroup economist ebrahim rahbari: as neologisms and jargon from within the finance industry go, it is a good deal clearer than many)
― mark s, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 09:30 (seven years ago) link
lol i can see a way of losing a letter in the word "rigourously" *sigh*
Antifa the word isn't a problem
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 10:44 (seven years ago) link
antifascism annoys the shit out of you
― conrad, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 10:51 (seven years ago) link
Mild irritation, we don't have a thread for that tho
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 10:53 (seven years ago) link
"Opposing fascism is bad" really a challop for a Friday no
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 11:01 (seven years ago) link
jk rowling obituary thread is ilx's longstanding king of the reactionary challop doesn't matter which day of the week
― conrad, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 11:04 (seven years ago) link
"That will be 'just' £4.75"
'Just? Its not the Ritz! Whats this 'just' thing, its everywhere, you can't just put a 'just' in front of the price and it makes it ok!
― saer, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 11:15 (seven years ago) link
xp u said it etc
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 11:29 (seven years ago) link
we should give a medal to the marketer that coined the phrase "radical self-care"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 21:38 (seven years ago) link
It just seems that the word Antifa draws attention away from the fact that it's fascists you're fighting, when that needs to be pointed out very clearly and frequently
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 17 August 2017 00:50 (seven years ago) link
It is also one letter away from Antifap
― President Keyes, Thursday, 17 August 2017 01:43 (seven years ago) link
"good things come to those who wait"
what the fuck is this
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 17 August 2017 02:04 (seven years ago) link
If you stop waiting at any point then it resets and you have to start over from the beginning.
― jmm, Thursday, 17 August 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link
'like marmite' to mean divisive
― koogs, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 20:33 (seven years ago) link
I love 'like marmite'
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Thursday, 7 September 2017 13:27 (seven years ago) link
"Wonk"
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 September 2017 13:28 (seven years ago) link