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I just finished watching an Instagram food clip – “so unique,” “super delicious,” please make it stop, correction, please make it “super stop.”
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Another one on my very long list – it now seems to be compulsory in sections of the media to describe any defiant or witty reply as a “clap back”.
Another one from social media is the act of counting down to events using “sleeps”.
I don’t mind if you are a child counting down to Christmas, but not if you are a 40 year-old preparing for a week in Tenerife.
Yes! Even as a child ‘sleeps’ was reserved for Christmas countdowns only.
I have never heard ‘clap back’ and I don’t want to. Sounds like something you’d say to a brothel’s complaints department.
I need to stop watching so many Instagram food clips – the food is great, but the jargon makes me want to phone my iphone at the nearest wall.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I turned the TV on earlier and one of the contestants on Masterchef was telling us that he was ‘literally over the moon’. You sure about that?
The Colemanballs column in “Private Eye” would occasionally have a “Literally” special to highlight the amusing misuse of the word. One of the best was from racing, when John Oaksey once informed viewers “Last time out this horse won at Folkestone, literally pulling a bus”.
No one under the age of (insert whatever Richard’s age is – apologies, Richard, I use you as a barometer of the minimum age for total maturity, it’s intended as a compliment) ever uses the word “literally” in its correct context.
Example –
Person Richard’s age or older: “How long will you be?”
Person younger than Richard: “I’ll be literally two seconds.”
Person Richard’s age or older: “One….two. However long you will be, it won’t be literally two seconds because you’ve literally just had two seconds and you’re not here, so how long will you actually be?”
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Mid 30s Ian. I’m practising being an old git but I’m not there quite yet. You’re probably about right in terms of maturity actually.
Not that I watched for long but it was a celebrity edition. I would have allowed it if it was Buzz Aldrin, who would have come with the added bonus of being far more famous than anyone on there.
The horse literally pulling a bus conjures up a superb image. Perhaps the lads could lay one out for next year’s World’s Strongest Man competition.
“Thought leader” – This term can be used as an excellent time-saving tool. Anyone describing themselves as such is signalling that they will say nothing worth listening to whatsoever.
Thought leader. Good grief, glad I’ve never heard that one either.
In a similar vein to ‘literally’, ‘that’s not the best shot he’s ever played’. Well yes, that applies to every shot he’s ever played except one.
“Thought Leaders” probably consider themselves the sort of enlightened, superior, beings lesser mortals “reach out” to.
It’s the sort of deluded conceit which really ought to carry a mandatory prison sentence.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Another one from social media is the act of counting down to events using “sleeps”.
I don’t mind if you are a child counting down to Christmas, but not if you are a 40 year-old preparing for a week in Tenerife.
Never heard of this one when I was a child, does it count as a sleep if you take a short nap.
You've got to accentuate the positive.
Eliminate the negative.
Latch on to the affirmative.
Don't mess with mister in between.Another food one, any menu that mentions ‘our famous…’
Has anyone ever read one of these and actually thought, ‘oh yeah I’ve heard of that and been longing to try it’?
Yes!
And conversely, the pseudo-secret “off menu” item that every f****r on the planet, even penguins at the south pole, knows exists because they’re forever promoting it!
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