Guest Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 They try all that malarky in the bookies in Nottm now.…loyalty cards questions -best odds etc... flippin' horse will be off before my bet is placed! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roger peatman 337 Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 Whenever a politician makes a statement these days, the word "Robust" nearly always seems to come out -- makes me cringe !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 "Roll out" is another. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,721 Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 Suddenly, we have gone from 'Looking on..' to 'Watching on..' What's that all about then? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,427 Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 Even if it followed by -- The barrel, Ian. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,721 Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 Taking it 'in the round', I'm 'fully on message' with DaveN for 'running this thread up the flagpole', to 'see how it flies'. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 It's all 'driven' by the 'road map' they have to 'take it forward'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,580 Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 A few thats being sent around the emails at work at the moment,"grow the pie"??? "getting on the bus"??? and "rowing the boat"??? not got a bloody clue what they are on about Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 Potential growth node - was one that made me reach for the MP 40!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,090 Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 Well, like, I can't stand the younger generation who, like, can't get through a sentence, you know, without saying like, about half a dozen times, throughout, like. And you know, they say you know a lot too, like. The biggest offenders over here, are the football players being interviewed after a game, many of which sound so uneducated. Money doth not maketh the man. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 It's also those cockney retards on Eastenders that have an extremely irritating habit of miss pronouncing the T in the middle of a word. Thereby it sounds like two words. So party becomes part-ee, dirty becomes dirt -ee, wanted becomes want- ed. Also an infuriating number of people say proper, instead of properly, making the phrase 'Do it proper' instead of 'Do it properly '. A mass cull of the stupid is urgently required ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,304 Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 #60 KJ, I couldn't agree more strongly. It drives me to distraction! I think, in the New Year, I will start speaking Chaucerian English and when the 'like' brigade complain about not understanding a word I say, I shall merely grin at them. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 Yes like' and 'know whai mean yea,..............oh the 'cockneys' love their speech 'Geezers' aint they........the very very worst speakers are the 'tw..s.who end every statement like question a 'UPSPEAK' I call it...........and its spreading won't belong afore its the norm...........God help us............ 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,580 Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 There used to be some retard on the Eastenders program who used to say things like "do you fink i'm shtoopid" unable to say "stupid" never thought the word started with a SH,oh well I'm probably getting old and no longer wivit if ya no wha a mean Rog 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,139 Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 Yes Rog.........I do know what ya mean bruv,....lol............but I had such great times working with em,and made some good Pals,and I find their humour very quick and very funny,.............so all I have to say is ''any old iron,fings aint what they used to be'' orwhite Guv...sortid..............lol. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 It's all relative though. I worked in London for quite a few years and it was all gahndahnaseefu'baw and blaaadiell wha'alarf. When I first went, I remember someone saying the office printer wouldn't work. Checked the plug I asked. They all fell about laughing, ' plug ( think Medders ) nah, 's bladdee plaag. ' Upspeak drives me mad too. Also when I worked in Leicester, every sentence ended with innit. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,079 Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 I must admit I like watching "Coronation Street" but when Audrey Roberts the so called hairdresser open's her mouth and speaks, I want to crawl into a corner. Quote A Roberts So ye see Mrs Brown was alrady brwn befor her blue rise, an she had to pay forr it. Play Bingo while on holiday the caller insisted the thirty three was furti free and thirty two was furti two. Do we not teach at school English any more. Not that I'm perfect far from it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
woody 552 Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 The modern generation are supposed to be clever but whenever I hear like several times in quick succession or innit at the end of a sentence, usually in a peculiar accent, I can't help thinking we are raising a generation of morons and halfwits. What happened to them being taught the Queen's English?. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 Check on that blood...ignorance innit? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,580 Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 And there lies the problem Ian,most of the young folk today want to make out they're afro carribean,are they ashamed to be British and proud? Rog 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 I used to infuriate a boss who continually used..."Are you with me?" by stating.... "Yup!...I'm stood right next to you!" His other use of..."At the end of the day!" resulted in my...."It gets dark!" He was not amused. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nnsc 131 Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 Not too clever at English myself, but the younger generation where I work state that everything is 'Mega' or if I say sorry for instance they say 'no worries'. Drives me bonkers! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 No Worries..i used to associate with my Aussie mates...but it's creeping in here now. My lad said i was suffering from "Gender Assumption"...OK " Lord Longford"..i answered.. ( " Google that one!"). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 "Bad" or "Wicked" is supposed to mean that something is really good ? Another one that does my head in is the continued every other word "n 'that" really gets to me, bone idle sods. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 4, 2016 Report Share Posted December 4, 2016 "Threw me under the bus"..is a new one...if only!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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