Please, I’ve posted some Harry Styles again today, and only got 3 points on my pfm Licence. I even do that annoying Twitter hashtag thing sometimes and get away with it.
#kompromat
Ghastly expressions you want to see the back of in 2011
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Please, I’ve posted some Harry Styles again today, and only got 3 points on my pfm Licence. I even do that annoying Twitter hashtag thing sometimes and get away with it.
#kompromat
ks.234
Half way to Infinity
Perhaps you should be getten ’round to it?
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ks.234
Half way to Infinity
Don’t dis PR and you might be safe for now. You’ll definitely be on The List though!
cutting42
Arrived at B4 Hacker Ergo
I quite like fishies and always used chaps in the past - not in pfm, just in general referring to collections of people. I don't use chaps or guys generically now in an attempt to use gender neutral language instead.
Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
It's as valid as 'got' as a past participle of 'get' but is mostly found in American usage which is why there's resistance elsewhere, I think.
How to Use Got vs. gotten Correctly (grammarist.com)
Bob McC
Living the life of Riley
It’s the response to a mind numbingly simple question to find the answer to.
tones
Tones deaf
Rather useful (and frequently encountered) in my line of work...
https://www.worldipreview.com/contributed-article/a-guide-to-straw-person-oppositions
Never actually done one, but colleagues have.
tones
Tones deaf
tones
Tones deaf
The Captain
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Rap Hands. Not really an expression, more of a ghastly 'thing' doing the rounds.
What I mean is the abominable proclivity for someone to use one hand (or usually both).. like a rapper does.. to emphasise what they're saying. It's toe-curlingly awful & I hope, like sentences starting with "So.." (another fad circa 2017) it just burns itself out. Rap Hands.
I saw it start from yoofs, of course, but I notice it spreading like a disease to adverts/ youtube/ news reporters, & it's going mental. And it's making me go mental. Thank god it has a hilarity to it because it's meant to be 'cool'.
Anyone know what I mean? I'll try add an example, some are hilarious.
Capt.
What I mean is the abominable proclivity for someone to use one hand (or usually both).. like a rapper does.. to emphasise what they're saying. It's toe-curlingly awful & I hope, like sentences starting with "So.." (another fad circa 2017) it just burns itself out. Rap Hands.
I saw it start from yoofs, of course, but I notice it spreading like a disease to adverts/ youtube/ news reporters, & it's going mental. And it's making me go mental. Thank god it has a hilarity to it because it's meant to be 'cool'.
Anyone know what I mean? I'll try add an example, some are hilarious.
Capt.
Correct. Its correct use in British English goes back centuries, it probably predates English being the dominant language in the USA. It's only recently fallen into disuse. I don't like it either but that's only because you hear it alongside other American manglings of the language.
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
Comes from gang signs. I can remember occasionally spotting Vice Lords hand signs after a summer with some great kids from Chicago’s South Side forever ago.
palindrome
Thru a hedge, backwards and forwards.
Eee, I were but a lad when this thread began (and ended before that Richard. . .)
Now I look in the mirror, and think to myself, in a pedantic sort of way - oh boy, time sure does fly.
John
Now I look in the mirror, and think to myself, in a pedantic sort of way - oh boy, time sure does fly.
John
richardg
Admonishtrator
Usually when the question is posed, google has already failed to deliver the answer. That enhances the ghastliness.
Enfield boy
pfm Member
Probably already on the list but search failed me. I can't stand (from the) get go. Really get(s) my go(at).
I'll get me goat.
I'll get me goat.