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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited November 2020
    Isn’t it strange how words and phrases suddenly gain traction? So, super, heads up, loving it, year on year, re-double, going forward, reach out, double down ... over use renders them annoying.
    Rutland, England
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    If I hear ‘up tick’ many more times I may well throw something at the lawn and dent it! 😠 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    "going forward' makes my brain hurt. Loathe it with a passion.
    [Or is that a super passion ?]
    That's probably an equally annoying phrase too  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    BenCotto said:
    Isn’t it strange how words and phrases suddenly gain traction? So, super, heads up, loving it, year on year, re-double, going forward, reach out, double down ... over use renders them annoying.

    I agree.  People are "super busy" or their skin is "super dry".  What's wrong with "very"?
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's super cool to say super
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    edited November 2020
    It so isn't 😊. It's, like, so annoying. 
    Feeling curmudgeonly as it's raining and blowing a hooley and l want to get out in the garden. 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    @Allotment Boy - get an ad blocker!

    Our forecast says light rain.   Wrong!  And windy with it.  Good job I have indoor hobbies and jobs to do too or I'd be feeling mightily curmudgeonly today.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    The best use of super was a headline in The Sun 20 years ago when Caledonian Thistle pulled off a shock 3:1 cup win over mighty Celtic:
    Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious.

    To be fair, true credit lies with the Liverpool Echo in the 1970s after Ian Callaghan scored a hat trick against QPR. Super Cally goes ballistic, QPR atrocious.
    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I put my post code into the memory of the BBC weather app. In error, I added another one with my town name. They come up with differing forecasts😲
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Mine does that sometimes @BenCotto. Someone says it’s cos we’re on the edge of the city and near the marshes,  sometimes we’re on the cusp of two areas. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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