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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I do it in case it pssses off the sensitive. It doesn't bother me.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Mrs-B3-Southampton,-HantsMrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants Posts: 732
    When I was 8 or 9 yrs old I remember being taught that no sentence should start with AND, BUT or SO.
    Southampton 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    But now I'm an adult, I can do it if I want to.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    3 women stood on a street corner  and the fourth woman turns up and says "Hi guys "

    The word " Typically " inserted into every break between nouns and verbs.


    Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    "Greetings Earthlings" usually works for me.👾
    "Klaatu barada nikto" 🤖 works reasonably well too.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Haha, B3!
    Live long, and prosper!
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    In Ireland "lads" doesn't denote gender, like "guys" in @NewBoy2's post.  Our builder always greeted hubby and me with "How're you doing, lads!"  Took a bit of getting used to...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Liriodendron said:
    In Ireland "lads" doesn't denote gender, like "guys" in @NewBoy2's post.  Our builder always greeted hubby and me with "How're you doing, lads!"  Took a bit of getting used to...
    Folk down here great you buys saying " how're you doing m'lovely?"  No gender issues there.
    Devon.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    You a’right, mi ducks?

    Rebeccah,  you ‘aving moussakah for yer dinnah? 

    I love the Leicester accent.
    Rutland, England
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Does here in Devon and Cornwall,  a’ right me handsome. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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