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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • mikeymustardmikeymustard Posts: 495
    edited August 2021
    @Lyn "panties" and "crotchless" are not two words I would've expected to hear (read?) in the same sentence on a gardening forum 😇
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    😀😀😀😀😀
    we’re  very upbeat down here on Dartmoor, you wouldn’t believe what goes on.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    B3 said:
    Bored with not of🙄

    That should be in the Curmudgeon topic. :D
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Anyone listen to the discussion on radio this am about the word "woke" ?  I was somewhat confused as I had never heard the term before but apparently it was first conjured up in the '70's I think.
    Now said to be finding it's way into political speak. I THINK it is meant to convey being aware of something but I could have got that wrong.  

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Woke people cannot commit a thoughtcrime.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I think woke is a misuse of the past participle woken. The meaning has shifted in recent years from awareness of racial discrimination to awareness of all forms of discrimination to awareness backed by a willingness to challenge such behaviour and actively counteract it.
    Rutland, England
  • HeliosHelios Posts: 232
    Don’t care where it originates from, it certainly pushes my buttons.
  • mikeymustardmikeymustard Posts: 495
    Helios said:
    Don’t care where it originates from, it certainly pushes my buttons.
    You're not in the woke generation then 😉
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Thanks @BenCotto that makes sense from what I heard this am.  I obviously need to do a bit of catching up ;)
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    I have a new one. 

    So people finishing sentences with “really”. And starting them with “so” really. 

    Super annoying! 

    🤬😤
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