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  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    edited May 2021
    Topbird said:
    "Can I get a coffee?" instead of "I'd like a coffee please"

    .... and don't get me started on which type of coffee you can have - still don't know what a flat white and a skinny latte are.
    Most folk seem to have progressed from getting to grabbing a coffee now @Topbird :(
    East Lancs
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    All discrimination is positive and negative at the same time.
    In positively discriminating in favour of one thing, you are negatively discriminating against the other.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
    I am so glad that someone said “like” it drives me crazy when I hear a conversation which is peppered with it…..”it’s like I know what you mean like when we went to xxxxx like you know like….” Argh… learn to talk properly.
    Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited May 2021
    There is a seemingly endless supply of words/phrases with have entered common parlance recently. 
    Snowflake, Gammon, hacks, cancel culture, moving forward, reaching out, I've/ we've/ you've "got this" . 
    Don't even start me on " My bad "  >:)
    It seems an endless rolling bandwagon onto which I refuse to jump. 
    Devon.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Why do so many people say "I'm good" when asked how they are? They aren't being asked if they behaved themselves. 

    Another little niggle is when people "plant" seeds. Seeds are sown, plants are planted.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Very unique. If it's unique then it doesn't need qualifying, it is or it isn't.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Curated


    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    And weeds are plants.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Succulence 
    eats well with
    Yes chef

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    Politicians and Civil Servants using the term "Affordable Housing"  for our young people and then pricing them at half a million quid each .

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

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