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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited January 2022
    Then there's cheesecakes . A lump of puff pastry with coconut on top. My husband has a very rude name for them. It contains no cheese and it isn't a cake. A London thing not worth exporting

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @B3. I loved those, would always choose them,  along with Bread Pudding,  that’s not the slimy egg stuff. . 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited January 2022
    Do you mean the ones that always had wasps on them?
    Custard tarts?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    No,  that soggy bread soaked in egg and milk baked in the oven. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Bread and butter pudding. Yuk😝
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    I used to love bread and butter pudding (with raisins in it of course)! But OH hates it so never have it now and anyway I can no longer eat bread.

    Came across this (in an article about Prince Andrew but it is ubiquitous in journalism and politics these days:
    "He could in theory refuse to do either, but again the optics would be disastrous". 

    We would have said, in the olden days, "He could in theory refuse to do either, but whatever he did would look very bad for him".
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    That sounds nonsensical didyw. If you hadn't translated I wouldn't have guessed. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    In my world optics usually have nice bottles of gin nestled above  ;)

    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • HeliosHelios Posts: 232
    edited January 2022
    There must be someone, somewhere in the media who, one day, suddenly thought that they’d use the word for a measure of alcohol in a pub to describe public perception of a situation. What sort of thought processes come up with that?
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited January 2022
    Helios said:
    There must be someone, somewhere in the media who, one day, suddenly thought that they’d use the word for a measure of alcohol in a pub to describe public perception of a situation. What sort of thought processes come up with that?
    the same sort which re branded Personnel to Human Resources and distribution centres as fulfillment centres

    Devon.
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