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Captain Placid asks: What annoying things do significant others, workmates and other people in general do that drive you up the wall? Do you want to kill your other half over their obsessive fridge magnet collection? Driven to distraction over your manager's continued use of Comic Sans (The Font of Champions)? Tell us.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:11)
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Moving on from the 'olholic' posts.
Any lazy fucking journalist who suffixes anything with 'gate.

Seriously people the original Watergate scandal was 40 fucking years ago.
Gate, does not mean scandal, it was not a scandal about some water.

Stop using it you pointless fucks.
(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 14:04, 22 replies)
It is however one of those words you can chuck onto the end of any other word with ease
Oxfordgate, Nazigate, Wahingtongate, Moscowgate, pizzagate, Johnny Debbgate, etc
(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 14:09, closed)
Just because you can, it doesn't mean you should.

(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 14:12, closed)
We shall from now
refer to this as gategate.
(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 14:14, closed)
Done already by The Sun - see below

(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 17:43, closed)
I've just realised i'm wrong
Highgategate doesn't roll off the tongue
(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 14:15, closed)
According to the Oxford Dictionary it does.
oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/-gate?q=-gate
Just because you don't approve of the etymology of a word, doesn't make it invalid.
(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 14:21, closed)
It also includes chillax
therefore its views are invalid:
oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/chillax?q=chillax
(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 14:24, closed)
Is your point that we have enough words now, so should not accept any new ones into the language?

(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 15:58, closed)
That would indeed be
doubleplusungood
(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 17:52, closed)
I think it would be
amazeballs.
(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 21:54, closed)
Fuck yeah

(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 14:25, closed)
Bonus Mitchell and Webb
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9JgxhXW5w
(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 14:32, closed)
I was thinking of that too
but couldn't be bothered to find it.
(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 14:41, closed)
and really, watergate would have been watergate-gate.

(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 15:40, closed)
no it wouldn't because that was the origin of the phrase

(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 21:56, closed)
shut up you pedant. you know perfectly well the point i was making.

(, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 11:19, closed)
Hotelism?

(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 22:13, closed)
Famous B3ta-gates?
Shedgate
Selfpublishedgate
Cheersgate
Trollgate
Noncegate
(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 16:28, closed)
What about Hondagate?

(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 17:42, closed)
And
Croissantgate
Massivedrugsgate
(, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 10:27, closed)
The Sun referred to that MP chap who lost it at the entrance to Downing St 'gate gate', which I found amusing.

(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 17:42, closed)
Those who have issues with "gate-gate"...
...must be having their own "gate-gate-gate"
(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 18:13, closed)
We're dealing with the kind of intellect that reads the Sun and finds it amusing

(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 18:41, closed)
"Elevatorgate" is the best one though.

(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 19:12, closed)
Gate-ohilism?
Or does that just sound like I'm a windows fanboi?
(, Mon 8 Oct 2012, 22:12, closed)

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