Parents
"They fuck you up, your mum and dad" said Philip Larkin. Did he have a point? Perhaps yours are merely horrendously embarrassing? Or are you yourself that embarrassing or terrible parent? No tedious McCannery or nonce strikethroughs please, ffs.
( , Mon 6 Jun 2016, 15:43)
"They fuck you up, your mum and dad" said Philip Larkin. Did he have a point? Perhaps yours are merely horrendously embarrassing? Or are you yourself that embarrassing or terrible parent? No tedious McCannery or nonce strikethroughs please, ffs.
( , Mon 6 Jun 2016, 15:43)
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they may well be
but it still doesn't excuse you from abusing the English language in that way
babymama, ffs. BABYMAMA.
( , Wed 15 Jun 2016, 13:56, 2 replies)
but it still doesn't excuse you from abusing the English language in that way
babymama, ffs. BABYMAMA.
( , Wed 15 Jun 2016, 13:56, 2 replies)
I agree wholeheartedly with my learned friend's low opinion of the term 'babymama'
( , Wed 15 Jun 2016, 14:15, closed)
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OH, SO NOT CONTENT WITH GETTING THEIR VERY OWN PART OF THE BUS, THE COLOUREDS NOW HAVE EXCLUSIVITY ON CERTAIN PHRASES?
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how is it abuse?
it's a word used widely across a large demographic of English speakers. This is just your misguided and misinformed snobbery showing through.
( , Thu 16 Jun 2016, 9:55, closed)
it's a word used widely across a large demographic of English speakers. This is just your misguided and misinformed snobbery showing through.
( , Thu 16 Jun 2016, 9:55, closed)
just because people use it across the globe doesn't prevent it from being abusive to the words and the ear
it's a vile abomination of a term that is right up there with "we're pregnant".
( , Thu 16 Jun 2016, 10:36, closed)
it's a vile abomination of a term that is right up there with "we're pregnant".
( , Thu 16 Jun 2016, 10:36, closed)
It saddens me to see a native speaker of the world's most flexible and varied language
being so narrow-minded and conformist
( , Thu 16 Jun 2016, 11:35, closed)
being so narrow-minded and conformist
( , Thu 16 Jun 2016, 11:35, closed)
yes
a giant fly with shifty piggish eyes.
jeff goldblum is most jealous.
( , Thu 16 Jun 2016, 14:12, closed)
a giant fly with shifty piggish eyes.
jeff goldblum is most jealous.
( , Thu 16 Jun 2016, 14:12, closed)
'We're pregnant' is pretty apt as pregnancy and marriage essentially turns two people into a homogenous boring unit.
( , Thu 16 Jun 2016, 16:27, closed)
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it's just awful
NO, UNLESS YOU ARE SOME KIND OF MEDICAL MARVEL OR SIMULTANEOUSLY UPDUFFED LESBIANS/TRANSGENDER MEN, YOU ARE NOT BOTH PREGNANT.
( , Thu 16 Jun 2016, 16:55, closed)
NO, UNLESS YOU ARE SOME KIND OF MEDICAL MARVEL OR SIMULTANEOUSLY UPDUFFED LESBIANS/TRANSGENDER MEN, YOU ARE NOT BOTH PREGNANT.
( , Thu 16 Jun 2016, 16:55, closed)
What about if I add the word 'literally', that dopey bint from the Guardian says I can use it to mean anything at all nowadays
( , Thu 16 Jun 2016, 20:36, closed)
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