Annoying words and phrases
Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.
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( , Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.
Thanks to simbosan for the idea
( , Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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What really annoys me is any variation on the phrase
'Americans are so fat/dumb/annoying'
Lazy, bigotted stereotyping from people who can't be bothered to see beyond their own limited worldview.
Me = Not American.
edit: See above. Because, yeah, it's only Americans that say that...
( , Fri 9 Apr 2010, 14:02, 3 replies)
'Americans are so fat/dumb/annoying'
Lazy, bigotted stereotyping from people who can't be bothered to see beyond their own limited worldview.
Me = Not American.
edit: See above. Because, yeah, it's only Americans that say that...
( , Fri 9 Apr 2010, 14:02, 3 replies)
Ironically, it's a valid criticism of [some] americans they they themselves cannot see beyond their own limited [world]view.
c.f.
"Hey, you're from England, is that in London?"
"Hey, you're from England? Do you know $person?"
"Hey, you're from England? What language do they speak there?"
I could go on....
( , Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:32, closed)
And yet....
I met a lovely Texan couple on a tour of Rome. They were both retired from jobs in banking, and were better educated and read than me, with me fancy A levels and bits of a degree from the UK. They walked hand-in hand and quoted bits of Keats' and Byron's poetry as we walked past the museum where the poets used to live..Was a last blast at my one remaining prejudice, I can tell you...
( , Sun 11 Apr 2010, 12:38, closed)
I met a lovely Texan couple on a tour of Rome. They were both retired from jobs in banking, and were better educated and read than me, with me fancy A levels and bits of a degree from the UK. They walked hand-in hand and quoted bits of Keats' and Byron's poetry as we walked past the museum where the poets used to live..Was a last blast at my one remaining prejudice, I can tell you...
( , Sun 11 Apr 2010, 12:38, closed)
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