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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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110%
as in
'he/she is giving it 110% at this cooking lark'
'I'm giving it 110% Mr. Cowell'
etc
makes me cringe a little every time I hear it.
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 7:35, 7 replies)
agree
any thing over 100% makes me want to kill the speaker for example journalists who talk about an increase of 150%
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 8:46, closed)
You can have an increase of 150%
If the number of people in a room went from 2 to 5 - that's an increase of 150%
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 9:40, closed)
It amuses me people's attempts at being original with it.
I'm sure I heard someone on TV say they give 102 and a half percent.

The new thing is saying that you do something 25/08, as opposed to 24/7.

The world is slowly turning into the Yorkshiremen sketch AICMFP.
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 9:39, closed)
I'm behind this post 110%

(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 9:44, closed)

Well ... what do you expect if watch that kind of drivel?!
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 10:21, closed)
I agree with this 100%
Edit: www.b3ta.com/questions/peeves/post156041 ;)
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 10:49, closed)
Simpsons episode "Homer at the Bat"
Hypnotist: You will give 110%.
Team: That's impossible no one can give more than 100%. By definition that's the most any one can give.
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 19:56, closed)

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