Invented phrases

[TreeHuggery]

when working with the youth service, they use to talk about the "mobile bus" ....erm that'll be a bus that moves then....

 

[earlestownflya]

schwarzenegger....he's sh*t scared of meerkats is'nt he?

 

[Profpointy]

[QUOTE 3917012, member: 45"]Upcycling.

Musicality.

Both invented by people wanting to sound cleverer than the bloke next to them.[/QUOTE]

reminds me of a rather scathing definition of a musicologist, "someone who can read music but can't hear it"

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

"Hit the ground running"

But in which direction?

Away - always away from the person that speaks like this

 

[Drago]

Let's seek the views of our stakeholders and key stakeholders.

 

[Asa Post]

Workshop, anybody?
I'm with Alexei Sayle on this one

Warning: contains language that some may find offensive

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMP4AlB61I

 

[Profpointy]

Workshop, anybody?
I'm with Alexei Sayle on this one


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMP4AlB61I


Warning: contains language that some may find offensive

quite - a workshop is a location, not an event. And anyway, I don't believe a whiteboard and a projector turns a meeting room into a workshop
Add a data analyser and maybe a few screwdrivers, and I'll grant it workshop status, but it still ain't an event

 

[Drago]

We're not allowed to say "brainstorm" at work, as it's supposedly insulting to epileptic folk. This is despite the National Epileptic Association telling us not to be so f*****g stupid. Instead, we have to have a boardblast.

I don't know about you lot but I've dragged people from burning buildings faced down villains with knives, but sit me in a classroom and break out the marker pens and flip chart paper and my stomach feels leaden with fear.

 

[Glow worm]

'Upspeak' - as annoying? as the folk who do it?

 

[Drago]

Another one were banned from saying is "nitty gritty", due to its supposed connections with the slave trade.

This is despite there being no record of its use prior to 1950.

This kind of thing makes me want to upscale my response to the project managers at the next boardblast session.

 

[Tin Pot]

"Tamping angry"

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I once heard someone in a pub say "I'd be in there like a rat up a drain pipe" which I thought was a pretty disgusting way to talk about someone, but I was quite impressed with the phrase itself.

I use that one, but not in that context.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

We're not allowed to say "brainstorm" at work, as it's supposedly insulting to epileptic folk. This is despite the National Epileptic Association telling us not to be so f*****g stupid. Instead, we have to have a boardblast.

I don't know about you lot but I've dragged people from burning buildings faced down villains with knives, but sit me in a classroom and break out the marker pens and flip chart paper and my stomach feels leaden with fear.

your employer and mine are in the same line of work. For my lot, brain light drizzle is more apt than storm for the quality of the ideas forthcoming. We got told not to use nitty gritty too for slavery reasons

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as for hateful management speak: can you action that please.

no but I can do it, or I can get on with it or I can even crack on with it, but never in a month of Sundays will I action it.

 

[Drago]

I even printed off a report from a prominent lexicographer confirming it has nothing to do with the slave trade and they still won't allow it. Guided by urban myth and hysteria instead of evidence and cold had fact.

In fact, that's management through and through.

 

[roadrash]

I remember a manager giving a "team talk", (full house on bullshit bingo) about all pulling together etc and finished by saying , and remember, their is no i in team, he wasnt impressed when someone said, no , but theres an M and E, (ME),