loving my/your/etc

[rich p]

Slightly OT but topical. Harry Pearson in the Grauniad yeserday wrote a piece about how he hated the olympic commentators making verbs from nouns, such as

he medalled 4 years ago etc

 

[TVC]

Oh dear, no. Not having a go at anyone... it's the expression that irks me. I'm really hating hearing it!

Got it now, I'm liking your work.

It's like when you SO over emphasise the word so.

 

[ComedyPilot]

I see where yello is coming from. Just look next time you are out and see all the people greeting each other in an over the top style, (usually gangs of teenage girls in shopping malls). Loads of big hugs and kisses, screeching and shrieking (sp). It's almost as if they haven't seen each other in years, but more than likely last met the night before. The whole country seems to pursue popularity as a symbol of success, hence shows like Big Brother, Britains got Talent, The X Factor et al. For some wierd reason people need to have constant public re-assurance of their popularity, and want everyone in earshot to know "how popular I am". And as if that wasn't bad enough, the current fashion of "public grieving" whenever there is a tragedy, and a local TV crew is filming, hoards of wannabe friends gather with their ubiquitous hugging and fawning, and laying floral tributes. It's sickening when most of them possibly hardly knew the deceased, and if they did it was more than likely only a nodding aquaintance. Days later are they still there for the family? Methinks not. It was just another notch on the "I'm popular because I was on telly laying flowers" bedpost. I have no axe to grind against people showing genuine affection or grief, just wish the wannabes would f*cking shut up and go back to whatever festering hole they crawled out of.

 

[Dayvo]

Comedy Pilot!

You took the words right out of my fingertips!

 

[ComedyPilot]

Dayvo, I thought I was alone in my views! It's re-assuring to know I aren't the only one.....Hugs and Kisses to DAYVO....er ...hang on...pot...kettle....

 

[Aperitif]

Go Comedy Pilot, go!
'I'm loving' your prose.

I have a particular axe that buries itself in my metaphoric skull everytime I hear a response to a casual "How are you?" to which the response is "I'm good, I'm good..."

That's nice to know then.

 

[yello]

OH MY GOD! You guys are awesome! I mean, it was like, last night, and now, like, oh my god!, I've seen you again! And I I got a pass in my English A level... **squeeal** OH MY GOD!

 

[ComedyPilot]

Pass the f*cking bucket, I've just vomitted my lunch. yello, you ought to be a joiner, hitting the nail on the head like that, so to speak.

 

[Dayvo]

OH MY GOD! You guys are awesome! I mean, it was like, last night, and now, like, oh my god!, I've seen you again! And I I got a pass in my English A level... **squeeal** OH MY GOD!

That could have been two of my nieces talking, except I doubt very much if they'll ever get to English A-level stage!

 

[TVC]

'You guys are Sooo totally lush.'

When I was growing up [old git alert] a lush was an alcoholic, I've no idea what it means now.

Also there is a 14 year old lad in my street who keeps telling people that he's going to 'Bang' them. Urban slang I suppose, but he's white, lives in a 4 bed semi and his dad drives a Volvo.

Anyway this thread is like so awesome.

 

[tdr1nka]

I like hear this sh*t, like from my eldest Daughter, drives me nuts.

The thing that gets me most is when she 'says' LOL as 'loll' rather than actually laughing out loud.

All this 'over expression' is pretty shallow in my book and there will be a
lot of dissapointed adults when these kids grow to realise that life doesn't mean much with or without these token platitudes(called 'duckbilled platitudes' in our house, on account of the baseball caps!).

 

[Dayvo]

IAll this 'over expression' is pretty shallow in my book and there will be a lot of dissapointed adults when these kids grow to realise that life doesn't mean much with or without these token platitudes(called 'duckbilled platitudes' in our house, on account of the baseball caps!).

A lot!? Almost an entire generation!

 

[Lardyboy]

Ah yes, "yute culture", it's fascinating.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Somehow the lyrics to Nickelback's song Rockstar ring true for this thread:

I'm through with standing in line
to clubs we'll never get in
It's like the bottom of the ninth
and I'm never gonna win
This life hasn't turned out
quite the way I want it to be

(Tell me what you want)

I want a brand new house
on an episode of Cribs
And a bathroom I can play baseball in
And a king size tub big enough
for ten plus me

(So, what you need)

I'll need a credit card that's got no limit
And a big black jet with a bedroom in it
Gonna join the mile high club
At thirty-seven thousand feet

(Been there, done that)

I want a new tour bus full of old guitars
My own star on Hollywood Boulevard
Somewhere between Cher and
James Dean is fine for me

(So how you gonna do it)

I'm gonna trade this life for fortune and fame
I'd even cut my hair and change my name

'Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars
And live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars
The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap
We'll all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat
And we'll hang out in the coolest bars
In the VIP with the movie stars
Every good gold digger's
Gonna wind up there
Every Playboy bunny
With her bleach blond hair

Hey hey I wanna be a rockstar
Hey hey I wanna be a rockstar

I wanna be great like Elvis without the tassels
Hire eight body guards that love to beat up peanuts
Sign a couple autographs
So I can eat my meals for free

(So here's the deal)

I think I'm gonna dress my ass
with the latest fashion
Get a front door key to the Playboy mansion
Gonna date a centerfold that loves to
blow my money for me

(So how you gonna do it)

I'm gonna trade this life
For fortune and fame
I'd even cut my hair
And change my name

'Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars
And live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars
The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap
We'll all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat
And we'll hang out in the coolest bars
In the VIP with the movie stars
Every good gold digger's
Gonna wind up there
Every Playboy bunny
With her bleach blond hair
And we'll hide out in the private rooms
With the latest dictionary and
today's who's who
They'll get you anything
with that evil smile
Everybody's got a
drug dealer on speed dial

Hey hey I wanna be a rockstar

I'm gonna sing those songs
that offend the censors
Gonna pop my pills
from a pez dispenser

I'll get washed-up singers writing all my songs
Lip sync em every night so I don't get 'em wrong

Well, we all just wanna be big rockstars
And live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars
The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap
We'll all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat
And we'll hang out in the coolest bars
In the VIP with the movie stars
Every good gold digger's
Gonna wind up there
Every Playboy bunny
With her bleach blond hair
And we'll hide out in the private rooms
With the latest dictionary and
today's who's who
They'll get you anything
with that evil smile
Everybody's got a
drug dealer on speed dial

Hey hey I wanna be a rockstar
Hey hey I wanna be a rockstar

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I like hear this sh*t, like from my eldest Daughter, drives me nuts.

The thing that gets me most is when she 'says' LOL as 'loll' rather than actually laughing out loud.

All this 'over expression' is pretty shallow in my book and there will be a
lot of dissapointed adults when these kids grow to realise that life doesn't mean much with or without these token platitudes(called 'duckbilled platitudes' in our house, on account of the baseball caps!).

On the other hand, perhaps they'll be able to, like, spell "disappointed" correctly. Like, totally.