Phrases I`m getting increasingly sick of hearing

[All uphill]

I quite like to hear:

"The M5 is moving slowly westwards".

I always have an image of a huge strip of tarmac gradually moving towards the Severn Estuary.

 

[mudsticks]

I try and keep these things alive by loudly exclaiming things like "Twenty bob! For a packet of crisps?" at every opportunity

ETA - I also promised my grandson a shiny shilling if he could find my glasses for me. Hopefully the heartfelt disappointment will teach him a valuable life lesson.

i regularly declaim "Gadzooks, and much Balderdash" to the chickens.

They seem to like it..

Whose got the keys though? BTW I do know whose on qst base

Pretty sure Micheal still has them, but then he might have dropped them off with of with Archie by now

 

[mudsticks]

Surely you mean the M4 if you're talking westward motion??

The M5 is almost exclusively North /South in its orientation..

 

[MichaelW2]

And yet if you say thrice you're just being pretentious. Or incomprehensible, to anyone under 40.

For clarity I prefix with Nay.

 

[All uphill]

Surely you mean the M4 if you're talking westward motion??

The M5 is almost exclusively North /South in its orientation..

As you say its North/south (mainly) but if it decides to move, no reason why it couldn't go sideways? 😉

 

[mudsticks]

As you say its North/south (mainly) but if it decides to move, no reason why it couldn't go sideways? 😉

Sounds like your mushrooms, are even more potent than mine @All uphill

 

[Globalti]

Another one that annoys me is cabin crew and train guards who announce: "We will shortly be arriving into (place)."

The other is officials, mostly Police officers, who re-tell events in (I think) the present perfect tense instead of the perfect tense: "The driver has gone round the corner and has crashed" rather than "went round the corner and crashed".

 

[mudsticks]

Another one that annoys me is cabin crew and train guards who announce: "We will shortly be arriving into (place)."

The other is officials, mostly Police officers, who re-tell events in (I think) the present perfect tense instead of the perfect tense: "The driver has gone round the corner and has crashed" rather than "went round the corner and crashed".

I like

"Please make sure you have all your personal belongings, before leaving the train"

Well ta very much love, I didna think of that as an idea, previously..

 

[Smudge]

I'm a Bristolian gone South..

It gets proper luvverly down yer..

Gone south myself, but only about 40 miles.
Bristol is a great city, but i'm getting too old for city life now. Too hilly there for me as well.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Sick of hearing 'train station', and 'train' when referring to the locomotive. I'm also tired of hearing that motorways, or other roads are 'coping well'.

 

[Houthakker]

So @Houthakker you didn't read all the thread before replying? 😂

so what if I didn't??

 

[Randomnerd]

I like

"Please make sure you have all your personal belongings, before leaving the train"

Well ta very much love, I didna think of that as an idea, previously..

I often think myself remiss that I didn’t bring everything I own with me to the station, but it won’t all fit in the panniers.

 

[LarryDuff]

And yet if you say thrice you're just being pretentious. Or incomprehensible, to anyone under 40.

Thrice is a great word. I try to use it when I can.

 

[Mike Ayling]

Sick of hearing 'train station', and 'train' when referring to the locomotive. I'm also tired of hearing that motorways, or other roads are 'coping well'.

It's railway station of course.

 

[Chromatic]

Yes Lionel Richie singing, Once, Twice Thrice, a lady would sound like a medieval ballad.
Bob Dylan would also sound wrong singing Don't think two times it's alright.

Bob Dylan sounds wrong whatever he sings.