grldtnr
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What am interesting mixed background you have there Drago......as if being Scots isn't enough?
What English expression do you hate the most?
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What am interesting mixed background you have there Drago......as if being Scots isn't enough?
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Criticising someone's navigation and journey planning; possibly the most British sly dig ever...
Gwylan
Veteran
- Location
- All at sea⛵
Total waste for me. I can navigate when I have a map or chart and compass.
Get very confused about detail on road numbers.
My reply would be "really"
One that has come from nowhere over the last couple of years is “My Bad” what on earth does that even mean? seems like it’s used as a substitute for “apologies, that was my fault” anyway, as it seems to be generally used by hipster types half my age it gets right up my hooter!
Sea of vapours
Guru
- Location
- Clapham, Yorkshire Dales
Pretty much synonymous with 'mea culpa' which, what with being Latin, makes it quite old really.
Shakespeare used it in one of the sonnets (verbatim):
'For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o’er-green my bad, my good allow?'
Heavily used in 'Buffy the vampire slayer' too - multiple times per episode iirc - so maybe that's the rather more recent origin?
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
I've been hearing it for a lot more than just the last couple of years, and not just by "hipster types", or even only people half my age (I'm 66).
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
Have we had "Fly high" when someone dies? Or "Over rainbow bridge" when a pet cat or dog dies? 🤔
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
In my day "rainbow bridge" was called "flushed down the toilet."
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
Me too! I hate it!! 🧐
lazybloke
Today i follow the flying spaghetti monster
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
Bonus puke-points for using 'rainbow bridge' and 'fur baby' in the same sentence.
Not 'fur burger'. That's what my wife once called one of the kittens (when chatting to her stepmother). Much mirth.
Gwylan
Veteran
- Location
- All at sea⛵
I feel your pain
Jameshow
Veteran
Gotta fess up I don't like it either, like, you know what I'm saying man!
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Not so much an expression but an insult.
I hate the term "Gammon" used as an insult.
Being Jewish I find it slightly distasteful, but could live with that alone - the world doesn't revolve around me and mine.
Direct an insult at anyone else based on their appearance and you'd be accused of being an "ist" of some kind, and rightly so, and this is really no different.
And on top of all that it simply playground level juvenile name-calling. The type that trot it out think they're clever and cackle along with their narrow minded friends, when all they're doing is celebrating puerlie behaviour that they themselves would condemn in any other context.
It makes my skin crawl.
I hate the term "Gammon" used as an insult.
Being Jewish I find it slightly distasteful, but could live with that alone - the world doesn't revolve around me and mine.
Direct an insult at anyone else based on their appearance and you'd be accused of being an "ist" of some kind, and rightly so, and this is really no different.
And on top of all that it simply playground level juvenile name-calling. The type that trot it out think they're clever and cackle along with their narrow minded friends, when all they're doing is celebrating puerlie behaviour that they themselves would condemn in any other context.
It makes my skin crawl.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Never did manage to get a Black Lab to flush properly - they tend to get stuck
