People saying "but the reality is..." to look smart

veryangryman

This phrase has crept in in recent years, i'm blaming newstalk presenters on current affairs shows. Its the biggest cop out since "we are where we are". Keep an ear for it and you can faintly hear my gears grinding in the background.

Can we bring back public stonings?

padd b1975

It's not as bad as "It's important to point out...".

soiseztomabel

Litchrally...

Kevin Finnerty

Are you Walter Mitty OP?

dxhound2005

The reality could not be further from the truth.

Atlantic Dawn

'We all partied during the boom'...usually said by fools who mortgaged a 2 bedroom shack in Ballsbridge for €3.6 million in 2007.

RhubarbCrumble

"We reached out"

Whatever happened to just contacting someone or getting in touch?

gifted

To be fair....

Outlaw Pete

It is what it is.....

dxhound2005

At the end of the day we all have to get up in the morning.

The Rape of Lucretia

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

It is what it is.....

Thats just a variant of calling a spade a spade. It communicates a useful concept. Nothing wrong with it at all.

Chancer3001

You simple minded sheep think this...

But the reality is this...

Cos I'm smarter than you and am so learned on the topic

The Rape of Lucretia

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

'We all partied during the boom'...usually said by fools who mortgaged a 2 bedroom shack in Ballsbridge for €3.6 million in 2007.

Usually objected to by people who are still in denial that they too did part during the boom, and want to blame others for the crash.

Turnipman

veryangryman wrote: »

This phrase has crept in in recent years, i'm blaming newstalk presenters on current affairs shows. Its the biggest cop out since "we are where we are". Keep an ear for it and you can faintly hear my gears grinding in the background.

Can we bring back public stonings?

It was started by Gerry Adams shortly after the NI appeasement process - the bigger the lie that he was about to tell, the more emphatically he'd preface his remarks with "the reality is".

It used to really grind my gears back in the days when he, Bertie and Phony Bliar were telling us big lies about almost everything.

Collie D

The most anger inducing words to be heard on the radio?

"And next up...Coldplay"

Turnipman

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

"We reached out"

Whatever happened to just contacting someone or getting in touch?

"Reaching out" sounds far more generous!

Example "We reached out to the DUP and offered them a choc-ice" sounds far better than "We contacted/got in touch with Arlene Foster and told her to ........ "

Malayalam

How about this gibberish to look smart?

An advert for a diploma in architecture...



Theodore Dalrymple wrote about this kind of stuff yesterday - http://takimag.com/article/beyond_translation_theodore_dalrymple

corner of hells

"And furthermore ...." When I hear those words , that's when my nervous twitch beside my eye starts.

TheValeyard

"Can I just say"

Atlantic Dawn

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

Usually objected to by people who are still in denial that they too did part during the boom, and want to blame others for the crash.

The end of 2019 we can all begin to laugh again

mad muffin

At the end of the day, the reality is what it is…

Turnipman

mad muffin wrote: »

At the end of the day, the reality is what it is…

......... and we are where we are.

Donald Trump

Turnipman wrote: »

It was started by Gerry Adams shortly after the NI appeasement process - the bigger the lie that he was about to tell, the more emphatically he'd preface his remarks with "the reality is".

The reality of the seattt-ch-u-ayyy-shon

5rtytry56

...........or "In Actual Fact...............................",

"Well...........as I see it, The Situation Is This"

Wanderer78

The Rape of Lucretia wrote:

Usually objected to by people who are still in denial that they too did part during the boom, and want to blame others for the crash.

Thankfully the banks played no part in all this, and as the crash was the complete fault of the public, it should never happen again!

BoardsMember

"Ireland Inc is open for business"

Only absolute w@nker politicians can come up with these types of phrases.

Turnipman

Donald Trump wrote: »

The reality of the seattt-ch-u-ayyy-shon

Here we go - and there are at lest 100 separate incidences! :pac:

LINK

His SF handlers badly need to re-programme Gerry's brain!

Trigger Happy

“But the reality is...”is handy to use when talking with someone who is delusional.

AllForIt

Don't mind that one at all - it makes sense.

Agricola

The two worst ones from politicians are;

"Hold on, Let me say this clearly..............I want to be very clear here......."

Then is media/spin training 101. When you want to misdirect / avoid or generally waffle, be sure to tell the audience you desperately need to be clear.

The other one, a favourite of Brian Hayes from FG;

"There is a crucial point here and it is this............................."

Imagine teeing up your sentences like this. Instead of just making the 'crucial point' you need to ready the audience for it, making yourself look very smug in the process.