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One hundred percent

  • 01-08-2019 9:35pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭


    When did people start using this phrase '100%' I'm hearing it all over the shop lately in peoples answers to everything
    'Oh yeah one hundred percent '
    It's an awful habit of a phrase and its spreading in my opinion


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Mortelaro wrote: »
    When did people start using this phrase '100%' I'm hearing it all over the shop lately in peoples answers to everything
    'Oh yeah one hundred percent '
    It's an awful habit of a phrase and its spreading in my opinion

    Yeah, deffo.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    It's been fairly widespread for at least 40 years.


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I agree

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    Absolutely it's spreading.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 19,939 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    It's better than the morons who say things like 150%.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,578 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    It seems to be from the Middle Ages according to Wikipedia

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage

    So, a while


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 946 ✭✭✭Phileas Frog


    110%


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,921 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    I'm with the OP 110%.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 657 ✭✭✭I Am The Law


    What shop? could be relevant.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Sure that's nothing, literally everytime I have any media on, it's all literally this and literally that.
    It's literally non-stop. Literally even when it isn't appropriate.
    Am 101% convinced it's literally become the most overused word, like, literally ever, like, for sure.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 159 ✭✭Tamara tamara


    Id take 100% any day over A1. Had that a few times.


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I often save 100% when I go shopping, by buying nothing!


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 19,939 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Id take 100% any day over A1. Had that a few times.

    Is your name Sharon?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Years ago a contestant on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire phoned a friend. The friend told the contestant what he thought the answer was and the contestant asked "are you 100% sure?". The friend replied "I'm as 100% sure as I can be".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Years ago a contestant on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire phoned a friend. The friend told the contestant what he thought the answer was and the contestant asked "are you 100% sure?". The friend replied "I'm as 100% sure as I can be".

    Was he right? You can’t leave us hanging.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Was he right? You can’t leave us hanging.

    He was as right as he could have been.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    He was as right as he could have been.

    Thank god. I can go to bed now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,578 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    Was he right? You can’t leave us hanging.

    Find out after the break!


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