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Doublespeak.Can you spot it are you good with it?

  • 16-08-2019 8:06pm
    #1
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,211 ✭✭✭✭




    Getting creative with language. Not always a bad thing ...not always a good thing.

    Could you spot it?


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  • #2
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,211 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Props to the guy who used to save a species of fish.


  • #3
    fmpisces
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 888 ✭✭✭fmpisces


    Yes. I am quite proud of that ability actually.


  • #4
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,762 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    I like George Carlin's take on it:

    Shellshock --> Battle fatigue --> Operational exhaustion --> Post traumatic stress disorder.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #5
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,211 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    The one that got me was the 52 words for sugar. Will read everything i eat now!


  • #6
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Cultural enrichment = dump 'problems' onto other countries with no coherent plan to benefit all involved.


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