Cliched Phrases on Boards

Arghus

Marxist - usually used by someone who doesn't know what they're on about.

Cultural marxist - usually used by someone who really doesn't know what they're on about.

External Association

[Deleted User] wrote: »

wait until yous hear some rugby commentry.....buzzword central :yawn:

They're in every sport.

Every pack needs someone with a bit of 'mungrel' in them.

The Continental Op

Basically, I say basically far too often so basically its a word I try and avoid using on Boards.

External Association

External Association wrote: »

They're in every sport.

Every pack needs someone with a bit of 'mungrel' in them.

the "off load" would known as a pass in every other sport :pac:

Whole rugby sport is a buzzword marketers dream



Though the 'PC brigade' seems to been decommissioned in exchange for the equally secretive and elusive 'cancel culture'

pinksoir

"You couldn't make it up". Usually said in relation to something that could, indeed, quite easily be made up.

Say Your Number

Can't believe I'm paying a license fee for this

External Association

[Deleted User] wrote: »

the "off load" would known as a pass in every other sport :pac:

Whole rugby sport is a buzzword marketers dream



Though the 'PC brigade' seems to been decommissioned in exchange for the equally secretive and elusive 'cancel culture'

The offload would be a pass released as your taking contact, as opposed to in space don't mind it.

Diti Hamann was a divil for the player 'did ever so well' in football.

The 'gain line' gets a bit repetitive in rugby but all sports have these phrases.

Mick Dowling in boxing, 'he's a slippery customer'.

External Association

Say Your Number wrote: »

Can't believe I'm paying a license fee for this

Often followed on the LLS by 'the misery section'.

Immortal Starlight

Wow, just wow. I can’t stand that one.

I can't think of any Boards specific cliches but I would like to tell anybody reading this to blast yourself with piss.

Wanderer2010

"Is that even a thing?"

Curious phrase almost exclusively uttered by the 25 and under age group, completely American and extremely irritating. I suspect some crap sitcom from the States gave birth to it.

jam_mac_jam

[Deleted User] wrote: »

the "off load" would known as a pass in every other sport :pac:

Whole rugby sport is a buzzword marketers dream



Though the 'PC brigade' seems to been decommissioned in exchange for the equally secretive and elusive 'cancel culture'

The pc brigade was everywhere a while ago. And now completely gone.

The Mighty Quinn

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

This one badly grinds my gears. Lads using "woke" to describe notions of civil rights that have been around since at least the late 1960s.

It's all down to the "PC lobby", you see. There was no "fairness" when they were kids, and that's as it should be.

I believe this post is what's called "dogwhistling"

The Continental Op

Road tax - we all know what the poster means but always followed by

There is no "road tax" or something similar

Is that a chiche?

Leg End Reject

'FYP' - Fix your own post ya prick.

'Is all' at the end of a sentence.

'I see what you did there'

'Neckbeard/bootcut jeans/checked shirt' stereotype of a supposed typical male poster that seems to exclusively consume pizza and coke.

FanadMan

/thread

No, I don't mean that this thread is over. I HATE that phrase! Sometimes it's posted as a joke. but there's plenty of times when some smartarse is convinced that their opinion is the most important and correct ever stated and that everyone else should bow down to them :mad:

Omackeral

This thread is for discussing cliched phrases. It is not to be used to target specific users and their posting styles.

BB

Hangdogroad

Free houses.

Wanderer78

Hangdogroad wrote:

Free houses.

.... Or forever homes....

sydthebeat

"the left"

whisky_galore

Strawman.
Simples.
End of.
Get a grip.
West Brit.
Sheeple.
Gubberment.
Mehole (Martin)

murpho999

"Never heard of them".

Always used by an poster who thinks they're edgy when a celebrity passes away or makes the news.

tom1ie

“But you knew that didn’t you”

Nearly every thread after it descends into sniping at each other.

banie01

murpho999 wrote: »

"Never heard of them".

Always used by an poster who thinks they're edgy when a celebrity passes away or makes the news.

Who?

External Association

External Association wrote: »

Woke and snowflake are often used as a cover all. I don't mind woke personally. Think snowflake is used as a put down for someone you don't agree with, often in a bullying way.

Yeah I often see snowflake used by very right-wing types - Gemma sypporter level - for nothing other than being disagreed with.

But yeah woke is a thing - no matter what the tediously dismissive and sneering keep telling themselves. It's a stupid word all right and like any buzzword will be misused, but it refers to nonsense like a pile-on on JK Rowling for simply saying biology can't be denied (the misogyny she experienced! But THAT misogyny is OK) or me being called a fascist (yeah because clearly I'm a big fan of Mussolini and Oswald Moseley) for holding the same view as her.

It's the likes of a woman's employer being bullied into announcing on social media that they fired her (I mean, is that even legal?) She was a racist arsehole but the way it escalated into her employer being held accountable... this is what people mean by using the w word.

It's denial of actual problems disproportionately occurring in particular communities - and referring to acknowledgement of this as bigotry.

It's nothing to do with civil rights - utterly beyond me how someone could come to that conclusion. Few would take issue with civil rights. It's about taking individual views in isolation that are conservative or even just in the centre - or neither, just the truth - and claiming they make someone a bigot, and calling for that person to be punished. It is NOT a term for someone who criticises actual bigots (you're not woke if you call Gemma O'Doherty and John Waters dreadful bigots - even if some eejits misuse the term, that is not what woke is).

Leg End Reject

Leg End Reject wrote: »

'Neckbeard/bootcut jeans/checked shirt' stereotype of a supposed typical male poster that seems to exclusively consume pizza and coke.

I do not understand what the issue is with bootcut jeans (aka jeans) and I suspect a number who jump on the "boot cut jeans are terrible" bandwagon don't either.

Hangdogroad

whisky_galore wrote: »

Strawman.
Simples.
End of.
Get a grip.
West Brit.
Sheeple.
Gubberment.
Mehole (Martin)

"Simples"

I utterly detest those ads with that cgi talking rat thing to begin with so don't get me started on people who use that idiotic catchphrase.

Is shinner still constantly used to bully people who simply criticise the grotesque behaviour of the security forces towards nationalists back in the day?

The cringe inducing ‘coke and hookers’.

StupidLikeAFox

Hangdogroad wrote: »

"Simples"

This usually follows some ridiculously complex idea reduced to a single line

"All the government need to do is raise corporate tax by 10%, build 20000 houses and revert to the old health board system. Simples."