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    #62
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    No it’s not a joke, the person doesn’t do jokes. I wouldn’t think he’s on boards but if he is then ‘hey Andrew!!’

    Would that be Mr Andrew Malaprop, Esq, B.Sc., then? :D


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    #63
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    CFlat wrote: »
    Would you ever fuc k off with your 'strawman argument'.

    Fcuk off with the arguments, and well fcuk off with the phrase, then!

    (Applies to a few things on this list. Especially 'Piers Morgan'.)


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    #64
    mistersifter
    Registered Users Posts: 3,135 ✭✭✭mistersifter


    1. The unnecessary use of the word "narrative". Everything has now become a narrative.

    2. Everything has also become "an experience". I saw an advertisement for a 'car wash experience' recently. It's Maxol, not bloody Disney Land. It's also overused as a verb. There a stereotypical plonker from LA on Dermot Bannon's show the other day saying he liked to "experience" (i.e. look at) his back garden. Says it all.

    3. The current trend of using "super" as a prefix for everything. I'm super excited. Super cool.

    4. 'Awesome, especially when used by an Irish person.

    I blame apps and internet in general. Every app nowadays uses this informal american language to come across as cool, chilled out:
    "hey, awesome, thanks for signing in buddy, why not check out our super cool new shopping experience, we're not even after your money". F*ck off app!


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    #65
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    mistersifter wrote: »
    1. The unnecessary use of the word "narrative". Everything has now become a narrative.

    That's very true. It may be the new "optics".


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    #66
    DickSwiveller Returns
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    mistersifter wrote: »
    1. The unnecessary use of the word "narrative". Everything has now become a narrative.

    2. Everything has also become "an experience". I saw an advertisement for a 'car wash experience' recently. It's Maxol, not bloody Disney Land. It's also overused as a verb. There a stereotypical plonker from LA on Dermot Bannon's show the other day saying he liked to "experience" (i.e. look at) his back garden. Says it all.

    3. The current trend of using "super" as a prefix for everything. I'm super excited. Super cool.

    4. 'Awesome, especially when used by an Irish person.

    I blame apps and internet in general. Every app nowadays uses this informal american language to come across as cool, chilled out:
    "hey, awesome, thanks for signing in buddy, why not check out our super cool new shopping experience, we're not even after your money". F*ck off app!

    Words can't express how much I hate that word.


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    #67
    Lorelli!
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    Been on a journey! Ugh!


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    #68
    DickSwiveller Returns
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    Someone describing themselves as a 'spiritual person'


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    #69
    DickSwiveller Returns
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    People who say Mum or mom instead of Mam

    People saying cops instead of Guards or Gardaí


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    #70
    mistersifter
    Registered Users Posts: 3,135 ✭✭✭mistersifter


    DickSwiveller Returns wrote: »
    People who say Mum or mom instead of Mam

    People saying cops instead of Guards or Gardaí

    It's weird. These seem to have become the norm in Ireland now. Not a fan either.


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    #71
    soiseztomabel
    Registered Users Posts: 401 ✭✭soiseztomabel


    Literally
    Obviously
    Like
    Curated
    Lit
    AF
    Massive
    Dude(when said by anyone over 14)


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    #72
    DickSwiveller Returns
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    soiseztomabel wrote: »
    Literally
    Obviously
    Like
    Curated
    Lit
    AF
    Massive
    Dude(when said by anyone over 14)

    Oh yes. I cringe when I hear an Irish person saying it.


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    #73
    JustAThought
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    Anyone in work - eapecually a man - who mansplains.

    You are edging closer to being minced.


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    #74
    dee75
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    Legit
    For real
    Starting every sentence with "So..."
    "Let's discuss that issue offline"


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    #75
    jellybear
    Registered Users Posts: 3,229 ✭✭✭jellybear


    It's used quite often in the food forum here..."washed down with a big mug of tae"...yuck.


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    #76
    Atoms for Peace
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    Binary.


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    #77
    trashcan
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    "Do you know what I mean ?" At the end of every sentence. Grrr.
    Beginning a sentence with "So." Likewise "look", or "listen" Damien Duff, I'm looking at you.


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    #78
    trashcan
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    dee75 wrote: »
    Starting every sentence with "So..."
    "

    Hah, beat me to it.


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    #79
    Omackeral
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Chrimbo.

    The Christmas. ''Did you do anything over the Christmas?''


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    #80
    benjamin d
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    The Christmas. ''Did you do anything over the Christmas?''

    When anyone says they're going on holibops/holibobs I pray their plane crashes


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    #81
    Omackeral
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    benjamin d wrote: »
    When anyone says they're going on holibops/holibobs I pray their plane crashes

    Unfair on everyone else but it's kinda justified I suppose.


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    #82
    benjamin d
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    It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make


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    #83
    con___manx1
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    Awesome its such an american word. Annoying when irish people use it. Kudos another stupid word.


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    #84
    castletownman
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    "Hubby"

    From experience, it's usually used by the type of domineering woman who has said husband's testicles mounted above the fireplace.


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    #85
    DickSwiveller Returns
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    castletownman wrote: »
    "Hubby"

    From experience, it's usually used by the type of domineering woman who has said husband's testicles mounted above the fireplace.

    :D:D


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    #86
    Franz Von Peppercorn
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    mistersifter wrote: »
    It's weird. These seem to have become the norm in Ireland now. Not a fan either.

    Both have been around for years.

    This discussion plays out here every so often.


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    #87
    blackcard
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    Thanking you


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    #88
    texas star
    Registered Users Posts: 569 ✭✭✭texas star


    It is what it is


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    #89
    blackcard
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    texas star wrote: »
    It is what it is

    We are where we are


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    #90
    Lorelli!
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    Fab


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    #91
    mistersifter
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    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    Both have been around for years.

    This discussion plays out here every so often.

    they've been around, yes. But it seems to me they're more widely used than ever now. Might be just where I live now, but I rarely hear anyone say Mam.


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