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    #572
    [Deleted User]
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    "Shakers"


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    #573
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    elfy4eva wrote: »
    Probably already been mentioned but I didn't want to flip through the thread but..

    "Influencers."

    **** off.

    Well it's the first time it's been mentioned today if that makes you feel better


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    #574
    [Deleted User]
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    "Even Homer Simpson would know how......"


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    #575
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    Deleted User wrote: »
    "Even Homer Simpson would know how......"

    First time i have ever heard of that line


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    #576
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users Posts: 4,643 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    "happy out" when did this saying grab a national foothold?


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    #577
    ScallionAyter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭ScallionAyter


    "There's fear of him/her."


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    #578
    ligerdub
    Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    "we go again".

    I notice a lot of this pigeon English creeping into football speak, and thereafter into general usage.


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    #579
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    ShamNNspace wrote: »
    "happy out" when did this saying grab a national foothold?

    Weshterners have been using this since the 90's, at least.


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    #580
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Ipso wrote: »

    Weshterners have been using this since the 90's, at least.

    I've heard it whole life and I'm from the 70s. We were all happy out then, playing, unsupervised, near traffic. Going to the shops ourselves to get our own sweets and usually a few messages with it.


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    #581
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,489 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    ligerdub wrote: »
    "we go again".

    I notice a lot of this pigeon English creeping into football speak, and thereafter into general usage.

    In the same way that Pigeon seems to be replacing Pidgin.


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    #582
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users Posts: 4,643 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Ipso wrote: »

    Weshterners have been using this since the 90's, at least.

    I've heard it whole life and I'm from the 70s. We were all happy out then, playing, unsupervised, near traffic. Going to the shops ourselves to get our own sweets and usually a few messages with it.
    From Galway and it wasn't in popular use in my youth.. Was always under the impression it originated in the Midlands


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    #583
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,742 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Gorteen wrote: »
    Another similar one is "Start a conversation"...…. Management gobbledegook

    That one was used incessantly in my old workplaces, it was never having a chat, or a word or even talking, it was always "conversations".

    "Story/Stories" and "journey/journeys" are way overused as well.

    "Your fertility journey"...fcuk off.


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    #584
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,742 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Space filling hackneyed phrases used by talking heads and politicians especially;

    At the end of the day...
    The reality (on the ground) is...
    ....until the cows come home.
    With all due respect..

    "Absolutely" instead of saying "yes".


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    #585
    Redneck Reject
    Closed Accounts Posts: 587 ✭✭✭Redneck Reject


    Same difference.


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    #586
    trashcan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,906 ✭✭✭trashcan


    Miley Byrne wrote: »
    Not sure if it has been mentioned already but "I want to say......"


    Me: What time did you get home last night?

    Friend: I want to say 1 o'clock? (Said like they are asking a question)

    Me: Well just say f*&king 1 o'clock then. Why do you sound like you need my permission to give a simple answer. Or else just say "I think it was 1 o'clock".

    :mad:

    Ross O'Carroll Kelly springs to mind :D


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    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,355 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    That one was used incessantly in my old workplaces, it was never having a chat, or a word or even talking, it was always "conversations".

    "Story/Stories" and "journey/journeys" are way overused as well.

    "Your fertility journey"...fcuk off.
    It (fertility journey) started with a Malibu and coke at 11. 30 followed by a ride in the back of her car at around 1.45.
    Less messing around in those days.


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    #588
    ligerdub
    Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    dxhound2005 wrote:
    In the same way that Pigeon seems to be replacing Pidgin.


    Very good. I'd only ever heard that expression.


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    #589
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,807 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    A chap I worked with, when you’d walk in the door... “ahhh it’s yourself”. Of course it’s myself, who the bastarding fûck else am I supposed to be !?


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    Beanntraigheach
    Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Beanntraigheach


    I've noticed the word "Presser" (press conference) being used a lot today.
    It vexes me :mad:


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    #591
    Greentopia
    Registered Users Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭Greentopia


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Space filling hackneyed phrases used by talking heads and politicians especially;

    At the end of the day...
    The reality (on the ground) is...
    ....until the cows come home.
    With all due respect..

    "Absolutely" instead of saying "yes".

    Going forward. :mad:

    It's been said already but mine would be any and all Americanisms being used here. Also 'influencers'...made up job for terminally work shy narcissistic no talent blaggers. GAH!!


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    #592
    Caegan
    Registered Users Posts: 358 ✭✭Caegan


    Fur Babies! Seriously Janet just **** off with your tiny rat dog/cat


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    #593
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,489 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    In fairness.


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    #594
    smilerf
    Registered Users Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭smilerf


    Bespoke
    Stupid name
    What's wrong with custom made


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    #595
    [Deleted User]
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    But sure.....

    Yes and....

    You see...


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    #596
    Marhay70
    Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    smilerf wrote: »
    Bespoke
    Stupid name
    What's wrong with custom made

    Bespoke was around for a few hundred years before custom made came to be.


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    #597
    [Deleted User]
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    Let's huddle up


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    #598
    Rasputin11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭Rasputin11


    Killing it.


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    #599
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users Posts: 16,072 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Marhay70 wrote: »
    smilerf wrote: »
    Bespoke
    Stupid name
    What's wrong with custom made

    Bespoke was around for a few hundred years before custom made came to be.

    I never heard the word bespoke until about 4 years ago on Grand Design


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    #600
    HopsAndJumps
    Registered Users Posts: 304 ✭✭HopsAndJumps


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Marhay70 wrote: »

    I never heard the word bespoke until about 4 years ago on Grand Design

    Yeah it seems to be an old word that has come back into fashion in the last 20 years. There is a Wikipedia article on the word, the word seems to annoy more than just us.

    "The B word has become an increasingly common branding lure employed by interior design companies, publishers, surgeons and pornographers. There are bespoke wines, bespoke software, bespoke vacations, bespoke barber shops, bespoke insurance plans, bespoke yoga, bespoke tattoos, even bespoke medical implants."[3]


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    Marhay70
    Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    HopsAndJumps wrote: »
    iamwhoiam wrote: »

    Yeah it seems to be an old word that has come back into fashion in the last 20 years. There is a Wikipedia article on the word, the word seems to annoy more than just us.

    "The B word has become an increasingly common branding lure employed by interior design companies, publishers, surgeons and pornographers. There are bespoke wines, bespoke software, bespoke vacations, bespoke barber shops, bespoke insurance plans, bespoke yoga, bespoke tattoos, even bespoke medical implants."[3]

    AFAIK it was originally used to describe tradesmen and artisans who were recommended by word of mouth among the upper classes and aristocracy.
    Even today some businesses which would be frequented by those sort of people still use the term. For instance, Louis Copeland described himself as a "Bespoke Tailor".


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