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Cliched Phrases on Boards

  • 16-06-2021 9:19pm
    #1
    External Association
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    I'm new enough to the site but certain phrases are used way too much on here. My top 3 are:

    1. Jesus wept.
    To quote Brian Clough whoever, wherever came up with that in real life 'needs bloody well shooting'.

    2. Christ on a bike.
    See my response to phrase 1.

    3. 'That's about as funny as a burning orphanage'.
    This phrase ceased to be funny at the turn of the millennium, through overuse.

    Any boards cliched phrases annoy you?


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  • #2
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Yer Maw?

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #3
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Blame whoever wrote the Bible for Jesus Wept.

    After asking where Lazarus had been laid, and being invited to come see, Jesus wept.


  • #4
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,419 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    Atari Jaguar.

    Glazers Out!



  • #5
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,135 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Not a good idea to be weeping while cycling a bike.
    Hayfever?
    Wind?
    Maybe goggles are needed.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #6
    External Association
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    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Blame whoever wrote the Bible for Jesus Wept.

    After asking where Lazarus had been laid, and being invited to come see, Jesus wept.

    Interesting.

    Still after 2,000 years it's served its purpose :D

    Maradona wept after losing to West Germany in 1990 WC final. Why not Maradona wept. A lot of famous people have wept in more recent times.


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  • #7
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,823 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Source?


  • #8
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Religion of peace is one i don't like.


  • #9
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Allinall wrote: »
    Source?

    A post that Abe Lincoln put on the Internet.


  • #10
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,135 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    External Association wrote: »
    Interesting.

    Still after 2,000 years it's served its purpose :D

    Maradona wept after losing to West Germany in 1990 WC final. Why not Maradona wept. A lot of famous people have wept in more recent times.

    Like the Captain Picard face palm?
    Thats more of a boards / online meme.

    The first two phrases you mentioned were a thing way before boards.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #11
    jimmii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,810 ✭✭✭✭jimmii


    External Association wrote: »
    Interesting.

    Still after 2,000 years it's served its purpose :D

    Maradona wept after losing to West Germany in 1990 WC final. Why not Maradona wept. A lot of famous people have wept in more recent times.

    No one reached Jesus levels of fame though. I guess Beckham came pretty close. If the Rock cries one day then maybe that will be the modern version.


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  • #12
    Eduard Khil
    Registered Users Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Eduard Khil


    Woke


  • #13
    External Association
    Registered Users Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭External Association


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Like the Captain Picard face palm?
    Thats more of a boards / online meme.

    The first two phrases you mentioned were a thing way before boards.

    They first two were before boards but overused on here, big time. Lack of imagination in description on here.


  • #14
    Captain Lugger
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭Captain Lugger


    I’ll wait.


  • #15
    External Association
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    jimmii wrote: »
    No one reached Jesus levels of fame though. I guess Beckham came pretty close. If the Rock cries one day then maybe that will be the modern version.

    I understand that but for every poorly missed shot on goal in a match someone will say Jesus Wept. Or for a stupid statement on the Late Late etc.

    We're creative people in this country in our use of language. Why do we resort to such cliche.


  • #16
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Bit ironic (people used to say The Ironing) to repeat a thread about Cliched Phrases. Not for the first time.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=111349434


  • #17
    External Association
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    Eduard Khil wrote: »
    Woke

    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.


  • #18
    TP_CM
    Registered Users Posts: 443 ✭✭TP_CM


    'Thinly veiled' sometimes annoys me. It kind of puts a poster down without attacking whatever point or question they're raising. Sometimes it's required though!


  • #19
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    'Straw man arguments' is one you often see in AH and CA.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #20
    External Association
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    TP_CM wrote: »
    'Thinly veiled' sometimes annoys me. It kind of puts a poster down without attacking whatever point or question they're raising. Sometimes it's required though!

    I find some posters can use language, which sails close to the border of censure, but they are skilled in not crossing the line.

    They're usually experienced, almost professional 'boardsies'. They seem to have infinite time to reply and always have the last word!


  • #21
    External Association
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    bodhrandude wrote: »
    'Straw man arguments' is one you often see in AH and CA.

    Yes. A great term in 'debate'.


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  • #22
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    I for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords. Great bunch of lads.


  • #23
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,135 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    'Straw man arguments' is one you often see in AH and CA.

    To be fair there are a lot of straw man arguments there too

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #24
    Burt Renaults
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 948 ✭✭✭Burt Renaults


    Eduard Khil wrote: »
    Woke

    The go-to word for the perennially tiresome.


  • #25
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Burt Renaults wrote: »
    The go-to word for the perennially tiresome.

    It's a handy one really - lets you know that what follows is bound to be gibberish.


  • #26
    External Association
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    Not on boards, I'm a bit off topic here.

    On Gaelic games commentary the panels are constantly using the word alluded instead of mentioned. 'As Donal óg alluded to earlier'.


  • #27
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    “Cohorts” (everyone seems to use it at every opportunity since Covid started)

    Or

    “Caveat Emptor “(motor forum, when people want to sound like they know more than they actually do)
    ;-)


  • #28
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,932 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Some Blow-in spouting shíte about clichés?
    Fúck that for a game of soldiers!
    I'm not going to be lectured on my leet-speak by some poncey newb!
    FFS like! I mean I didn't come up the foyle in a bubble!
    If this lad winds his neck in, we could be sucking diesel in a jiffy!

    Now!
    Onwards and upwards MoFos!!!


  • #29
    External Association
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    Again not so much boards but society in general..

    'going forward'

    'window of opportunity' around the time of the peace process in the mid to late 90s.

    Kenny Cunningham 2005-2012 approx 'possibly so' :D


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    External Association wrote: »
    Again not so much boards but society in general..

    'going forward'

    'window of opportunity' around the time of the peace process in the mid to late 90s.

    Kenny Cunningham 2005-2012 approx 'possibly so' :D

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


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Eduard Khil wrote: »
    Woke
    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.


  • #32
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #33
    External Association
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    [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.


  • #34
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,088 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


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

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #35
    [Deleted User]
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    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'


  • #36
    pinksoir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,736 ✭✭✭pinksoir


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


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  • #37
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,780 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


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


  • #38
    External Association
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    [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'.


  • #39
    External Association
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    Say Your Number wrote: »
    Can't believe I'm paying a license fee for this

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


  • #40
    Immortal Starlight
    Registered Users Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭Immortal Starlight


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


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
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    I can't think of any Boards specific cliches but I would like to tell anybody reading this to blast yourself with piss.


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  • #42
    Wanderer2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,742 ✭✭✭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.


  • #43
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭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.


  • #44
    The Mighty Quinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭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" :)


  • #45
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,088 ✭✭✭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?

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #46
    Leg End Reject
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    '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.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #47
    FanadMan
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    /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:


  • #48
    Omackeral
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    This thread is for discussing cliched phrases. It is not to be used to target specific users and their posting styles.

    BB


  • #49
    Hangdogroad
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    Free houses.


  • #50
    Wanderer78
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    Hangdogroad wrote:
    Free houses.


    .... Or forever homes....


  • #51
    sydthebeat
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    "the left"


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