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What's your least favorite word or phrase?

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  • #52
    Kilboor
    Registered Users Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭Kilboor


    Kind Regards.


  • #53
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,016 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Well done E, you win the “woke” stakes again today. Have you ever had an original thought or opinion of your own?

    Thanks, R. Coming from you that means very little.

    As for your “original thought” dig, I think it’s quite obvious that I am, indeed, a genuine free thinker. Unlike that All Lives Matter mob.

    Now, if it’s alright with you, I’d like to disengage from “interacting” with you lest you run off crying to your mod pals, telling tall tales, again.

    Good day to you, sir.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #54
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,256 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Covid

    Open up the economy


  • #55
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,386 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    touts wrote: »
    Socialism: Means you work hard so others couldn't be arsed.

    “The trouble with socialism is that it takes up too many evenings.”


  • #56
    Still waters
    Registered Users Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Well done E, you win the “woke” stakes again today. Have you ever had an original thought or opinion of your own?

    I have to agree with you here, it must be draining for these "types "sitting at home all day waiting for some small opening to once again ride forth on their white steed of justice and political correctness to sneer down at the poor uneducated plebs who need a good lesson in white guilt and privilege, the ****


  • #57
    BuboBubo
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    Gin.

    Horrible stuff, and the latest trendy yummy mummy, yapping class beverage.

    "Gin o'clock signage, pink gin, blue gin, gin flavoured crisps, gin scented candles (in Aldi at the moment, I sh1t you not)

    I'm patiently waiting for cider to make a comeback ;)


  • #58
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Thanks, R. Coming from you that means very little.

    As for your “original thought” dig, I think it’s quite obvious that I am, indeed, a genuine free thinker. Unlike that All Lives Matter mob.

    Now, if it’s alright with you, I’d like to disengage from “interacting” with you lest you run off crying to your mod pals, telling tall tales, again.

    Good day to you, sir.

    Stop posting “woke” guff and I won’t need to respond, E.


  • #59
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,669 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Touch base.


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    'Sssstorryyy ?


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  • #61
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,016 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Stop posting “woke” guff and I won’t need to respond, E.

    I said good day!!

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #62
    onlyonpaper
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭onlyonpaper


    Early doors..meaning at the start.....and now as well Staycation


  • #63
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    I said good day!!

    Well played, E.


  • #64
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    The content of the lifestyle articles on rte’s website.


  • #65
    CoBo55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,315 ✭✭✭CoBo55


    Get go..
    Revert...


  • #66
    gammygils
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,288 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    Error 404

    Not found

    Grrrrrrr


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  • #67
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    "I will, yeah".


  • #68
    Tiger20
    Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭Tiger20


    Michael Martin always says, "In the context of", and " In relation to" in every statement, drives me nuts. It means absolutely nothing, in the context of and in relation to anything


  • #69
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,280 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Every time I hear someone say this, I genuinely want to murder them:

    "Money doesn't buy happiness"

    Like fuk it doesn't. Usually said by those who have enough money to be happy.


  • #70
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,681 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    keep calm and (anything) on


  • #71
    Sorry about that
    Closed Accounts Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Sorry about that


    For the foreseeable.


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  • #72
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Tiger20 wrote: »
    Michael Martin always says, "In the context of", and " In relation to" in every statement, drives me nuts. It means absolutely nothing, in the context of and in relation to anything

    Useless space filler clichés beloved of talking heads and the corporate world.

    "In terms of..."
    "The reality (on the ground) is..."
    "The dogs in the street know..."


  • #73
    dirkmeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭dirkmeister


    It is what it is.

    A bullsh*t phrase used by bullsh*tters.


  • #74
    Hego Damask
    Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Hego Damask


    TheValeyard wrote: »
    'were all in the same boat'



    Would ya fcuk off. Some people are on private super cruisers while the rest are clinging to life rafts.

    This spot ****ing on.

    Some people aren't being affected at all by this ****e.
    In fact some are loving it


  • #75
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,530 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Yaknowwhatimean, or knowwhatimean.

    Apart from being annoying there's more than 1 word in each.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #76
    norwegianwood
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭norwegianwood


    Any flavour of corporate shíte talk. In a meeting the other day someone came out with "I guess at this point all the low hanging fruit has already been picked", had to mute the rest of it for the sake of my blood pressure.


  • #77
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,903 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Hipster, incel, Karen etc.


  • #78
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    norwegianwood wrote: »
    Any flavour of corporate shíte talk. In a meeting the other day someone came out with "I guess at this point all the low hanging fruit has already been picked", had to mute the rest of it for the sake of my blood pressure.

    We had a VP that came out with some absolute classic - but totally unique - corporate bull****. it was his only discernible ability. Here's just some of the ones we recorded, there's loads more:
    • We Duct Taped a 747
    • Flavour of the month is pistachio - it could be creme brûlée
    • The experience is very root canal
    • It was a big pivotal pivot
    • I literally torpedoed it
    • If you let water trickle down the mountain, it will trickle down in interesting ways
    • That could be the long pole in the tent
    • Every project's not Apollo 13
    • It's my baby. I'm not pointing at it and saying "That baby's ugly"
    • We’re unpicking a hair ball.
    • That’s all sausage-making in the factory
    • I understand what you’re saying at 50,000 feet, but that’s not the level we’re at.


  • #79
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,010 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    ThewhiteJesus wrote: »
    The C word,
    anyone who uses it needs a lesson in class

    Anytime I speak I use c*nt in atleast 3 out of 4 sentences


  • #80
    completedit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    We had a VP that came out with some absolute classic - but totally unique - corporate bull****. it was his only discernible ability. Here's just some of the ones we recorded, there's loads more:
    • We Duct Taped a 747
    • Flavour of the month is pistachio - it could be creme brûlée
    • The experience is very root canal
    • It was a big pivotal pivot
    • I literally torpedoed it
    • If you let water trickle down the mountain, it will trickle down in interesting ways
    • That could be the long pole in the tent
    • Every project's not Apollo 13
    • It's my baby. I'm not pointing at it and saying "That baby's ugly"
    • We’re unpicking a hair ball.
    • That’s all sausage-making in the factory
    • I understand what you’re saying at 50,000 feet, but that’s not the level we’re at.

    Anyone who can come out with these pearls without stuttering/cracking a smile, has my respect


  • #81
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    completedit wrote: »
    Anyone who can come out with these pearls without stuttering/cracking a smile, has my respect

    He was a dead serious, but the biggest spoofer I've ever encountered. I remember being in Prague with him once at a client meeting, and we just spontanioulsy went off on a complete bull**** monologue for about 10 minutes. He hadn't even been asked anything, he just started talking absolute nonsense in the middle of a meeting. We had no idea what he was talking about. At the end, one of the VPs from the client just said "that was an awful lot of absolute nothing". We all burst out laughing, and he stayed quiet for the rest of the meeting.

    One time when he came over to the Irish office, we brought him on a trip to the Burren (the dolmen, the caves, the Cliffs of Moher, etc.) His background was Geology, (although somehow he ended up with us in an e-commerce company). Throughout the entire day trip, he'd point at every bit of rock he'd see and go "That there is limestone". The whole bloody Burren is limestone. You can't move for the limestone. Throw a limestone rock in any direction, and you're guaranteed the rock it lands on will be limestone. But he had to individually point out every bit of he he saw. In the end, we were pointing at random bits of stone, field walls and entire mountains and asking him what they were. "Limestone", he would authoritatively reply each time. And we'd try our best to hold in the laughter.

    The best thing he did, however, was send me a screenshot of his computer one day. His browser tabs were visible in it. One was a Yahoo! search for PornHub, the other a PornHub search for "hot tanned moms". He was in a hotel at a conference in Vegas at the time, but had a call scheduled with another woman that worked beside me. A second after sending me the screen grab, he messaged her to cancel the call because he was "sick in bed". She was very nearly sick at the thought of him messaging her right in the middle of his virtuoso solo on the belly trombone.


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  • #82
    AdrianBalboa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭AdrianBalboa


    Rothko wrote: »
    Hipster, incel, Karen etc.

    I find “Karen” to be problematic. It’s a word that insinuates all middle aged women who stand up for themselves or demand decent customer service are shrill self-absorbed brats.

    I’ve heard people snickering and calling me a “Karen” or mimic me asking to see a supervisor in Penney’s and it’s incredibly insulting! They don’t know what’s going on in my life!


  • #83
    Newbie20
    Registered Users Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Newbie20


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Staycation at the moment.

    If I could thank this 100 times I would. Can’t stand that stupid made up word. What wrong with just saying
    “yeah we’re staying in Ireland for our holiday this year”
    ****ing staycation


  • #84
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Rothko wrote: »
    Hipster, incel, Karen etc.

    These are all concepts that exist though, so they have some merit.


  • #85
    Lucy8080
    Registered Users Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Lucy8080


    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »
    Mother-f*cker. It’s a disgusting horrible choice of word.

    I have never understood the ease with which Americans throw that word around whilst they/others balk at the word "cu*t" on T.V. or movies. If one of those words needs putting to bed I would not start with the "C" word.


  • #86
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    We had a VP that came out with some absolute classic - but totally unique - corporate bull****. it was his only discernible ability. Here's just some of the ones we recorded, there's loads more:
    • We Duct Taped a 747
    • Flavour of the month is pistachio - it could be creme brûlée
    • The experience is very root canal
    • It was a big pivotal pivot
    • I literally torpedoed it
    • If you let water trickle down the mountain, it will trickle down in interesting ways
    • That could be the long pole in the tent
    • Every project's not Apollo 13
    • It's my baby. I'm not pointing at it and saying "That baby's ugly"
    • We’re unpicking a hair ball.
    • That’s all sausage-making in the factory
    • I understand what you’re saying at 50,000 feet, but that’s not the level we’re at.
    WOW

    "Any sufficiently advanced riddle is indistinguishable from gibberish."



    Speed tape is what you use on 747's. It's not cheap. It's not permanent.

    If you torpedoed it with Mark XIV torpedo there's so may different ways it will fail

    Apollo 13 didn't kill anyone also raised brand awareness.

    The Hairy Ball Theorem from a VP :eek: Yes it exists. And mathematically proven to be impossible.

    Who was it that did an expose on the sausage industry where a worker fell in to the machine turned into sausages ? It so shocked high society they stopped eating sausages. For a while.


  • #87
    jellybear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,238 ✭✭✭jellybear


    Used frequently in Food threads on Boards...

    Washed down with a big mug of tae/ couple of beers.
    Stew/ gravy mopped up with a few slices of bread.
    Spag bol.


  • #88
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Have you ever had an original thought or opinion of your own?

    Have you Rodney, because that's a very special gift and the names that are associated with having original thoughts ring out across centuries and across cultures.

    Isaac Newton, Nicola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Rene Descartes, these are some of the people, I personally, associate with having original thoughts or opinions. Those are some big names to be rubbing shoulders with and even they were synthesising the work of others that came before them.

    'The kernel, the soul, let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances is plagiarism.' Mark Twain.


  • #89
    scary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 416 ✭✭scary


    Colleague.


  • #90
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,903 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    These are all concepts that exist though, so they have some merit.

    Originally, yes.

    However, they've all become a generic insult that's just used to describe anyone that a person doesn't like, to the point that they've all become meaningless.


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  • #91
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    Have you Rodney, because that's a very special gift and the names that are associated with having original thoughts ring out across centuries and across cultures.

    Isaac Newton, Nicola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Rene Descartes, these are some of the people, I personally, associate with having original thoughts or opinions. Those are some big names to be rubbing shoulders with and even they were synthesising the work of others that came before them.

    'The kernel, the soul, let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances is plagiarism.' Mark Twain.

    Not interested in hearing about Karl Marx, thanks.


  • #92
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Not interested in hearing about Karl Marx, thanks.

    I wonder where you got that opinion from - probably some halfwit on YouTube.


  • #93
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    I wonder where you got that opinion from - probably some halfwit on YouTube.

    Sorry to burst your bubble but the rest of the world knows that his ideology has long been has been discredited. No need to listen to ‘halfwits on YouTube’ to realise that.

    Edit: I see you have a new fan.


  • #94
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Edit: I see you have a new fan.

    "You two, get a room" is a phrase I don't like, but it actually seems appropriate here. I spend less time thinking about my wife than you do about EmmetSpiceland.


  • #95
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Sorry to burst your bubble but the rest of the world knows that his ideology has long been has been discredited. No need to listen to ‘halfwits on YouTube’ to realise that.

    LOL, good man. If you're going for a swab for COVID make sure you avoid using socialised providers. :pac:


  • #96
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    "You two, get a room" is a phrase I don't like, but it actually seems appropriate here. I spend less time thinking about my wife than you do about EmmetSpiceland.

    Not my fault he keeps following me around.


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  • #97
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Not my fault he keeps following me around.

    I've 7 year old twins that complain that the other is following them around too. I have to explain to them that they live in the same house - it's not a conspiracy that they're sharing the same space - It's the nature of their relationship.

    (iJust to be clear, in the analogy, Boards is the house. You and Emmet are the twins. I'm me).


  • #98
    Newbie20
    Registered Users Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Newbie20


    Virtue signalling. There doesn’t seem to be a single thread without this stupid new phrase.


  • #99
    NoviGlitzko
    Registered Users Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭NoviGlitzko


    Woke is the most irritating to me lately.


  • #100
    Newbie20
    Registered Users Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Newbie20


    Virtue signalling. There doesn’t seem to be a single thread without this stupid new phrase.


  • #101
    Mr Meanor
    Registered Users Posts: 197 ✭✭Mr Meanor


    'That's Sick'

    Irritation meter has gone of the scale!


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