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  • #122
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Dismissal of all modern music based on a few sh1te songs that get played all day on TodayFM.


  • #123
    pappyodaniel
    Registered Users Posts: 5,716 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    "Culture boss"



    When referring to some questionable behaviour by a member/s of the traveling community.


  • #124
    deandean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭deandean


    "Blast them with pi$$" used to make a regular appearance until a few years ago.
    IIRC it fell out of favour with the Mods.


  • #125
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Olivia2 wrote: »
    'get your big girl pants on'...anyone remember that one?

    Or

    'ive had my fun..that all that matters' ...

    None remember these?


  • #126
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Say Your Number wrote: »
    Dismissal of all modern music based on a few sh1te songs that get played all day on TodayFM.

    Being dismissed by auld fellas who are into dad rock like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.


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  • #127
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Judge Martin Nolan

    By this stage I reckon he drowns kittens and shot JFK

    Might be the only judge known on boards


  • #128
    boombang
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭boombang


    This


  • #129
    The Mighty Quinn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭The Mighty Quinn


    boombang wrote: »
    This

    +1


  • #130
    Burt Renaults
    Registered Users Posts: 909 ✭✭✭Burt Renaults


    boombang wrote: »
    This

    Wish I could thank this twice.


  • #131
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,645 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Abominable Dr. Phibes wrote: »
    Being dismissed by auld fellas who are into dad rock like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.

    Acting as if pink Floyd and led zep were ever played on the equivalent of today FM back in their day.


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  • #132
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    McGaggs wrote: »
    Acting as if pink Floyd and led zep were ever played on the equivalent of today FM back in their day.
    Maybe they were though. Those bands were mainstream at the time.


  • #133
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    You wouldn't have heard much Zeppelin on the radio. They weren't a "singles band"


  • #134
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Not a phrase or line but faux shock.

    On the thread about the woman that killed her kids I made a suggestion as to what she should do with herself. One poster referred to my comment as horrific, another said shocking.
    Yer on a thread about a woman that actually killed her own children with details about a soother in the plastic bag used to smother a child and my comment was too much?

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #135
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,838 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Feisar wrote: »
    Not a phrase or line but faux shock.

    On the thread about the woman that killed her kids I made a suggestion as to what she should do with herself. One poster referred to my comment as horrific, another said shocking.
    Yer on a thread about a woman that actually killed her own children with details about a soother in the plastic bag used to smother a child and my comment was too much?

    Wow!

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #136
    The Mighty Quinn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭The Mighty Quinn


    silverharp wrote: »
    Wow!

    Wow, just wow!


  • #137
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,702 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    "Strawman argument" I have no idea what this means.
    I never thought I'd live long enough to be able to say the constant Father Ted quotes seems to have petered off a bit too.


  • #138
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    "Strawman argument" I have no idea what this means.
    I never thought I'd live long enough to be able to say the constant Father Ted quotes seems to have petered off a bit too.

    Sealioning was a new one on me recently.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #139
    The Mighty Quinn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭The Mighty Quinn


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    "Strawman argument" I have no idea what this means.
    I never thought I'd live long enough to be able to say the constant Father Ted quotes seems to have petered off a bit too.

    Without looking it up... I think it's knowingly misrepresenting your opponents argument using similar terms or appearing at first to be responding to the actual point when if fact you're not, in order to make it easier for you to knock it down.


  • #140
    bennyineire
    Registered Users Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭bennyineire


    The Mighty Quinn wrote: »
    Wow, just wow!

    That's what she said


  • #141
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    The Mighty Quinn wrote: »
    Without looking it up... I think it's knowingly misrepresenting your opponents argument using similar terms or appearing at first to be responding to the actual point when if fact you're not, in order to make it easier for you to knock it down.
    So what you're saying is... you want all poor people wiped out?

    That kinda sh1t is a strawman.


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  • #142
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,702 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Feisar wrote: »
    Sealioning was a new one on me recently.

    Yes I like this one, because of the cartoon that explains what it is! Hasn't been used enough to be a cliche yet though

    2014-09-19-1062sea.png


  • #143
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Feisar wrote: »
    Not a phrase or line but faux shock.

    On the thread about the woman that killed her kids I made a suggestion as to what she should do with herself. One poster referred to my comment as horrific, another said shocking.
    Yer on a thread about a woman that actually killed her own children with details about a soother in the plastic bag used to smother a child and my comment was too much?
    Oh yeah, more concern with a fecking comment on the Internet than the horrific incident that it relates to. That's a fun one.


  • #144
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    I never thought I'd live long enough to be able to say the constant Father Ted quotes seems to have petered off a bit too.

    That would be an ecumenical matter.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

    >>> Staying Alive <<<



  • #145
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Lurleen wrote: »
    Oh yeah, more concern with a fecking comment on the Internet than the horrific incident that it relates to. That's a fun one.

    OK my comment wasn't the nicest but the pearl clutching is funny.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #146
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Yes I like this one, because of the cartoon that explains what it is! Hasn't been used enough to be a cliche yet though

    2014-09-19-1062sea.png


    Dis me! :p


  • #147
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Saying "won't someone think of the children!" when a person posts a very real concern in relation to children (the whole point of that Simpsons joke was she was getting in a tizzy over something that had nothing to do with children).


  • #148
    Hammer89
    Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    "I could be wrong......"

    Could you? Could you be wrong? Well no not really because the phrase 'I could be wrong' is preceded nearly always by something they know for a fact to be true.

    "I could be wrong but I think Dublin is the capital of Ireland."
    "I could be wrong but I think the mattress goes on top of the bed and not the other way around. Could be wrong though."
    "I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure Michael O'Leary owns Ryanair, not Qantas. I'd have to double check and I could be wrong as I said."


  • #149
    Kaybaykwah
    Registered Users Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    Feisar wrote: »
    OK my comment wasn't the nicest but the pearl clutching is funny.


    Can't figure this out on boards; when someone says that another carried on with their "fake pearl clutching".

    Do they mean that the "pearls" are fake, or the "clutching"?


  • #150
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,838 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    "So what you're saying is..." a tell that whatever follows is generally going to be gibberish and the one clear thing is that it wasnt what the other person was saying

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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  • #151
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Kaybaykwah wrote: »
    Can't figure this out on boards; when someone says that another carried on with their "fake pearl clutching".

    Do they mean that the "pearls" are fake, or the "clutching"?

    Pearl Clutching - "a very shocked reaction, especially one in which you show more shock than you really feel in order to show that you think something is morally wrong"

    There's no need to add fake, the phrase refers to disingenuous shock.

    First they came for the socialists...



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