With you on decimation Gate (I almost said 'absolutely'!) Even the revered Johnno said it on his interview the other evening.Gate wrote:When people say "decimate" when they don't in fact mean "kill one in ten" but "massacre wholesale".
When people start a sentence with "As far as ..." and then never say the necessary "is concerned" to finish. That starts a vein throbbing in my temple.
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No, I'm sure "pond" is English euphamism for the atlantic. I've certainly only heard the english say it, or people mimicking the English. Excerpt from Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898 -
Herring-pond (The).
The British Channel; the Atlantic, which separates America from the British Isles; the sea between Australasia and the United Kingdom, are all so called.
Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering, chap. xxxiv. “He’ll plague you now he’s come over the herring-pond.”—
Even worse - Capricorn, "at this present moment in time"
for goodness sake, next it'll be "at this present, immediate, precise nanosecond right now in time" and then by the time you've finished all that bllocks, it's another precise moment in time entirely.
Herring-pond (The).
The British Channel; the Atlantic, which separates America from the British Isles; the sea between Australasia and the United Kingdom, are all so called.
Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering, chap. xxxiv. “He’ll plague you now he’s come over the herring-pond.”—
Even worse - Capricorn, "at this present moment in time"
for goodness sake, next it'll be "at this present, immediate, precise nanosecond right now in time" and then by the time you've finished all that bllocks, it's another precise moment in time entirely.
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Oh babe, big hugs. Who cares about age anyway, it's just a number. When I'm asked how old I am I say "25 with 17 years experience", that confuses them.
On the things people say I hate theme, my neighbour, when I asked him where he went for his holidays used to say casually "The Dom Rep". It used to really bug me, pretentious :censored:!!! 8)
On the things people say I hate theme, my neighbour, when I asked him where he went for his holidays used to say casually "The Dom Rep". It used to really bug me, pretentious :censored:!!! 8)
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Jeeez. That's bad.
We had a village coach outing to Bruges. Great fun and all, but hardly what you'd call jet-set.
On the way back a friend of ours couldn't wait to use his latest gadget to phone the office (it also picked up his emails and all that stuff) and informed whoever he was talking to: "I'm just on my way back from Europe."
I think we were rattling up the M11 at the time and playing eye-spy.
We had a village coach outing to Bruges. Great fun and all, but hardly what you'd call jet-set.
On the way back a friend of ours couldn't wait to use his latest gadget to phone the office (it also picked up his emails and all that stuff) and informed whoever he was talking to: "I'm just on my way back from Europe."
I think we were rattling up the M11 at the time and playing eye-spy.
Kicks and scrums and ruck and roll.....Is all my brain and body need!
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