Phrases that annoy you the most

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Absolutely chaps. Hear hear. Play the white man.

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Zad said:

"God's Country" is mainly an American thing, and means the area away from industry and built up (God forsaken) areas. What we'd call countryside. The term "God's County" more usually applied to Yorkshire (later corrupted because of the above usage) was supposedly because at one time there were as many letters in the bible as there were acres in Yorkshire. No, I don't believe it either, but there you go. It is certainly in the same area: (3.1M letters KJV, 2.9 to 3.8M acres depending on year)

We really don't need more people cluttering up the amazing roads of North Yorkshire, so bugger off to FrogFrance.

Ahem, spelling please. It's "godforsaken". And 'ere at Le Mans we iz ver' 'appy,no?

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You forgot "The truth of the matter is". You know a blatant lie is coming. Apologies if this has already been posted, which I'm sure it must have been.

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Johnnytheboy said:

How about this arbitrary classification of engine modifications into "stages"?

You know, "stage 2 intercooler" and the like?

Who is in charge of classifying all aftermarket car parts into stages?

Or is it just all made up?

Yep. That one has been going on for years. I was at school in the 90's with someone who's uncle or cousin or someone had a "Stage 3 Skyline". I still have no idea if that meant it had 1000 bhp and spat fire or whether it had a k&n panel filter and painted alloys.

I googled this recently and realised it does have some basis.

In 1965 I had a stage 2 Alexander conversion on my Cooper S. Bigger carbs, wilder cams, other engine mods and suspension tweaks. Made a good car seriously better. I suppose one might say that, from a base car, a stage 1 was warm, the stage 2 road/rally, and the stage 3 was race only.

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yonex said:

Exactly.

The option was Hilary Clinton. As someone who works with US colleagues every day, there is much that Trumpet actually gets right. Of course he is a media nightmare, but that's the modern age we live in.

Would I rather have a 'Trump' over a 'May'?

Yep.

Recently formed part of a YouGov survey I received, did that question.

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No I haven't heard "TaTa For Now" for many a year. It was very prevalent in my youth in the programme ITMA

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Antony Moxey said:

Lockdown, when any incident involving security forces is involved. fk off with your Hollywood SWAT team hell yeah yee-ha God bless America rubbish. Seems the media are falling over themselves these days to describe something being ‘lockdown’ after an incident.

I hadn't really thought about this until I read your post yesterday. I get up, turn on the TV, and immediately hear that as far as Europe is concerned "the issue of the Northern Ireland border is in lockdown". Grrrr.

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The Crack Fox said:

"Reaching out".... anyone who uses this who isn't actually, physically reaching out, in person, should have each one of their fking fingers pulled off and stuffed up their nose, one at a time.

Which nose do we stuff it up first?

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m8. I appreci8 what they are trying to say, but the shorthand being used today does gr8 on my nerves. it is a surrog8 way of speaking.

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1602Mark said:

Pretty sure that's a different definition?

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And there was I all along thinking it was a fireplace

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cuprabob said:

glenrobbo said:

I'd like a coffee with no cream please.

I'm sorry sir, we have no cream. Would you like no milk instead?

Do you pay extra for "no cream"?

Why not if it deviates from standard production. Taking the cream out is very laborious. Porsche used to charge if you didn't want the badge on the back.

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There are two pet hates I have on the car forums. The first is "concourse" instead of concours, and the second is "loose" instead of lose.. They appear so often. But then speeling (sic) ain't what it used to be.

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Johnspex said:

Mr b-i-l recently retired from a massively paid job in a huge international company. Been all over the world working, met PMs, all sorts of interesting things, but, he still says 'chimley'. I'm sure he would spell it with an "n" but it always comes out chimley.

That is more old fashioned dialect really. In Hampshire and Dorset one would hear "chimbley" from the older generation.

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I grew up knowing people who used to go up the apples and pears to get some joe rocks and do their barnet fair.

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psi310398 said:

Slightly o/t but add to that the national embarrassment that the likes of Thierry Henry are more accurate and articulate in the use of their second or third languages than any of our home-grown buffoons are in their mother tongue.

Living in France, it irks to continually have to correct the spelling of the lunch menu at the golf club. It has now become compulsory to check it every time I am there!

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Watched the F1 quallies this morning and heard Jensen button say " George Russel is on his push lap". Sounds like a new rule I hadn't heard of, pushing the car round the circuit. Where on earth did that expression come from?

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Antony Moxey said:

Quallies. Does every word have to be shortened these days?

Apologies for the use of such a word in this thread, but it is standard talk amongst marshals and has been for many a year. Mea culpa.

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popeyewhite said:

Exactly, No such thing. What people think of as muscle memory is actually a learned skill our brain has adapted neurons to be familiar with. IE riding a bike. Far closer to any actual 'muscle memory' (should people wish to dig into the subject) is DNA 'memory', and cell 'memory'. Though again the use of the word 'memory' in both cases is misplaced, 'semi-permanent adaptation' would be more accurate.

So what makes something "memory" - remember to include references to RAM, ROM and memory effect in rechargeable batteries

These posts seem to postulate that users of this expression have neurons.

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Blown2CV said:

we were at a country show the other day and they had a tractor pull. I'd never seen one before, it was pretty fun. However when interviewed, one of the drivers said their team had been "spannering hard".

That has been part of my vocabulary all of my life. Depends where you grew up and if you were involved with spannering I guess.

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Hackney said:

“Tescos” really grinds my gears. It’s a made up company name so is not possessive and you’re only going to one so it’s not plural.
Ditto Asda.

Sainsbury’s on the other hand is correct. The store owned by J Sainsbury. Morrisons is the same. However Morrison’s made the heinous decision to drop the apostrophe from their name. Grrr.

I suppose you dislike the name Cosworth then, since Tesco is of the same genre, being an amalgam of T E Stockwell and Jack Cohen, Cosworth being Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth. Loads of companies have been formed in the same way. I met Jack Cohen when invited to a wedding at his house, and a more self-effacing person would be hard to find.