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I'm more used to an environment that yields language such as "I don't give a fuck if your knuckles are bleeding...if you can't do it, fuck off and i'll get someone in who can"...and, "every fucking one of you is stopping late tonight until this is done...if i have to stay then so do you"...."Don't fucking disturb me today, i don't care what the fucking problem is....deal with it"...followed by..."why the fuck didn't you come and ask me....do you realise how much that's cost us?"...oh how i miss working in a bouncy castle factory!
Your boss sound like a complete twat(enger).
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Your boss sound like a complete twat(enger).
That was me!
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Geez! What's with all the America hate? At least we can spell the word color correctly. *I reckon *we've just improved on the English language over the past 300 years.
The American South has lots of great phrases. For instance, "fixin' to" as in, I'm fixing to go to the store. Or, Would you like me to fix you some dinner?
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what's interesting here is your identification of the topic with two groups that almost certainly contribute the most to the enrichment and extension of the day-to-day UK English language - black culture and teenagers. These two areas yield words and phrases that are brilliant, and the mutations you get with teens reappropriating stuff is great. I don't find that stuff annoying at all and I really get the sense of the language expanding (and contracting again as words become dated and are replaced).
What really gets most people's goat though is largely American-derived. Two areas can be seen to be stunting the language's growth rather than pushing it to develop: internet-speak and corporate-speak. At the corporate level it takes on a clearly Orwellian function as it is used for no other reason than to force people to conform. I'm not sure if you've ever worked in an environment where this kind of language is rife Scott - I've a feeling you have managed to avoid it, and I envy you if you have - but it is odious and painful for anyone who has a mind of their own to sit through days of hearing words, phrases and contructions employed to promote this sense of a special, serious world of "being at work". "Can you action that?" instead of "Can you do that?"; "Can I have that by close of play?" rather than " Can I have that by the end of the day?"; "flag up", "just giving you a heads up", "close off" - the list goes on and on, all meaningless, charmless phrases whose perpetuation is enabled by the complicity of people who, fundamentally, wish to be able to feed their family and pay their mortgage. For those few people who don't buy into it, who wish to laugh out loud at the ridiculousness of verbs like "to farm" or "to leverage", the simplest meeting about the month ahead becomes utterly soul-destroying.
^ Thats a familiar worst/best case scenario
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Hearing 'you know' at the start of a sentience, more often followed with 'know what I mean' at the end. And 'like' everyewhere
I don't know, as you've not told me yet.
I probably don't know what you mean but am either too uninterested to ask for further information or that I'll regret asking.It's like, you know like soooooo annoying and everything. know what I mean?
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Opinions are like assessments, judgements or evaluations...everyone's got one.....
Yes, but they may not be entitled to it. People only ever say "I'm entitled to my opinion" at the point where they can no longer justify the opinion that they hold, but are unwilling to let it go. It's an attempt to imply that there is some kind of freedom of speech issue, when in fact it is just a failure of logic and persuasion.
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I'm more used to an environment that yields language such as "I don't give a fuck if your knuckles are bleeding...if you can't do it, fuck off and i'll get someone in who can"...and, "every fucking one of you is stopping late tonight until this is done...if i have to stay then so do you"...."Don't fucking disturb me today, i don't care what the fucking problem is....deal with it"...followed by..."why the fuck didn't you come and ask me....do you realise how much that's cost us?"...oh how i miss working in a bouncy castle factory!
ha! the warehouse world yields gold when it comes to gruff manly language... when I was seventeen I used to work lugging furniture around in a warehouse and the boss used to use the verb "fuck" as "put".. so you'd ask him where he wanted a filing cabinet shifted to and he'd say "fuck it in the corner"... hilarious.
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Yes, but they may not be entitled to it. People only ever say "I'm entitled to my opinion" at the point where they can no longer justify the opinion that they hold, but are unwilling to let it go. It's an attempt to imply that there is some kind of freedom of speech issue, when in fact it is just a failure of logic and persuasion.
You are entitled to that opinion.
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ha! the warehouse world yields gold when it comes to gruff manly language... when I was seventeen I used to work lugging furniture around in a warehouse and the boss used to use the verb "fuck" as "put".. so you'd ask him where he wanted a filing cabinet shifted to and he'd say "fuck it in the corner"... hilarious.
And you got sacked for taking him literally.
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ha! the warehouse world yields gold when it comes to gruff manly language... when I was seventeen I used to work lugging furniture around in a warehouse and the boss used to use the verb "fuck" as "put".. so you'd ask him where he wanted a filing cabinet shifted to and he'd say "fuck it in the corner"... hilarious.
Maybe he'd just heard the rumours about how lonely you were?
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"I sacked her an all" :)
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watching TDF and heard this a few times
Descending down the mountain
So can you show me the clip where they were descending up the mountain then
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I have an Australian friend that uses the expression "fucking the dog" to mean not doing very much. Says it's quite common back home.
What does he say when he's fucking the dog?
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I have an Australian friend that uses the expression "fucking the dog" to mean not doing very much. Says it's quite common back home.
I believe that's Canadian orginally.. guess horatio / teddy would be able to confirm it (I can't belive jacqui would use language like that*). it might have gone out of circulation there now. A girl I was living with put me on to that one around '98 - one of my very favourites that never caught on here.
"What you doing?"
"Meh, fuckin' the dog.".
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"Hello. How are you ?"
"I'm good ! - how are you ?Where's the problem in that?
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'Oh, he/she/it's alright in him/her/it self' - A co-worker of mine uses this too much, I have to pick up on it everytime or it bothers me.
The old Give Blood advert, with the lady.. 'loik you know, loik... loik fucking loik'. I made the tough decision to go back to education and now I'm stuck in University with every second person (regardless of what part of the UK they are from) speaking like a cross between the Clueless cast and the Give Blood lady - 'Looooiiikk ohmagod, looooik totally ya ya!' some of these people are actually Welsh before Uni then within the first week could pass as somebody from Cheltenham. Nothing will ever infuriate me more than this type of person.
Finally, the word 'Random'. I only use it if I have no other option, ^ That person will use it to describe every daily activity and it has (in my circle of friends) become a point of disgust.