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#41 Guest_skiddo (Guest)

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Posted 19 March 2004 - 10:18 AM

:blink: not familiar with that one jed... is it a west country cliche? care to elaborate?

Edited by skiddo, 19 March 2004 - 10:19 AM.

#42 jed

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Posted 19 March 2004 - 11:12 AM

I have no desire to get too familiar with the Pig either, but was something about buying a pig in a poke, which in the excitement, for those so inclined, the 'in' got transposed to a 'for'.....well that's my excuse anyway!

#43 Guest_skiddo (Guest)

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Posted 19 March 2004 - 03:54 PM

lol jed. got you. another one i hate (not a silly one as such, i just hate how over used it is!) at the end of the day. AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!! i got that in my head, over it that if anybody uses in conversation with me i interrupt them with 'it's usually nighttime' 'the thing is at the end of the day...' 'it's usually nightime.' pisses people off, but bollocks to them. serves themselves right.

Edited by skiddo, 19 March 2004 - 03:55 PM.

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Posted 19 March 2004 - 04:40 PM

'the thing is at the end of the day...'


...which brings us onto over used phrases that people stick in all over the place in their sentances for no reason.

To be fair... I'm not being funny but... the thing is... at the end of the day... etc.

e.g "<insert any of the above phrases here>, we need to sort out the content before working on the graphics".

None of them are neccesary and add anything to what you're trying to say, other than to padd the sentance out a bit. Grr! :angry:

#45 Guest_skiddo (Guest)

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Posted 19 March 2004 - 04:47 PM

how about the constant interjection as appropriate, of... ...is to be fuman, yes you are/or no you're not, not a bad horror movie, etc?

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Posted 19 March 2004 - 04:57 PM

"I'll buy that for a dollar" No you wont, fcuk off.

Edited by caleebra, 19 March 2004 - 04:57 PM.

#47 TurboTomato

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Posted 20 March 2004 - 11:32 PM

I have travelled at speed, but never enough to break my neck

#48 Rubber Duck

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Posted 24 March 2004 - 12:30 AM

look just leave the effin needle in the haystack and get ur bra off

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Posted 24 March 2004 - 01:06 AM

'Life's too short' - No it isn't. It's the longest thing anyone ever does! 'Why is something always in the last place you look for it?' - Well of course it is. Would you keep looking once you've found it? 'Beauty is only skin deep' - Isn't that deep enough? Who wants a really good-looking liver? 'Free gift' - a gift isn't a gift unless it's free! 'The grass is greener on the other side' - Have you ever turned grass over before? Doesn't look green to me - kinda brown and muddy!

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Posted 24 March 2004 - 12:34 PM

I had an ex-girlfriend who used to bore me to death with 'he said, she said' stories. The thing that fcuked me off the most was when she said "I asked [name] what he was doing and he turned round and said ..."

What? He was facing away from you when you asked the question and he had to turn round to answer it? No? WHELL DON'T fcuking SAY IT THEN!

That still does my head in now.

#51 Guest_skiddo (Guest)

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Posted 24 March 2004 - 12:42 PM

lol excellent. no offence but, your breath fcukin stinks. that didn't hurt at all, now did it.

#52 Huntsman

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Posted 24 March 2004 - 12:50 PM

I'm into sadism, beastiality and necrophaelia. . . . . . Am I flogging a dead horse?

Edited by Huntsman__, 24 March 2004 - 12:52 PM.

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Posted 24 March 2004 - 12:52 PM

:P Some of them contradictary too: Many hands make light work - Too many cooks etc.. Really should be a regulatory body for such things ! :poke:

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Posted 24 March 2004 - 01:10 PM

something else that occurred to me the other day whilst out shopping at tesco. a young mum called her little 3 year old son a silly little bugger when he began to wander off. i'm not a bleeding heart liberal (another one - call an ambulance!) but it seemed a little over the top of her, openly and loudly and in public, accussing her first born of actively participating in anal intercourse. outrageous.

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Posted 24 March 2004 - 01:11 PM

I'm into sadism, beastiality and necrophaelia.
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Am I flogging a dead horse?

Talking of horses, what the flip is a 'gift horse' and how the hell do you 'look it in the mouth' :blink:

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Posted 24 March 2004 - 01:13 PM

this one has always got me... cheap at half the price well it would be wouldn't it what does it MEAN :beat:

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Posted 24 March 2004 - 01:18 PM

My father in law says. "It's not worth a bucket full of crabs" I just love it :lol:

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Posted 24 March 2004 - 01:19 PM

I'm into sadism, beastiality and necrophaelia.
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Am I flogging a dead horse?

Talking of horses, what the flip is a 'gift horse' and how the hell do you 'look it in the mouth' :blink:

WTF?

That makes perfect sense...

#59 jneill

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Posted 24 March 2004 - 01:20 PM

cheap at half the price

<a pedant writes:> it's really "Cheap at twice the price"</pedant>

Still bloody stupid. But I'd bite your arm off to get it, me.

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Posted 24 March 2004 - 01:22 PM

Put on BBC lunchtime news NOW. A piece about ridiculous cliched expressions. Don't wait till the end of the day.
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