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Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

16:46 / 20.06.02

i have also decided that rhetorical questions are lame.

Kit-Cat Club

08:50 / 21.06.02

Cocktail. Of. Drugs.

Sax

09:36 / 21.06.02

You don't tend to "lethal cocktail of drink and drugs" as much as you used to, do you?

And I still hate reading stories like: "Paul Merson: My drugs hell."

Why can't we have: "Paul Merson: My absolutely fantastic time snorting grade-A coke off the navel of a dancing girl. Until I got shopped to the News of the World."

Cherry Bomb

14:53 / 21.06.02

"At the end of the day" really irrittates the living fuck out of me.

I don't really know why, and I am still trying to decide whether I should feel angry because it's a cliche, or whether I should let it go as it's becoming part of common parlance.

*sigh*

Saint Keggers

20:09 / 21.06.02

One that gets me: "Right back atcha!". It just screams "you're not even worth the bother of thinking up a response".

bio k9

20:15 / 21.06.02

"Fuck off, Knodger."

bio k9

20:15 / 21.06.02

"Whos that?"

bio k9

20:16 / 21.06.02

"Goddamnit! Im NOT the knowledge!"

enough

20:25 / 21.06.02

" The Knowledge ™ is really Grant Morrison ™!"

Baz Auckland

12:12 / 24.06.02

Is "it's all good" a cliche? I hate that phrase.

rizla mission

10:28 / 25.06.02

I quite like that one actually. In fact I used it today in the music forum. The shame..

How about "there are question marks hanging over.." I mean, ..the FUCK?

I guess a lot of these things develop because news papers/broadcasts have to be written so quickly for such tight deadlines that there's not much time to consider the use of language..

Also: "asylum seekers", "illegal immigrants" - such horrible, ideologically loaded, contrived sounding buzzword phrases. Whatever happened to good ol' fashioned "refugees"?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:36 / 25.06.02

According to the Daily Mail, they all came over here and nicked our jobs and women.

Now "bogus asylum seekers"...

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