Least Favourite Quote
Be careful what you wish for. What sort of nonsense is this? It implies that if you wish for something to happen, something else might happen that you hadn't wished for and you'll live to regret it. But it falls down at every step because of it's complete lack of logic. Firstly, things don't just happen because we wish for them. Less still do the imagined fears of a third party become real because someone has wished for something. It is drivel. But worse than that, it is disempowering drivel; it stops people from having a dream. 'Just accept your lot', is what it says. Don't work for anything better, don't argue for anything better, don't even hope for anything better. If you do, the magic wish fairy will immediately appear and turn all your dreams to shitty shit. Well, stuff that. I will wish for things, and I'll argue for things and I'll work towards making my wishes become a reality. I'm not letting the frightened and the accepting scope the nature of my dreamworld with this crushing pathetic phrase.
May you live in interesting times and its derivatives: When I first heard this I thought it was clever and amusing, but it has become so overused as to be really annoying.
Keep Calm and Carry On: The ultimate overused quote. Thankfully things seemed to have calmed down with it recently.
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Southeastern wish to apologise for any delay to your journey13
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Every time it has been the correct decision.9
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Strong and stable6
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Cheap at half the price......of course it fucking is (assuming the price had not recently been doubled). This phrase never works in the context in which it is always used.0
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If you don't get yours I won't get mine as well - Noel Gallagher.0
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Chillax.Stig said:Prompted by the 'Favourite Quote' thread and the appearance of one of my bête noires this morning.
Be careful what you wish for. What sort of nonsense is this? It implies that if you wish for something to happen, something else might happen that you hadn't wished for and you'll live to regret it. But it falls down at every step because of it's complete lack of logic. Firstly, things don't just happen because we wish for them. Less still do the imagined fears of a third party become real because someone has wished for something. It is drivel. But worse than that, it is disempowering drivel; it stops people from having a dream. 'Just accept your lot', is what it says. Don't work for anything better, don't argue for anything better, don't even hope for anything better. If you do, the magic wish fairy will immediately appear and turn all your dreams to shitty shit. Well, stuff that. I will wish for things, and I'll argue for things and I'll work towards making my wishes become a reality. I'm not letting the frightened and the accepting scope the nature of my dreamworld with this crushing pathetic phrase.
May you live in interesting times and its derivatives: When I first heard this I thought it was clever and amusing, but it has become so overused as to be really annoying.
Keep Calm and Carry On: The ultimate overused quote. Thankfully things seemed to have calmed down with it recently.0 -
Every time, we have improved our ranking.
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"For the many not the few" is already beginning to grate. (Maybe expect a Tory ad campaign with the word "unemployment" popped in at the front and a picture of a huge queue at the job centre? Oh, no hang on....)0
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Cheap didn't originally mean bargain though. (I expect you know this really). It comes from Middle English and means goods. Hence Cheapside in the City of London - it was a market place. So, originally it just meant 50% off. I think it's nice that it survives albeit in a somewhat mangled way.SuedeAdidas said:Cheap at half the price......of course it fucking is (assuming the price had not recently been doubled). This phrase never works in the context in which it is always used.
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Oh, don't get me started on portmanteau words.Macronate said:
Chillax.Stig said:Prompted by the 'Favourite Quote' thread and the appearance of one of my bête noires this morning.
Be careful what you wish for. What sort of nonsense is this? It implies that if you wish for something to happen, something else might happen that you hadn't wished for and you'll live to regret it. But it falls down at every step because of it's complete lack of logic. Firstly, things don't just happen because we wish for them. Less still do the imagined fears of a third party become real because someone has wished for something. It is drivel. But worse than that, it is disempowering drivel; it stops people from having a dream. 'Just accept your lot', is what it says. Don't work for anything better, don't argue for anything better, don't even hope for anything better. If you do, the magic wish fairy will immediately appear and turn all your dreams to shitty shit. Well, stuff that. I will wish for things, and I'll argue for things and I'll work towards making my wishes become a reality. I'm not letting the frightened and the accepting scope the nature of my dreamworld with this crushing pathetic phrase.
May you live in interesting times and its derivatives: When I first heard this I thought it was clever and amusing, but it has become so overused as to be really annoying.
Keep Calm and Carry On: The ultimate overused quote. Thankfully things seemed to have calmed down with it recently.0 -
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"Never apologise, never explain."
Sure sign of a very weak character.6 -
"pick up the soap"2
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And yet such people think it's a sign of strength .. how wrong they are.Algarveaddick said:"Never apologise, never explain."
Sure sign of a very weak character.5 -
"... I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at the moment. ‘Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope".
Thatcher, May 4th 1979.
The result of this wretched woman's version of 'harmony, truth, faith and hope' continues to cause unhappiness to many people.9 -
Corbyn might rejig it to 'for the many not the Jew' given the track record of certain prominent and not so prominent Labour Party members.cafcfan said:"For the many not the few" is already beginning to grate. (Maybe expect a Tory ad campaign with the word "unemployment" popped in at the front and a picture of a huge queue at the job centre? Oh, no hang on....)
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To be honest and It is what it is I particularly hate. I have even caught myself saying to be honest and cringe.0
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Fixed it for youStig said:
Oh, don't get me started on pords.Macronate said:
Chillax.Stig said:Prompted by the 'Favourite Quote' thread and the appearance of one of my bête noires this morning.
Be careful what you wish for. What sort of nonsense is this? It implies that if you wish for something to happen, something else might happen that you hadn't wished for and you'll live to regret it. But it falls down at every step because of it's complete lack of logic. Firstly, things don't just happen because we wish for them. Less still do the imagined fears of a third party become real because someone has wished for something. It is drivel. But worse than that, it is disempowering drivel; it stops people from having a dream. 'Just accept your lot', is what it says. Don't work for anything better, don't argue for anything better, don't even hope for anything better. If you do, the magic wish fairy will immediately appear and turn all your dreams to shitty shit. Well, stuff that. I will wish for things, and I'll argue for things and I'll work towards making my wishes become a reality. I'm not letting the frightened and the accepting scope the nature of my dreamworld with this crushing pathetic phrase.
May you live in interesting times and its derivatives: When I first heard this I thought it was clever and amusing, but it has become so overused as to be really annoying.
Keep Calm and Carry On: The ultimate overused quote. Thankfully things seemed to have calmed down with it recently.3 -
I have explained several times that we offered Yann Kermorgant a contract and he refused it.
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Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.0
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"Keep on keeping on"0
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"You could be hit by a bus tomorrow" as an excuse to act like a fanny with no regard for the consequences. Fingers crossed eh.0
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"We're all gods children"
No we're not. Grow up and stop being a child.2 -
"Millwall = x Charlton = <x"
James Alexander Gordon, what seemed like twice a year until his death.0 -
"I'm entitled to an opinion"2
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Not necessarily, it might just be less expensive.SuedeAdidas said:Cheap at half the price......of course it fucking is (assuming the price had not recently been doubled). This phrase never works in the context in which it is always used.
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And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.
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'Been there, done that. Got the t-shirt'
Shut up.1 -
Don't worry darling, it's what happens when you get to your age!!1
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I think that's alright, as long as everyone else has the right to counter and ridicule groundless opinions.Henry Irving said:"I'm entitled to an opinion"
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If I had £1 for every time I'd heard that............
You'd have about thirty fecking quid, not a million.2
