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Phrases you hate

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  • The Don't Let Me Go music in the new iPhone storage ad - nails down a blackboard is easier to tolerate
  • 'We have a plan, they have no plan'. I'm sick of hearing this every time a politician is interviewed.
  • Hack. What is a hack? Have I just seen a hack of how to cock an egg in an air fryer, or have I just watched a video of an Australian dude cooking his breakfast.
  • Hack. What is a hack? Have I just seen a hack of how to cock an egg in an air fryer, or have I just watched a video of an Australian dude cooking his breakfast.
    Are you sure that's an Australian breakfast and not a Portuguese one?
  • Forward planning - how often has anyone carried out backward planning?
  • Backward planning is hindsight?
  • edited April 5
    Forward planning - how often has anyone carried out backward planning?
    Well theres planning ie for todays training and saturday's match, and future planning ie for the summer transfer window, or for next two or three managers after this.
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  • I hate the football forum favourite of 'if x player is the answer what is the question'. Absolutely meaningless. 
  • I hate the football forum favourite of 'if x player is the answer what is the question'. Absolutely meaningless. 
    Yeah it is, how we sposed to know what the question is if we don't even know who the player is.

    Or is X a new Chinese winger we're looking at?
  • I though X was formally Twitter.
  • Hack. What is a hack? Have I just seen a hack of how to cock an egg in an air fryer, or have I just watched a video of an Australian dude cooking his breakfast.

    I need this in my life.
  • Gribbo said:
    I hate the football forum favourite of 'if x player is the answer what is the question'. Absolutely meaningless. 
    Yeah it is, how we sposed to know what the question is if we don't even know who the player is.

    Or is X a new Chinese winger we're looking at?
    X wingers are in Star Wars ain’t they?
  • Period of time. 

    As against a period of what, exactly?
    That 5 day one that women have once a month ….except it’s not 5 days. It’s a lifetime. 
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  • 'talk to' as in ' I will talk to the slides on budgets', instead of using 'talk about ', 'address', 'cover', 'explain', etc.
    Infuriating.
  • 'Cancelled', as in a celebrity being cancelled.

    Which actually means a small section of social media has whinged about them and then they carry on as normal.  Nothing has been cancelled.
  • Plurals on footballers names.

    "He's not as good as your Walkers, your Alexander-Arnolds" etc.

    There's only one of each.  "He's not as good as Walker or Alexander-Arnold" would do fine.
  • The overuse of Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr's phrase, 'plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose'. It's even made an appearance, not once, but twice, on yesterday's post-match thread.

    Here are some things to remember about this phrase for anyone contemplating its use. 1. Invariably, it adds nothing in terms of meaning. 2. If, by chance, you have stumbled across a situation where it is meaningful and relevant, it can just as easily be said in English. 3. Nobody will think you are big or clever. 4. Nobody will imagine that you are living a giddyingly sophisticated lifestyle, arguing the finer points of philosophy whilst sipping the outlandishly good coffees and brandies outside a Left Bank café in the Parisian sunshine. 

    Plus on l’utilise, plus je suis énervé.
  • Anytime soon really pisses me off, how is that different from anytime?
  • Trying to arrange something, ask for comments. There's always one that says 'I'll just go with the flow'.

    Just give me your opinion instead of copping out. 
  • On point, as in 'The flavour is on point'. I much prefer the phrase 'Flavour and clouds all day bro.'
  • "And that's a perfect segue into our next subject..."
      
    As soon as a presenter (very often on a podcast) acknowledges a segue, it ceases to be a segue. A segue is "an uninterrupted transition from one piece of music or film scene to another". A good presenter knows they have segued into the next subject and doesn't need to celebrate their own luck or brilliance. 
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