Or "I'll do a grande macchiato..." "Do"? You're not doing anything, the barista is doing all the work.
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"Military intelligence, two words combined that can't make sense!" - Megadeth
LOL, I played gigs I have to check twice if the audience was alive.“Filmed before a live audience.”
I certainly hope so !!!
Agreed, but it takes two with that one. If you're selling a bass on TB classifieds and you don't include the weight within the 1st post, youre just an enabler. Or a masochist. Or it's your first day. You gotta know some tire-kicker's gonna chime in with "WEIGHT?"
It's against TB policy to post an ad sans photo. It wouldn't be a stretch to also require a weight estimate. 1st post.
We're just having some lighthearted fun and blowing off steam.Yay another thread about personal annoyances.. of which there are no shortcomings.Could we order some natural disasters, hunger, and poverty for these people? OR perhaps the dysfunctional family they never had. It might alleviate their symptoms.
In other words.. find something to be grateful about and share it instead imo.
Everybody stuck on being Debbie Downer...
Since we’re venting...the bar for anything being “ iconic“ has never been lower than it is as of late.
+1. A digital scale is inexpensive and a potential buyer can't tell the weight from a photo.
Besides the sheer annoyance of the phrase "endless mojo," we ALL know that Blind Dog Fulton gave Lightning Boy the last REAL mojo just before Lightning cut heads with Jack Butler.
We're just having some lighthearted fun and blowing off steam.
I just get annoyed by people who get annoyed over usage of language or anything that doesn't fit their upbringing. *shrug* "Grammar nazi" isn't a compliment. I wish my problems were so small that all I had to complain about was the way people say things. Ranting on the internet is so 2010.
Anyway.. feel free to ignore my posts in this thread I will leave you guys to whinge in peace.
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I think that it's interesting how words and phrases come in and out of vogue. Nowadays, if a scientist or politician wants to sound like he's got a handle on a situation, he'll say they're developing a robust response. Robust. I don't remember ever hearing that word, outside of a coffee ad, as often as I hear it now.
Robust.
Robust.
"Going ballistic" swept through the culture like wildfire around 1990.
As you say these bits of stock phraseology can become deeply embedded very quickly.
A corollary are stock homilies that become wildly familiar and popular to the point of being sudden cliches.
Two such lyrics that found their way into pop songs of their moment were John Lennon's "Life is what happens while you're making other plans" from the song Beautiful Boy, and Kurt Cobain's "Just because you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you" from Nevermind. Both lyrics were contemporary cliches at the time they came out, although, predictably enough, I've seen both lyrics repackaged as earnest and profound memes lately, and both cliches attributed to their respective hacks, neither of whom coined the phrases.
How about restaurants that describe a menu item as “home-made”.
Oh man I laughed so hard when I read this as it was the first thing that came to mind if only because I knew through a previous thread like this where it surprised me that this one irritates a lot of folks.
It’s one of my favourites to use though lol.
