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  1. #191
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    ...and even worse, coriander 'cilantro'!!

    Marco.
    Not come across that.
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    Lol yeah, I first came across it in the TV series The Sopranos, when someone, I think Tony's wife, was cooking and going on about 'cilantro', which was when I looked it up

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    VERBING: the use of nouns as verbs!!!

    For example, PODIUMED (achieving a place on the winner's podium)

    Yes, it is nothing new, but some of the recent introductions do grate!

    Crafting, antiquing, and so forth ....

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    This is disgusting!
    https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/b...muffin-1349127

    The grammar is appalling - it's either an empty vodka bottle, or it contains vodka, but an empty bottle of vodka cannot grammatically exist
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    'Please would you send it to ourselves?'

    'We sent it to yourselves'

    This for me is the worst thing ever and you see it all the time nowadays. Thick people without clue trying to sound 'professional' and instead making themselves look like even bigger morons than they actually are.

    I've taken people to task over this at work on a number of occasions, some of them were actually so dumb as to argue that I was wrong! Just unbelievable.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stratmangler View Post
    This is disgusting!
    https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/b...muffin-1349127

    The grammar is appalling - it's either an empty vodka bottle, or it contains vodka, but an empty bottle of vodka cannot grammatically exist
    He was put off eating a McMuffin because he saw some poo on the floor? Doesn't he know what goes into those things?*

    *Mods please delete if libellous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
    He was put off eating a McMuffin because he saw some poo on the floor? Doesn't he know what goes into those things?*

    *Mods please delete if libellous.
    Nah we'll just let Macdongers prosecute you instead.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
    He was put off eating a McMuffin because he saw some poo on the floor? Doesn't he know what goes into those things?*

    *Mods please delete if libellous.
    Having dropped off my usual delivery in New Alresford I went to the public conveniences. On the floor was a jobby, a large jobby I have to say. Yes on the floor when there was a pan provided for taking a crap. What the feck is wrong with some in society? So finding it on the floor is deeply unpleasant.
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    Quote Originally Posted by prestonchipfryer View Post
    What the feck is wrong with some in society?
    You could say they don't give a shit, but that would actually be incorrect, 'cos they did.

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    I don't like "BBC" words such as "insurgents".

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