BS: stupid sayings

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Joe_F
Date: 15 Mar 23 - 06:31 PM

In my book, "alternate", at least in America, does overlap with "alternative" in one sense, viz second choice, in case the first is not available: "alternate route", "delegates and alternates". As a general substitute for "alternative" it is (I agree) semiliterate.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Mar 23 - 06:50 PM

It's a fight lost, a bit like disinterested/uninterested. With "practice," the yanks have it right. Everything is "practice," and why not. But we have "practice" and "practise." Huge numbers of Brits get them wrong. So why bloody bother. If confusion is the order of the day, take the simple path. But I do think that we should discriminate between making things easier for everyone and degradation...

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Mar 23 - 09:11 PM

ethnic purity.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 16 Mar 23 - 03:10 AM

Take Back Control.
Get Brexit Done.
Stop The Boats.
Vote Conservative.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Mar 23 - 10:26 AM

Labour isn't working (unemployment rocketed when they got in)

Back to basics

Vote for change

Strong and stable

New Labour, new danger (sorry, one word too many...)

Subject: RE: BS: stupid savings
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Mar 23 - 03:06 PM

Crypto is stupid savings

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Mar 23 - 04:15 PM

I thought he was Superman's dog

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Mr Red
Date: 17 Mar 23 - 06:04 AM

That was Crypton Knight............

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Mr Red
Date: 17 Mar 23 - 06:09 AM

We seem to have filtered sayings, leaving mostly the "Rule of Three" which also follows its own rule rather neatly.

education, education, education

read my lips

Northern Island Protocol

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Mar 23 - 07:20 AM

Would that be Greenland or Baffin Island? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Mar 23 - 07:53 AM

War on terror

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Mar 23 - 08:39 AM

Just found on a webpage:

"I am always amazed, but never surprised, when . . ."

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Mar 23 - 11:21 AM

Hang Mike Pense

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Mar 23 - 01:20 PM

Shock and awe.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Mar 23 - 04:41 PM

Aw shucks

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Mar 23 - 05:32 PM

I reminded myself when I posted "war on terror," that twenty years ago today Robin Cook made his historic speech in the Commons opposing the horrible descent into the grossly dishonest invasion of Iraq. He was no leftie but he had the kind of principles that were totally alien to Bush and Blair. He died just two years later, and who knows how UK politics might have been different (for the better) had he lived.

There were plenty of stupid sayings flying around at the time, but, this end, the stupidest and most dishonest one was the one in which Blair said that Saddam had "active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes."

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Mar 23 - 07:52 PM

'High tech terrorist' This is what Biden and others call Julian Assange as he faces extradition and a 177 year sentence because he used the internet to publish actual Iraq war videos. Why aren't Insurrectionists
who used the internet High Tech Terrorists?

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Mar 23 - 08:56 AM

Hands. Face. Space.

Brexit means brexit.

Education education education.

No. No. No.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Gda Music
Date: 19 Mar 23 - 11:03 AM

thank you very much indeed!

GJ

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Mar 23 - 09:14 AM

lethal AID

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Mar 23 - 08:45 PM

Build back better

Yes we can

Keep Britain tidy

Veni vidi vici

God bless America

One more heave

Oven-ready deal

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 04:19 AM

vidi vici veni - or should that be on the joke page?

have a nice day

and as Stephen Fry answered (allegedly)..... I have other plans!

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 05:24 AM

good clean filth

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: mayomick
Date: 22 Mar 23 - 04:37 PM

".....is the poor man's......" . As in "whelks are the poor man's oysters "

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Mar 23 - 04:50 PM

Musha ring dumma do dumma da,
whack for the daddy 'ol,
whack for the daddy 'ol,
there's whiskey in the jar.

(Well it isn't stupid when you're singing it!)

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Mar 23 - 05:40 PM

Why is the current asteroid being described as The size of 33 armadilloes? When I looked farther it said 9-banded ones tail-to-snout.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Mar 23 - 07:17 AM

Guns don't kill people.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Mar 23 - 09:26 AM

I used to have a tshirt that said, over a detail of sistine-chapel god pointing at Adam:

Gods don't kill people. People with gods kill people.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Bob Hitchcock
Date: 02 Apr 23 - 02:47 PM

Some of my favorite sayings:-

      That guy is as sharp as a sack full of wet mice.

       I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 02 Apr 23 - 02:52 PM

"Speed kills!"

No, it's the sudden stop that does all the damage.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Apr 23 - 05:27 PM

You'd lose yer balls if they weren't in a bag.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Apr 23 - 05:30 PM

Or, when you're feeling a little put on, "Shove a brush up me arse an' I'll sweep bloody floor while I'm at it..."

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 23 - 05:45 AM

"It's a nice pub is that, but the men's bogs are mingin'..."

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Apr 23 - 06:28 AM

He's OK but his shit stinks

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 23 - 06:54 AM

We used to use that a lot as an insult at Thornleigh, as in "You're OK you, but your shit stinks. Nothing personal..." Bloody Catholics... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 23 - 07:22 AM

More fun than a barrelful of monkeys

As mad as a box of frogs

Two Salfordian euphemisms:

As happy as pigs in Shudehill

Blood and stomach pills!

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 03 Apr 23 - 07:37 AM

“He looks like a bag o’shit tied up ugly” (my Briggensian gran’maw’s saying, very appropriate with regard to our last PM but one).

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 03 Apr 23 - 08:21 AM

.... our last PM but one

Not wanting to cause thread drift, but - I knew you meant Boris but I had had to stop for a moment to work out why it was "last but one". It shows what an impact Liz Truss had.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 03 Apr 23 - 08:55 AM

She, and her wanker of a Chancellor, certainly had an effect on my pension fund investments, Doug! :-(

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Gda Music
Date: 05 Apr 23 - 07:33 AM

Get in the hole!

GJ

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Bob Hitchcock
Date: 05 Apr 23 - 01:59 PM

My Uncle Fred talking about Oldham Athletic F.C.

"If they were playing in t'street I'd draw curtains"

a wise man I think.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 23 - 03:06 PM

Wasn't that Shankly (aka God) commenting on Everton? He also said that there were two great teams on Merseyside: Liverpool and Liverpool reserves...

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 23 - 03:12 PM

Mind you, Uncle Fred was probably right. Latics never were much to write 'ome about.

Steve (one-time massive Burnley fan, me an' Alastair Campbell...)

I also had an Uncle Fred, by the way. He was lovely man but he dropped dead on Christmas Eve 1964.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Bob Hitchcock
Date: 05 Apr 23 - 09:10 PM

Steve, I will bow to your better knowledge about the origin of the quote. Not unlike Uncle Fred to borrow a good line. As a Brighton and Hove Albion fan for the past 60 years I have only a fleeting remembrance of Bill Shankly as Brighton was wallowing in the lower regions of the football league at the time. But hey times have changed now.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Apr 23 - 05:20 PM

As I don't have the timeline, Bob, I have to concede the possibility that Shanks (aka God) nicked the line from your Uncle Fred... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: G-Force
Date: 10 Apr 23 - 05:11 AM

'Breathe in', as said by people trying to squeeze past each other. I've always thought that breathing in makes you bigger. If you want to take up less space, breathe out.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Apr 23 - 08:29 AM

There is nothing we can do.