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Old Sep 20th 2011, 9:05 pm
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I love the mixture of names and avatars from Red Dwarf, Hitchhikers Guide and Batman on this page.
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Old Sep 20th 2011, 9:07 pm
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I agree.. worst performance ever. Terrible.
The old codger in the background is hilarious
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
It can't be worse than 'irregardless' . . .
Difficult to argue that, although ‘Did a 360’ to ACTUALLY mean ‘a reversal in direction’, to say nothing of
‘I could care less’ when one means ‘I could NOT care less’ ... they don't fail to place and show;
‘irregardless’ only wins by a nose.

(And I've given up on ‘inflammable’ ... now, if people try to tell me it means ‘fire-proof’, I give them a match ...
and just walk away).

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My husband was hiring a car and got all these stock phrases
"Hows your day going?" etc etc from the guy behind the desk. Wait two minutes and the guy asks the identical questions all over again.
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Originally Posted by jemima55
I love the mixture of names and avatars from Red Dwarf, Hitchhikers Guide and Batman on this page.
Get yourself one and join in.
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Old Sep 20th 2011, 9:12 pm
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Originally Posted by Sally Redux
Get yourself one and join in.
I thought you said "give yourself one"
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Old Sep 20th 2011, 9:12 pm
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Originally Posted by Christian
Difficult to argue that, although ‘Did a 360’ to ACTUALLY mean ‘a reversal in direction’, to say nothing of
‘I could care less’ when one means ‘I could NOT care less’ ... they don't fail to place and show;
‘irregardless’ only wins by a nose.

(And I've given up on 'inflammable' ... now, if people try to tell me it means fire-proof, I give them a match ...
and just walk away).
I love the 'did a 360' - it makes for some great fun.

'Oh he did a complete 360 and now he wants to stay.'

'You mean a 180, right'

'No, he didn't want to before, he did a 360'

'So he still doesn't want to?'

'No he does now'

'Are you inflammable?'

'Of course I am, I'm not made of paper!'

'Oh goody' *lights match and walks away*
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Originally Posted by paranoidandroid
I thought you said "give yourself one"
it's a family thread.
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Originally Posted by Sally Redux
it's a family thread.
Trailer park... yeah ok, I'll give you that one.
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Originally Posted by Sally Redux



We must seem so green to people over here, actually believing that people are pleased to see us/want to help
Pissed off people always make me smile because at least it`s a real emotion
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Originally Posted by jemima55
Pissed off people always make me smile because at least it`s a real emotion
Here's one for Sultan... Offsides. He likes that one.
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Originally Posted by paranoidandroid
Here's one for Sultan... Offsides. He likes that one.
Snarf.

Seriously, if you had to hear it every 5 seconds every game you'd be sick of it as well
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
It can't be worse than 'irregardless' . . .
If you want to stretch it into a sentence...I couldn't careless do ya for the mangle?
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Originally Posted by CAdreaming
...including madness bloody precipitation on my wedding day!!!!
Could be worse, we had a blizzard followed by a thunderstorm on ours and it was in March
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Snarf.

Seriously, if you had to hear it every 5 seconds every game you'd be sick of it as well
Well there you go then....there is always an explanation.
First time the geezer says "offside"; second and every othr time he says "offsides". It was not just each instance he was complaining about, it was the bulid up of no-calls.
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