Euphemisms that drive you mad

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I was a labour supporter/member in their formative years as it goes.

[SeanMacGabhann]

New Labour I presume you mean CWALD??

If you were around in the formative years of the Labour party you look damn fine for your age!

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

In my kids formative years!! My grandad was part of the Labour Parties formative years tho.

[Ladygooner]

I think CWALD now has a new career ahead of her in sex education lessons! Just send your kids round to her house and she will put them in the picture

[fractionater]

"...I have also always told them that sex is best with someone who you love and respect, who is mad about you too ..."

I would have to disagree!!!

[Ultraconsultancy]

What infuriates me are the ridiculous compound verbs that are in vogue just now;

to self-harm

to project-manage

to better-communicate

and the like. We're not german you know!

Also those completely made-up plurals like foods, behaviours, and weathers.

A chap has to get annoyed about something, you know...

UC

[mockney piers]

The Missus (management consultant) couldn't understand why Word was flagging 'costings' as a spelling error. I was unable to persuade her that it's not a word, that the old fashioned 'cost' will work perfectly well thank you even if it is shorter. She doesn't even charge by the word nor nuffink!

Sadly she's not alone.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4707608.stm

I've no issue with language evolving, I just wish we could ban management and financial types from doing it so badly.

[Brendan]

I was just about to post a moan about corporate and political euphemisms.

[mightyroar]

ha. my friend the academic talks and writes about

'publics'

[Annasfield]

"blue sky thinking" - grrrrr!

Oh and " Do you have the ball?"

[Michael Palaeologus]

"In-boarding" = Induction

[Brendan]

Just exactly where the fuk is this box that I?m supposed to think outside of?

[Ultraconsultancy]

saying "gate" at the end of another word or expression [foot and mouth disease gate] to imply in a weak-minded way that there is a government cover-up of some kind of misdemeanour.

[Ultraconsultancy]

Two euphemisms I really like but don't get nearly enough opportunity to use are

"paul and marshall" = boring, ie I went to see the Blue aeroplanes last week but they've all gone a bit Paul and Marshall.

"foot on the monitor" = with great verve or enthusiasm.

[mockney piers]

"Fit for purpose" is really winding me up at the moment.

[TillieTrotter]

Can Ratatouille be better than Finding Nemo. I confess to watching Nemo (at least) monthly.:-$

[TillieTrotter]

oops, wrong thread.

[SeanMacGabhann]

lol Tillie, I've done that as well! (and haven't seen Ratatouille, but agree about Nemo. Monsters Inc still my fave tho)

"playing with the handbrake" off has entered the football manager's lexicon and I'm not in love with it. As with may euphemisms the first time it seems quite sweet and then it becomes annoying very quickly

[Brendan]

Apparently I am not a ?hundred and ten percenter.?

Which, as far as I can figure, is a euphemism for not being a cunt.

[mockney piers]

"saying "gate" at the end of another word or expression [foot and mouth disease gate] to imply in a weak-minded way that there is a government cover-up of some kind of misdemeanour."

You'll love this then UC

WHATABUNCHOFLYINGBASTARDSGATE

[citizenED]

"your" M and S. Grrr.

[Asset]

It's all about taking ownership Citizen, probably been researched extensively by some psychotwaddle experts at vast expense. (ooh lots of exs in that sentence)

[SteveT]

"The men may not like me, but they respect me" = the men couldn't give a toss they just think you're an arsehole!

"I am hard but fair"= I am an ignorant, insensitive, bullying, brainless dope.

"My wife was a cow and is now a statistic" = I am relieved to be out of joyless marriage even though she stole the house!

"50 50"= She gets 75%

"I am not bitter I have now put it all behind me"= Clinging to my sanity by scribbling this drivel at 11pm

[Brendan]

"The human race" when what you really mean is, "arseholes"

?Got out on the wrong side of the bed? when what you really mean is, ?Hates the effing world this morning?

[Nero]

Where I work, we try to use (not utilise) the simplest word with the fewest syllables. That usually means an Anglo-Saxon word over its Latinate equivalent (same?). I hate meet with, greet with etc. What next - shag with? I also cannot abide 'gotten'. It's slipped in over the past couple of years. I even hear government ministers use it.Yes, I know it is British English from a few centuries ago, but it isn't now. Nero