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RE: Phrases and idioms that trigger you.
November 5, 2017 at 4:34 am
(November 4, 2017 at 5:07 pm)Cyberman Wrote:
- Adverts crafted and staged precisely to engender as much murderous irritation as is inhumanly possible. I'm thinking - or rather, trying not to think -of that ridiculously annoying 'Go Compare' abomination, which research leads me to understand qualifies as a hate crime. There's a clear line between memorable, which is obviously what they're aiming for, and deeply unpleasant, which is what they keep hitting. And which makes me want to do the same to my television.
I'll probably think of a few more later.
I will ad the shake and vac ad to that particular trope.
And the ad with the shouty man saying "HI, I'M BARRY SCOTT"
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RE: Phrases and idioms that trigger you.
November 5, 2017 at 5:03 am
(November 5, 2017 at 4:34 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: And the ad with the shouty man saying "HI, I'M BARRY SCOTT"
Yeah Barry Scott, what an arse, I bought some of that Cillit bang (it doesn't work)
Bang and £3.50 is gone.
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RE: Phrases and idioms that trigger you.
November 5, 2017 at 5:20 am
(November 5, 2017 at 5:03 am)Cod Wrote: (November 5, 2017 at 4:34 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: And the ad with the shouty man saying "HI, I'M BARRY SCOTT"
Yeah Barry Scott, what an arse, I bought some of that Cillit bang (it doesn't work)
Bang and £3.50 is gone.
He's not really Barry Scott, its an actor playing the role of Barry Scott.
Quote:Cillit Bang television advertisements have been presented by "Barry Scott", a brashly enthusiastic character played by Neil Burgess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cillit_Bang
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RE: Phrases and idioms that trigger you.
November 5, 2017 at 5:25 am
(November 5, 2017 at 5:20 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: (November 5, 2017 at 5:03 am)Cod Wrote: Yeah Barry Scott, what an arse, I bought some of that Cillit bang (it doesn't work)
Bang and £3.50 is gone.
He's not really Barry Scott, its an actor playing the role of Barry Scott.
Quote:Cillit Bang television advertisements have been presented by "Barry Scott", a brashly enthusiastic character played by Neil Burgess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cillit_Bang
Neil Burgess, what an arse.
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RE: Phrases and idioms that trigger you.
November 5, 2017 at 8:56 am
An old classic, just for you...
And now the antidote:
Yes, that's Peter Serafinowicz, the actual voice of The Phantom Menace's Darth Maul. Sam and I saw him one time at a studio recording of Would I Lie To You? A very funny bloke.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Phrases and idioms that trigger you.
November 7, 2017 at 3:00 pm
(November 5, 2017 at 5:03 am)Cod Wrote: Yeah Barry Scott, what an arse, I bought some of that Cillit bang (it doesn't work)
Bang and £3.50 is gone.
Me and the rest of my family refer to that as "Clit Bang."
Yeah, we're a weird family.
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RE: Phrases and idioms that trigger you.
November 7, 2017 at 3:16 pm
More of a grammar thing but I am appalled when people say things like "We've got...You've got...etc.". Which is it? Do you 'have' it or do you 'got' it?
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RE: Phrases and idioms that trigger you.
November 7, 2017 at 3:29 pm
(November 7, 2017 at 3:16 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: More of a grammar thing but I am appalled when people say things like "We've got...You've got...etc.". Which is it? Do you 'have' it or do you 'got' it?
"We have got" and "You have got" do work as phrases, in terms of grammar?
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RE: Phrases and idioms that trigger you.
November 7, 2017 at 4:53 pm
Have and got are different. "I got a cake from the bakery. Now I have it in the car."
<insert profound quote here>
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RE: Phrases and idioms that trigger you.
November 7, 2017 at 4:56 pm
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(November 7, 2017 at 4:53 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Have and got are different. "I got a cake from the bakery. Now I have it in the car."
According to this website, and a couple other one's i've looked into, "I have got" does indeed work depending on context.
http://www.englishteachermelanie.com/whe...ar-lesson/
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