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What really grinds your gears?

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Feb 2014
12:50pm, 28 Feb 2014
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kwala
I was trying to think of a situation when it would be right to say "just about", and now have "It's Raining Men" stuck in my head.

"cos tonight for the first time, just about half past ten...."
Feb 2014
12:51pm, 28 Feb 2014
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JenL
Or "I'm just about to lose my mind, honey, honey, yeah"?
Feb 2014
1:01pm, 28 Feb 2014
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Doctor K
Why does football coverage on Radio 5 have to be advertised with an excerpt of frantic commentary from some previous game? It's bloody annoying -not just football either
Feb 2014
4:08pm, 28 Feb 2014
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Carpathius
People who say 'literally' when they don't mean it. "I literally died of shock" "I wish that were true".
Feb 2014
4:12pm, 28 Feb 2014
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ChrisThePuma
with you all the way on that one carp - but unfortunately someone in the dictionary business decided to re-jig the word to also mean placing emphasis to something without it being actually true.

weak-willed wa*kers.
Feb 2014
4:13pm, 28 Feb 2014
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JenL
Or lazy lexicography? ;-)
Feb 2014
4:13pm, 28 Feb 2014
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JenL
Literally :P
Feb 2014
4:39pm, 28 Feb 2014
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McGoohan
I remember my English teacher marking down some of my writing down because I'd written 'sweat was literally pumping out of my face'.

He pointed out to me what 'literally' literally means. He was a good teacher. :-)
Feb 2014
4:45pm, 28 Feb 2014
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Velociraptor
Pumping. Yeah, thanks for the reminder, McG.

"The sick was literally pumping out of her."

"I don't wanna be pumped full of drugs."

"Our food is pumped full of additives."
Feb 2014
4:56pm, 28 Feb 2014
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Frobester
Rafts and baskets.
"We propose a raft of measures."
"We have a basket of proposals."

Still, on the positive side, Nigel Farage has said that if he fails to get a single MP elected to the HoC in 2015, he'll resign. Huzzah!

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