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Post by kate on May 14, 2024 15:08:17 GMT
Today's word (OK two words)
Virtue signalling
Engaging in a behaviour that's primarily meant to demonstrate their good moral values.
Really means (my definition) getting splinters in their bum.
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Post by spinno on May 14, 2024 15:57:02 GMT
Today's word (OK two words) Virtue signalling Engaging in a behaviour that's primarily meant to demonstrate their good moral values. Really means (my definition) getting splinters in their bum. Or I'm so Holy, this time next week I'll be a Saint... |
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Post by willien on May 14, 2024 16:01:01 GMT
Today's word (OK two words) Virtue signalling Engaging in a behaviour that's primarily meant to demonstrate their good moral values. Really means (my definition) getting splinters in their bum. Or I'm so Holy, this time next week I'll be a Saint... Or a colander... |
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Post by spinno on May 14, 2024 16:10:47 GMT
Or I'm so Holy, this time next week I'll be a Saint... Or a colander... Bit of a strain that... |
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Post by zou on May 14, 2024 17:03:37 GMT
Today's word (OK two words) Virtue signalling Engaging in a behaviour that's primarily meant to demonstrate their good moral values. Really means (my definition) getting splinters in their bum. The only time I can see the phrase being used non-ironically is when Tories (red or blue) try to pretend to care about something despite cutting all of its funding to redivert funds to Evil Inc. to club puppies to death. Etc. |
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Post by willien on May 17, 2024 21:24:40 GMT
Swam. Me I would typically say "swum" - but I did not go to a country day school. But Louden Wainright the third wrote - "We were richer than most, I don't mean to boast - but I've swam in a Country Club pool.". He grew up in upstate New York. His father was editor of Harpers and Queens. Another line from the song is - "while our dad went to work every day in New York in a suit and a tie on a train" [more or less, I always get that line wrong]. I am a fan. I am also a fan of the late Kate and Anna McGarrigle. I think Kate and Louden's sprogs Rufus and Martha are talented but I am not into their work.
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Post by JohnY on May 17, 2024 21:45:15 GMT
Today's word (OK two words) Virtue signalling Engaging in a behaviour that's primarily meant to demonstrate their good moral values. Really means (my definition) getting splinters in their bum. The only time I can see the phrase being used non-ironically is when Tories (red or blue) try to pretend to care about something despite cutting all of its funding to redivert funds to Evil Inc. to club puppies to death. Etc. Soon you will be able to state "The only time I can see the phrase being used non-ironically is when Labour (red or blue) try to pretend to care about something despite cutting all of its funding to redivert funds to Evil Inc. to club puppies to death. Etc. |
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Post by willien on May 17, 2024 22:07:59 GMT
The only time I can see the phrase being used non-ironically is when Tories (red or blue) try to pretend to care about something despite cutting all of its funding to redivert funds to Evil Inc. to club puppies to death. Etc. Soon you will be able to state "The only time I can see the phrase being used non-ironically is when Labour (red or blue) try to pretend to care about something despite cutting all of its funding to redivert funds to Evil Inc. to club puppies to death. Etc. Well as a Scot. Nat. who acknowledges that while I am held prisoner in the dying days of the evil empire the less evil the better - thank **** for that. |
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Post by don on May 18, 2024 14:34:33 GMT
My word of the day is
Euphemism
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Post by mick on May 18, 2024 18:31:51 GMT
No it’s not it’s dysphemism
Mick
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Post by kate on May 18, 2024 18:45:13 GMT
Irishman
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Post by don on May 20, 2024 10:08:22 GMT
Vicissitudes which is described in the book I’m reading as meaning Buggerations
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Post by kate on May 20, 2024 12:14:33 GMT
Definitely luck running out for many. Where to start? Vicissitudes of weather changes; vicissitudes of UK democracy in any form; Vicissitudes of product availability and prices; vicissitudes of housing available for all; vicissitudes of the NHS and access.
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Post by willien on May 21, 2024 18:23:07 GMT
Eshewed - as practiced by Nige.
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Post by kate on May 21, 2024 19:01:59 GMT
Eshewed - as practiced by Nige. What? No es chewing? The Government certainly eschewed compensating people for the imported blood product scandal. Probably just hoped they'd all die so they wouldn't have to do anything. Glad I had my transfusion in 1970 and missed it. As far as I'm concerned, procurement was the initial catastrophe. Some nice deal cooked up between parties no doubt, on the cheap.Thought they'd got away with it. |
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