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Offline Snoopy

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Today on Radio Four
« on: May 07, 2009, 06:49:51 AM »
So far this morning I have heard three different people on the programme use the expression "Going forward" ~ WTF is that all about? A most annoying expression that seems to have crept into "City Speak" n recent months and has now been taken up by the politicians.
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Why do Stourton and Humphrys have to continually interupt answers when it is plain that they are not getting the response they are angling for? Are we interested in their opinions coming to the fore or would we not prefer them to shut up and let the interviewees either speak the truth or hang themselves by not doing so? It is not just the rudeness but the insult to the listener's intelligence that is pissing me off ~ but what is the alternative source of morning news? Time for a change of personnel I feel .... It is the news story that counts not the presenters own prejudice that interests me.
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Re: Today on Radio Four
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2009, 08:06:41 AM »
They have to interrupt if the answer strays from the party line...  noooo:
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Re: Today on Radio Four
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2009, 09:16:14 AM »
And "written a report to examine the issues going forward" means what exactly?


They think it means ~ "I predict" but it doesn't because it is pure gobbledegook  cussing:


And interrupting someone who has only uttered three or four words of their answer is pure bloody rudeness.

Sack the lot! ~ Stourton has BTW  been sacked from next October which is a GOOD THING IMHO apparently because he is considered too pompous (which is true although I would have described him as so far up his own arse as to be able to use the bidet as a mouth wash)
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Re: Today on Radio Four
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2009, 09:29:23 AM »
"going foward" is a way of saying that we ballsed up in the past but now we've been found out we might not balls it up in the future.
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Re: Today on Radio Four
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2009, 09:30:43 AM »
Quote from: Uncle Mort on May 07, 2009, 09:29:23 AM
"going foward" is a way of saying that we ballsed up in the past but now we've been found out we might not balls it up in the future.

I like your blue-sky way of thinking  8)
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Re: Today on Radio Four
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2009, 09:48:04 AM »
 lol: lol: lol:
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Re: Today on Radio Four
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2009, 01:05:24 PM »
I have heard the phrase "kicking the can down the road" three times in the last 24 hours  eeek:
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Re: Today on Radio Four
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2009, 01:06:11 PM »
You are keeping bad company  noooo:



















WTF does that mean?
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Re: Today on Radio Four
« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2009, 01:12:23 PM »
Quote from: Pastis on May 07, 2009, 01:05:24 PM
I have heard the phrase "kicking the can down the road" three times in the last 24 hours  eeek:

Even worse than "Pushing the envelope"

My old MD used to use any such expression that he picked up. One of his favourites was "Let me run this up the pole and see who salutes".

I once got into a lot of trouble for p*ss taking by saying in a meeting "I have an idea to run up the flagpole and see if any foreskins get tugged" ~ On reflection perhaps it would have been better to have said "Forelocks get tugged" but you know how it is when you get a silly idea.
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Re: Today on Radio Four
« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2009, 01:13:38 PM »
@ Nick

Allegedly "not solving a problem but offering a temporary fix and buying time..."

vis. Govt.s - Banks etc
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Re: Today on Radio Four
« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2009, 01:30:54 PM »
That's just bollox  evil:
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Re: Today on Radio Four
« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2009, 02:02:42 PM »
But better that "Kicking it into the long grass"
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Re: Today on Radio Four
« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2009, 02:47:15 PM »
Quote from: Nick on May 07, 2009, 01:30:54 PM
That's just bollox  evil:

Bollox it may be but I bet you hear it in the next few days now... resulting in  Angry9:
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