[News] Banal Phrases

[Bwian]

Bedwetting/Bedwetting: Used on here by so many who think they are clever and original when they use it.

Remoaners: See above.

Not phrases as such but qualify 100% for banality.

 

[Weststander]

“Piece of kit”.

This wasn’t used in the UK, but is now over-used for everything from giant cranes to small hand tools. Normally by those who get a semi from such subject matter.

 

[Robinjakarta]

get a result
A defeat is a result.

 

[Coalburner]

loved ones - why not say family and friends
in the coming days

 

[Mayonaise]

I work with a nice enough Canadian guy who doesn't seem able to construct a sentence without 'kinda like...' being included in it somwhere- starting to drive me nuts!

 

[raymondo]

It'll all come out in the wash (said the man who threw up in the Nene).

What goes around comes around.

 

[Nobby]

No disrespect but........

You don't know what you don't know

 

[Tokyohands]

My bad

 

[jonnyrovers]

"End of"

End of what? That's not even the "end of" a f**king sentence.

Whenever anyone says this to me I take it literally and end the conversation. Did it in a disciplinary hearing at work, the bloke was completely dumbfounded. It obviously wasn’t the ‘end of’ what he had to say and he was extremely upset when he received a sanction based on the small amount of info he’d given before ‘end of’.

Makes me a bit of a nob too I suppose but I hate the pig headed arrogance of ‘end of’.


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[SeagullDubai]

Houghton needs to earn his salt. Normally said when we are losing

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[pearl]

neighbours have a builder in (yeah, 8am Saturday) .....

I ain't b-ing funny or nuffink, mate
It's no skin off my nose, mate
give us a bell later mate

 

[Dick Head]

Up and down the country.

 

[Beach Hut]

It is what it is

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Sorry if fixtures

 

[Weststander]

Does what it says on the tin.

My bad.

 

[Simster]

Up and down the country.

"Hard working British people"

An absolutely classic Tory soundbite often used to justify not taxing people sufficiently and instead choosing to run public services into the ground while ensuring the rich get to keep more of their money

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

It is what it is

I was watching the In The Court of the Crimson King (the relatively recent documentary, not the album) the other day, and there's a bit where Bill Rieflen asks the documentary maker if he's happy with the set up for their interview, who replies "it is what it is". And Rieflin looks slightly exasperated and says "well yes, but it can be something different".

In itself quite a banal exchange, but it really struck me. In context it's lent some gravitas by how they're about to talk about Rieflin's stomach cancer, he died a few months later while they were making the film.