To think some of you are being less than honest when you...

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...use expressions like "I was a little bit sick in my mouth" and "I spat all over my keyboard".

You didn't actually did you?

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I'm sure they don't.

But

I'm sure people aren't lions in battle. I bet they don't actually burn bridges. I'm fairly confident people don't really age a decade during a boring meeting, nobody walks round with a real chip balanced on their shoulder, people in the same boat aren't actually in a boat, etc etc

So 'spat my tea out' or 'sitting here crying' are really closer to metaphors/similes/idioms (pick whichever of those is right cos I'm not sure ) more along those lines than meant to be taken literally, imo. It's just - what's the word I'm looking for? er. Figurative?

Are you on the right thread Fenton?

Oh I hate those. I hate people saying either of them. It's not even funny any more. Please stop.

especially the wee one

Yes, EasyonTheChips just asked me a question up there^.

The one with the Hairdryer, Fenton? Only if it goes into classics so my shame can be immortalised in all its glory.

I dunno why it went poof as I had to go to ASDA to buy nappies as my DD actually DOES piss her pants lauging

I do say lol though

so does my dad

he says it means lots of love so he puts it at the end of all his emails

Oh alright. Hijack away...

sorry

I laugh till I cough sometimes too.
Or LTIC.

Oh come back! You know I'm only joking.

It was only a short hijack - and ACTUALLY I am not holding you up with a gun and holding you hostage and about to make you drive the thread somewhere you don't want to go.

It's almost as bad as lol. lol.

YANBU to think that it is not actually really literally true

But YABU to not understand the use of hyperbole

Can we have that story from babyheave now?

Flightyy

My FIL uses lol as Lots of Love too.

It didn't go down too well when he texted a friend to say 'Sorry to hear your mother died, lol'

Ooooh Hecate - you think of it as an actual chip balanced on someone's shoulder? Like potato product?

I think of it as the kind of chip you'd have in a tea cup, ie a small chunk missing.

What does everyone else visualise?

Potato. For sure.

I have actually just lol ed at that Sposh. How inappropriate, of me that is.

Where did I say that I don't understand the use of hyperbole?

Made me laugh like a drain too, Fenton.

So there's a question. When did a drain ever laugh?

Phrase finder says wooden chip, used to tempt others into fighting y by knocking it off. Makes sense.

I see the same as you Psammead - a chink on the shoulder.

I don't believe that such statements are meant to be taken literally. It's just a means of expressing the level of how funny / annoying people find something.