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The truth is in the pudding

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LaBelleSausage · 02/11/2018 23:01

AIBU to want to scream every time I see or hear someone say “The truth is in the pudding”

It’s not bloody truth! The pudding isn’t some sort of weird fortune cookie.

It’s proof

“The proof of the pudding is in the eating”

I’ll even allow “The proof is in the pudding”, but I refuse to accept that there’s some steamed sponge of sincerity doing the rounds.

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lynmilne65 · 03/11/2018 08:16

10 ft barge pole is relatively common usage

LisaSimpsonsbff · 03/11/2018 08:17

Two of my friends had an actual argument over 'on route'. Shouting, didn't speak for about a week. My sympathies were clear - yes, one of them had been a bit patronising but SHE WAS RIGHT IT ISN'T AND NEVER HAS BEEN ON ROUTE.

lynmilne65 · 03/11/2018 08:17

Oh dear am guilty of chip ot lay 😬

lynmilne65 · 03/11/2018 08:18

En croot ??

LisaSimpsonsbff · 03/11/2018 08:19

10 ft barge pole is relatively common usage

Yes, but it's wouldn't touch, not wouldn't trust! The latter really tickles me - 'ah, I wouldn't trust her with my most precious, cherished possession - my ten foot barge pole. Oh the times I've had with that barge pole...'

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LaBelleSausage · 03/11/2018 08:20

lynmilne65 I think it’s that she wouldn’t trust him with a 10ft barge pole, usually it’s touch.

At least ‘on route’ sort of makes a vague kind of sense, although it’s an utter bastardisation.

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LaBelleSausage · 03/11/2018 08:21

LisaSimpsonsbff what you do with your own barge pole is nobody’s business but yours Wink

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Catren · 03/11/2018 08:27

I often say to dh "done like a dog's dinner" when something is finished. I know it makes no sense, and will give him the rage. Otherwise these things normally irk me!

On route reeaaallly pisses me off.

Damp squid is pretty hilarious though

JustJoinedRightNow · 03/11/2018 08:40

OP you should write that novel, I would totally read it!

PrivateParkin · 03/11/2018 08:52

OP there's a similar storyline in The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, by Agatha Christie.

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LaBelleSausage · 03/11/2018 08:52

JustJoinedRightNow perhaps one day I will!

Although for now if you want to read something along those lines here’s one of my favourite short stories ever in case you haven’t read it:
www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html

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LaBelleSausage · 03/11/2018 08:54

PrivateParkin I probably subconsciously stole it from Dame Christie, I thought it seemed too good a plot!

I’ll go and find it and have a read, thanks Smile

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PrivateParkin · 03/11/2018 08:54

Oops sorry - that's not a spoiler, honestly Blush It's just thr in the book, the pudding is used to get to the truth.

Maybe Agatha heard someone saying "the truth is in the pudding" and was inspired?!

PrivateParkin · 03/11/2018 08:56

I think you could do an updated version for these modern times OP!! It sounds right up my street!

misskatamari · 03/11/2018 09:00

I'm feeling really daft now but isn't en route pretty much pronounced on route? Slightly different sound when I say it but pretty similar. Or have I been saying/reading it wrong forever? Or is it people actually spelling it on route that's the issue above?

misskatamari · 03/11/2018 09:02

I actually just googled the pronunciation and seems I am saying it right so it does sound a lot like on route...?

JustJoinedRightNow · 03/11/2018 09:07

Thanks OP I will read that tonight! Love that it is by Roald Dahl. I’m reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to my sons this week and they love it!

SinkGirl · 03/11/2018 09:10

Reminds me of IT Crowd and “pedal stool”

Oh, and The Good Place:
“Whenever I see Aristotle, I think it rhymes with chipotle. Wait, is it chipototle?”

rosettesforjill · 03/11/2018 09:13

"Yay or nay" drives me mad! I think "yea" is a nice word and "yay" is a word for small children!

MamaLovesMango · 03/11/2018 09:17

I'm feeling really daft now but isn't en route pretty much pronounced on route?

It is unless you have a French accent but the infuriating-ness comes from when people write ‘on route to XXX’ as opposed to ‘en route’. ‘On route’ doesn’t exist, it isn’t a thing. You can’t be on the route, you can be following it or taking it but not on it.

BobbinThreadbare123 · 03/11/2018 09:21

This week, on here, I have seen:

Segway for segue
Dropped curve for dropped kerb
Aswell for as well
Alot for a lot
Incase for in case
Per say for per se
Hoist by his own flag for hoist with his own petard

Plus: rediculous, defiantly, dicide, loose for lose, advise for advice, manover for manoeuvre, and the delightful thread about et cetera.

Autocorrect is not to blame!

weekendatlastyay · 03/11/2018 09:23

When I write my novel can I call it "the steamed sponge of sincerity" please OP?

Gran22 · 03/11/2018 09:26

Something can be heart 'rending' or gut 'wrenching'. When did things become heart 'wrenching'?

maddiemookins16mum · 03/11/2018 09:27

Never heard anyone use it.

BlackStar7 · 03/11/2018 09:28

My kids all say they like 'marshmEllows'!

It gives me the rage.