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breaking the girl code ?? wtf

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paintinmyhairAgain · 23/02/2019 07:56

have seen this expression a lot recently, are the users under 13. surely it's not relevant to apply to a woman. yet another shite expression doing the rounds,

what expressions give you the rage ?

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PetuniaPetunia · 23/02/2019 13:59

Calling films " movies", caling TV programmes ( including documentaries) "shows"

MrsTommyBanks · 23/02/2019 14:01

Woke.

PooleySpooley · 23/02/2019 14:13

Making memories.

#blessed

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paintinmyhairAgain · 23/02/2019 14:19

i'm a mama bear no, you are human and you sound like a twat.
fell about laughing - really ??
turned round and said Angry

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MarieIVanArkleStinks · 23/02/2019 14:21

‘Sun-setting’ made me snort. ThIs corporate speech gets ever more ridiculous; it’s cliched, sorely lacking in imagination and usually meaningless. Another one I hear increasingly

is ‘let’s park that’, meaning ‘this issue doesn’t take priority for the moment’. And the one that really does make my hackles rise: ‘going forward’. Let’s park that one, please.

‘It gives me the rage’. Danny Boyle, I hold you personally responsible for this ...

Dangling modifiers. Any form of dangling modifier. ‘My bad’ .... what? ‘End of’ .... what? ‘Find your happy’ ... WHAT? Grrrrr.

Girl code I agree is sexist and very juvenile. All very well to have a moral code for things that are just not done, especially between friends. But as for making females implicitly responsible for men’s morals as well as their own, I say bollocks to that. Nor have I ever subscribed to the ‘You give all women a bad name’ maxim when another woman happens to have done something immoral. She has a vagina. I have a vagina. Nope, I’m still not seeing why I should be deemed to have any connection or shared responsibility whatsoever with this person.

Moral of the thread, whatever your personal foibles of speech you’re going to end up pissing off someone!

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paintinmyhairAgain · 23/02/2019 14:23

twats reading this thread then moaning about it, oh we get one of these every week, don't read then.

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angieloumc · 23/02/2019 14:50

'Inside' as in 'inside 12 months', no it's 'within 12 months'. An ex of mine had it on his website when he was trying to promote his memory skills. He also spelt 'dumbfounded' as 'dumfounded' and insisted you could use either of them. Fool.

LaMarschallin · 23/02/2019 15:03

It's newspaper speak that irritates me quite a bit:
Stepping out
Flaunting
Blasted/slammed
it gets so repetitive.
Also, sadly, Marian Keyes had my toes clenching (and I love her books and other writing) when I watched a YouTube thingy about her going on a trip on (I think) the Queen Mary and saying she had to dress "schmaahrt" instead of smart/smartly.
Once maybe, but every blessed time...
Sorry. Composed again now.

littledoll33 · 23/02/2019 15:11

WOKE annoys me !! ARGH!

So many millennial sayings do actually.

(Sorry millennials, no offence.)

I actually heard someone on a Ch 4 (or Ch 5) 'talk show' using the term 'woke people' and he was about 50. Sounded so naff.

Sorry, I don't mean to sound ageist, but it sounds stupid enough when 22 y.o's use it! It sounded ludicrous when a man of 50 used it.

wanderings · 24/02/2019 09:06

Newspaper headlines using the word "misery" excessively. "More misery for commuters" etc.

notacooldad · 24/02/2019 09:22

drogon1

"Making memories" makes me want to recoil inside myself it makes me cringe that much*
This is current most hated phase!
Especially when a hashtag is used for the most simple mundane activity. Eg picture of friend and child having a burger at Mac's on Facebook followed by # mummytime #making memories #funtogether #burgersarefun #greattimes, and other such rubbish!

baddayattheoffice · 24/02/2019 09:22

"With the best will in the world ..." usually followed by some condescending crap.

JaneJeffer · 24/02/2019 16:07

Kool Aid. WTF is Kool Aid?

ErrolTheDragon · 24/02/2019 16:14

I have no idea what 'breaking the girl code' might mean. Other than maybe a sexist sabotaging of a GCSE computer science assignment.Confused

Quintella · 24/02/2019 16:16

It's a soft drink. One that the Jim Jones disciples laced with cyanide before drinking as their master ordered them to. 'Drinking the kool aid' means you've lost the plot.

ErrolTheDragon · 24/02/2019 16:29

Quoting a price as 'x pound' rather than pounds where x is any integer above one. Why?Confused

notacooldad · 24/02/2019 16:51

It's a soft drink. One that the Jim Jones disciples laced with cyanide before drinking as their master ordered them to. 'Drinking the kool aid' means you've lost the plot
I always understood that Drinking the kook aid ' meant to follow blindly rather than losing the plot. It is no seen as an offensive phrase from the Jonestown massacre, i hadn't heard that expression for years and then I came across the Jonestown massacre ( which I roughly knew about ) recently on Casefile. My god it was horrific!

Quintella · 24/02/2019 17:05

Yes, 'follow blindly' is probably more accurate. Although in the Jonestown instance their blind following led to them losing the plot. I think Twitter seems to have brought the 'drunk the Kool Aid' phrase back into common usage.

BillMasen · 24/02/2019 22:37

With regard to "reaching out", it seemed to be used a lot at work where "email" would suffice.

I did once ask if that made a group e-mail a "reach around"

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