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Words and phrases you never want to hear again after this is over

421 replies

Welshmaenad · 13/04/2020 09:42

"Unprecedented"

"Social distancing"

"Feed the nation"

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Caroian · 13/04/2020 10:23

Amid.

Every. Fucking. News. Article contains the word amid at least 15 times!

StatisticallyChallenged · 13/04/2020 10:23

"at pace" - everything is being done "at pace"

Lemonblast · 13/04/2020 10:24

‘Todays Schedule’ accompanied by a picture of a chalk board depicting hourly break down of kids activities which may or may not include ‘daddy time’

Oh and fucking ‘Banana bread’ pictures.

Calledyoulastnightfromglasgow · 13/04/2020 10:24

Lockdown amuses me. Even in Italy, people were still going to the shops, some were working and people were exercising dogs.

Lockdown is a jail term!

PuppyMonkey · 13/04/2020 10:25

Ramping up.

Summersunandoranges · 13/04/2020 10:26

Essential & non essential

LOCK DOWN!!

Bring the army in

toothfairy73 · 13/04/2020 10:26

I never want to sing happy birthday again

BruceAndNosh · 13/04/2020 10:26

Much as I respect him, I am looking forward to not hearing Chris Whittys name so frequently.
Once he returns to being a faceless medical Civil Servant, It is a sign that normality has returned.

echt · 13/04/2020 10:28

Why are/aren't teachers doing this/that/more/less.

Just on MN. Nowhere else is making this noise.

HoffiCoffi13 · 13/04/2020 10:29

Lockdown
Self isolation
Stay home, stay safe
Am I allowed?

nopenothappening · 13/04/2020 10:29

Describing humans as a drain or burden on the NHS.

TheSandman · 13/04/2020 10:31

"We're all in this together"

Because we're fucking not. Or at least not to the same degree. "We're all in this together" implies there is an equality here. There isn't.

The poorer people of the world are deeper in this shit than the rich.

Here shop workers and front-line NHS are at much greater risk than the self-isolating, second home owners coasting through this on their wealth.

They're already trying to take credit for 'doing their bit' while making profits from our deaths.

Fuck them.

Waxlyrically · 13/04/2020 10:31

Lots of these but also grim. Grim milestone, grim figure, grim news. Journalists seem have seized on it for every single bit of bad news.

TudorRoses · 13/04/2020 10:33

Anything and everything that comes out of Trump's mouth.

Squirrelblanket · 13/04/2020 10:34

Stay well/safe/home etc

Anything from work to do with 'maintaining social contact'.

GreekOddess · 13/04/2020 10:35

Stay the Fuck home. I find it unbelievably patronising, unoriginal and downright rude. The hysteria and fake tears over family members who they haven't been able to see in 3 weeks when they usually go months without seeing them anyway.

I realise I've gone off on a tangent. I do apologise.

Lemonblast · 13/04/2020 10:35

President Trump

Although Ex President Trump will be acceptable.

Ozzfest · 13/04/2020 10:36

All the usuals for me;

Lockdown .... it’s not, though , is it?

Non-essential... but only in the opinion of the grocery police

Today’s death toll... do we really,
really need to know?

Heroes... applied to anyone who is going to their paid job, and doing their work.

Clapping for bloody everything and everybody... I doubt it would ever happen if there wasn’t FB to post it on, just the worst arena for show-off and virtue signallers

tinkerbellla · 13/04/2020 10:39

@Lemonblast the daily schedule photos are the absolute worst!

missmouse101 · 13/04/2020 10:40

There's no handwash, pasta, tinned tomatoes or bread...

LittleAtlas · 13/04/2020 10:42

Shielding
Lock down
Social distancing
Pandemic
Non essential Confused

majesticallyawkward · 13/04/2020 10:42

Key worker, clap for X, Y, Z, covidiot, stay home, stay safe, selfish.... oh and coronial.

It's like we can't understand anything without shitty twee phrases.

The wails of selfish and nasty just strikes me as purile and childish. It's like when my 5 year old and her friends squabble 'that's not faaaiiir, you're nasty!'

Samtsirch · 13/04/2020 10:43

The current situation
2 meters!!!

Samtsirch · 13/04/2020 10:44

When this is all over......

cravingthelook · 13/04/2020 10:44

Ramping up

At pace

Pulling it out of the bag

Buckets of Resilience

Maybe I'm bitter today.... but I've heard all these in the last week at work

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