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To think that chester draws isn't as bad as

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ChangeThePassword · 15/08/2020 14:36

'chester freezer'

I'm not defending chester draws, but at least I can understand how it happened.

I've just seen someone talk about their 'chester freezer' on Facebook. There's no excuse.

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VeganVeal · 15/08/2020 17:34

Sweet instead of suite

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 15/08/2020 17:35

Also Spag Bowl really annoys me. It's not bowlognese......

'You're just like a bowl in a china shop'.... so a perfectly normal and expected thing, then....?!

diddl · 15/08/2020 17:36

"I've also seen bike peddles listed."

Oooh, wonder what it's peddling?

Rediculous-seem to see that quite often.

Lack toast into Lent-that can't be real!

SchrodingersImmigrant · 15/08/2020 17:37

I take spag bowl and raise you Spag Bowel

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 15/08/2020 17:37

The work canteen put “Chicken cord on blue” on the menu once (Chicken Cordon Bleu)

Are you sure they weren't just being honest and it was basically woefully undercooked gristle?!

MrsKoala · 15/08/2020 17:39

Persay is one I see quite often and it’s usually in the wrong context too - so doubly wrong.

Hold down the fort is one I also hate. But for me the worst thing like this is the use of the correctly spelled ‘mortified’ but in the totally wrong context. Usually to be angry about something not remotely embarrassing.

EatsShootsAndRuns · 15/08/2020 17:39

@SchrodingersImmigrant

I take spag bowl and raise you Spag Bowel
You would just lose your appetite at that point! Grin
Youngatheart00 · 15/08/2020 17:40

Spag Bowel 😂💩

SchrodingersImmigrant · 15/08/2020 17:40

Certainly!

DotForShort · 15/08/2020 17:44

I see "free reign" and "reign in" all the time.

nannymags · 15/08/2020 17:45

oh my goodness, this are great! I'm hard of hearing and get a lot of these. My friend used to think it was double drier not tumble drier (to lip read the consonants looks the same)

My best once, before i could understand current affairs or read the news, I though it was "the son of Bin Laden" instead of Osama Bin Laden

Drinkingallthewine · 15/08/2020 17:45

"finally finished raping all the presents for Christmas"

FuckyNel · 15/08/2020 17:45

It’s a doggy dog world

Tequila mockingbird

Grin
LucyTamedOgres · 15/08/2020 17:46

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll Grin ouch!

TooLittleTooLate80 · 15/08/2020 17:46

My local FB group is a goldmine for these. I'd like to think even in all the years of people starting these threads that I'm the first to report someone asking what its like to live in one of the "culdersacks" off x street?!

Dontforgetyourbrolly · 15/08/2020 17:48

For all intensive purposes
Take this with a grain of salt

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 15/08/2020 17:51

But for me the worst thing like this is the use of the correctly spelled ‘mortified’ but in the totally wrong context. Usually to be angry about something not remotely embarrassing.

Maybe they were so angry that their head quite literally exploded? In which case, the experience was indeed literally mortifying Grin

Muddledupme · 15/08/2020 17:51

"RIP now with the angles " always gets me

Aria20 · 15/08/2020 17:52

@Chanjer Blocker flats is brilliant GrinGrinGrin

DotForShort · 15/08/2020 17:55

@Dontforgetyourbrolly

For all intensive purposes Take this with a grain of salt
To take something "with a grain of salt" is a perfectly acceptable phrase. That is how the idiom is usually rendered in the U.S.
CustardySergeant · 15/08/2020 17:56

"My colleague asked me how to spell ADHD"

I'd like to have heard that conversation.

"How do you spell ADHD?"

"ADHD"

"Yeah. How do you spell it?"

"ADHD"

"Don't just repeat what I said! Tell me how to spell it!"

etc.etc. ad nauseam

It's like something from a sketch show. Grin

diddl · 15/08/2020 17:56

@mrsBtheparker

When granddaughter had been on an outdoor pursuits weekend she talked about kayaking and I asked if they had worn life jackets. No, apparently they had a Beyonce aid.
Is that the modern version of a Mae West?
Pinkstars2501 · 15/08/2020 17:57

Pacific annoys me.
I was having a discussion argument because she's nuts with a colleague who was pissed off about something that was missing (it wasn't, she just likes to be a twat) that she "pacifically" bought for that day. She's kept saying it. It took all my strength not to tell "SPECIFICALLY, if you're going to shout at me, at least get the word correct. You dick."

That feels better Grin

WhereYouLeftIt · 15/08/2020 17:57

Someone was being Devil's Advocat on a thread today.

It got past their spellchecker! Grin

midlifecrash · 15/08/2020 17:58

take with a grain of salt is correct surely?

"mortified" means "very embarrassed" in Dublin

I am hung up on the "common animal, think Elephant but not that" I mean come on that's cruel. Rhinoceros? giraffe? how many letters has it got?