Pointless But It Does My Head In

john eden

john eden

male pale and stale
Slothrop said:
To be honest, if you'd managed to give the wide-eyed impression of someone stoned slowly grasping what seems like a great truth and said "what we need is... a really big fork" they'd probably have identified you as an out-of-the-box strategic thinker and promoted you to management on the spot.

I have a love-hate relationship with mild corporatese - we use the phrase "ramp up on" to mean "learn about" at work, and it really winds me up even though I do it myself, but "touch base" (as in, "you should probably go and touch base with such-and-such fairly regularly to make sure you're on track") actually seems like a reasonable coinage in response to something quite specific and important that doesn't have a better plain english phrase. Although I'm always tempted to substitute the phrase "touch cloth."
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I love all that shit, it's like the flipside of all the bullshit wordy stuff that Zhao was on about upthread. The jargon and the agonising verbosity both allow people to write length documents which say exactly nothing.

I swear some people are no longer able to express ideas in a simple paragraph. (cf all the pomo blog massif)

"Collateralise" is a recent buzzword here.
 
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mms

sometimes
it's just the man and his bullshit.

my response is always, what are you talking about?

one that bugs me is i hope this email finds you well,

what the fuck does that mean?
 
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paolo

Mechanical phantoms
On a more old school jargon tip, what the fuck is it with big words made up of smaller words, like 'heretofore' and 'thereby' and 'hereon'?

The civil service :mad:
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
PeteUM said:
This reminds me of an as yet untested game me and my girlfriend invented to play in job interviews whereby when you are asked a question you roll your eyes back in your head and pull a sort of shamanic mong-face before snapping back to normal and answering with articulate lucidity. As I say I haven't tried it yet and, yes, I am currently unemployed.
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Dissensus Phrase Of The Day, right there!
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
PeteUM said:
This reminds me of an as yet untested game me and my girlfriend invented to play in job interviews whereby when you are asked a question you roll your eyes back in your head and pull a sort of shamanic mong-face before snapping back to normal and answering with articulate lucidity. As I say I haven't tried it yet and, yes, I am currently unemployed.
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Great game. Obviously works better when interviewed by just one person, who then thinks that they are cracking up, an illusion you can continue to foster until they lose all self-control and give you the job.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
paolo said:
On a more old school jargon tip, what the fuck is it with big words made up of smaller words, like 'heretofore' and 'thereby' and 'hereon'?

The civil service :mad:
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I love those words. Especially ones that are made up, like 'whencetoforth'.

But yeah, yeesh, the civil service. Someone I know told me he wanted to work for them/it the other day, and I must admit I didn't understand why.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
Pedantic housemates who see nothing wrong in airing their extremely mild grievances for hours while talking about a cleaner as though she is an object to be replaced. :eek:
 
Tentative Andy

Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
Ludicrously wealthy students. Don't even know they're born, etc.
It's what I get for being in a West End internet cafe, I guess. :slanted:
 
luka

luka

Well-known member
mr sloane what the fuck are you trying to do to my blood pressure?!
'london rocks' you know?!!!
 
Slothrop

Slothrop

Tight but Polite
Tentative Andy said:
Ludicrously wealthy students. Don't even know they're born, etc.
It's what I get for being in a West End internet cafe, I guess. :slanted:
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Weirdly, I find them much more obnoxious in places like London or Nottingham than I did in Cambridge. Like in Cambridge they just seem like another quirk of the university that's sometimes mildly irritating, sometimes quite amusing but mostly just part of the furniture - like having 'bedders' instead of 'cleaners' or going to cheesy discos in a 16th century crypt. Whereas in other unis they just seem like boring layabouts with too much money.
 
mixed_biscuits

mixed_biscuits

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I remember:
- a wealthy student (possibly a Middle Eastern royal) who had had his college room refurbished and a chandelier hung
- someone (whose dad 'owned half of Hong Kong') being picked for the college cricket 2nds, buying the full complement of brand-spanking new professional kit and then going out for a duck
- a few people who were already running lucrative businesses
- someone at Christ Church who drove a yellow Lamborghini
- very rich and intelligent students struggling with the burden of their parents' wealth making striving unnecessary
 
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matmustard

theta
No Homo continues to annoy me. Are we so insecure that we need to add a footnote stating “I breed”?
Pathetic
I quote Hyperfrank’s rhetorical – “Don't want people to actually like you, cos if they respect you then that’s a battyman flex, surely.”
Indeed
 
Tentative Andy

Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
I think no homo might be evolving into being yet another variation on 'that's what she said'/'so does yer mum'/etc type humour, more than anything else.
Inyourendo will never die. :eek:
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
How bout "no pomo", for use in threads on here that get deep into culture-theory type territory?
 
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