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Thread: WOKE...do you use this word incorrectly....or others?

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    When watching the V8's,Crompton often says "the weather is coming".
    One of my pet hates.

    What he means is the rain is coming or the weather change is coming.Not the weather is coming.

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    Mini tornado

    No such thing!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RANDLOVER View Post
    My bugbear is unique, people say "really unique" or "very unique" whereas something is unique or it is not, as in the only one of it's kind.
    As in a bit pregnant?
    If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
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    ....half dead?
    'sit bonum tempora volvunt'


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    Give it your 110%.?? coaches and the like.
    If using percentages, then 100 is the max, can't be 110%, does not exist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ozscott View Post
    There are so many. But heavy rain, storms, possible flooding etc now has to been a "rain event"...there is so much now that is straight out of the Sir Humphrey Appelby playbook. And weasel words drive me crazy. Just say what it is.

    Cheers


    Those terms are so "Climate Change"

    Now that we are in a "Climate Crisis" we need new terms.

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    "Safe Haven"


    A secure place where a gun safe or money safe is stored which also provides protection from a safe cracker or thief.

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    Anchor

    Quote Originally Posted by Ronski View Post
    Give it your 110%.?? coaches and the like.
    If using percentages, then 100 is the max, can't be 110%, does not exist.


    That is par for the course for Coaches.

    W anchor



    To give 110% could put you in a Combustible Box.

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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Ian View Post
    As in a bit pregnant?


    Perzactly, there is no pulling back or out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ronski View Post
    Give it your 110%.?? coaches and the like.
    If using percentages, then 100 is the max, can't be 110%, does not exist.
    Hmmm? What is 55% multiplied by 2?
    'sit bonum tempora volvunt'


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