1. The Father The Son and the Holy Ghost.
The Holy what now? Is the holy ghost in the bible or did some church make it up later on? And what is it? What does it do? Don't assume we know.
2. Stewed coffee.
'Oh that coffee's been on for ages, it tastes horrible'. Nope, I have no idea what you're on about, if coffee's still hot it's still good. In fact when it's cold it's still good sometimes. There must theoretically be a point where, if you keep ladling new coffee on top of old coffee grounds in a cafetiere, it would eventually be undrinkable. But, for me, that'd only be when the mold sets in.
3. Garlic breath.
Oh grow up. Does this even exist? Or is it a remnant of early 70s Brits abroad eating their filthy muck.
4.elephant in the room.
ReplyDeletewhere the hell did that come from? I hear it all the time and it drives me mad.
5. hard working families.
this presumably excludes work-shy gays.
6. i love you.
'nuff said.
7. mental health.
if you are evil are you mad?
8. the credit crunch
ReplyDeleteThought I'd revive this thread... Actually this is quite difficult - it's easy to think of things you dislike (awful neologisms etc.) but not those you don't understand at all. But how about?
ReplyDelete1. Ice cream headache - never had one of these, and can't imagine what they might be like. having said that, I'm not really a fan of ice cream. Or chocolate - I don't understand why people get so worked up about it...
2. Consumer confidence - one of those measures that sounds as though it's a linear scale but really only has one value (high). I haven't heard anyone talking about 'low' consumer confidence lately. I've never felt more or less 'confident' about consuming anything, so I guess this must be a metaphor, or perhaps a way for the banks to blame our irresponsibly high levels of 'confidence' for rampant over-spending, rather than their irresponsibly low levels of caution in lending us so much in the first place...
3. Metrosexual - ?