[Closed] Stomach Churning turn of phrase..

Making the trails come alive? 😆

is it not acceptable* to say cockpit system then 😉

*A popular thread title when you disagree with something ..... usually resulting in a response along the lines of stop being so up yer self.

I hate "can I get?" when they mean "could I have?" - it's stupid and babyish.

My response to that ("Can I get?") would be: "I don't know, can you?" Totally confuses them 😆

have taken root in the forum

(...actually, except perhaps "oh, the ironing")

having recently seen a poster roundly slated for using the phrase "cockpit system"

Have you read Fresh Goods Friday today? 😉

Lead from the front. Where the frig else can you lead from - gimps

Mum,dad can I have a chat?

Cold sweat everytime

ok, i cant wait patiently for you to guess what is boiling my pi$$

gnarpoon

even saying it in my head makes me a total cockwomble
i tried to read some of the "how much does a HT weigh" thread and had to give up.

^^^ no perch, i havent yet.
should i?
or should i get back to work?

Child in one of my classes - is that, like, a saw sir?
Me - no it actually is a saw.
Child - uhh?
Me - metaphorically slaps forehead and realises humour is lost on youth.

gnarpoon

pretty sure that's still being used as a joke/tongue in cheek?

isn't it? (please dear god let it be so...)

'Swap out'

What's wrong with simply 'swap', or 'change'?

on and on - Member

Lead from the front. Where the frig else can you lead from

Not the front....?

E.g. You lads, climb out of that trench & face certain death shooting at those Germans, while I sit in my tent drinking a nice port, 15 miles behind enemy lines.....

Not the front....?

E.g. You lads, climb out of that trench & face certain death shooting at those Germans, while I sit in my tent drinking a nice port, 15 miles behind [b]enemy[/b] lines.....

The Germans seem to treating the POW's better than I remember these days.

On point

Bell-end vocabulary.

I use gnarpoon a lot. But only in what I hope is a humorous/ironic way. My secondary hope is that anyone who thinks I am using it in a very serious manner finds it unbelievably irritating.

Apparently gnarpoon is my fault (I tried to blame ojom but supposedly it was me, I think he was using gnarwhal?) And yes it's tongue in cheek. If you use it seriously I'll charge you commission.

"Different tact" drives me up the wall, it's a killer combination of just wrong, and also totally nonsensical. It makes me want to slash people with a stanley knife.

I hate "can I get?" when they mean "could I have?" - it's stupid and babyish.

"Please may I have?"

"Different tact" drives me up the wall, it's a killer combination of just wrong, and also totally nonsensical. It makes me want to slash people with a stanley knife.

See also: "pacifically".

Different tact

There is an epic youtube somewhere of Asian people singing the wrong words to karaoke/ktv

Not really stomach churning or forum-rooted, but I can't abide lazy tautologies:

pre-warn = warn. You can't warn somebody before you've warned them the first time.
I personally = I or personally.

I always cringe and never read forum posts titled "warning xxxx content". Vom.

My brother started using, 'proper mint', when describing something good. I had to restrain myself from slapping him in the face every time he said it.

I hate "can I get?" when they mean "could I have?" - it's stupid and babyish.

Or it may just be the common vernacular of the region the person is from and you're just being a pedant.

Sessioning a section
Slamming the stem
But worst of all...ghetto tubeless....there's nothing ghetto about it...middle-class suburban tubeless would be more accurate

language is fluid.

philjunior - let you off then
the other two early uses in that thread will be punished

"language is fluid".

Colorway,
Edit, or sick edit..
😈

Twodogs - Member

But worst of all...ghetto tubeless....there's nothing ghetto about it...middle-class suburban tubeless would be more accurate

There's an amazing video of Gee Atherton at a race, complaining that the uplift is ghetto, the pits are ghetto... In Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

I was watching some old Redbull Rampage on the Bike channel last night and when the commentator says, 'coming out of British Columbia' rather than 'from British Columbia' when telling us where the riders from. I guess it's an american thing?

Oh, and 'sick' for describing something good, hate it!

Quite a few of the American way of phrasing things grate with me: "Monday through Friday" rather than "Monday to Friday" for example. But I do use other such phrases: "go figure" and probably many others. Logical? Not really.

"Discuss"

As in: here's a vaguely controversial subject, I'm not going to offer any opinion on it, I'm just going to order you all to discuss it.

Another Americanism that really annoys me is on the cinema adverts, coming May 21, not it's ****ing 21st!!

I about to pull the trigger on swapping out my colorway.

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Surely it's Monday while Friday 🙂

The whole 'CX' thing gets me annoyed*, as in "I want a CX bike for commuting". If you're going to be running round a muddy field for an hour with a bike on your shoulder you want a cross bike. For everything else you want what used to be known as "a bicycle".

[i]*I've got one, it's got cantis and knobbly tyres and 'Cross' written on the top tube :-)[/i]

Another Americanism that really annoys me is on the cinema adverts, coming May 21, not it's **** 21st!!

Americans can't cope with ordinal numbers (4th, 5th, 21st, etc) besides it's 21st May* 😆

We'll have none of that ruddy Yorkshire "X while Y" rubbish here!

*We should really use the ISO format, it makes much more sense: YYYY MM DD (and hh:mm:ss if you want)

i sort of agree rusty, gnarmac being the one
its a real niche which doesnt have a tag line

adverture bike, yuk, gravel bike, same, cx, not really, tourer, not quite,

Mum,dad can I have a chat?

Cold sweat everytime

Oh but the relief when it turns out all they want is cash.

"...vertically compliant whilst schralping the square-edged hits..."
**** off.

Colourway
Swap out
Calling a home video an edit
Anything with Gnar prefixing it
Stoked
(Old STW one) - jey, xc jey boy... Etc.

I'm 'running' a whatever stem with a wotsit set of bars. No you're not. AAAHH