The most laughably devalued words in the English Language?

Listening to the spokesman for Rio mention them over and over and over in an interview, repeating them parrot fashion, surely they have to be ‘Olympic Legacy’

What does that mean other than West Aaaaam getting a new ground on the cheap, and a load of taxpayers asking ‘It cost how much?!!!!!!’ as the politicians immediately lose interest and wander off to their next vanity project, and the IOC moves on to its next utterly corrupt biding process.

Are there any other 2 words that are so meaningless, thats its amazing anyone can say them with a straight face?

Donald and Trump

Legend – Rarely applied to anyone who is even close to legendary status.

“Literally”

Awesome – now used to mean anything that isn’t totally rubbish.

Iconic

Integrity.

Socialist.
🙂

sorry

Epic in the context of a bike ride.
No, it was a bit rainy…

“Hard working”

Hero, sports people doing their well paid jobs are not Heroes , possibly inspirational but definitely not heroes.

Binners I won’t contribute to derailing your thread by arguing about 2012 ! Some good ones above

Recyclable (Hugh’s War on Waste)
Environmentally Friendly (so many examples, VW diesels etc)
Corporate Social Responsibility

tragic. Mainly used to describe a wendyball team losing some pointless match rather than the deaths of hundreds.

Hero / Heroic.

Now more often used to describe an overpaid wendyballer scoring a goal rather than an individual going above and beyond any normal expectations under difficult circumstances to save lives.

Also “Northern Powerhouse” which has become a meaningless phrase trotted out verbatim by politicians who have no real idea of what it is supposed to be or how on earth they’re supposed to be achieving it.

Honestly

Quality, awesome, amazing and insane.
Meaningless these days. 😕

Steak bake.

Amazing how adding that second word can completely and utterly destroy any memory of the existence of the first.

Incredible – no, I can believe that.

Labour. Got me there.

With respect…

Genius

Gutted – why the **** is everyone gutted by any **** setback. No-one is desolate or distraught or disappointed or even properly pissed off anymore. Just gutted. Lazy gutted. Limited vocabulary gutted.

Are you gutted love? Good, now bugger off.

Lifetime warranty

Edit: just ‘warranty’

Quite unique!

Brexit.

I’ll bite.

The Olympic Legacy isn’t bricks and mortar. It’s about enthusing people to take up sport, and then supporting them in that. There are a few on here that have stepped up and coach kids or organise teams or events, some have had a big hand in creating facilities, etc. And others will just go on about how the ‘legacy’ was wasted without having made any attempt to fuel it in the meantime, and have just reverted back to those dark days in early July 2012 when it was all going to be shit.

If you think it’s all gone shit now – look in the mirror. What did you do to make sure the legacy of those brilliant few days wasn’t wasted?

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/so-were-going-to-win-more-medals-at-next-olympics-daft-thing-to-say/page/2

binners – Member

Are there any other 2 words that are so meaningless

In the mouths of this government, “only right”, they say it all the time and it’s basically just an alarm that says “we’re talking shite”. See also: Fair.

It’s 4 words but similarly “long term economic plan”.

theotherjonv – Member

I’ll bite.

The Olympic Legacy isn’t bricks and mortar. It’s about enthusing people to take up sport, and then supporting them in that

Which didn’t happen- participation in sport has fallen. There was a brief spike in 2012, but it didn’t last, and it wasn’t enough to offset the damage caused by pulling all that resource and funding out of UK sports in the run up to the olympics.

Long story short; if you want to encourage sport participation, you have to actually do something practical. If you instead stop doing that and do an olympics instead, mostly people just watch the olympics. It’s inspirational but it’s not practical.

‘Exciting’, when used in a work context.

Where I am at the moment is particularly bad for this. This is a building society ( that may or may not have woods behind it) you morons, nothing you do here is exciting. Interesting, maybe. Challenging, possibly. But exciting? We’re talking about launching a savings account, not putting a man on the moon…

“Like” as in “I was…. like….” The laziest and most stupid way of describing an event.

Northwind.

Inspirational – for sure. But the practicality has to come from within. Yes, the government can always do more but as i said it relies on ordinary people getting off their arses to get involved. The world’s best facilities are worth diddly if people still prefer to lay on their settee watching X-factor and eating a doughnut. And that starts with kids, which in turn means adults sacrificing a bit of time.

Just about the most annoyed I’ve been recently was with a friend whose son wants to start football. The trouble is that his age group sessions are at the local park at 0900 on a Saturday, and that’ll mean Dad doesn’t get a lie in. I suggested he could rota with other parents so he gets a lie in every other weekend? But that’d take effort. As a result the kid’s not going.

Invariably.

Hard-working families.

uber

theotherjonv – Member

Northwind.

Inspirational – for sure. But the practicality has to come from within.

That’s not the lesson of the olympics- the reason for the decline before and after is the redirection of funding, it’s not something that changed in individuals. (we have the exact same thing having locally, sports scotland are targeting a few specific sports to boost them, but the big picture is that other sports are falling behind- overall participation will fall)

This isn’t knocking the olympics btw, they were incredible, and I came into it cynical. We just need to be honest about the legacy. You can’t fix the damage til you admit it exists.

Pound sterling

International sport is utterly corrupt and just there to keep the masses down, which, the Romans worked that out 2000 years ago. I struggle to see it as a inspiration to anyone.

Not quite a word but the faux apology. I can’t stand it, Blair, Green just **** off, you knew what you are doing and aren’t sorry in the slightest. Conversely if you are a sportperson who just failed to win a trophy / gold medal that’s your problem there is no need to apologise to the nation.

Sustainable
Sustainability

Really abused and miss used

Pounds Sterling

The Olympic Legacy isn’t bricks and mortar. It’s about enthusing people to take up sport, and then supporting them in that

If you think it’s all gone shit now – look in the mirror. What did you do to make sure the legacy of those brilliant few days wasn’t wasted?

Are you for real? Seriously? Or a government spokesman?

I don’t know if you noticed or not, but at the same time the government was spaffing absolutely vast quantities of taxpayers money on its massively over-budget vanity project, they were also overseeing an austerity agenda where youth services, including grassroots sporting facilities for kids, were bearing the brunt of it, and hit harder than anything. Resulting in involvement in sport actually being reduced, but London (and absolutely nowhere else, as per…) got some nice shiny new buildings, so thats all absolutely brilliant

Thats your ‘Olympic Legacy’ for you. Like I said: utterly worthless. So spare us the sanctimonious lectures please? Though I appreciate the viewpoint may be slightly different from up on that high horse

but London (and absolutely nowhere else, as per…) got some nice shiny new buildings, so thats all absolutely brilliant

Binners in “having a pop at London again” shocker.

Governments seem unconcerned about spending taxpayers money on vanity projects such as this and the likes of the millennium dome, but then magically get the jitters after the event over providing “value for money” for the tax payer. They then promptly sell the legacy off to the private sector for a pittance.

Funny that.

Actually, I know its two words, but “Value for money” uttered by Governments and the like…have no value.

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