Very much so!

[HDQQ]

'The fact is . . ." 

That's one that really annoys me - you tell someone something and they disagree with you, starting with "The fact is . . ." or worse still "The plain fact is . . ."

Usually when someone says 'The fact is . . .", it's in connection with something where there are different opinions and some uncertainty about what the fact really is.

Sometimes the phrase is used to emphasize a true fact, such as in the example "The fact is donkeys are more intelligent than potatoes." Other times it's used with blatant misinformation, such as "The fact is bald tyres are much safer than ones with tread on, or else why do some racing cars have bald tyres?"

I'm sure, by the way, that I'm guilty of employing "the fact is . . ." on these forums on occasions, but that's different.

[Barry]

So that's a vacation to geordie land out for you then, like.

I'll ask Nick to write a script that automatically bans anyone writing so as the first word in a sentence. Geordies talk proppa lad wey hey.

[DeppityDawg]

Deppity i used to work wae a geordie called gordon who told me that , feckin brilliant so he was.

I think i told you my auld maternal grandpa served around the mediteranean after getting booted out the merchant navy ( my paternal grandpa argyll and sutherland highlander died at the time of the dunkirk evacuations) and his best pal was a geordie.

I have a picture of the two of them half cut from athens 1945 wae a bottle of whiskey in their hands.

They are salt of the earth, mate. If you got in a bar fight in Germany, you couldn't go far wrong with a Geordie on your left and a Glaswegian on your right. Meanwhile, the Scousers were outside securing your ride home 

[Thomas]

They hate each other so much I don't think they know themselves. "Mackem" is supposed to mean make them, as in manufacture I think, and "Tackem" is supposed to be the Tynesiders, but feck knows why

Sunderland makes fecking 3rd world economies look posh anyway 

Deppity i used to work wae a geordie called gordon who told me that , feckin brilliant so he was.

I think i told you my auld maternal grandpa served around the mediteranean after getting booted out the merchant navy ( my paternal grandpa argyll and sutherland highlander died at the time of the dunkirk evacuations) and his best pal was a geordie.

I have a picture of the two of them half cut from athens 1945 wae a bottle of whiskey in their hands.

[DeppityDawg]

how does it go deppity , mackum and tackum.?

Is that newcastle and sunderland?

They hate each other so much I don't think they know themselves. "Mackem" is supposed to mean make them, as in manufacture I think, and "Tackem" is supposed to be the Tynesiders, but feck knows why

Sunderland makes fecking 3rd world economies look posh anyway 

[Thomas]

Its a place where Mackems are from, actually. When you ask them where they are from, they say "Sun'lun, like"

how does it go deppity , mackum and tackum.?

Is that newcastle and sunderland?

[DeppityDawg]

So that's a vacation to geordie land out for you then, like.

Its a place where Mackems are from, actually. When you ask them where they are from, they say "Sun'lun, like"

[Thomas]

So that's a vacation to geordie land out for you then, like.

# geordies breathe a sigh of relief#

im sure deppity dawg will sleep easier the night cornwalls prince of darkness isnt planning to come north anytime soon , with the grass wilting and flowers dying as he passes.

Who the feck says um or like at the start of a sentence anyway?

[Borg Refinery]

Makes a change from um, or like.

So that's a vacation to geordie land out for you then, like.

[papasmurf]

my daughter started doing that barry , very american.

hate it myself.

Makes a change from um, or like.

[Thomas]

So, for me, it's starting every sentence with "so.
So please stop it.

my daughter started doing that barry , very american.

hate it myself.

[Barry]

So, for me, it's starting every sentence with "so.
So please stop it.

[Thomas]

We are all in this together. Oven ready deal.

for the many not the few.

the silent remain majority will be along any minute now.

Armageddon is just around the corner.

Tory bad tory bad.


(Sorry cromwell couldnt resist.)

[papasmurf]

Gets right on my tits.......do you want to go to the pub?........ Oh very much so,why don't they bloody well just say yes
And the kitchen,it's the heart of the home......no it isn't,it's where you brew up make some thing to eat and then go and stick your feet up elsewhere.

Anyway plenty more but what phrases annoy you?

We are all in this together. Oven ready deal.

[cromwell]

Gets right on my tits.......do you want to go to the pub?........ Oh very much so,why don't they bloody well just say yes
And the kitchen,it's the heart of the home......no it isn't,it's where you brew up make some thing to eat and then go and stick your feet up elsewhere.

Anyway plenty more but what phrases annoy you?