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[TTony]

Buttocks are fine.

[chillidoggy]

'Inappropriate'.

That's another one. Who says what is, and what isn't 'appropriate'?

[limbicsystem]

One of the things that drives me mad about the media is the use of buzz-phrases. There are dozens of other ways of referring to things but they just seem to lazy to do it...

"The Horsemeat Scandal" -- why not "Food Contamination Crisis", for example?

"Current Economic Climate" -- how about "The present condition of the economy?"

"Sexed-up" -- who the fuck first used this phrase? Does it convey a vastly different meaning to "embelished"?

Yeah! Why not just use fashionable instead of Buzz!

[chillidoggy]

"Sexed-up" is in itself "sexed-up" just to catch people's attention, because, so we're told, sex sells. Well, I'm sure it does in some quarters, although it's probably cheaply available for the price of a glass of Lambrini and a kebab in certain parts of Thanet.

And as for all the other bullshit, bollocky catch-phrases, they're all about sensationalism and selling, too.

[holnrew]

Scandal-gate.

[chillidoggy]

Horse-gate.

[musophilr]

LiborGate. PriestAbuseGate. Here-a-gate. There-a-gate. Everywhere a GateGate.
Our so-ciety has gone mad. Ee-eye ee-eye Oh!

[dafuzz]

What are they going to call it when there's a water scandal? Nixongate?

[cacofonix]

I'm a bit glad "passive-aggressive" has fallen out of use. When I first came here every thread which got flaming hot (most of them) had accusations of passive-aggressive hurled about, usually inappropriately.

[GAZTOPIA]

Gate-gate.