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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote t_rAndy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Sep 2019 at 3:28pm
Originally posted by McG McG wrote:

Heard an absolute beaut today 

"don't want to upset the apple tart"

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Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

Originally posted by McG McG wrote:

Heard an absolute beaut today 

"don't want to upset the apple tart"
Didn’t our scumbag of a former Taoiseach use this one?

He did. The horrible bastard!
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Woman on the phone to me there said she's reported this a few times but "its fallen on daft ears"
 
 
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Originally posted by Roberto Baggio Roberto Baggio wrote:

Woman on the phone to me there said she's reported this a few times but "its fallen on daft ears"
 
 

Could you have misheard her?
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People who call stewards, stewarts
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People seem to have awful trouble with the word ‘asterisk’.
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Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

People seem to have awful trouble with the word ‘asterisk’.


There are people that say 'axe' for the word 'ask'.  R.Kelly being one.
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Byron Munich are playing Chealsea tonight according to the sports presenter on the wireless earlier.
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Ah yes, the wireless. I purchased a wireless in thon shoppe next to the old saloon bar, where I stopped for a quart of mead after obtaining a bushel of corn for my oxen.
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Originally posted by SuperDave84 SuperDave84 wrote:

Ah yes, the wireless. I purchased a wireless in thon shoppe next to the old saloon bar, where I stopped for a quart of mead after obtaining a bushel of corn for my oxen.
LOL glad my typo went unnoticed.
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Saw a lad say on facebook ''passing the book'' (buck)

A lad on ebay describing his item for sale as being ''in inaccurate condition''  instead of immaculate conditionLOL
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Feel like beating the absolute s*** out of people who use phrases like "more better than" and more worser than" Angry
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One I’ve noticed recently, on social media and text messages 

Instead of saying for example 
 “I’ve been busy this past while”
Noticed a lot are writing 
“I’ve been busy as past while” 


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Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

Saw a lad say on facebook ''passing the book'' (buck)

A lad on ebay describing his item for sale as being ''in inaccurate condition''  instead of immaculate conditionLOL

Is he selling a gun that isn't shooting where he is aiming it? 
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Originally posted by Roberto Baggio Roberto Baggio wrote:

One I’ve noticed recently, on social media and text messages 

Instead of saying for example 
 “I’ve been busy this past while”
Noticed a lot are writing 
“I’ve been busy as past while” 


Many people ignoring you RB? 
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Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

Saw a lad say on facebook ''passing the book'' (buck)

A lad on ebay describing his item for sale as being ''in inaccurate condition''  instead of immaculate conditionLOL

Better than passing the oyster 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote pre Madonna Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Sep 2020 at 3:11pm
One of the bosses in work, through nepotism and not talent, has told us regularly to "think outside the bigger picture". He also told me one day that he "don't like to sing his own trumpet". 
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Originally posted by McG McG wrote:

Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

Saw a lad say on facebook ''passing the book'' (buck)

A lad on ebay describing his item for sale as being ''in inaccurate condition''  instead of immaculate conditionLOL

Better than passing the oyster 


I knew that you would comment thatLOL
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