"Sayings, quotes, myth and superstition.

[xelasnave]

We have a mandate!!!

Alex

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by Allan_L

Yeah good one Alex!

One that really gets my goat (whatever that means!!!)
is ...
having to say...
"Bless You!"
after somebody sneezes.
...and they get real upset if you don't say it >>> ???

I think that started when sneezing meant you were about to die from the plague.

BTW One day years ago a co-worker insisted on saying 'bless you' when I sneezed. I asked her not to but she just couldn't control herself. That lunchtime I had to run an errand and that was the only time I dropped my motorbike.

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

it will all come out in the wash
better out than in

My personal bugbear in media is over use of the word Slammed.
Like so and so was slammed today or someone slammed something else, or slammed into.
And I used to hate "ring fenced" as in these finances were ring fenced.
Also "float a raft of ideas"

g

[Weird1 (Keith)]

Hey Flash
The Glass is half empty .... no it's not ...it's half full.

Regarding the half full, half empty glass it could be said that the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Cheers Keith

[Astrophe (John)]

Originally Posted by xelasnave

We have a mandate!!!

Alex

Alex, I think the term, mandate, has a whole new meaning, these days

[Tropo-Bob (Bob)]

Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

I think that started when sneezing meant you were about to die from the plague...

Its an ancient Egyptian idea that your soul left your body when U sneezed and if someone blessed U, it made it easy for the soul to return.

[Tropo-Bob (Bob)]

Originally Posted by Astrophe

Alex, I think the term, mandate, has a whole new meaning, these days

Yeah, it seems that if U vote for Party A, they think U are signing up for all their ideas, when in truth, U just think they are the more palatable option, in spite of some of their unattractive policies.

[Tropo-Bob (Bob)]

Originally Posted by Robair

...Mind your p and q's never made sense...

Rob B

From the days when the letters had to be arranged in the press, before printing. (What a sh*te of a job that would have been!!)

Anyway, p & q were often transposed, so the saying obviously meant; Be very careful.

[Allan_L (Allan)]

Originally Posted by Tropo-Bob

Yeah, it seems that if U vote for Party A, they think U are signing up for all their ideas, when in truth, U just think they are the more palatable option, in spite of some of their unattractive policies.

So True! But they just don't get it...
oh well...part of their job description I guess...
Never let the truth get in the way of a good {"Mandate"} story.

[LewisM]

Hates:

When someone pronounces kilometer as "kilom-eter". I guess then we also have centim-eters, millim-eters... megat-onnes, kilog-rams...the total ignorance of the fact that
the word is a conjunction of a prefix - kilo (in this case) - and the measure- meter - . It REALLY crawls under my skin, but I grin and bear it.

Only the good die young

My Fellow Australians

Etc (in other words, you have no idea what you are saying)

Actually (another substitute word actually)

Ensuring Democracy (as sprouted by Americans - there is a complete farce if ever there was one! How about "Invasion for American Imperialism"...ensuring "democracy", one nation at a time...when that country has something of value anyway...oil...gold...diamonds...st rategic position...)

American Democracy (another falicy lol)

The Recession we had to have (sprouted by the Politician we unfortunately had to have)

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

' lock down '

apparently when something is dramatic.... it's been put into ' lock down '

Col....

[Wavytone]

The Worlds Best Treasurer ... spouted repeatedly by a treasurer with no financial credentials to his name and who fiddled with the negative gearing laws to create a boom/bust cycle of epic proportions combined with 18% interest rates. And who subsequently emerged as one of the largest property owners in Woolahra.

Manipulating the market? Oh no, never...

[LewisM]

Or the use of acronyms in place of real words...unfortunately Australians are doing it a LOT these days - lazy mind.

[LewisM]

Originally Posted by Wavytone

The Worlds Best Treasurer ... spouted repeatedly by a treasurer with no financial credentials to his name and who fiddled with the negative gearing laws to create a boom/bust cycle of epic proportions combined with 18% interest rates. And who subsequently emerged as one of the largest property owners in Woolahra.

Manipulating the market? Oh no, never...

And collected cuckoo clocks...cuckoo cuckoo...

Look what he does now...

[LewisM]

Originally Posted by Wavytone

The Worlds Best Treasurer ... spouted repeatedly by a treasurer with no financial credentials to his name and who fiddled with the negative gearing laws to create a boom/bust cycle of epic proportions combined with 18% interest rates. And who subsequently emerged as one of the largest property owners in Woolahra.

Manipulating the market? Oh no, never...

Don't forget the 20% plus unemployment rate...

[LewisM]

We strayed in Poolitics again.

Back to Alex's original question....

[mynameiscd (Andy)]

"Theres always someone in the world worse off than you."

Theres probably someone with no arms or legs and not even a head rolling down a steep hill of broken glass heading for a cliff thinking that same thought............

[Wavytone]

Originally Posted by N1

Turning lame achievements into superlatives by saying (biggest, tallest, fastest etc....) "in Australasia/Southern Hemisphere"

Ok... the BIG ONE - Gallipoli.

Just goes to show how many will dig so deeply to find positives in what was actually a total stuff-up resulting from the most appalling mismanagement.

Honourable mentions for lameness should be awarded to the big sheep, the big banana, the big prawn... and the rest of them.

[LewisM]

Originally Posted by Wavytone

Ok... the BIG ONE - Gallipoli.

Just goes to show how many will dig so deeply to find positives in what was actually a total stuff-up resulting from the most appalling mismanagement.

Honourable mentions for lameness should be awarded to the big sheep, the big banana, the big prawn... and the rest of them.

If you don't understand the true significance of Gallipoli, then I don't know how it would be possible to explain it to you.

It not only defined our fledgling nation, it defined a generation of men and it defined to the world our determination and steadfast loyalty, despite being a strategic failure (due mostly to the British hierarchy).

There is MUCH more significance to it than what the uneducated think. Even my 9 year old daughter truly understands what it means.

[xelasnave]

It is comforting that few here have been exposed to superstitious nonsense given none have been denounced.

Reading about the many superstitions that clouded our past recently it is great humans are getting past living under their influence.
Alex