Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 My mate's girlfriend says "like" every few words (yes, she's American). Sometimes she doesn't even seem to say an actual sentence - it's mainly gibberish punctuated with "like". "I don't know, it's like, you know, like, I thought, like, that's weird, and like, what happened was it was like...". WTF are you trying to say, you imbecile!? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 I actually don't know what to put in my shiny new recycling wheelie bin... paper? cans? plastic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 My mate's girlfriend says "like" every few words (yes, she's American). Sometimes she doesn't even seem to say an actual sentence - it's mainly gibberish punctuated with "like". "I don't know, it's like, you know, like, I thought, like, that's weird, and like, what happened was it was like...". WTF are you trying to say, you imbecile!? she sounds like shes from kidderminster like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 (edited) 'Like' is probably one of if not THE most often used of crutch words. They're used to buy time to think of the next thing you want to say. Conversations are often power struggles. The person who is speaking has the power, and crutch words are used when you haven't finished what you want to say and you can't think quickly and verbalise it almost instantaneously. Without them you'd stop talking, giving the person or people you're talking to an opportunity to take the power for themselves even though you hadn't finished what you wanted to say. It's quite interesting really, well, I always thought so. Other common crutch words are 'basically', 'literally' -- hate that one -- and 'erm'. Edited October 1, 2014 by Ginko 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ismail-villa Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 We have to put black bags out on the side of the road on Wednesday nights every week for general rubbish. For recycling we have a blue box for paper recycling and a green box for plastic recycling. Living in the stone age you are [emoji14] [emoji14] [emoji14] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 'Like' is probably one of if not THE most often used of crutch words. They're used to buy time to think of the next thing you want to say. Conversations are often power struggles. The person who is speaking has the power, and crutch words are used when you haven't finished what you want to say and you can't think quickly and verbalise it almost instantaneously. Without them you'd stop talking, giving the person or people you're talking to an opportunity to take the power for themselves even though you hadn't finished what you wanted to say. It's quite interesting really, well, I always thought so. Other common crutch words are 'basically', 'literally' -- hate that one -- and 'erm'. They always answer a question by saying 'Yeah, no...' as well, just to give themselves another couple of seconds to think of some bullshit. Sportsmen especially are good at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted October 1, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted October 1, 2014 Conversations are power struggles... Have you been hanging around with MakemineVanilla? 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 (edited) My mate's girlfriend says "like" every few words (yes, she's American). Sometimes she doesn't even seem to say an actual sentence - it's mainly gibberish punctuated with "like". "I don't know, it's like, you know, like, I thought, like, that's weird, and like, what happened was it was like...". WTF are you trying to say, you imbecile!?She is Steven Gerrard and I claim my £5. Edited October 1, 2014 by Eames Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Conversations are power struggles... Have you been hanging around with MakemineVanilla? Not enough money in the world. Obviously it's generally subconscious but it is true for most people. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonno_2004 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 My damn quadriceps - whenever I burst into more than a jog at footy I feel like I'm going to rip it off the bone! Both of them have been as bad as each other. Had two weeks rest and went to training again tonight and exactly the same issue - thankfully only seemed to be the left one and managed to strike the ball quite well with my right foot. How I'm going to make it through even the warm up on Saturday I don't know - such a pain as I've been really enjoying my football up until now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonno_2004 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 My mate's girlfriend says "like" every few words (yes, she's American). Sometimes she doesn't even seem to say an actual sentence - it's mainly gibberish punctuated with "like". "I don't know, it's like, you know, like, I thought, like, that's weird, and like, what happened was it was like...". WTF are you trying to say, you imbecile!?She is Steven Gerrard and I claim my £5.One of my good mates is terrible for it. His record in my company is 3 likes in 5 words: "like -so, like - kinda, like". Did my head in until we all turned it into a form of bingo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avfc96 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 We have to put black bags out on the side of the road on Wednesday nights every week for general rubbish. For recycling we have a blue box for paper recycling and a green box for plastic recycling. Living in the stone age you are [emoji14] [emoji14] [emoji14] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 I have FIVE different recycling bins/tubs. Black one for bin bags, green one for garden waste, green with a blue lid for mixed recycling stuff, a small brown one for food waste and then a tiny grey one. I don't know what the grey one is for, maybe for garden compost, I'm not sure.Sandwell council?Yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Got one of those parking tickets today, the type that they have no actual way of making you pay, guess I'll have to play the tedious game A private none council one? Yeah we're just ignoring some of their repeated letters too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 I have FIVE different recycling bins/tubs. Black one for bin bags, green one for garden waste, green with a blue lid for mixed recycling stuff, a small brown one for food waste and then a tiny grey one. I don't know what the grey one is for, maybe for garden compost, I'm not sure.Sandwell council?Yeah The tiny grey one is a mini bin that you put food leftovers into or peelings, and carry it to the outside brown bin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Got one of those parking tickets today, the type that they have no actual way of making you pay, guess I'll have to play the tedious game A private none council one? Yeah we're just ignoring some of their repeated letters too. That's the one. Their website makes threats of clamping, even though it's been illegal since 2012. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Well that's just laziness. And who wants a little grey bucket/bin in their kitchen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Well that's just laziness. And who wants a little grey bucket/bin in their kitchen? That's why I don't use the brown or grey bins. Rebel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troon_villan Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 We have the little grey bin in Scotch for food stuff only. I use it to store the hundreds of carrier bags I seem to hoard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troon_villan Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Only the gay scotch community don't eat the skins but as far as I know there aren't any gays left up here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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