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jokerman

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In the comments on Polly Toynbee's piece in the Guardian today, one poster's position was absolutely pounded by others which received upticks in the gazillions. So she replied

"Well I see this argument is becoming toxic, so I'll leave it at that."

I don't think I've ever seen so many shifty sins packed into so few words. Definitely a keeper for future use.
 
I am happy. I dont know who she is and would not read the guardian as its readership and influence is very low - except when q- the right wing needing a story will quote some rubbish from the guardian and twitterfy it to annoy their clickers.
 
In the comments on Polly Toynbee's piece in the Guardian today, one poster's position was absolutely pounded by others which received upticks in the gazillions. So she replied

"Well I see this argument is becoming toxic, so I'll leave it at that."

I don't think I've ever seen so many shifty sins packed into so few words. Definitely a keeper for future use.
Unusually, for a journalist, Polly interviews much better than she writes.
She often talks a lot of sense but writes total bollax.
She does get the wrath of both sides for being a champagne socialist, but who doesn’t need a house in Tuscany.
Most of the shadow cabinet would be excluded if that was the case.

After last night with our German resident launching in so nastily, I’ve decided to opt out when it turns.
Agree to disagree but there is no need for nastiness.
 
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Where did the word “uptick” originate from as it seems to be being used all over the media ......

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It does seem that the media latch on to a word or phrase and it comes into common language very quickly.

Remember Weapons of Mass Destruction?
I’d never heard that in my life and all of a sudden, everyone is talking about weapons of mass destruction.
What did that even mean?
 
It does seem that the media latch on to a word or phrase and it comes into common language very quickly.

Remember Weapons of Mass Destruction?
I’d never heard that in my life and all of a sudden, everyone is talking about weapons of mass destruction.
What did that even mean?

It means a really naughty nasty illegal weapon that kills your child and others instead of a normal legal single fatality bullet. Must really make a difference to grieving parents.
 
Id assume it referred to weapons that could do destriction on a mass scale.

and indiscriminate.

Arms Control talk from the 70's which gained wide currency before the second US-led Iraq war. People assume flattened places and loads dead, but it's applied to chemical and biological weapons used on a very small scale too, I assume for their alleged nastiness compared getting shot or blown up.

I think it should be used when magnitude is implied -Ditto genocide- but the UN disagrees with me, so I'll leave it at that before things get toxic.

I googled and first used in reference to the bombing of Guernica in the 1930's.
 
In the comments on Polly Toynbee's piece in the Guardian today, one poster's position was absolutely pounded by others which received upticks in the gazillions. So she replied

"Well I see this argument is becoming toxic, so I'll leave it at that."

I don't think I've ever seen so many shifty sins packed into so few words. Definitely a keeper for future use.


A useful phrase for this Board, perhaps: "Well, I see this argument is becoming toxic, mission accomplished"
 
Where did the word “uptick” originate from as it seems to be being used all over the media ......

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"upticks" applied to all sorts of financial markets - going back at least to the 80s.
One point (of what ever unit or price) is often called a "tick".

Slightly more commonly ... "The FTSE / Pound ticked up today" meaning a small, usually insignificant rise.
 
In the comments on Polly Toynbee's piece in the Guardian today, one poster's position was absolutely pounded by others which received upticks in the gazillions. So she replied

"Well I see this argument is becoming toxic, so I'll leave it at that."

I don't think I've ever seen so many shifty sins packed into so few words. Definitely a keeper for future use.
I think this is appropriate for some.....
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