Words that annoy me on pistonheads

[CoolHands]

due to their frequency, and general attempt to make the poster cleverer

conflate; mitigate; straw man

& despite reading it hundreds of times (only on PH, weird eh) I still don't know what that last one means (don't attack me! )

Edit: and ad-hominem

Edited by CoolHands on Wednesday 20th December 07:54

[TooMany2cvs]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

[Skyedriver]

CoolHands said:

due to their frequency, and general attempt to make the poster cleverer

conflate; mitigate; straw man

& despite reading it hundreds of times (only on PH, weird eh) I still don't know what that last one means (don't attack me! )

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Conflate: Breakfast Cereal
Mitigate: A scandal involving someone with fantastical indulgencies and daydeams
Straw man: Forerunner to the Wicker Man

[Cold]

Skyedriver said:

Conflate: Breakfast Cereal
Mitigate: A scandal involving someone with fantastical indulgencies and daydeams
Straw man: Forerunner to the Wicker Man

The second one can also mean an opening in a garden fence to allow small animals to pass through easily.

[Vee]

The age old ‘shirley’

The prats on the lease thread who get excited over a few £ per month and constantly refer to ‘fisting’ some type of fruit in reference to signing a deal.

Edited by Vee on Wednesday 20th December 08:23

[Jazoli]

Brought

Amortised

Anything to do with very cold sausages

Anything mentioning directors of companies

[Chester draws]

I think 'mitigate' has to be very high up there for me.

And 'opportunity cost' is beginning to annoy as well.

[littlebasher]

Three words actually, in this order

Pull
The
Trigger

[Einion Yrth]

Strange thread; why should anyone artificially limit their vocabulary just because others are too lazy to use a dictionary?

[anonymous-user]

Brought instead of bought. Don't understand how anyone could get this wrong

Circa... "oh ya it was circa £200 to get it repaired"

Why not just say around £200 or the exact number, s.

Hammering frozen sausages... it's 2017 soon to be 2018, the joke is dead people seriously....

[TooMany2cvs]

Einion Yrth said:

Strange thread; why should anyone artificially limit their vocabulary just because others are too lazy to use a dictionary?

Because it's their right not to feel ill-educated.

[alorotom]

Shirley circa 95% of PHers are hammer wielding, frozen sausage mania, mx5 nut, well built company directors who just love pulling the trigger on amortised car leases to attempt to mitigate ones fiscal risks and overly simplifying it all with conflated outcomes

Lol

[anonymous-user]

Unless you are a 12 year old in the 1980s - Chinny reckon

[Truckosaurus]

People using the phrase "Wow, just Wow" which always seems somewhat of an affectation.

[Big Al.]

Appears that we already have an annoying thread here:-

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...