Author Topic: Great Lies of Our Times  (Read 6953 times)

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #25 on: 14 March, 2013, 01:28:59 pm »
Here comes the Science bit...
Getting there...

RJ

  • Droll rat
Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #26 on: 14 March, 2013, 01:31:08 pm »
Vorsprung dürch Teknik

Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #27 on: 14 March, 2013, 01:31:26 pm »
"Too cheap to meter"

Tigerrr

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Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #28 on: 14 March, 2013, 02:05:47 pm »
The listening bank
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Guy

  • Retired
Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #29 on: 14 March, 2013, 02:11:46 pm »
Putting People First
"The Opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject"  Marcus Aurelius

caerau

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Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #30 on: 14 March, 2013, 02:21:44 pm »
The listening bank

That's a blast from the past - so not really of our time ;)

Didn't someone once successfully sue them for not listening?  Ot was that a great meme of our time?
It's a reverse Elvis thing.

Mr Larrington

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Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #31 on: 14 March, 2013, 02:26:15 pm »
"We treat our employees as human beings" = "in a similar way to the Khmer Rouge"
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Rhys W

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Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #32 on: 14 March, 2013, 02:36:40 pm »
From self-styled "employment agents" -  "an exciting multinational company... exciting opportunity..."

Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #33 on: 14 March, 2013, 02:51:50 pm »
"Some of my best friends are........ "

"The international community"

"Student loans aren't like real loans"

"I believed that Saddam had WMD" 


tiermat

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Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #34 on: 14 March, 2013, 03:03:46 pm »
"We treat our employees as human beings" = "in a similar way to the Khmer Rouge"

You have worked/do work there too?

"We will treat you just like one of the team" = complete and utter BS. No-one else in the team gets treated like a leper or has to constantly badger other team members for assistance on specifics of the network that they couldn't possibly know after only 2 days in the job!

</bitterness>
I feel like Captain Kirk, on a brand new planet every day, a little like King Kong on top of the Empire State

Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #35 on: 14 March, 2013, 03:12:43 pm »
Another oldie-but-goodie:

The cheque's in the post.

And one from out E&D handbook:

No-one will ever be punished or treated unfairly for making a complaint through the proper channels.
Allow me to explain through the medium of interpretive dance

red marley

Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #36 on: 14 March, 2013, 03:15:22 pm »
"I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

No you wouldn't! You're just being a pompous self-righteous nob-end who grasps any opportunity for a bit of self-aggrandisement. And yes, I do know it wasn't Voltaire, and yes I too know how to Google or read a wikipedia page.




Sorry, just had to get that one off my chest.

Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #37 on: 14 March, 2013, 03:22:13 pm »
Oh that reminds me

"... just had to get that one off my chest."

= "the resentment burns within me still, and my contempt for you will endure to the end of time"

 ;)




"Working together ..."

= "You do as we say"
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Juan Martín

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Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #38 on: 14 March, 2013, 04:45:59 pm »
Make good.

Pancho

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Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #39 on: 14 March, 2013, 05:05:39 pm »
Any local council that claims that it wants more people to cycle.

Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #40 on: 14 March, 2013, 05:31:58 pm »
"Let me make it absolutely clear"

"Your call is important to us"

Pancho

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Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #41 on: 14 March, 2013, 05:36:25 pm »
100% Beef.

RJ

  • Droll rat
Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #42 on: 14 March, 2013, 05:47:01 pm »
I hear you

Basil

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Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #43 on: 14 March, 2013, 06:04:01 pm »
Or,
"I hear what you're saying"
Followed by "but".

*resists urge to punch*
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Andrij

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Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #44 on: 14 March, 2013, 08:13:15 pm »
No idea how this hasn't appeared yet:
"We're all in this together."


Sorry.  :-[
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #45 on: 14 March, 2013, 08:19:11 pm »
For the same reason that the whopper 'The NHS is safe in our hands' hasn't - Tigerrrrrrrrrr asked us to stay away from the political.
Getting there...

Basil

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Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #46 on: 14 March, 2013, 08:21:13 pm »
"Real Ale"
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rogerzilla

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Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #47 on: 14 March, 2013, 08:23:20 pm »
No-one has yet mentioned the notorious Rogerzillaism:

"This is the last hill".
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #48 on: 14 March, 2013, 08:38:45 pm »
You may say that but I couldnt possibly.......
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Kim

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Re: Great Lies of Our Times
« Reply #49 on: 14 March, 2013, 09:12:01 pm »
No-one has yet mentioned the notorious Rogerzillaism:

"This is the last hill".

And its Deanoid relatives "flat" and "downhill all the way to Darlington"