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#2987546 25-Oct-2022 07:42

msukiwi: Maybe "common" in your world, but not with anyone around here.

I'm familiar with that expression. The article was syndicated from Australia. I expect it's common there too. Expanding this a bit further and specifically, the marina' is on the island, the boat is on the marina, it's fair (and common) in some expressions to say the boat is on the island.

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#2988335 26-Oct-2022 16:18

Click bait from newshub

"World's dirtiest man' Amou Haji dies after first wash in 60 years"

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/10/world-s-dirtiest-man-amou-haji-dies-after-first-wash-in-60-years.html?cid=soc4:newshubfb

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#2988345 26-Oct-2022 16:52

panther2: Click bait from newshub

"World's dirtiest man' Amou Haji dies after first wash in 60 years"

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/10/world-s-dirtiest-man-amou-haji-dies-after-first-wash-in-60-years.html?cid=soc4:newshubfb

He died because he washed, not because he was 94 years old. Let that be a lesson to us all.

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#2990310 31-Oct-2022 21:23

Window, middle or aisle? What your plane seat preference says about you

I like going on planes?

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#2992108 5-Nov-2022 07:27

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Travel Insider: Tips for packing a bag with children

Probably bordering on illegal, I expect...

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#2994903 11-Nov-2022 20:50

Newshub had some great headlines this afternoon! 😆

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#2995423 13-Nov-2022 13:04

The story itself is dumb - "sovereign citizen" Man demands $6000 from police in bizarre 'sovereign citizen' argument | Otago Daily Times Online News (odt.co.nz) but

His unco-operative behaviour continued at the police station

unco-operative is a new one...

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#2995425 13-Nov-2022 13:07

That's an interesting quirk of English. The OED is perfectly happy with either "cooperative" or "co-operative", but "uncooperative" is not allowed the hyphen.

But what can you expect from a mongrel language like ours? :)

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#2995498 13-Nov-2022 15:43

freitasm:
The story itself is dumb - "sovereign citizen" Man demands $6000 from police in bizarre 'sovereign citizen' argument | Otago Daily Times Online News (odt.co.nz) but

His unco-operative behaviour continued at the police station

unco-operative is a new one...

Perhaps he was an "uncoordinated operative"?

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#2996056 14-Nov-2022 15:15

Yeah, nah.

Stuff thinks we're still at 0.25%. Shahra Hume obviously doesn't have a mortgage, or will get a hell of a shock when he/she comes off their fixed rate.

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#2996058 14-Nov-2022 15:18

For the benefit of people like me, it's none of those.

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#2999755 22-Nov-2022 13:21

CNBC:

"Disney, in a shocking late Sunday announcement, said it had reappointed Iger as chief executive, effective immediately."

Three paragraphs later there is a photo of him, referring to him as the "former CEO".

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#2999915 22-Nov-2022 16:56

Behodar:

CNBC:

"Disney, in a shocking late Sunday announcement, said it had reappointed Iger as chief executive, effective immediately."

Three paragraphs later there is a photo of him, referring to him as the "former CEO".

He was CEO before, was replaced and now coming back. They should refer to him as "returning CEO".

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#2999916 22-Nov-2022 16:58

I got the impression that they just plonked a file photo on there and kept its existing description.

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#2999918 22-Nov-2022 17:22

NZH headline today: “Simon Gault: I made Gordon Ramsay look like a p***y“.

I believe that this common simile is a reference to a cat - i.e a soft, cuddly and non-threatening animal. The fact that the Herald thinks that the saying “look like a pussy” is a crude slang reference to something anatomical - and therefore needs asterisks to censor it - is pretty ignorant and says a lot about NZH and/or the sub-editor who wrote the headline. Do they really think Simon Gault wanted to say he made Gordon Ramsay look like female genitalia? Pathetic really. FFS.

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