Hard News: The Public Address Word of the Year 2010
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recordari, in reply to
Grief and shock over the Pike River mine tragedy has stretched though all the West Coast's towns.
And they couldn't even get through (with an 'r') the first sentence without a cock-up.
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Love the twatcockery, but the word must be "iPad". Remember the naysayers, the scorn, but now the ubiquity
Yes, it's literally everywhere. For instance, nobody I know outside of this place has one.
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Jacob Powell, in reply to
As general obscenity goes, no. I mean, it’s no f*&knuckle. Or knobend, even.
I've become somewhat partial to knob satchel (effectively inferring that the insulted has a contraceptive personality!), an expression I have only ever heard from my flatmate - though he's from the Waikato and I generally try to be just passing through.
[No offence intended Waikato. It's not you, it's me...]
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Jacob Powell, in reply to
The iPad could be a contender for Tool of the Year. There’d be a bit of competition, mind.
I'd say an ex-breakfast presenter would be well in the running for Tool of the Year and just like that we're back to twatcock.
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Jacob Powell, in reply to
I’m seeing a nice Dr. Seussian dichotomy...
"Hot twats twatting hatted cocks..."
<end Oh dear! What is Dr Seuss' porn name? />
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One word which has really been everywhere that I've been looking this year is privilege. Obviously not a new one, but more and more present.
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Oh, I think the word that has resonated with me a lot this year is relaxed, as in "Prime Minister John Key says he is....." about, well, everything really, so may I please put in a (late) nomination?
Relaxed. Relaxed . Relaxed. Relaxed
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nzlemming, in reply to
[No offence intended Waikato. It’s not you, it’s me…]
On consideration, I think it's probably Waikato...
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Late entry: I'm a bit tired of "heartwarming" as well.
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Lara,
Aside from the obvious frontrunner, I would vote for relaxed . Are you relaxed? I'm relaxed. About everything (except the things I'm concerned about).
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Paul Williams, in reply to
I'm seeing a nice Dr. Seussian dichotomy between the hat-twat twatcockers and hot-twat twatcockers. I imagine we'll discover in the end that our twatcocks are all the same underneath.
Genius!
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Scott A, in reply to
Love the twatcockery, but the word must be “iPad”. Remember the naysayers, the scorn, but now the ubiquity
Yes, it’s literally everywhere. For instance, nobody I know outside of this place has one.
A bit like the usage of the word "twatcock" really; hasn't reached the popular parlance outside of PAS, not like words/phrases like "vuvuzela," "liquefaction", "iPad" and "real New Zealander".
The late introduction of "relaxed" is a great idea!
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I've just discovered that I am co-habiting with a twot-cocker. this may put an end to marital harmony.
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What about "gagmachine"? Hope it does the job at Pike River eh? Could be used re: Wikileaks too..?
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My vote is in for Twatcock, with what could be a southern pronunciation, ie
"stupid twotcock burned the cheese rolls in the crib, so we've biffed them into the skip, lets buy a boston bun instead so we can avoid more twotcockery from our visiting North Islander - fancy serving the chocolate wheatens on a plate *chocolate side down*" -
alternatives to twatcock.... 'mingeknob' and 'fannyrods' (actually those last two, together, heh)
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Take a "twotcock" and mix in a dash of Chemical Brothers and you get..."Twotcockin' Beats".
Which is the sound of P**l H****y stroking his ego.
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Recovery mode.....
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Stupid twatcock. Doesn't know the difference between a crib and a bach, a chip ,a punnet or a pottle, Remuera tractor or a Fendalton tractor, loaf or a 1/2 loaf, werk and work, cheese rolls or...well... nothing, brown derby or choccy dipped, carbonettes or briquettes, ......
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I like 'refudiate', but my vote goes to 'shellacking' , given currency by Obama after the mid-terms, and a portent of conservative political madness to come.
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Without being overly conspirational I'd like to suggest "Without being overly conspirational..."
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ETA: "Conspirational" it is, I should have trusted your expertise...
It seems like a classic phrase for every season though, not specifically 2010 in origin - and I recall someone's comment re "Always blow on the pie" that surely a phrase can't be word of the year?
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"Conspiratorial" it is. I agree that a phrase isn't really a word.
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Getting further offtopic, but - has there been much in the way of Pike River conspiracy theory crawling out of the woodwork yet?
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Not as much as I suspected. The usual suspects are pointing the fingers at the Green Movement as the reason why the tragedy occurred ("If only it had been an open cast mine!") but, aside from a few religious types arguing that divine revenge is the flavour of the month, most of the talk has been perfectly normal speculation as how such a tragedy could occur without inferring to the existence of a terrible conspiracy.
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