I think they maybe because it's 'for all intents and purposes' or is the misquote the thing you detest?
Most Misused Phrases
- Thread starter Tony Harrison
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No, "for all intensive purposes" is correct.
For example, when you go to B&Q, or your local generic DIY superstore, they have a selection of tools which are labelled "for all intensive purposes".
They are used for being intense.
Such as opening up someone's head to check whether their brain leaked out of their ear.
For example, when you go to B&Q, or your local generic DIY superstore, they have a selection of tools which are labelled "for all intensive purposes".
They are used for being intense.
Such as opening up someone's head to check whether their brain leaked out of their ear.
Jon, there is a real danger, and I ain't joking tragically enough, that some people on reading your post, might actually believe it .....I know it's tragic and I know it's true because I nearly did
Just read another of your posts which includes the phrase "light on the loafers".
I am going to make a note of that one and use it whenever I can. You know, just slip it into conversations here and there.
I am going to make a note of that one and use it whenever I can. You know, just slip it into conversations here and there.
Ya talk much to Lasoya then?????Just read another of your posts which includes the phrase "light on the loafers".
I am going to make a note of that one and use it whenever I can. You know, just slip it into conversations here and there.
Miracle?????
Oh no it ain't, I had to deliver my last child on the bathroom floor at 2.30 in the morning, there weren't no frikkin miracle happenin there mate ... it was a frikkin road accident with me as the unwilling driver ..... my wife at the time was screaming obsenities at me, I was screaming 'Eeeeewwws' right back at her ..... and in about 3 never-ending minutes, my daughter Carly popped into my hands looking like she'd been dropped in a food mixer ...... They say 'once you've had a kid, you forget about all the pain and trauma' ... I dispute that wholeheartedly....... not sure how the ex wife feels about that though..
I agree. To keep this on track, I hate how they always tell you that you have a beautiful daughter/son when they first hand you the baby. If you have ever seen a fresh newborn, their heads are weird, and they are covered in all kinds of gunk. Beautiful is not the word I would use at such times.
Miracle....pfah! Even roaches have kids.
PS Pete, that sounds like a frikkin horror story man! I was there when my daughter was born (she was born at home), but I am thankful that I wasn't the one doing all the work. I just sat there looking at the time, wondering how long all this stuff would take.
Thank God I'm a man...
I too, will attempt to keep this on track and add, I hate it when people tell you, 'Oh, yeah, you gotta be there at the birth of your child, it's truly amazing and you'll feel sooo much closer to your wife and child afterwards' ....Bull Frikkin Sh!t you do ... after seeing that gore-fest unfold in front of me, I thought my ex had been hit with an axe .... oh no, didn't feel like being close at all, I tell ya.
And as for my daughter?
She seemed singularly ungrateful I had saved her from falling onto the bathroom floor and rewarded me with a scream from hades itself that woulda pierced reinforced concrete ... after seeing all that, I made a mental note that if i were ever to be reincarnated as a woman, I would forever remain a virgin ...... well, unless of course I happened to be born in Essex.