provocative phrases

My first post at 17.03 was to lemon

Meaning?

This could be seen as a lazy way to stop an argument you are losing ?

Oh dear, some egos are gargantuan ????

Nothing wrong with being open about your abilities - I’m also an excellent cook and superb organiser.

'chill' or 'take a chill pill' is a vastly well known insult thrown at anyone you disagree with and argues the point.

Shall we leave politics out of this thread? It surely wasn’t the intention of the OP.

But what I posted is true nevertheless

I explained on another thread how such abbreviations/acronyms save me a lot of time . Not bothering to check facts and happily posting untruths is also a lazy way of being critical and much used on here by some RW posters

suziewoozie

Really ? I’m one of the most articulate posters on GN and rarely lose arguments

This sounds rather Trumpian

And very humorous too, sw

???

Pray tell.

I did.

....and modest too suzie ?

Really ? I’m one of the most articulate posters on GN and rarely lose arguments

Using FFS to another poster is a lazy way to be critical.

PECS

Oh a whole range of people swear from the Queen to me! It crosses class and political values so harder to define the 'views' of a swearer!

Exactly

Oh, I didn't say I don't, PECS!

But swearing at other posters on social media seems to indicate that the poster is either losing an argument or unable to articulate their thoughts clearly.

Callistemon

^I just look at the people who employ the phrases do-gooders, politically correct, virtue signalling and it tells me all I need to know about them and their views on well, just about anything really. It also tells me about their lack of capacity for any critical thought.^

That may well be true and the same may well be true of those who resort to swear words.

Pray tell.

Oh a whole range of people swear from the Queen to me! It crosses class and political values so harder to define the 'views' of a swearer!

I just look at the people who employ the phrases do-gooders, politically correct, virtue signalling and it tells me all I need to know about them and their views on well, just about anything really. It also tells me about their lack of capacity for any critical thought.

That may well be true and the same may well be true of those who resort to swear words.

I use the phrase ‘pearl clutches’ sometimes to posters who feign horror at ‘swearing’. I mean really, FFS.

I usually see it in terms of women raising concerns about prostitution, porn etc.

ageist as well as sexist, the double whammy!

I always assumed a 'pearl clutcher' was referring to an older woman who overreacts to situations in an rather pretentious way. A bit of a Mrs Bucket character!

Any phrase used perjoratively is to be avoided!

It's worrying when those who wear masks are accused of being virtue signallers as happened in the US.

Is it akin to moral grandstanding?

Phrases fall in and out of fashion.