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Stop using "literally" when you mean "metaphorically".
This is literally stupid.
**** off. Literally.
This is literally a bugbear for me <whistle>

I once ended up in a sharp exchange with the Scottish comic Susan Calman on twitter as I pulled her up for saying "I was literally beside myself" - among the most stupid things I've read.
 
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This is literally a bugbear for me <whistle>

I once ended up in a sharp exchange with the Scottish comic Susan Calman on twitter as I pulled her up for saying "I was literally beside myself" - among the most stupid things I've read.
I can cope with “totally”, but hate “really really” more than “literally”. It really really pisses me off. Absolutely. Sooooo much.
Who is there such need for all this hyperbole anyway?
 
Eamonn Holmes is in trouble for calling Princess Meghan “uppity”.
Apparently this is a racial slur.
Yes, I’m confused too.
Without wishing to sound uppity, is any criticism of anyone non white racist, irrespective of whether it’s justified or not?
 
Eamonn Holmes is in trouble for calling Princess Meghan “uppity”.
Apparently this is a racial slur.
Yes, I’m confused too.
Without wishing to sound uppity, is any criticism of anyone non white racist, irrespective of whether it’s justified or not?
It's a word that only ever seems to be used for women and non-white men.
 
It's a word that only ever seems to be used for women and non-white men.
No I disagree uppity is a word used in an unequal society about anyone who it is considered is behaving above their pay grade. But like many words it depends on how old you are when using or defining it.
It's a characteristic of human society that the younger generations believe their changes to society are definitive and the older generations do not understand the changes that always occur.
Life is short enough without curtailing it to between 25 to 50 with anything outside these magic years being considered either too young or alternatively past it.
 
Eamonn Holmes is in trouble for calling Princess Meghan “uppity”.
Apparently this is a racial slur.
Yes, I’m confused too.
Without wishing to sound uppity, is any criticism of anyone non white racist, irrespective of whether it’s justified or not?
I'm not confused, the word definitely has racial and class connotations. He deserves any criticism he gets.