Consuming Stuff...

[CitroJim]

Is it just me getting annoyed in the way the word 'consume' is used these days.

Just seen this on the BBC Web of truth:

Facebook outlines plans to encourage users to share more of the media they consume, including music and movies.

How the chuffin' 'eck do you consume media? Is that say, eating a newspaper or is it burning pictures?

Recently I've heard of all sorts of things being consumed

Most odd. Maybe I'd better get with the lingo and go and consume some spannering. Then I'd better continue consuming my column for the CCC Magazine... That one is consuming words and media!

Tomorrow I'll consume a run to Somerset...

Yesterday on the R4 news I heard an interviewee describing a changing situation as a 'paradigm shift' and then immediately asking just what a 'paradigm shift' actually was...

Oh for proper plain English

[myglaren]

Most odd. Maybe I'd better get with the lingo and go and consume some spannering.

As long as you do it robustly Jim

It's nearly as bad as textspeak. Mr. Orwell will be rotating in his grave.

[red_dwarfers]

Most odd. Maybe I'd better get with the lingo and go and consume some spannering.

As long as you do it robustly Jim

It's nearly as bad as textspeak. Mr. Orwell will be rotating in his grave.

Ah, a bit of necrorotational forcasting.

I have some manager friends who for a bit of a laugh make up a word and have a competition to see who can incorporate it into their next big meeting first. Doesn't exactly give out the right idea but the after meeting stories are amusing

[CitroJim]

I have some manager friends

Ahh, now they have a language all of their own...

I guess they regularly indulge in blue-sky thinking, pushing the envelope, going for the low hangers, the quick wins and I bet they shift a lot of paradigms!

And as for squaring circles, well

Managers generally spout pure, unmitigated bollocks at the best of times and when they can chuck some nice buzz words in they're practically orgasmic

There was a game once, to be played in meetings called Bullshit Bingo where each attendee had a bingo-like card containing buzzwords. The first to strike out all the words on the car was the winner....

The sad thing is, I regularly go to meetings where these very words are used and in all seriousness too; often I have great trouble keeping a straight face....

[citronut]

Tomorrow I'll consume a run to Somerset...

i think it should be you or is that your car will be consuming the roads ern route,


also though we are all consumers

just whatch you dont cons you mate


regards malcolm

[myglaren]

There was a game once, to be played in meetings called Bullshit Bingo where each attendee had a bingo-like card containing buzzwords. The first to strike out all the words on the car was the winner....

My dad worked at RAF Fylingdales and one of the Americans there gave him a buzzword generator, made by Honeywell, no less.

[addo]

Lawyers in the higher courts here, play that game "first to use word of the day".

[HDI]

Buzz speak = managers trying to justify their job. If the problem is difficult and evading a solution the management answer is to have meetings and talk about it, that means they're doing something, right ?!

The real experts are politicians !!

[DickieG]

It was good to touch base with you yesterday Jim

[Gibbo2286]

Buzz speak = managers trying to justify their job. If the problem is difficult and evading a solution the management answer is to have meetings and talk about it, that means they're doing something, right ?!

The real experts are politicians !!

I well remember Harold Wilson filling out his speeches with waffle, some of it caught on with union barons and one has since been used by many in the limelight.

The word replaced was 'now' can you guess what the waffle was?

[Paul-R]

That would be "At this moment in time", or, even worse, "At this present moment in time".

My bugbear is the misuse of the word epicentre.

It has a quite specific meaning in Geology and refers to the position on the Earths crust (ie on the surface) immediately above a subterranean event such as an earthquake.

The earthquake itself, underground, is of course the centre which means that the epicentre is actually NOT as close as you can get to the event. Idiots in the media have cottoned on to this great sounding word "Derr,... epicentre must be closer than centre 'cos it's got more letters in the word" and are totally misusing it so that it means the opposite of what the stonebrains are trying to say.

I shudder whenever I hear it on TV and the radio.

[red_dwarfers]

Today I was asked to 'salvage some items from xyz's office'. You couldn't make this stuff up!

[CitroJim]

You couldn't make this stuff up!

But you made up the name of the occupant of the office! Nobody is called xyz - or is that really his/her name?

If so, how's it pronounced?

[jgra1]

for some reason I am fed up with David Coulthard saying 'options'..

don't ask me why, but it's annoying LOL OMG

as for management speak and corporate shenanigans, has anyone read 'Who moved my BlackberryTM' ?


quite amusing

[lexi]

You don't consume.......it merely passes through you. "There is a huge water shortage on the planet"...........Nah same amount as ever but peeps are in daft places

Blasting media......there's a cracker Hardware ? That's a store where me Mum bought her Carbolic soap and clothes poles.

Gay means being happy?......it used too.

Citreons............once you get into them you get Consumed