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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 25, 2018 17:15:16 GMT
Is anyone else sick of the A word?
This weekend I walked past a average looking dry cleaners that was labelled as Artisan
I also went to see very average musical that was produced by an Artisan Theatre producer
... pass the sick bucket
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2018 19:20:51 GMT
Is anyone else sick of the A word? This weekend I walked past a average looking dry cleaners that was labelled as Artisan I also went to see very average musical that was produced by an Artisan Theatre producer ... pass the sick bucket WTF Is an artisan dry cleaner??
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Post by hal9000 on Mar 25, 2018 19:26:22 GMT
My least favourite word is the over- and often mis-used of “curated”.
As in Lena Dunham curated a reading list.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2018 19:41:26 GMT
I've actually just hired an artisan to come round and curate my heritage vegetable collection.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 25, 2018 19:42:57 GMT
I share that dislike hal9000 (though I wouldn't say it is my least favourite word as that title is reserved for the over-use of "like"). If you are organising an exhibition at a museum then you are curating it, if you are organising almost anything else then you are not.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2018 20:35:59 GMT
So you won't approve of this hand-crafted artisanal post, then?
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 25, 2018 21:09:05 GMT
Is anyone else sick of the A word? This weekend I walked past a average looking dry cleaners that was labelled as Artisan I also went to see very average musical that was produced by an Artisan Theatre producer ... pass the sick bucket WTF Is an artisan dry cleaner?? A bog standard looking dry cleaners but based in Walthamstow, so therefore it is artisan ...
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 25, 2018 21:20:42 GMT
WTF Is an artisan dry cleaner?? They just Do It Their Way, don't they? You've really Got This Under Your Skin, haven't you? It really is Something Stupid, isn't it? (Spotted the anagram yet? )
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Post by theatreian on Mar 25, 2018 21:25:29 GMT
Dictionary definition:
Artisan - An item or service with an inflated price.
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Post by showgirl on Mar 26, 2018 4:17:42 GMT
Still - so far as I'm aware, anyway - this is a home-grown misuse of English rather than an imported one, as in the grating incursion of "like" to which Dawnstar refers.
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Post by mistressjojo on Mar 26, 2018 4:25:24 GMT
My pet hate is 'Designer', when used to make something sound special. Even the cheapest chain store suit had to be designed at some stage. And 'Architect Designed' homes? Isn't that what architects do?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2018 8:02:37 GMT
"Like" fulfils very specific linguistic purposes. I'm sure there are some people who use it as verbal filler (and why is "like" apparently worse than "um" or "er"?), but it very much does have its own place in the language beyond "I like dogs" or "so-and-so sings like a bird".
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Post by kathryn on Mar 26, 2018 8:30:29 GMT
My pet hate is 'Designer', when used to make something sound special. Even the cheapest chain store suit had to be designed at some stage. And 'Architect Designed' homes? Isn't that what architects do? Or 'hand-made' - the cheapest imported stuff from China and Malaysia is hand-made, too - because labour is cheap. Though if 'architect designed' means you actually get the architect to design something you want, rather than picking from one of the three designs the housebuilder uses to maximise the number of bedrooms bedroom and squeeze in an en-suite at the expensive of sensible storage space, so they can inflate the price, then it would be worthwhile.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 26, 2018 9:46:39 GMT
Within a 3 minute walk from my front door, I have at least 5 places selling artisan sour dough bread for (at least) £4 a loaf....
Much as I like a nice loaf, there is surely a limit to the number of people who are willing to spend that much!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 26, 2018 10:10:26 GMT
Well I’ve just crunched through my toasted artisanal whole grain bloomer with ancient seeds, lightly spread with hand-churned artisanal butter with sea salt crystals. My fig jam... sorry “conserve” was hand boiled by a little old woman in a mob cap and a authentic grubby pinny wielding a wooden spoon crafted from sustainable pine. For dinner it’s chicken. Not just any chicken but free-to-roam-and-make-friends Poulet (serves one) from an artisan farmer called Pablo. This bird has so much provenance it comes with a name badge and a better CV than me for just £11.99.
I blame markets. It started with farmers markets (Borough Market might be the original culprit) and people selling overpriced gourmet burgers. This has now spread north and any old hipster can set up a stall selling overpriced rubbish. I went to one in Manc recently and this bloke was selling bits of log cut into slabs and with a hole bored out of it to accommodate a tealight. Ten quid thank you. It was LITERALLY a bit of old log with a hole in it.
I’m in the wrong business 😐
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Post by justfran on Mar 26, 2018 11:43:55 GMT
I agree and also not a fan of the word ‘bespoke’. Another over used/mis-used word.
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Post by TallPaul on Mar 26, 2018 12:16:10 GMT
this bloke was selling bits of log cut into slabs and with a hole bored out of it to accommodate a tealight. Was he, by any chance, wearing a hi-vis with Amey across the back? Olive Grove must be overwhelmed with logs from healthy street trees!
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Post by Flim Flam on Mar 27, 2018 13:21:24 GMT
I was also going to say 'curated' but you have all beaten me to it. Drives me up the wall.
A few years ago it was all 'tailor-made' solutions. Now they have all gone mad curating things.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 27, 2018 14:03:08 GMT
“Bespoke”
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Post by bimse on Mar 28, 2018 16:20:47 GMT
Well I’ve just crunched through my toasted artisanal whole grain bloomer with ancient seeds, lightly spread with hand-churned artisanal butter with sea salt crystals. My fig jam... sorry “conserve” was hand boiled by a little old woman in a mob cap and a authentic grubby pinny wielding a wooden spoon crafted from sustainable pine. For dinner it’s chicken. Not just any chicken but free-to-roam-and-make-friends Poulet (serves one) from an artisan farmer called Pablo. This bird has so much provenance it comes with a name badge and a better CV than me for just £11.99. I blame markets. It started with farmers markets (Borough Market might be the original culprit) and people selling overpriced gourmet burgers. This has now spread north and any old hipster can set up a stall selling overpriced rubbish. I went to one in Manc recently and this bloke was selling bits of log cut into slabs and with a hole bored out of it to accommodate a tealight. Ten quid thank you. It was LITERALLY a bit of old log with a hole in it. I’m in the wrong business 😐 Your feast sounds great, it would be completed with an artisan organic ethical hand roasted coffee, and maybe some sun blush tomatoes . You can get moon blush tomatoes now ..... just saying , it all gets a bit bizarre .
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 28, 2018 17:30:29 GMT
That would be heritage sun blush tomatoes please and thank you!
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 28, 2018 18:48:53 GMT
Organic heritage sub blush tomatoes grown on land watered by natural spring water
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2018 21:01:45 GMT
Not quite the same thing, but I feel awkward whenever I buy "sea salt" flavoured crisps because the whole concept of sea salt is pretentious as hell. Salt is salt. If it came directly from the sea instead of going through intermediate stages of drying out and being mined that just means it's more likely to have decayed fish turds in it. Yum.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2018 19:32:28 GMT
Talking of salt, at what point did caramel suddenly become salted?
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 29, 2018 21:40:51 GMT
Talking of salt, at what point did caramel suddenly become salted? Probably round about the same time moisturiser became 'body butter.'
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