Professional confessional
Analysis paralysis
Holding the folding Fool on a stool (The guy with the guitar singing cover songs poorly in the corner of a bar)
And others on this template.
That’s the Bertie!
I had a care factor of zero.
Weapons-grade idiocy. (James O’Brien)
The emotional range of celery (or a teaspoon).
Here’s where the rubber meets the road. (via Twitter)
It looks like they filmed it with a potato. (Mike Williams, panther researcher)
Prisoner in the appalling castle of woe (on Melania Trump)
This is about as edgy as mozzarella. (Twitter)
Not the brightest of lamps on the boulevard of life. (Twitter)
The cars threw up thick whiskers of muddy water. (Simenon)
Get back in your lane! (For “Who rattled your cage!?”)
He went over the mountain. (Meaning “He died”.)
Vague, surface-level soundbites. (medium.com)
At the risk of sounding as if I’m shaking my cane at what’s here now... (Jeff Chu)
Your constant equivocating is giving us all whiplash. (@suehallie)
Various preset humorous phrases were uttered. (RM)
Absurd interpretive machinations. (areomagazine.com)
A deadly "love conquers all" radiation cloud. (imdb commenter on Howl’s Moving Castle)
Platitudinous media bilge. (Kevin maher on the royal wedding)
Heavy dimbleboid solemnity. (Libby Purves ditto)
The awful trash called Mainstream novel will inglobate and destroy the beautiful Mystery genre, the most beautiful literary genre ever created by men. (IL)
Our tattered surrogate of a church... a vague, frozen, withered agglomerate of social rites and functions. (IL)
David Davis is a puff of smoke who will blow away like a dandelion. (Anon)
Tinfoil millinery wallahs (Internet conspiracy theorists who are reputed to wear tinfoil hats to protect their brains against harmful rays.)
X is one of the nicest people I know. You on the other hand are not exactly Miss Personality. (Via Twitter)
The messages may have weathered with time, but we get 10/10 for trying, right?” (@LGSMpride on on a 1985 Gay Pride poster)
I see The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) providing most of the molecules from which the Golden Age was built. (Scott K. Ratner)
Endless streams of free-form sociologese. (Clive James)
A production number of riveting fatuity occurred nearby. (Clive James)
A miasma of sociological cant, higher trash, overwrought sludge, undergrad-type tricksiness, half-educated academe-speak. (Clive James)
Trying not to wax my own car too much but I think Shanghai Red and Crowded are my two best books yet. (Christopher Sebela @xtop)
I feel like that sequence is playing on a constant loop in certain inner circles of hell to torture lost souls. (Imdb commenter on the Gotta Dance sequence of Singin’ in the Rain)
Alan Rickman's final encounter with Grenouille was enough to make me want to put a brown paper bag over my head and whinny like a tormented pony. (Guardian on the film of Perfume)
Does that one skip back and forth? I thought it just skipped forth, so to speak... (Jim Noy)
Yet another mastodontic private data breach should come as a significant warning for our democracy. (Guy Verhofstadt)
39 (!) projects shortlisted for the Old Street roundabout reboot. Has ever a mere roundabout inspired such outpourings of effortful, futuristic wibble? (Catherine Slessor @cath_slessor)
More here and links to the rest.
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