All this talk of:
- "rear guard actions" (i.e. deception and black propaganda),
- "front line troops" (i.e. anyone daft enough to work for a political party without pay),
- "setting X loose" (where X is usually some objectionable old codger like Normo Tebbs)

It's all painfully pathetic & adolescent, a desperate attempt by political journalists to big up their real job of reading out party press releases.

the cureent economic climate'. Aaaaargh!

I'm already shaking with rage every time I hear 'staycation'.

Quite fed up with hearing about 'travel chaos' or 'weather chaos', when the roads get a bit wet, or there is a queue on the M25.

Why do all searches for a missing child or survivors of an earthquake always happen to start "in earnest".

It feels good to share that!

The other lazy journalism is when someone famous dies and the tributes "come flooding in". So I will only have a trickle then.

Guys wise up and realise this word is not used in our Country!

Second album will suffice thanks, and if I'm reading the review I probably know this anyway.

At least the past use of "quintessential" and "seminal" to describe albums seems to have died.

"Peter, what now pierces the sky like the shattered teeth of some giant vanquished boxer?"

"A row of tower blocks, Chris, now pierces the sky like the shattered teeth of some giant, vanquished boxer."

has crept into our language as well like anyone fucking knows what it means. Dont get me started on business jargon - Blue Sky thinking, proactive, reactive and all that crap. However the one that gets me mad is the annual report - normally towards the end of May when we get an unseasonally hot day and the papers report that 'Britain sizzled in temperatures hotter than Majorca, Crete, Ibiza, Halkidiki or (insert name of British yobbo populated sunshine resort that no-one in their right mind would want to go to)'. Or later in the year "Britain braces itself for Siberian cold snap as temperatures set to plummet'.
Is there any other nation on Earth that swallows the same crap that we have to endure?

Tennis players, particularly British Tennis Players have a tendency to "Crash out" rather than "Lose".

And, perhaps off-topic a touch, interviewees who say "absolutely" instead of "yes".

Yes, but only by the PR hack who supplied this drivel.

Also 'X blasts Y' (ie, makes some mildly critical comments).

And finally, often to be heard in the morning, “In a speech to be delivered today, so-and-so will say x, y and z.” Well, they don't need to bother now, do they?

in relation to anything uttered by Sir - both words begin with F, you see?

Also, politicians making 'robust' defences of policies...is this word ever used anywhere else (apart from pretentious wine reviews)?

Does anyone outside of the media ever call the BBC "Beeb" or "Auntie"? Beeb I can see but why Auntie?

Also - Commentators calling Old Trafford the "Theatre of Dreams" or something like that. Why? Where does this come from?

And no item on Mourinho passes without someone using the phrase "the special one". And hardly any item on Cantona passes without mention of trawlers and seagulls.

young people of babyish ages become 'toddlers'? Where did that come from? I'm so used to hearing it on serious news programmes, in relation to some equally serious items, that I have to remind myself that it's only a recent thing.

No, get with the times daddio - it's a "weather bomb"!.

actually no, just a diffeence of opinion. Not quite as exciting though!

'Bragging rights' has cropped up from nowhere to be the 'only' expression used to describe a local victory in sport.
But it's spreading its net as last week it was used to describe Chelsea beating Man. Utd.
Also, any play on Rooney's name....which never, ever works.
'Rootastic', 'Roo better believe it', 'Roo sure?' etc. etc. etc.

Sorry, just seen the 'Theatre of dreams' comment.
Also throw in 'The Bridge' and 'The Lane', neither of which were ever called 'The Bridge' or 'The Lane' until about 1998.
Funny how these phrases seem to apply to the most odious football clubs.

which is now absolutely everywhere and gets right on my middle-aged man tits.

A bit like comedians exhorting audiences to 'give it up' for a performer.

Sorry, I'll stop now before my teeth grind too much.

" Go Compare ". Where has the fecking AND gone ?

which was annoying enough, but now it is a "reboot".

Footballers are generally 'good servants' if they have stayed at a club more than, say, 3 years and goalkeepers are custodians. Hard working players (surely and oxymoron?) put in a 'good shift' like they would actually know what a 'shift' is.

basically he/she did not speak to the hack involved. Often a wise choice of action.

LiLo, Bennifer and anyone else whose names are sewn together or shortened to make some kind of media superbrand.

Also - though you don't see it very often - sunshine holiday. Used mainly as a criticism.

"Jordan was on a sunshine holiday while Peter took the kids strawberry picking".

Tsk! She should be at home with those children, is the message.

You don't see 'male model' much anymore, as in 'the male model Norman Scott'.

is always used as a negative description. The implication is that a 'do-badder' would be a much better person altogether. So, who exactly are the do-badders and what is their contribution to society?

in fashionista (there's another one!)-speak - wtf is that supposed to mean?

Why are we always told to "Check out the website"?

When talking about house prices, news programmes feel they need to help us understand it by showing library footage of a row of houses, some of which are for sale.

When talking about fuel prices, a picture of a petrol station forecourt is de rigeur

In order to understand what's being said about a flood, we need a shot of the reporter standing up to their knees in water, and a shot of people going down a street in a rowing boat doesn't go amiss.

And I can only understand a weather forecast if it's presented by someone who has been shipped with an outside broadcast unit to a field somewhere, to show us what rain looks like.

...who we've just made up...

Should read - A fictitious close pal who exists entirely in our imagination might have said (if he did exist)...

The phrase just makes me cringe. I'm sure its meant to be PC and all encompassing, rather than just talking about 'family and friends' but I hate hearing it and with all the unfortunate news from Afghanistan I seem to hear it all the time. To me its becoming a statement as empty as the American 'sorry for your loss'.

Another one is 'I'm loving this'...look, drink, whatever. Incredibly irritating !

Everything has to be iconic. It seems to be the only adjective that the BBC especially, knows when talking about something with a bit of history (which may only refer to a couple of weeks ago) attached.
Just this morning BBC Breakfast were talking about Woodstock - a clip of Hendrix and the comment inevitably was "an iconic moment.".

basically over-indulgent parents with more money than sense. God forbid their little treasures should ever have to do without a car, house, holiday, wad of cash, funded 'gap year' (ie lengthy holiday) etc. Trying to make us tight-wad parents get on some kind of guilt-trip. National Service is what is needed. Plus the birch obviously.

the News of the World can reveal'. Great! I am truly grateful to the tabloid for unearthing yet more life-enhancing detail. 'Can reveal' is hardly ever Watergate though is it?