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Friday, 25 May 2012

Cliché corner

Inshallah fatalism meets management gibberish with a new cliché that has cascaded up the learning curve and looped back going forward. That cliché is: "We are where we are."

Senior management at my workplace use it after they have made catastrophic  mistakes, as if that catastrophe were a cruel act of fate rather than an eminently foreseeable act of man. "What can you do?" they shrug. "We are where we are."  Politicians use it. Eurocrats will soon be using it about the predictable and utterly avoidable disaster that is monetary union. And sooner or later, if nothing is done to reverse the tide of Muslim immigration, we will be where we will be, inshallah.

Islam is here to stay? We are where we are? You can't turn back the clock?

No it isn't. Let's get out of it. It's a race against time.

Posted on 05/25/2012 10:17 AM by Mary Jackson
Comments
25 May 2012
Augustus Carp Esq.

 There you are!

Do I know you?

No, but that's where you are. There.

Best results achieved with total strangers.



25 May 2012
Hugh Fitzgerald

"Islam is here to stay? We are where we are? You can't turn back the clock?

No it isn't. Let's get out of it. It's a race against time."

But keep in mind that it's hard. It isn't a walk in the ballpark estimate.



25 May 2012
Send an emailstephena55

 Every listener to 'The Archers' knows that every entry by a character to a discussion, without the benefit of visual clues absent from the radio format, is always announced by another character saying 'Ah! There you are, Tom, or Jill or Peggy, etc.

Count the times, in each 15 minute episode. For baffled Americans, 'The Archers' is officially the longest-running radio serial in the world. I think it began about the time The Mayflower left Plymouth Harbour.

So that's where we are.



25 May 2012
Send an emailMary Jackson

More on The Archers in my piece here. Oooh arrrr we're oooh arrrr.



26 May 2012
Send an emailstephena55

 'defective peripheral vision'

Ah yes, that must be it.

Either that or the actors are all 'Untutored hams!', as in Hancock's parting shot at his fellow cast members in the 'Bowmans' parody. Still on target now, which indicates how much that show has changed over the years.






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