Worn-out Words.

[wetkingcanute]

I've conducted 1,223 funeral services - and spent one to two hours with each family/widow/widower discussing how they want the service to be conducted.

Very few want: "Died" they want "passed away". They all know he or she "died" but they want "passed away." Except for a few who say "do not, under any circumstances, say "passed away" - he/she Died!

[flatandy]

Passed away is dodgy but just about on the right side. Passed on is very much spiritualist bollocks.

[perrykneeham]

WKC: "Whatever, Darlin' .... it's a monkey either way - cash - and free access to the vol au vents."

[mids]

"Everyone whose father is still alive take one pace forward. Jones where do you think you're going?"

[perrykneeham]

Practitioner. I heard some cock describe someone as an AI Practitioner this evening. Bloody hell.

[voice]

Same as sticking professional on the end of non professional jobs. Road sweeping professional or burger flipping professional

[perrykneeham]

Agreed. Professional. Awful. Worse still as an adjective describing dull skills and behaviours.

[perrykneeham]

Engineer, instead of technician.

[perrykneeham]

TBF, the Professions is a broad category now.

[perrykneeham]

Doctor, dentist, chartered accountant, chartered surveyor, architect .... any others?

[perrykneeham]

Solicitors, I suppose.

Military officers don't count any more, I don't think. Maybe permanent, regular commissions, but even then I don't think they meet the criteria. Too low a bar, too little training and so few standards to stick to.

[mids]

May 6, 2023 20:00:03 GMT perrykneeham said:

Doctor, dentist, chartered accountant, chartered surveyor, architect .... any others?

Asylum seeker?

[perrykneeham]

Architects-in-waiting.

[voice]

In some cases there are amateur and professionals doing the same thing but one gets paid the other doesn't, professional football player, and it's been like that since the 19th C so it passes muster, but "your hair styling professional is ready for you now" is wank

[perrykneeham]

Oh yeah, that's a good point. Professional in the sense of making a living at it, but there's no real difference in that case between the footballer and the stylist.

[perrykneeham]

Mind you, I think it's also important to distinguish between trained, competent and practiced tradespeople and enthusiastic amateurs or people whose training needs to be refreshed. Goodness me, I nearly said "practitioner" there.

Mrs.B's Auntie was her last week and suggested that Mrs. B have her hair cut and styles by Auntie's mate. Mrs. B was, as ever, entirely diplomatic and kind, but I could sense every cell in her body raging against the very idea.

[ootlg]

May 3, 2023 13:06:01 GMT mids said:

There isn't one.

You know, do you?

[ootlg]

May 7, 2023 7:23:39 GMT perrykneeham said:

Mind you, I think it's also important to distinguish between trained, competent and practiced tradespeople and enthusiastic amateurs or people whose training needs to be refreshed. Goodness me, I nearly said "practitioner" there.

Mrs.B's Auntie was her last week and suggested that Mrs. B have her hair cut and styles by Auntie's mate. Mrs. B was, as ever, entirely diplomatic and kind, but I could sense every cell in her body raging against the very idea.

It's an odd thing that, the suggestion by others that one has one's hair done. Apart from being a passive/aggressive insult, the control freakishness of it is odd.

[perrykneeham]

I think she thought she was being helpful. Now,.had her Barnet been a triumph then perhaps, however ....

[perrykneeham]

Majorly. Just jarring.