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    Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

    I'll always remember watching a US awards show when someone was called an arsehole, and they beeped out the "hole" but left in the "ass".
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    Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

    Language changes, though. I've never used versing, but in 50 years' time the dictionary definition of versing will say "derived from the Latin versus, meaning 'against'", and nobody will think twice.
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    Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

    Mark Waugh says Australian selectors need to grow some kahunas. It's cojones, Mark. Cojones.
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    The downfall of Fox Footy.

    Great Russell Jackson piece on this in 2020: "If you watch a grand final from the 70s, it's not much different to how they film it now."...
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    Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

    The oldest Millennials are 41, so commentators like Dal Santo, Montagna, Jobe Watson, Abbey Holmes, Nick Riewoldt and plenty of others all count in that category.
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    Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

    https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/wayne-careys-past-romances-shame-catches-up-to-him/news-story/043b0f424172d60aa4cd34c8c18383f4 I didn't see the episode, but I imagine it must have been strange seeing him show his foot to the SAS guy.
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    Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

    'Twas ever thus.
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    Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

    No need to be dogmatix about it.
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    Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

    Perhaps he's a fan of The La's* *80s English pop band best known for There She Goes, and whose frontman was Lee Mavers.
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    FTA-TV Footy Classified

    Huge if true.
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    Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

    Disagree. I think it'll be a game played in two halves.
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    FTA-TV Footy Classified

    Is that you, Eddie?
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    FTA-TV Footy Classified

    It's theatre. McClure has worked for Hutchy for years, they both know his role is to be the little needling s**t-stirrer. Probably walked off and gave each other a high-five.
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    FTA-TV Footy Classified

    You know they sit around before the show goes to air and work out what they're going to say, yeah?
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    Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

    That's like me trying to go to sleep every night, though.
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    Moved Thread Kayo Sports

    Someone apparently streamed 450,000 minutes. Which is 85% of the entire year.
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    Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

    Bloody posh Victorians....
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    Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

    Come to Perth, we have a Berwick St, pronounced as it reads, not Berrick. How is Vermont supposed to be pronounced?
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    Moved Thread Kayo Sports

    Either get off social media or only get on it when something notable happens.
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    Moved Thread Kayo Sports

    I've twice spent a whole day at the cricket listening to the streamed commentary that was about two minutes behind and it didn't bother me in the slightest.