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  • Rebel_Cause
    Rebel_Cause Posts: 190 Forumite
    Parents who call themselves 'childfree' and use that word in social media status updates when they are free of their offspring for a couple of hours. Being a parent and being childfree are mutually exclusive!
  • tea_lover
    tea_lover Posts: 8,261 Forumite
    Rebel_Cause wrote: »
    Parents who call themselves 'childfree' and use that word in social media status updates when they are free of their offspring for a couple of hours. Being a parent and being childfree are mutually exclusive!

    Ona similar theme, the phrase "became a dad for the second time". No they didn't! Once your first child is born you're a parent, you don't become one again with subsequent children.
  • pigpen
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    Petra_70 wrote: »
    They are still shopping centres !!!!!!!

    Is this 'pedantic Wednesday' or are you taking the michael too?

    The place where there are lots of shops is generally called a shopping centre ... FGS, some people will contradict ANYthing just for the sake of an argument!



    What I said was I don't know anyone who would say 'I am going to the shopping centre' .. they would would say.. 'I'm going to The Trafford Centre' .. what they are described as is not always what things are referred to as ... it is just more specific about where you are referring to I guess given most people live in range of a few.

    But I agree, they are absolutely NEVER a 'mall' ;)

    I'm just going to feed my felis catus is not what is said of an evening you'd say, I'm going to feed the cat.


    I'd love to get out more.. sadly I am probably not going out for several days now.. :(

    I am never 'childfree' I am occasionally 'beastless' though!
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  • pollypenny
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    Pollycat wrote: »
    Gary Rhodes usued to say 'I'll just add x to 'take it to another level'.
    No, you idiot. You've just ruined the dish.

    Me too.
    Or start a sentence with 'Right'.
    Or when they ring you, the first thing they say after you say 'Hello' is 'Listen'. Of course I'm listening, you dimwit - I've got the bloody phone to my ear.


    Oh - we've graduated from 'infantile' to '6 year old', have we? :rotfl:

    You can post photographs of as many signposts as you wish but it appears that you are the only person (so far) who thinks the word 'train station' is infantile.

    One adult may have the train station in mind when they say 'let's meet at the station' but a friend - who is more used to catching the bus than the train could be waiting in vain at the bus station.
    That's why an adult may need the difference clarifyting.


    Maybe those who live in a city need the type of station to be clarified. Many places just have a railway station and bus stops.

    As for trams, rare things! :cool:
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    (Pity they are mangled by this autocorrect!)
  • benjus
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    pigpen wrote: »
    What I said was I don't know anyone who would say 'I am going to the shopping centre' .. they would would say.. 'I'm going to The Trafford Centre' ..

    Maybe, but it would still be valid to say: "Manchester has a number of shopping centres, including the Trafford Centre and the Arndale Centre"
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  • Pollycat
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    pollypenny wrote: »
    Maybe those who live in a city need the type of station to be clarified. Many places just have a railway station and bus stops.

    As for trams, rare things! :cool:
    Well, I live in a village and we have a bus station (not a train station though).
    Our nearest town has both.

    I would never say 'I'll meet you at the station' - unless prior arrangements to travel somewhere by bus or train have been discussed.

    So no - not just those who live in a city need the type of station to be clarified.

    Incidentally - do you think the term 'train station' is 'infantile'? I notice you use 'railway station'.
  • pigpen
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    benjus wrote: »
    Maybe, but it would still be valid to say: "Manchester has a number of shopping centres, including the Trafford Centre and the Arndale Centre"


    it would :) .. I'm not sure I could envisage that being a sentence used. Pondering on it I would prrobably call them pockets of retail Hell ... lol..
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  • pigpen
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    edited 24 February 2016 at 7:31PM
    Pollycat wrote: »
    Incidentally - do you think the term 'train station' is 'infantile'? I notice you use 'railway station'.


    are they not different things??

    I'd think a railway station as a platform along a line whereas a train station a terminus where trains sleep at night.. and the depot where they go for cleaning and repairs.

    OH said I'm being weird again lol
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  • Gloomendoom
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    BNT wrote: »
    It is also shorthand for Metro station, subway station, underground station and Tube station.

    All of which are stations on a railway.
    As for Train station vs. Railway/Railroad station, it is not down to infantilism or anything as interesting as that. Train station is simply newer, coming into common use in the 1960s and increasing since then. Railway station and Train station are roughly even in usage these days. However, if you aggregate railroad and railway variants, they outnumber train station by around 50%.

    Yes, I know that.

    However, I've been enjoying the ever increasing indignation.
  • Gloomendoom
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    Petra_70 wrote: »
    In the unlikely event that you are being serious. (Because I genuinely think you are taking the michael!) THIS is for you my dear gloomydoom. :p:p:p

    Damn! I've been rumbled.
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