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Ruth Watson's avatar

I’ll do anything to avoid an approach from someone ‘reaching out’.

One PR slogan I came across the other day was, Food and drink brands delicious in culture. Much as I revile lazy clichés I’d take them any day in preference to incomprehensible English.

James Dowling's avatar

By “Claymore”, do you mean the legendary Scottish sword or the Vietnam era M18A anti-personnel mine?

I always think that the designer of the latter had a very low opinion of the intelligence level of the weapon’s users - otherwise why would the largest text on the device say - in capitals - “FRONT TOWARDS ENEMY”?

Ruth Watson's avatar

Annoyingly, I just lost £20 on a bet on Claymore, running at Newmarket today. Thought it was serendipity but turned out to be zemblanity.

Malcolm Nicholls's avatar

I thought it was a reference to the 1970/80s budget Scotch produced by Distillers PLC, but I guess that’s just my age.

Colin Wills's avatar

Defence engineering is 62% about making stuff squaddie proof.