Yes, no, absolutely.


(Actually it's a whole new word: yesnoabsolutely)

I hear this so much these days. People used to just say 'yes'. Now they don't know what they mean...

Brilliantly observed satire.



"Now will you go to lunch? Go to lunch. Will you go to lunch?"

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Right.



lol

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Like, you absolutely nailed it, like with a hammer, but, like, you didn't, like, hit the hammer with the nail, you know, you, like, hammered the nail with the hammer which, like, ok, it's, ok it's what one does with a hammer, you know?

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Yes,no,i mean absolutely, now here's the thing. What the thing is, yes, you know? You absolutely got that hammer right on the head of the nail and hammered it. Like, that's what you do with nails, yeah?

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So, that's all good

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Thanks. You're right.

It's what we learn in the Self-Help, Corporate Advancement, How to Present, type courses. Everything is positive. There is never wrong, only degrees of effusive enthusiasm.

It's the equiv. of Dilbert, only in the marketing and PR worlds, instead of the technological world. And it's why so many bad decisions are made: nobody tells the truth any more.

SIOBHAN was so wonderful and necessary to remind us how the next generation would add empty heads and texting-busy hands to the 'yesnoabsolutely' of Ian Fletcher's generation.

There really was an ODA (Olympic Delivery Authority) ,,,,, and the boss was Lord Sebastian Coe!

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Yah, well, here's the thing... do another one

It's too cerebral! We're trying to make a movie here, not a film!

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