John Key fails to qualify for BDOTGNZA endorsement

[jrandom]

The whiny slimeball just appeared on the telly and attempted to convince me that his policies would incent me to do... something or other.

'Incent'.

What the fuck kind of verb is 'incent'?

I can't believe he actually used that word with a straight face on national television.

I suppose 'motivate' was deemed overly blunt. Wouldn't want to condescend too obviously to the electorate before the reins of power are secured.

Goddamn motherfucking wanky corporatespeak.

May he and his cohorts of third-rate spin doctors burn forever in the vilest pits of hell.

[Pussy]

So he gets your vote, then?

[Hitcher]

Perhaps he (JK) meant "incense"?

[Qkkid]

The whiny slimeball just appeared on the telly and attempted to convince me that his policies would incent me to do... something or other.

'Incent'.

What the fuck kind of verb is 'incent'?

I can't believe he actually used that word with a straight face on national television.

I suppose 'motivate' was deemed overly blunt. Wouldn't want to condescend too obviously to the electorate before the reins of power are secured.

Goddamn motherfucking wanky corporatespeak.

May he and his cohorts of third-rate spin doctors burn forever in the vilest pits of hell.

:laugh:Oh shut up ya whiney little Labour peasant supporter:love:
Just because National gonna win this year:Punk:

[McJim]

D'ye think he meant incite? Or incentivise?

My wife tells me I mustn't hate John Key. Apparently (despite wearing a blue tie) National are not the tory bastards that fucked me and my countrymen over for two decades.

I'm still struggling with that though....

[JimO]

The whiny slimeball just appeared on the telly and attempted to convince me that his policies would incent me to do... something or other.

'Incent'.

What the fuck kind of verb is 'incent'?

I can't believe he actually used that word with a straight face on national television.

I suppose 'motivate' was deemed overly blunt. Wouldn't want to condescend too obviously to the electorate before the reins of power are secured.

Goddamn motherfucking wanky corporatespeak.

May he and his cohorts of third-rate spin doctors burn forever in the vilest pits of hell.


its right up there with Herr Klark and her NEWZEALANDNESS

[jrandom]

:laugh:Oh shut up ya whiney little Labour peasant supporter

Gosh, I'm no Labour supporter. Certainly not this election, anyhow.

That doesn't change the fact that Mr Key is a corporatespeak-spouting twat.

[Ocean1]

Could've been worse.

He coulda incentivised yo ass.

[jrandom]

He coulda incentivised yo ass.

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[ManDownUnder]

The whiny slimeball ...

Slow news day?

[jrandom]

Slow news day?

Quiet, you, I'm busy incentivising my ass with a carrot.

[Ocean1]

I'm busy incentivising my ass with a carrot.

Ah, a hint of dissent, there.

Been looking, incidentally. Our American friends seem to find it incensurable.

[jrandom]

Ah, a hint of dissent, there.

Been looking, incidentally. Our American friends seem to find it incensurable.

Sir, show some sense; your descent into incidental insolence is fit to incense the insensate.

[Ocean1]

Sir, show some sense; your descent into incidental insolence is fit to incense the insensate.

Who me?

I's innocent I tells ya.

[Hitcher]

The Is have it.

[jrandom]

The Is have it.

I don't assent to that ascent.

[Hitcher]

So you descend to that dissent?

[Pussy]

So you descend to that dissent?
This is just the sort of talk that top shelf drinking causes

[Ocean1]

So you descend to that dissent?

He's a dissident, dude.

[Hitcher]

And here's me thinking he was a steradent dude.

[Ocean1]

And here's me thinking he was a steradent dude.

A close descendent, perhaps.

[jrandom]

Right, right, stop it. This thread is getting too silly. Started off with a nice little rant about syntax, but now it's got silly.

All of you, go on now. Move along. Off you go.

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[Mully]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/incent

tr.v. in·cent·ed, in·cent·ing, in·cents
To incentivize: "would use tax breaks to incent corporations to invest in their future" (Scott Canon).

Are you just complaining cos it's Merken English (such as it is)??

[MisterD]

Never mind "incent", I think BDOTGNZA should be worried that the next government are prepared to demonstrate on bloody great billboards that they don't know the difference in usage between "less" and "fewer".

[Hitcher]

Never mind "incent", I think BDOTGNZA should be worried that the next government are prepared to demonstrate on bloody great billboards that they don't know the difference in usage between "less" and "fewer".

That one had not gone past the BDOTGNZA's Roadside Billboards Committee. An obviously contrived photo of The Right Honorable The Prime Minister has also troubled them...

[ManDownUnder]

That one had not gone past the BDOTGNZA's Roadside Billboards Committee. An obviously contrived photo of The Right Honorable The Prime Minister has also troubled them...

(S)he has honour?

[Mully]

(S)he has honour?

I think he meant the "Yeah, right" Honourable.