We are dealing with an unprecedented set of political and economic circumstances which will undoubtedly require the enactment of all manner of innovative and radical legislation over the coming months. Recent revelations regarding the scurrilous goings on in all quarters during the boom will ensure that the gabel of illegality falls upon all sorts of heretofore perfectly acceptable behaviour.
Well if we are going to wipe the slate clean I have a suggestion as to where we might start. The utterance of the phrase “it was a rollercoaster ride of emotions” should be re classified as a criminal act and one which should attract merciless censure.
What used to be the preserve of inarticulate and illiterate footballers during vacuous post match interviews has stealthily made its wicked way into the mainstream vernacular. Only yesterday on the radio I heard a chap who is on the production team for what is apparently a fairly high brow musical biography of Michael Collins which is about to open in the Cork Opera House describe the show as “a rollercoaster of emotions” for the prospective audience. Now only the revelation that this man’s role in the production team is the procurement of hot beverages and jammy donuts for the standby carpenter could possibly assuage the horror I felt at hearing such linguistic excrement emanating from someone involved in the thee-aaat-re.
Overrated, overused, meaningless and perenially out of context it is a phrase which has much in common with its best known proponent, the Thesaurus of Tallaght, the one, the only Robbie Keane. At the end of the day.
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