Oxymorons

[Electric_Andy]

Tuna fish. As opposed to what - tuna dog?

oh this one grates on me too. See also Michael McIntyre's sketch about similar Americanisms like horse-back riding (where else would you sit, on their head?) and eye glasses (not to be confused with ear glasses which I often wear instead of hearing aids)

 

[DaveReading]

Hehe, my partner used to say her son has "mental health"

I may have posted this before, but my late grandad was always talking about a friend of his who enjoyed very poor health.

 

[Alex321]

oh this one grates on me too. See also Michael McIntyre's sketch about similar Americanisms like horse-back riding (where else would you sit, on their head?) and eye glasses (not to be confused with ear glasses which I often wear instead of hearing aids)

Well eye-glasses does distinguish them from drinking glasses.

 

[figbat]

Well eye-glasses does distinguish them from drinking glasses.

Or looking glasses.

 

[Aescott]

That is the opposite of an oxymoron. It is a Tautology.

Bugger. So it is. That's my feeling of innate superiority dented for a bit. But no need to admit to SWMBO that I've been out-pedanted.

 

[blackrat]

Are you saying the American and English civil wars did not involved organised armed forces fighting each other?

Civilians becoming combatants taking up arms to kick the sh*t out of civilians of the same country taking up arms as opposed to doing the same to 'civilians' of foreign countries taking up arms to kick the sh*t out of them.

 

[Beebo]

King James’ instructions to the Guy Fawkes interrogators referring to the use of “The Gentler Tortures”

"If he will not other wayes confesse, the gentler tortours are to be first used unto him, and so by degrees proceeding to the worst, and so God speed your good work”

 

[lenfield]

I'm not sure how you would describe a pair of sliders with laces on the front. I saw a woman wearing them yesterday.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Save money in our sale.

erm , no, you’ll be spending money

Another variant of that, with stepped discounts, is:

The more you spend, the more you'll save!

I mean, it's straight out of Viz.

 

[Profpointy]

Pan fried..
What else are you going to fry it in?

It's to distinguish it from unsatisfactory methods of frying like in a paper bag or tuperware box

 

[Dogtrousers]

It was Christmas day in the workhorse
And the snow was raining fast
A barefooted man with clogs on
Went slowly whizzing past
I went round a straight crooked corner
And saw a dead donkey die
I took out my pistol and stabbed him
And the juice went in my eye

My brain is so stuffed with rubbish like that, is it any wonder I forget everything important.

 

[wakemalcolm]

My teenage brother when he was treating his acne.

 

[Profpointy]

It would be, if it were the only way of frying things.

But your fish & chips from the local chippy is "fried" but not "pan-fried".
"Pan fried" means using a frying pan, rather than a deep-fat fryer.

Surely a chip-pan is still a pan

 

[Animo]

In view of recent events I was musing whether surviving a lethal injection would be an oxymoron, but "lethal" can just mean being capable of causing death so seemingly not.

 

[Alex321]

Surely a chip-pan is still a pan

I don't call a deep fat fryer a pan.