sodding
(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, mildly, vulgar) An intensifier.
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Biggest irritation is I think "ah, advert. I'll press pause and pop to the loo then" and suddenly I've placed sodding fabreez in my sodding Amazon basket by touching the sodding remote.
I'm getting it more and more with clients asking for legal advice. The stupid thing is they might get some vaguely useful advice if they specified which sodding country they are in when asking Chat GPT.
Nooooo, I sodding hate compression!
Seems to me a lot of people are really wound up by the media, their treatment of Keir Starmer and their lack of scrutiny over Farage. Ofcom need to get their sodding act together. We need impartial reporting of our…
My top tip for you all today, is that when you are cooking sausage, mash and veg - remember to start cooking the sodding sausages.
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(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, mildly, vulgar) An intensifier.
“Biggest irritation is I think "ah, advert. I'll press pause and pop to the loo then" and suddenly I've placed sodding fabreez in my sodding Amazon basket by touching the sodding remote.”
“I'm getting it more and more with clients asking for legal advice. The stupid thing is they might get some vaguely useful advice if they specified which sodding country they are in when asking Chat GPT.”
“Nooooo, I sodding hate compression!”
Open the sodding door!
“Biggest irritation is I think "ah, advert. I'll press pause and pop to the loo then" and suddenly I've placed sodding fabreez in my sodding Amazon basket by touching the sodding remote.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I'm getting it more and more with clients asking for legal advice. The stupid thing is they might get some vaguely useful advice if they specified which sodding country they are in when asking Chat GPT.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Nooooo, I sodding hate compression!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Seems to me a lot of people are really wound up by the media, their treatment of Keir Starmer and their lack of scrutiny over Farage. Ofcom need to get their sodding act together. We need impartial reporting of our politics. Is there anything we can do? Ideas?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“My top tip for you all today, is that when you are cooking sausage, mash and veg - remember to start cooking the sodding sausages.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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