Can we please stop this now?

[MrJan]

The whole bloody -gate suffix thing. We've had Spygate, liegate and now crashgate and it all sounds crap and is based purely on some hotel. I tried finding the Mitchell and Webb clip about Watergategate (and failed) but their point is spot on, why take part of the name of a hotel and then use it to suffix all other scandals?

So called crashgate could actually be referred to as Singapore and everyone would know what it was about. And the fact that journalists do the same thing is proof that the whole media industry is going down the pan as the writers get lazier and lazier.

[BDunnell]

The whole bloody -gate suffix thing. We've had Spygate, liegate and now crashgate and it all sounds crap and is based purely on some hotel. I tried finding the Mitchell and Webb clip about Watergategate (and failed) but their point is spot on, why take part of the name of a hotel and then use it to suffix all other scandals?

So called crashgate could actually be referred to as Singapore and everyone would know what it was about. And the fact that journalists do the same thing is proof that the whole media industry is going down the pan as the writers get lazier and lazier.

I was thinking exactly the same thing this morning as I read about 'Crashgate'. Even an updated version would be preferable - why a 35-year-old scandal should provide the basis for the suffix is beyond me.

[Robinho]

ooh get you! Suffixgate it is then! ;)

[wedge]

I was thinking exactly the same thing this morning as I read about 'Crashgate'. Even an updated version would be preferable - why a 35-year-old scandal should provide the basis for the suffix is beyond me.

It is a fecking disgrace.

Can't the media hacks in general go back to using scandal, fiasco, etc without adding '-gate' at the end?

[MrJan]

No doubt some hack is already penning a piece about this thread: "rallyforum.com in Gategate scandal"

[Ranger]

It seems some journalists never realised that the Watergate scandal wasn't about water! :\ :p :

Using "-gate" as a suffix may have been witty the first time, but 35 years and many "***-gate" scandals later it is just hideous.

[Roamy]

NO I think we should have BenGate over the lockerbie scandal

[inimitablestoo]

"What, so because the original scandal happened in a hotel with -gate on the end, you apply the suffix -gate to every subsequent scandal? That can't be the system"

Indeed Mr Yeo, I can't find that Mitchell & Webb sketch on a well-known video-sharing website that may soon be sponsoring an F1 team... and now I can't get the idea out of my head that the F1 scoring system should mirror that of Numberwang... ;)

[harsha]

West-gate :p :

yo! I'm really happy for ya'all and I'mma gonna let you finish,But Crash-Gate was the biggest gate of them all :D

[Eki]

We should use the '-caust' suffix instead

[schmenke]

This thread shoud be retitled "moangate" :p :

[BDunnell]

We should use the '-caust' suffix instead

Love it.

[donKey jote]

lump them all together and what do you get?
"aggregate"
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:dozey:

[donKey jote]

no, sorry...
replace that with
"surrogate"
:arrows:
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[donKey jote]

what are you expected to do at a scandalous meeting?
"congregate"
:s leep:
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[donKey jote]

scandal of the wavy folds...
"corrugate"
:eek:
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[donKey jote]

scandal of the spreading scandals...
"propagate"
:bandit:
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[donKey jote]

scandal of the soggy crops:
"irrigate"
:bigcry:
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[donKey jote]

private eye scandal
"investigate"

instigate
allegate
delegate
navigate

damn there are too many
I'll think I'd better stop this now before it's too lategate
:andrea:
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[schmenke]

...I'll think I'd better stop this now before it's too lategate
:andrea:
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Yes, please do, otherwise you may have no further need for colegate :mad:




:dozey:

[donKey jote]

ah yes, the toothpaste scandal :crazy:

:arrows:

[Eki]

Yes, please do, otherwise you may have no further need for colegate :mad:




:dozey:
Are you threatening with a donkeycide?

[emporer_k]

It's dissapointing that the world has become so lazy that the word gate is added to the name of every scandal without a moments thought.

Can't people come up with original names for things any more?

[Eki]

Are you threatening with a donkeycide?

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[donKey jote]

who farted? I must interrogate :andrea:
I strongly suspect the bunch of finnish dealers we had to entertain the day before yesterday :s
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[Eki]

who farted? I must interrogate :andrea:
I strongly suspect the bunch of finnish dealers we had to entertain the day before yesterday :s
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I hope you're not working for Audi, since the sales manager of Audi in Finland had to resign recently after basically saying in a magazine interview that women are not fit to be leaders and exist mainly for pleasing men and to iron their shirts.

[donKey jote]

No, although Audi were actually testing here too.

Esko Kiesi... doesn't sound very German to me, is he Finnish by any chance?

[Eki]

No, although Audi were actually testing here too.

Esko Kiesi... doesn't sound very German to me, is he Finnish by any chance?
Yes, he's Finnish. Should we call this Audigate or maybe Kiesicaust or Kiesicide?

[donKey jote]

Funnifinnigate ?

[gloomyDAY]

I hope you're not working for Audi, since the sales manager of Audi in Finland had to resign recently after basically saying in a magazine interview that women are not fit to be leaders and exist mainly for pleasing men and to iron their shirts.He resigned?

He should have received a promotion. :)

[BeansBeansBeans]

Bah, this is just how language grows and develops. I've no problem with it.