Fucking Quisling!

I've just overheard an English turd say "I'm ball parking."

It's hard to express the rage I feel at hearing non-American turds using expressions like that but the emotion is real and there are several causes for it:

• The use of a completely alien expression - we don't have "ball parks" (Baseball stadiums) in the U.K. One of the charactistics of British culture is that Rounders isn't a professional sport.
• The origin of the term is the American expression a ball park number (an estimated number) which in turn comes from the expression That's in the ball park or Keeping it in (within) the ball park which is a number within a specific (usually acceptable) range.
• It's a very dated expression, which belongs to Ronald Fuckwit Reagan era 1980s American business culture. What a sewer of an era from which to draw anything, even something as trivial as an expression!
• There are several better alternatives including the straight forward I'm estimating to the more informal (and often more honest) I'm guess-timating. Ironically, guess-timating is not used much in American business culture and sometimes gets you a cheap laugh from business fuckwits who wear suits and suffer from coffee breath in the USA.
• To use such an expression signals unconditional surrender to American cultural imperialism. To use it during the reign of President Dubya Fuckwit is the mark of a traitor.
• The use of jargon when a perfectly acceptable substitute is available and understood by everyone deserves complete contempt. With such turds, I generally ask the turd to explain the expression, and then say something like Oh I see, you mean you're making an estimate. If only you'd said that. The objective is to make the turd feel like the fuckwitted Quisling they are.

I'd better stop now before I turn into the child killer and professional ranter Melanie (Filth) Philips...