{"id":18532,"date":"2015-10-21T16:39:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T15:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18532"},"modified":"2015-10-21T16:39:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T15:39:58","slug":"what-is-a-euphemism-for-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18532","title":{"rendered":"What is a Euphemism for &ldquo;Stupid&rdquo;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To add to the gridlock caused by road works &#8211; arranged by Nottingham\u2019s incompetent council &#8211; an incompetent motorist decided to increase congestion today by \u201c[becoming] wedged on the [tram] tracks\u201d on Lenton Lane. You can\u2019t beat a good euphemism.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Car wedged on tram line\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/296;border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Car wedged on tram line\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/car_tram_stuck.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"296\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have yet to find a version of the story which makes it clear that the retard who was driving had entered a tram-only area and had actually fallen into the track cut out. The phrase \u201cbecame wedged\u201d doesn\u2019t tell the half of it.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever it was should be banned for life. If you\u2019re stupid enough to do something like this, God only knows what else you\u2019d be capable of if you were allowed to carry on driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To add to the gridlock caused by road works &#8211; arranged by Nottingham\u2019s incompetent council &#8211; an incompetent motorist decided to increase congestion today by \u201c[becoming] wedged on the [tram] tracks\u201d on Lenton Lane. You can\u2019t beat a good euphemism.&nbsp; I have yet to find a version of the story which makes it clear that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[100,86,87,117,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assholes","category-bad-drivers","category-news","category-roadworks","category-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}