EEPhil
Number 28
Only if preceded by "Oh sh".
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EEPhil
Number 28
That deserves to be in the groan section of amusing items.
Owen Smith
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Boom boom! A proper Basil Brush joke that one.
HugeMaximum
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That's the House of Lords
EEPhil
Number 28
Does that help AMS's piles?
EEPhil
Number 28
I saw this and it didn't look right. Looked it up and, supposedly, it is "fandom slang" for spoilers. So, spoilerage is a slang word for the shorter word spoiler. Has the world gone mad?
gomezz
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For me a spoiler is a single instance of the sin. Spoilers would be an alternative for having unwanted clues emblazoned all across a web site / app screen but I prefer spoilerage as a more aggressive term for this heinous crime covering not just the words but the pictures and emojis used as well as the catch-up live coverage duration also being a big Scooby. This time the BBC even experimented with Key Moment markers for goals and cards etc on the playbar but that was dropped after push back from viewers and I am guessing internally from their sports people explaining to their media people that while it was clever it was not wanted.
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EEPhil
Number 28
Hell, I must be getting old - I had to look Scooby up, even though I did actually know it. I can't blame lack of sleep, I didn't watch the match.
I contemplated putting spoilers and then didn't. The day hasn't started well.
OP
Black Hole
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I regard "spoilerage" as everything pertaining to spoilers.
prpr
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Ghastly Americanism. And I dislike it without a hyphen.
gomezz
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The similarity to sounding like words such as damage and carnage helps to emphasise that it is being used pejoratively.
OP
Black Hole
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Adding the -age suffix turns a verb or a noun into a compound noun.