You've heard of shambles??

Well, "Omnishambles" has been named word of the year

" "Omnishambles" has been named word of the year by the Oxford English Dictionary.

The word - meaning a situation which is shambolic from every possible angle - was coined in 2009 by the writers of BBC political satire The Thick of It."

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So I guess the recent debacle within the BBC has been a complete and utter omnishambles then?

Clusterf*ck is better

taipan wrote:Clusterf*ck is better

Yep. Not even close.

Omnishambles should win, because even the kids can enjoy it. Clusterf*ck is a bit '15'.

Brass Monkey wrote:Omnishambles should win, because even the kids can enjoy it. Clusterf*ck is a bit '15'.

That's builshit. If the situation is dire enough to warrant being described as a clusterf*ck or omnishambles then it deserves to be described with a word appropriately conveying the direness.

Clusterf*ck does that in spades. Omnishambles is inelegant and a little bit festive.

Maybe Oxford Dick is too foggy to use Clusterf*ck?

JGK wrote:
That's builshit. If the situation is dire enough to warrant being described as a clusterf*ck or omnishambles then it deserves to be described with a word appropriately conveying the direness.

Clusterf*ck does that in spades. Omnishambles is inelegant and a little bit festive.

Still couldn't say it to a kid though

Omnishambles is an omnishambles. Terrible word.

I love the sound of "omnishambles". It must have been coined by a Welsh poet.

It is a word of end-of-tether exasperation, fits perfectly. The absolute dystopia version of Poppinsian "Supercalifragalisticexpialidocious", it's falling apart in all directions.

It's Rumpelstiltskin not only ripping his leg off, but tearing the whole world down.

It's Samson in a modern jam.


"The Thick of It" is a work of painful genius. Better than The Office, though painful for the same reason (too true at times to be funny).

Brass Monkey wrote:

JGK wrote:
That's builshit. If the situation is dire enough to warrant being described as a clusterf*ck or omnishambles then it deserves to be described with a word appropriately conveying the direness.

Clusterf*ck does that in spades. Omnishambles is inelegant and a little bit festive.

Still couldn't say it to a kid though

Savile did.

PeterCS wrote:I love the sound of "omnishambles". It must have been coined by a Welsh poet.

It is a word of end-of-tether exasperation, fits perfectly. The absolute dystopia version of Poppinsian "Supercalifragalisticexpialidocious", it's falling apart in all directions.

It's Rumpelstiltskin not only ripping his leg off, but tearing the whole world down.

It's Samson in a modern jam.


"The Thick of It" is a work of painful genius. Better than The Office, though painful for the same reason (too true at times to be funny).

I don't know about 'Samson in a modern jam', but it* (omnishambles) is an anagram of 'Samson He Limb', a possible response from your putative unidexter Rumplestiltskin to an intact Samson.

Also, poetry is surely wasted on the Welsh. Their words, or at least the pitiable guttural sounds they make, rarely rhyme - and when they do, they're unable to resist singing them.

Where is Smerk anyway?

In short, your post is an omnishambolic cluster*ck.