I HATE hearing "can I get?" as in "can I get a coffee?". GRRR
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annoying phrases
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Posted 9 months ago #
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Personally I think the most annoying phrase is "gets your goat", as in the OP's second post:
C'mon folks, there must be something that really gets your goat?
Just makes you sound like a ****.
Don't really care about the rest of them, find them amusing if anything.
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you know you're old when you get angry at the phrases kids are using.
bare jokes, standard x
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You know you're old when you use the phrases kids are using.
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kidz, gary... kidz.
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enough already!
I'm outta here to session some gnarly stuff,
it's gonna be sick!
Posted 9 months ago # -
you know you're old when you get angry at the phrases kids are using.
+1
I often notice a touch of grumpy old man syndrome welling up in me as I hear 14 year olds and IT managers regurgitate the bollocks they've read in MBUK/MBR but then I remind myself that none of it actually matters, it's simply another form of communication/evolution of the language, as with all "evolutions" some will stick and some fall by the wayside.
I doubt anyone here uses the Queens English at all times, in some area or another of your life you are bound to use a bit of jargon, shorthand or abreviation, so why let it bother you so much when people apply it to bikes?
Oh and:
Phat air
Come on... I don't think anyone has used that particular phrase since about 1994 have they? And even they there was a pretty heavy hint of irony...
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ATM machine.
GPS system.
"Pulled the trigger on" (cf: american forums)
"rocking" (as in "I'm rocking this new speedometer") However this is perfectly fine and even encouraged if said with a small tincture of irony.Posted 9 months ago # -
Managing Expectations
Get with the programPosted 9 months ago # -
People that say destructions instead of instructions as though it's funny annoy me more than it should :p
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_tom_ - Member
Words like stoked and gnarly sound a bit wrong when British people say them.You need to speak in a spoof posh english accent to give them a whole new lease of life....
...I say old chap, one was jolly well stoked after that gnarly descent
Posted 9 months ago # -
"rate it" Rate it......... and there's never any closure. I highly rate it would suffice.
I particularly can't stand misuse of the word rape to refer to the excessive use of something "I've totally raped my overdraft" also the word "frape".
I was told I was being raped at chess once
Sure I lost, but that was all.
Guestimate.
Diss (unless you are referring to an act in the world of hip hop).An aquaintance recently wrote "I don't have his numero on my ringa" on FB which made me cringe. I like to purposefully use daft phrases and puns but that's beyond reasonable usage.
Generally language misuse amuses me leaving my bladder contents at a homeostatic 37.5 degrees.
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Nailed-it. (As in We Nailed-it)
Hammered. (As In we hammered down there)
Unless you are builder or a carpenter you cannot use these words.
... or a pimp.
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I particularly can't stand misuse of the word rape to refer to the excessive use of something "I've totally raped my overdraft" also the word "frape".
I have a friend (with a particularly Dark sense of humour who has been known to use the word "Thrape" derived from "Thrice Raped" the context in which this phrase is used is seldom particularly savory and his delivery of it would make Fred West Shudder, but somehow he manages to make it quite amusing... He is in IT though, which explains alot....
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Haven't read thread from beginning but "kick off" in the Danny Dyer a-fight-starting sense of the phrase, and "on my watch", both of which I have heard more than once in the House of Commons in the past few weeks, should both be legislated against.
Posted 9 months ago # -
"I run wankybars/11speed/wonder-grips etc on my bike."
No.
You can run round the park in your tracksuit.
You can run a pub, a shop, a network of secret agents, or even a computer program/application.You have wankybars/11speed/wonder-grips on your bike, but rest easy, your bike is therefore better than everyone else's.
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I want a bike with wankybars on it.
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I'm afraid wankybars are only available in the new OOS (Over-Over-Size) 35.0mm 'standard', 880mm width cut-down-able to a svelte 750mm, and in anodised cerise, topaz or campylobacter yello-brown colorways.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Shit. Guess I need a new bike.
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Also, I'm considering reporting your post, BECAUSE IT'S AWESOME.
Posted 9 months ago # -
"Oh my god that is so High Brow", spurted one of Moyles sad little gimpy f!wits on Radio 1 yesterday.
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