Prefixing any comment (verbal or in text) with “So”.

Especially when its spoken and the vowel is elongated- “So….”

“pwned” my hosemate uses it when he beats me at streetfighter 👿 the fact that its the only thing he can beat me at makes it worse, the massive knob 😆

I use loads of these chillax, hun, seriously. I actually said lol the other day when a girl tripped up in front of me

Sorry

Football pundit plural nonsense

the use of “he’s done brilliant” when did the ..ly get dropeed…

Oh and the olympics mean we will be “medalling” gggrrr

Someone asking “Why did you do that for?”

Codybrennan’s +1.
But even worse when followed with cranberry’s comment.

codybrennan – Member
Prefixing any comment (verbal or in text) with “So”.
Especially when its spoken and the vowel is elongated- “So….”

cranberry – Member
“going forward”
Apart from it being a bit of a ****-marker, I don’t know why it makes me want to lead people into the deep, dark woods and show them the sharp end of my hatchet.

ITT: Descriptivists vs Prescriptivists.

do you know Jesus loves you

No, but you hum it and I’ll attempt to play it!!

Daily basis = Daily
regular basis = regularly
weekly basis = weekly
Brevity has much to commend it, I apologise for the excessive examples above.

What about the inability to include the ‘ly’ on the end of adverbs by every single person in the football industry?

“I’m afraid it left several eggs in there.”

Find me a pre Clockwork Orange usage of the phrase and I’ll agree with you.

Plenty of commonly-used phrases and words have their origin in literature, but that doesn’t mean their use is a reference to the book, or that the user is aware of the origin.

http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-phrases/
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/ar-dic1.htm

I personally….

I/he/she turns round and says.

“I hear what you’re saying”

Usual management w**k, which should be followed up with “I’m going to do chuff all about it” 😈

man up, or MTFU
Used by morons/keyboard warriors, who can’t think of anything constructive to say. The twunts.

I also hate ‘with the greatest respect’ because what follows is generally said with no respect at all.

touching base

Window of opportunity
Giving something the oxygen of publicity
Cockpit – It’s a bike not a harrier jump jet
Childish terms for sex organs sex acts or bodily functions eg willy , bonk , poo etc , unless spoken by a child of course .

touching base cloth

Upward inflections drive me crazy. Say anything with an upward inflection and I’ve made my mind up about you.

^^ Greeble has got the one that rattles my fillings. I think I feel physical pain when some one on the West of the Atlantic utters it.

“Everything happens for a reason”.

Yes, that’s right. We’re all just part of some cosy narrative dreamt up by some benevolent overseeing deity who has ensured that our life misshaps are merely steps toward eventual happiness and contentment.

Seriously, anyone uttering this statement should be forced to repeat it to a starving, HIV infected orphan from sub-saharan Africa.

Grrrrr…

The current trend for politicians refering to things in terms of “fairness”, absolutely meaningless word out of context, designed to appeal to the feeble-minded.

The other trend of refering to “hard working families” all the bloody time

Not so much a phrase as a phenomenon……

……The way people drastically overstate how much things annoy them, and what they would like to do to punish the perpetrators.

You are not “ranty” stand up comedians, you are middle aged IT nerds.

Stop it, it’s silly 😉

have we done “My bad”? makes my blood boil.

I also hate ‘with the greatest respect’ because what follows is generally said with no respect at all.

I like to use “with all due respect” as it leaves it as an exercise for the reader to work out as to how much respect is actually due. (-:

“In respect of” – just a verbal run up.

“I’m loving” – stop using the progressive; we don’t need a live commentary on how you feel.

…..we don’t need a live commentary on how you feel.

That’s Twitter buggered then 😉

I really hate the use of “Fort Bill” – it really grates with me

Where i work in Croydon the yoofs, seem to use the word “like” as punctuation.

“i said i was going out like”
“he was like i’m out to like”
“she replied tonight like”

innit….

“Know what I mean?”

You wouldn’t need to ask if you weren’t talking such shit in the first place.

Being referred to as Chap !

as in “I’m good thanks chap” etc

Hate it !

My least favourite office BS bingo have to be:

“let’s draw a line under it..”
“going forwards.”

and

“i think we need a target orientated day!” (essentially buck your ideas up)

Five pages and we haven’t had my biggest bug bear:

“to be (perfectly) honest with you”

Plus:

Heads-up
Flatlining 😉

Quantifying uniqeness makes my teeth itch.

Saul David on Bullets, Boots and Bandages recently pointed at a gun and said “This is completely unique” (I cringed) then continued “In the sense that it’s the only one of it’s kind.” (Struggles to contain rage)

Why use two or three words when fifteen will do?

goon – Member
Quantifying uniqeness makes my teeth itch.

+1 – how did I miss that?

I wouldn’t go in there just yet!

( “there” being the office loo that I am heading towards)

Cheers for the heads up
At the end of the day (ggrrrr)
Blue sky thinking
Rocking up

Why use two or three words when fifteen will do?

Never use big words when a diminutive one will suffice.

Putting .com at the end of a word/sentence. Kuntz.com

Generally just the need to overstate things.

When people describe something as being ‘Hilarious’ when it really is nothing more than mildly amusing. The use of the word literally to describe something that didn’t actually happen? “It was so hilarious I literally wet my pants”.

Really? you actually wet your pants, you actually lost control of your bladder and started to urinate uncontrollably whilst fully clothed standing in a department store whilst you were laughing? That actually happened?

trailmonkey – Member
‘can i get a……………….’

Nothing boils my piss more than the above phrase.

“you mug” this really irks me, ironic because ‘irks me’ is also annoying..