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Are there any that grind your gears?
Possibly 'grind your gears'?
'Oh my days!', not crazy about that one either. It seems to be big with members of the scrunched back hair and Ugg boot community.
At the end of the day right...
I turned around and said...
pretty much anything my sister says
'Back in the day'
yeap you can ask but don't be suprised when I don't do anything :D.Could I ask you too.
No.Are you alright to.
when over used.Can you do me a favour please?
I could care less.
Like
On the pregnancy front my most hated phrase is "She caught" or derivations thereof; "She caught really easily", "It took her a long time to catch" etc etc. It's conceiving, not fishing.
"Rushed into Hospital...."
I could care less
<nods furiously in agreement>
Can't be asked
"Lush" to men nice... Hate that one with a passion.
"Blessed with ..." Another stupid turn of phrase, especially when used by red neck yanks to describe the birth of their ninth gap-toothed, mono-browed offspring.
"Random"
"Ironically"
"It's a real good treat"
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Not so much a turn of phrase, but people who say 'you know' at the end of every sentence.
Oh, oh, oh, oh,
"Ah, bless..."
"Are you the bill payer"
Yes I ***' am, now * off.
I could care less.
Agreed. It doesn't make sense. In the context it is used surely it should be "I could not care less".
I could care less about this thread 🙂
'so I rocked up...' as opposed to, say, walked up.
'more better'. As often said by poorly educated yoof in London.
The peppering of every sentence with the work 'like'...
'Hubby'. Makes me want to scream when I hear women refer to their other half as such...
People who say 'aks' instead of 'ask'. How hard can that one be FFS!!?
"great fun was had by all"
really?! have you noticed you have no friends for a ****ing reason! dont ever assume i've had fun in your company you lazy overweight babypump!
"It's one of them"
"Are you coming to us" - usually about xmas dinner
Absolutely, yes, oh yes, absolutely.
"we are pregnant"
Aks instead of Ask......even Patrick on Eastenders is saying it
Random (I bumped into this random in the pub, some random walked up to me)
Actually (I was actually so hungover, It was like actually so hot)
Literally (It's literally monday....etc, etc, etc)
Mostly words said my 16 year old mutants
Excellent. Another STW-middle-aged-middle-england sneering thread.
How [i]unexciting[/i] of you.
"In the family way" - stupid
"Just chill" makes me angry
Most annoying is the tone of voice which goes up at the end of every sentence making every sentence sound like a question. That drives me mad
'Hubby'. Makes me want to scream when I hear women refer to their other half as such...
"other half", on the the other hand - I bloody LOVE that ! 😉
It gets on my baps when someone has "done" a country because they visited it once. grrrrrr narrow minded, ignorant....
Also living near some mixed English/Spanish speakers, "Yer man No?" 👿
It's the speed at which people on here seem to take on the latest, down with the kids, language
FACT
FAIL
my bad
for the win (FTW)
gnar
etc
I don't particularly mind their usage, it's just when they are used by people clearly trying to be cool that it makes me laugh.
Don't know if this is just a west of Scotland ism
"Ah wiz like that" more commonly used by females I think.
For example "ah wiz like that, naw ah'm no goin tae the dancing wi ye"
Just sounds so thick.
I dislike the way people avoid saying dead / death etc by saying 'lost'.
I also really dislike it when people give dates in the American format (month then day). Chris Evans always seems to do it and it pishes me off!
"Your card has been declined......." 😥
*sighs*
"Going forward"
Grrrrrrr, though I acknowledge that it serves a purpose as a tw*tmarker.
cranberry - bang on with that one.
Chillax - another piss boiler.
Off-of as in "Olive off of on the buses." The of is superfluous but for some reason (Scott Mills?) people thinks it's cooell.
I love the word foghorn though 😀
"Ah wiz like that"
Usually closely followed by "[i]an she wiz like...[/i]"
The other one that seems to be in vogue at the moment is "[i]sky fairy[/i]", used to indicate that you've read the dust cover of a Dawkins book and now you're a militant atheist.
Chillax. +1
Had it explained to me that it was a conflation of [i]Chilling[/i] and [i]Relaxing[/i]. The person in question seemed rather perturbed when I pointed out these words were effectively synonyms, thus rendering their linguistic mutilations somewhat superfluous.
"I'd be more than happy" what is that, orgasmic?
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"we are pregnant"
****ing hate that! along with "you know" course i ****ing do i am not a retard!
yummy mummy 😡
every little helps 👿
pre-emptive thanks - can't stand it when people (managers are worst) send emails saying "thanks for doing xxxx", when they really mean "could you please do xxxx"
FAIL
shouldn't that really be FAILURE ? - doesn't quite have the same effect/ring to it.
EPIC
EPIC FAIL
It gets on my baps when someone has "done" a country because they visited it once.
In a similar vein, my brother once told me, whilst stood there with his pink cardigan draped around his shoulders, that he was thinking of "doing the London thing" for a couple of years.
Any phrase or sentence where literally is used as it literally gets on my nerves !!!
one from work "sorry for any inconvenience caused" no you are not because you have not asked you have told me what will disrupt my day!
"all priced to sell" - wtf does that mean!! Of course they are priced to sell its the classifieds dumbass
All of the above, but "Aw wiz like that" is a particular bladder expander due to the one person that uses it being an extremely stupid cow.
"Had it explained to me that it was a conflation of Chilling and Relaxing. The person in question seemed rather perturbed when I pointed out these words were effectively synonyms, thus rendering their linguistic mutilations somewhat superfluous."
Don't stop the anecdote there! I want to hear about the great sex you had next.
On the upside some new coinages are great. My daughter's excuse for having a messy room is that she has a "floordrobe", I love it.
thus rendering their linguistic mutilations somewhat superfluous
It's a stylistic device. You know, sometimes speech is more than just simple communication.
Long live creative use of language I say, for all our enjoyment 🙂
+1 molgrips, you're all a bunch of whining ninnies.
I don't particularly mind their usage, it's just when they are used by people clearly trying to be cool that it makes me laugh
We're being ironic.
And FAIL is an internet meme from failblog.org - which is why it's free from grammatical regulation and is always in caps.
I think fail might be older than that?
I could care less.
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Also, the ****in eejits at work have started using the word "onpass" to describe how they will disseminate information. I swear down, right, ( 😉 ) if someone [i][b]EVER[/b][/i] uses that phrase while I'm in the same room as them, I'll "onpass" my fist so far down their throat that the next time they have a bowel movement it'll have to tiptoe past my wedding ring.
"genuine reason for sale." Does anyone ever sell anything for no reason? I'm selling this car for the reason that it's genuinely ****ed.
Blatantly misleading statistics. Eg, "Sale - up to 20% off!" - so, the most you will ever save is 20%, possibly on one item that you've now sold out of, and all the other sale items are reduced by 5%?
"Know what I mean?" - well, if you spoke properly in the first place, you wouldn't have to ask.
"It's six of one and a dozen of the other" - so, completely different, then?
"Boils my piss" - WTF? You're totally so, like, a bunch of bill payers
"[u][b]we[/b][/u] played well" as said by some bloke in the office talking about a football team he doesn't play for
and more recently..
"we're all in this together" when clearly, this isn't the case
"the proof is in the pudding" so you are prepared to take it at face value then.
"sleeps" instead of days i.e. 'Only 5 more sleeps before I go skiing with Archie, hurruh!'
Anyone who says "Myself" when they mean "Me".
eg Boss says "When you came and talked to myself last week.."
Don't know if it is just up here in Scotland, but people who say they have 'hurted' themselves. Arrhghhhh!!
New one that I kept hearing last year was jamped, instead of jumped.
Again, don't know if a West of Scotland thing.
Another - It's my understanding.....
+1 for "jamp" instead of "jumped".
I also get annoyed when people don't understand that being pregnant is a [i]binary state[/i], as in, "How pregnant are you?". I've definitely heard this said without a shred of irony.
"I'm not reading all that" or "I haven't read all the posts but..." when using a forum. If you have something to say, at least read what has gone before to see if there is any point in adding it?
(slinks off before the reams of quotes where he has screwed up on the forum appear...)
On the upside some new coinages are great. My daughter's excuse for having a messy room is that she has a "floordrobe", I love it.
I saw a new version rcently of the lollerskates, roflcopter thing which was "lolcano" 🙂
Someone I have to work with, when making an appointment insists on saying "I'll ink that in my diary"
I want to hit them in the face with a frying pan every time they say it. I can almost here the "SPANG!"
"with the best will in the world"
especially as it's usually used to excuse poor / lazy / incompetent behaviour.
Using "off" after a cooking verb. As in "just fry off the onions". Where exactly are you frying them off to? Surely you are just frying them. Annoying enough when chefs use it. Infuriating when anyone else does.
Don't stop the anecdote there! I want to hear about the great sex you had next
If you're email's in your profile I could send you pictures instead?
Insulting someone then saying '.. no offence' afterwards.
"Addicting"
Using the word "literally" when it's not actually literal. What? You LITERALLY have contracts coming out of your ears? Might want to see a doctor about that, or at least contact HR.
'Pan Fry' - what else am I going to fry in, my hands?
'its a nice space' - when referring to a room in a houes - '...this is a nice space, i think we will have this as a reception room...' - so thats a living room then? Numpties.
deep fry?
Stir fry?
At the moment its Masterchef speak from normal folk.
"Hmm yes there's aniseed coming through".
Sod off its a gobstopper ffs.
And the office grater at the moment is "Are we doing this?". You don't mean [b]we[/b], you mean am I doing it so **** off trying to pansy around it and ask me.
My boss's catchphrase is "in reality." It's not annoying in and of itself exactly, but he uses it approximately every other sentence and once you've noticed it you can't stop un-hearing it.
"we played well" as said by some bloke in the office talking about a football team he doesn't play for
+1 to that. I ask people what position they were playing.
Hey Ho
That's the correct way to address a prostitute, is it not?
Webinar, why make up yet another unecessary ****y word, it's still a seminar isn't it?
Don't know if it is just up here in Scotland, but people who say they have 'hurted' themselves. Arrhghhhh!!New one that I kept hearing last year was jamped, instead of jumped.
Again, don't know if a West of Scotland thing.
I reckon it is. My kids have started saying both of those and they don't get it from home (English parents).