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It's not "banter" any more granddad - it's "bantz". See that Saturday morning blokes standing around trying to look relaxed while chatting in a kitchen show, to see some bantz in action.
Stoked - not unless a fire was involved!
Pumped up - only if you're referring to something inflatable.
Literally - not when it didn't happen!
Lol,rofl etc. - just rubbish especially when used with literally.
Hate - it's used too much and downgrades the word.
No offence - you said that without the intent to offend? Really?
All the business ones. Blue sky thinking, cooking on gas, step up to the plate etc. utter tosh.
Mint - no it probably isn't!
There are a lot more.
"I felt that" has always got on my nerves, no you f@@king didn't grrrrr
For the record, "stoked" is a kiwi-ism from the 20th century. My grandmother used to declare that she was stoked, probably when England won the war against the Nazis. Not sure when it was adopted my American Surfer Dudes. Still sounds odd !
I can see why this happens as 'medium' is a coffee roast descriptor as well as a size, it saves confusion (sometimes, anyway).
I'd hazard that it's almost certainly to normalise a larger size as the default purchase, thus generating more revenue. You want a standard coffee, that'll be "regular", large is larger than normal and small is smaller than normal. If the options were small, medium and large you might well just order a small in that situation. It's a psychological version of the upselling in cinemas ("are you sure that you don't want a large, it's only 30p more?").
Ie, they're sneaky buggers.
touch base! No!
So sick.
anyone hear Lynsey Sharp on Radio Scotland an hour ago, and her new verb - 'medal' ?
She was talking about how special it was to 'medal' at the Commonwealth Games......grrr, even the presenters picked up on it !!
That's not new, plenty of sportspeople were doing it in the run up to the Oylimpics.
"win the hearts and minds of..."
"Our thoughts and prayers are with..."
"close-knit community"
"hard-working families"
"Yadda yadda yadda"
See that Saturday morning blokes standing around trying to look relaxed while chatting in a kitchen show, to see some bantz in action.
That programme has me literally balling my eyes out.
"To die for" as in 'that chocolate cake is to die for'. Really? It could be arranged!
That's not new, plenty of sportspeople were doing it in the run up to the Oylimpics.
Exactly, and it's still annoying. If she really wanted to medal she should of tied someones shoe laces together...
"Should of"? In this topic? Seriously?
My colleague's out of office notifier states he is "out the office" but I allow him that, firstly because rightly or wrongly that's how he would say it, secondly because he's a big scary dude who could break my legs off if he felt like it. 🙂
'Making progress'
Gnnnnnn! That's down there with 'going forward'.
Funny how none of these loathed phrases are in dialect. Normally some kind of faux-pas or trendy jargonese-meme-bollox. 'Get in the sea'. Eh? 'Jog on'. - 'jog on?' Howabout you cock off instead.
American ones are understandably considered knobbish when uttered from the mouth of a British subject. Am surrounded by Americans (wife, stepson, close friend, sister-in-law) so it's almost rude for me NOT to say 'dude' once in a while. Still cringe at myself though. For their part - mercilessly mocking the way we English pronounce 'boogie' is aguably slim-pickings 😉
I just remembered a word, not phrase, that used to make my teeth hurt.
The word [b]basically[/b] - when used almost exclusively as a lazy filler (or pause) in much the same way someone might pepper a sentence with 'to be fair, like, to be fair' has enhanced magical powers to annoy me. Even more when uttered in a Brummie accent. To my memory it appeared there circa 1980s and for some reason stuck like sh*t.
It's as if they have slow-motion tourettes. For some it basically HAS to be said just because it, basically, well basically has to be said!
(Overheard near Smethwick):
'Worrum sayin' is, bicyclaaaaay, yow shud nevahrabin purrin that poz-ishun, 'cos, bicyclaaaaay, let's be honest, I aybin funny or nothin but, bicyclaaaaay, bee-in fair loike, yow ay really the roight blowke fertheh job, amyer? (pause) Bicyclaaaaay?'
"gridlock" when it's not describing traffic paralysis on a city with a grid layout.
some minor traffic delays in Edinburgh do not constitute gridlock.
'Chapeau' is all a bit too novelty moustache/skinny jeans/hipster pretentious bollocks really.
'Caveat emptor' is something I find rather patronising too.
Attempting to slip either in to general conversation shrieks of trying a bit too hard to look clever.
"New and Improved"
How can something be both 'new' and 'improved' - surely it has to be one or the other?
oh - and pretty much everything else listed above!
and what about 'bucket list' ? where on earth did that come from, grrr 👿
@toppers - agree with you mostly on caveat emptor. IMVHO the problem comes from people who are quick to parrot the phrase but don't actually understand the legal principle behind it eg it's very annoying when someone comes on complaining about having been ripped off in a sale because the seller made all sorts of false claims and then someone chirps up with "caveat emptor"!
"New and Improved"How can something be both 'new' and 'improved' - surely it has to be one or the other?
Amen, brother. Plus, all this time we've been using old and inferior.
What really acquires my hircine about that is, some things are new and / or improved almost all the time. Washing powder jumps to mind, every other box I buy is either new or improved or both. What the hell were you selling me to wash my clothes with ten years ago, dessicated dog eggs and gravel?
She was talking about how special it was to 'medal' at the Commonwealth Games......grrr, even the presenters picked up on it !!
Similarly, in events where medals don't feature, I'm not overly keen on people "podiuming".
Those predicators that mean the opposite of what they say, such as when someone telegraphs that they are about to disingenuously offend you by being disrespectful through saying "To be honest, no offence, but with the greatest of respect..."
Similarly to the "caveat emptor" thing, in the last few years I've noticed the increasing ubiquity of a narrowly and specifically defined phrase "(not) fit for purpose" being used to mean "something that doesn't meet my expectations" which is really, really not the same thing at all. IIRC it first hit the popular consciousness when the Home Secretary used it, to describe the Home Office!
However, to truly fit the terms of the OP and be irrational, I'm going for phrases that aren't in themselves terrible other than that they tend to be overused by some, and if you work alongside someone who overuses them, it becomes very distracting. "In line with", "obviously", "less" when "fewer" is what was meant, and "what good looks like" are the ones that get me.
When someone replaces a clichéd phrase with a synonym and scientific classification in an attempt, to, well, I don't know...I'm guessing to appear witty.
I quite like the verbalisation of some nouns. It can allow for economy of speech. I don't mind "medal" as a verb - though "podium" seems a stretch. These things come, these things go...the language will reject the ones it doesn't like as if it has a life of it's own sometimes. I'm sure people were wringing their hands over "telegraph" being used as a verb at one time. (I also like "telegraph" as a verb.)
"wringing." (-:
That too. 🙂
Laterally stiff yet vertically compliant
On the TDF just now,
"This is the man who's laid the foundations... but can he build the house?"
I'm frankly surprised that the TV survived.
Can I get a large, skinny, extra-hot hazelnut latte (pronounced laaa-te)?
Just ask for a blooming coffee!
"Hard-working families" "who do the right thing and want to get on" -
in the sense of everyone the Tories imagine to be inside their tent pishing out, all over the poor, the sick, the disabled and the unemployed - all those whom the hard-working are but one adverse life incident away from being among.
Is that worse than "we're all in this together" (when said by somebody who really isn't in this at all)?
You must bloody LOVE the nounification of verbs (or participles) then:I quite like the verbalisation of some nouns. It can allow for economy of speech.
"Thanks for the invite" 🙄
Personally, scaredypants, I couldn't give two shits. You roll your eyes at "invite" as a noun? 😆 Blow the cobwebs out of your fanny dude.
Do you get a lot of party invites scaredypants?
Just wondering.
😛
Dunno if it has been posted yet (apologies if it has) but…..
……….[i]At the end of the day………..[/i]
Hearing that in conversation raises my hackles.
Gnnnnnnnffffff!Blow the cobwebs out of your fanny dude.
think I may have hernia'd 😉
How about nouns which are adverby?
My bad
[i]Like….Totally…...Man[/i] , I just hate that!
My father in law says "absolutely" after everything.aaaaagggghhh.
Mark Radcliffe has started too,I noticed today....
"This is the man who's laid the foundations... but can he build the house?"
what's wrong with that?
" ... linked in ... ". Which I am pretty sure a few years ago would have been have you spoken to X in department Y about this?
"... socialise ...". What do other people think of your crazy arsed idea?
"... topology ..." Oh so you mean shape? Actually I am guilty of using this one a lot, I am also prone to use isomorphism and homomorphism, inter and intra, homogeneous and heterogeneous. Nothing beats a maths geek working in a modern business 😆
"Everything happens for a reason" - totally meaningless
'Blessed'. **** off.
Twee made up swearwords on here make me shudder.
Twunt, cockwomble, etc., etc.
They're the equivalent to calling someone a ninny.
After scanning through this and agreeing with most my new favourite phrase is "Skillet whip".