[Closed] Least favourite words - what and why?

So, here's the thing...

Chill, chill out, chill yer beans but most of all CHILLAX

makes me want to boak.

use of the word chillax is punishable by instant fiery death

at least, when I rule the world it will be

Just saying.............. 😐

So, here's the thing...

frankconway - Member
Granularity.
Do you mean more detail?

Or less, it's quite a useful word in software development.

Another vote for [i]going forward[/i], even if it is two words.

Get angry at the bullshitter.

You are correct, I just think it's a crap thing to say. If your calling out bullshit, just call someone a bullshitter.

It's usually found in the politics or religion threads so the whole bloody thing is stupid and annoying anyway.

Wean. As in a Scottish colloquialism for a child.

Mrs Pinetree and I (both Scottish) have just had our first kid, and my mother-in-law insists on calling him a wean. Does my tits in.

Perhaps it's just because I grew up in one of the nicer parts of western Scotland (yes, they exist) but it just sounds properly scummy to me.

https://www.indy100.com/article/the-17-grossest-words-in-the-english-language-7462691

#3 Phlegm

Why? It's gross.

Ah, but phlegmatic is beautiful word

ads678 - Member

You are correct, I just think it's a crap thing to say. If your calling out bullshit, just call someone a bullshitter.

It's useful to explain why it's bullshit, otherwise you just sound like a facebook commenter.

"Fresh Coffee" - I need to know what's fresh about it? Freshly grown beans? Freshly Roast? Freshly brewed? Freshly wiped my nob on your coffee cup?

Mrs Pinetree and I (both Scottish) have just had our first kid, and my mother-in-law insists on calling him a wean. Does my tits in.

You should try bottle feeding the wean instead.

Winningest

Anyone using that goes onto the list.

+1 for artisan and craft

+1 for artisan, which actually means 2 things. Expensive & Shite, made by some cock who thinks theyr'e something special.

Metastatic. Melanoma. You can guess the rest 🙁 .

Boo TiRed. Hope you're doing OK -I recall your thread earlier this year.

Common sense

Where and how does one acquire ones " common sense" ❓

"Could of". Positively hate this and always correct it in my student's books. Because people don't seem to get that could've is a contraction.

So, the following words literally drive me to be a little bit annoyed....;-)
"Smash it"& "my bad"... Groan .
Just 'coz.

Gusset
Discharge
Frottage
Pilchard

They all make me feel like I've got a little bit of someone else's vomit in my mouth

Words I dislike the mouth-feel of:

ear-ring

LOL

interlocutor

millefeuille

Words I dislike the brain-feel of:

The clutch of neo-Nazi neologisms that 2016 has shat into our common discourse;

Remoaner, virtue-signalling, snowflake, and any and all variations of getting or taking back control/my country/things being Great Again.

I'd be best skipping Question Time tonight, I think.

Homemade

As in authentic homemade chips.

Who's home were they fried in then...

Perhaps it's just because I grew up in one of the nicer parts of western Scotland (yes, they exist) but it just sounds properly scummy to me.

+1 bairn is a much nicer word

Wean just sounds common

StefMcDef - Member

virtue-signalling, snowflake

Virtue-signalling! Aaargh. It did have a meaning, once, but now it's an attempt to turn not being a **** into an insult. Using the term these days is bellend-signalling.

Snowflake's more interesting, since it's so lacking in meaning and impact- it's just the other person saying "I would like to insult you, but I lack the capacity". It's like an IOU for a proper insult.

Potential. Every ****ing **** arse copper on those police, camera action programme uses it every ****ing time they open they're Krispy Kreme stuffed ****ing mouths. The bunch of retards.

Don't forget "journey" either. Give me strength!

You lot really need to have some sex.
Urgently.
With a willing partner, your lonesome doesn't count

COAGULATE GOD I JUST WANT KILL PEOPLE WHEN I HEAR IT

Lots of good, rage inducing words so far. I hate when people use acronyms as words OMG especially annoys me. People saying too when they actually mean to. Don't know if it's a Yorkshire thing, but I go to (tu) the shop not too (two) the shop. It's like saying I'm as well the shop.

Re-purpose = You mean Re-use, or perhaps Recycle

Footpath = The way

Manage Expectations = Or; Manager/Senior Manager, who the **** set that target??!!

Winningest

Burglarise

Re-purpose = You mean Re-use, or perhaps Recycle

[i]thing[/i] - as in is that/this really a [i]thing[/i]

And [i]reach out[/i] - kill with fire

I seem to hear this regularly in work, in overheard conversations in public and on TV numerous times a day, often it seems to be nonsensically inserted into conversations and it irritates the hell out of me.

"It is what it is"

Thanks for all that information.
I'm going to pop it on the top shelf of my thought fridge and snack on it later.

Feel free to circle back to me ASAP.

Brexit- you don't need any explaintion why.
Staycation - it's lazy, invokes a feeling of cold windy rain strewn desolation.

Haitch.

It's the mispronunciation of the eighth letter of the alphabet, which is neatly found in the dictionary under "aitch".

It's like fingernails down the proverbial blackboard, though conveniently also instantly marks out its user as an imbecile and someone to be avoided. I mean, even those arch manglers of the English language - Americans - manage to get this one right.

This hands down. Being described as "Jack Haitch" by retards at school really drove it home.

It used to be protestant / catholic thing a few years back. Don't know if it still is

Shambassador. Just no! Though it might be a thing.

Re-purpose = You mean Re-use, or perhaps Recycle

Footpath = The way

Manage Expectations = Or; Manager/Senior Manager, who the **** set that target??!!

All these seem ok to me

Frottom. Just no!

Signpost ([i]vb.[/i])

Achingly. As in "Elbow are so achingly worthy".

'Thermal incident'

You mean a fire then!

Big ask
If that makes sense
I was like, he was like, like
To be honest (wtf are you the rest of the time?)

Absolutely - BBC News Presenters.
Going forward - People being interview by BBC News Presenters
Trending - Those that should be somewhere else.

"That's better" - Someone talking to him/herself after eating or drinking or doing something ...

WTF! Why say it to yourself when I am nearby? FFS! Am I suppose to say something in return? What I am suppose to say? Why utter unnecessary emotion? Better than what? What is better? FFS!

crux and hiatus

"Fair", said by any conservative. I think David Cameron started it, suddenly "that's fair" meant "I'm going to eat your childrens' hearts, but it's fair because I'm going to eat loads of other childrens' hearts too"

"First past the post will mean that I get a majority government with only 36% of votes, Labout with 5/6ths as many votes will get 2/3ds as many seats, the SNP will get practically every seat in scotland with 50%, and UKIP will get 1 despite having as many voters as teh SNP and Lib Dems combined. That's Fair".

Re-purpose = You mean Re-use, or perhaps Recycle

But it's neither of those.

He's right, what they mean is "make something [s]a bit shit[/s] with little practical, technical or artistic merit out of..."

crux and hiatus

Agree, they lost it a bit after No More Idols

Sustainability. Got asked in a subcontractor questionnaire what steps do I take to ensure sustainability in my business. I put, make sure contractors pay my invoices on time and try not to hack anybody off. They either didn't read the reply or were cool with it.

Oh and Legacy. Everything has to have a ****in' legacy these days.

Had to stop reading the thread after Rachel's "granulation tissue" gave me flashbacks!

Any adjective used to qualify unique,such as very unique, extremely unique etc. To my mind unique = one of a kind,so if it's almost unique it's just rare, if it's very unique it's just unique. I know some dictionary definitions allow a bit of leeway, but it still gets my hackles up when I hear it.

I dislike the concept of "Favourite". I don't have a favourite anything. It's a very liberating feeling, except I can't contribute to the best band thread.

I love many drinks: Bass, Double Espresso, Amarone, Laphroaig, Chablis, Champagne, Caipirinha, Gin&Tonic, Cold Water, but I don't have a favourite, it depends what I feel like at the time.

Ditto Cycling places: Peak, Lakes, Cannock Cheeky, CyB, Pyrenees; all can be great but no favourite.

Ditto Windsurfing venues, Cars, Bands, Food (OK except maybe Langoustines grilled in garlic butter...) Holidays.

So it follows that I can't have a least favourite word either.

But if I did, it would be "Favourite".