touching [s]base[/s] 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..
Touch base
Business core
God willing
"win, win"
After reading and contributing to this I've realised what a miserable, uptight, pretentious prick I have turned into.
I knew a guy who used to call everyone 'shag'...as in "All right Shag?"
Never did like that.
Still he was known as a violent man in the local area and would enjoy ending his evenings beating the crap out of someone...so I guess it could have been worse.
Describing oneself as "anal" (as in retentive, rather than a participant in online entertainment).
First, Freud was a fool and just made it all up. Second, do you really think referring to yourself as being of the anus really creates a positive mental image?
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".
Or as is frequently used on here: "I just spat coffee all over my keyboard"
No, no you didn't.
I knew a guy who used to call everyone 'shag'...as in "All right Shag?"
My stepdad used to say that, I assumed it was a Bradford thing.
Still he was known as a violent man in the local area and would enjoy ending his evenings beating the crap out of someone...so I guess it could have been worse.
*strokes chin in wonder* 😕
On a the subject of drink, the use of "Full-Fat Coke" in place of, well, Coke.
It almost made me smirk back in 1982, but after the five millionth time it's not all that funny.
Stop it!
Aargh, "going forward". Which of course means "I am going to ignore everything you just said"
Today i got "roger that" For f*ck sake your not in the forces or using a radio communication system!
Today i got "roger that" For f*ck sake your not in the forces or using a radio communication system!
Next time insist that he says 'over' at the end, otherwise he hasn't finished talking.
On the other hand, someone mentioned in the office today that my habit of saying "Thar she blows!" when I find the bits of a broken transaction is a bit annoying.[i] I [/i]think it's adorable.
We have a delivery driver who says that's awesome every time I sign for a package . Irritates me somewhat .
We have a delivery driver who says that's awesome every time I sign for a package . Irritates me somewhat .
reminds me of edith bowman on the radio the other morning. during some mindless chat, asking a caller what school she went to. "st.johns" (or whatever it was).
"awesome"
er.......you sure about that???
On a journey.......
Everyone is on f...... journey these days.
Man up, fess up, ride out, swap out.
Flow
"d'you know what I mean" as punctuation
My bad.
Innit.
