Phrases that annoy you the most

Phrases that annoy you the most

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CypSIdders

883 posts

157 months

Friday 23rd June 2017
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It is what it is!

fk right off!

Roofless Toothless

5,830 posts

135 months

Friday 23rd June 2017
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2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
alfie2244 said:
Roofless Toothless said:
I was in a little cafe in Epping this lunchtime and the waitress asked "what can I get you?"

I wanted to reply "all exited," but the Mrs was with me.
Why would you leave?

beaten to it......drat.
biggrin
smile. It's a fair cop!

freddytin

1,184 posts

230 months

Friday 23rd June 2017
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captain_cynic said:
People who get upset over a portmanteau.

RichB

52,059 posts

287 months

Friday 23rd June 2017
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Mound Dawg said:
mickk said:
Can I get?
Yes, this one.
Yes, a pet hate of mine. Bearded hipster "Can I get (a skinny mocha choco latte)"... Waiter, "No, it's my job to get it for you. But if that's what you want just say, 'please may I have'..." etc.


Mr2Mike

20,143 posts

258 months

Friday 23rd June 2017
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captain_cynic said:
This x 100.

English is a living language (although that phrase will upset people, screw it). It will change over time. However the brilliant thing about English is how fault tolerant it is. Ultimately it is this fault tolerance that lead to it being adopted by so many other nations.
This would be ok, except that most 'modifications' appear to come from the very shallow end of the gene pool. It's well sick innit bruv?

RichB

52,059 posts

287 months

Friday 23rd June 2017
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captain_cynic said:
MitchT said:
Anything that's a combination of two words ... "chillax", guestimate", etc.
People who get upset over a portmanteau.
My great grandfather was a portmanteau maker in the east end of London. Perhaps he was 100 years ahead of his time.

foxbody-87

2,675 posts

169 months

Friday 23rd June 2017
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Guys - could we please take this off line, or at least park it until we've dealt with the low hanging fruit - then at least we have a good news story in the making. Otherwise we'll end up with the monkey on our back,

Mr2Mike

20,143 posts

258 months

Friday 23rd June 2017
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foxbody-87 said:
Guys - could we please take this off line, or at least park it until we've dealt with the low hanging fruit - then at least we have a good news story in the making. Otherwise we'll end up with the monkey on our back,
Let's put it on the back burner for now, and we'll touch base offline at close of play. Thanks for bringing it to the table, but after running it up the flagpole and taking a helicopter view it's clear we aren't singing from the same hymn sheet.

FreeLitres

6,080 posts

180 months

Friday 23rd June 2017
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Hard Brexit?

DaveGoddard

1,198 posts

148 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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AMG Merc said:
He/She turned around and said...
I once got so fed up of a colleague preceding everything they said with this (she was recounting an earlier conversation with someone else) that when she finally shut up for a second I stood up, spun round in a circle and sat down again, then explained to her rather dumbfounded face why I'd done it.

lucido grigio

44,044 posts

166 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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mickk said:
Can I get?
First time I heard this ,it came out of the mouth of a Kardashian........shoot

silverfoxcc

7,764 posts

148 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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Two that really get my urine warm... and both totally contradictory

'It goes without saying that'... then they say it


AND
'Needless to say' then why say it right afterwards


And one i really have to bite my lip everytime i hear it

'I lost my husband/wife last year'

Every time i hear that i have a really hard time asking

'Did you report it to the police, someone may have handed him/her in'


vournikas

11,793 posts

207 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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FreeLitres said:
Hard Brexit?
I am fking sick of this term, now.

fking get on with it / deal with it / STFU about it / or if you've not got the bottle for it, say that you haven't.

that's directed at all politicians






lowdrag

Original Poster:

12,967 posts

216 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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"I should/could of" is another pet hate, but you know someone, especially a politician, is going to lie when he starts out with "the truth of the matter is". Grr.

6th Gear

3,563 posts

197 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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Amazeballs.

banghead

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

258 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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At this moment in time...

If you will....

So.....

Me and my friend went....blah


Johnspex

4,367 posts

187 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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lowdrag said:
"I should/could of" is another pet hate, but you know someone, especially a politician, is going to lie when he starts out with "the truth of the matter is". Grr.
What you also know is that they are an idiot. It's "could've" not "could of". It's the shortened form of "could have" and anyone who says could of is a moron.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

258 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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jamestigerwoods said:
Ambiwlans
smile

Russwhitehouse

962 posts

134 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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"Going forward" dropped randomly into a sentence. People who ask you to "revert back" with information, along with all the other idiotic "buzz words" that are employed in a desperate attempt to appear "on message" and "current".

dtmpower

3,972 posts

248 months

Saturday 24th June 2017
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"to be fair"

I'm exhausted hearing this phrase, it's normally used just before the user intends to offend or say something controversial as a sort of pre sorry. Forget it, in a straight talking type, I don't need sugar coated pre apologies.