Phrases that annoy you the most

[Salesy]

A couple or three.


fk right off

[Antony Moxey]

Serial dimwit Charlie Stayt on the BBC Breakfast News, when speaking to a reporter at the scene of a story asking them to describe what's happening without fail begins his sentence with 'give us a sense of'.

[cootuk]

PositronicRay said:

A couple of my hates

It is what it is. (WTF)
Can I get (just plain rude)

"It is what it is"
I love this one. Kind of sums up acceptance of a current crap situation as a baseline to move on from without it needing to be dissected.

[Bandit110]

Salesy said:

A couple or three.


fk right off

How about the latest version of that... "once or thrice"..... up yours!

[PositronicRay]

cootuk said:

"It is what it is"
I love this one. Kind of sums up acceptance of a current crap situation as a baseline to move on from without it needing to be dissected.

"Baseline to move on"

[av185]

'I fully take on board what you say'. Really? Why....are you a sailing type?

'ENJOY'. Uttered by an increasing number of aspiring pseudo foodie types upon placing your fish and chips/steak pie and chips on the table. Sorry luvvie, now lost my appetite...thanks.

Cringe factor 11.

[The Mad Monk]

"For me". I hate staff saying "Do this for me".

"Put your card in the machine for me".

"If you could enter your pin number for me".

"Take your card out of the machine for me".

[Lance Catamaran]

Boring_Chris said:

GrumpyTwig said:

"please do the needful" - piss boiling

I work for an Indian company, so hear this quite often... but I quite like it!

I don't think it's 'wrong' in any way? It's just creative.

I request you to advise me

[catman]

Spanglepants said:

When someone says Carnival , no THE in front , when talking about the Notting Hill Carnival ( that could just be me personally)

No, me too. Bloody annoying!

Tim

[Pothole]

Spanglepants said:

When someone says Carnival , no THE in front , when talking about the Notting Hill Carnival ( that could just be me personally)

Nobody's ever "going to the carnival". They're only "going carnival". Cultural appropriation, innit, bruv?

[The Mad Monk]

Spanglepants said:

that could just be me personally

When people say "me personally".

How else would it be?

Me impersonally?

[catman]

Pothole said:

Nobody's ever "going to the carnival". They're only "going carnival". Cultural appropriation, innit, bruv?

Yes, but I'm talking about the BBC!

Tim

[alorotom]

catman said:

Pothole said:

Nobody's ever "going to the carnival". They're only "going carnival". Cultural appropriation, innit, bruv?

Yes, but I'm talking about the BBC!

Tim

As in Car Ni Vall??

[generationx]

Antony Moxey said:

Serial dimwit Charlie Stayt on the BBC Breakfast News, when speaking to a reporter at the scene of a story asking them to describe what's happening without fail begins his sentence with 'give us a sense of'.

And one of the sport bints (I think Sally Nugent?) always starts her news with "we've been talking about.."
NO WE fkING HAVEN'T, NOW ps off YOU ALIEN-LOOKING we


And relax

[Johnnytheboy]

"The community".

[Monkeylegend]

The Dev team are working on it.

[SidJames]

let's "socialise" the document and see who doesn't want to "get on the bus/train"

[stevesingo]

When people are describing an action or a skill, they say "the actual". Put the actual thing into the actual thing.

[PositronicRay]

Someone you've only just met starting sentences with "obviously" or "basically"

[Pothole]

Bobajobbob said:

Do you know what I mean?

Is there anything else that I can do for yourself at all today?

Misuse of the reflexive is a (not exclusively) Midlands affliction...an ex-colleague of mine in Leicester could often be heard asking people on the phone "is now a good time to talk to myself?" I tried telling him that it's rarely a good time to talk to oneself but he didn't really get it.