Terms or phrases that make your skin crawl

[grumbledoak]

Pissflaps.

[shirt]

restaurants who use the terms 'our famous....' or 'our signature....' when describing menu items.

for anyone working with those from the subcontinent - 'please do the needful'.

[fausTVR]

shirt said:

restaurants who use the terms 'our famous....' or 'our signature....' when describing menu items.

for anyone working with those from the subcontinent - 'please do the needful'.

Pan fried! Big wow.

[StuntmanMike]

s2sol said:

Diseasel
Stealers
Halfrauds
Leptons (again)
Wtf

And many more.

ETA Bork

Edited by s2sol on Friday 11th July 18:27

Why are you here...

[MagneticMeerkat]

FastRich said:

Usually younger people say this "I was like so cross" or "I was like well freaked out" well we're you or weren't you? You can't be "like" cross, either you're angry or you're not. Also, it's not "well", it's "very".

Lol - learn to write and speak.

Shop assistants calling me "mate" it "Bruv". I think you'll find it's sir or Mr Davies. You are being paid to serve me, not pretend to be my friend or brother.

But the worst thing of all has got to be "TVR's, yeah I've heard of those, they break down all the time"

No. They. Fu**ing. Do. Not. Learn what to do with the basic of all tool kits and you'll be fine, it's not difficult to tinker and maintain a relatively simple bit of kit.

Perhaps you ought to learn to write grammatically correct English before commenting on other people's usage...

Were - as in the past participle of 'are' doesn't have an apostrophe. You've written 'we're' i.e. 'we are' which makes no sense in context.

TVR'S (?) - TVR's what? What does this single TVR possess? The correct plural would be TVRs.

Finally young people using young language? Oh the humanity. I'm not a pedant; I just can't stand hypocrisy.

Edited by MagneticMeerkat on Saturday 12th July 09:41

[f1dget]

Hashtag/# and "I'll just leave this here"

[wiliferus]

I had a colleague who used to say 'I'm just going for a turnout' to describe his morning dump. Don't know why but it really turned my stomach!

[Dr Jekyll]

The words 'in society' inserted unnecessarily into a sentence, apparently to prove the speakers liberal credentials.

[H22observer]

wiliferus said:

I had a colleague who used to say 'I'm just going for a turnout' to describe his morning dump. Don't know why but it really turned my stomach!

An old work colleague of mine once announced that he was "Going to lay a cable in the toilets for about 20 minutes".

Because he was our on-site electrician, i took it literally and thought he was fitting a power supply for the malfunctioning electric heater.

[toasty]

eddy02 said:

In the description of cars for sale, 'starts first time every time'.It is not the 1950's FFS.

'First to see will buy'

What sort of gibbering cretin writes this? I refuse to even consider a car that has this in the advert.

[shirt]

fausTVR said:

shirt said:

restaurants who use the terms 'our famous....' or 'our signature....' when describing menu items.

for anyone working with those from the subcontinent - 'please do the needful'.

Pan fried! Big wow.

hand cut - who cares when it's something as unimportant as a chip.
farm reared - where the hell else would livestock be raised?

list is endless for wky food terms.

[AW111]

Lawbags said:

ONO. As in, or nearest offer. No you mong. You know what price you want for it. Just put that!

I disagree with you on this.
ONO in an advert implies a willingness to haggle over the price.

[HereBeMonsters]

shirt said:

for anyone working with those from the subcontinent - 'please do the needful'.

"Please do the needful, and revert."


I guess they mean, fix it, and get back to me. What they've actually said is "please fix it, then undo your fix."

[wiliferus]

shirt said:

fausTVR said:

shirt said:

restaurants who use the terms 'our famous....' or 'our signature....' when describing menu items.

for anyone working with those from the subcontinent - 'please do the needful'.

Pan fried! Big wow.

hand cut - who cares when it's something as unimportant as a chip.
farm reared - where the hell else would livestock be raised?

list is endless for wky food terms.

Farm Fresh. What, you mean it's filthy and smells of st?

[H22observer]

AW111 said:

I disagree with you on this.
ONO in an advert implies a willingness to haggle over the price.

I try not to use ONO in adverts unless i'm desparate to sell something quickly. It encourages people to take the piss and offer 30% below the asking price.

[Mercury00]

fausTVR said:

Pan fried! Big wow.

'Pan seared' in our local French one. I always do my "ze peenk pan sear" joke

[Catatafish]

"game changer" for trivial stuff like kitchen blenders. massive tts

[Pit Pony]

H22observer said:

wiliferus said:

I had a colleague who used to say 'I'm just going for a turnout' to describe his morning dump. Don't know why but it really turned my stomach!

An old work colleague of mine once announced that he was "Going to lay a cable in the toilets for about 20 minutes".

Because he was our on-site electrician, i took it literally and thought he was fitting a power supply for the malfunctioning electric heater.

I was some time in "Trap 1" and another contractor commented on my return "If you ain't doing a 10 pound st, your hourly rate ain't high enough"

[Morningside]

A new one seems to be creeping out ... "Step change"

[derektrimblitz]

In the 80's Autotrader used to have really good descriptions like -

Catches pigeons
Not for the faint hearted

But the best one was -

Bring spare underpants