Terms or phrases that make your skin crawl
Discussion
"Internet troll" - the media has redefined trolling and made it a bad thing. I like to troll. I don't like to hurl abuse at people. There's a difference. t
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"Genius" - I think I've only used it to describe Mozart. Some people use it all the time. I suppose it's relative. If you're incredibly thick, you might think everything is genius. Ooh, look, crayons.
ts. "Genius" - I think I've only used it to describe Mozart. Some people use it all the time. I suppose it's relative. If you're incredibly thick, you might think everything is genius. Ooh, look, crayons.
arfur sleep said:
"How are you today?"
fairly innocuous really but when you hear it at least 5 times a day from cold calling numpties who proceed to try to sell you something that you don't need or want despite your protests that you neither need or want it, it starts to grate a little!
oh and "I'm not selling anything" when uttered by the aforementioned numpites when you ask what they're selling. They of course then try to sell you something. Suckers of Satan's cocks the lot of 'em!
I had one female Indian caller who kept calling me "My love". Most odd.fairly innocuous really but when you hear it at least 5 times a day from cold calling numpties who proceed to try to sell you something that you don't need or want despite your protests that you neither need or want it, it starts to grate a little!
oh and "I'm not selling anything" when uttered by the aforementioned numpites when you ask what they're selling. They of course then try to sell you something. Suckers of Satan's cocks the lot of 'em!
Hoofy said:
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"Genius" - I think I've only used it to describe Mozart. Some people use it all the time. I suppose it's relative. If you're incredibly thick, you might think everything is genius. Ooh, look, crayons.
one to go with that is 'Iconic' every f"Genius" - I think I've only used it to describe Mozart. Some people use it all the time. I suppose it's relative. If you're incredibly thick, you might think everything is genius. Ooh, look, crayons.
king media outlet misuses this word when they just mean to say famous.arfur sleep said:
"How are you today?"
fairly innocuous really but when you hear it at least 5 times a day from cold calling numpties who proceed to try to sell you something that you don't need or want despite your protests that you neither need or want it, it starts to grate a little!
oh and "I'm not selling anything" when uttered by the aforementioned numpites when you ask what they're selling. They of course then try to sell you something. Suckers of Satan's cocks the lot of 'em!
Why 'today'? Do they not care how you were yesterday? I went into a shop and bought an item, took it to the till to pay, only to have the assistant ask: "Do you see everything you need today?" So I replied that I did, but that yesterday I had seen nothing I needed and I was most disappointed. The look of puzzlement was to be seen to be believed!fairly innocuous really but when you hear it at least 5 times a day from cold calling numpties who proceed to try to sell you something that you don't need or want despite your protests that you neither need or want it, it starts to grate a little!
oh and "I'm not selling anything" when uttered by the aforementioned numpites when you ask what they're selling. They of course then try to sell you something. Suckers of Satan's cocks the lot of 'em!
Squiggs said:
You've just reminded me ....
'I've just put the baby down' ...... What a horrible phrase - how has this ever become common usage?
Fatally injured, very ill and extremely old animals with no hope of any quality of life get put down!
But you mean you've put your baby to bed - so why didn't you just say that!?
I'd have just assumed that you'd been holding said rugrat and then just placed them on the floor/in the crib/whatever'I've just put the baby down' ...... What a horrible phrase - how has this ever become common usage?
Fatally injured, very ill and extremely old animals with no hope of any quality of life get put down!
But you mean you've put your baby to bed - so why didn't you just say that!?
Morningside said:
I had one female Indian caller who kept calling me "My love". Most odd.
Presumably they got it from watching some training video from the 1970s or something similar.
A few years ago, I worked in a care home and all the Indian workers called everyone "dear" - they picked it up from the old people who lived there.
Squiggs said:
You've just reminded me ....
'I've just put the baby down' ...... What a horrible phrase - how has this ever become common usage?
Fatally injured, very ill and extremely old animals with no hope of any quality of life get put down!
But you mean you've put your baby to bed - so why didn't you just say that!?
"Put the baby down" and "put the baby to sleep" used to be fairly innocuous phrases until people started using euphemisms for ending the lives of their pets.'I've just put the baby down' ...... What a horrible phrase - how has this ever become common usage?
Fatally injured, very ill and extremely old animals with no hope of any quality of life get put down!
But you mean you've put your baby to bed - so why didn't you just say that!?
marshalla said:
Squiggs said:
You've just reminded me ....
'I've just put the baby down' ...... What a horrible phrase - how has this ever become common usage?
Fatally injured, very ill and extremely old animals with no hope of any quality of life get put down!
But you mean you've put your baby to bed - so why didn't you just say that!?
"Put the baby down" and "put the baby to sleep" used to be fairly innocuous phrases until people started using euphemisms for ending the lives of their pets.'I've just put the baby down' ...... What a horrible phrase - how has this ever become common usage?
Fatally injured, very ill and extremely old animals with no hope of any quality of life get put down!
But you mean you've put your baby to bed - so why didn't you just say that!?
"Well," said the vet "let's have a look at him" The vet picks the dog up by the ears and has a good look at its eyes.
"Well," says the vet "I'm going to have to put him down."
"Just because he's cross-eyed?" says the man.
"No, because he's heavy," says the vet.
(CnPed from the interweb. <--- hope someone's skin is now crawling.)
Tony2or4 said:
I hate it when banks use the word 'product' to mean one of the varioust accounts which they offer.
You'll no doubt be delighted to know that the bank I work for has (and has done for a fair few years no) stopped referring to branches. They're now called stores. I expect other banks are the same.Tony2or4 said:
98elise back on page 4 said:
Anything in the papers thats been suffixed with "...gate"
Mrs T reckons that the newspapers missed a trick on the story about Andrew Mitchell trying to cycle through the gates of Downing St:Instead of calling it Plebgate they should have called it Gategate.
Perhaps that might have put an end once and for all to that ridiculous and unfunny cliché.
irocfan said:
Squiggs said:
You've just reminded me ....
'I've just put the baby down' ...... What a horrible phrase - how has this ever become common usage?
Fatally injured, very ill and extremely old animals with no hope of any quality of life get put down!
But you mean you've put your baby to bed - so why didn't you just say that!?
I'd have just assumed that you'd been holding said rugrat and then just placed them on the floor/in the crib/whatever'I've just put the baby down' ...... What a horrible phrase - how has this ever become common usage?
Fatally injured, very ill and extremely old animals with no hope of any quality of life get put down!
But you mean you've put your baby to bed - so why didn't you just say that!?
marshalla said:
Squiggs said:
You've just reminded me ....
'I've just put the baby down' ...... What a horrible phrase - how has this ever become common usage?
Fatally injured, very ill and extremely old animals with no hope of any quality of life get put down!
But you mean you've put your baby to bed - so why didn't you just say that!?
"Put the baby down" and "put the baby to sleep" used to be fairly innocuous phrases until people started using euphemisms for ending the lives of their pets.'I've just put the baby down' ...... What a horrible phrase - how has this ever become common usage?
Fatally injured, very ill and extremely old animals with no hope of any quality of life get put down!
But you mean you've put your baby to bed - so why didn't you just say that!?
Hoofy said:
A man took his Rotweiler to the vet and said to him, "My dogs cross-eyed. Is there anything you can do for it?"
"Well," said the vet "let's have a look at him" The vet picks the dog up by the ears and has a good look at its eyes.
"Well," says the vet "I'm going to have to put him down."
"Just because he's cross-eyed?" says the man.
"No, because he's heavy," says the vet.
(CnPed from the interweb. <--- hope someone's skin is now crawling.)
That made me smile. Apart from the last bit obviously "Well," said the vet "let's have a look at him" The vet picks the dog up by the ears and has a good look at its eyes.
"Well," says the vet "I'm going to have to put him down."
"Just because he's cross-eyed?" says the man.
"No, because he's heavy," says the vet.
(CnPed from the interweb. <--- hope someone's skin is now crawling.)
DickyC said:
"We've had a little boy." "It's a little girl." Worst of all, "It's a little baby."
Related to this, there's a particular way that young women have of announcing that they're pregnant, which really, no, really, makes me want to throw up, and it is:"I'm-going-to-have-a-babee!!", spoken in a sort of rhythmic, sing-song way, with a special high pitch for the first syllable of 'baby', and accompanied by a coy look of feigned embarrassment.
I have absolutely no idea why this has such an unreasonable effect on me.
Edited by Tony2or4 on Tuesday 22 July 00:43
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