Terms or phrases that make your skin crawl

[paoloh]

What not.

I have no idea why but it freaks me out.

[evenflow]

Epic.

Also, if I see another one of these I am going to have an eppy.

[Johnnytheboy]

Borked, or any variation thereupon.

[MondyJim]

It really annoys me when people who are describing a conversation that they have had say the following:

"They said x"
"So I turn round and said y"
"then they turned round and said z"
"So i turned round and said".....

Were you both literally turning through 360 degrees before each sentence? No, I doubt it, shut up!!

[Foxeh]

For the record I agree with CB


"It's been an incredible, emotional journey"

Edited by Foxeh on Friday 11th July 10:36

[H22observer]

jdw100 said:

It annoys me whenever anyone on here uses 'ass' instead of 'arse'.

I witnessed somebody use the word "Fall" to refer to the word "Autumn" recently, in the context of release dates for films/games. This person was born in Britain and raised in Birmingham.

[tuscaneer]

no mention of "back in the day" ??????

this Americanism really gets up my nose.

and I also despise " .....a perfect storm of......"

every tossrag reporter/politician etc. who use this phrase should be strung up.

[H22observer]

Morningside said:

Or the new Facebook craze of calling everyone Hun. (Short for honey I suppose?).

Facebook seems to throw up words that are not used in reality.

"Fella" & "Methinks" in particular. I personally used it once online, read it back to myself and thought "Yes. I sound like a complete arse."

Or ass.

[tuscaneer]

H22observer said:

Facebook seems to throw up words that are not used in reality.

"Fella" & "Methinks" in particular. I personally used it once online, read it back to myself and thought "Yes. I sound like a complete arse."

Or ass.

I use "fella" and have done for years. I always assumed it was a scouse-ism , like "kidda"

[whoami]

H22observer said:

Facebook seems to throw up words that are not used in reality.

"Fella" & "Methinks" in particular. I personally used it once online, read it back to myself and thought "Yes. I sound like a complete arse."

Or ass.

No problem, chap.

[Marlin45]

'My bad'
'Back in the day'

Normal phraseology of grown in a petri dish R1 presenters and hanger-on!

Edited by Marlin45 on Friday 11th July 11:40

[ascayman]

have we had 'school me' yet....

[AdamFX]

"7 sleeps until..."

[Oldred_V8S]

Peeps or Hun immediately get my back up and identify the speaker as someone to be avoided.
All management bo!!ox

Made up words or phrases

So I said and he said, then she said.

It was like....

Should of

Could of


ETA

Send me an invite or I had an invite. It's a fecking invitation you moron. Don't you know the difference between verbs and nouns?

Edited by Oldred_V8S on Friday 11th July 11:54

[jdw100]

H22observer said:

I witnessed somebody use the word "Fall" to refer to the word "Autumn" recently, in the context of release dates for films/games. This person was born in Britain and raised in Birmingham.

Now that is a new low... I hope you beat down on them 'til they fell on their ass/butt?

[Rude-boy]

Council Baby said:

Funk said:

I've got another one. I hate 'empower'. It doesn't actually mean anything.

Yes it does:

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/engli...

It's like listening to a bunch of old women moan reading this thread, they're just fking words.

They are, but you do feel the death of something inside when you send someone an e-mail and get back the reply "Wilco". "I'm on it", "Sure", "no problem, I'll get back to you" etc all fine and dandy. Wilco though...

[Lost soul]

whoami said:

No problem, chap.

Chap
Fella

[Hackney]

MondyJim said:

It really annoys me when people who are describing a conversation that they have had say the following:

"They said x"
"So I turn round and said y"
"then they turned round and said z"
"So i turned round and said".....

Were you both literally turning through 360 degrees before each sentence? No, I doubt it, shut up!!

"literally"

[H22observer]

"Hubby" ?

[funkyrobot]

"Can you give me the edited highlights of that problem."

"80/20 workload. 80% of the work takes 20% of the time and the last 20% of the work can take 80% of the time."

"Quick wins."

"Going forward."

"That's what I'm saying."

"Yeah, no."

"Pacific" rather than "specific".