Terms or phrases that make your skin crawl

[motco]

whoami said:

AdeTuono said:

motco said:

blindswelledrat said:

Morningside said:

NiceCupOfTea said:

Morningside said:

One that really annoys me is "Cup of tea". Why not just tea? Why does it always have to be "cup of"?
Oh, sorry I thought you wanted it in a glass.

Presumably because "tea" is also commonly used to refer to an afternoon meal thus its to avoid confusion as to which you are offering?

My hatred is for the phrase "fish supper". I cannot describe the extent of my totally irrational hatred of that, in fact I can't even explain what (if anything) is wrong with it at all, but it makes me actually boil when I hear fish and chips referred to in that way.

On a related note, and also irrational, anyone who says 'Pish'. Normally Scotch, for some reason. Maybe they're trying to get round an aural swear-filter?

Oh yes! Fish supper, usually with a Scottish accent because that's what my sister in law's Glaswegian husband says: "fush supperrr". What fish? Why 'supper' for God's sake. What's wrong with cod and chips?

Scotch?

Something wrong here, my quote has become merged with another...

[blindswelledrat]

AdeTuono said:

On a related note, and also irrational, anyone who says 'Pish'. Normally Scotch, for some reason. Maybe they're trying to get round an aural swear-filter?
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Ironically you only ever hear that from foul mouthed Glaswegians.
Its as though piss is such a horror they have to tone it down, compared with the string of much worse words that accompany it.

"fking ing wkers can ttting pish right of the stinking s."

[marshalla]

"forensic" being used as a synonym for "scientific" or, worse yet, as a noun (e.g. "forensics") or verb ("forensicate").

[Dr Jekyll]

"Work life balance" as if work is totally separate from life.

[H22observer]

I've just witnessed somebody use the word "Emosh" (Ee-mo-sh) when talking about her daughter going to a Prom.

It appears to be short for "Emotional". Will this be in the dictionary next year?

[lord trumpton]

'makes my skin crawl'

[smn159]

Any why the fk, in the football threads, do unthinking tts feel the need to write, 'Citeh', 'Man Ure', 'Chelski'... etc

Was this ever considered witty?

[Pit Pony]

AW111 said:

PHmember said:

This, absolutely this - especially when you think that writing it means that only Pistonheads members understand what you mean & that in no way could plod workout what '95 leptons' means.

As an electron is a lepton, and element 95 is Americum (Am), I assume that plod will be searching for a speeding yank tank.

I must have a different sort of lepton. I was doing 1.25 leptons to other week. (And still not breaking the law despite it all happening on a road in the UK, and it wasn't dangerous despite the fact that I was travelling backwards)

I say Road, but I mean railroad, sorry railway.

anyway 1.25 Leptons on a train. Not 125 Leptons, or 12.5 or 0.125 leptons.

[RacingBlue]

NiceCupOfTea said:

"Inbox me"

I absolutely loathe this. It seems to especially prevalent on social networking sites.

[marshalla]

"could of"
"should of"
"I seen"
"I done"

Edited by marshalla on Sunday 20th July 22:59

[Tony2or4]

I hate it when banks use the word 'product' to mean one of the varioust accounts which they offer.

[Tony2or4]

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.

[Tony2or4]

Morningside 9 days ago said:

One that really annoys me is "Cup of tea". Why not just tea? Why does it always have to be "cup of"?

And on that theme why does it always have to be a nice cup of tea?

"Now then dear, would you like a nice cup of tea?"

No thanks, Gran, I'd prefer a horrible one.


ETA Obviously I'm doing a bit of PH catch-up here.

Edited by Tony2or4 on Sunday 20th July 23:59

[Animal]

Jeggings.

[DickyC]

"Little" when applied to new born children.

"We've had a little boy." "It's a little girl." Worst of all, "It's a little baby."

Go on with you. Really? "Little," you say?

:victormeldrew:

[motco]

DickyC said:

"Little" when applied to new born children.

"We've had a little boy." "It's a little girl." Worst of all, "It's a little baby."

Go on with you. Really? "Little," you say?

:victormeldrew:

"...young baby..."

[Triumph Man]

DickyC said:

"Little" when applied to new born children.

"We've had a little boy." "It's a little girl." Worst of all, "It's a little baby."

Go on with you. Really? "Little," you say?

:victormeldrew:

"Little Man" makes my skin crawl. "Aww look at my little man." Yep, he's going to grow up learning how to steal cars.

[Squiggs]

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!?

[motco]

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!?

Quite like "Lift the cup" for be awarded a trophy for winning a sporting competition.

[arfur sleep]

"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!