Phrases that annoy you the most

[donkmeister]

Strangely Brown said:

Agent57 said:

It's worse. The title is actually "Merry Xmas Everybody" Xmas is a word I dislike and I'm not religious.

The 's' is backwards.

According to Wikipedia the "backwards S" is used to denote the schwa in one phonetic alphabet. So depending on how you articulate the X the song is called either "Merry Eczema" or "Merry z-mah".

[Lotusgone]

M4cruiser said:

Finishing a sentence with "or......"

"IT" support guy phoned me and said something like

"Are you on V 3.1.2 or..."

So I waited for him to finish.

He didn't.

So I said "Or what?"

Totally flummoxed.

Similarly if anyone asks me "...and you are...?" I keep quiet. If they say nothing, I ask "and I am... what?" - or, "I am...waiting for you to finish your sentence".

Is it that difficult to ask, "could I have your name, please?" It's three more syllables.

[borcy]

Lotusgone said:

M4cruiser said:

Finishing a sentence with "or......"

"IT" support guy phoned me and said something like

"Are you on V 3.1.2 or..."

So I waited for him to finish.

He didn't.

So I said "Or what?"

Totally flummoxed.

Similarly if anyone asks me "...and you are...?" I keep quiet. If they say nothing, I ask "and I am... what?" - or, "I am...waiting for you to finish your sentence".

Is it that difficult to ask, "could I have your name, please?" It's three more syllables.

Does this happen enough to be annoyed by it, are you regularly stopped by the police?

[jonysan]

Receptionist Speak......"What was the name?" Was ? It still is.

Online dating description......."Happy in my own skin" Uuck, But thankfully not Buffalo Bill !

Online dating description...... "Happy go Lucky". Probably why you're here.

[swisstoni]

donkmeister said:

Strangely Brown said:

Agent57 said:

It's worse. The title is actually "Merry Xmas Everybody" Xmas is a word I dislike and I'm not religious.

The 's' is backwards.

According to Wikipedia the "backwards S" is used to denote the schwa in one phonetic alphabet. So depending on how you articulate the X the song is called either "Merry Eczema" or "Merry z-mah".

Slade often played about with spelling.

[Agent57]

swisstoni said:

Slade often played about with spelling.

It could be pronounced Slar-day like the singer I remember when Slade and Sade (shah-day)were next to each other in the charts.

[Mr Squarekins]

[quote=Lotusgone]

Similarly if anyone asks me "...and you are...?" I keep quiet. If they say nothing, I ask "and I am... what?" - or, "I am...waiting for you to finish your sentence".

Is it that difficult to ask, "could I have your name, please?" It's three more syllables.

- to which I would correctly answer, 'yes'

[donkmeister]

"Deal", when used to mean "agree a ceasefire", "agree the terms of a treaty" and so on.

I make a deal when I'm agreeing how to divide up work with my colleagues. I make a deal when I'm buying a car. It's not a life or death situation, it's not important to anyone besides me and the other people subject to the barter. But when talking about an agreement to end armed conflict where real people are losing their lives, "make a deal" makes the person using it sound like a fking moron who has zero appreciation of the gravity of the situation and doesn't actually care that people are losing their lives.

[jonysan]

donkmeister said:

"Deal", when used to mean "agree a ceasefire", "agree the terms of a treaty" and so on.

I make a deal when I'm agreeing how to divide up work with my colleagues. I make a deal when I'm buying a car. It's not a life or death situation, it's not important to anyone besides me and the other people subject to the barter. But when talking about an agreement to end armed conflict where real people are losing their lives, "make a deal" makes the person using it sound like a fking moron who has zero appreciation of the gravity of the situation and doesn't actually care that people are losing their lives.

I imagine you are referring to that well known 'maker of Deals', the one who 'wrote; The Art of the Deal. he's cultivated this deal maker persona on the back of a string of unfortunate business dealings. More like Art of the Bully.

[Johnspex]

“In my opinion “ Yes! We know it’s your opinion, if you say a car is ugly, we’re not stupid, we appreciate it’s not a fact, it’s just what you happen to think.

“In/to my eyes” Oh, EYES, again we’re not stupid, we didn’t think you were looking at it with your nostrils.

“Tina” It’s a Cortina. You wouldn’t call other cars “Deo” or “Sta” or “Cus”. Stop trying to be clever and in with the cool kids, and worse, dragging all the other cool wannabes after you. I appreciate Cortina has 3 syllables and is hard to say but do try, you’ll seem so much more grown-up.

“YMMV”. There’s really nothing to say about that nonsense.

[Antony Moxey]

Johnspex said:

Tina It s a Cortina. You wouldn t call other cars Deo or Sta or Cus . Stop trying to be clever and in with the cool kids, and worse, dragging all the other cool wannabes after you. I appreciate Cortina has 3 syllables and is hard to say but do try, you ll seem so much more grown-up.

You can apply that to all car names that are shortened: Teg, Fezza, Pork, Maser, Lambo, Mitsu, the list goes on and on with increasing cringeness. It's as if two syllables is the maximum anyone can manage.

[snuffy]

Antony Moxey said:

It's as if two syllables is the maximum anyone can manage.

If you shorten "World Wide Web" to "www", you go from 3 syllables to 6.

[donkmeister]

Antony Moxey said:

Johnspex said:

Tina It s a Cortina. You wouldn t call other cars Deo or Sta or Cus . Stop trying to be clever and in with the cool kids, and worse, dragging all the other cool wannabes after you. I appreciate Cortina has 3 syllables and is hard to say but do try, you ll seem so much more grown-up.

You can apply that to all car names that are shortened: Teg, Fezza, Pork, Maser, Lambo, Mitsu, the list goes on and on with increasing cringeness. It's as if two syllables is the maximum anyone can manage.

What about 'Yota? I've seen that

I've seen a full-on internet argument about whether a "Siggy" is a Vauxhall Signum (aka Vectra Mk2 estate hatchback) or a Vauxhall Insignia (aka Vectra Mk 3).

Then you have the disagreement about whether Merc is short for Mercedes or Mercury... Rarely an issue in the UK but in US circles it seems to annoy some.

Oh, and the whole Beemer Vs Bimmer bks. No-one cares if a subset of bike and car nerds use them in a specific way, everyone else is quite happy to treat them as synonyms for BMW. One day I'll learn the correct way and then do the opposite, just in the vague hope of trolling a bike nerd.

[donkmeister]

snuffy said:

Antony Moxey said:

It's as if two syllables is the maximum anyone can manage.

If you shorten "World Wide Web" to "www", you go from 3 syllables to 6.

9, surely?

[Agent57]

Dubya, Dubya, Dubya

[gt40steve]

Companies that say 'I'll call you back'

Listen out for the phone for the rest of the day, nothing.

[LunarOne]

gt40steve said:

Companies that say 'I'll call you back'

Listen out for the phone for the rest of the day, nothing.

So it's not the phrase itself you object to. It's the companies not following through.

[Monkeylegend]

LunarOne said:

gt40steve said:

Companies that say 'I'll call you back'

Listen out for the phone for the rest of the day, nothing.

So it's not the phrase itself you object to. It's the companies not following through.

It's the "Your call is important to us" bit which grates more.

[Agent57]

"We are experiencing an unexpectedly high level of calls at the moment."

Really. I was expecting it so why weren't you?

You had a high level of calls the last time and the time before. Tell me what time you are not experiencing a high level of calls and maybe I can try then.

[Pit Pony]

Strangely Brown said:

Pit Pony said:

Strangely Brown said:

I have scoured all of the pet shops within a 500 miles radius and we are definitely running out of kittens.

Pet shops don't sell kittens.

I know. They've run out.

Should have locked them in cages....