Phrases that annoy you the most

[snuffy]

GasEngineer said:

"Electricians don't want you to know this"

"Gas Engineers don't want you to know this"

[FlyVintage]

Strangely Brown said:

CaptainScarlet1967 said:

The UK didn't have PSAs and there are Brits confused when they are told this

Well colour me shocked! I would have sworn, and maybe even bet money on having heard, "That was a public service announcement" at the end of certain messages on TV when I were a nipper.

False memories are a bugger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z8Vg20G4kI

Public Information Film….. but of course the same intent.

[Michael_B]

The pub grub menu I saw yesterday (on a brief trip to your sceptered isle) indicated prices in awkward and ugly half-pound increments. It would appear that inflation is rendering any penny-defined division obsolete. So soon there will be no need to worry if it s pronounced pence or pee.

That said, it was a great plate of fish and chips, even at 15.5 (pounds)

[Agent57]

15.5 aghh should be shown as £15.50.

[RichB]

Agent57 said:

15.5 aghh should be shown as £15.50.

I hate that. It's trying so hard to be trendy and hip that it completely fails.

[snuffy]

RichB said:

Agent57 said:

15.5 aghh should be shown as £15.50.

I hate that. It's trying so hard to be trendy and hip that it completely fails.

That was either on this thread a few weeks ago, or on the "Things that annoy you" thread.

You are right, it's trying to be trendy.

But it's one of those things that a) people are not bothered about or b) it annoys people. There's no c) people like it.

So on the whole, you ps off more potential customers than you attract.

[Frimley111R]

snuffy said:

RichB said:

Agent57 said:

15.5 aghh should be shown as £15.50.

I hate that. It's trying so hard to be trendy and hip that it completely fails.

That was either on this thread a few weeks ago, or on the "Things that annoy you" thread.

You are right, it's trying to be trendy.

But it's one of those things that a) people are not bothered about or b) it annoys people. There's no c) people like it.

So on the whole, you ps off more potential customers than you attract.

Its not done to be trendy, its done so you don't fixate on the price at the time of looking at it on a menu. £15.50 stands out far more than 15.5. Just a way of hiding but not hiding the high prices.

[Herbs]

Frimley111R said:

snuffy said:

RichB said:

Agent57 said:

15.5 aghh should be shown as £15.50.

I hate that. It's trying so hard to be trendy and hip that it completely fails.

That was either on this thread a few weeks ago, or on the "Things that annoy you" thread.

You are right, it's trying to be trendy.

But it's one of those things that a) people are not bothered about or b) it annoys people. There's no c) people like it.

So on the whole, you ps off more potential customers than you attract.

Its not done to be trendy, its done so you don't fixate on the price at the time of looking at it on a menu. £15.50 stands out far more than 15.5. Just a way of hiding but not hiding the high prices.

This.

It's pyschologcial that many retail companies use. Other examples include:

• ending on a 9 or 8 (very common)
• reducing number eg: £87.50
• using two different font sizes & alignment positioning
• removal of £
• round numbers eg: £2,500 subconsiously feels lower than £2387.65, very common with house prices

I'll try and find a paper I had on it which listed them.

[jonsp]

Herbs said:

• ending on a 9 or 8 (very common)

Surely the best ending is 7? £7, £97, £997 etc

Everyone rounds up 8 or 9 to next 10/100/1000. No doubt plenty of people have tested this.

[Palmela]

Fuel prices annoy me, not least for the obvious reasons, but how do garages get away with selling their product to the tenths of a penny? Nowhere else can do that.

[Super Sonic]

Palmela said:

Fuel prices annoy me, not least for the obvious reasons, but how do garages get away with selling their product to the tenths of a penny? Nowhere else can do that.

It's to encourage you to put ten litres in so you save one pee.

[Johnspex]

donkmeister said:

Watchthis said:

"Math"

It's maths or mathematics ffs

That one is quite annoying. Arithmetic, geometry, algebra etc. The collective set is a plural, mathematics. So we abbreviate it to maths.

Aeroplane is often abbreviated to plane. We pluralise that to planes. Motorcar, abbreviated to car, pluralise to cars. I've heard Americans pluralise abbreviations, they don't say "there were lots of plane waiting to take off at the airport" or "this parking lot has space for thousands of car." Very silly.

On a related note, whichever fkwit in the ECB or EC decided to make the English plural of the currency "Euro", "Euro" instead of "Euros"? It sounds so awkward when I hear someone say it "correctly".

I’ve heard Wayne Carini say RPMs. That’s not right, the plural is revolutions, the minute is singular.
RsPM would be more correct.
Two nations divided by a common language.

[swisstoni]

"I was today years old when I found out ..."

[RichB]

swisstoni said:

"I was today years old when I found out ..."

I've read that on social media and still have no idea what it means.

[swisstoni]

RichB said:

swisstoni said:

"I was today years old when I found out ..."

I've read that on social media and still have no idea what it means.

It's what tossers say when the mean 'I found this out today'.

[RichB]

swisstoni said:

RichB said:

swisstoni said:

"I was today years old when I found out ..."

I've read that on social media and still have no idea what it means.

It's what tossers say when the mean 'I found this out today'.

Presumably it's a 'hack they wish their mom had taught them'.

[donkmeister]

RichB said:

swisstoni said:

RichB said:

swisstoni said:

"I was today years old when I found out ..."

I've read that on social media and still have no idea what it means.

It's what tossers say when the mean 'I found this out today'.

Presumably it's a 'hack they wish their mom had taught them'.

I learned relative late in life (I don't know how many todays old I was) when I learned that "mom" is a perfectly acceptable term for "mother" in the West Midlands, but it makes perfect sense because that's how they say it. Mom. Not maaam. Mom. "Al-oight mom, how are yow?" Fine.

But when someone in the home counties is writing it on a soshul meeja post, when I know damn well that they say "mum"... Well it really grinds my gears.

Add to that people using "y'all" in written English, ever. Or in spoken English when they didn't spend at least the first 20 years of their life in the deep south of the USA. They should be forced to eat grits and drink rootbeer until they admit the error of their ways. They'll stop soon enough.

[Agent57]

Sa urday. Compyoo er. Bri un.

Those words are supposed to have a 't' in them.

But don't let that stop you getting a job as a TV continuity announcer.

[Strangely Brown]

Agent57 said:

Sa urday. Compyoo er. Bri un.

Hey, mods. When are the management going to fix this really annoying single quote bug?

[Landlubber]

donkmeister said:

RichB said:

swisstoni said:

RichB said:

swisstoni said:

"I was today years old when I found out ..."

I've read that on social media and still have no idea what it means.

It's what tossers say when the mean 'I found this out today'.

Presumably it's a 'hack they wish their mom had taught them'.

I learned relative late in life (I don't know how many todays old I was) when I learned that "mom" is a perfectly acceptable term for "mother" in the West Midlands, but it makes perfect sense because that's how they say it. Mom. Not maaam. Mom. "Al-oight mom, how are yow?" Fine.

But when someone in the home counties is writing it on a soshul meeja post, when I know damn well that they say "mum"... Well it really grinds my gears.

Add to that people using "y'all" in written English, ever. Or in spoken English when they didn't spend at least the first 20 years of their life in the deep south of the USA. They should be forced to eat grits and drink rootbeer until they admit the error of their ways. They'll stop soon enough.

Root beer tastes like old liquorice soaked in cats pee. Nasty, nasty stuff.