Phrases that annoy you the most

[Usget]

OpulentBob said:

"Turned round and said..."

Oh God yes. One of my mates' partners does this. People are constantly turning around to each other, it's like they're all Bonnie Tyler.

[Europa1]

One that winds me up is "almost exactly".

[Frank7]

Antony Moxey said:

When I see friends’ birthdays or anniversaries come up on Facebook, invariably the other half of said friend will post some gushy sh*te like ‘love you to the moon and back’. WTF is that actually supposed to mean: you love someone half a million miles? And why not to Mars and back, or the sun, or Saturn, or Alpha fking Centauri? Bloody stupid phrase.

I don’t think that you’re entering the spirit of the thing Antony, it’s not supposed to be taken literally, it’s just something that means something to the people involved at the time.
e.g., my mother told me that when my dad came home on leave from the army, he’d pick me up, aged, 3 or 4, and say, “How much do you love me?”, and I’d reply, “All the pennies, and all the pounds.” Silly of course, but perfectly okay in a child’s mind.

[The Mad Monk]

Misuse of the word "literally"

e.g. "The bank was literally bleeding me dry and i couldn't see a way out".

[Dibble]

I haven’t read most of the thread, but I’d be very surprised if the following haven’t been mentioned a few (if not multiple) times already:

“Pull the trigger”
“Wrist time”
“Grail (watch)”

[Rawwr]

Bikers who refer to car drivers as 'cagers'. Into the sea with you.

[Steve_W]

Rawwr said:

Bikers who refer to car drivers as 'cagers'. Into the sea with you.

Not disagreeing, but could also apply to car drivers who refer to bikers as "organ donors"

[Blown2CV]

Antony Moxey said:

When I see friends’ birthdays or anniversaries come up on Facebook, invariably the other half of said friend will post some gushy sh*te like ‘love you to the moon and back’. WTF is that actually supposed to mean: you love someone half a million miles? And why not to Mars and back, or the sun, or Saturn, or Alpha fking Centauri? Bloody stupid phrase.

yep. Plus it's more like a quarter of a million miles or 3 days travel per current technology. It's a bit like saying, I love you to the front gate and back.

[Rawwr]

Steve_W said:

Not disagreeing, but could also apply to car drivers who refer to bikers as "organ donors"

Yes, that too.

[Blown2CV]

very unique

[Steve_W]

Blown2CV said:

very unique

Oh yes; that along with "Almost/nearly unique" Feckwits!

[The Mad Monk]

Dibble said:

multiple times

When they mean several.

[Tyre Smoke]

MikeStroud said:

"Hack" instead of "tip".
"Gob smacked"

I don't understand the Hack/Tip thing.

Is it tip as in spill over or tip as in a little extra for doing your job well? Or something else?

[captain_cynic]

Tyre Smoke said:

I don't understand the Hack/Tip thing.

"Hack" used to have a different meaning (still does to some of us). It meant you'd fixed or modified something through less than conventional means, not necessarily a bodge. For many of us old curmudgeony IT types it mean's you've made something do something it's not meant to (as opposed to illegally gaining access to a system, which to us is to "crack"... not that I'm pedantic about it, just explaining the etymology).

Back before it was popular, "lifehacks" were similar, to make something do something it wasn't meant to (I.E. convert an old washing machine into something useful). However this was over 10 years ago, now it just means common sense tips or old wives tales.

[mybrainhurts]

So....

[Zarco]

Sex wee

[Gary C]

At a funeral on Wednesday

'In sure and certain hope'

Daft phrase from the god bothers.

[Stan the Bat]

The Mad Monk said:

Misuse of the word "literally"

e.g. "The bank was literally bleeding me dry and i couldn't see a way out".

Overheard two females talking the other day, I heard one say that her house was literally upside down.

I would love to have seen that.

[gothatway]

captain_cynic said:

"Hack" used to have a different meaning (still does to some of us). It meant you'd fixed or modified something through less than conventional means, not necessarily a bodge. For many of us old curmudgeony IT types it mean's you've made something do something it's not meant to (as opposed to illegally gaining access to a system, which to us is to "crack"... not that I'm pedantic about it, just explaining the etymology).

Ummm, the first time I recall coming across the word "hack" related to computer systems was surely around the time of the Hackers Handbook, back in the 80s, which was about illegally gaining access - wasn't it ? I'm sure I must have a copy of it somewhere.

[Blown2CV]

gothatway said:

captain_cynic said:

"Hack" used to have a different meaning (still does to some of us). It meant you'd fixed or modified something through less than conventional means, not necessarily a bodge. For many of us old curmudgeony IT types it mean's you've made something do something it's not meant to (as opposed to illegally gaining access to a system, which to us is to "crack"... not that I'm pedantic about it, just explaining the etymology).

Ummm, the first time I recall coming across the word "hack" related to computer systems was surely around the time of the Hackers Handbook, back in the 80s, which was about illegally gaining access - wasn't it ? I'm sure I must have a copy of it somewhere.

it is a word which became widely understood to refer to naughty activities, only because of its association with people that do them, not because it actually does refer to anything inherently bad. It has come full circle now and is closer to the original meaning which is, roughly, to do creative things to achieve an aim not originally intended. Usually this involves getting inside something and figuring out how it works in order to do the creative bit.