Phrases that annoy you the most

[ChevronB19]

I heard ‘message house’ for a centralised email address today...

[PurpleTurtle]

nonsequitur said:

Europa1 said:

CanAm said:

The most ridiculous management B/S type phrase I heard was someone who asked, " Can I come and swim in your think tank?"

Only a swim? I once had an invitation to scuba.

Water skiing for me.

I’ve got a boss who, when not constantly ‘reaching out’ or ‘going forward’ is always wanting to do a ‘deep dive’ into something.

All of it properly boils my piss.

Acknowledging that the phrase ‘boiling my piss’ probably boils someone’s piss!

[h0b0]

I’m in a US company so hear these all day. My personal trigger phrase is

“do you have any cycles?”

“What uni- or bi-?” Is my response.

[smn159]

h0b0 said:

I’m in a US company so hear these all day. My personal trigger phrase is

“do you have any cycles?”

“What uni- or bi-?” Is my response.

Cannondale?

[glenrobbo]

smn159 said:

h0b0 said:

I’m in a US company so hear these all day. My personal trigger phrase is

“do you have any cycles?”

“What uni- or bi-?” Is my response.

Cannondale?

Can you ride tandem?

[Europa1]

"The People's" as a prefix to pretty much anything: postcode lottery, vote, princess...

[jet_noise]

h0b0 said:

I’m in a US company so hear these all day. My personal trigger phrase is

“do you have any cycles?”

“What uni- or bi-?” Is my response.

Explanation, please.

(with maybe a whoosh parrot if it is that obvious )

[h0b0]

jet_noise said:

h0b0 said:

I’m in a US company so hear these all day. My personal trigger phrase is

“do you have any cycles?”

“What uni- or bi-?” Is my response.

Explanation, please.

(with maybe a whoosh parrot if it is that obvious )

They measure time in cycles. Instead of saying “I’m over worked and don’t have time for that” they will say “I don’t have cycles to complete that task”.

[Gad-Westy]

h0b0 said:

jet_noise said:

h0b0 said:

I’m in a US company so hear these all day. My personal trigger phrase is

“do you have any cycles?”

“What uni- or bi-?” Is my response.

Explanation, please.

(with maybe a whoosh parrot if it is that obvious )

They measure time in cycles. Instead of saying “I’m over worked and don’t have time for that” they will say “I don’t have cycles to complete that task”.

Dear God!

[Lucas CAV]

Use of the word "chap" - always spoken by tts.

[jet_noise]

Gad-Westy said:

h0b0 said:

jet_noise said:

h0b0 said:

I’m in a US company so hear these all day. My personal trigger phrase is

“do you have any cycles?”

“What uni- or bi-?” Is my response.

Explanation, please.

(with maybe a whoosh parrot if it is that obvious )

They measure time in cycles. Instead of saying “I’m over worked and don’t have time for that” they will say “I don’t have cycles to complete that task”.

Dear God!

Indeed.

(thanks h0b0 for the education)

[SlimJim16v]

Due diligence

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Lucas CAV said:

Use of the word "chap" - always spoken by tts.

Oh, really? I use that quite a lot. <Chastened>.

[nonsequitur]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Lucas CAV said:

Use of the word "chap" - always spoken by tts.

Oh, really? I use that quite a lot. <Chastened>.

Was indifferent until 'How you doin' chap' was uttered by a sales assistant.

[Stan the Bat]

glenrobbo said:

smn159 said:

h0b0 said:

I’m in a US company so hear these all day. My personal trigger phrase is

“do you have any cycles?”

“What uni- or bi-?” Is my response.

Cannondale?

Can you ride tandem?

Very PG.

[whoami]

"The big day".

[NDA]

SlimJim16v said:

Due diligence

In what context?

[P5BNij]

I know we've had 'so' several times already but my aging piss was brought to the boil once more this morning when a middle aged hipsterish bearded fop sat down next to me on the train, whipped out his laptop and started typing a memo which went like this...

''Attention all,

So, I've brought you all here today to...''

Yes, I know, I should've been minding my own business but he'd set the font size to extremely large and was tapping the keys hard enough to make me and several fellow travellers take notice.

Mild rant over, time for my Ovaltine

[Monkeylegend]

NDA said:

SlimJim16v said:

Due diligence

In what context?

Will need to look into that a bit further before giving an answer.

[Antony Moxey]

Lockdown, when any incident involving security forces is involved. fk off with your Hollywood SWAT team hell yeah yee-ha God bless America rubbish. Seems the media are falling over themselves these days to describe something being ‘lockdown’ after an incident.