Phrases that annoy you the most

[droopsnoot]

P5BNij said:

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.

Loud typing of any sort is irritating. One of our developers brought his own keyboard in, either one of those original IBM PC-AT keyboards with the big clicky buttons, or a modern equivalent of it, and used to hit the keys hard for good measure. It used to annoy me sitting at the far end of the room with a sometimes-closed door between us, I hate to think what the people around him thought.

Antony Moxey said:

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.

I had a similar thought yesterday when the news was on about Strasbourg. I thought "any second now he's going to say it's in lockdown", and didn't have to wait long. Wouldn't be quite so bad if he'd said "the city is locked down". Same applies to the glee with which random people have recently been allowed to prevent you from doing things "for security reasons". I bet they love it.

[Abbott]

Lucas CAV said:

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

Hmm that used to be the term used for a bloke in the Evesham area back in the day.

[OddCat]

Lucas CAV said:

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

Go on. Admit it. Your'e 'him' aren't you !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_%22El_C...

[vexed]

Have we had 'yourself'?

The car was owned by yourself
The lady is due to meet yourself

Where 'you' would be more appropriate. Always seems to be people trying their very best to sound intelligent or officious, and succeeding in sounding an idiot.

[JohnWest]

And on that point, 'myself'. 'That job is with myself to do'.

ARGH!!

And another vote for starting a sentence with 'so'.

[DavieW]

Antony Moxey said:

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.

Our local Newspaper used "lockdown" to describe a road closure after a woman got knocked down by a bus.

[Gad-Westy]

Have watched a few camera reviews on youtube lately. Mainly US channels.

'Ergos' - short for ergonomics

'This guy' - This item

And one reviewer who when recommending cameras at certain price points says something along the lines of for "$500, I'm going to put you into this Canon"

Awful!

[AndrewCrown]

Never you mind said:

Abbott said:

My bad

Really bugs the hell out of me.

God yes... had a client spew this out when I caught him rehashing my work.

New ones this week...

'Off the scale'..

[lowdrag]

Antony Moxey said:

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.

I hadn't really thought about this until I read your post yesterday. I get up, turn on the TV, and immediately hear that as far as Europe is concerned "the issue of the Northern Ireland border is in lockdown". Grrrr.

[av185]

Every SINGLE day.

As opposed to every day?

[boobles]

It's going slow today.....

No idiot, it's not!

[DavieW]

I caught the end of "The Apprentice " and one girl was explaining to Lord Sugar how she would "mould to market" her product.

[SGirl]

"Famous" in a food sense, along the lines of "Auntie Ethel's famous chicken soup" (i.e. it's popular within the family). I have no idea why this winds me up so much, but it does. Sets my teeth on edge every time I hear it.

[Europa1]

"Kill Zone" apparently being used as the nickname for the European Research Group's office.

Really? You're a bunch of sallow, out of shape, middle aged, middle class people in suits. You are not defending the front line against a fanatical foe.

[h0b0]

SGirl said:

"Famous" in a food sense, along the lines of "Auntie Ethel's famous chicken soup" (i.e. it's popular within the family). I have no idea why this winds me up so much, but it does. Sets my teeth on edge every time I hear it.

I’m with you on this one. If the claim is being made there should be wrench to support the claim.

On the subject of words that annoy, I submit “that”. People use it in a redundant manner constantly. The next time you read a passage with “that” in it, reread it and remove the offending word. I bet “that” it wasn’t required.

[Vizsla]

Probably had this one, but "pull the trigger" does it for me e.g. "I'd had my eye on a 4K TV for a while, and finally decided to pull the trigger"

Really? Who do you think you are, Dirty Harry

[Johnnytheboy]

SGirl said:

"Famous" in a food sense, along the lines of "Auntie Ethel's famous chicken soup" (i.e. it's popular within the family). I have no idea why this winds me up so much, but it does. Sets my teeth on edge every time I hear it.

See also Fish & Chip shops, almost all of which claim to be famous in some way:

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/all-c...

[nonsequitur]

Abbott said:

Lucas CAV said:

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

Hmm that used to be the term used for a bloke in the Evesham area back in the day.

Thought it might be Adam, in Evesham

[droopsnoot]

h0b0 said:

On the subject of words that annoy, I submit “”. People use it in a redundant manner constantly. The next time you read a passage with “” in it, reread it and remove the offending word. I bet “” it wasn’t required.

Hmm, doesn't make a lot of sense now.

[sicarumba]

PurpleTurtle said:

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

Reminds me of the current favourite in my office, "drains up".

For context, every time something has gone wrong and we need to find the reason, "we need a drains up on this".