Phrases that annoy you the most

[LunarOne]

Monkeylegend said:

LunarOne said:

Monkeylegend said:

LunarOne said:

And why do we Brits insist on mispronouncing the Spanish word Chorizo?

Either say it in its UK nativised form, Chor-EEzoh, use the Spanish pronunciation, Cho-REE-tho. Or at a push you could use the South American Chor-EE-Soh. But it's definitely not an Italian-sounding Chor-IT-so, like Pizza=PEET-sah.

Because nobody cares, well apart from you.

Isn't that the whole point of this thread?

Not if you read the thread title properly, it says phrases not single words.

A single word can be a phrase.

[Monkeylegend]

LunarOne said:

Monkeylegend said:

LunarOne said:

Monkeylegend said:

LunarOne said:

And why do we Brits insist on mispronouncing the Spanish word Chorizo?

Either say it in its UK nativised form, Chor-EEzoh, use the Spanish pronunciation, Cho-REE-tho. Or at a push you could use the South American Chor-EE-Soh. But it's definitely not an Italian-sounding Chor-IT-so, like Pizza=PEET-sah.

Because nobody cares, well apart from you.

Isn't that the whole point of this thread?

Not if you read the thread title properly, it says phrases not single words.

A single word can be a phrase.

If you say so, but who cares apart from you

[snuffy]

Tom8 said:

More Americanisms that annoy intensely.
"Season". No. That would be autumn, winter, spring, summer. What you mean is series.

And "aired" as well. It's "broadcast".

Also, "Slated". When did that st start ?


The new season of Phrases that annoy you the most is slated to air next week.

The new series of Phrases that annoy you the most is expected to be broadcast next week.

Edited by snuffy on Tuesday 24th January 14:21

[smithyithy]

glenrobbo said:

"Your call is important to us."

Then you're put on hold for a minimum of 25 minutes and subjected to a loop recording of awful distorted tinny underwater musak down a pipe.

Adding to this - "Your privacy is important to us / we value your privacy"...

Which I assume is why there's about 500 cookies / trackers turned on by default for their website that you have to manually deselect, if they cared so much they'd all be turned off already

[Pflanzgarten]

Anything that is for sale "from a private collection".

What, it wasn't on display at the MOMA? Sorry, not interested...

In the car world in particular, it's the new "previous doctor/aircraft engineer/whatever we think is better than you" bullst phrase, usually meaning it's been sat in a shed with a load of other un-used trinkets the owner decided to buy because they could.

[Blown2CV]

Pflanzgarten said:

Anything that is for sale "from a private collection".

What, it wasn't on display at the MOMA? Sorry, not interested...

In the car world in particular, it's the new "previous doctor/aircraft engineer/whatever we think is better than you" bullst phrase, usually meaning it's been sat in a shed with a load of other un-used trinkets the owner decided to buy because they could.

oh hi inferiority complex!

[Pflanzgarten]

Blown2CV said:

Pflanzgarten said:

Anything that is for sale "from a private collection".

What, it wasn't on display at the MOMA? Sorry, not interested...

In the car world in particular, it's the new "previous doctor/aircraft engineer/whatever we think is better than you" bullst phrase, usually meaning it's been sat in a shed with a load of other un-used trinkets the owner decided to buy because they could.

oh hi inferiority complex!

H'way you tool! At what point do you ever think it acceptable to call a few cars (or watches these days for that matter) a "private" collection and not sound like a complete bell?

Bernie Ecclestone has a "private collection", Sebastion Vettel has a personal collection, Nigel Mansell had a public collection.

Dave down the arches has a few old cosies and a rotten mk2 mexico that needs a shed load of work.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Pflanzgarten said:

H'way you tool! At what point do you ever think it acceptable to call a few cars (or watches these days for that matter) a "private" collection and not sound like a complete bell?

Bernie Ecclestone has a "private collection", Sebastion Vettel has a personal collection, Nigel Mansell had a public collection.

Dave down the arches has a few old cosies and a rotten mk2 mexico that needs a shed load of work.

Is he open to offers?

[Doofus]

Pflanzgarten said:

Dave down the arches has a few old cosies and a rotten mk2 mexico that needs a shed load of work.

And Dave's group of things isn't a collection because you say so?

[RichB]

Doofus said:

Pflanzgarten said:

Dave down the arches has a few old cosies and a rotten mk2 mexico that needs a shed load of work.

And Dave's group of things isn't a collection because you say so?

Agreed, I have several friends with many cars. One has five or six Astons, that's a collection. Likewise a few other friends with pre-war cars and '50s classics. I don't hesitate to refer to them as their collections and don't sound like a knob.

[mac96]

RichB said:

Doofus said:

Pflanzgarten said:

Dave down the arches has a few old cosies and a rotten mk2 mexico that needs a shed load of work.

And Dave's group of things isn't a collection because you say so?

Agreed, I have several friends with many cars. One has five or six Astons, that's a collection. Likewise a few other friends with pre-war cars and '50s classics. I don't hesitate to refer to them as their collections and don't sound like a knob.

That makes sense, but surely the problem with 'from a collection' in an advertisement is that it is supposed to imply immaculate condition, whereas without knowing how it was stored, and what maintenance of age related items was done, it could just be a rusting wreck from my back garden. So it is both pretentious and unhelpful in that context.

[Doofus]

mac96 said:

RichB said:

Doofus said:

Pflanzgarten said:

Dave down the arches has a few old cosies and a rotten mk2 mexico that needs a shed load of work.

And Dave's group of things isn't a collection because you say so?

Agreed, I have several friends with many cars. One has five or six Astons, that's a collection. Likewise a few other friends with pre-war cars and '50s classics. I don't hesitate to refer to them as their collections and don't sound like a knob.

That makes sense, but surely the problem with 'from a collection' in an advertisement is that it is supposed to imply immaculate condition, whereas without knowing how it was stored, and what maintenance of age related items was done, it could just be a rusting wreck from my back garden. So it is both pretentious and unhelpful in that context.

That's true. But a lot of what's put in an advert is unhelpful, if not actually wrong.

[RichB]

Doofus said:

That's true. But a lot of what's put in an advert is unhelpful, if not actually wrong.

Indeed, there's a car on the market at the moment claiming to be the 'First Blower Bentley to win an International Race'.
Said car started out as a 4½ Litre saloon, the saloon body rotted and was replaced in the '50s with a simple touring body and finally in the '90s it was fully rebuilt as a 4½ litre supercharged Le Mans replica. The 'International Race' was the 2019 Goodwood Revival Not wrong but bordering on deceitful.

[G Thang]

Pflanzgarten said:

Anything that is for sale "from a private collection".

As implied in auction descriptions, the owner is a bit of a toff, don't you know, and his cars are considerably better than those owned by ordinary people.

[snuffy]

"Lucky enough" when people mean "rich enough".

"So called" and "The X (sorry I mean Y)"

[Blown2CV]

it also pisses me off the other way round, when someone has paid for something expensive and someone else tells them they are lucky.

[Gad-Westy]

HR/Recruitment guff

"Flexible Talent Delivery"
"Resume curator"
"Mission fulfilment"

[snuffy]

On another PH thread "Pre-sliced bread".

I can only assume that pre-sliced bread is indeed the best thing since sliced bread.

[Strangely Brown]

snuffy said:

On another PH thread "Pre-sliced bread".

I can only assume that pre-sliced bread is indeed the best thing since sliced bread.

It could be argued that pre-sliced bread is, in fact, unsliced.

[SlimJim16v]

Strangely Brown said:

It could be argued that pre-sliced bread is, in fact, unsliced.