Phrases that annoy you the most

[Blown2CV]

all the Es are meant to sound the same

merr sedd ehhs

Germans laugh at the english for making each E sound different. However as with most foreign words if you say them properly in english you sound like a massive ponce so people just don't, or they at least anglicise it a bit.

[Strangely Brown]

captain.scarlet]'I'm so *over* [something said:

', but used to mean 'fed up of ' rather than saying 'done with'.

And that is another one... It's fed up with, not fed up of.

Same thing for bored. It's bored with, not bored of.

[Cliftonite]

Blown2CV said:

all the Es are meant to sound the same



merr sedd ehhs

Germans laugh at the english for making each E sound different. However as with most foreign words if you say them properly in english you sound like a massive ponce so people just don't, or they at least anglicise it a bit.

Seems the Spanish pronunciation of Mercedes is the most authentic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uou2Ii9v7b4

(Other videos are available!).

[shirt]

Current one:

Is this really the hill you choose to die on?

Seems to be gaining traction as a ph phrase du jour, quite often taken out of context as you’d expect from people who parrot such things.

[LunarOne]

Blown2CV said:

all the Es are meant to sound the same

merr sedd ehhs

Germans laugh at the english for making each E sound different. However as with most foreign words if you say them properly in english you sound like a massive ponce so people just don't, or they at least anglicise it a bit.

Ze Tchermanns pronounce it more like "Mairrt-say-dess". Even when I lived in Germany, I felt like a massive ponce saying it that way, so I just said BMW instead!

[snuffy]

Blown2CV said:

ponce

Now there's a word I like as an insult that has fallen out of favour. But you have reminded me of it and from now on (going forward) I shall try and use it more often.

[hidetheelephants]

snuffy said:

Blown2CV said:

ponce

Now there's a word I like as an insult that has fallen out of favour. But you have reminded me of it and from now on (going forward) I shall try and use it more often.

I called him a ponce; now I'm calling you one, ponce! Oi'll morder the pair of yerz!

[snuffy]

Office.

As in when people who work outdoor say "It's not a bad office". It's not an office then, is it, you massive cock.

[Jonquil]

LunarOne said:

Ze Tchermanns pronounce it more like "Mairrt-say-dess". Even when I lived in Germany, I felt like a massive ponce saying it that way, so I just said BMW instead!

Or make life easier by simply saying, 'Murk' as many do

[threespires]

Cliftonite said:

Seems the Spanish pronunciation of Mercedes is the most authentic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uou2Ii9v7b4

(Other videos are available!).

Thanks

[shih tzu faced]

shirt said:

Current one:

Is this really the hill you choose to die on?

Seems to be gaining traction as a ph phrase du jour, quite often taken out of context as you’d expect from people who parrot such things.

Good one

Seen this a few times myself lately and can’t help but think what a bellend every time.

Another one on here is ‘cognitive dissonance’, normally used as part of a condescending insult by a tit who wants to sound clever. I have NEVER heard anyone say cognitive dissonance in any spoken conversation, ever.

I imagine certain PHers keep a list of clever sounding sayings on their desk beside a box of tissues, ready to insert them at random in whatever sackless argument about fk all they’ve got themselves into (see NP&E for many tragic examples).

[Mr Squarekins]

Anyone giving '110%'.

Then we get 150% (because someone doing just 110% was a slacker).

Then someone's giving '200%'.

NO, to all of that. The most that you can give is 100%. It's just that you weren't doing enough before, what you thought was 100% before, was just actually around 75%.

[Doofus]

100% of what? I don't reckon you can give 100% of anything to anything.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Doofus said:

100% of what? I don't reckon you can give 100% of anything to anything.

What would it be if you gave me all of your money? Every last penny. Wouldn't that be 100% to me?

[RichB]

Speaks to

[Doofus]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Doofus said:

100% of what? I don't reckon you can give 100% of anything to anything.

What would it be if you gave me all of your money? Every last penny. Wouldn't that be 100% to me?

I gave this some thought before I posted, and I don't think it would be possible. All my cash, yes, but not every single thing of monetary value.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Doofus said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Doofus said:

100% of what? I don't reckon you can give 100% of anything to anything.

What would it be if you gave me all of your money? Every last penny. Wouldn't that be 100% to me?

I gave this some thought before I posted, and I don't think it would be possible. All my cash, yes, but not every single thing of monetary value.

Let's try it. I'll pm my bank details...

[Strangely Brown]

Doofus said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Doofus said:

100% of what? I don't reckon you can give 100% of anything to anything.

What would it be if you gave me all of your money? Every last penny. Wouldn't that be 100% to me?

I gave this some thought before I posted, and I don't think it would be possible. All my cash, yes, but not every single thing of monetary value.

So you can give 100% of something to someone. If you gave all of your cash, every single penny, to CDG then you would have given him 100% of something.

[Doofus]

Strangely Brown said:

Doofus said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Doofus said:

100% of what? I don't reckon you can give 100% of anything to anything.

What would it be if you gave me all of your money? Every last penny. Wouldn't that be 100% to me?

I gave this some thought before I posted, and I don't think it would be possible. All my cash, yes, but not every single thing of monetary value.

So you can give 100% of something to someone. If you gave all of your cash, every single penny, to CDG then you would have given him 100% of something.

Indeed, and as I said, I thought about this, knowing these would be the responses I got.

"Giving 110%" is never used in that context though. It's always used to refer to something intangible - effort, usually. I'm not sure it's possible to give 100% effort, because you need some fortitude for other stuff like breathing, staying upright, talking and so on.

[Blown2CV]

if you gave CDG 100% of your money, and then also borrowed an amount equivalent to 10% of that money on top, and gave that to him too.... but you kept on paying the loan payments, have you given him 110%?