Phrases that annoy you the most

[snuffy]

Fane said:

My wifes family all say "how's you?" as a greeting. It makes my skin crawl.

My missus says "How are we?" When addressing one person.

Drives me mad.

[redrabbit29]

One of the senior bosses always addresses emails to us as "Team" and I find it really fecking patronising and annoying.

"Team, let's move quickly on this and try to resolve this issue for the client"

Fark.Off.

[Blown2CV]

redrabbit29 said:

One of the senior bosses always addresses emails to us as "Team" and I find it really fecking patronising and annoying.

"Team, let's move quickly on this and try to resolve this issue for the client"

Fark.Off.

undoubtedly stting themselves about using gendered language such as "guys"

[Fane]

snuffy said:

My missus says "How are we?" When addressing one person.

Drives me mad.

Ooooh, yeah. It's even worse when "young man" is added on to the end, when referring to anyone over the age of, say, 60. Condescending tts.

[Katzenjammer]

Fane said:

My wifes family all say "how's you?" as a greeting. It makes my skin crawl.

Are they from Northern Ireland by any chance?

[Strangely Brown]

redrabbit29 said:

One of the senior bosses always addresses emails to us as "Team" and I find it really fecking patronising and annoying.

"Team, let's move quickly on this and try to resolve this issue for the client"

Not only patronising an annoying but always said by someone who is not actually going to do any of the work.

[loskie]

Narcissist. It is in no way a scientific term.

[paulguitar]

loskie said:

Narcissist. It is in no way a scientific term.

It's in the DSM.

Overused though, and often inaccurately so.

[Lordbenny]

From the get go…..

[redrabbit29]

Katzenjammer said:

Fane said:

My wifes family all say "how's you?" as a greeting. It makes my skin crawl.

Are they from Northern Ireland by any chance?

If they were they would say: "Harrrrr'you"

[nicanary]

redrabbit29 said:

Katzenjammer said:

Fane said:

My wifes family all say "how's you?" as a greeting. It makes my skin crawl.

Are they from Northern Ireland by any chance?

If they were they would say: "Harrrrr'you"

Nope. Harrr -youse.

[bigpriest]

redrabbit29 said:

One of the senior bosses always addresses emails to us as "Team" and I find it really fecking patronising and annoying.

"Team, let's move quickly on this and try to resolve this issue for the client"

Fark.Off.

We have an "All" manager. Most people feel it's curt and demeaning. Some achievement from the first word of an email!

[redrabbit29]

bigpriest said:

We have an "All" manager. Most people feel it's curt and demeaning. Some achievement from the first word of an email!

I appreciate this is probably me and accept that, but I hate when people start the email with just your name, e.g:

random said:

Dave,

As discussed, I have attached the ....

For some reason it just seems blunt and short, like the tone is one of being told off

[RichB]

bigpriest said:

redrabbit29 said:

One of the senior bosses always addresses emails to us as "Team" and I find it really fecking patronising and annoying.
"Team, let's move quickly on this and try to resolve this issue for the client" Fark.Off.

We have an "All" manager. Most people feel it's curt and demeaning. Some achievement from the first word of an email!

I'm retired now so no longer need to do that sort of thing but when I sent an email to a group of people I would usually not bother with a collective noun for a group of recipients and simply go straight into the subject of the email. Hope I did it right!

[snuffy]

I tell you what gets on my tit end with emails, it's people that just put their first initial.

Best Regards

N

[RichB]

snuffy said:

I tell you what gets on my tit end with emails, it's people that just put their first initial.

Best Regards

N

I just leave a few letters out.

Rgds Rich...

[Stick Legs]

“Feels” instead of feelings.

My wife has slipped this delightful piece of jargon into her argot & it makes my teeth itch every time.

Normally she’s quite well spoken, if a little sweary.

Going to broach it once I have plucked up the courage too.

[LunarOne]

Stick Legs said:

“Feels” instead of feelings.

My wife has slipped this delightful piece of jargon into her argot & it makes my teeth itch every time.

Normally she’s quite well spoken, if a little sweary.

Going to broach it once I have plucked up the courage too.

Wait 'til she finds out that you spell 'to' with two 'o's.

[Stick Legs]

LunarOne said:

Wait 'til she finds out that you spell 'to' with two 'o's.

that’s embarrassing!

People in glass houses & all that!

[snuffy]

Stick Legs said:

“Feels” instead of feelings.

That is not right at all.

Edited by snuffy on Saturday 17th June 17:46