Phrases that annoy you the most

[G Thang]

LunarOne said:

captain_cynic said:

LunarOne said:

I don't like anything described as super apart from a few exceptions - grass, marine, man and supper.

Super, thanks for asking.

Turns out I meant tramp but wrote grass. In case anyone is judging.

It's the super supper that's got me confused.

Superfly was one of my favourite albums tho. It was um... super.

[RichB]

G Thang said:

LunarOne said:

captain_cynic said:

LunarOne said:

I don't like anything described as super apart from a few exceptions - grass, marine, man and supper.

Super, thanks for asking.

Turns out I meant tramp but wrote grass. In case anyone is judging.

It's the super supper that's got me confused. Superfly was one of my favourite albums tho. It was um... super.

Being Pistonhead's surely everyone likes charger.

[Silverage]

“On a mission”. No, you’re not. You’re making some second rate consumer programme for Channel 5.

[Alickadoo]

Can someone stop these people saying 'literally', please?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cy87xe85ypjo

[LunarOne]

Alickadoo said:

Can someone stop these people saying 'literally', please?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cy87xe85ypjo

Sure, let me just go over and slap them, mainly because they're literally not saying "literally". They're saying "litcherally". My sister does this just to annoy me.

[donkmeister]

Silverage said:

“On a mission”. No, you’re not. You’re making some second rate consumer programme for Channel 5.

It's very unBritish. We are all about the understated.

One that I used to see that has fortunately died a death... "I'm excited to show you the new blah blah blah" no, you aren't excited. I often struggle with the whole subtext of interpersonal communication, but even I know what an excited person looks like. You look like someone who is litcherally at work right now.

I've also witnessed "I'm super excited to"... fk off, noone likes their job that much.

[LunarOne]

donkmeister said:

You look like someone who is litcherally at work right now.

Pistols at dawn...

[snuffy]

donkmeister said:

I've also witnessed "I'm super excited to"... fk off, noone likes their job that much.

We get this where I work. Mostly it's younger people, which is bad enough, but when older, senior people start coming out with it (just to look down with the kids), I want to heave (figuratively, not literally).

[mac96]

donkmeister said:

Silverage said:

“On a mission”. No, you’re not. You’re making some second rate consumer programme for Channel 5.

It's very unBritish. We are all about the understated.

One that I used to see that has fortunately died a death... "I'm excited to show you the new blah blah blah" no, you aren't excited. I often struggle with the whole subtext of interpersonal communication, but even I know what an excited person looks like. You look like someone who is litcherally at work right now.

I've also witnessed "I'm super excited to"... fk off, noone likes their job that much.

I find the whole mission thing even odder when the US military use it. Everything is a Mission.
Aircraft carrier heading for Red Sea to deter Houthis? That's a Mission.
Same carrier heading back to USA? Appaatently also a Mission. Surely that's not a Mission, that's going home after the Mission has ended.

[Silverage]

mac96 said:

I find the whole mission thing even odder when the US military use it. Everything is a Mission.
Aircraft carrier heading for Red Sea to deter Houthis? That's a Mission.
Same carrier heading back to USA? Appaatently also a Mission. Surely that's not a Mission, that's going home after the Mission has ended.

I'll give the military a pass, because they do sometimes carry out real missions.

I'm less forgiving when Jamie Oliver or some third rate knock off is "on a mission to get the country eating more lard" or something.

[mac96]

Silverage said:

mac96 said:

I find the whole mission thing even odder when the US military use it. Everything is a Mission.
Aircraft carrier heading for Red Sea to deter Houthis? That's a Mission.
Same carrier heading back to USA? Appaatently also a Mission. Surely that's not a Mission, that's going home after the Mission has ended.

I'll give the military a pass, because they do sometimes carry out real missions.

I'm less forgiving when Jamie Oliver or some third rate knock off is "on a mission to get the country eating more lard" or something.

That's my point really. USN know what a mission really is, so their misuse of it is just odd!

[redrabbit29]

Yea I can kind of see the "mission" thing being valid in the military. I worked for the Police and we used the word "Operation" in the same way. There are logistics in deploying staff and teams, safety considerations, welfare, food needed, duty planning, equipment requirements, expenses, consideration over how it affects the others in the organisation, etc. So I suppose that's why it's not just a simple exercise in flying home.

[Lo-Fi]

'as someone who...'

[G Thang]

"Free delivery".

bks. Nobody is going to pick something up 200 miles away and bring it to your door for nothing. Nobody; except Santa Claus.

I used to run an online retail company. Selling something for, say, £100 plus £10 delivery.

People used to call up and say 'the other company is doing it with free delivery, can you match that?'

'How much are they selling it for?'

'£120'

'Sure, we can do it with free delivery for £120'.

dheads.

Edited by G Thang on Tuesday 25th February 11:47

[Timmy47]

"Engineer" when applied to virtually every job except bloody engineering. For example "the stty machine vending coffee has broken, an engineer has been called."

No, an engineer has not been called, someone with basic skills at repairing stty coffee machines has been called, not an engineer.

[snuffy]

G Thang said:

"Free delivery".

bks. Nobody is going to pick something up 200 miles away and bring it to your door for nothing. Nobody; except Santa Claus.

I used to run an online retail company. Selling something for, say, £100 plus £10 delivery.

People used to call up and say 'the other company is doing it with free delivery, can you match that?'

'How much are they selling it for?'

'£120'

'Sure, we can do it with free delivery for £120'.

dheads.

"Room - includes free breakfast".

So you mean "Bed & Breakfast" then, as we used to call it ?

[donkmeister]

Timmy47 said:

"Engineer" when applied to virtually every job except bloody engineering. For example "the stty machine vending coffee has broken, an engineer has been called."

No, an engineer has not been called, someone with basic skills at repairing stty coffee machines has been called, not an engineer.

That one irks me more than it should. Technician, repairman (it's actually a genderless term), installer, mechanic, these are all perfectly good terms for someone who does the manual installation and fixing of stuff.

I've seen plumbers and electricians justifying the use of "engineer" in that they have to be able to design a system that works as it should. I can accept that, and if I see some proper design consideration and calculations of a heating system or electrical installation I would consider that an engineered system hence the person who did the engineering is an engineer. However, wanging a combi on the wall and testing gas pressure, or running a few cables and buzzing them with a Fluke is not itself engineering.

The equivalents would be calling someone a civil engineer for chucking a bit of concrete in for a footing because it looks about the right amount, or a structural engineer because they knocked out a wall and the ceiling didn't fall down.

[JuniorD]

donkmeister said:

Timmy47 said:

"Engineer" when applied to virtually every job except bloody engineering. For example "the stty machine vending coffee has broken, an engineer has been called."

No, an engineer has not been called, someone with basic skills at repairing stty coffee machines has been called, not an engineer.

That one irks me more than it should. Technician, repairman (it's actually a genderless term), installer, mechanic, these are all perfectly good terms for someone who does the manual installation and fixing of stuff.

I've seen plumbers and electricians justifying the use of "engineer" in that they have to be able to design a system that works as it should. I can accept that, and if I see some proper design consideration and calculations of a heating system or electrical installation I would consider that an engineered system hence the person who did the engineering is an engineer. However, wanging a combi on the wall and testing gas pressure, or running a few cables and buzzing them with a Fluke is not itself engineering.

The equivalents would be calling someone a civil engineer for chucking a bit of concrete in for a footing because it looks about the right amount, or a structural engineer because they knocked out a wall and the ceiling didn't fall down.

Always amusing to see Dilberts, sorry "engineers" getting all prissy when the term is bestowed on blue collar workers. I've a degree in engineering and thank the cosmos that I've managed to avoid a career in wky white collar engineering

[Pit Pony]

JuniorD said:

donkmeister said:

Timmy47 said:

"Engineer" when applied to virtually every job except bloody engineering. For example "the stty machine vending coffee has broken, an engineer has been called."

No, an engineer has not been called, someone with basic skills at repairing stty coffee machines has been called, not an engineer.

That one irks me more than it should. Technician, repairman (it's actually a genderless term), installer, mechanic, these are all perfectly good terms for someone who does the manual installation and fixing of stuff.

I've seen plumbers and electricians justifying the use of "engineer" in that they have to be able to design a system that works as it should. I can accept that, and if I see some proper design consideration and calculations of a heating system or electrical installation I would consider that an engineered system hence the person who did the engineering is an engineer. However, wanging a combi on the wall and testing gas pressure, or running a few cables and buzzing them with a Fluke is not itself engineering.

The equivalents would be calling someone a civil engineer for chucking a bit of concrete in for a footing because it looks about the right amount, or a structural engineer because they knocked out a wall and the ceiling didn't fall down.

Always amusing to see Dilberts, sorry "engineers" getting all prissy when the term is bestowed on blue collar workers. I've a degree in engineering and thank the cosmos that I've managed to avoid a career in wky white collar engineering

When I started my HND in Production Engineering at Cov Poly the course leader explained to us on the first day that if we graduated we would have the right to call ourselves Technicians. And got us to sign up to student membership of the IProdE which ultimately would allow us to be associate members.

10 years later with an accredidted Honours Degree from Cov Poly, 2 years Accedited training at Lucas and 5 years of project managing research projects jointly with various academic institutions, I was able to attain CEng with the IEE (now the IET)

If I get pissy about the use of the word Engineer out of context, its because I've had a st week and everything is pissing me off.

[Tom8]

One that grates with me is on the news, I think only BBC is "full scale invasion" relating to Russia going into Ukraine. What is a half scale invasion? If it isn't a full invasion what is it, an incursion, but they have stayed there?