Phrases I`m getting increasingly sick of hearing

[Drago]

People why TYPE with seemingly RANDOM WORDS in capital LETTERS.

We are NOT STUPID, we can READ, and research HAS shown that such UNNECESSARY use of capitals actually makes it LESS LIKELY that the message will be read and properly understood, so you are causing the opposite effect OF that which you INTENDED.

Do these people speak like that as well?

 

[mudsticks]

Thanks, I thought that didn't look right, I have edited it but omitted your capital T.

Glad to be of help

 

[Venod]

Sports commentators especially Rugby who constantly say,

"On the front foot"

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I used to work for a corporate and some of the meetings were excruciatingly dull so a friend and I tried to liven things up by inventing "corporate speak".

My personal favourite was when I introduced "Let's park that in the ideas fridge and we can snack on it later"

 

[mudsticks]

People why TYPE with seemingly RANDOM WORDS in capital LETTERS.

We are NOT STUPID, we can READ, and research HAS shown that such UNNECESSARY use of capitals actually makes it LESS LIKELY that the message will be read and properly understood, so you are causing the opposite effect OF that which you INTENDED.

Do these people speak like that as well?

Who knows??

But here's another one.

People who punctuate their posts (not here so much) with multiple laughing-til-they-cry emojis.

I suppose it's quite a useful shorthand for

"I have no rational, thought through response to you point, so I will attempt to belittle you, or deflect with these silly little faces, instead"

 

[MontyVeda]

"LGBTQ+..."

I'm a big supporter of the rights of people to live whatever lifestyle they so choose and with whom they choose, but the rate at which the acronym is expanding is making it hard to keep track of. How long before it's the entire alphabet but in a different order, with a few mathematical symbols randomly chucked in? Stop saying it, you're only making it worse!

get with the times Drago... it's LGBTGQ+

Lesbian, gay, bi, trans, ginger, questioning, plus

 

[Edwardoka]

"LGBTQ+..."

I'm a big supporter of the rights of people to live whatever lifestyle they so choose and with whom they choose, but the rate at which the acronym is expanding is making it hard to keep track of. How long before it's the entire alphabet but in a different order, with a few mathematical symbols randomly chucked in? Stop saying it, you're only making it worse!

It's weird how different people have different limits on how many letters this acronym should have. LGBTQIA+ is roughly mine, some say it is exclusionary, and even the definition of Q is divisive. Some say it means "queer", others "questioning". Any man who has ever looked at Brian Blessed automatically falls under the umbrella of "questioning" so I'm not sure how useful a term that is.

Then on the other end of the spectrum you have transphobes like those who call themselves the "LGB Alliance" who purport to be supportive of those who spent centuries being erased, criminalised and subjected to violence and murder, clamouring for the erasure of trans folks.

 

[Julia9054]

People why TYPE with seemingly RANDOM WORDS in capital LETTERS.

We are NOT STUPID, we can READ, and research HAS shown that such UNNECESSARY use of capitals actually makes it LESS LIKELY that the message will be read and properly understood, so you are causing the opposite effect OF that which you INTENDED.

Do these people speak like that as well?

YES!!

 

[steveindenmark]

OMG

Why do Americans insist in saying it about everything? 🙄

 

[glasgowcyclist]

People why TYPE with seemingly RANDOM WORDS in capital LETTERS.

We are NOT STUPID, we can READ, and research HAS shown that such UNNECESSARY use of capitals actually makes it LESS LIKELY that the message will be read and properly understood, so you are causing the opposite effect OF that which you INTENDED.

Do these people speak like that as well?

Have you been reading The Sun again?

 

[Venod]

OMG

Why do Americans insist in saying it about everything? 🙄

The brings to mind another one, the youngest grandaughter likes watching youtube videos called best day ever that feature a young family with a daughter called Adley, one of the parents often repeated sayings is,
"Holy Cow"
I don't know how common this is in USA but they use it to an annoying extent.

 

[Drago]

Have you been reading The Sun again?

Nah, I'm a Sport man through and through. "...and our reporter made his excuses and left..."

 

[Gunk]

OMG

Why do Americans insist in saying it about everything? 🙄

Everything is also “Awesome” 🙄

 

[glasgowcyclist]

“Man up”

Unbelievably, I heard this used this morning by my neighbour. Her 6 yr old son was having one of his regular screaming tantrums when she shouted at him, “Man up!”. What kind of parent uses that on a child?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Whereas everything seems to be "lush" around Bristol.

Anybody ever come into contact with Weegies (Glaswegians)? Ever get amused hearing how everything is "Pure dead brilliant"? Hearing the different ways of ending sentences such as "So ah did, so ah will" and the perennial "but" as a full stop.

"Ah went oot on the bike the other day so ah did and it was pure dead brilliant so it was but"