Words or phrases that you hate ...

[rich p]

Three and a half years to respond to a post,............. is rich.p going for some sort of record here?

I know! I assumed that someone had resurrected it but it appears not - except me. Weird innit @ianrauk?

 

[rich p]

"Pass the portmanteau, dear boy."

"To be honest..." still rattles my cage.

"rattles your cage" will undoubtedly rattle somebody else's

 

[raleighnut]

My 2 female colleagues regularly use and emphasise the word 'literally', does start to grate after a while

'Basically' does that to me.

 

[EltonFrog]

Words or phrases that incur my displeasure are:

Merry Christmas
Can't be bad
Cadbury
Can I Get
Gotten (I don't care that Shakespeare used it, it still gets my dander up)
That's Brilliant (when used by shop assistants instead of saying thank you)
Shia LeBouf

 

[HF2300]

"How are you today?" (tele-spammers.)

Anyone who says anything like 'how are you today' when you and they both know they have absolutely no interest in your personal welfare. Particularly when it's someone who is about to make you personal welfare worse by winding you up trying to spend time selling you some irrelevant load of tripe, get you to sign up for the twelfth charity today, or try to scam you. Makes my blood boil. Also guarantees that I'm going to listen to pretty much nothing else they say in the rest of their pre-written, rehearsed script.

Sorry, rant over.

 

[HF2300]

Epicentre, when used in any situation other than describing the point on the earth's surface above the hypocentre of a seismological event.

 

[HF2300]

Words or phrases that incur my displeasure are...
That's Brilliant (when used by shop assistants instead of saying thank you)

There's a coffee shop near us where one of the staff responds 'brilliant' to anything said:

'What can I get you?'
'We'd like two coffees, please'
'Brilliant'
'And could I have a piece of carrot cake please?'
'Brilliant. That's two coffees and one carrot cake. Brilliant'
'Thanks very much'
'Brilliant. I'll bring those out to you'
(coffees arrive)
'Thanks'
'Brilliant'

 

[Lullabelle]

Words or phrases that incur my displeasure are:

Merry Christmas
Can't be bad
Cadbury
Can I Get
Gotten (I don't care that Shakespeare used it, it still gets my dander up)
That's Brilliant (when used by shop assistants instead of saying thank you)
Shia LeBouf

Can I get annoys me as well, I was brought up to use 'can I please have'

 

[Accy cyclist]

My next door neighbour says "you're joking me" nearly every time you tell him something. You could tell him that the price of petrol has risen or that someone was knocking on his door earlier trying to deliver a parcel but you'll always get the "you're joking me"!

 

[Brandane]

Since we're apprroaching that time of year:
Auld Lang Zyne instead of Syne!
It doesn't have a "Z" at the start of the word FFS. Pronounce it as in "sign" you nobbers. Thank you .

 

[Accy cyclist]

What about "merry chrimbo"often used by scousers! Or happy instead of merry Christmas,or using Xmas instead of Christmas!

 

[Brandane]

There is, like, one other word, like, that like, get's a bit like over-used, like, these days, but, like, I can't like remember what it is, like, just now.

 

[Accy cyclist]

"Innit"!!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Shop assistant. "Is that all ya want yeah"? A double whammy! firstly belittling your purchase because "you've only bought one item". Secondly saying "yeah" at the end of the sentence as if to question if you heard him or her correctly!!

 

[Hyslop]

Nuculuh(as pronounced)instead of Nuclear.Being addressed as "Pal".Oh,and the BBC insisting on Scarfell Pike rather than the local Scawfell