Are You Joking Me?

[rockchick78]

Are you joking me?

For some reason this phrase pisses me off!

Are you kidding me? - Makes sense
Are you joking? - Makes sense

Is it just me that this annoys?!

[Rumpelstiltskin143]

Goes along with recommend me a ......

[Rumpelstiltskin143]

And people that done things.

[EverySongbirdSays]

Can you/anyone borrow me a?

I'm itching myself

and the latest heinous americanism

"It's so addicting"

Are you shitting me?

is another

and see also wrong contextual use of "Is it?" which happened last lunch out I had several times

[echt]

What do you think to this dress?

It's of/about this dress.

[Mummyme1987]

I hate
My bad

[MadisonAvenue]

"My bad" annoys me too. I always think "Your bad what???"

Stupid idiot is another.

[LauderSyme]

Yep, with you OP, though not as far as pissed off. It makes me wince.
I don't know if it's actually grammatically incorrect but it sounds like it should be.

[charlestonchaplin]

I first heard the phrase, 'Are you joking me?' on an ad, and I assumed the ad was the origin of the phrase. It featured an older woman from the Indian subcontinent singing the praises of her son who she thought was quite a catch. Then something annoyed her, it might have been something to do with the type of rice he cooked and she uttered the phrase.

So I think it was meant to refer (in a jokey way) to the sometimes clumsy English of a non-native speaker. And I think when people originally used it they were also using it in a jokey way, fully realising it isn't proper English.

[charlestonchaplin]

I found the advert by googling. It was about rice, but the mother (who is younger than I remember) actually seems to say, 'You are joking me?'

[mellicauli]

I love it. I used to hear it all the time when I lived in Ireland. It's one of those phrases you wouldn't hear in London. It's assertive, cynical and funny - far too direct for use over here. Let's not all talk the same.. It's boring.

[icanteven]

Commonly said in Ireland. It's probably from an Irish-language construction that has passed over into English, like a number of phrases in Ireland ("the car broke down on me"), but I haven't had my coffee yet, so I can't crank my dim memories of Irish into action sufficiently to work it out just yet.

[blueskyinmarch]

Whats wrong with pissed off? People have been saying that round these parts for about a milion years may be exaggerating-.

[echt]

"I get the rage" has rolled over me for some time on MN.

Now I get the rage when I read "I get the rage".

[myownprivateidaho]

Oh yeah, I don't mind any of the ones mentioned up thread, but "the rage" really annoys me. Sounds so twee and contrived to me. The other ones just sound like colloquialisms, but "the rage" is like some kind of coy, smug attempt at humour. Ugh.

[WorraLiberty]

"You suit that dress"

No, surely the dress suits you?

[PPie10]

Sounds uneducated and annoying. Yanbu.

[TheNaze73]

YANBU. It sounds moronic

[LuckySantangelo1]

People who are raging! I was raging! I read that a lot on here. Never in real life.

I will stick up for 'my bad'! It's a 90s Buffy-ism and I like it

[MaisieDotes]

I'm Irish and "are you joking me?" is a normal, everyday phrase.

I'm educated to postgrad level- just FYI PPie

[MaisieDotes]

Oh and more lovely, eloquent input from TheNaze.

[Caffeinator]

"How are you?"

"I'm good".

I was asking how you were feeling, not enquiring about your moral fibre.

[PaulAnkaTheDog]

Yanbu, it drives me mad.

[MsWorthington]

"I forgot it at home."

No you didn't. You either left it at home or you forgot to bring it, I forgot it at home makes no grammatical sense.

[scampimom]

People who order in a cafe with, "Can I get a...?"


HAVE, you fools, it's HAVE.

Hanging's too good for 'em.