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Phrases you hate

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Lemon1111 · 05/08/2024 21:24

Mine is ‘buttery soft’…If you haven’t come across this phrase, it is mainly used when describing leggings or other clothes, but now I’ve even seen it being used to describe gold jewellery! Also butter isn't that soft…Margariney soft doesn’t have the same ring to it I suppose.. Anyone else?

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ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 08/08/2024 06:11

FlamingWheelieBinofDespair · 06/08/2024 20:21

People who state FACT at the end of a sentence.

People who tweet “There it is. That’s the tweet” at the end of their tweets.

People who repeat incredibly weak “jokes”
or puns that were never funny in the first place - “Bliar” is the one that comes to mind but “Two Tier Keir” is heading rapidly in that direction.

I call those 'jokes' pub bore jokes.

An old friend of my husband's uses shite like those an awful lot.
I'm convinced that he practices what he thinks are witty, phrases - in the mirror, when he's at home.
They never quite hit the mark in the right context, or are even funny in the first place.

Everyone talks about him like he's Mr Charisma and is really funny, where i'm like 🤷🏻‍♀️.

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 08/08/2024 06:04

allthepeoplethatcomearound · 06/08/2024 20:44

People who start a sentence with ‘look…’, before firing off a complete lie or saying something unpopular. Usually a politician or journalist 🤯

I bloody hate 'look' used in that context with a passion! 😫

Politicians say it reflexively to every question they're asked.

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 08/08/2024 05:59

Frazzledfraggle07 · 07/08/2024 06:25

Game changer - especially when referring to something small and everyday.

Life hack - usually just basic common sense.

Go - at the end of a post asking for advice or recommendations. No I won't race to impress you with information you can just Google!

'Wrong answers only' on Twitter drives me mad.
I've actually blocked those words, cos it was every other bloody Tweet.

I dislike the blatant engagement farming, and - like you say - trying to impress the twonk who asked the question.

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 08/08/2024 05:55

Ilovecleaning · 07/08/2024 06:39

Some people use lots of these phrases in their everyday speech.
40 year old salesman relative of DH talks like this: we had a date night/ we arranged a play date. Tells me ‘don’t panic’ or don’t worry’ when I am neither worrying nor panicking or ‘no problem’ when there wasn’t remotely a problem of any kind.
Uses I when it should be Me because he thinks he sounds educated and sophisticated but he just sounds like a nob. Describes almost everything he approves of as ‘priceless.’
I don’t actually dislike the man but I often feel like I’m not talking to a real person.

You put a penny in him and wait to see what nonsense he comes out with today!

I call a lot of those words 'verbal cotton wool'. They add sod all to the conversation, but they're always being used to fill the gaps.

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 08/08/2024 05:47

Marine30 · 08/08/2024 00:17

My narrative 🤮

I hate narrative, too.

It's crept in over the last few years and now it's on the tip of everyone's tongue.

I can't bear 'rock up', either.
What's wrong with 'arrived', 'got there', 'i'll be there', etc.

They'll be back when 'rock up' is no longer cool, or whatever it's supposed to currently convey.

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 08/08/2024 05:39

Pieces aside, i really admire your aunt for running a business selling ladies clothes.
It can't be easy trying to keep up when places like Primark and Shein are so popular.

MakeUpArtistMom · 08/08/2024 05:28

My (lovely) aunt has a clothing boutique and for as long as I remember she’s always said (daily as she’s on social media etc)

‘Hi ladies please check out my new PIECES’

‘Come have a mooch around the boutique and you’ll LOVE all of the PIECES!’

‘ I have some BEAUTIFUL new PIECES!

‘Pieces ‘ is a word she writes/ types all over social media/ and verbally SAYS .. from the moment she wakes until she goes to sleep

I smile and love her and support her shop etc BUT (please don’t judge me..) but I can’t STAND the word ‘pieces’ for clothing!

Why not ‘garments’ .. or .. ?? what else (?) is it normal to say ‘pieces’ about clothing/stock etc ?

Ilovecleaning · 08/08/2024 05:13

SinnerBoy · 08/08/2024 01:34

WhatThenEh · Yesterday 20:57

'Pan fried' is worse. It's very obvious that many people only add the 'pan' because they think frying sounds uncouth and non-middle-class.

In know, I know! It's completely redundant; unless Heston Blumenthal has worked out how to fry eggs in a toaster?

True. The whole language of menus is ridiculous. ‘Succulent fillets, dusted in our signature…. Crispy, hand-fried…’ = fish and chips. You don’t see this in genuinely upmarket restaurants. And what the hell is ‘beer-battered’ ? Sounds more like my uncle when he’d had a skinful 🤣

WalkingaroundJardine · 08/08/2024 02:27

“Thank you for reaching out”

I dislike that because it sounds condescending and officious.

CiaDinnerout · 08/08/2024 01:43

plausible deniability,
its like we know its covert ops and why its covert etc

SinnerBoy · 08/08/2024 01:34

WhatThenEh · Yesterday 20:57

'Pan fried' is worse. It's very obvious that many people only add the 'pan' because they think frying sounds uncouth and non-middle-class.

In know, I know! It's completely redundant; unless Heston Blumenthal has worked out how to fry eggs in a toaster?

Nsky62 · 08/08/2024 01:07

It’s lovely when we get good weather, when its crap

banjaxedeejit · 08/08/2024 00:50

Deep dive
Unalive
Going forward

Marine30 · 08/08/2024 00:17

My narrative 🤮

Coughsweet · 08/08/2024 00:15

“From scratch”
”middle class” or worse “mc” - endlessly referred to on Mumsnet, am sure posters obsession with their class status is stronger than ever. Often think I need to leave this place but my short attention span draws me back.

RaraRachael · 07/08/2024 22:48

Curated
Artisan

Just pretentious shite

WhatThenEh · 07/08/2024 20:57

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Raasclaat · 07/08/2024 20:55

HTH

HTH

WhatThenEh · 07/08/2024 20:51

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LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 07/08/2024 17:55

Coughsweet · 07/08/2024 15:33

Absolutely this, and “I mean this kindly”.

No one likes to be corrected (say) even if on reflection they can see the other person is right and they need to wise up but to be told this with with an added patronising sprinkle surely doesn’t help matters.

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I hate this too @Coughsweet and @Wheredidileavemycarkeys

'.....kindly OP,' and '.....gently OP........'

It's so patronising! And 'kindly and 'gently' is nearly ALWAYS followed by a rude and condescending remark. It's the new 'I don't mean to be rude but.....' Hmm

SinnerBoy · 07/08/2024 16:28

SuperGinger · Today 10:54

Excuse my French, after swearing! Just swear away.

It's mostly Anglo Saxon, anyway; unless they're prone to shouting "Merde!" ?

SuperGinger · 07/08/2024 16:13

People who email "Gentle reminder" just stop nagging ang clogging up my inbox.

Coughsweet · 07/08/2024 15:39

RaraRachael · 07/08/2024 09:40

Play date - never existed when my kids were little. It was just inviting a friend round to play.

Any corporate wankspeak.
I was in teaching and we became facilitators - No, I trained to teach, not facilitate.
There was a phase of using "scaffolding" to build learning on - no just fuck off.

I was talking to DH the other day and realised I’d just referred to my 15 year old DC meeting up with friends as a “play date” 😳 Thankfully neither DC heard.

Coughsweet · 07/08/2024 15:33

Wheredidileavemycarkeys · 07/08/2024 12:52

Gently as in “I gently explained”

Patronising

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Absolutely this, and “I mean this kindly”.

No one likes to be corrected (say) even if on reflection they can see the other person is right and they need to wise up but to be told this with with an added patronising sprinkle surely doesn’t help matters.

GrazingSheep · 07/08/2024 12:59

Dear reader.
Discuss.
The loathsome ‘comparison is the thief of joy’. Only seen on MN.