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Please stop saying "it's been a minute"

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OptimismvsRealism · 15/10/2024 23:06

Please stop

Also mooching stop saying that

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ChuckGarabedian · 20/10/2024 16:46

OhshutupSimonyounobhead · 16/10/2024 07:16

OBSESSED - everybody is obsessed with things these days (or maybe I just follow too many wanky people on IG).

”Low key obsessed” is also overused.

ObelixtheGaul · 20/10/2024 16:13

'If you're making one' in answer to, 'would you like a coffee?'. No, I am not making one, I was just asking out of pure curiosity 🙄

Words · 20/10/2024 16:07

'So I turned around and said'

Falsenegative · 20/10/2024 15:59

HelenInHeels · 20/10/2024 09:27

And "just saying". You've just said it, so there's no reason to just say that you've just said something.

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I HATE just saying. Makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

HelenInHeels · 20/10/2024 09:27

CellophaneFlower · 19/10/2024 13:00

"I want to say xxxx", said when someone isn't sure of something. You already HAVE said it 🤦‍♀️

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And "just saying". You've just said it, so there's no reason to just say that you've just said something.

SonicBoomInTheRoom · 20/10/2024 08:50

I'm not being racist but... Ugh yes you're racist.

CellophaneFlower · 19/10/2024 13:00

"I want to say xxxx", said when someone isn't sure of something. You already HAVE said it 🤦‍♀️

SonicBoomInTheRoom · 19/10/2024 11:23

"It makes me feel some kind of way"
"It is what it is"
"Could be something or nothing"

Stop it. Now.

Pussycat22 · 19/10/2024 09:11

Globules , I like popping, can't stand should of / could of though!!!

J1Dub · 19/10/2024 09:01

"I don't love it" makes my skin crawl.

ThePoshUns · 18/10/2024 16:00

Bien sur!

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 18/10/2024 14:34

Waitingfordoggo · 18/10/2024 14:32

Using the present tense all the time is what I do when I attempt to speak French 😂

Ha,that's funny 😂 🤣

Waitingfordoggo · 18/10/2024 14:32

Using the present tense all the time is what I do when I attempt to speak French 😂

ThePoshUns · 18/10/2024 13:13

Yes @MrsPelligrinoPetrichor she did. It was odd.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 18/10/2024 13:05

Waitingfordoggo · 18/10/2024 12:41

I hate that @MrsPelligrinoPetrichor. My FIL takes it one step further and uses the third person present tense when giving anecdotes, for example:

‘So I goes up to the manager and I says…’

It’s excruciating to listen to and I have to fight very hard not to run screaming from the room.

(My FIL is 80 so this is certainly not a modern or fashionable thing. He is a cockney though, perhaps it’s that).

Ah,that's definitely a cockney thing so I will allow that ( just!) but it's so commonplace now I find it hard to understand what people are talking about. I've just watched the Sweet Bobby documentary on Netflix and it was difficult to follow as she spoke in present tense the entire show!

Waitingfordoggo · 18/10/2024 12:41

I hate that @MrsPelligrinoPetrichor. My FIL takes it one step further and uses the third person present tense when giving anecdotes, for example:

‘So I goes up to the manager and I says…’

It’s excruciating to listen to and I have to fight very hard not to run screaming from the room.

(My FIL is 80 so this is certainly not a modern or fashionable thing. He is a cockney though, perhaps it’s that).

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 18/10/2024 12:07

I've just thought of another irritation ,the retelling of past events using present tense. Look at just about any Netflix documentary as an example.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 18/10/2024 12:05

ThePoshUns · 18/10/2024 08:34

Really? That makes no sense whatsoever! How bizarre.

I know!

ThePoshUns · 18/10/2024 08:34

Really? That makes no sense whatsoever! How bizarre.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 18/10/2024 08:34

ThePoshUns · 17/10/2024 21:53

In what context do people say ' it's been a minute' unless it has been a minute?
I've never heard anyone say this.

Hi Jane,how are,it's been ages?

I know,it's been a minute ,hasn't it?

Or

Hi guys,welcome to my channel,it's been a hot minute since I reviewed this ridiculously over expensive eyeshadow so I thought I'd revisit it...

Ihopeithinkiknow · 18/10/2024 08:00

@RobertaFirmino hahaha it does serve the bastards right and your mum sounds great

ThePoshUns · 17/10/2024 21:53

In what context do people say ' it's been a minute' unless it has been a minute?
I've never heard anyone say this.

WindowsBlind · 17/10/2024 21:38

Shodan · 16/10/2024 09:41

I love a Pootle 😁

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Ahhh the Flumps 😍😍😍

WindowsBlind · 17/10/2024 21:37

Namechangefordaughterevasion · 16/10/2024 08:45

I see your 'pop of colour' and raise you 'slick on some lippy' A phrase only ever used in tabloid journalism. As is saying someone 'flaunts their pins' to mean they wore shorts or a skirt and 'styled their locks' meaning they had hair.

Oh yes. The daily mail loves describing women’s hair as ‘locks’ or ‘tresses’. It makes me feel ill.

WindowsBlind · 17/10/2024 21:35

Thanks for all these.

Mine are:

‘bits’ as in, ‘I went to the shop to get some bits’
‘chuck’ when talking about slow cookers. It’s always, ‘just chuck in an onion and some beef and it’s done’. Nobody ever just puts food into the cookers.
Threads where the OP says, ‘discuss’. I refuse to as I am not in GCSE English.
And any post which says, ‘be gentle’ 🤢

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