Phrases that make you want to slap people in the face?

[notnearlythereyet]

Mine is ‘Riddle me this’. What’s yours?

'Calling people out'

calling somewhere 'the space'

'Wake up, people!' - this last usually accompanies a vegan promoting youtube video.

At the end of the day and also went someone starts a sentence with basically!

Oh I have these threads cause I do talk in cliches a lot, when I don't think too much about what I'm saying. Plus I do often start sentences with 'so...' sorry.

It drives me slightly nuts that a woman I know can never state word confused without adding 'dot.com' to the end of it. But i try not to notice because of the above.

But things like 'educate yourself' are different because they are so smug and contemptuous. They are 'fair game' imo

*hate these threads

"Tear you a new one" (or him, her).

Grim.

Okie dokie. I don't know why it annoys me.

"I would of gone there"
"She shouldn't of done that"
"He couldn't of known that"

The word is fucking HAVE. HAVE HAVE HAVE!!!

The majority of business speak.

Made up words - famalam etc

Anything that is hashtagged and 'twee' #babygirl #yumyum #makingmemories looking at you SIL

'pacifically'

'pernament'

‘like’ repeated unnecessarily in sentences. It’s not just young kids doing it now, it’s grown adults. It’s a disease.

"No can do"
One of my colleagues uses this all the time.

The worst thing is he doesn't mean "that can't be done by me" he means "I'm too bloody idle to do that"

If you know what I mean.

( after nearly every sentence)

Yes I know what you mean- I'm not thick !!!

Literally ' I literally died laughing ' NO , YOU DID NOT .
But I kind of wish you had.....

it is what it is

So wise, so philosophical, so POINTLESS.

I am going to challenge it with "yes, but have you ever considered that it isn't what it is, or indeed it is what it isn't?"

[Mic drop]
[Leave room]

One I've noticed a lot on MN and it pisses me right off ...

When a poster states that something, probably quite petty annoys them. Something relevant to them and their life . And they get :

"I simply cannot get worked up about this"

Argh , it so so Passive Aggressive .

"Going down the pub".
Shouldn't it be going down to the pub ?

I agree with the poster who said 'on my period'
Yuck.

"We're pregnant"

‘End of.’ And ‘jobs a good un’.

Cluster feeding
Sleep regression
For arguments sake
Devil's advocate

Family time.
Our little family.

Boak to both expressions, and I never hear them anywhere except on Mumsnet.

"Sorry but" and "Just saying"

"The fact of the matter is ..."

NO IT probably ISN'T, it's just your interpretation.
And the fact you use that phrase makes me want to disagree with you no matter what!

Those of you who hate 'it is what it is' - what do you object to about it?

It's something I've said at times (specifically when my ex-H walked out for OW, 3 weeks later my DM was rushed into hospital for emergency surgery that turned out to be bowel cancer, and at the same time dd - now finally diagnosed with ASD - was school refusing and melting down pretty much every single day).

For me it's a reasonably functional answer to general sympathetic / how are you coping / other friendly comments from people.

When other people I know use the phrase it's also generally in relation to utterly shit and unfixable situations in life, when all there is to do is grit your teeth and make the best of things.

"nom nom"

nothing spoils my appetite more.

‘It needs gone’
‘It needs done’
‘It needs fixed’

What ever happened to ‘to be’ ?

I am currently working in an organisation going through quite a major change. These have started cropping up.

‘We need to wait and see which side of the fence the apples fall’ and
‘We’re laying the tracks as the train is approaching’

This is management speak for ‘we haven’t got a fucking clue what’s going to happen’

Ah gone my heart sinks every time my DS says ‘I saw this thing on You Tube’

Everything happens for a reason

Ugh.