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Phrases / words you hate that you judge people for

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WhatKatyDidNxt · 24/12/2020 17:08

Ain’t -very popular near me and it makes me die inside
Gonna -ditto above
Makin memories -yep l have sick in my mouth now
Culdesack -think about it for a minute. Well, it made me anyway!! Then l got what they meant

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minty133 · 24/12/2020 22:20

Love you to the moon and back 🤮

The3Bs · 24/12/2020 22:24

I HATE when people start a sentence with 'Look...' our 'Listen...'
'It is what it is'
The word 'super' as a prefix
'Living my best life'

trixiebelden77 · 24/12/2020 22:37

‘Woke’ and ‘virtue signalling.’ Used exclusively by mean spirited arseholes. A good proportion are racist AF.

Also loathe ‘gifted’.

Ohdear2020 · 24/12/2020 22:52

‘Pop it in the ...’

Don’t know why. Just incredibly annoying.

Tangledtresses · 24/12/2020 22:54

People who refer to friends as chums

Chum is so me thing you put in the sea to attract fish 🤮

LilyE1234 · 24/12/2020 22:57

‘Anythink’ instead of ‘anything’.
‘We was’ instead of ‘we were.’

It just sounds thick.

LilyE1234 · 24/12/2020 22:58

Expresso instead of Espresso 😭😬

Spudina · 24/12/2020 22:59

Hun.

OldPodge · 24/12/2020 23:02

@Aquamarine1029

Hubby - makes my ears bleed.
Can’t bear hubby either
ivegotdreadfulpmttoday · 24/12/2020 23:05

Hun

ivegotdreadfulpmttoday · 24/12/2020 23:06

Very real

hiredandsqueak · 24/12/2020 23:07

"Get here!" You hear it all the time around here usually bellowed at young children Really hate it.
People who use borrow when they mean lend really grates on me as well.

blacktiger · 24/12/2020 23:07

Making memories and beautiful inside and out make me cringe but the one that winds me up is the work emails with the "polite reminders". It's not polite, it's annoying. we'd all rather you said "remember x is due next week".

Utterlyexhausted · 24/12/2020 23:11

@Jumpalicious I would ask myself the same question all the time..plus he's a teacher!!😱😱

babieslovebooks · 24/12/2020 23:12

Sets my teeth on edge

sherrystrull · 24/12/2020 23:24

Batch cook - just irritating
Throw in a handful of - as in 'I throw in a handful of walnuts'. Sounds so pretentious
Help themselves - as in 'I put out plates and people help themselves'

SionnachRua · 24/12/2020 23:28

Toms, pots, spag bol
Picky bits/picky tea
Poorly
Livid/ fuming
Handmaidens
Sheeple
Silent majority
Virtue signalling
Get your ducks in a row
When he tells you who he is, believe him
Are you on glue?
Did you mean to be so rude?
Anything involving head tilts or tinkly laughs
Brought instead of bought and vice versa

ExpensivelyDecorated · 24/12/2020 23:31

Dippy eggs

Saltycinnamon · 24/12/2020 23:51

‘Ta’. I hate little kids saying it. Get them to say thank you.

MotherofPearl · 24/12/2020 23:52

Expresso when they mean espresso.

"At this moment in time." Ridiculous tautology, since a moment can only be in time.

Misuse of the word momentarily also annoys me, as do most of the words mentioned on this thread.

coronafiona · 24/12/2020 23:53

Myself instead of me

"You can refer that back to myself"

It doesn't make you sound more important!

NannyGythaOgg · 25/12/2020 00:06

'turned around and said'

I have been known to ask someone if it made them dizzy, when they have related a conversation and used the phrase half a dozen times or more.

'I'm not being funny/racist/xxx but' - Just before making a statement that is rude, racist or ...

And (as pps have mentioned) the myself/yourself that is happening more and more. I've hated this since the 80s when I used to have to listen to a colleague saying 'If yourself can send it to myself then myself will return it to the supplier' and other equally awful variations.

21833efb · 25/12/2020 00:09

Holibobs (holiday)

Famalam (family)

Reach out (contact)

Myself

We was/I was

Amazing, basically, literally, obviously.

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 25/12/2020 00:13

Hon.
Will you borrow me.
Using 'f' instead of 'th'.
Reach out.
Using like at the end of every sentence.

LolaSmiles · 25/12/2020 00:14

Dialect and slang doesn't bother me, but I hate twee phrases like hubby, famalam, making memories, this one (as in 'date night with this one'), boy done good.