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Anyone want to add to my ever increasing list of words/terms that are just really bloody annoying?

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TitaniasAss · 30/12/2022 20:41

There are many but this year I've been able to add even more:

Weaponise
Twixmas
You do you

Feel free to add yours!

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FartWrangler · 30/12/2022 20:47

"I was pissed", meaning "I was pissed off". Every time I read it on here, it pisses me off.

"Out the door". Makes no sense. It's "out of the door", thank you.

"A shoe" (as in fashion speak). It's not a bloody shoe: it's a pair of shoes. Ditto "trouser".

These are just the first ones that come to mind, but there are myriad (not "a myriad of") others.

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Mammajay · 30/12/2022 20:48

"a cheeky little"

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PureBlackVoid · 30/12/2022 20:48

Offended

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Snoopystick · 30/12/2022 20:49

I find ‘you do you’ with an eye roll quite handy when people are being critical

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Herja · 30/12/2022 20:49

Triggered.

I even have regular awful flash backs, brought on by a specific benign daily act, and yet the word's use STILL causes an irrational rage, because fucking everything is a trigger or needs a trigger warning. My recent degree drove me to destraction with the number of course text trigger warnings. I refuse to use the word now, even in relation to the thing that causes my daily rape flash backs because it causes such an irrational response in me.

Also Moist, but I think that's something about the sound of it.

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Circleoffifths · 30/12/2022 20:49

Gift - as a noun or as a verb but especially as a verb. Can nobody just say present any more?

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ichundich · 30/12/2022 20:49

Go toilet
Amazeballs
"Can somebody explain what just happened"
Situationship

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Knittedfairies · 30/12/2022 20:50

'...and breathe'

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MrsScrubbingbrush · 30/12/2022 20:53

Curated
Gutted

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EcoCustard · 30/12/2022 20:53

Play date.
key worker.
making memories.

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ShowOfHands · 30/12/2022 20:54

Affectations like slinging and bunging and throwing. People are always chucking ingredients together or throwing on a nice tee and smart jeans. Or they pop on a nude lip or pop to the shops or pop things on the counter. The same people plate up or eat picky bits or sling jacket pots or spag bol in the oven. Their food is always beautifully fresh or gorgeous in its simplicity. Their slightly cruder counterparts meanwhile, are smashing things in their face or gob and choking down medicine or nibbling on something naughty.

It's the perfect storm of affected and visceral and makes the offenders sound like their dream is to write inconsequential shite in magazines for laydees.

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PurpleButterflyWings · 30/12/2022 20:54

Someone saying 'SANS' instead of 'WITHOUT...' Really jars me. 'We went out for the day SANS the children.' Just say WITHOUT and stop trying to sound pretentious!

'Pregnant People.' It's Pregnant WOMEN. Only women can get pregnant.
Also, 'people who menstruate.' You mean WOMEN. Angry

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PissedOffNeighbour22 · 30/12/2022 20:54

'Made my teeth itch'

Never seen/heard it outside MN. Sounds ridiculous.

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PurpleButterflyWings · 30/12/2022 20:55

@ichundich I agree... The word SITUATIONSHIP makes my teeth itch! 😩

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Mammajay · 30/12/2022 20:56

I feel violated..when something relatively trivial happens

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PurpleButterflyWings · 30/12/2022 20:56

PissedOffNeighbour22 · 30/12/2022 20:54

'Made my teeth itch'

Never seen/heard it outside MN. Sounds ridiculous.

Oooops, I just said that. Sorry. Blush This is something I say. I will try and stop!

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PurpleButterflyWings · 30/12/2022 20:58

Ooooh one thing that REALLY makes me cringe. When a 'man' BOY says (when referring to having sex,) he went 'BALLS DEEP.' Utterly VILE! 😣

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SharksInTheTea · 30/12/2022 20:58

The over use of the term 'space' when talking about a room or garden. I suspect it's used because it's meant to sound more serious/pretentious.

You haven't painted the space, you've painted a bloody room!

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FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 30/12/2022 20:59

Confront
Loved ones

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Cdl84 · 30/12/2022 20:59

Oftentimes

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Mommabear20 · 30/12/2022 20:59

'Low man on the totem pole' 🤦‍♀️ seriously do your research!

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Ayeaken · 30/12/2022 21:00

'Super'

I am super bored
He's super tired
She was super excited

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bellac11 · 30/12/2022 21:00

Gender. Its sex

And all the 'd' on this site. It makes posts unreadable referring to the ddog and dps and dgps and dssd ddsasssd dsdcd

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YouSoundLovely · 30/12/2022 21:00

I'm a descriptivist, so I tend to try and see the distinct thing people are trying to express with all these words and phrases. 'Gift' as a verb annoys me, but 'she gifted me X' is expressing something subtly different from 'she gave me X' - giving can also mean just handing over - 'she gifted me X' is a shorter way of saying 'she gave me X as a present'.

That said, I'm not keen on the hyperbolic use of 'amazing' to mean 'very good' or 'lovely'. 'Regional accent' (meaning anything that is not a Standard Southern English accent - that's a regional accent too!) annoys me. Ditto 'well-spoken' for said Standard Southern English accent.

'Resilience' used to mean 'stiff upper lip' or 'ability to blame oneself for systemic conditions'.

I dislike 'confront' and 'confrontation' on two fronts. First, the tendency for people to 'confront' others over tiny slights. Second, the claim (often read on here) of 'not liking confrontation' as a reason not to stand up for oneself - as if the rest of us thrive on it.

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Jomummy1013 · 30/12/2022 21:02

The word sick, when it is used to describe something cool.

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