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

396 replies

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!

OP posts:
lieselotte · 30/12/2022 21:51

MrsMorrisey · 30/12/2022 21:49

When there is a problem, " this is an interesting space to navigate" 😩

Though you aren't allowed to say "problem". It has to be issue or challenge.

TitaniasAss · 30/12/2022 21:51

Oh I hate 'reach/ed out' too.

Triggered is another much overused term.

OP posts:
Sparklingbrook · 30/12/2022 21:52

Is 'reaching out' connected to 'leaning in'

ivykaty44 · 30/12/2022 21:54

Ones

why not just use the description

those ones
instead of those flowers
those ones instead of pjs

like

it was like raining
its was like cake

what was it then?

RenoDakota · 30/12/2022 21:56

Poorly
Bless
Hun

All utterly infantile.

Jomummy1013 · 30/12/2022 21:57

I also dislike it when people say 'so I turned around and said' and then 'she turned around and said', wtf? SmileWhy do people say it?

Yankydoodledandy · 30/12/2022 22:00

ichundich · 30/12/2022 20:49

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

I detest 'Go toilet' AND also on Real Housewives when they say 'Go potty' 😳

Also hate and always have when people say...gosh even now makes me shudder...when people say: "Spagbol" 😡

excelledyourself · 30/12/2022 22:01

I could be here all night...

When someone talks about having 'agency'

When someone says something is 'jarring'

'This resonates'

'Reach out'

'Socials'

'Care giver'

'Self care'

'Division of labour'

'Super' anything

'Bite to eat'

'Go toilet, Tesco, etc'

upinaballoon · 30/12/2022 22:01

'lived experience'---nothing particularly wrong with it, just the boring use of it at every verse end.

'hard-working families' Oi, MP, what about the bachelors, spinsters, widows, widowers, divorces and divorcees, living alone for whatever reason, who get themselves out of bed and go to work and pay tax and National Insurance? Stop ignoring them, please. Say 'hard-working people'. Some MPs do, to be fair.

'working people' used by MPs who are too frightened to use the words 'working-class people'.

icanwearwhatiwant · 30/12/2022 22:01

"Ticks all the boxes" is beginning to really get on my nerves for some reason!

excelledyourself · 30/12/2022 22:01

And how could I forget 'poorly'

icanwearwhatiwant · 30/12/2022 22:02

Oh and of course
Gifted instead of given
Reached out instead of contacted.

Nadal · 30/12/2022 22:02

Gifted. Suddenly appeared. Drives me insane

excelledyourself · 30/12/2022 22:02

'Narrative' is done to death on here too.

NewMoonPhase · 30/12/2022 22:03

Another identical thread to the last one? How original.

peanutbuttertoasty · 30/12/2022 22:05

They "understood the assignment"

SpideyCraw · 30/12/2022 22:05

When people use the word “violent” or “violence” to describe the expression of an opinion they don’t agree with.

Words can be shit, they can be offensive, they can be totally unacceptable - but never violent

Barton10 · 30/12/2022 22:05

Gotten it is used a lot on mumsnet and really annoys me

DarkDarkNight · 30/12/2022 22:05

Only read the first page so far so sorry if it’s even said:

I was today years old

Emmamoo89 · 30/12/2022 22:07

MissingMoominMamma · 30/12/2022 21:14

I came on to say, ‘it is what it is’ too.

‘Jog on’. It’s such a disrespectful thing to say.

‘Fur babies’. I bloody love my dogs, but no.

I say fur babies for my cats. Nothing wrong with it

TheMildManneredMilitant · 30/12/2022 22:08

Family money.

Get the principle but the phrase really grates.

Monkeyrules · 30/12/2022 22:08

I collected my thoughts instead of I thought about it. Newsflash. They are already in your brain. You don't need to 'collect' them.

MotherofPearl · 30/12/2022 22:09

'At this moment in time' - a moment can only be in time, so it's pointless tautology.

I find work emails asking for a response to something 'by close of play on Thursday' (or whatever day) absolutely enraging for some reason.

Emmamoo89 · 30/12/2022 22:12

RenoDakota · 30/12/2022 21:56

Poorly
Bless
Hun

All utterly infantile.

Whats wrong with poorly?

MissingMoominMamma · 30/12/2022 22:12

Emmamoo89 · 30/12/2022 22:07

I say fur babies for my cats. Nothing wrong with it

I’m sure lots of people say many of the phrases mentioned on this thread. I’ve seen a couple of my own! These are phrases that I personally think are naff!