Sayings that get on your tit

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'Been there, done that, got the t-shirt'. For some reason this old overused one just annoys the heck out of me. I think because I always imagine the person saying it thinks they are all kinds of cool and up to date.
For the same reason 'not' at the end of a sentence. 'It's really nice..not'. This feels like it should have died when the last episode of Friends ended

Grab.

On MN, there's so much 'grabbing'. People 'grab a coffee' or go to the shops and 'grab some pasta'. People 'grab their stuff for the gym' or 'grab some hot choc' (for 'snuggling' with under a fetid blanket, usually). 🙄

It's a horrible word. Why don't people* *just buy a coffee, or pasta? Or collect their stuff for the gym?

Picky bits or picky tea

Bloody awful, sound really babyish.

What on earth does "picky bits/tea" mean? I'm glad to say I've never encountered the phrase ...

Sorry, not sorry

'Protecting my peace' to mean ghosting/cutting someone off/ ditching a friend.

Just say you don't like them anymore ffs.

Picky bits. Dear God, do people actually say this in relation to food? 😂🤢

Picnic items eaten at home. Bits of ham, crudités, pork pie, boiled eggs. A cross between a salad and a picnic. Often eaten in the garden when you don't want to cook.

Why not just say picnic, then?

Also dislike 'get in the bin' and 'get in the sea'. Similarly 'do one'. Unnecessarily aggressive.

The inflationary/hyperbolic use of 'amazing' - 'we had an amazing holiday', 'I have three amazing children', 'their house is amazing'.

'We're hot on manners/discipline' - extra urgh points for adding '...in this house.'

'We value education' in the context of sending one's children to private school. So state school parents don't, then.

The complaints about Americanisms (actual or supposed), plenty of which appear on this thread, are among my hates too. As if being anti-American (and that's what it is) is some sort of badge of honour.

• “She doesn’t need a dishwasher, she’s got me!” ending with a triumphant flourish as though I couldn’t possibly have heard that banality-passing -for-wit- far too many times.

“I don’t need a dw my husband washes up” - or the insolent “what do you need a dishwasher for when there’s only you ?!” So rude, myob - people with dishwashers do not make such remarks.

Another one! when being spotted at the communal recycling bin with TWO !!
wine bottles, “Oooh you like a drink, don’t you?” - winedrinkers do not make such peurile remarks.

Grab - I have always though this was aggressive, “just let me grab……whatever, denotes urgency, importance, people then drinking coffee whilst on the move,
Alice’s White Rabbit on speed, mustn’t be late …

my granddaughter said this referring to the residue from the horrible dark scab on her knee
she is four

Turkeys voting for Christmas

anyone who says this I can’t be arsed to have a conversation with about politics becuase it’s never about politics it’s about how they perceive people

"Always someone worse off"

Not that I disagree with the sentiment but when I'm feeling absolutely rubbish, it doesn't help and this person says it like automatic, and all of the time. It's like saying "ill never give you an ounce of sympathy because someone else somewhere in the world is currently suffering more"

"label" when discussing ND or mental health conditions

"Sheep" or "sheeple" ugh. Said by people who think they're so clever and non comformist.

"It is what it is" really irritates me. I went out with a man who used to say it to shut down disagreements and I found it so passive aggressive.

Oh god yes, if someone says "sheeple" I avoid them for evermore!

Pretentious food descriptions on social media designed to make the poster look like a gourmet Goddess, eg "A Raclette platter" . It's cheese and pickle, love and if you'd given the family a plate of Cheddar and Branston you wouldn't be Instabragging
Using the word "of" when describing a meal, eg " Supper of home smoked gigantes with artisanal sourdough" . Beans on toast, then
And on cooking shows a judge saying that a dish "eats well". No it bloody doesn't. You eat it, it doesn't eat you you , you daft bastard

Yes! Menus that describe a dessert as deconstructed. Like deconstructed lemon meringue.

It'd not deconstructed as it was never bloody constructed in the first place!

'He/she had a good innings'. A friend of mine on hearing someone has died. Wouldn't be so bad but he said it when the person who'd died was only 65!

"At the end of the day"

that'll be night I expect 😕

I hate it when my DD says 'oh my DAYS' ...just so irritating. With an elongated 'daaaays' 🙄

Also dislike 'fuck sake'...it's 'for fuck's sake!' doesn't make sense otherwise.

I'm sure others have said the Insta style 'and just like that xyz' cringe.

Also hate picky bits for dinner.

"Pottering around the house" is also very annoying and seen often on MN. So twee-sounding.

Chippy tea

Don’t hate me… but I don’t have a problem with “picky bits”. It’s not a phrase I would use myself, but I don’t get the hatred for it and the “But what does it meeeean?!” posts. It perfectly describes what it means - food you can just pick at when you can’t be arsed to make a proper meal.

I've never heard this is it real??!

Isn't picky bits a buffet? Or is the difference the level of thought applied?