Words and phrases that piss you off for no good reason

[ChicJoker]

I’ll start.

“fair do’s”
”cool beans”
”loaded up on”
”bliss”

there’s so many more. I’ve no reason they annoy me so much but hearing these words evokes violent thoughts 😂

Urrgh i hate this so american!

The personification of clothes. “Meet Charlotte. She will take you effortlessly from the office to after work cocktails to a sophisticated dinner date.” It’s a dress not your chaperone.

I had an awful manager who used to say and write ‘rest bite’. She also said ‘pacific’ (specific) and said/wrote ‘myself’ as much as possible.

Came on to say "Bliss" but I see that's one of the words in your post @ChicJoker! Who says this is real life?

Another, which I've just seen on another thread, is "There, fixed it for you" after tweaking something written by someone else. So patronising and often wrong in 99% of cases.

‘Baby needs fed.’

What?

The new one is I’ll do as in I’ll do the steak. Do what to the steak??

"I turned around and said..." No you didn't physically turn around, you just said something!!

Hubby
Yummy

arrrrrggghhhhhhhhh

Thought of a couple more
as^^pp sekertary ,also when listening to the cricket some commentators say Edgebston
it is EdgebAston there is an A in in the name 😤

Has anyone mentioned ‘artisan’ - that always gets my back up

Yes. Usually a bi-word for overpriced.

@itsmeafterall in Sweden and Denmark they use the ‘super’ word all the time in general conversation in my lived there experience - a good restaurant is ‘super nice’ etc or an appliance ‘super useful’ which is why I always laugh at the Abba song title Super Trooper!!

@MrsSkylerWhite yep -

Anything that is corporate management speak.

She said loose

She meant I have nothing to lose
Her English was terrible, grammar terrible , spelling terrible. And English is her first language!!!

Yes, this!

“Needs gone”. There was a renovation thread about a rough wall and someone said “Needs plastered”.

Where did this linguistic butchery come from?

Obsessed or even worse, literally obsessed 🤔

“Obsessed” makes me laugh. Our local rag has daily articles saying “Readers are literally obsessed with this new pan scourer/plain white t-shirt/random boring object!”

I think those readers need a mental health assessment if they’re literally obsessing over a mundane object.

I rather miss ‘dirty weekends’ - the expression, anyway!

‘Must-have’ - usually applied by vacuous fashion journalists to £495 jumpers, £2000 bags, etc.

Do you pronounce the 'w' in Harwich? The 'b' in Woolacombe? The 'g' in Brighton? How do you pronounce the 'ou' in Portsmouth? Or the 'o's in London?

Similarly, 'passionate'. It seems everybody has to be passionate about something nowadays - baking, skincare, diet, dancing, the environment...

Hygge! What with autumn looming I expect to see it a lot - people blathering on about candles and throws, etc.

IMO it was just a very clever marketing ploy to persuade people to go and buy even more of all this stuff than they’ve already got.

We have our own word for cosy or cosiness.

Might add, once I found out that it was pronounced ‘hue-gah’, I thought of ‘hug’, went and checked in my big fat etymological dictionary and sure enough, it’s related via an Old Norse (i.e Viking) word.

Does that mean all the "hot chocolate stations" will be back too? I find them inexplicably annoying.

Lovely
Can I help you, lovely? Yes, you work in a bank. Just ask me if you can help me. I don't need or want to be called 'madam' but I am not your lovely.

What would you like, lovely? I'd like a flapjack and an Americano, please, and I'd like you to stop calling me your lovely.