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 😂

"We are locked in"
What do you mean? You're not a missile aimed at a target. Or indeed locked in a pub after hours. 🙄

The local one for food here is 'scran'. Sounds horrible to my ears.

Oh god YES! My MIL is the worst for this and then gets all agitated by it.

’Ill have the Northumbrian wild rabbit pan fried with handmade tagliatelle a dusting of truffle and a fric.. a frickassy, whatever that is how do you say that.. what on earth… of vegetables with the cream …what is a VELOOOT?’
While everyone dies a death

People who add an S to shop names or restaurants

Have you tried Jo Malones perfume
I’m popping to Asdas
All Bar Ones have that wine you like
Shall we meet at Costas?

AGGGH!

I say Asdas to my Ds just because I know it drives her nuts.

Oops I say the first three all the time 🤣

Round here everyone goes to The Asda.

Actually, no, they go The Asda. There appears to be no need for a preposition.

Very prevalent in Scotland.
I'll add Markies for M and S

My parents used to say Argos as Ar-goes

In todays world…
Nowadays…
At the end of the day…
In today’s society…

Cool beans. My ex is 40ish and says this. I hate it. Who likes cool beans anyway, no one say "oh no don't cook them, I like them cool

I do say Tescos but just plain Asda. No idea why! (I was going to say that saying Tesco's was like saying you're going to the doctor's or the butcher's - shorthand for the doctor's surgery or the butcher's shop. But then I realised I'd say that I was going to Asda...)

“Gift” as a verb 💀

When people start a sentence with ‘I’m not being funny but….’.

‘Our lass’ (for female partner)

‘pacific’ (instead of specific).

‘Spoiler alert’.

Some phrases that I do like, that may make others cringe -

Shit show (I just find it really amusing, like a terrible, stinky pantomime… not to be replaced with ‘panto’ , which I hate ).

‘Pony up’ (referencing paying what you owe, but it reminds me of a my little pony episode where it was used to replace (a hated phrase of mine) ‘man up’.

‘Hey’ instead of hello. It feels accusatory.

"Im not gonna lie".
And now I've heard it Im hearing "reach out", "reach for" bloody everywhere. Stop it.

Pan - fried and oven roasted.
Anything Bespoke.
Grab a coffee

"I done...."
"It really boils my piss."
"Goodies." (I don't know why this word offends me so much but it makes me want to bite my knuckle!)

I'll add "Grinds my gears" to "Boils my piss" - both only ever seen on MN.

Great thread!
I have a dear friend who says ‘watch this space’. Because she’s a dear friend I’d never tell her how annoying it is!!

‘At this moment in time’ - do you mean now?

Girls - anyone over eighteen is a woman (my husband does this and I have to tell him off!

Edgy - when describing an outfit seen as fashionable. Especially if the person saying it wears predictably boring and mundane clothes!

'Lean in to...' has suddenly sprung up everywhere. Where do these phrases come from and why are people so keen to adopt them when we managed perfectly well without?

And ‘lost my shit’. An awful phrase. Thankfully I’ve only ever encountered it on MN.

A friend told me that the latest phrase heard at a board meeting recently was….
’leaning in with curiosity’!!!
I presume that meant paying attention?
I nearly choked on my wine! Thank goodness I’m retired and don’t have to listen to that rubbish any more!!

From Brits, writing ‘ass’ when they mean ARSE.

Ditto ‘math’, and ‘pissed’ when they mean ‘pissed OFF’.

Thought of another one - sliver. I hate that. Give me a little sliver of cake. ARGH no why not just take a slice or a bit. Stop with the creepy sliver thing.

Here in NZ you get a ‘takeaways’. Not a takeaway, bloody takeaways. The food is a takeaways and the the actual place is a ‘takeaways’ e.g ‘let’s go past the Chinese takeaways’, ‘shall we get takeaways tonight’.

Drives me mad. Especially then they also say ‘park’ for a parking space, e.g ‘I got a park right next to the shop’.