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 😂

Battels

Anything involving ‘popping’. Popping to the shops, popping something in the oven, popping a bow in your hair etc.

I've never liked "popping" as an all-purpose verb but - and it may just be the West Midlands - it's transforming into the even worse (IMO) "bob":
Just bob over there; just bob this on; I'll bob yourself an email...

And that's another one: "yourself/myself" when "you/me/I" would be correct.

An odd one that I've started noticing more recently is "U/Ur" for "you/your/you're" in otherwise properly written texts/internet posts.
Surely it takes just as long to go to Caps, then type "U" as it would to type "you"?
I first noticed it in a published text that Prince Harry had written and thought it was a leftover bit of textspeak that was peculiar to him.
However, there's a poster on the Times crossword blog that does it. He's writes long, correctly spelled and punctuated replies which makes the "U" really stand out.
Now I'm seeing it more and more on MN.

Im glad my 1st language is welsh. I avoid all of these (which annoy me by just reading them!) as i can go for days on end not speaking English.

A 'pop' of colour

A trouser
A tee (for T shirt)

Also don't like "a wine" or "a tea". I always say say "a glass of wine" or "a cup of tea".
However, I don't mind "a beer", "a gin" or "a coffee" so I realise that's just me being pernickety.

Scones just out the oven - out of

Making memories

A red lip/ a wide trouser

I see someone's put the perennial "moist" out there, but not sure I've seen "gusset" yet?
Those two words usually seem to top the charts of these threads.
I don't mind either of them (I'm too busy disliking nearly everything else on the thread 😄).

'100%'

All of this. Especially ‘meal’ which is just horrible. why do the food ones grate so much?

My dad says ‘afters’ for dessert (northern England) Wait staff here in Australia look at him in puzzlement. ‘What’s on for afters?’aagh!

In ‘Take a Break’ and other such mighty tomes, when telling the story of e.g a Turkish love rat, each paragraph starts ‘in time…’
‘In time we got married..
’In time, I fell pregnant..
’In time, when he had used up all my redundancy pay…

Every bugger is “leaning in” these days. Our Chief Exec can’t stop saying it.

”We’ve all got to really lean in to this”

Oh fuck off you overpaid useless wanker.

Totally agree with these and would also add 'dig in'..

'Washed down with' makes me feel physically sick.

My 17yo son says 'I'm going gym now' No, you're going TO THE gym.

This is what I was going to say! Drives me mad.

Grabbing things e.g. ‘I’ll grab a Twix’.
Beverage.
Fish supper.
’On its knees’.
Drop or dropped (‘the new album has just been dropped’).
Outwith.

I used to have a friend who always said "You do you..." with a condescending smirk. She's no longer a friend.

No worries
You're welcome
Babe( even though this is one word it annoys me and I needed to share it)😊

'Wholesome weekend'

A relative, who knows he is very welcome to be in my home and can make himself at home, still checks if it’s ok to make himself a cup of coffee before doing so. Which is fine. But it’s how he asks… “am I alright to grab a coffee?”. It wrecks my head!

It may say something about me that I've not heard this phrase.
Is it the opposite of a dirty weekend?

This is a gorgeous tee and would be perfect with a wide-leg jean and a neat ankle boot.

Aaaaaggghhhhh!!!

But worse, a friend of mine now says ‘a tight’ for ‘tights’. I’ll wear that dress with an opaque tight.

"Give it up for **" when someone is asking the audience to clap.

"100%" when someone agrees with you

"Yarr" when someone is using an annoying posh voice to say 'yes'.

"Isn't it?" when it makes no sense to use it in the structure in the sentence.
I.e I say "I'm tired"
They reply "Isn't it?" WTF??

"It is what it is" drives me mental.

Heard on '24hrs in police custody':
"Attemp murder" instead of " attempted murder"

Heard in every gym in the country:

"One more time" instead of "once more"
"Two more times" instead of 'twice more" grrr

Finally, as we live in the UK and not the USA:

'homicide' instead of murder.
'Autopsy' instead of post mortem.
'Your welcome' instead of no problem

‘Checked over’ as in, ‘they went to hospital to be checked over’

‘Curl up’ as in ‘curl up on the sofa’

When ‘respectively’ is used to assign a detail to a subject eg ‘They were aged 20 and 25 respectively’.

sammylady37

But worse, a friend of mine now says ‘a tight’ for ‘tights’. I’ll wear that dress with an opaque tight.

I'll need my control knicker to get into it and I'll accessorise it with my bifocal glass...

Lucky you 😂

'Wholesome weekend with the family'
'Such a Wholesome day at the farm'

I think it just means you've had a good time. 😊

Bosom instead of breast.

Young feller me lad...as my elderly neighbour used to call my then BF. Was rage inducing, just say his bucking name!