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 😂

Eurgh yes and "snapped up". In the context of "I saw such a good deal I had to snap it up'

Oh no!

Referring to clothing items as ‘pieces’. Not pieces of clothing. Just pieces. Unless you’re the editor of Vogue, stop it.

Agree with pp re ‘reader’, as in ‘Reader, I divorced him …’

Thanks, @ItsBouqeeeet
I agree, I think I have been lucky 😀

It seems odd it needs to be specified - I'm not sure whether an unwholesome weekend with the family or an unwholesome day at the farm would be the more dodgy-sounding of those two examples...

Another one for 'my bad'. It's like nails down a blackboard.

And 'making memories' has evolved to 'making core memories'. Makes me want to be sick when i see people post 'making core memories' with a reel of photos attached.

Afters, dessert and sweet. It's pudding. Or equally acceptable - pud.

Dessert is specifically the fruit course they had at massive banquets.

Sweet is very Betjeman's 'phone for the fish knives, Norman'.

when a poster has bought a job lot of clothes and then says “I bought several pieces and can’t make my mind up”.

No, you bought a load of clothes!!!!

And another thing - fashion writers' habit of referring to everything that CAN ONLY BE PLURAL in the singular.

A red lip. What's the other one, then?

A bootcut jean.

Aaaarrrrgggg.

In NI it would be, can I get a ‘wee’ xyz. 😂😂

There is never any other type of paint than the sainted “Farrow and Ball”.

Just get Leyland Trade, you’ll never know the difference, apart from in your wallet.

Also, not a saying, but I hate it when people tap (unnecessarily long) nails on things when showing them off online.

I hate this too! Also people who flip their hands over and kind of wiggle their fingers under their chin, making a weird live motion frame for their face.

There are loads more but probably a subject for a new thread!

‘Purchase’ instead of bought. “I purchased a coffee”. Just say ‘bought’, you wanker. ‘Purchased’ should be reserved for items that are befitting of a really wanky verb like a company, or a house or a car.

Also “sourced”. You didn’t “source”, you just looked for it online. You didn’t go trekking across the Himalayas for it.

Yes! I say it all the time🤣

I can't stop.

'piece'.

Meaning the subject of.

I've only ever heard it said by heads of department in corporate settings.

The whole 'words that annoy us' piece, eh?

We are where we are

It is what it is

I remember being in a pricey restaurant and the waitress said to me "here's your wee bill"

I wanted to say "are you being fokking ironic???"

Give your head a wobble - sounds unnecessarily violent
We’ll do x going forward - what’s wrong with ‘from now on’?

Hmm the name thing is annoying, because people are so familiar with their own name they assume you must be too and because people will insist on calling from noisy places, with bad signal and hands free, which makes you sound like you've got your head in a bucket, you give up trying to guess what they're trying to say and ask them to spell it and they behave like you're stupid - nope, I can spell Jones, I just can't hear you properly because you're calling me from what sounds like a nightclub, your signal keeps dropping and you're on hands free which means everything is echoing and I'm battling the background noise around you so it could be Jones, Soames, Tomes, Holmes...... Asking you to spell it gives a better chance of getting it somewhere near right!

I agree with your others though, and a few of my own, checking into a hotel
"I'm booking in" nope, you're checking in because if you're here with a room booked, you're already booked in.
And the way some people ask for things
"Where would you like to sit?"
"Can I not sit outside?" Or "Why can't I sit outside?"
Well you can sit outside, I don't automatically know your preference so that's why I'm asking! Just "Outside" or "Outside please" would be a perfectly adequate answer without assuming the answer is no and reacting to that before you've even asked or I've had chance to answer.

🤣🤣

I know why they got rid of the laughing emoji, but I have sorely missed it on this thread!

Gifted, when given a present, item
Just as in just amazing, just wow
Can I get
Plated up

Or 'curated'. 😒

When I leave my mother she says “bye girls”. I’m 53 and my child is 15. So child is arguably a girl but that ship has sailed for me. It irritates me.

I suspect the laughing emoji was used hundreds of times more to show that someone found something funny than to sneer at something. It's a huge shame it's been taken away from us.

I have a habit of saying does that make sense but for me it’s not arrogance it’s thinking I’m shit at explaining! Or if I don’t give all the facts I will be in trouble (childhood trauma). I try and remember the royals never explain motto.