Pet peeves that others may find odd.

[ThishittyLimeCat]

I have so many that I think I should be on an island on my own.

1. People on Tipping Point who don't say please.
2. Describing someone eating as she polished off/ he demolished/devoured...
3. Hun overload, you ok Hun, thanks Hun...
4. Ordering food and drink. Can I get? Probably not from there 😫.
5. People who have to compete with your illness. I had glandular fever I was so ill. Well I had glandular fever twice and I nearly died.
6. Two words I want to kill people when I hear them, one starts with t and means dehydration. But they don't just say it once, they keep saying it without getting a drink.

The second means dinner but used by posh people and elderly, starts with a s.

people saying "How So"

Kiddos. It sounds so RP, but all shades of wrong at the same time.

Personally, I prefer weans, but use children outside Scotland!

Spoons - as in 'I have no spoons for this today'. Commonly used in the ASN community/ parenting community. Makes no sense at ALL.

He said what?? 🤯

Stay home. I m British not American. It's stay AT home. You can imagine my constant disgust at the news throughout the covid pandemic.

Reach out always makes me want to sing "I ll be there" like the four tops (born late 60s).

It is what it is....my manager says that when he means it's a load of shit but we have to do it.

Similar to Stay Home, I hated hearing people tell children to Go Play.

Something described as freshly cooked being "Just out the oven"

That was what she took the biscuit out for!

Shops/cafes that ask you if you’d like to add on £1 or 50p or whatever to Children in Need or similar charity when you’re paying for your items. Gives me the absolute RAGE! How dare they put people in the awkward position of making them feel ashamed by saying out loud that they don’t want to support starving children! These seems to be happening more and more, I always say no out of principle. I do give money to charity but I don’t want to feel shamed into giving it.

Everything is an hack nowadays.
a hack to do x a hack to get X off X.
Stop it.

When someone calls you ‘lovely’ as a noun and not an adjective.. for example.. ‘Thanks for that lovely.’ ‘Hey what you doing lovely?’ What are you doing for lunch lovely?’ - I really fucking hate it! Am I a hater? 😂

And adding the tip charge before you've tasted your coffee and cake..I'll decide if it's tip worthy once I've had a chance to taste what I've ordered.

On Instagram, when I get a follow request, I agree to follow them back, then get inundated with private messages. No, I didn't agree to follow you back to be pestered for ''dates'' by ''lonely widowers with 2 young children, who are army captains!'' Blocked!

Also, the private message pesterers where I ignore them, so they say ''y u ignoring me'' with the most awful spelling and grammar! No Proper spelling, no capital letters, no question marks, so a question becomes a statement! Blocked!

Also, the Instagram where a follow request is wanted, but there's no Profile photo of any sort, no posts, no information! Blocked!

I call that “lazy ‘magazine’ text”, cos no one has ever said that, in real life.

Journalists add it to get their word count up - like they do with Christmas cliches every year.

‘Great Auntie Agatha, who smells of mothballs, falls asleep in front of the tv after too many sherries’.

Shit like that.

@RaraRachael me and DW went together and it was fantastic. There were plenty of other adults without children too.

Thanks for the Faraway Tree suggestions that we won't be odd as two females on our own. Looking forward to it.

Cooking a roast ‘with all the trimmings’. I absolutely hate the word trimmings with unnatural rage! No idea why.

I also hate the word "meal"
I have an aquaintance to says it all the time and its teeth grindingly irritating.
Meeeeeeeeeeeallll. I have to eat my meeeealll.

Yes, I shout at Gordon Ramsey a lot well when he is on TV, I have never actually met him. I like his programmes but he will keep putting a 'k' on the end.

When I did my PGCE, although I was studying to teach in secondary we had a week in primary. A little girl asked me to look at her work which included the word "sumthink" instead of something, I could see exactly where she had got her spelling from.

What’s wrong with supper?

I believe it's also used in Canada.

I've given up with 'disinterested'. I think it's been so misused that the meaning has officially changed

My step children would ask “could we have, like, pizza for dinner?”
To which I inevitably responded, “do you mean actual pizza, or something like it?”
Cue teenage eye rolls, but my point was made 🫤

I have found my person. “I made a meal”, “what do you have for your meal?”: makes me murderous.

Also ‘tasty’, particularly’filling and tasty’ which is a comment frequently used by slimmers recommending a recipe.

And “obsessed”. Grrr.
I need to stop- it’s too early to be this angry.

I have a colleague that does this in emails 'Please may you.' No I will not.

"Myself" is another one. I remember first hearing it in my first job in sales. My then boss explained that it was more formal.

I probably belong in pedants corner but I worry that my grammar isn't good enough.

I was going to say is it a northern thing as I say it. I don’t work in a shop though. You never know , we may see each other again, there’s no time limit on later!

"See you later" or just "See ya" is very common in Scottish shops too.

When I was little it was "Cheerio" but that seems to have disappeared completely.

And in the Midlands. "See you later" can mean anything from "see you in an hour or so" to "farewell, have a nice life" 😂

I love "cheerio". I wouldn't use it with people I know but often use it when shopping etc. Nice friendly goodbye to a stranger