Things adults just shouldn't say

[sevenstarsinthesky]

I was in a shop recently waiting to be served and the woman at the counter in front of me was blocking the shop assistant's access to behind the counter. She smiled to the shop assistant as she let her past and said "My bad!". I think I visibly cringed.

"It makes my teeth itch",
No it doesnt, it really doesn't.

"Yummy, yummy in my tummy" said in a restaurant by a friend in her 40's.

"Methinks", Go away at once you silly prat.

Lots of use of the word "Fella" by teens around here, as in "Hiya, Fella how you doing?". I found this very funny when DS (age 8) said this to his friend along with a slap on the back!

Also "That's so gay" seems to be rearing it's ugly head again, since the stonewall posters have come down.

But surely 'it makes my teeth itch' does refer to an actual physical sensation. Or at least it does in my case.

That feeling you get when someone twists polystyrene. No? Just me then.

My apologies for any offence caused. Duly reprimanded, I will try to curb my use of it in future.

I agree Moose, I get that same feeling touching a wet acrylic jumper

I quite like 'man up' tho, but 'suck it up' makes me feel nauseous.

Did you see the armstrong and miller sketch with the 1st world war flying aces speaking in slang - loved it.

SICK wot kinda word is that man -- chillout and get cool

Thanks Sarf, I it seems no-one else gets it in response to teenage slang-speak though - so I guess I'm still a bit odd. That's nothing I didn't already know though.

Well when | first moved to Bristol - yes - it did annoy me - even though it was their accent. It led to some very confusing conversations and exchanges whereby l was waiting for them to finish the sentence and they were waiting for me to speak.

They would often exaggerate ridicule and even criticise my and my childrens Lancashire accent so I didnt make too much of an excuse for them of it being just their accent.

Haven't read the whole thread (obviously, it's like, 300+ posts long...)

But has anyone mentioned 'as if'? It seems to be a new thing on facebook:

"As if I just woke up!"
"As if I just fitted into my size 8 jeans!"
"As if Grace just burped the alphabet!" etc. It's irritating enough coming from teenagers, but from 30 year old women? No thanks!

I love hearing the kids in school come out with new phrases/slang; language change in action!

Touble is, after using them ironically in the staff room for a while, I find they start to slip into my own vocabulary.

Proper bad, innit?

any quip that's constantly being quipped everywhere is unoriginal and irritating..only becomes funny again if my grandma says it. and then only that first time

the'stupid o'clock' thing
'teeth itch' nonsense

suda sorry if I sounded like I was snarking at you. The 'NO' was because the last poster seemed to be accusing me of hating the way people spoke from 'insert whatever region she is from' and I was specifically and only referring to people who have developed that annoying sing song way of talking.

I was trying to stop a snowball of comments accusing me of being a snob, classist, regionist etc. You never know how things can go on a Friday nigh on MN

I have a distinct accent myself. Its norf lunden mixed up with eas larndan. I am not one to comment on accents.

I cant bear 'at the end of the day'

I'm guilty of 'epic fail' and 'stacking' but my defence for the former is my uber-geek background: programmer/AD&D/gamer/using Internet since the 80s

Ex-skater and snowboarder of many years is my excuse for 'stacking.'

I also get 'crossed-up' (fast, lairy cars) and have 'tankslappers' (bikes...)

Personal hates is the misapplication of technical or other niche jargon to everyday situations (see above.)

I work with people younger than me and we laugh a lot (stressful environment) and we use stuff in a very jokey silly way, favourites are:

Man up
Awesome
Epic Fail
Sorted (that one's mine, I'm old)
Chillax (we don't do much chillaxing though)

We also use fake swearwords like:

Arse
Feck
Bollox

I don't care, life is short, be silly.

'I'm not being funny but . . . .' (cue hideously destructive comment)

'Not being racialist but . . .' (cue explosion of racism)

24/7 or 110 per cent. The kind of gobby bollox that Apprentice types come out with. Along with stupid made up job titles like: 'I'm Strategic Head of Global Synergy'

'Grow up'. Anyone who says this immediately loses the argument.

No MRSDEVERE - you didnt sound like you were snakrking at me. I know what you mean though - it is - if it annoys you in the first place especially - more annoying when affectacious (spelling ? ).

frizz: oh I like you :)

Would you agree however that 'grow the fuck up' carries far more weight? It's one of my favourite saying...

"you know" ending every sentence!!!! Big stupid American habit that's reached our shores!! I hate it. My managing director constantly said it in meetings so I got in to a habit of saying no...no .....no I don't know...that's why your explaining it....no...no... You haven.'t finished tell me yet.
I also use to sit there with a running score on how many time it was said in a creative meeting. We topped out at 320 one day. I hate it!!!!

I thinkmi need a chill pill :))))

uber - as in uber cool

yuck

hogsback - ooh yes - 'grow the fuck up' does have a juicy weight about it. 'Grow up' just sounds pompous and mimsy.

My 16yr old DS and his mates use all of these and it doesn't bother me in the least - when I ring him, he either answers the phone with 'Hello Mummy' (sarcastically!) or 'whagwarn maaaajaaaa' and I find it quite endearing - maybe I'm just weird LOL!!!

I can't stand text speak though - I was taught to use capital letters at the start of a sentence and commas/punctuation etc; as well as proper words. I continue to do that in my texts and I don't care if I have to press a few extra buttons to achieve it!

I used to work at a company that took pride in its professional report writing - when we had new recruits start, I had to take them aside and explain why they couldn't use text speak in their reports and most of them really couldn't understand why

Actually, the one that does annoy me is FML - half these kids don't know they are born!

I'm guilty of a couple of these (stupid 'o' clock, bless, calling friends 'lovely')

However...

I had no idea what 'my bad' meant

I didn't know chillax was a mixture of chill and relax, I just thought it was a made up word people used on Facebook statuses to rub it in that they have finished their housework, paperwork, ironing and everything else and therefore they are better organised than me and have more spare time.

I don't like LOL and I can't even bring myself to use text speak in texts (I've tried but it looks stupid so I have to delete and rewrite), my 50yo SIL texts like a teenager

Also, why has no-one mentioned the use of 'Whoop Whoop' by anyone over the age of 18?

Arneb, your youngest no doubt has a better grasp of language due to hearing you constantly correcting the older ones. That's certainly the case in my house

Serin and Moosemama - my DH says "It makes my shit itch", I'd rather he said it was his teeth itching!

My bad is from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.... Blame Josh Wheedon!

Things I hate include

"At the end of the day"

and dead posh scottish people attempting to use scottish "banter" in emails, etc. One culprit I used to work with used to use "yours aye" instead of "yours sincerely". Unless you're Robert Burns you can't get away with that.

Things I hear myself saying and hate include

Awesome and

Cool.

I've done it since I was a teenager and wanted to be...

Cool.

Argh!