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Things adults just shouldn't say

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sevenstarsinthesky · 27/01/2011 14:17

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.

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kirriemummy · 29/01/2011 02:02

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!

kirriemummy · 29/01/2011 02:03

also people who repeat themselves unneccecarily .... Blush

SudalivefromHMP · 29/01/2011 08:21

Becklesparkle - my DH says 'Daft o clock' - must be the Northern version Smile.

SudalivefromHMP · 29/01/2011 08:24

Oh yes Kirrie - especially when telling a funny tale and everyone laughs so they repeat the punchline - its like theyre seeing how many times they can make you laugh with same thing

  • err that'll be once I'm afraid.
MsKLo · 29/01/2011 08:33

I love CHILLAX to because it is soooo annoying

But would never say it seriously!

onmyfeet · 29/01/2011 08:51

I cringe at women using baby talk or saying they are naughty. I think of a grown woman peering coyly through her heavily mascaraed lashes at a young man who has a deer caught in headlights expression, half her age who is trying frantically to find the exit door.

moominmarvellous · 29/01/2011 09:35

Text speak is the worst for me, from anyone really but especially from my older sister she's 15 years older than me and I can barely understand her texts! I don' mind the odd c or 2 but she takes it to the extreme, it's all 'thx thts gr8 c u tmz' leaves me completely baffled!

A friend of minerecently had a death in the family and received a text from her older work colleague saying 'sorry to hear about your uncle LOL' she thought it meant lots of love.

Actually did make my friend LOL :o

linziluv · 29/01/2011 09:47

My mum often comes out with "buzzin'!" which can be embarrassing! My sister and I are always cringing at mum's vocab!
I'm guilty of using "cool" an awful lot, and I often say "bear with me" which annoys me the second it leaves my mouth!!

piebald · 29/01/2011 09:55

I cant stand "bear with me"

TheGoddessBlossom · 29/01/2011 12:08

End of the Day

Step up to the plate

Awesome

Bless

Totally

well (nice/cool/happy etc)

In terms of

Leverage

Ringfence

First of all/second of all

"You know what?" prefixing every sentence (Americans do this ALL THE TIME)

FancyALittle · 29/01/2011 12:19

"I'm good."

e.g. "Would you like a cup of tea?"
"I'm good"

theDudesmummy · 29/01/2011 12:41

My stepdaughters are South African and they say "my bad" a lot, I think it must be in general use there too thse days. They also say "gotten" for got, which drives me nuts I have tried correcting them and telling them this is American, but they keep right on doing it. Can't keep nagging!

Afriad I do say dude but only in the context that we call DS (21 motnhs old) "the Dude". Don't know why exactly, it kind of goes with his name...

SarfEasticated · 29/01/2011 14:05

I find "don't go there" rather galling, that and a person's action "comes from a _ place"
terrible 1990's US sitcom language.

PlasticLentilWeaver · 29/01/2011 15:43

kirrie 'yours aye is a standard sign off in some forms of military letter - its not necessarily the person is a twat (although they still might be). it might just be how they've been taught to write letters.

I hate people using the wrong tense, as in I'm sat here. No, you're sitting.

thefirstMrsDeVere · 29/01/2011 17:57

What I hate most is not a word but a way of speaking.

Its very common on Jez Kyle and rehabby type programmes. Its when people talk in a sort of pyscho babble/social work/justice system mixture of jargon and 'the right thing'.

Like they know what they need to say for the judge to let them off or the sw to think they are clean etc.

Its all jumbled up and means nothing.

Yeah I know I was bang out of order and I need to step up to the plate and be a real man. I need to take care of my kids and turn over a new leaf, make a fresh start. etc etc etc,

I am alchohol dependent/compulsive liar/a substance abuser etc etc etc.

Sorry if I am not explaining it clearly, just watch JK on Monday and you will understand - you get me?

Moneyspider · 29/01/2011 18:16

"Good times"

Most commonly used as a sentence in its own right at the end of a particularly self-indulgent description of an event the writer has enjoyed.

E.g.

"Cuddling with my little princess on the sofa; Daddy chopping logs for the wood burner; milk warming on the aga ready for hot chocolate.
Good times."

Frizzbonce · 29/01/2011 19:25

The word 'like' when it's used as a verb.

So I'm like so pissed off and she's like whatever and I'm like chillax and she's like yeah she's not all that she's like . . .

Fucking demented teenage language. Learn to talk proper!

Frizzbonce · 29/01/2011 19:28

Oh and I nearly forgot - a particularly putrid couple of Americanisms. In fact the US is full of these meaningless self-help blah books that basically tell you the problem is YOU and your attitude and they are nearly always written by some orange faced twat with big teeth. Anyway back to the sayings:

You need an attitude adjustment.

And:

Turn that frown around.

No. Fuck off you American cunt.

dearprudence · 29/01/2011 19:54

Not sure it's a teen thing, but when did shop assistants stop saying

'Can I help you?' and replace it with

'Are you alright there?'

Makes me a bit cross.

googoomama · 29/01/2011 22:13

"You're a star!" No I'm not...I just agreed to do you a small favour. And it's so patronising.
"Miss, I'm done". No, you're finished.

bestmamaderwelt · 29/01/2011 22:58

'MILF' should never be said by anyone!

mizzundastood · 29/01/2011 23:23

Laters, especially with the t dropped, to say see you later.

And heaven help me if they add babes or peeps to it.

Aaagh!

UnquietDad · 29/01/2011 23:51

Oh, good, Moneyspider, you have encapsulated exactly why I hate "Good times" so much. So insufferably smug and twee, and so over-used on Facebook by people who want their lives to seem like the Boden catalogue!

BelaLugosiinStripes · 30/01/2011 00:35

Moneyspider and UDQ - the "good times" also loathed here! It seems to be being used loads on facebook and twitter; it makes me feel nauseated Envy

chickadee87 · 30/01/2011 00:46

Dearprudence i used to say that when i worked in a shop - saying 'Can i help you?' hundreds of times a day can get a bit boring. Its hard trying to mix it up! In fact we were supposed to say 'How can i help you?' or 'I see your looking at waterproof jackets, do you want it to be breathable?' blah blah blah.

I dont like 'at the end of the day'