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319 replies

scruffybird · 09/10/2011 20:32

Or sayings?

Mine are:
bolt hole
bespoke
Bless

OP posts:
Fixture · 11/10/2011 12:02

"Can I get" is so rude! What's wrong with "May I have... please?"

vixsatis · 11/10/2011 12:05

I know!!!
DS says "please may I have" very nicely

beakinthebeeswax · 11/10/2011 13:37

Shortening names to near-acronyms, ie

Ri-Ri ;Rhianna
TomKat;Tom cruise & Katie Holmes

And the worst of all.....................SuBo

LadyClariceCannockMonty · 11/10/2011 13:55

I don't mind TomKat, although it is a bit lame. Think SuBo is rather desperate. But for some reason Ri-Ri makes me want to strangle someone.

GobHoblin · 11/10/2011 14:04

Spag Bog / Spag Bol instead of Spaghetti Bolognaise makes me feel nauseous.
Touch base

Moving forward

Thousands more but i feel i should stop...

RubyLovesMayMay · 11/10/2011 14:07

Botty to describe your bum...WTF? DH says it to wind me up

Also gusset

ladywithnomanors · 11/10/2011 14:16

flange
scrote
lil'
hun

TheGashlycrumbTinies · 11/10/2011 15:14

Clematis sounds like someone is referring to their lady garden, rather than back garden.

Oops, there's another, lady garden.

Bunsouttheoven · 11/10/2011 15:16

Another one I hate is 'on trend' arghh

Bunsouttheoven · 11/10/2011 15:18

Obviously 'bang on trend' is even worse

BettyDrapersWardrobeElf · 11/10/2011 17:19

I agree with panties and titties being particularly heinous - I recently heard someone on the radio describing a conversation where Bruce Forsyth talked about someone being in just their "bra and panties" and it made me want to rip my own ears off.

Also hate americanisms like
"can I get" - so rude - DH says this simply to wind me up.
"I'm good" or even worse "I'm all good" to mean "no thank you"
There are others but I can't think of them right now.

"ickle" and "hospicle" - I used to work with someone who said hospicle all the time. We worked in a hospital. WTAF?

I work with someone who will clarify something she's just said by saying "in the fact of" e.g. I don't think she's very articulate in the fact of she uses totally meaningless phrases. She also overuses quotation mark fingers - you know when people do " " with their fingers but she uses it in the wrong contexts. It is, quite frankly, a miracle she's still breathing.

Mathewbellamyismyman · 11/10/2011 17:24

Hun

beakinthebeeswax · 11/10/2011 18:40

rocking as in "Rocking the look" or "She rocked up wearing a dress"

I just dont get where it has come from.

I suspect Gok Wan

hackneyzoo · 11/10/2011 18:41

Baby Doctor. This drives me insane, it's so patronising.

hackneyzoo · 11/10/2011 18:42

Oh, and using terms like 'Little man' and 'little lady' to describe your DC. Ewwww.

elesbells · 11/10/2011 18:43

my sister says 'per se' in every conversation Hmm drives me nuts...

Pishtushette · 11/10/2011 21:02

Panties
Spag bol
Any business speak especially touch base

Pishtushette · 11/10/2011 21:03

Oh...and that footballer tense that was discussed up thread So I`ve gone to him and I`ve said blah blah blah

Pishtushette · 11/10/2011 21:06

personable

aquashiv · 11/10/2011 21:09

Leakage
Discharge
Seapage
stain
(can you see where this is going)
I hear what you say (meaning I dont bloody well agree with you one bit)
oxymoran
ducky
what instead of pardon

MadameGazelle · 11/10/2011 21:32

Gawjuss

Written under far too many photos on facebooks where the women look far from gorgeous :D

Pishtushette · 11/10/2011 21:56

Id forgotten about being answering the phone with yellow`. Hate it.

budgieshell · 11/10/2011 22:02

Button
Minger or minging.

Pishtushette · 11/10/2011 22:08

*being should be people

LadyClariceCannockMonty · 12/10/2011 09:42

beakinthebeeswax, I too hate 'rocking the look' but weirdly am OK with 'She rocked up an hour late'.