One hundred and ten percent..!

[MrGeresHamster]

AIBU that my skin crawls everytime I hear someone say 'one thousand percent', 'one hundred and ten percent' and all other impossible use of mathematical percentages...?

This winds me up senseless. Every single episode of the apprentice I had to be restrained from throwing bricks at the TV. Even my boss who is a highly intelligent man used the 110% remark.

100% IS AS HIGH AS YOU CAN GO

Yabu it means that you are extremely sure than what you are saying is correct

Ahhh, thank god it's not just me then! I quite often have to restrain myself from snapping back 'it's impossible to give more than 100% you muppet'

I 1 million % agree!

11 out of ten etc similarly annoys me.

Lol it doesn't wind me up that much

But since rookie mentioned the apprentice....

It really winds me up when Alan asks who led the team and they all say "That was myself Lord Sugar"

Don't they ever use the word "ME" any more?

McHappy - no, it means you have a very poor grasp of mathematics and have just demonstrated this to the person you're speaking to.

< high fives PieSmuggler >

Depends on the context. It is quite possible for (say) a price to rise by 150%, but, yes, when people say they are 110% committed to something it's a crime against logic.

It annoys me as well.

And the only time "11" is acceptable is in the context of This Is Spinal Tap.

It winds me up more when people don't acknowledge it's perfectly possible to have 110% in the correct context.

LRD you have a valid point there, 110% can be plausible in certain situations... It's the rise of its incorrect use that winds me up!

YANBU! it annoys me no end, especially when you're trying to fix in children's minds the concept of percentages. And "per cent" MEANS per hundred!

I am of course discounting the use in the context described by ComeIntoTheGardenMaud

'Very unique' is the one that makes me want to do damage.

It's unique or it isn't; you cannot quantify it.

Okay, I can't check if this is the right clip as the sound isn't working on my laptop.

Oh, god, thank you SO MUCH for saying that tethers. It drives me bonkers. I tense up whenever I hear it.

I have heard it from people who I thought were really intelligent and it makes me want to murder them.

(overreaction? Me? Never!)

I've recently started hearing this horrible phrase: 's/he excels better than the others'.

tethers - that sort of thing grinds my gears as well. Like how sport pundits talk about "pace". As in "The game had a lot of pace". What, slow pace? Fast pace? What sort of pace exactly?

"New & improved" .......ONE OR THE OTHER FFS!!!

Yama that is exactly it!

So how come figures like 2.4 babies are born per family can be given. To me you can not get a 0.6 of a person.

Some stats don't make sense

X-factor hasn't even started yet...

mc - because it's an average?

Well 110% is above avarage lol

To me you can not get a 0.6 of a person.

Well...you can...but I think it would be a bit messy.