AIBU - so to speak?

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AIBU to give my male colleague a great big slap across the face? He loves his sayings and his favourite is currently "so to speak". We share an office so I have to listen him say it at least 20 times a day! Fine if the things he was actually saying are "so to speak" but they are not!

It's grating in me now big time!

*on not in!

A variation on Miranda's mum's 'as it were'. Must be vair annoying...

Very annoying, one of my colleagues uses 'How shall I put this?' in practically every conversation even worse ds2 has started saying it too. (They've never met!)

Thankfully I get to go home now. Tomorrow I may keep a tally of how many times he uses it!

I have a friend who literally peppers every sentence with literally. Literally, I was just talking to her last night. Literally, she says it all the time. Literally, I want to slap her in the face sometimes if she wasn't such a good friend!

No YANBU!
These are phrases that have grated on me in various jobs I have been in.
"At the end of the day"
"I'm afraid"
"can I get"

My mum does the "as it were" thing. It drives me insane. It's utterly meaningless but because its middle class sounding people get away with it. If she were saying "d'you khah what I mean?" It wouldn't be tolerated. Bloody double standards. :)

My job share work colleague used to say "to make a long story short" she never did, and she also overused "just to give you a heads up"

DP says "I'm not that concerned" all the time. Usually when he is, infact, concerned.

I have a colleague who peppers every sentence with "d'you know what I mean?"..... this is annoying in itself but the fact that he seems unable to articulate himself properly means that I very rarely know what he means

I feel like screaming "if you fucking explain yourself properly then I would fucking know what you mean & you could stop fucking asking me!!!!!!"

WOW it feels good to get that of my chest

I had to call up a hospital department recently with some quite serious questions. The woman I spoke to was very well-informed and nice, but, yeah, she kept saying yeah, yeah? As she answered my queries, yeah? So everything she said, yeah? Was studded with yeahs, yeah?

It was like a verbal tic. Kind of hypnotic

No YANBU, I could have happily silenced Darcy Bussell with a wet kipper during the last series of strictly, yah.

I used to work with someone who used to use the word "essentially" when explaining something. It ended up rubbing off onto about 3 other people including me in our team. I'd slap him before it rubs off onto you too...so to speak.

Fakebook unfortunately it did slip out of my mouth in a conversation with DH last night! Ashamed!

Off to work now I will be keeping a tally and a note of any other phrases he uses. It will probably be the most exciting thing I do all day.

My cousin likes to start every conversation with 'to cut a long story short'. as soon as he gets to the long bit, the kettle is on, a fag is lit and the cushions are plumped ready for me to sit down. One of these days he will hear my brain screaming 'I wish you bloody would'

I have a friend who finished every sentence with the words "or whatever"

I bought a new top. Or whatever.
It's nice out. Or whatever.
I'm tired. Or whatever.
Honestly, after everything.

I love her, but it made me want to throttle her.

So I told her.

She's managed to train herself out of saying it. Bless her. She's a love.

Love that you told your friend Hecsy.

Well it must be the power of mumsnet but he has not said it once this morning! He has had perfect oppurtunity too......feel a bit dissapointed!

Maybe he is on mumsnet