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To really really REALLY hate it when people say "no?" after whatever point they are making?

37 replies

sneezingwakesthebaby · 14/03/2013 12:08

It really really irritates me and makes my skin crawl every time I hear (or read) someone saying (or writing) this. Its driving me mad. I can't think of a good example but its when they make a point and then say no? at the end like disagreeing with it would be ridiculous. I am being unreasonable, no? ARGH

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pigletmania · 14/03/2013 14:55

My ils say it, tey are Italian and lived in Spain for a bit

Lovecat · 14/03/2013 14:55

Can anyone tell me where starting each sentence with "Exactly!" (whether relevant or not) comes from because DD has started doing this since half-term and it is driving me batshit...

rollmopses · 14/03/2013 14:58

Tom...
Very bird-like, the head-tilt following 'no', being answered by 'no', followed by head-tilt.

[OK, I am bored today]

Megatron · 14/03/2013 14:58

YANBU it is the height of twattishness and I HATE IT!!!

Mandy2003 · 14/03/2013 15:05

YY TomArcher !

I think the No? thing is really passive agressive in fact.

A personal hate is from when I worked in a shop and customers started their query with "You don't have...?" Yes we fucking do, and its over there!!!

ToeCap · 14/03/2013 15:19

Absolutely YANBU - As bad as this awful craze of 'upspeak'. Ending a sentence on a high note? Sort of Aussie style. I could punch people. Antipodeans I will let off, but anyone else grrr

LtEveDallas · 14/03/2013 15:22

Don't move to Holyhead whatever you do.

I'm from Holyhead yeah
I live by the Station yeah
Do you live by the convent yeah?
I don't work for Stena any more no.
Do you drink in the Branch no?
Are you from round here no?

Drives.me.batty.

Acandlelitshadow · 14/03/2013 15:40

I've been known to use both. Especially pleasing when I found out it was winding up my protagonist to a frothing rage Grin

Amykins · 14/03/2013 18:04

It is terribly annoying and affected. Makes the person saying sound like an irritating chick lit character.

NeverWinsMNComps · 14/03/2013 18:32

It does irritate me. One particular MNer does it and I always lose her point in my irritation at the No?

AnnaRack · 14/03/2013 19:00

Aaaargh and people saying "Yes, no, yes, absolutely" when all they mean is "Yes".

JourneyThroughLife · 14/03/2013 19:00

Or the strange use of "me" and "him" at the end of sentences. I once went on a teaching practice north of Manchester and the children spoke like this up there, I'd never heard it before. As in, "I'm hungry, me" or "He's hit me, him". As I live down south I found this really unusual and have never heard it since....

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