DH has started misusing "myself", like he's an estate agent or works in a call centre. WIBU to LTB?

[MardyBra]

He had very good grammar when I married him in the last century.

It's very embarrassing.

[PoshPaula]

youretoast I remember a time when those men would have shouted out 'you WOMAN' to footballers missing a goal.

[Littlegreyauditor]

I hate namers, there is no need to use someone's name 17 times in a sentence just because some name badged confidence trickster at a corporate away day told you it "creates that connection".
I hate management speak. Dovetail, upscale, throughput, fucking blue sky fucking thinking. No. Just no.

I have also recently berated a younger cousin for "yolo". What is wrong with "carpe diem"? Simple, elegant, encourages living life to the full, considering the transient and delicate nature of existence and savouring every possible experience.
Yolo on the other hand seems an excuse to transgress in such minor and prosaic ways:
I will have coffee instead of tea because yolo. I will wear my tie slightly unknotted because yolo. I will have the full fat coke because yolo. I will tweet the picture of my eyebrow because yolo.

Wow. That's some day seizing going on right there teenagers. Make sure you fill my entire Facebook thread with your asinine adventures .

And breathe. Breathe, breathe, breathe.

Sorry about that. Yolo annoys me quite a bit.

I agree with the person who said that your DH needs a sharp smack on the nose with a newspaper every time he uses "myself" instead of "me". If he starts using "yolo" you will simply have to cast him out.

[lottiegarbanzo]

Yes, youretoastmildred, that is very true!

[natwebb79]

My DH did that too the other day before I put him right. Again, he'd not done it before. Do you think it's catching?!

[limitedperiodonly]

I've never heard anyone say yolo.

I don't mix much with 20-somethings, for which I'm feeling profoundly grateful right now.

[cafecito]

I'm a mature student

I am surrounded by people with YOLO on their cropped worn with hotpants and tights to GP placement t-shirts

[PoshPaula]

littlegrey you hate management speak? So do you never 'helicopter out and look back down'? Someone said it at a meeting I was at very recently.....

[Quangle]

It's totally cabin crew to me. Any beverage for yourself Madam?

Also have a friend who starts sentences "What it is is....."

[Littlegreyauditor]

Did you slap them Paula? Please tell me you slapped them; it is obviously what they were asking for.

I was once sagely advised to "maximise the throughput opportunities to maintain all your KPIs". I still don't know what that means. I have an A level in English Literature; I can parse classic texts for meaning all day long, I know what each individual word means (well, maybe not throughput) but those words in that order? I draw a complete blank

[Shaky]

My sister puts "To be fair" before AND after every bloody sentence.

For example "To be fair, it was Friday and it was 6 o'clock, to be fair"

It drives me bloody bonkers

[Waspie]

The new(ish) CEO of the company for which I, myself, work, addresses all company wide emails to "Team". This makes my teeth itch. I'd never realised that teeth could, like, really itch before. But he, sort of like, REALLY makes my teeth itch, you know what I mean? Gah....

DP gets stressed during the rugby highlights because Lawrence Dallaglio begins almost every sentence with "very much so...". I, myself, insist on watching the rugby highlights and have taken to saying "very much so" a very lot

[DuchessFanny]

My DDad is ex military, so maybe that's where I get it from except he would probably add in some choice swear words to really make his point.

( he also uses 'tick' in the wrong context .. Probably )

[SomewhereBeyondTheSea]

Thanks for the explanation. Clearly I don't socialise with the youth much. Maybe I should make more effort - hey, YOLO.....

(Did I do it right?????)

[Waspie]

Shaky if your sister had said "To be fair, it was Friday and it was 6pm in the afternoon, to be fair" you would have been perfectly within your rights to thrash her with a cushion. It's the law.

[PoshPaula]

I have managed to stop my DH saying 'not being funny but' by responding with "are you not being funny? I thought you were being funny. Are you not? Are you sure?" every single time he said it. He has stopped. Things are better. Working on the rest now.

[DuchessFanny]

My SIL starts nearly every conversation with 'not being funny, but ..' paula Her DSis and DM do it too. Sometimes I worry how my DBro copes at family functions.

[GoofyIsACow]

Truly bewlidered by an ex boss of mine suggesting we 'pick off the low hanging fruit'

Dickhead...

[PoshPaula]

It's such a meaningless stupid filler!!

[CocktailQueen]

Poshpaula - love it! My bil used to say that and it drove me insane. No, you're not being funny, you twat.

I'd never heard of yolo.

[PoshPaula]

goofy that's hilarious!

[PoshPaula]

cocktail I might try "No, you're not being funny, you're being f*ing irritating".

[Ubik1]

A call centre



Imagine having to work in one of those!

[Quangle]

Also "Not being funny..." means "I'm just about to be rude " so always alarming to hear.

It's a less posh version of "with all due respect..." which means "I'm just about to be rude, poshly".

[ShriekingGnawer]

I know someone who says 'I want to say...' all the fucking time. Well, why don't you just say it then? Oh, that's right, you are!

DH says 'good point, well made' rather a lot because I'm always right I always reply 'No it's not, I just said it, you twat'.

[ThreeBeeOneGee]

Ah yes. Reflexive pronounitis. Unfortunately, the condition is very difficult to cure and can be contagious. DS3's Reception teacher had a terrible case of it.