If my SIL says " okey cokey" again I'll scream.....

[MintyChops]

Just that really. She is staying at the moment and everything is okey-frigging-cokey. I know I'm being intolerant and unreasonable but it's really irritating....

My boyfriend occasionally says "Oakily doakily"

I think I might LTB

I use 'the thing is' rather a lot as a preface.

Is that bad?

I hate it when people get stuck on a certain word/phrase and drop it into every conversation about ten times. It really winds me up.

Especially if it's a word that they pronounce wrongly or use in the wrong context.

I had to give my name and address, phone number etc to an estate agent on the phone once, and he said:

Him: Can I get your contact details at all?

Me: At all?

Him: Name?

Me: MadIsTheNewNormal

Him: No problem at all. Address?

Me: Mad's House, Mad Town.

Him: Lovely. That's no problem at all. Telephone number?

Me: 298479285798347

Him: No problem at all. email?

Me: [email protected]

Him: Lovely. Great. No problem at all.

Me: Twat.

Mad- the fact he was saying 'no problem' would have wound me up more than the 'at all.' You are answering his question why would it be a bloody problem!! Real pet hate of mine!

An XP of mine always used to say "hairy muff" if anyone said "fair enough" in his presence. It used to make me cringe so much. Both annoying, and also sort of weird in a way that offends the feminist in me in a way that I can't put my finger on.

Worst thing is that 3 years after dumping him I still hear it in my head whenever anyone says "fair enough". He's fucking ruined a perfectly inoffensive, oft-used phrase.

Exactly *Henrietta!

Instead of saying "what a polava" I say "what a pavlova"

As if he was ever going to say 'aaah, now that answer is a problem. I'm afraid I am going to have to insist that you give me a different address.'

I think 'at all' is the word equivalent of rising inflection

tallwiv I think I would've had to shag the pepsi max man just to test him out. Irresistible!

Bit, definitely LTB.

Suzanne, that's fine, as you were.

She has said it about 40 million times today and isn't going home until tomorrow evening. Aaaaagggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!

Colleague says "cool beans" all the time.
Thank god in on maternity.

I say exsqueeze me instead of excuse me. And hokily dokily. I'm sorry.

You get "coola-boola" a fair bit in Ireland. It's enough to make me glad I emigrated.

What about hotel receptionists who say "for you" after everything?

Eg "the bar is just along there to the left for you"

Makes me stabby

rofl at cranking it up to the pepsi max!!!]
please tell me this is serious

i would actually wey myself laughing if someone said that to me

Lucy, coola boola is right up there with okey cokey.

what on earth does cool beans actually mean???
never heard of that before

i like what a pavlova
that would make me laugh

I hate it when people get stuck on a certain word/phrase and drop it into every conversation about ten times.

I love this! We had a workman a while ago who punctuated all off his sentences with "In all fairness".

DP and I couldn't look each other in the eye after about five minutes in all fairness.

I teach teens. I have one who says 'lol" at the end of every sentence. I mean actually says it. 'Lol'. Makes me want to scream. Lol.

I think one should strive to be in tune with the 'zeitgeist' on this issue and develop an instinct for the moment when any phrase becomes overused and thus clichéd.
That is the moment to drop it and use something else.

I have sometimes found it possible to cure a person of using annoying phrases, the trick is to project a very subtle sense of disparagement, to convey a feeling that the use of the phrase marks them out as an inferior person.
It needs to bypass their conscious processing to that they internalise the message and just naturally stop the okey-cokey-ing

Where I live, everyone seems to preface every sentences with either 'to be fair' or 'to be honest'. Even when it's something that doesn't require either fairness or honesty, like 'To be fair, I think it's going to rain later.' I've stopped hearing it.

Pepsi must be thrilled to know that their marketing has lodged itself into the national consciousness. Like a splinter.

I worked with a woman who ended most sentences with "and everything and that lot"

As in, "well I took my files to the typing pool and everything and that lot and they said they'd do it later and everything and that lot"