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Original poster

To hate the following phrases...

32 replies

MrsWinnibago · 21/08/2014 23:30

Hacked off
Stumped
"I'll tear you a new one" (this one is particularly disgusting imo)

I read them FAR too often on MN. Angry

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bearfrills · 21/08/2014 23:32

The only ones I've seen are hacked off where the person posting has been a bit angry and stumped where they don't know something, as in "I was stumped". I don't find either of them to be disgusting TBH.

I've never seen "I'll tear you a new one" on here. Maybe I'm hanging out in the wrong section :o

WooWooOwl · 21/08/2014 23:35

Hacked off is irritating, I grant you. Just use the word pissed. It's not that bad.

I can't see the problem with the word stumped.

Ill tear you a new one isn't a particularly nice phrase, but it is delightfully descriptive in the way that only truly crass phrases can be. I'd let that one stay.

CatsRule · 21/08/2014 23:35

Can we add...my bad...to that please...it's especially cringeworthy when it's said not only by anyone over 18 but by adults in a work setting!

Original poster
MrsWinnibago · 21/08/2014 23:36

I think stump is such an ugly word. And hacked off makes NO sense.

"I'd tear him a new one" crops up loads on AIBU.

"Dh has eaten my chocolate"

"Tear him a new one"

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Thebodyloveschocolateandwine · 21/08/2014 23:36

What does i'ii year you a new one actually mean?

Stumped and hacked off? Fairly innocuous I would say for mumsnet.

Original poster
MrsWinnibago · 21/08/2014 23:37

Body I've always assumed it meant a new arsehole.

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Thebodyloveschocolateandwine · 21/08/2014 23:37

Tear sorry!

Original poster
MrsWinnibago · 21/08/2014 23:37

I know stumped is innocuous but it MAKES NO SENSE! Grin

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bearfrills · 21/08/2014 23:38

I'm sure it's a cricketing term.

Thebodyloveschocolateandwine · 21/08/2014 23:38

Oh right. Then agree on that one. Yeuk!

Thebodyloveschocolateandwine · 21/08/2014 23:40

Yes stumped is probably a cricket term. Must google where hacked off came from now. Op I was going to sleep! Grin

JulyKit · 21/08/2014 23:43

ITYAKO - awful. And brings horrible meaning to this: Angry too....

As you can see, I can't even bring myself to write it, it's so horrible - I think the acronym is quite elegant, though...

A really irritating phrase? "I don't have that privilege."

LoofahVanDross · 21/08/2014 23:53

on here I can't bear that sarcastic 'non?'

also heard 'my bad' in a work setting - awful

fuck off and then fuck off some more

but I have no problem with stumped or hacked off.

not keen on 'pissed' as in angry as that sounds all American.

LadyFairfaxSake · 21/08/2014 23:56

"So..."

Muddlewitch · 22/08/2014 00:04

Absolutely agree with 'my bad' I can't stand it!

AmIthatHot · 22/08/2014 00:26

Pissed is drunk, surely

TheFillyjonk · 22/08/2014 00:33

"Stumped" is a cricket word - I agree it's got a horrible sounds though.

I really, really hate "Pull your finger out". I always mentally add "of your arsehole" to the end of the phrase... No idea if the context is actually meant to be that crude, but that's how I receive it.

"She's been wiping his backside for the last fifteen years" when talking about somebody doing far too much for someone who should be independent. Ew. It's grim.

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MrsWinnibago · 22/08/2014 00:40

Filly Oh GOD yes! I'm sure most people don't think of it in that way but that's what it means isn't it?

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Gruntfuttock · 22/08/2014 00:52

"ITYAKO - awful."

What does that mean? It seems, judging by the other letters, to be a variant of "I'll tear you a new one" but I'm ....erm.....stumped Wink

IMO there's nothing more annoying than the new fashion of beginning sentences, or answers to straightforward questions, with "So......"

TheFillyjonk · 22/08/2014 01:07

Glad it's not just me, MrsW... I can't think what you'd be pulling your finger out of that isn't a bodily orifice of some sort. Unless you're Little Jack Horner.

TheFillyjonk · 22/08/2014 01:09

ITYAKO - I'd tear you a knowledgeable one? I'd tear you a knavish one?

What does the K stand for? I'm stumped too (but not hacked off Wink)

Andrewofgg · 22/08/2014 05:19

"Bear with me" meaning "I am going to keep you waiting". It's used to make you feel that their piss- poor service and inadequate staffing is somehow our problem.

nevereverpost · 22/08/2014 06:55

"Bear with me" meaning "I am going to keep you waiting".

Very perceptive of you Andrew Grin. In my call centre days it was used a LOT as a not very polite alternative to 'please shut the fuck up and stop asking new questions while I try to find out the answer, or I'll put you on hold and you know how our hold music has you climbing the walls!!'

Flipflops7 · 22/08/2014 06:56

Hacked off is normal for me (the phrase not the condition). Pissed = drunk and pissed off is what I would have said in my teens, not now.

A MN phrase that hacks me off is "boils my piss" eurghh. I have never heard this IRL.

I always say bear with me in Miranda lady voice or else bear with me, there's a bear with me (I don't remember which show that came from).

LadyFairfaxSake · 22/08/2014 08:40

Flipflops7,
Boils my piss may be a variation on "makes my piss fizz" - DP is fond of this. As an intensifier he prefers "makes my shit itch", he's got a colourful turn of phrase!