Basically....

[Fatmanbuttsam]

That's it really.....I hate, with a passion, this word being added in to sentences. It means nothing and adds nothing to a conversation. It is the equivalent of fingernails being dragged down a chalkboard to me.
Today my boss was using it continually (I usually try to ignore it) and after some time I asked her if she could try using it just every other sentence ......by the time she left my head felt like it was going to explode....not only with her plethora of 'basicallys' but also trying t fathom out what she meant by "and you-know-whats-his name, well can you chase up when he's going to get the thingy to us"....sadly it is far to early for so i guess it will have to be chocolate

So, at the end of the day, so as we can be honest all round,new can literally say that actually the word basically effectively drives us round the twist .....sorry

"If I may be forgiven for saying so" which always leads into something unforgivable.

Dd is having to be directed away from "no offense but..."

she bloody knows she is about to be offensive! Aaargh

Along with Basic-ally and Ak-chew-ally may I add my pet hate Lit-er-ally...

I was like, literally, dying

So, you was, like, basically dying?

Actually I was dead!

I'm literally mortified by this thread.

No, gobsmacked.

Is no one simply quite shocked or embarrassed these days?

I absolutely love the word "basically."

Basically, there is nothing that annoys me more than people starting threads with incomplete titles on Mumsnet.

The three little dots ... do nothing to make the thread more interesting. Infact, it seems often to be an indicator of a seriously dull op, ime.

I hate blue sky thinking and comfort zones.

Basically................. it is what it is - which is about to become the new 'at the end of the day'. It's already grinding my ears when I hear it!

'Going forward' ....Fuck off.

BastardGoDarkly My boss used Going forward recently, then stopped and banged her head hard against the table to punish herself. And well she might.

What about "with respect"? Which means "Bollocks".

Yanbu I also hate with a passion....

Sentences started with the word "well....basically"
Makes me rage

My friend told me she was "literally petrified". Sounded awful.

Q I hate the saying at the end of the day! At the end of the day it's night.

As does "don't you think" at the end of every sentence....

Dp does this makes me want to bop him

I was reading a book the other day that had the line "her heart literally exploded in her chest". Said character somehow managed to continue pursuing the object of her affection . I literally took the book back to the library that afternoon without bothering to finish it!

'Don't even go there'! Hate it. It's a 'no brainer', hate that one too.

Sounds like it's her word of choice for a mental pause to give her thoughts time to get from brain to mouth. Some people are more dependent on this habit than others.

As for 'what's his name' and 'thingy', i have a condition that makes me forget nouns. Well, not really forget, they just got lost in that split second between composing my sentence in my brain and saying it out loud. Very, very bad thing to do with professional lingo, not good to be reduced to describing something I MUST know rather than using the word for the tool or process. I sound so incompetent and like I must be lying about my credentials! People that know me get used to filling it in, out loud if others are confused by 'what's his name', or slightly more usefully, 'morning shift guy, balding, has a dog and a blue car'.

Sometimes, the describing triggers the name, or sometimes a confusing synonym. [hmmm]. I was hoping if i typed long enough, the NAME of the condition would surface. But no. Not this time.

'At the end of the day' is used so much round here that i would struggle without it. I would never type it though. Weird!

Sentences without pointless buffer are really funny though. Especially when the person (often me) has to really think to avoid the annoying habit/s!