To have an irrational rage that makes me want to gag whoever says...

[AlbaGuBrath]

"Hell to the no"

"Totes"

"Amazeballs"

(the last two combined)

"Chillax"

"My bad"

"Cray cray"

Surely nobody over the age of 15 should use these words in a serious context (even in a joking context if I'm totally honest)

I have this week heard them all used at work by professional, otherwise intelligent people. Please don't tell me it's me that wants to stuff the nearest bit of junk mail into their pie hold every time they speak like this.

I'd agree with most of these (and live with a teenager so am often subjected to them and required to give the death stare) but I really don't mind "I'm good" as a response to "How are you?". It gets on my nerves when people deliberately choose to interpret it as an explanation of character rather than a contraction of "I'm in good health".

Aye was it the fact that schools are clearly back on in my area or was it the posting style that outed me?

Hell to the no, your name gave it away lolz I'm near Inverness so we in back tomorrow!

Mandatory, you are clearly a sane and reasonable person. I'm not. I loathe 'I'm good!' It has replaced 'I'm fine' for no good reason at all. It's not shorter, or easier to say, or easier to spell. 'I'm fine' has no other meaning. 'I'm good' does. So changing the usage has the potential to confuse.

So there.

Ah yes I forgot about my name ??

Has anyone noticed that if you say "I'm fine" people look at you like you're anything but? I admit I now say I'm good because every time I said I was fine people would tiptoe round me like I was about to breakdown in tears/blow up at them. I got sick of being asked "are you sure you're ok?" 30 million times and relented! Although I detest "you good?" As a sub for how are you? My all time favourite response to "you good?" Was "no I'm fucking not" with no explanation given. God I miss my Great Gran

Gawjus

That is all!

AllMimsy - I disagree that "I'm fine" has no other meaning than "I'm well thank you for asking" - it's completely tone-dependent! it can also mean:
• I'm just about holding it together but if you give me an inch I'll bitchplop my entire woeful life story all over you
• I understand that you don't give a shit and are only asking out of convention so here's my conventional response
• what the fuck do you care?
• I don't have the time or the inclination to enter a conversation with you
• I'm about to kill you because you've tried my patience for the nth time so you'd best leave me alone now (usually through gritted teeth)
and probably various others.

A hero chair (from a home magazine). AAARRRGGHHH - it's a chair, just because it's a bright colour does not make it a hero - even if it's "injecting a pop of colour" - and where did you "source" it from? A shop? Or was it "gifted" All this is often to be found in many home type mags. Infuriating

Oh oh oh and can I then add in "a pop of colour" or "it really makes those colours pop!"
Wtf does that even MEAN???

MNHQ said "our bad" in the thread about how to deal with suicide threads a few days ago (at least I think it was that thread).

I sneered.

Can I please offer up 'majorly'? eg:

"OMG - I'm so majorly bored."

urrrrgh!

My kids use so many of these, drives me bonkers. In particular my dd12 says 'bless him/her/them' a hundred times a day which makes me twitch.

What about 'same' as in:

Me "I'm really hungry"
Ds8 "same"

oh no I do some of these
and 'like', 'literally', 'you know', 'you know what I mean', 'actually'. I cant really stop, they're vocal ticks, just ingrained!

I get more annoyed with "like" being interjected everywhere now I'm in Australia, because most of the teens I hear seem to be unable to pronounce it properly and it comes out as "laak" (more of a South African pronunciation, which would be fine in SA! but annoys me here)

Fabulous thread.

Oh yes, majorly is er... Majorly irritating!
I also hate "channelling" in fashion articles.

Thumbscrewwitch - yes, agreed, 'It's fine' is very tone-dependent, whereas 'I'm good!' can only be said in one very bright tone and (at the moment) can't be nuanced at all. This is one of the things that irks me about it as it gives the impression that the speaker is an android set to 'cheery' mode.

fabulous.

Did anyone find out what famalam was!

Isn't Famalam, Family?

• I'm just about holding it together but if you give me an inch I'll bitchplop my entire woeful life story all over you

:o I think this is what "I'm fine" usually means actually... and I need to start using "bitchplop"

I'm in wanky office today. I will no doubt have a wealth of annoying words to add by the end of the day. possibly of police caution also

'On route'

I had to sit on a beanbag today. In a meeting. With the director.

Another phrase that really should be punishable by instant summary execution is "reaching out" to someone, when it is used to mean a phone call or text. Nauseating. I am not "reaching out" to the pizza shop when I phone in an order, for example. It is a simple request for a house special and a garlic.