Are You Joking Me?

[rockchick78]

Are you joking me?

For some reason this phrase pisses me off!

Are you kidding me? - Makes sense
Are you joking? - Makes sense

Is it just me that this annoys?!

My bad is really pissing me off.

Your love and pity doth the impression fill,
Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?

Shakespeare, Sonnet 112

So "can I get" is as correct as "can I have." "Get" does not have some sort of built-in reflexive as so many posters on MN seem to think.

Maybe, but there's still something a bit harsh and jarring about it. Possibly because I was always told off for saying 'can I have' rather than 'please may I have'. So maybe it should be 'please may I get'!

She was pissed at work has a completely different meaning when using the American meaning of pissed.

DD aged ten texted my neighbour ( on my phone) to say: "she won't be needing a lift this morning as she is going on holiday with her suitcase".

Seek - in that case I think it's your turn with the Pedants' Flamethrower of Righteousness.

Seneca "that verse refers to bad qualities though, it isn't the same meaning as "my bad" meaning "I admit to my mistake".

I always say "can I get..." I can't help it

Schwab Its origin is in basketball. So my bad (qualities) vs. my bad (pass/play/act) is not so very different, I think.

I love this thread, thank you!

I'm thrilled to see I'm not alone with the hatred of the encroaching use of invite . It seems the whole world has forgotten that invite is a verb and invitation is a noun.

IT. DRIVES. ME. BANANAS. Aaaaaarghhhhhhh!!!!

I'm sure you can say "she was sat", as long as she was sat by someone - for instance by a maître d', surely? It makes sense to me anyway.

When people say "I am OCD" about whatever.

OCD is not a verb. It is something you have, not something you are.

YY to "would of", "could of" etc. Arggghhh.

"I hope your well" drives me INSANE. The complete inability of some folk to distinguish between "there", "their" and "they're"...

I could go on. Probably for hours.

Something I'm noticing, from America, is the adding of 'out' where it wasn't used before eg to close out, to swap out. I think it is the slavish copying of Amercian speech patterns that annoys me most frankly, eg 'hall pass'.

Irish here and yes it's a very commonly used phrase in Ireland along with the likes of now we're sucking diesel, that's more protestant looking, leave me be, themuns get everything and we get nathin, away a' that ya wee skitter and many more.

There's nothing wrong with our sayings!!

LadySpratt in N. I. We say invite all the time, did you get that invite, Where's my invite.

My work colleague says "are you joking me?".

But she's French, so has an excuse. British people don't.

"I want to invite you to my party , I'll send you an invitation "
I can't bear it when it's used as a noun! -" Have you had my invite ?"

"How are you ?"
"-I'm good "
"Well, that's a matter of opinion !" Is what I want to reply .

" Let's go get mummy "
No ! - "let's go AND get Mummy "

We are speaking American now not English .

Sales people saying 'yourself' instead of 'you'. RAGE

I was sat or stood if someone compelled me to sit or stand there.

At Sally's wedding I was sat next to a bishop and an architect.

At Sally's wedding, I would have been seated next to the bishop, unless most of the fellow guests were from Yorkshire, in which case I would switch to dialect and use "sat".

Well yes me too really ... but at least it's grammatically defensible.

Yep I agree: the Maitre'd seated me in the corner, not sat me in the corner. It only works if you literally place the person in the seated position eg "she sat the baby in the sling".

So what you are all saying is that you all speak properly all of the time?

Some things people say annoy me and I might moan but surely we are all guilty of this! A lot of these expressions are regional anyway. The world would be a very boring place if we all spoke 'proper' English.

Some words in the English language annoy me, take extraordinary for example. How can something brilliant be extra ordinary? To me that makes no sense whatsoever.

I know it means out of the ordinary, but when it's said to me or when I see it written it always annoys me lol.