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To ask , what is your least favourite word/phase?

422 replies

SteveAs · 07/03/2018 18:54

I will start

Beast from the east- just cringe

OP posts:
SaucyJack · 07/03/2018 21:45

Poop.

Fuck off and learn to speak like a grown-up.

Honourthepromise · 07/03/2018 21:46

‘No worries’ when they mean is ‘I’m terribly sorry’
I always feel like saying ‘no no no no no, I’m not worried. But you should be. In a Margot Leadbitter voice. You lazy miserable git.

Honourthepromise · 07/03/2018 21:46

When what they mean

ForalltheSaints · 07/03/2018 21:47

Big

Very overused word.

Queenoftheblitz · 07/03/2018 21:47

"I'm making steak for tea".
No it's not tea, it's dinner.

jo3009 · 07/03/2018 21:48

"So basically" and "lush"

KriticalSoul · 07/03/2018 21:50

holibobs, amazeballs, YOLO and moist.

i'm guilty of l'il man, I also call him my l'il dude. and I don't care! Grin I also call my dd 'flower' and 'princess'

Jobjobjob · 07/03/2018 21:52

Cuppa

It's a cup of fucking tea!!!

😤

Enterthedragons · 07/03/2018 21:53

Slay

sunshine99789 · 07/03/2018 21:53

Sp*clear

I can't even bring myself to type it in full, I honestly can't abide it in any context.

sunshine99789 · 07/03/2018 21:54

No idea with that corrected s p * c k e r

sunshine99789 · 07/03/2018 21:55
  • why that corrected.

I give up!

Honourthepromise · 07/03/2018 21:57

Example:
Christmas Day in a hideously expensive restaurant that wasn’t really up to scratch that day

Honour: we’ve been waiting a very long time to eat. We had to sit in the bar area for an hour and a half before we came in here, and we ordered our food 45 minutes ago

Waitress: no worries ... I will have a word with, blah blah blah

I’m not worried I’m pissed off. And I’m even more pissed off now that you’ve told me not to be worried.
Why can’t people just say ‘oh, I see’ as a reflex? No worries🙄

Certcert · 07/03/2018 22:02

Reach out. I had a letter from a company a while back saying they had tried to 'reach out' to me by email and had failed so they were now 'reaching out' to me by mail. Aarrgh! I subsequently 'reached out' and put the letter in the bin.

Grin
DevonLulu · 07/03/2018 22:05

Hun!

I’m never Hun. Thank you very much.

tararabumdeay · 07/03/2018 22:06

Yea but..

I'm not being funny...

It makes the reader want to read on.

1st an instant negation of everything one has just said.
2nd one yes you are.
3rd one is a generic comment.

FartAtTheMaddingCrowd · 07/03/2018 22:06

In any way, shape or form.

Aargh.....what's wrong with just 'in any way'

RippleEffects · 07/03/2018 22:10

Mean child/ naughty child/ horrid child.

Massive difference between a child who is naughty (it's their duty to test boundaries) and labeling a child as a behaviour.

Mean child vs child who was once mean to my PFB!

myusernamewastakenbyme · 07/03/2018 22:10

Famalam and hun....but especially hun usually used by women sucked into mlm schemes...do they not realise how thick it makes them sound !!!

Certcert · 07/03/2018 22:19

"Nighty night" Hmm

NataliaOsipova · 07/03/2018 22:24

What is nom nom....?

I too hate "like" as a filler. And "can I get?". Aaaaagh. It's "please may I have".

Also "I'm good" as a response to "How are you?". That's for others to judge.....!

liz70 · 07/03/2018 22:24

Tasty. As in food that tastes good. My mum uses it and I hate it.

Sophisticatedsarcasm · 07/03/2018 22:24

Moist
Fam - just why?

I have to say I use literally all the time. My vocab us3d to be somewhat ghetto b3cause of where I grew up, but since I moved 9 years ago it’s toned right now.
Another one the kids around here use including my lil sis is snide. You hear it from every teen walking down the road 😒

Misseeeee · 07/03/2018 22:31

"Chaps" especially when addressing a mixed group
"Splendid"

As already mentioned:
Om nom nom
Reach out
My bad

Arghhhhgggg!!!

BumDisease · 07/03/2018 22:32

Wow, snide... I haven't heard that in years! Everything was snidey back when I was growing up!