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Phrases to be consigned to 2018

327 replies

setAsProfile · 29/12/2018 14:13

Mine:

toxic

&

call out

Nonsense of the highest order. Anyone else?

OP posts:
halfwitpicker · 30/12/2018 21:07

Literally

TokenGinger · 30/12/2018 21:14

I'm not crying, you're crying.

I was today years old when I found this out.

Patroclus · 30/12/2018 21:18

People have started beginning internet comments with ''I mean....'' for no good reason.

Lobsterquadrille2 · 30/12/2018 21:30

Ooh, lots of these.

Also:
Über instead of over or very
As you were
Reign in instead of rein in
Cannot bare instead of bear
I'm going against the grain ....

BunnyCake · 30/12/2018 21:33

Unpicking, unpacking and processing.

luckylavender · 30/12/2018 21:33

Yes!!!! Gifted!

yolofish · 30/12/2018 21:41

I would like to support the use of 'so' at the start of the sentence... it's an Irish way of speaking, used as a kind of way to set the scene.

I thought of a phrase earlier today which really pisses me off but now cant remember it I blame the Wine

LabiaMinoraPissusFlapus · 30/12/2018 22:53

Moving forward...

I can forgive this only if you are young, on the Apprentice and anxious to look like a knob.

AyoadesChinDimple · 30/12/2018 23:11

Kids do seem to use 'search it up' where I would say 'Google it'. Drives me mental.

Also the whole 'I was today years old when I found out so and so'.

Ugh

LiveSleepSnore · 30/12/2018 23:14

Unpacking.

Redshoeblueshoe · 30/12/2018 23:18

All of the above
Every thing that has been said is right.

zukiecat · 01/01/2019 16:38

I forgot to add Plating Up to my list

And one I've only heard very recently and only on here, Virtue Signalling

What does that even mean?

missmouse101 · 01/01/2019 18:54

At the close of play (used in an office environment.)

Lomondstripe · 01/01/2019 18:57

‘How odd’ or ‘how strange’ to another poster - just say ‘I think you’re talking shite’ and be done with it, why the faux disbelief?!

YeOldeNameChange · 01/01/2019 19:18

Mac n cheese-it’s MACARONI CHEESE!
Sliders-it’s a burger or a flip flop

Fed up with hearing about (X) privilege. Heard about “thin privilege” elsewhere. Next it will be that good looking people have to atone for their genetic privilege; if you have a good head of hair you must “make reparations” to those without hair privilege ie give hairs

3out · 01/01/2019 19:23

Very much agree missmouse. Hate ‘CoP’!

StealthPolarBear · 01/01/2019 19:26

Safe space

Cop on to yourself

WhyDontYouComeOnOver · 01/01/2019 19:57

@Stealthpolarbear

Ah! An ableist!

Spiceb · 01/01/2019 19:59

Anything with a blessed # hastag from mlm huns #businessowner #livingthedream

Drives me nuts

HeronLanyon · 01/01/2019 20:15

Yeolde - I hate to quibble. Whilst agreeing fully about the dreeaded mac ‘n cheese. It is actually ‘Macaroni and Cheese’. American here so what do I know perhaps Grin

3out · 01/01/2019 20:27

We always called it macaroni cheese (Scotland), that’s partly why I dislike ‘Mac n cheese’ because there’s no ‘and’!

HeronLanyon · 01/01/2019 21:09

‘ Mac n cheese’ is direct from Americanwhere there is an ‘and’ and which makes me hate the ‘n’ even more !! God this is complicated !!

HeronLanyon · 01/01/2019 21:11

Remember when mc became a thing in uk (much later than in us) I hated the UK absence of the ‘and’. No matter it needs to be said fully to avoid my ire.

Myimaginaryreindeerhasfleas · 01/01/2019 21:26

“Loving your work”
“See what I did there?”
And the dreaded “wow, just wow”. Because it never is.

3out · 01/01/2019 21:36

Ah, I understand your ire.

Why do you think macaroni cheese (and/no and) was in America before the UK? I’m not all that old, but it’s been around all my life.