What phrases are so annoying you want to scream argh!

[Butterfly98]

A woman I know from evening class has two really annoying phrases. So much so I really want to say Argh very loudly 😠! All of her conversations are full of 'you know what I mean' and 'gobsmacked' and I sometimes wonder if she has any idea how many times she says these words during a 15 minute chat! I'm sure she would be gobsmacked if she counted! Joking aside though, we all look forward to hearing her entertaining stories about everyday stuff told with such dramatic fashion every week! So tell me about someone you know who has some really annoying phrases!

Spoken phrases: "Amazeballs", "totes", "boyf" (as in boyfriend) and "you know what I mean" - in an Essex accent. I think it was the guy off married at first sight that made me become intolerant.

Written phrases (on instagram) "caption this" (usually under a photo of a hot selfie that they couldn't be assed to even try to come up with a witty caption for themselves!). "Real talk" (usually followed by some common sense bullshit like "how many of us girls feel we can't live up to social media standards? To that I say you are enough!" And then worse when that crap is usually commented on by someone saying "needed to hear this today" - I feel my teeth set on edge when I read that! Ugh! And then followed up with the bowing prayer emoji or even the praying hands emoji! I feel like unless it's used jokily - (like praying hands emoji and "hallelujah" as a caption under a big Mac photo for example) then it just makes me think the person using it is a really fake person.

DH tends to say "you know what I mean ?" after he has said something. Sometimes I yell " YES I DO KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN ! You don't have to ask me all the time !" But he keeps on saying it - it's just a habit.

Hubby
On fb selling sites 'need gone asap '

Being my authentic self (completely lacking awareness that we live in a sexist, advertising driven world)

Literally

Like, she said this... like I know... like, whatever

Identity (when describing material reality. You are female, it is not an 'identity'. You are black. You are disabled etc)

Gender (when meaning biological sex)

Reaching out, especially in the work place (argh)

Anything like "flaunted/showcased/displayed her cleavage/pins/toned body" Usually used by Daily Fail journalists who can't fathom that women are just going about their business and that they aren't putting on a show for men.

Probably because they believe that's purely what women's bodies are for.

Hubby
Holibobs
Yummy mummy

Methinks
Nom

‘Beautiful hun’ - usually added as a comment on a pic of some pouting zombie that’s been filtered beyond recognition (and still looks like a warmed-up sack of shit).

Dh American dn
An excessive use of the word like
'Like,totally/ for real/ near'
'And I was like, and she was like ....'

'That is so awesome'
'Yeah whatever'
'Girl please'
And other americanisms 🙄

Reach out
My bad
No brainier

Another phrase of the American dn 'that seriously/ totally sucks ( ass)'

Sorry for all my posts but
Another one is
'Seriously y'all know nothin about nothin ( or shit, depending on her mood)'

Anyone who has says they’ve been “gifted” something. No, you haven’t! You’ve been given a gift

Cis/cis privilege

Transwomen are women, no debate

Wrong side of history 🧐

Yy to x ( famous woman) ‘showing off’ her ‘baby bump’ lips/ boob job or whatever
NO it’s just a human going about their business. No woman shows off these things

Grrr

People who say they have done or did somewhere when they mean went or going to

Last year we did Spain and this year we're doing the Greek Islands.

I've done all the Thai restaurants in this city.

No you didn't/haven't, you went there or you're going there.

To the moon and back.
"Hope you get spoilt rotten!"

I clicked on this thread ready to roll my eyes, because I think we should all be tolerant everyone should put up with my annoying “sort of”s and “do you know what I mean”s and “does that make sense?”s, but then the very first reply had me nodding in agreement. Yes, “boys will be boys” is ugh.

There are lots of horrible workplace ones which I know are awful but I pick up and use anyway. 🙈 Reach out, touch base, how does that land, let’s park that, close of play. And the annoying gesture where you lick your fingertip and hold it up in the air to indicate that someone has invented a number out of nothing.

"Normalcy"

Why don't people just say "normality"

‘As I said...’
‘Believe you me’
‘Bless his cotton socks’ WTF is with the socks?
‘Half a dozen’ FFS JUST SAY 6!

It’s urban for family with its roots in Jamaican patois I think 🤔

Mamma bear
We're pregnant
Naice
Well done that man (or whoever, it's the 'that' that irritates me)

‘Life Hacks’

“I didn’t say nothing”... so you said something?

MIL refers to everyone as being “caught pregnant”, even couples she knows were trying for ages!

At work “I will link in with”... Link off.

Its swings and roundabouts
Ample cleavage/ample assets (JUST NO!)
Hubby/Wifey