Myself, ourselves, yourself.

[DontBiteTheBoobThatFeedsYou]

For some reason I really really hate it when people say "myself" instead me or I.
And I was hit with a Christmas triple whammy today.

I was on the phone to someone to someone who was helping me sort out some uni payments (that they had buggered up). He was being really helpful but the conversation was painful.

"I'm sure I can get that sorted for yourself. Have you received an email from ourselves? If not I can send you one from myself. I'll do that now.
When you receive the email from myself, follow the instructions, print it out and send it back to ourselves and we get get it sorted for you.
Any problems just email myself and I will help you."

Waaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!

Ourselves wrote to yourselves...I hate it too

Hate this too!...

Was he also inclined to pop you an email, pop you in hold etc? Ever thought of replying in kind until he gets the message?

Myself is ringing yourself about the student loan that myself was expecting yourselves to pop over to myself.

Could yourself wait just a moment, I need to look up myselves account number. I think myself popped it down on a piece of paper.

Thank yourself so much, yourself has been really helpful to myself.

Ugh! It always sounds so pompously stupid.

Like the sayer is trying to sound posh but failing dreadfully.

(Add to that all those call centres that specialise in cringey levels of obsequiousness, horrible!)

A related annoying term is “in myself/yourself”. How do you feel in yourself? As opposed to just how I feel?

Yeah I used to work in a call centre and myself and yourself was used a lot.

It's a good way of signalling that you are quite thick but are trying to make yourself (lol) sound intelligent.

I hate it too. Always feels like office workers who think they know more than they do. I barely went to school and certainly didn’t make uni but the use of those words always makes me think of someone who’s trying to sound educated.
I, however, just sound like a bitch now.

Imagine it getting to the end of the evening and himself whispers into yourself's ear "Myself loves yourself"

Were they Irish OP?

It’s common parlance in Ireland. To the degree that you would barely notice it.

Hate this!

People think they sound so posh, but fail miserably and just sound incredibly thick.

Like the sayer is trying to sound posh but failing dreadfully. YES!

Were they Irish OP?

No, very English. From the south of the south English

It grates my cheese. Happens all the time on here too.

I work with someone who does this. "Just come and talk to myself" and the like. Dp has happily adopted it as his new favourite phrase.

I remember listening to a pompous git giving a talk who loved himself so much that he would say 'I, myself personally' like he was there in triplicate.

This really makes myself cringe.

Usually comes with an obvious ‘phone voice’

I was eliminating yourselves and myself and ourselves from letters dictated by my boss in the 1970s. I don't think he really noticed; he signed them without complaining when they had you, me, and us in them instead.