To detest the saying "I'd have ripped them a new one"

[MarthasGinYard]

When talking in anger or annoyance about someone.

I saw today, the horrific saying in full...."I'd have ripped them a new arse hole"

I find this an extremely grim expression.

Anyone else hate this one? or should I hoik up my Hyacinth Bucket twinset and try to be more accepting of this unsavoury phrase?

Bertie I think that's more likely to be right. I found this, which includes the full quote from Sometimes a Great Notion (Ken Keasey, 1964). (NB it contains a racial slur.)

So it could just be a variant of "tear you up" (i.e. to beat someone so violently it causes lacerations).

Interesting to note that Ken Keasey never served in Vietnam, so is unlikely to have heard the phrase there. However, he did spend time at a veteran's hospital as a paid volunteer in drugs trials, in 1959. So it could well have originated in the military - but I think it's highly unlikely to have originated from surgical procedures in Vietnam (and certainly not from modern day gang culture!)

I’m pretty sure most people who use it are just using a turn of phrase without any deep thought as to the etymology.

I think you're right, there. Dave Gorman did a piece on people using phrases for their perceived meaning without paying any heed to how the phrase comes to suggest that.

Using "the most fun you can have with your clothes on" simply to mean "it's a lot of fun" as opposed to the implied "sex is the most fun thing you can do, but this is the next most fun thing".

My favourite one he mentioned was at a wedding, where (IIRC) the father of the groom described the bride's mother as a MILF, whose good looks had also been passed down to her DD (his DS's new DW). He just knew that it was a colloquial term meaning 'a very attractive/glamorous older lady' and was intending to pay an innocent compliment to both women without realising the literal meaning of the phrase and thus what he was actually saying

YANBU

YANBU see also anything involving bitches, sons of bitches and motherfuckers. Charming Naval slang we gave to the USA and USA has given back to us in spades errrghhhhh.

Yes it is awful. I heard it for the first time only recently I laughed nervously out of shock. I was working in a different office, a senior colleague said at after a annoying customer call. I was in shock.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll Oh bless the poor FIL. 🤣😳

I also don’t like the phrase, but what irks be more is the usage for such aggressive language seems to be used on here over moderately (at best) irritations. When you start to use hyperbolic, cruel phrases to describe mildly annoying situations or people you dehumanise them.

This kind of thing:

“Somebody cut the queue in Lidl - WIBU to rip them a new one?”

“YANBU - that boils my piss”
“That makes me livid. I’d go ballistic”

Etc

I hate the phrase "Not my monkeys not my circus" - What does that mean?

Also, "my bad" ??????

I hate the phrase "Not my monkeys not my circus" - What does that mean?

It means it's not my problem,it's someone else's.

Also, "my bad" ?????? My mistake

I hear that expression all the time and never considered it to be associated with rape, I always saw it as kind of an angry, tear you to shreds, kind of response?

One I came across recently on Reddit, and really like, is "you can't put flowers in an arsehole and call it a vase"

Relates to making excuses. I'd love to use it one day but don't know if I'd be brave enough.

I hate "I don't have any skin in the game/race".

Makes me think of a greyhound race with long bits of dried-up skin instead of the dogs.

I have no issue with it. I've said worse.

I love the imagery of not my monkeys, not my circus. Monkeys running around, breaking things and you just have your hands in your pockets, watching, waiting for the clowns and everyone to come and try and catch them.

I just imagine little monkeys in tutus on (tied onto) the back of little shetland ponies riding around in a circus ring.

I saw this one as a child. It obviously left a deep impression.

The monkeys are swinging on trapezes in my imagination. Very good at it they are too. 🐵

'And I see all the time on here

'I'm so pissed at my DP' etc

Never hear this in RL either'

I certainly hear 'I'm so pissed OFF with so and so'. In my experience, British people use 'pissed off' to mean angry and 'pissed' on its own to mean drunk. I've only heard 'pissed' on its own for 'angry' from Americans.

You read 'Aibu to be pissed with....'

All the time on here

Some people say these things without ever thinking about what they mean.

My OH uses that expression. He also talks about 'stringing people up'. Turned out he never realised it meant hanging.

I have never heard or read this expression...shocking!!

I haven’t RTFT and I can’t believe in all of these pages no one has said it already, but I’ve come to quote Mark Corrigan on this one.... “... In this mad new world of yours, I'd presumably shove my four bollocks up her two anuses for some unknown reason.”

'Some people say these things without ever thinking about what they mean.'

Even so

It's a pretty grim turn of phrase.

AllTheWhores Pretty sure you are the first! I'm rewatching Peep Show atm and can't remember that bit, maybe I haven't got to it yet.