Lighthearted - sayings that annoy you

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Are there any words/sayings that just make your skin crawl for no reason?

I can't stand 'hubby'
Or 'Bae' ... just what even ...?!

Hubby
Ds, dp, ddog! Etc.
Make love
Bae
Chillax
Hun.... arrgghhhhhhh this is particular bad
Chick.... As above

The younger "Love Island" generation who seem to say the word "like" mid sentence all the time. It boils my blood.

I dislike the phrase 'you cant imagine...' and variants there of. I have a very good imagination, and can imagine many things.

Take care
?????
Take care of what exactly?

'In any way, shape or form' has taken over from 'the wow factor' as my number one most loathed phrase.

I think there's probably a big Venn diagram overlap between people who say 'in any way, shape or form' and people who say 'yourself' or 'myself' when they could just say 'you' or 'me'.

Oh and 'cheeky Nandos' really boils me. What's cheeky about it?

It really annoys me when people say someone has 'passed' rather than has died. As soon as someone says it I'm thinking what they've passed the salt ? passed their driving test ? passed the gravy ? passed wind? Just say so and so has died.

In my last office based job there were lots of people who had 'visions' rather than ideas, plans or hopes. Would get asked what my visions were and used to answer 'Used to lock people up in my last job if they said they had a vision' - understandably that used to go down well. Past jobs in mental health services.

The misuse of 'literally'...
Saying 'myself' when 'me' is correct...
YY to 'like' every few words ...
Overuse of the word 'iconic'
Singular when plural is more appropriate (red lip, grey trouser, stiletto heel)

People turning around all the time while they're having conversations! "so I turned around and said..., then he turned around and said..." 🙄

Called in
Hun
Wifey
Hubby

And the word Moist 🤢

'Contact myself'. I think people think it makes they sound more professional or intelligent, but to me, it indicates exactly the opposite.

'Hubs', 'hub', 'hubby'

'Thanks chick'

'Baba' for baby

'Boob' to mean breastfeed

'Could care less' IT'S COULDN'T CARE LESS do people not realise they're saying the opposite of what they mean?!

I forgot to add

Babe/Baby
When people sag AF just say 'as fuck' mother fudger 🤬

Hubs
"Off my own back"

Bog roll - can't avoid it the moment

Do adult people really call it this?
Do you clean your bogs or ask people to use the downstairs bog?

In any way shape or form
At the end of the day
a level playing field
like
innit
So at the beginning of every sentence
I am terrified
he was screaming at me
Brexit has ruined my future

“WE’RE” pregnant. If it’s a male/female couple, no you’re not, men can’t be pregnant
Female/female couple-are you both pregnant?
Male/male couple-wtf?

I’m pregnant or we’re expecting

Does my bloody nut in!

“Living my best life”

Anyone who says "These things happen for a reason" - when we lost the house we were going to buy as the buyer pulled out. It's so trite - what would happen if I had had an accident? Would these people still nod sagely and say, "ah - these things happen for a reason"?
Ditto also anyone who says "it was/was not meant to be". Please, just don't!

"gifted" gives me irrational rage.

I shouted at the telly last night when John Torode said "two of you will be gifted these aprons" on Master Chef.

NO!!! STOP IT NOW!!!

When people on her copy and paste something a pp has said, and write "^ this" underneath. Drives me mad.

"I'm just reaching out to you..."

Normally sales emails

Soz.

If you can’t be bothered to say the word ‘sorry’, then it isn’t a real apology.

When people on her copy and paste something a pp has said, and write "^ this" underneath. Drives me mad.

^ this

Sorry, will take myself off to the naughty step

Ping, as in I'll ping you, no you won't ping me, you'll message me, grow up and stop the trendy Wendy talk you bellend.

The younger "Love Island" generation who seem to say the word "like" mid sentence all the time. It boils my blood.

This ^^

I end up counting the 'likes' in each sentence. I can't help it.

The rise of 'gifted' is bizarre. What on earth was wrong with 'given'?

Or is it an Instagram thing, where it's been co-opted as an attractive cover for the less pleasant but more accurate word 'blagged' and has just seeped into general use?