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Words and phrases that you can't stand...

633 replies

DilemmaADay · 18/10/2020 14:57

What words and phrases irrationally (or rationally!) annoy you.

Mine are:
'Doggo' - DP uses this all the time, why make the word 'dog' longer
'No is a complete sentence' - just sounds so dismissive and I doubt anyone IRL would talk like this
'That doesnt work for us' - just sounds rude
'Little man' to describe a boy
'Hubby' - this is irrational as loads of people say this
'Boils my piss' - conjours horrible images in my head Grin
'Move on' when talking about a bad situation - yeah, because the person with the problem really hasn't thought about that Hmm...
'It is what it is' - one if those phrases that seemed to spawn from Love Island, I dont know why I hate it.

Any more?

OP posts:
Lookingoutside · 19/10/2020 01:45

In the middle of a pandemic.

I can’t/won’t etc put my head above the parapet. 🙄

I generally didn’t mean it. (It is FUCKING GENUINELY!!!)

seayork2020 · 19/10/2020 01:47

@Itsmybirthday19

Full time mum. Because when I'm at work I revert to my child free, 23yo self. Forget all about the little sods until 5pm. We all do, right? It's like a holiday!
ha!

you made me genuinely laugh at that

(actually the word genuinely annoys me)

ShopTattsyrup · 19/10/2020 02:16

I hate infantilised words: Chocy, biccy etc.

My boyfriend's family use it all the time to me. "Would you like a chocy biccy?"

PoorMansPaulaRadcliffe · 19/10/2020 02:25

People exhorting me to 'remember to breathe'. I've never once in my life forgotten to breathe. Thanks, though. Good shout.

liverbird10 · 19/10/2020 02:55

@PhilSwagielka GrinSorry to read that. I for one will try and cease using it in your presence.

PopsicleHustler · 19/10/2020 03:31

Total ledge.
Get it down ya.
Fags.
Babes.
Brought it at the shop. (Its bought)
Caught pregnant.
Babby.
Bubba.
Calling every baby a lil heartbreaker.
I've got this.
F my life.
Hubster.

UnaCorda · 19/10/2020 05:33

Edit (as in "our Autumn edit"). When did it stop being a collection?

I text him yesterday (rather than texted).

These Covid times.

Myself when it should be me or I.

Blursula · 19/10/2020 05:43

Nom nom nom
Preggo (or as my friend says, Preggy. I think it might be the worst word ever)
Boobing
I also get irrationally annoyed when people call squash ‘juice.’ It’s not juice. It’s squash.

MsTSwift · 19/10/2020 06:48

If you hate lush and babe you need to avoid the Bristol region 😁

FatimaMunchy · 19/10/2020 07:23

And so it begins

TheoneandObi · 19/10/2020 08:24

@PoorMansPaulaRadcliffe
Ooo 'go Truro' or 'go Camborne' is a Cornish thing. Well when I say Cornish I mean a certain kind of Cornish. I don't like it either but I didn't realise it's spread further afield.

Badgerbadger88 · 19/10/2020 08:41

Oh yes I am guilty of “go Truro”. I didn’t know it was a Cornish thing though!

Why do people say “me thinks” instead of “I think”. I see it a lot with a certain type of person - and I have no idea where it came from. Especially as “I think” is less effort to type Smile

Brefugee · 19/10/2020 08:51

I'm guessing they're referring to it in the Shakespearean way "methinks" "mithinks" or however he wrote it.

Holibobs! yes. God into the sea with it ;)

baby bump. Fuck off.

FilthyforFirth · 19/10/2020 08:55

Fur babies. I loathe it. They are your bloody pets.

Andante57 · 19/10/2020 09:06

'This isn't my first rodeo'

What does that mean?
Also, what’s a ‘poke bowl’?

HMSSophie · 19/10/2020 09:12

People (generally men imo) who start a sentence in response to you, with "yeah, yeah, yeah" said at speed. It's so fucking dismissive

Cunt, other than used to describe female genitals. I swear like buggery but this word used pejoratively is vile.

Almost any short form eg Decs, for decorations, uni, Corrie, Sainsbos

Best life.

LaMarschallin · 19/10/2020 09:21

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poke_(Hawaiian_dish)

I don't mind "poke bowl"; it's just what it's called, like eg burritos or tortilla.

LaMarschallin · 19/10/2020 09:22

Sorry - should have said that was in reply to Andante57.

FatimaMunchy · 19/10/2020 09:31

When people say 'Good, good, good' when you answer their question always sounds very dismissive. If you didn't want to know the answer, why ask the question?

Shootingstar2014 · 19/10/2020 09:36

A big shout out....
We’re pregnant
When people are looking for children’s clothes on Facebook selling sites ‘we like....’
Going forward, reach out & all those other bullshit bingo work phrases

I could go on and on 😂 there are too many

chrislilleyswig · 19/10/2020 09:38

The usual yum and yummy. Makes me see red

At the weekend there was a double hammy of "just that really" and "hubby". In the SAME post Angry

Any Americanism uttered by someone who isn't American. Y'all don't sound cool

MsTSwift · 19/10/2020 09:51

Yes that applies to “my bad” said by an English person. Just doesn’t work. Fine in an American accent though

MoonJelly · 19/10/2020 10:13

"Across the piece". Though it's partly because I associate it with a total dickhead ex-employer who loved meaningless management-speak. "Blue sky thinking" was another of his teeth-jarring favourites.

MoonJelly · 19/10/2020 10:16

"Cleanse". It sounds sort of unctuous and self-righteous, and "clean" fulfils precisely the same function.

Mydogisagentleman · 19/10/2020 10:16

So many
Li’l man lady anything li’l
Hun
Lol as punctuation
Fur baby
Rainbow baby
Hubby
Panties - a colleague asked me just yesterday if the woman we support had got any new panties. FFS, you’re a 53 year old woman 🤮
Need gone

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