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

[DilemmaADay]

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
'Move on' when talking about a bad situation - yeah, because the person with the problem really hasn't thought about that ...
'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?

Although I do miss Scottishmummy and her creepy wee brackets

@ninninannonoonoo

Ahh. No brackets. I'm happy

@chrislilleyswig

Hate all the"action" posts although they are less frequent

Ah.
Best look away now then...

@ninninannonoonoo

I just hope you don't touch your loved ones with the same fingers with which you type.

[quote LaMarschallin]@chrislilleyswig

Hate all the"action" posts although they are less frequent

Ah.
Best look away now then...

@ninninannonoonoo

I just hope you don't touch your loved ones with the same fingers with which you type.

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Baby steps. Particularly when recommended to others.

@Fatarseflanagan09

Likely story and private joke always said by some snarky simpering twat. Yummy yummy in my tummy, said by a grown man, grow up you infantile knobber. Rock up. Grown ass or any other Americanism used by non Americans. Teats, makes me cringe.

I'm with you every step of the way with 'rock up'.

I won't allow anyone in my presence to use it.

Being called 'chick' and 'hum'

Grab
I have just seen an advert giving people the chance to 'grab a new haircut'.

A wig?

@FatimaMunchy

Grab I have just seen an advert giving people the chance to 'grab a new haircut'.

This one drives me mad, too. There was a thread a day or two ago - can't find it now - in which the OP talked about being absent from the comments because she'd gone to 'grab a few hours sleep'. That made me dislike her more than the silly little car-based affair she'd been having with her boss.

Can’t abide any imperative verb usage to upsell anything. “Grab yourself a...” “Load your plate with...” “Snatch a...”

“Upmost”

IT’S UTMOST.

Upmost is a contraction of uppermost, and makes no sense in the context.

I work for a large city hospital. On the front page of the intranet there is a large warning about how staff must do their “upmost” to control the spread of COViD.

It makes me want to find the person responsible and throw things, every time I log on.

I feel sure that 'living my best life' must already have been mentioned. Urgh

After "giving advice' and adding on the end no?,i.e. Just tell her you're busy,no? So pretentious.

The hot meals thing is def.old fashioned, but having said that, I have a far-from-elderly Singaporean Chinese SiL, who thinks a meal isn’t A Proper One if it’s not hot! So it’s probably a cultural thing too.

Ages ago I was in a queue at a self-service place - except for the hot dishes - behind an elderly couple. The woman asked for a hot meal, the old man said he only wanted a sandwich.
‘You can’t just have a sandwich! You’ve got to have a Proper Dinner!’
‘But I only want a sandwich!’
‘You need a Proper Dinner!’
IIRC the old bloke won, though.😄

Same argument went on all along the queue to the checkout.

'Nothing to worry about'. My former boss used to say this, before issuing a character assassination!

Ditto to ‘hacks’. Who on earth started that one? A prime candidate for my rat-infested dungeon, once I’m a dictator. 😈

‘Gifting’ - especially now, and especially when it’s from people/ organisations that really should know better - yes, I’m looking at you, John Lewis!

Another one that drives me mad is when some people use darling as an adjective... it’s not a common one but it’s ear slime to me.

‘Little Philomena was in that lovely blue dress. She looked absolutely darling!’

ARGH!!!

Gonna.

Gotten.

Can we talk? = I want/need you to listen to me

"Grab" irritates the hell out of me. I just realised it reminds me of an ex Bf who used to say it all the time. "Grab lunch," "grab a coffee," always as though he was in such a rush and could only spare a few precious minutes to "catch up" with me, before he had to rush off again. He was like this for years...I'm the opposite and try to make people feel I've got all the time in the world to listen to them....so it grated a lot.

Oh and the "tinkly laugh" thing makes me want to hit someone. Anything that sounds pretentious, prissy, insincere,
or childish annoys me.

'Kiddo'. I'm 42 and my mum still calls this. Grates every time.

'Adorable'.

The biscuit that people use here. The one that says 'I'm one of the cool ones and you're just a twat'.

'Vile' and 'fuming'. I never read a thread containing either of those words. Also, 'disgusting' used in the context of a product or service.

'Hacks'. Piss off. A hack is a journalist not some dumbass YouTuber telling people to water down something to make it last longer. Just call it a tip or a shortcut.

I don't like people saying 'you're welcome' after they help you. Makes the interaction seem like some kind of master / servant situation.

The brand Keurig gets on my nerves for some reason. I won't own one just because of the name. Ditto Smeg, I don't want to be thinking about knob cheese every time I go in the kitchen.