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Name a more annoying way to finish a sentence..... I'll wait.

229 replies

HurryUpAndWait23 · 08/08/2021 17:57

Just when you think ending a statement or sentence with "discuss", along comes "I'll wait."

It's so fucking obnoxious.

OP posts:
SwimmingOnEggshells · 08/08/2021 22:04

"I need coffee, STAT".

Anyone who says STAT is a complete knobhead.

AttaGirrrrl · 08/08/2021 22:05

DP has started ending statements/suggestions by saying “debate me”.

It’s wrong on so many levels that I’m considering LTB.

cariadlet · 08/08/2021 22:06

@SwimmingOnEggshells

"I need coffee, STAT".

Anyone who says STAT is a complete knobhead.

I haven't seen STAT and Google isn't helping. What does it mean?

AtTheWinchester · 08/08/2021 22:11

I hate it more when people start a sentence with 'ok so' that really grinds my gears.

The worst ending for me have all been mentioned 'discuss' and 'go' being the worst.

Kanaloa · 08/08/2021 22:16

@AttaGirrrrl

I find the only correct answer to ‘debate me’ is haha no thanks. Inevitably used by arseholes who loooove to ‘play Devil’s advocate’ and consider somebody who can’t be bothered with them anymore to be incapable of ‘debating them.’

Faevern · 08/08/2021 22:19

I hate sentences that start with Wait.....
As if the poster has never heard anything as shocking in their life and thinks they have misread.

AttaGirrrrl · 08/08/2021 22:30

@Kanaloa - I know! I just want to say “you’ve not said anything remotely controversial. Why would I debate it with you?” Also, I’m a grown up and pretty assertive; I don’t need his permission to ‘debate’ (disagree) with something.

It’s also completely grammatically incorrect, which makes me teeth itch.

AttaGirrrrl · 08/08/2021 22:31

@Faevern - worse, sentences finishing with ‘wait’. I’m a teacher and this is creeping in with some teens. Er, no. I won’t be waiting for you to say… nothing. Weird.

Kanaloa · 08/08/2021 22:33

Ugh, I know **attagirl. So annoying.

Out of curiosity, how do you finish a sentence with ‘wait?’ I can’t imagine it in a sentence.

Okbye · 08/08/2021 22:35

'End of.' 🤢

'Fact.' This one particularly when what the person has said is not actually a 'fact'. 🤮

clpsmum · 08/08/2021 22:36

Sorry not sorry 🤬🤬🤬

AttaGirrrrl · 08/08/2021 22:36

“Macduff killed Macbeth? Wait…”

“Shakespeare invented lots of the English language? Wait…”

“We have to write in our English exams? Wait…”

All of those examples seem to also include questions, but they don’t have to. It seems to suggest surprise. You must all wait while I take in this shocking new information.

clpsmum · 08/08/2021 22:38

End of

Just saying

Go

Hold my beer

Drops mic

Send vodka/gin/wine

Argh so many that drive me insane tbh think I'm just a grumpy old woman!!

Kanaloa · 08/08/2021 22:40

Oh, okay, like they’re about to say something else. I was imagining it like when my son starting saying ‘still’ at the end of sentences. It was infuriating but only lasted a couple of weeks.

AttaGirrrrl · 08/08/2021 22:41
JackieWeaverHandforthCouncil · 08/08/2021 22:42

Someone at work sent an accusatory email to a bunch of us and end with. ‘Thoughts?’ As though we had to explain ourselves to him.

Still pisses me off.

nancydroo · 08/08/2021 22:43

Much?

Jealous, much?

Controlling, much?

Thunderpunt · 08/08/2021 22:45

@TheWayTheLightFalls

Only works verbally but I have this bad habit of letting my sentences peter out instead of coming to a definitive
Grin
sadeyedladyofthelowlandsea · 08/08/2021 22:50

@NigelWithTheBrie79

I keep seeing 2 things that annoy me.
  1. "She said what she said!" Usually by a sycophantic follower on SM
  2. "LET THAT SINK IN!" Usually after some insipid influencer speaks out copies and pastes a very long rant.
'Let that sink in' makes the red mist descend for me. No. No, I do not have to let that sink in because a) I am not a fecking cafetiere, and b) I am perfectly capable of reading a sentence, understanding it, and having my own response to it. I do not have to be told that I might have to think about it by some twatty jumped up arsehole whose only talent is cutting & pasting crap from wikipedia/completely ripping off the work of other people without ever acknowledging it.

I have one SM 'influencer' in mind here. Complete Walter Mitty type, who reinvents himself every few years when people start asking awkward questions.

iklboo · 08/08/2021 22:59

Source?

Kanaloa · 08/08/2021 23:03

I know, it was awful. And it didn’t add anything to the sentences, it was just tacked on the end randomly, as in ‘yeah, John’s in my football class now, still’ or ‘it’s hot, still.’ I was beginning to worry my son was broken.

Davros · 08/08/2021 23:08

@sofiegiraffe

....no?

As in: "I am right and you are totally wrong, no?"

That's the most annoying one for me 😂

Agreed, no?
AngryWhompingWillow · 08/08/2021 23:21

Great thread no?

AngryWhompingWillow · 08/08/2021 23:21

Do you agree? GO!

AngryWhompingWillow · 08/08/2021 23:22

OMG! 'No?' Fucks me right off!

'So this is what should happen, no? '

IT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, 'are you thick?' 'Educate yourself.' 'You don't sound very bright.' They all annoy me.

AND

'Nobody is my social circle does that.' (When anyone says that, I know they've got no 'social circle.')

AND when someone says 'I went for a walk sans the children. We went to my in-laws sans the dog. Just say 'WITHOUT' you fucking arsehole. Stop trying to make out you're something special by sticking a random French word in where it's not needed!

And yeah 'GO!' is annoying! And 'I'll wait..........!'

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