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To ask what words you really hate?!

288 replies

Fragmentsof2022 · 11/12/2022 13:46

I really hate the words ‘teaming’ and ‘pairing’ - as in ‘I am teaming this hat with these gloves’ or ‘She paired the silk blouse with the red skirt’. Just fuck off.

It’s like nails down a blackboard for me 🤣

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ortonym · 12/12/2022 13:14

cushioncovers · 12/12/2022 11:52

'My bad' I fucking hate that phrase but I'm not sure why.

You're not alone. I also hate "I'm good" in response to "How are you?". No you're not, I know you: you're far from good.

Zoom101 · 12/12/2022 13:19

Myself/himself/herself when my/him/her are perfectly fine.

Starting every sentence with ‘So’.

PriamFarrl · 12/12/2022 13:23

lieselotte · 12/12/2022 13:00

Thought of another one. Shop as a verb.

"Shop our new range"

It always used to be browse, or buy from or choose from.

Even worse is ‘shop the Christmas edit’ or whatever. What does that even mean?

SinnerBoy · 12/12/2022 13:26

lieselotte

Thought of another one. Shop as a verb. "Shop our new range"

Oh God, I hate that one, too.

And "search up." And search, as in "Search Sainsbury's!" OK, I'll get an FBI team down with a warrant, shall I?

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 12/12/2022 13:33

lieselotte · 12/12/2022 12:54

I don't like "impact" as a verb. You may be impacted by an asteroid, but otherwise you are affected by something.

Merriam Webster disagrees

www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/yes-impact-is-a-verb

golddustwomen · 12/12/2022 13:33

I absolutely fucking hate the word nap.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 12/12/2022 13:34

SinnerBoy · 12/12/2022 13:26

lieselotte

Thought of another one. Shop as a verb. "Shop our new range"

Oh God, I hate that one, too.

And "search up." And search, as in "Search Sainsbury's!" OK, I'll get an FBI team down with a warrant, shall I?

Lip
Trouser
Rocking - as in rocking this look. You mean wearing, surely?

Foib · 12/12/2022 13:47

expecting instead of pregnant. 'expecting a baby' is ok why not just say that someone is pregnant?

The other thing that I hate is when someone announces that 'we're pregnant' - no you're not, only one of you is but you are both expecting a baby

Zoom101 · 12/12/2022 14:05

Crisp white shirt. Why does a white shirt always have to be fucking ‘crisp’?,

SinnerBoy · 12/12/2022 14:15

Welcomed. As in:

"Pointless, vacuous D List slebs Chloe and Brad welcomed a baby girl yesterday!"

Please, just stop it.

LadyEloise1 · 12/12/2022 14:36

SinnerBoy · 12/12/2022 14:15

Welcomed. As in:

"Pointless, vacuous D List slebs Chloe and Brad welcomed a baby girl yesterday!"

Please, just stop it.

😂very true .
As if they'd tell the new arrival to f*ck off.

Lampshadered · 12/12/2022 14:40

I shiver when I hear "veggies" or "tummy".

JangolinaPitt · 12/12/2022 14:50

pangolina · 12/12/2022 09:43

Poorly. Particularly adults who describe themselves as poorly. My 45 year old colleague came in the other day and said "I'm feeling really poorly today" and it just made me want to slap her.

Oh yes! Read a headmaster once say that with budget constraints he could no longer send flowers to the ‘long term poorly’ aaargh!

lieselotte · 12/12/2022 14:50

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 12/12/2022 13:33

Ha ha. Well it isn't an adverb anyway Grin

Anyway, I don't like it. I am not impacted by bad weather (unless I am buried in a snowdrift, maybe).

JangolinaPitt · 12/12/2022 14:51

Verge of a French slang word for penis

JangolinaPitt · 12/12/2022 14:54

‘Waterworks’ in relation to urinary matters
tummy
cuppa
sleeps (‘6sleeps to my holiday’)

PixieLaLa · 12/12/2022 14:55

Space as in “I really like what you’ve done with this space”

Batiqueattic · 12/12/2022 15:04

Meal - makes me think of people with food bits stuck round their mouth. I dunno. Mealymouthed must have crept into & confused my subconscious.

longtompot · 12/12/2022 15:07

Hack, unless it's used in the correct context of taking a horse out for a hack, or to chop something off something (one's hair or hack a slice of cake off etc) otherwise it's a tip.

nancydroo · 12/12/2022 15:13

Politicians wanting to be 'clear' all the time 'let me be clear' ' I want to be clear' 'to be clear' my arse.

SinnerBoy · 12/12/2022 15:29

longtompot

Hack, unless it's used in the correct context of taking a horse out for a hack

Or hacking your way through a tree trunk, using an axe.

This life hack will drop your jaw! No, it really won't.

WestwardHo1 · 12/12/2022 15:58

There's a phrase that government officials and ministers are using these days that makes me want to throw things at them. Whenever they are confronted by an issue which they have failed to address adequately, they pretend they have given it long and deep though "and this is why" they took the steps they did. I don't know if I can explain it properly, but for example, when confronted by the fact that people are furious about the rising cost of living and food bank use, they will say something like "We recognise and understand that because of unavoidable market forces and the war in Ukraine some families (it's never people or individuals, it's always "families") will be struggling this winter, and this is why we have given them a pathetic amount of money to spend on heating and encouraged the use of "warm banks" so they don't freeze to death."

ditherydotty · 12/12/2022 16:18

PJ's I can't stand it, Especially the "want to snuggle in my PJ's" brigade 🤢

Supper also awful

Squash unless it's a vegetable

paulhollywoodshairgel · 12/12/2022 16:38

Cheeky as in 'let's get a cheeky drink'
'Out out'
Famalam
Making memories

Luckynumbereight · 12/12/2022 17:21

‘fleshy bits’