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hate hearing someone say the same phrase over and over

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explodingears · 27/01/2023 08:32

Is this normal?

When my kids fight my DD says things repeatedly (eg "give it back" literally a hundred times) and this drives me up the wall.

Aibu? Or is there a condition for this? I've heard of misophonia but not sure if this applies to people talking. Thanks.

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XenoBitch · 27/01/2023 20:49

Yes, it is normal!

I used to work with a chap that would start every sentence with "put it this way". Used to drive me spare. He was also a 'leg jiggler'. In a quiet room, you could hear the air come out of his nostrils in time with his leg jiggling.

TheMoonHangsOverIdlewild · 27/01/2023 21:00

I have stop watching things because someone repeats things over and over. Can't even watch QI sometimes because Aisling Bea has a gasp she does every few minutes, just goes right through me.

PenanceAdair · 27/01/2023 21:08

This doesn't sound like a 'repetitive sound' thing or a condition. It's just naturally repeating something to make a point. Most of us do it knowingly or not.

QueSyrahSyrah · 27/01/2023 21:10

I think what some people are describing is a bit different to what the OP meant; someone saying 'like' every 3rd word is irritating for sure, but in a different way to someone just repeating the same word or sound over and over and over again.

That's what used to get to me as a kid; a family member would do it deliberately with my name occasionally (not the time or the place to dig into that little family gem) and it would have a physical tortuous effect on me, like curling into a ball rocking because I couldn't think straight.

Spermysextowel · 27/01/2023 21:19

Gordon Brown had a habit of sort of dropping his lower-jaw and doing a sucky intake of breath as though it was a comma. I hadn’t noticed it until my mother said it drove her mad, but now every time I see him speaking (thankfully not often now) I don’t hear the content as I’m just waiting for the sucky jaw drop. Some people just have quirks that are annoying.

Lots of posts here start with ‘So,’ which is irritating I don’t think that finding speech patterns irritating is necessarily a condition.

Thelnebriati · 27/01/2023 21:44

@XenoBitch
So you buried him under the filing cabinet, yes? I won't tell anyone, I would have helped.

Laiste · 27/01/2023 21:46

My mother: He said. She said. I said.

Oh i said, yes she said, why i said, well she said, it's down there she said, is it i said, yes, she said, down there she said, oh i said, why i said, ah she said, don't you know she said, no i said, how i said, well she said, that's what i said, oh i said .....

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK 😵stop it with the said

XenoBitch · 27/01/2023 21:49

Spermysextowel · 27/01/2023 21:19

Gordon Brown had a habit of sort of dropping his lower-jaw and doing a sucky intake of breath as though it was a comma. I hadn’t noticed it until my mother said it drove her mad, but now every time I see him speaking (thankfully not often now) I don’t hear the content as I’m just waiting for the sucky jaw drop. Some people just have quirks that are annoying.

Lots of posts here start with ‘So,’ which is irritating I don’t think that finding speech patterns irritating is necessarily a condition.

I used to notice the thing with Gordon Brown too!

XenoBitch · 27/01/2023 21:52

Laiste · 27/01/2023 21:46

My mother: He said. She said. I said.

Oh i said, yes she said, why i said, well she said, it's down there she said, is it i said, yes, she said, down there she said, oh i said, why i said, ah she said, don't you know she said, no i said, how i said, well she said, that's what i said, oh i said .....

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK 😵stop it with the said

Oh gosh, I have made a new friend recently and she is very "he said, she said etc".
Usually part of a story that takes 15 minutes to tell, and the gist of it was long since lost and bogged down in unnecessary detail. Ok, you took your cat to the vet... we don't need all the details about the people you spoke to leading up to it, and what they were doing too!

Laiste · 27/01/2023 22:04

XenoBitch - Ok, you took your cat to the vet... we don't need all the details about the people you spoke to leading up to it.

Yes! This is just it! It's not just every nano detail of the story itself, it'll be every single word of any phone conversations even vaguely to do with the story as well 😳

pastypirate · 27/01/2023 22:08

I have this. I can't stand repetition of cliche phrases. For example the British need to weave 'they think it's all over....' and such like into any competition sporting type ever.
Any time there are 3 of something someone insists on calling it a hat trick

I can't really manage small talk and yes I am v nd

pastypirate · 27/01/2023 22:09

To be honest and not gonna lie if I'm not being funny blah blah. Also beginning sentences with 'obviously....'

Laiste · 27/01/2023 22:32

@pastypirate also

at the end of the day and when all's said and done?

Laiste · 27/01/2023 22:34

It's amazing how many phrases there are when you start thinking about it.

I find the trend for 'like' a bit irritating when it's OTT.

''I was like waaaah and she was like waaaay and we were like wooooooooo ... you know?''

erm ... no? 😂

Tessisme · 27/01/2023 22:35

We were having decorating done a couple of weeks ago and the painter kept saying 'Aye, hundred percent, hundred percent' to EVERYTHING we said. I was ready to ram the paint roller up his behind ... until it was a hundred percent gone! Poor guy, he was really friendly but he drove me round the bend.

pastypirate · 27/01/2023 23:34

Laiste · 27/01/2023 22:32

@pastypirate also

at the end of the day and when all's said and done?

Yes exactly. They didn't always but now these over used expressions irritate me a lot.
Over the last few years my misophonia has increased a lot and this phrase revulsion has been very similar.

Copasetic · 27/01/2023 23:43

Ludo19 · 27/01/2023 19:39

@365names yeah i did correct her lol QC is a judge. She also used to say "I gave my husband a prep? talk" assuming she meant pep.

It's actually a higher barrister and can therefore be a Judge. Incidentally, all the QCs are now KCs as it means Kings Counsel as opposed to Queens. I work in a criminal defence law firm and we were all a bit surprised when we realised this after the Queen died! Nothing to do with the topic though. Yes kids can be bloody annoying!

Copasetic · 27/01/2023 23:45

My colleague talks to herself ALL day! That is quite annoying!

2pence · 27/01/2023 23:58

Tessisme · 27/01/2023 22:35

We were having decorating done a couple of weeks ago and the painter kept saying 'Aye, hundred percent, hundred percent' to EVERYTHING we said. I was ready to ram the paint roller up his behind ... until it was a hundred percent gone! Poor guy, he was really friendly but he drove me round the bend.

I see your 100% and raise you a "You get me?"

Sooooo annoying.

Also people saying "I am at the stage..." irritates me for some reason, no idea why.

Kanaloa · 28/01/2023 00:08

I don’t think it’s a condition. That’s like saying ‘I hate when someone farts repeatedly while I’m stuck in the lift with them, could this be a condition I have?’ Well no, it’s the normal human condition. Hearing someone repeat the same phrase over and over is irritating. You’re irritated by it.

Rsoleseverywhere · 28/01/2023 00:19

"If that makes sense" and "blessed" bug the hell out of me.

Alliwantistobe · 28/01/2023 08:17

explodingears · 27/01/2023 19:42

Oh yes, that reminds me Britney's "oh baby one more time" being played endlessly is used as a form of torture in one of the prisons. That would write me off completely

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Yeah thats it, the two I read were the same song on repeat and water left dripping so there is a continuous dripping sound.

Mavericksaviators · 28/01/2023 10:04

‘Basically’ ‘well basically’ I’m sick to fuck of hearing my 13 year old say this

getreadyy · 28/01/2023 11:18

It's "Hit me baby one more time". You've managed to irritate me by getting the song name wrong 😑

AffIt · 28/01/2023 11:37

My OH's family is from a part of the country where tacking the phrase 'so it is' as a suffix to a sentence is very common.

Fortunately, my OH lost this habit years ago, but my MIL (who is honestly a sweet and lovely woman of whom I am very fond) uses it endlessly and it makes me want to scream.

She is, however, lovely in every other way, so I would never mention it.