To be annoyed when people say ....

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low key ? For example someone says " does this top not low key go with these jeans" it seems to be used all the time now. Maybe annoyed is not the right word but it's irritating 🤣 . Light-hearted post really. Are there any sayings that seem to be "trending" that annoys you ?

From the get go 😖

it weird, why not just say from the start or the beginning!

I would take “low key love” to mean “like”. Which is shorter and clearer to say, so why bother?

Never heard low key in this context at all.

My pet hate is ‘I swear down’

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Because I don't think it's the same. You can love something in a low key manner.

Yes 2 teens and every other word is low key at the moment. I find it quite amusing (but obviously don't let them know that. It's just nice to have a conversation with them!)

I did use it in response to one of them last night and got a look of horror however!

'I low key think I'm gonna dye my hair darker next time like coz I literally low key hated it how it went last time' etc

I totally put my teens off using 'Slay' by adopting it.

Pity. I low key liked 'Slay'.

Everyone who uses 'signpost' as a verb can just fuck right off too.

Is this a northern thing? Not heard it here in my little corner of SE.
I was just thinking the same, I've never heard this (also in SE)

I've not heard it being used within my northern boundary!

My pet hate is ‘I swear down’
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I use this!
It started as a way of winding ds2 up when he was a teen but it stuck. I work with teens and I pick their lingo up, use it at home without thinking and drive Dh and ds mad!

I completely agree!!

Also hate when people say "vibes" to describe something, when it's not a descriptive word:
"its such a vibe"
"its giving vibes"
"omg vibes"

My pet peeve is when people say 'bits' when they mean 'things'

Like "I popped out for some bits"

Oh, never heard this. Low key. I thought it meant casual. Pop over for dinner, but we're keeping it low key, couple of Tesco pizzas

"Like" every other word ie I was like, it was really like, It seems to have replaced pauses in conversations,
We were on the Eurostar recently, and there was a twenty something chap sitting behind us, he said the word "like" 34 times in about 5 minutes!

It's quite useful though? "Can we signpost to some helpful resources on this page" is something I literally said this morning in my job.

Instead of
"Can we put some kind of indication or suggestion of some helpful resources, but with a clear way to access them so it's not just the names but actually the way to get to them as well... On this page"

Maybe you both work in the same team 🤣

Using 'Look' or 'Now look' at the start of a sentence. It sounds rude and bossy.

There's a BBC sounds podcast and one of the two presenters starts nearly every one of his sentences with it. I can no longer listen to them. I think its called 'When it Hits the Fan'.

"low key" in the jeans example is a bit like:

"I low key love those jeans" = "just quietly, I love those jeans" = "don't freak out but I love those jeans"

Haha that is actually possible. I work in big open plan office

I've never heard it said. It sounds annoying though so I'm glad I don't speak to very many people!

‘I was today years old when I realised (x)’ which I see on social media threads. I believe it means ‘I realised x today, at the age of y’, but it is actually illiterate gobbledegook.

I DESPISE “trending” terminology, especially when used by peers who are in their late thirties/early fourties and really need to grow up!
”Its the for me” ie. it’s the hair flick for me, or its the side eye for me. Shut up.
Thats the only one I can think of at the moment, but there are loads more.

"Go [place]"

At first it mostly seemed to be used for "go gym", but recently I've seen "go uni" and "go Tesco".

Yes @WhatterySquash!! I'd forgotten about "share" 😩

Yes, I definitely get that.

I also find something similar happening when people stress or stretch a word by repeating the last letter.
So, instead of "reeeeeeally" they write "reallyyyyyy" which I "hear" as "really yi yi yi yi".