Words and phrases that give you the rage light hearted

[NimbleHiker]

What phrases do you hate? It gives me the rage when my mum says put up and shut up. I know that some things are not within my control and that i have to do things i don't like.

I LOATHE 'just dropped' to refer to something that has just been released.

The new series of Handmaids Tale 'just dropped' onto Netflix.

Taylor Swift's new album 'just dropped.'

Olivia Rodrigo's new single 'just dropped.'

Just feck OFF OFF OFFFFF!!!! 😠

Oh and 'picky tea' and 'picky bits' can get in the fecking bin too! They both sound AWFUL. Makes me grimace when I hear it. Sally said it on Coronation Street the other night. ('I'll make some picky bits for tea!') shudderrrrr!😖

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Oversize. She was wearing an oversize jumper. No, she was wearing a baggy jumper.

Starting sentences with ‘So’.

Just seen "parent" as a verb again "it's their choice how to parent".

NO, it's their choice how to be parents, or how to raise their kids.

But the word ‘parent’ can also be a verb and apparently has been used as such since the 1600s?

I would advise you don't go to the chiller aisle in Sainsbury's where they're advertising "3 for £8 picky bits"!!!! They even had it on a large banner as I was driving in....!

Do they have 'picky sticky bits'🤣
I'm at it.😁

my bad

My truth

Not like it is now. People used to say that they were going home (eg from work) to the kids. Bow they say they are going home to parent. Or that they spent the weekend parenting. Yuck.

“Making memories”

Better than calling it 'babysitting' as some dads do!

Exactly. Some Labour MP was on Sky news during the week saying "I'm doing childcare today " told me everything I needed to know about him and his marriage

Buffet

Words generally: “Panties” and “Herewith”.
Words used out of context: “Like” and “Literally”.
Sayings: “At this point in time”, what is wrong with saying “now”.

“Incandescent with rage”

Why use three words when you can use one? FURIOUS.

People saying moist is their most hated word.

try harder

This is a bit niche and academic but...

'Speaks to' instead of 'speaks of' in contexts such as:

• this novel speaks to the colonial experience
• this painting speaks to the experience of women in Victorian England.

If there are any university teachers or writers on this thread, please can you explain why it's become so common? My son (Cambridge grad), who has a high BS detector, was even defending it. To me, it just seems wrong.

Surely (say) Jane Eyre speaks of the experience of governesses in the 19th century, not to it?? What would be the point of it speaking to something that's abstract, not human and in this case, long past?

I hear it all the time on TV documentaries and it drives me crackers. AAarrrggghh.

Nothing wrong with moist in my opinion.

Oh - another one. I hate 'starters' for the first course of a meal.

I call it the first course. But then - I'm not fond of the actual concept as well as the word. What is the point? Just bring me my main course and leave room for a pudding!

I get tired of people dawdling over their 'starters' and then saying they have no room for pudding. Fools!

“Finger buffet” has been used for years and as far as I can see means the same thing.

e.g. https://foodchamps2020.co.uk/2024/07/08/how-much-food-per-person-for-a-finger-buffet-in-the-uk/

They've fallen out of favour thankfully but I used to hate 'I'd go nuclear', 'get your ducks in a row' 'nom nom nom' and 'food of the Gods' when it was always used to describe some shite processed food.

Ongoing are 'belly-ache', 'got the runs' and people saying 'overstimulated' when they mean annoyed or overwhelmed.

When people post and say 'xxxx here' as in nurse, Dr, therapist, lawyer etc. It sounds so pretentious.

then surely your "pudding" should be called "last course"? Or third or whatever.

There needs to be consistency.

Logically, maybe - but I don't think this thread is looking for logical reasons for disliking certain expressions!

It's just the term 'starter' I don't like. I like 'pudding'. I like it better than 'dessert', which I think is largely an American usage and implies something much more flimsy than pudding, which to me conjures up thoughts of something with custard.