Do you know what I mean?

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Has anyone else noticed an increase in people telling you something and then immediately after saying 'Do you know what I mean?'.
And they say it about every 10 seconds in the conversation.
I do know what they mean. But people I know seem to say it more regularly than ever.
And yes, I am grumpy.

I used to work with a woman who said this every other sentence. I started to avoid her like the plague, it was just awful.

If I ask my OH's opinion on something he always begins by saying "in my personal opinion..." who the fuck else am I asking 😱😱😱

“To be honest with you…”

So every other time you’re telling lies but this time you’re being honest??

Drives me nuts!

Nope. Nobody I know says that. Probably a local habit.

I keep hearing part of it, “You know?” Well no, I don’t know and that’s why you’re telling me.

I used to hear myself using ‘obviously’ too often so I stopped before I was called out. Now I hear myself using ‘To be fair’, far too often.

Surely a Liverpudlian would say "know worra mean, like?" 😉

I HATE this. I took a phone call at work the other day from someone who was saying "obviously" so much about non-obcious things that I was finding it very difficult to understand what she actually wanted and in the end asked her to stop saying obviously because it wasn't obvious!
She stopped, and made perfect sense!

''Can I get?''

I work part time in a catering establishment.

''Can I get '' Grrrrrrrr

No, you cant GET, you can HAVE ( As in ''please can I have'')

I want to growl ,''No, I'll get it, you can have it''

Since when did ''can I get...' become a thing to say in the UK?

An increase? I remember kids getting "told" about this when I was at school 40+ years ago.

I heard someone say Please may I get… this week. Such a promising start!

It sort of the new "innit'.

Or "you get me?" 🤣

I think it’s come with the increase in online communication/messaging where we give each other very literal indications that we understand or agree with what has been said - thumbs up, hearts and other emojis tell the other person very clearly “yes, I understand you.” Meanwhile we’ve lost the ability to trust our read of non verbal cues.

The obviously one kills me - almost always said in the context of something not remotely obvious

Do you know what I mean has been a common convo filler phrase since the 80s. Where have you been?! 😆

In the 60s my brother and I used to take the piss out of another kid who said it all the time - but it was "nutta mean?" (London)

Woman at works says "legit" either at the beginning or end of most sentences. "I legit had a great night last night", "bought this, it was only a tenner, legit".

Makes me very very stabby

Not so much these days.

What I have noticed is people saying something and saying ‘right’ at the end.
Really rude and aggressive.

It isn’t a new thing.

I remember my father moaning about it when I was young. He would be 100 now if he was still alive.

I'm looking for a thread I saw that was asking for phrases we can't stand and this will have to do. Yes, people have been increasingly saying " do you know what I mean " for a while.

And the expression I can not bear is " forever home ". Urgh! Want to punch something when a person, generally a woman but it would be the same for anyone, witters on about finding their forever home. At the ages of the person using this phrase, they have two chances of finding themselves in a forever home, which are slim and zero. Life sees to that. Sorry. Rant over.

“To be fair” is another one 😫😫😫