Everyday phrases that piss me off

[Thecatspantaloons]

As the title goes , a couple of examples:

It only costs xxx - What an incredibly ignorant thing to say in this day and age of mass inequality. On any given day there's a bullshit thread on here comparing pension plans and the amount of hundreds of thousands people have saved compared to the ones who have nothing saved.

Well I've never seen/heard that before - well Jackie, I've never seen anyone abuse a wheelchair user or a trans person or a Jewish person in my own life, but I believe that it happens, despite my not witnessing it.

Feel free to rant about other stuff that people are willfully oblivious to.

I've known several people who misuse "mortified" to mean "very angry".

Also agreeing with curated. Apparently by various ear piercings and earrings I wear are now curated. No they are not.

‘Run’ on here, in response to even the most trivial of male bad behaviour in a relationship. Completely infantilising, and absolutely weird.

Especially when followed with a 💪

”One of the only”, What the fuck does it even mean? Is it the only one, or one of very few? Arrant nonsense.

Using “If you see what I mean” at the end of a sentence.

“Big time”.

Saying everything they like is “insane” .

People saying they've smashed it.
Passing for dying. Passed on is OK, passing is for exams.
'Does that makes sense?' at the end of every sentence. No, explain it again. Every time.

I disagree. I think “run” is probably underused.

A useful corrective for “could he be depressed/neurodiverse?” When he cheated then went on a five day bender.

Sourced for bought
Crafted for made
Popped for went
Curated for... I don't even know

Nonsense phrases for basic bell ends.

Singular terms for plurals, e.g.: pair your nice cardigan with a linen trouser and a low-heeled shoe. So pretentious.

”Lame” as a pejorative.

”Yeah yeah yeah” instead of yes. Typically pronounced “Yi-yi-yeah”. Sounds very dismissive and seems more common in S/SE.

On the weekend! Like “on Christmas” - it’s meaningless! It’s either “on Christmas Day” or “at Christmas”.

Im fuming just reading this 😂

So Im not the only one who just wears one shoe and half a pair of trousers 😂

“When life hands you lemons make lemonade”

Seriously, WTF?

So, something really bad happened, and you are going to put on a fake smile and pretend it’s all great.

How about you cut those lemons in half, wrestle the person who upset you to the ground, and squeeze them in their eyes?

That’d make me feel better 😜

“Point blank” as in “she point blank refused to do it” 🫠🫠🫠 stfu!!!!

Chin up...
Can't really explain why but it annoys the shit out of me!

The pretentious shit you see on here about clothes. “What pieces have you bought this summer?”. Fuck off!!!

Just ask “what clothes”.

can you just pop up on here for me

pop - to the shops/of colour/into the oven/air fryer/washer

’for me’ - most prevalent in a medical setting of gp reception,
hospital departments, physiotherapists especially!
nurses, any outpatients department or dentists chair

also last week in a charity shop, required to ‘pop it
back on the shelf for me’

grab. now ubiquitous but still aggressive, eg grab a coffee

“Will you be in all day, love?”

• extraordinary approach by contractor presumably expecting payment in a formalised work/pay situation (this is not a new annoying phrase)

you do you - insolence disguised as advice

we have these threads regularly, enabling us to see the current,
fading or thankfully, on the way out teeth-on-edge banal sayings

Oh bless!
Magic!
you’re a Star!

seem to be fading, but how quickly they are superceded

It's a MN thing, but 'This!' on its own as a comment makes me feel irrationally stabby.

These are more common Mumsnet things than real life but irritating nevertheless.

Broken as in “I’m broken” or “it’s broken me”. It’s just so needlessly dramatic and pathetic.

”When someone shows you who they are, believe them”. A completely inane statement meted out by people who think they’re saying something profound.

Much as in “goady much?” or “insensitive much?”. It’s so cringe and always reads like an angsty teenager wrote it.

I thought of another one, having just seen it again online - grrrrrrr! :-

Adding unnecessary prepositions to verbs, eg “change out” or “change up” rather than just “change”; “swap out” instead of “swap”.

’incredibly’ anything. Makes me grind my teeth.

Picky bits/tea

Picky bits 🤢

I review reports before they’re sent out (in my job, not as a weird hobby) and one of my staff wrote “herself” about the report owner. I marked this up in tracked changes with “you KNOW how I feel about this”.

They do this on The Traitors too “I’m voting for yourself”. ARGH.