to get wound up by a completely harmless phrase?and what phrases/sayings get your goat

[mayorquimby]

i know on the spectrum of tragedies this falls solidly on the unimportant end, but still what is life without trivial annoyances?

the phrase? it'e when people say "i personally..."
i mean why put in the personally? obviously if you preface your statement or belief with "I" it is clear to me that you are about to express your views or personal beliefs.

so what things that people say wind you up?

cheap at half the price is another.
and also the americanisation of "i couldn't care less" to "i could care less" because to me it no longer makes sense.

i'm beginning to think i am doomed to spend a jack dee like existence getting pissed off about tribvial things people do and say which have no bearing on the state of the world and which i could easily ignore and live a happier life.

My dds have a nana and a grandma so that they know which they are talking about. If they were both grandmas (my preference) they would be constantly confused about who we were going to visit! I let the DGP decide how they wanted to be addressed by DGC. MIL chose nana.

We had a Nanna and a Grandma (also to differentiate) - we also had a Little Nan and a Great Gran (Little Nan was Nanna's mum and Great Gran was Grandad's mum). Little Nan was a bit of humour really - we couldn't call her Great Nan cos she was only 4'9"!

Oddly though, I don't like the term/name Nanny - sounds too much like a goat, or the hired nanny.

the simpson's guy?? I'm not picking up on your references .......

Maggie (one of his sisters in rl I believe)

ok, ok, bit of googling later and now I see you. like this

lalalonglegs, what do you refer/call your grandparents.

lalalonglegs, sorry your post does explain, I am just having a blonde moment

I really dislike Nanna/Nanny/Nan too - both sets of my grandparents are Grandma and Grandad. Unfortunately PIL have chosen to be Nana and Grandpa because MIL said Grandma makes her feel old. I still cringe when I hear Nana though (although Step-Neice calls her Grandma with no fuss - not sure why DS can't do the same...!)

Cant see anything wrong with Nad TBH. Thats what Nans are called . It would be a bit weird to start calling Nan Grandmother/Grandma when I turned 18. She wouldve thought I was bonkers.

But each to their own and this thread is for stuff thats winds us however odd it seems to anyone else.

I mean, I get all icky when people say 'crux' so who am I to talk?

I don't see anything wrong with nana either. It's extremely common here in Scotland.

I meant to write NAN not NAD. If I called my Nan Nad she would still think me bonkers.

It irritates me when you walk into a place with a group of people (e.g. school playground, social gathering) and people greet you with a:

"You awright?"

.....then walk off before I might reply "Yes, I am thanks" or "No, not really" .

It is like a short-cut greeting (almost text speak?) instead of saying "Hi XXX how are you?"

It seems a very fake expression. If you don't have time to genuinely greet the person just say hi or give them a smile.

Have to revive this thread

one of my NCT group always 'scoops' her baby up, he's never once been picked up in his life, by her or anyone else. And she does a baby voice when she talks to him, but maybe that's another thread entirely...

how do you feel when your dad sends you a text saying

"sorry I haven't cum to see you"

"or I'll be cumming at weekend"

Gah.... it's come/coming!!!!!

makes me feel a little bit sick everytime he does it but I don't think I can tell him.

Any non-sensical 'office-speak' like:

Going forward into the future (how else would you get there?)

Let's think outside the box/let's push the envelope (why can't we just 'have a good idea'?)

People using expresso when they mean espresso. Particularly on the menu at coffee shops!

My absolute number one hate is when people write or say 'should of' as in "I should of done that"

ARRGGHH!! it's 'should HAVE!' HAVE HAVE HAVE!!!

Moral compass is really pissing me off atm.

End of - usually said by thick people incapable of arguing properly

I never know quite what to say when after i come out of a store's changing room andd the assistant says "how did you get on ? why do they bother to ask ?

if you are handing the item back to them, i think they should just say "thank you, have a nice day" if you dont hand it to them, they should just keep quiet ???

Ta and people I've never met calling me Love

"would you like your bill at all?"
why add at all?
urgh

Youself and myself instead of you and I. Makes me want to scream.

Here are a few i hate

It's not rocket science
At the end of the day
Between you, me and the gatepost
But the one I hate more than anything else is . . .

CHILLAX

Springfleurs - YES anyone who describes themselves as mad, random or bubbly can be guaranteed to be a boring middle aged twat, often appearing on Come Dine With Me.

People who pronounce 'th' 'f' ie. Free not three

Literally when misused

Actually

Chill, chillax (shudder)

argh office speak. It's even slipped into universities, the one institution that should be above this monstrosity, dp nearly cried last week when told to 'action' something

"I learnt them that"

"Can I lend a fiver off you"

"to be more pacific"

"I chose it specially for you "

"I had the worsest time"

and CHILLAX just makes me want to cut out the tongue of the speaker

Good girl.

im sorry but after the age of about 12 its no longer acceptable to say this to a grown woman. im 27 and i still get older guys at work saying 'good girl' to me when i finishe my project. i run the applications team FGS!

'Should of' , 'could of' instead of should have/could have etc