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.

"By Fimbo on Fri 08-May-09 12:24:33
When you have made all your purchases and then the till operator says "Is there anything else I can help you with today?""
Am I the only one who says "yes, actually, I couldn't find..." and makes them go off and have a look?

By Sunshinemummy on Fri 08-May-09 12:24:05
The use of the word random for things that aren't random. "
Totally agree! And "scary" in the same way. "It's scary how good I am at golf" really?

What's chillax? Sounds like something you'd take for constipation!
I was very surprised as well that 'stone' was brown rather than grey
Probably not the right thread, but I'll rant anyway

Me to woman at kiosk: "eighteen first class stamps, please"
Woman at Kiosk: "First or second class"
Me: "First, please"
WAK: "six or twelve"
Me:

Every night at the end of thd 10 o'clock news Huw Edwards says "And now time to hand over to the news teams where YOU are".

DH and I (sadly) both make great play of looking under sofa etc and saying "news team, where are you..."

There is not a news team where we are. Not literally and not in the sense he means it either. We get given irrelevant news from Oxford and Southampton, despite being practically in East Anglia...

I hate the word "sexy" used about workplace inanimate items/ gadgets / procedures

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how could i forget?

IT'S ALL GOOD

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh

I've done this one before but I'll say it again. I HATE being told to :

ENJOY!

"impact" used as a verb; "in terms of"; myself/yourself in any context other than reflexively; coy swears like "farking", "fecking" etc; "hubby"; "chav"; the list goes on...

When people "double check" BEFORE they've checked the first time.

Me: ...and may I have the dressing on the side?
Them: I'm not sure, let me double check for you.
Me: Nggggggggggggg.

"Could we give the salt a fair wind?" - my uncle-in-law at least 5 times during a meal.

my steapfather used to say "an elegant sufficiency"

"More custard XXX?"

"Oooh, not for me thank you, I've had an elegant sufficiency"

[homicide]

There's onbe I used to deal with at work daily, and used to bug me to the point of distraction, and it is griowing in popularity esp. on X Factor etc

'It's all about the journey', 'On the '........

It makes me scream. I don't know why.

Maybe because I dopn't have a destination?

'Youngsters', 'tots' .

'Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire' makes me twitch and want to commit murder. I refused to sing a song at baby music which included that line.

"For me it's when people say 'I did it off my own back'
Gah. The phrase is 'off my own bat'. Your back has nothing to do with it".

I've just learnt something new

Greensneeze Your use of [homicide] just gave me the nest laugh of the day, thank you!

Just thought of another one from work: "Let's be human about this."

Nah, I think we need to be more tapir about this.

[nest laugh] cheep cheep cheep

most of mine are already here:

to be honest

literally

sexy to describe government policies and whatnot

laughing at "good job" as I have just been saying this to DS and DH told me off and advised me to say "well done."

another Americanism is "touch base," like I'm just calling you to touch base about x.

OMG, it is so painfully overused.

not to mention "oh my god."

Cant stand 'D'you know what I mean' , er yes, cos its so obvious.

I agree with so many of these. It is surprising how a simple phrase can send people flying into a range. I don't like:

bub/bab
"task" used as a verb. You have been set a task, you have not been "tasked". Grrrrrr.
End of - sounds like something a bossy 6yo would come out with.
up the wooden hill...(can't bring myself to type the rest) - my dad used to say this and it annoyed me when I was five. I am now 35 and I still hate it.
Chop chop - I'm sure I've mentioned this one before. Irritating pointless phrase.

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think outside the box

"attendees" - it sounds as though they've had something painful done to them: what's wrong with a "participant"?

"meet with" and "outside of" - and any other phrases with redundant prepositions in them (usually American English)

and when people use "I" all the time when, more often than not, it should be "me" - makes me wince in meetings

oh, and politicians seem to be the only people who talk about reactions/views of people "up and down the country", as if they gave a toss about them

"To be fair" = good indication they are not going to be fair

"ooh sorry I don't know what the right word for that is now " = Just said something really racist/sexist/homophobic and know the word is unacceptable but said it anyway

"Ooooh that's boy/girls for you" = after making a huge generalisation about sex roles which are often contradicted in the next breath as they see DS pick up a doll and DD pretend to shoot a gun.

Hate 'hubby' and 'cuppa'

Also - expresso instead of espresso

Oh, oh, oh, I've remembered another one - "bubbly", meaning champagne or sparkling wine. I'm not keen on the other meaning of that word either, which my mum claims is a euphemism for "fat and blonde".