AIBU to hate it when an interviewee starts his / her response with "Look,..."

[WetAugust]

It jars with me every time I hear it.

It sounds as though the personn responding to the questioner is exasperated, arrogant and trying to stake their authority. I think it's a very hostile way of starting a sentence and totally unnecessary.

If I hear another politician on the radio saying "Look....." I think I will screeeeaaammm!

'Look...' is rife among Australian current and ex-cricketers, it drives me mad!

'At this moment in time...' is just a way of saying 'now' but it sounds more articulate (to morons).

My pet hate is when people talk about 'myself' instead of 'me'. 'It was an amazing journey for myself' AAARRHGHGH!

'Me personally' always gets on my tits. 'Personally' would do- why add a superfluous 'me'?

MmeLindt- did you have Jeremy Kyle come to stay?!

It's not just the beginning of what they have to say but the end too. I particularly can't stand "the proof is in the pudding". I always want to make them go and look for it!

ah, yes, 'Look...' very Aussie. I have a friend who starts every sentence like this.

I don't mind it as much as basically, like (eg 'I waited, like, 10 minutes' etc) and why suddenly has everyone in the UK decided that gotten is a cleverer word for got?? I blame radio DJs for that. Oh, and Monday 'thru' Friday.

i really hate 'well obviously...' actually no its not obvious, if it was i wouldnt have asked

not being funny but....

generally prefaces something no-one could possibly miscontrue as either amusing or indeed strange.

'obviously' is definitely a word to be avoided. It's very anti management/comuncation theory as it shows you presume you point is already understood and agreed with.

@weasle - americanisms. despicable, and cultural imperialism of the worst kind.

Tethersend
(love your name, always makes me smile)

We had very demanding guests. They were ok with the meals I cooked, but if we recommended a restaurant they would ALWAYS find something to complain about.

"The chicken dish was delicious, but to be perfectly honest the rice was a bit disappointing"

How the hell can rice disappoint?

They were the kind of folk who think they are great gourmets and always talk in the plural. "We enjoyed the salmon, but it was a bit overseasoned" "The duck was fine, but the pototoes could have done with more salt, we found"

Don't bloody ask for a restaurant recommendation then, you wanker.

Hmm, still seem to be a bit ranty about their visit.

Rice always lets you down...

i share your pain lindt, a certain relative of my husbands always finishes a meal by saying 'you know what this needs..' as though food is always incomplete withought some necessary addition eg pepper, mushrooms, some other excessive addition that wouldn't have fit in the pan anyway.

at that persons house no meal is ever enjoyed so much as dissected.

i want to yell FFS! Shut up and enjoy the food!!

I hate tbh, tbh.

my dad does it all the time, he exists on the defensive.