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Irritating Covid Phrases

278 replies

GoldenPenPot · 14/02/2021 12:21

Now we’re about a year into the pandemic, we’re in a good position to assess what new phrases and words are the most irritating.

I’ll start with the obvious ones - “Covidiot” and “New Normal”. However, I also hate the “Stay safe” at the end of emails (suspect that’s just me).

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bumblenbean · 14/02/2021 13:50

‘Thrown under the bus’. Irrationally gives me the rage every time I see it

thehorsealreadybolted · 14/02/2021 13:51

Ramping up

Road map - its a plan not a sodding road!

ColdBrightClearMorning · 14/02/2021 13:51

@AnxiousAlpaca

No words but I hate that fucking guilt shaming advert about “looking them in the eyes” how the government have the gall to run with that is beyond me.
I fucking hate that. Said to my DH yesterday it makes me irrationally want to go and run through the supermarket mask less and spitting on people.

Who do they think they are? They don’t give a shit about the impact of those horrible guilt trippy adverts on people.

thehorsealreadybolted · 14/02/2021 13:53

more annoying is the word Brexit. We will never escape that

PhilCornwall1 · 14/02/2021 13:53

@DavidsSchitt

Oh and "front line"

It's not the fucking trenches

Often makes you wonder if they say "right, I'm going over the top", instead of saying "going to work".
ColdBrightClearMorning · 14/02/2021 13:54

Yep. It frightens me tbh how quickly and easily the general public eagerly picked up and started to use the new lingo. Social distancing, mixing, r number, all being used merrily by the average joe and Joanne as if it’s something they’ve been saying their whole life.

But yes, socialising and normal human contact being rebranded as mixing especially sickens me.

Beaniecats · 14/02/2021 13:54

Make them work on a covid ward
If you can't wear mask you'll hate ventilator
New normal
Covidiots

Rosehip10 · 14/02/2021 13:55

Putting the words "the" in front of everything. "The schools" " the teachers" "the kids"

Beaniecats · 14/02/2021 13:56

Long covid ie post viral syndrome. Like it's never been invented

IcedPurple · 14/02/2021 13:56

@LucilleTheVampireBat

I don't. I want the pre-pandemic old normal

Me too. I want to cram into a packed pub, stand 5 deep at the bar waving my twenty at the servers. I want to huddle in the smoking area sharing an umbrella and talking pure shit with strangers. I want to go to my favourite restaurant and eat so much I have to undo my jeans.

Those desires make me SELFISH and evil in the new world

Same. Even the annoying and mundane parts of the 'old normal'.

This day last year I had to fly abroad on a work trip. It involved getting up a 3am, in similar weather to today, and sitting on a crowded Ryanair flight squashed between two complete strangers. But I'd take all that back in a minute, along with the queues at security and the worries over exceeding the stingy Ryanair luggage limitations. The 'new normal' can run itself over a cliff.

Rosehip10 · 14/02/2021 13:56

People using "mingling" for any contact with anyone.

LucilleTheVampireBat · 14/02/2021 13:58

Often makes you wonder if they say "right, I'm going over the top", instead of saying "going to work".

That really made me laugh!

SomewhereUpMyArse · 14/02/2021 13:59

Agree with "key worker". All that being a "key worker" means for me is that I can't sit on my arse "working" from home. I don't have any more status or any more money than I did previously, I just have to put myself at risk now in order to do my low paid low status job. Yeah, cheers.

Nikki078 · 14/02/2021 14:01

Unprecedented - overused to describe things are being hard
New normal - hurrahoptimistic
Stay safe - patronising

trappedsincesundaymorn · 14/02/2021 14:02

Often makes you wonder if they say "right, I'm going over the top", instead of saying "going to work

That's exactly what we say when we go out on our community support stints....we usually follow it up with " if I don't make it back tell (partner's name), I love them" In a clipped accent whilst leaving the office. Grin

cathyandclare · 14/02/2021 14:03

All of these and exponential growth

stampsurprise · 14/02/2021 14:03

“These strange times”

dementedma · 14/02/2021 14:04

Is it Coe-vid..to rhyme with snow
Or Coh-vid ..like in cough?

faerin · 14/02/2021 14:08

"New normal"
"All in this together"
"Selfish"
"Non-essential"
"Stay safe"
"Stay home"
"Mask up"
"Protect the NHS"

everythingthelighttouches · 14/02/2021 14:11

Doom-monger

When applied to people stating facts

RigaBalsam · 14/02/2021 14:14

@everythingthelighttouches

Doom-monger

When applied to people stating facts

Yes or stop scaremongering when again its a fact.
TillyTopper · 14/02/2021 14:14

"Due to Covid we can't.... [whatever]"
The long, meaningless message on the doctor's surgery answerphone about CV19 which no one listens to.
Key worker
Covidiot
Deadly virus

DavidsSchitt · 14/02/2021 14:16

"sit on my arse "working" from home"

The key worker/wfh divide is real.

"Sit on my arse" Hmm

Cardboardeaux · 14/02/2021 14:16

I agree re putting "the" in gron of everything. Worst has to be "the keyworkers"

Lockdown used as a verb...or worse, "we have to lock it down" Angry

SeldomFollowedIt · 14/02/2021 14:16

When your next door neighbour bangs on about being a “keyworker” and refers to her job as a very important “sandwich artist”.

She works at subway attached to a spar shop so it has stayed open throughout. No disrespect to anyone working in subway but the way she was banging on about being a keyworker on FB you would easily have mistaken her for working in ITU.