Cunning linguists
Words or expressions you can’t stand
Mamma2017 · 30/07/2022 23:01
I’ll start with a fairly recent one that for some reason just irritates the absolute crap out of me when I hear it:
“Platty Jubes”
Ref. to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Off with their head to whoever coined that monstrosity!!! 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤣
Fairislefandango · 30/07/2022 23:05
It's the only cringeworthy expression I like! It's just sooooo ridiculously bad that it comes out the other side of cringe and is actually funny 
Normally on these threadsI loathe all the expressions anyone mentions. This one's the exception!
merryhouse · 30/07/2022 23:13
We should flood the thread with Jubilee chat, otherwise we'll start with boils my piss and moist and end up with should of haitch and holibobs competing with chav (possibly diverting to mom or mummy OR BOTH on the way)
Since those plates hit the news I've been talking about the lovely Jubbly
"What's for you won't pass by you" and other supposedly positive messages really annoy me. LIFE ISN'T FAIR guys, didn't your mother spend your entire childhood telling you that?
merryhouse · 30/07/2022 23:13
We should flood the thread with Jubilee chat, otherwise we'll start with boils my piss and moist and end up with should of haitch and holibobs competing with chav (possibly diverting to mom or mummy OR BOTH on the way)
Since those plates hit the news I've been talking about the lovely Jubbly
"What's for you won't pass by you" and other supposedly positive messages really annoy me. LIFE ISN'T FAIR guys, didn't your mother spend your entire childhood telling you that?
WeThreeKingsofOrientAre · 30/07/2022 23:16
It is what it is
It’s one of them
100 per cent
Moving forward
I can’t lie
To be fair
merryhouse · 30/07/2022 23:17
sorry for the double post, got that Really Annoying having a moment have a cup of tea message and didn't have experience in how to handle it...
MrsRobinsonsHandprints · 30/07/2022 23:20
Slurping being used as a positive descriptor.
ZarquonsSandals · 30/07/2022 23:22
So fun
Needs gone
Obviously (when it isn't)
The constant "this one" guff on social media
theinvisible1 · 30/07/2022 23:28
'Everything happens for a reason' - nope, some things happen because people are arseholes
Anniissa · 30/07/2022 23:32
It is what it is
love the bones of them
if you can’t take me at my worst you don’t deserve me at my best
i tell it as it is (usually just an excuse to be horrifically rude)
Parkperson00 · 30/07/2022 23:32
Bat shit crazy. Used about anyone or anything.
What is it meant to imply?
PinkButtercups · 30/07/2022 23:36
And then some.
I don't know why, I just hate when people say it.
Mamma2017 · 30/07/2022 23:48
These are great! 😂
”Can I pick your brains?”
Shudders Ewww no you cannot!!
Goes straight through me I dunno why I take it so literally! 😅🤣🧠
Tallisimo · 30/07/2022 23:50
When people advertise stuff on Facebook and say… needs gone / need gone
MarmiteCoriander · 30/07/2022 23:50
'As I said'- when they have never mentioned this topic ever before!
Pronouncing ask as aks!
CoviD being pronounced by MIL as coviT for over 2 yrs!!!!!
'We was here!'
I was 'Finking' instead of thinking
Garysparrowsthirdwife · 30/07/2022 23:55
‘I’m not going to lie’-makes me want to pull my own eyeballs out
it makes you sound like a billy bullshitter as soon as you say it
i have a hatred for the word ‘pudding’ and I don’t know why
my manager,when someone’s done or said something daft says ‘you donkey!’
why dear god?just why?
’take me as I am or don’t take me at all’
good,I won’t bother at all
‘I tell it as it is’
no,your just a rude cunt,now fuck off to the far side of fuck and keep going
CloudPop · 30/07/2022 23:55
MarmiteCoriander · 30/07/2022 23:50
'As I said'- when they have never mentioned this topic ever before!
Pronouncing ask as aks!
CoviD being pronounced by MIL as coviT for over 2 yrs!!!!!
'We was here!'
I was 'Finking' instead of thinking
Or The Covid as I have in my world of elders
Mamma2017 · 31/07/2022 00:05
I used to know someone who was constantly saying “so I turned round and said” I always thought it strange she conducts most of the conversations with her back to the other person 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
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