To want to ban these phrases (not light-hearted - this would be my first act as dictator)

[OptimismvsRealism]

"I'm reaching out" - no, you are contacting me by email

"it broke me" - no, it made you a bit sad

"Picky bits tea" - just no

Digital nomad

I think this is the fastest filling thread I've ever seen on here.

Nominate for classics? I think I might do this.

However, I LOVE

It used to make my piss itch.

Never heard that before. Thank you @Jimmyneutronsforehead

Anyone who posts one of those bloody awful dire memes (can we also ban memes?) accompanied by the words "be like"! I'm a very calm rational person, ordinarily, but those make me want to take a fly swat to the poster.

The general decline in grammar irritates me. Particularly:
”I’m a women …”
”Is there any places…?”
”I done it.”
”They could of…”
”We was only there…”

And the increasingly common “She’s got mental health.”, meaning poor mental health, mental health issues. Makes no sense!

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'not your circus, not your monkeys' now just sounds unoriginal and cringeworthy. So does 'prince amongst men'. 'Excited for' should be 'excited about'. Overuse of 'super', and anything like 'find your happy'. Urgh.

Unfortunately not, she's trying (unsuccessfully) to make herself sound intelligent. She also uses the aforementioned 'pacifically' and 'varify' instead of 'verify'

Agree all of the above are so inane and insincere

This thread is just getting more and more funny, reporting wait list junk and the owl 😂

@Whothefuckdoesthat

Also, I fucking hate those people who do FB posts starting with ‘I hope that the person who tripped over the pavement in this street is ok. I stopped to offer first aid but couldn’t go in the ambulance with them’. Are you trying to get an update? Or do you just want dozens of people telling you how wonderful you are?

THIS in spades. ^ I also hate people who shame people on facebook. Even if someone has something wrong/a bit shitty - just stop it! It's bullying, and creates a mob mentality. It's also attention seeking and horrible behaviour!

I was with you OP til picky bits tea. What else do you call a tea of bits that you pick from?!

The worst phrase is the one the Daily Fail use

”leggy display” to describe any level of female celeb who is showing the slightest bit of leg!
it makes me feel nauseous!

And to think I got called out for calling someone out over their (over) use of the word literally. In this case someone said they had literally died. I'm no doctor, but the fact they were still talking made me think they may not have, but what do I know.

Apparently every KNOWS that literally does not literally mean "literally". Whereas in fact I thought it did. I mean, there's a huge difference between saying "I was ironing away, when all of a sudden there was a huge bang and a blue flash from the back of the iron - Well, I shat meself" and "I was ironing away, when all of a sudden there was a huge bang and a blue flash from the back of the iron - Well, I literally shat meself", because if nothing else, the latter is far more problematic than just having a faulty steam iron.

These phrases are making me irrationally angry. Need to get back to the ear wax thread to cheer myself up

I haven't got to the end of the thread and I'm not launching an attack as am not a native Scot, but it is Scottish! My (English) mum always says it annoys her but it is no less grammatically correct than "it needs painting" - Yorkshire I think? It needs painted - Scottish; It needs to be painted - "correct"

I also like the Yorkshire, "it wants painting"

I'm with most of the thread on picky tea, reaching out, making memories etc etc

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Platform is another term that I hate (in the digital sense), although train platforms are almost as bad.

I thought to diddle was to cheat or steal as in ‘diddled him out of his inheritance’.

Then it is part of innocent language.

‘Diddle, diddle dumpling, my son John’

’Hey doddle diddle the cat and the fiddle’

That sounds bonkers 😂

HR is getting highly involved in my place encouraging this type of shit which I simply refuse.
Soon with the pronoums will be other unwanted information like your colleague's, wait and see!

Busty display is also up there.

And having bought it, you didn't curate it.

Your clothes and decorative tat are not a fucking museum, get over yourself!

(Somebody's going to add 'get over yourself' now, aren't they.)

This reminds me of something horrible I did as an angry teenager. This absolute leering jerk of a man used to give me the egregious "smile, it might never 'appen!" at least twice weekly as I walked past his front garden on the way to the bus stop. One morning I was in a particularly foul mood, so I looked him dead in the eyes (that's another awful expression) and said "my entire family died in a boating accident yesterday afternoon". He never bothered me again.

Four sleeps to the Crimbo holibobs! Can't wait to make memories with Hubs and Bubs 😬

Educate yourself.

Usually uttered by a barely literate Tik Tok youth.