Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Other subjects
Original poster

Words that make you want to go AAARRRRGGGH!

211 replies

Furball · 03/04/2003 14:55

Anyone else got any words/sentances that make you mad? Mine's - Well of course he/she is so forward for their age..........

OP posts:
SueW · 13/04/2003 23:44

s;ug, if Maori is the reason for the Kiwi 'ay', what's to blame for the Canadians doing the same thing, ay?

(Married to a Kiwi, Canadian rellies)

jodee · 14/04/2003 08:53

Suedonim, my dh gets such a dirty look if he asks 'whats for dinner' - really rubs me up the wrong way!

Words/sentences I can't stand:
"See you later/laters" at the end of a conversation on the phone - no, I WON'T be seeing you 'laters', you are my brother who lives in Birmingham and I haven't seen you for months!

When my boss is going out to lunch to meet with a client, he says "I'm just going to press some flesh"!!!

"Innit" - as spoken by a 13 year old - that music is good, innit!

I love "gubbins", and my DH's family in Swansea always refer to something really good as "tidy", usually followed by "mon" !!

slug · 14/04/2003 13:40

SueW it's al just jealousy.

munchbunch · 14/04/2003 13:46

Love this thread!

Jodee - on the subject of saying things that are nonsensical, how about these?

"Take care" - no, I'll go and deliberately throw myself under a bus....

"Did you buy something nice?" - no, I bought something really hideous just becauase...

jodee · 14/04/2003 15:07

LOL Muncbunch!

In a similar vein:

"Are you okay?" No, I'm just sobbing my heart out for the hell of it ..

"Did that hurt?" Not sure, I'll tell you when the bleeding has stopped ...

rainbow · 14/04/2003 15:14

Going back a bit 2 furball.
My mum said the same. "I'm Grandma not nanny, Nanny is a goat!"

rainbow · 14/04/2003 15:21

MOSt annoying...obvious questions aren't thay suedonim?

Oh, are you back then?....(No I'm a figment of your imagination)
Are we there yet? ....(yes that's why we are still sat in the car!!)

rainbow · 14/04/2003 15:22

oops. Most and they it shood reed

layla · 14/04/2003 15:43

"Cheer up love"said by male strangers.

SoupDragon · 14/04/2003 16:08

My Mum's mum is gran and not nanny for the very sme reason. Baaaaa!

Chinchilla · 14/04/2003 22:34

Layla - I hate that too! Like you are supposed to be walking around grinning at complete strangers like a loon!

chickster · 14/04/2003 22:50

I hate it when people say 24/7. It drives me up the wall!

mammya · 15/04/2003 00:00

I also hate at the end of the day. always want to add it gets dark, so what?
And Zebra, being a foreigner too, have also problem with tea...
Another one i hate is front bottom, it's really awful.
also when people say yeah? after every other word

Bugsy · 15/04/2003 10:14

Thought of another one: "floral tribute". When Princess Di died, I thought I would go mad from hearing those words endlessly repeated. What was wrong with flowers??????

WideWebWitch · 15/04/2003 10:21

'Delighted' as used by estate agents i.e 'We are delighted to present this imaginatively decorated blah blah blah'. You so rarely hear the word used by anyone else, I just want to ring them up and say 'are you really delighted? Are you? Hmmm?' I agree with SO many of the others on here, great thread! I also hate the word gusset.

snickers · 15/04/2003 10:23

mammya - when people say "to cut a long story short..." I always want to say "the end"

layla · 15/04/2003 11:47

Chinchilla LOL,when someone said it to me the last time a few years back I told him to mind his own business-and it did get a bit nasty

Bobbins · 15/04/2003 11:51

"Cheer up it might never happen." ARGGGHHH

Somebody once said this too me at the MOST inappropriate time. I really felt like murdering them.

Bobbins · 15/04/2003 12:03

GRRRRR

My workmate has just said "Maccers" to me.

So now I have to eat Macdonalds for lunch. Nothing would compare.

I hate Macdonalds, but I also can't resist it!

layla · 15/04/2003 12:05

Bobbins
Enjoy your big mac-Im jealous!

Bozza · 15/04/2003 13:22

Suedonim - I find "you decide" in response to my "what shall we have for dinner" infinitely more annoying. If I wanted to decide I would have done, like I have done virtually every other day since my Mum stopped doing it for me.

Also "carry", "mummy do it", "NO", "MINE", "dropped it" (when its been thrown across the room) as uttered by a two year old

Bobbins · 15/04/2003 13:32

Fat! Lardy & bloated... all words that make me go ARGHHHHHHH after stuffing my face with Maccy D's.

salalex · 15/04/2003 14:27

No one's mentioned "basically"! I can't stand it and everyone says it. "well basically..." Argh! Shut up! Basically, you can't think of any other word to use. David Beckham says it all the time. Drives me nuts. Sorry, rant over.

I like moist though, what's wrong with it?!

whymummy · 15/04/2003 14:42

salalex i totally agree with you on that one and also when you`re looking for something and people asks "where did you put it???"aaaaaaargh

Bugsy · 15/04/2003 14:47

having just spent another weekend alone with my two: "muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuumeeeeeeeeeeeeee" when uttered by ds for the 50th time in less than an hour by 9am on Saturday, doesn't just make me want to go aargh, it makes me want to head for the hills alone with a chilled bottle of chenin blanc and not come back until after bedtime.
Other aargh inducing phrases:
at 3am "mummy, I done a weewee in my bed"
at 5am "mummy, I all waked up now"