The use of "Myself"

[BupcakesandCunting]

Just catching up with The Apprentice. Are they paid each time they say "myself" where "me" would do? It's driving me berserk! "That was myself Lord Sugar" "That was myself and Dave" "That was down to myself"

OH GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD IT'S SO ANNOYING!

Well that's just wrong.

Wrong!

I suppose they are trying to distance themselves from the issue. 'Myself' sounds more distant than 'me'.

More time in English class, less in pompous arse class would have served them better.

Stop watching that awful program!

Most of the winners end up cleaning up Lord Sugars toe nail clipping or the like anyway.

Will people never learn!?

So glad I'm not the only one it drives insane!

It seems to be a Midlands thing?

Or maybe they are trying to sound educated.

Like people who misuse 'I' and 'whom' and 'one'.

I cry for the language, I really do.

this really PISSES me off. It's worse when people say 'yourself' instead of 'you'

Drives me nuts! GRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Fools.

hate hate HATE reflexive pronoun misuse. Psemmead is right - it's about gentrification. People have decided that 'me' sounds somehow common. It's a perfectly respectable word but it's got a reputation for being 'wrong'. Just ripe for misuse by twits with an inflated sense of self-importance.

Yep, it is a strange formulation.

Busybusybust I wouldn't say it was a Midlands thing at all. I've heard it all over the place. It's a Twit thing, that's what it is.

Hate it too!

When I was selling my last house, every conversation with the estate agent was a downpour of myselfs and yourselfs. "So mrs Cunting, you spoke to myself yesterday morning then Peter was going to speak with yourself today but Peter is not here so you are speaking to myself." AGGGGGGHHHHHH.

It is wrong, and it makes the speaker look under-educated IMNSHO. (Am having a highly strung day today!)

It's not just on the apprentice. I've noticed it and I don't watch that tripe.

It's used often in business contexts.

Christ that really got on my tits last night too. In fact, I nearly started a thread but am too lazy

YANBU, it's infuriating. Alongside all the corporate twaddle/buzz phrases they use. It's all "talk the talk" and gets on myself's tits

This bugs the hell out of me.
I have to deal with someone at work who does this all the time. He said yesterday 'so, will yourself be setting up the meeting with myself and x'. I thought he said Yusef and I'm thinking 'who the fuck is Yusef' ? He is a Brummie but it's not exclusive to that area.

it's about people thinking that 'myself' and 'yourself' sounds posher and more educated than 'me' and 'you'. they are completely wrong and if they don't stop doing it I wont be held responsible for my own actions.

Ohh this is one of my pet peeves. Likewise "yourself" abused in the same way. Makes me want to scream! Agree it's often in business and sales contexts. I have a rule that if they can't get basic grammar right then I don't buy/give/engage in further conversation if it can be avoided!

Grrrrrrr. Hate it. It's icky.

I detest the misuse of "myself". It doesn't make people sound more educated or refined, it makes them sound extraordinary stupid.

I think people think it sounds "posh". And they are worried about getting it wrong like me and you, you and I, you and me.

I used to work in an environment where I would read and correct other people's letters before they were sent. The number of times I saw a pointless and wrong 'myself' and 'yourself' used was horrifying. Please return the enclosed form to myself. Arrghhh.

I knew you were talking about The Apprentice.

Last week I noticed one of the men, Ricky, I think, saying 'resOOmay' when he meant resoomay, or, as the rest of us call it, CV.

Could it be coincidence that this is the way Sugar pronounces it all the blaardy time?