Most hated phrases

sheesh · 02-03-2012 4:21pm

Alice1 wrote: »

What is "low hanging fruit"? (I may regret asking this)

I means the easier more obvious tasks in a situation.

similar to cherry picking ( I Think).

I think the idea is that you leave the harder to do stuff to someone else.

Mongarra · 02-03-2012 4:24pm

I thought low-hanging fruit meant the easy option or something handy.

Dislikes:
Politicians using "for the last number of days/weeks/months/years" - What is the last number? Infinity?

This point/moment in time.

"Presently", when they mean "at present".

Teenage-speak with "like" after every second word.

"More nor likely" instead of "more than likely".

And most previous posts - haven't time to "like" them all.

Crooked Jack · 02-03-2012 7:35pm

I prefer a boke. A good boke

ejmaztec · 02-03-2012 8:19pm

"That's for me to know, and for you to find out"

Usually said by arseholes.

The King of Moo · 02-03-2012 8:23pm

"As a mother..."

"If you had kids yourself you'd understand."

Rangi · 02-03-2012 8:26pm

"the day that's in it"
"...you know what I mean"
"come here til I tell ya"

"reverse racism" WTF is that??

Nerdkiller1991 · 02-03-2012 11:37pm

Rangi wrote: »

"reverse racism" WTF is that??

White guilt, maybe?

luckyfrank · 03-03-2012 12:12am

Hate when pat kenny says 'pig in a poke' he loves to use that phrase

kevjob · 03-03-2012 3:05am

For me it's....

"Back in the day".............

Even more so when said by a 20 something twat.

Really, where did it come from!

cloptrop · 03-03-2012 3:10am

kevjob wrote: »

For me it's....

"Back in the day".............

Even more so when said by a 20 something twat.

Really, where did it come from!

It came from back in the day.

GaryIrv93 · 03-03-2012 3:14am

''.....then I took an arrow to the knee'' , and ''schtoreeeeeee???'' :mad::mad::mad:

tippspur · 03-03-2012 3:41am

You're lucky you have a job. :mad:

Sinfonia · 03-03-2012 4:11am

OneArt wrote: »

"You can't have your cake and eat it."

Wtf? That's the whole point of cake. If I can't eat it I don't want anything to do with it, let alone have it!

I know it means you can't have everything but it's a stupid phrase.

'Have' in this context is synonymous with 'preserve'; you can't both preserve the cake and eat the cake, you have a choice of one or the other.

'You can't have things both ways' is a more closely related phrase than 'you can't have everything'.

GreenWolfe · 03-03-2012 4:39am

GaryIrv93 wrote: »

''.....then I took an arrow to the knee'' , and ''schtoreeeeeee???'' :mad::mad::mad:

The former phrase is just a meme, it should die out quickly. Can't see the latter dying out any time soon though.

brummytom · 03-03-2012 9:47am

Any person (girl) who feels the need to constantly tell everyone 'OMG I'm hannnginnnn!' on a schoolday. Wow, you're really cool.

'Hate's a very strong word'. No it's not, and now I hate you.

And anyone who says 'lol' or 'O.M.G'.

Or when I'm waiting at a bus stop that only one bus stops at, and someone comes asking 'has the bus come yet?'. Yes, I'm just standing here admiring the traffic.

Dostoevsky · 03-03-2012 10:56am

You know, like, you know. Like. You know....

King of Kings · 03-03-2012 11:57am

mikemac1 wrote: »

"hubbie"
Just pass me the sick bag

If you don't say darling daughter or darling son then why you type DD or DS?
Thankfully boards.ie crack down on this

I couldnt agree more

also when friend wives.gf's describe them as sexy or romantic
**** off - i've seen him passed out drunk in a pool of his own piss - he is not sexy

I know you married him - but stop telling me he is sexy

cloptrop · 03-03-2012 12:22pm

Creeping- This phrase seems to have exploded from Tallafornia. Im going creeping tonight-- it means Im going out on the pull. But now people creeped some bird or creeped two fellas in the jax. There are girls that have had men try to creep them . Please boards ban this phrase before it becomes as prevalent as a smiley face symbol:)

stinkle · 03-03-2012 12:32pm

I'm getting a bit fed up with the overuse of the word "stunning". Everytime some moron uploads a pic of herself on fb (usually for attention)the comments will ALWAYS contain this word, even if its actually a crap pic *ahem*. not sure why it irritates me so much, it's possibly just because it's become the default compliment word and the overuse renders it meaningless.

Jesus Wept · 03-03-2012 12:37pm

Love2love wrote: »

I hate HATE HATE when you someone ask "Are you alright?" and they say "No, I'm half left" like its the funniest thing they ever said. Its just f*cking annoying

Thankfully I have never heard this.

bfocusd wrote: »

Lad I worked with used the word redundant for everything!

It started around '08 and everyone was on edge when that word was mentioned, little did they realise it was his pen that was redundant! Or an old document was redundant, even his coffee was redundant!

He's still saying it now, no one listens any more. Plus he might be the redundant one soon enough!

He sounds funny.

danslevent wrote: »

When people call vegetables "veg" or all crisps as tayto.

Also, "Take a chill pill" It just gets me even more annoyed!

Relax the kacks Dan.

The King of Moo wrote: »

"As a mother..."

"If you had kids yourself you'd understand."

Speaking as a parent...

brummytom wrote: »

Any person (girl) who feels the need to constantly tell everyone 'OMG I'm hannnginnnn!' on a schoolday. Wow, you're really cool.

'Hate's a very strong word'. No it's not, and now I hate you.

And anyone who says 'lol' or 'O.M.G'.

Or when I'm waiting at a bus stop that only one bus stops at, and someone comes asking 'has the bus come yet?'. Yes, I'm just standing here admiring the traffic.

The 'N' word, the 'f' word. The 'c' word. They are just words you cunt. Oh don't say that word around me, go **** yourself.

'Rock and roll', especially when said by that Justin Lee something retard who somehow has a job as a presenter on tv, actually anything he says is incredibly annoying.

'Rafter' - shut up.

'Cali' meaning California. Cali is a place, it's not on the West Coast of America.

'a few brewskies' - you are a cunt.

'Ireland INC'.

And lastly (for the moment but) but not least: Diaspora. I used to hear this word about once a year until last year, now I hear it once a week. I don't give a **** about the 'diaspora' and it's time to find a few alternative words.

cheekita · 03-03-2012 1:11pm

I can't stand hearing the phrase 'I'll facebook ya'. So I'm standing in front of you and you aren't going to tell me something but you'll tell me on facebook??? Get a life will ya? Hence one of the reasons I closed my facebook account, now ya have to tell me!!!!

GaryIrv93 · 03-03-2012 6:28pm

EarthlyPangaea wrote: »

The former phrase is just a meme, it should die out quickly. Can't see the latter dying out any time soon though.

it was apparently taken from Skyrim, soon after it came out nearly every youtube video I watched had many users commenting ''blah blah blah then I/he/she took an arrow to the knee'' The same was true on many other websites and then came up on urban dictionary. The phrase was overused and drove me fcuking nuts every time I saw it. :mad:

with ''schtorreeeee??'', I usually hear it off some scumbag talking to one of their mates,

bbam · 03-03-2012 6:30pm

"you get these and I'll sort you out later"

Yea Right !! :rolleyes:

Mars Bar · 03-03-2012 6:42pm

Des wrote: »

Culchies calling all crisps "taytos"

Dubs calling crisps "crips". What the hell like?

Janedoe10 · 03-03-2012 6:45pm

" at the end of the day" used to explain something thats supposedly fact . what a crappy phrase . Guy at work uses the line I would say 30 times a day

u_c_thesecond · 05-03-2012 3:24am

stinkle wrote: »

I'm getting a bit fed up with the overuse of the word "stunning". Everytime some moron uploads a pic of herself on fb (usually for attention)the comments will ALWAYS contain this word, even if its actually a crap pic *ahem*. not sure why it irritates me so much, it's possibly just because it's become the default compliment word and the overuse renders it meaningless.

You reminded me of another one- STUNNA !:mad:

oh your some stunna in that pic girl!

Just say Stunner ... jesus drop the A and add ER

cocalolaman · 05-03-2012 3:34am

When someone in an arguement on boards writes "Now run along.." followed by this smiley,:rolleyes: As if they are arguing with a child. You sound like a child yourself if you do this. It's like writing something and then at the end type in 'FACT' because you cant stand the fact that someone has a different opinion to you. Whoever does this, you know who you are. And I hate you.

Anyway..

cloptrop · 05-03-2012 11:33am

cocalolaman wrote: »

When someone in an arguement on boards writes "Now run along.." followed by this smiley,:rolleyes: As if they are arguing with a child. You sound like a child yourself if you do this. It's like writing something and then at the end type in 'FACT' because you cant stand the fact that someone has a different opinion to you. Whoever does this, you know who you are. And I hate you.

Anyway..

You are wrong - fact
Now run along:rolleyes:

kfallon · 05-03-2012 11:45am

Class!

Some people constantly use it and it does my head in!

"She's class!"
"that was class!"

etc etc, hate it :mad:

sunflower27 · 05-03-2012 11:54am

I hate the use of the word 'retard' to describe someone that does something stupid. I always have and always will.

'At the end of the day', as already mentioned, is another pet hate. I always think it is said by really thick people that are struggling to get their point across, so they throw in 'at th end of the day' to finish the sentence before they could slip up.

booboo88 · 05-03-2012 12:04pm

I have a few

totes....its totes cool like...**** off
kid....dont you ever call me kid again
yeah buddy....really?
biatch....usually screamed by drunken young ones doing their duck face pose

The King of Moo · 05-03-2012 12:55pm

cocalolaman wrote: »

When someone in an arguement on boards writes "Now run along.." followed by this smiley,:rolleyes: As if they are arguing with a child. You sound like a child yourself if you do this. It's like writing something and then at the end type in 'FACT' because you cant stand the fact that someone has a different opinion to you. Whoever does this, you know who you are. And I hate you.

Anyway..

Occasionally compounded by adding "the adults are talking :rolleyes:" after.

h57xiucj2z946q · 05-03-2012 1:02pm

Happy out
Happy days
In the heel of the hunt

Dacelonid · 05-03-2012 1:11pm

The one that does my head in, and I mostly hear it in soaps or the like, is when they use the word before instead of earlier. eg "Sorry about what I said before".

All I can think is "Before what you retard", before someone jumps in and kicks your head in, before you said something else, before you died, before you closed the door, before what???????

I don't even care if it is correct to say before, it is retarded, sounds wrong and drives me demented.
Of course I should just leave the room when the wife is watching soaps, but even so.

mikemac1 · 05-03-2012 1:56pm

You approach the barman and it's something I spent many years doing

"Pint of bud, bud" as you congratulate yourself at your clever wordplay

Wow, Oscar Wilde is alive and well. I couldn't go a few days without someone saying this.
And I'm not your bud

Barman drops a glass or a maybe a hot glass from the glasswasher shatters as you were stacking them. Hey no big deal, we get the glasses for free and every barman that ever lived has broken a few glasses
"Wahheeyy" shout the smartarses and you get a bualadh bos.
"Do ya want a hammer?" shouts the amateur wit

If I was owner I'd bar ye all :mad:
And everyone thinks they are so original. Sure every bar and pub I've worked in Galway and Tipp had this.
Zero originality means ye are not funny

QuiteInterestin · 05-03-2012 1:58pm

"You know what I mean" at the end of EVERY sentence :mad:

Constant uses of the phrases "Essentially" "Basically" "Fundamentally"....

Nothingbetter2d · 05-03-2012 1:59pm

being told by bouncers i've had too much to drink when i haven't had any drink.

mikemac1 · 05-03-2012 2:05pm

Award winning restaurant has its grand opening this Saturday
Please come and try our bla bla bla

I read the trade journals and I'd be often looking at job ads for the hospitality area

So tell me, how did you win an award when the restaurant hasn't even opened yet

Now it could be explained by award winning chef but they didn't put that in the ad

In summary, all ads are lies

Cantona's Collars · 05-03-2012 2:08pm

Austerity measures: They're not austerity measures,they are just another way of gouging money out of us. STOP USING THAT BLOODY PHRASE!!!

mikemac1 · 05-03-2012 2:11pm

Death to staycation. Some morketing [yes morketing] clown on a Fáilte Ireland salary and too much time on their hands

Death to Ireland Inc.
I did like the Sinn Féin jokes about Ireland Ink though, that was clever

Death to free delivery on pizza company ads. It's not free delivery, it's built into the price, sure you have carryout special so I can see the difference. Yiz are like airlines, hiding and bundling fees

Death to smart arse colleagues who say "oh half day for you so" as you get up to go home.
No you clown, I'm leaving on time but unlike you I don't work for free. No overtime means no late evenings.
And I didn't take tea breaks and smoke breaks so I got my **** done.
And you're not great for staying late, in fact people who stay late are inefficent and take nine hours for what I do in eight

kincsem · 05-03-2012 2:57pm

Poker - When an opposing player says "I'll put you all-in". This means he is betting more chips than I have in total. If I want to call his bet I have to bet all my chips to call (all-in).

No you are not "putting me all-in". You bet an amount, and it is my decision what I do with my chips.

Mink · 05-03-2012 2:58pm

The King of Moo wrote: »

"As a mother..."

"If you had kids yourself you'd understand."

It's almost worse when you're pregnant with a prominent belly. All you hear is "It's all ahead of ya!"

mikemac1 wrote: »

Death to smart arse colleagues who say "oh half day for you so" as you get up to go home.
No you clown, I'm leaving on time but unlike you I don't work for free. No overtime means no late evenings.

Yeah I really hate this too. The other that gets my goat is "Nice for some!", if said in a particularly snide way, it just makes you feel like sh1te.

Loomis · 05-03-2012 3:01pm

Please God, God bless, Ronan Keating, fair play...

Irish Guitarist · 05-03-2012 3:09pm

As this thread has moved on to single words rather than phrases I'll say how much I hate the word 'overrated'. Why can't people just say they don't like something?

Hardly anyone uses the word correctly. For instance a few months ago there was a thread about overrated musicians. Someone said that Steve Vai is overrated. Actually he's not. I don't like his style, but that's not the point. He's rated as being a virtuoso guitarist, which is exactly what he is. Someone else, or maybe it was the same person, said that Bob Marley is overrated and that all reggae is crap. The fact that this person hates reggae means he can't judge if a reggae musician is overrated or not. If you don't like an art form you can hardly say that a practitioner of said art form is overrated.

Then there are the people that say Two And A Half Men is overrated. No it's not. Most people that watch it know it's not groundbreaking television that's going to change the world or anything. They just find it funny.

Motorist · 05-03-2012 3:18pm

"The only game in town" used endlessly by maFFia spin doctors in 2009 when talking about the setting up of Nama. Heard it used twice on the radio last week. Wish theyd fluck off with their trite americanisms especially when debating something so serious.

Seomra Mushie · 15-03-2012 3:21pm

Seomra Mushie wrote: »

"You either love it or you hate it".

No, I'm actually fúcking indifferent to it, OK?
:mad:

Actually, to add to this. What's worse than saying "You either love it or you hate it" is saying "you either love me or you hate me." My my, what an inflated sense of self-importance you have. Everyone has people that like them, people that hate them and a vast, vast majority who have no particular strong feelings on them either way. You're no different!

ciarang85 · 15-03-2012 3:25pm

"top of the morning to ya"

never heard anyone say that except brits taking the píss

guitarzero · 15-03-2012 3:29pm

"Simples!"

:mad:

benway · 15-03-2012 3:35pm

"Going forward"

I don't care if it's already been done, it deserves to go in again. Worst. Ever.

guitarzero · 15-03-2012 3:38pm

My mate said to me in a bar "Beggars cant be choosers", I nearly broke his dicky off.

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