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Most hated phrases

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  • #52
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Anybody that says that obnoxious 'Yeah Buddy' thing out of Jersey Shore deserves death by catapult.
    That also goes for anyone putting up a status on facebook followed by the word Boom. Example, 'Going out the weekend. BOOM'. Congratulations, you're a spa.
    Roll on tonight..... This irritates me immensely. Also on the list are Meh, Happy Out and <insert word> Much??


  • #53
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    "all-you-can-eat data"

    I assume whoever was the first company to use it was using it in an attempted light-hearted manner.

    But now it seems to be the standard phrase, and it just sounds so silly, like forced corporate cuteness.


  • #54
    wellboytoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭wellboytoo


    jingler wrote: »
    at the end of the day......

    Just answer
    It gets dark.


  • #55
    M cebee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭M cebee


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    "all-you-can-eat data"

    I assume whoever was the first company to use it was using it in an attempted light-hearted manner.

    But now it seems to be the standard phrase, and it just sounds so silly, like forced corporate cuteness.

    I keep thinking ' all you can eat pussy'
    when I hear that phrase


  • #56
    pauliewallie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭pauliewallie


    Ireland is open for business.

    Does my ****in head in ... Ireland is a country not ****ing clearys


  • #57
    Shanotheslayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,191 ✭✭✭✭Shanotheslayer


    New and Improved.

    Fúcking hate it.


  • #58
    Inventive User Name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭Inventive User Name


    Anyone who uses the phrase "haters" or "why you hatin on me?" should be shot in the face.


  • #59
    Seomra Mushie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭Seomra Mushie


    "You either love it or you hate it".

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


  • #60
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    "Happy out"

    :rolleyes:


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  • #61
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    This thread has proved more interesting than I imagined (and no, that's not a phrase I dislike).


  • #62
    token101
    Registered Users Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    People using catchy and awful buzzwords in business to sound 'fresh and innovative':

    'Touch Base'. Are we playing Baseball or some ****? F*** off.

    'Adding value'. Wouldn't that be kind of obvious in selling anything to anyone? You're not likely to buy anything that makes you worse off. Using words just to use words. Especially VAT. It makes it less value for money seeing as I have to pay more for the f***ing thing.

    'On the cloud'. It's online. There are no f***ing clouds.

    'In the <insert profession here> space'. It used to be in the 'engineering/science/business field'. What happened the field? Did someone concrete it over and just leave the space there?

    'Leader in his/her thought space'. Utter f***ing nonsense. WTF is a 'thought space'? Wouldn't that just be inside your head?

    I heard nearly all these spouted in that f***ing atrocious radio advert for CIMA, or one of those qualification things with the Northern Ireland fella spouting jargon like slurry in a field. It's the most cringey advert I've ever heard.


  • #63
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    I use this so I'm shooting myself in the foot here but a friend could say something and I'd reply nothing as bad as that. Give me a second is another one. Ya know, all's well that ends well.


  • #64
    M cebee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭M cebee


    advertising waffle

    'so much more affordable'


  • #65
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I hate the phrase 'first world problems'. It's like saying that because there are people starving in the world that no one should ever complain about anything minor. The phrase is usually said by people sitting at their computers, complaining about other people complaining.


  • #66
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    The phrase "Celtic Tiger".

    Its use should be outlawed.

    And people who say "chillax" require a beating.


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  • #67
    GreenWolfe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭GreenWolfe


    Literally.

    For example, "I didn’t eat anything, I’m literally starving." You're not being treated for malnutrition, you're just hungry.

    Or one I heard lately - "Like, I literally love cheese." You may have a problem there.


  • #68
    electrobanana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭electrobanana


    Your duckface pics on facebook are totes amazeballs.


  • #69
    O.A.P
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭O.A.P


    When people start a sentence with "to be honest with you" or "to tell you the truth".
    It makes me wonder if they lie most of the time and are about to tell you a whopper but need to convince themselves first.


  • #70
    liliq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭liliq


    Yeah, whatever. :mad:

    "They" say... :mad:


  • #71
    broadspeed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭broadspeed


    "NO TIMEWASHTERS OR TYREKICKERS!!!!!"


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  • #72
    saywhatyousee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭saywhatyousee


    "Working professionals"
    "Social welfare class"
    Can someone from the Sindo please explain what these phrases actually mean?


  • #73
    Viral Vector
    Registered Users Posts: 187 ✭✭Viral Vector


    "Totes Magoats"

    I want to go back in time and kill who ever invented that phrase!


  • #74
    bfocusd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭bfocusd


    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!


  • #75
    OneArt
    Registered Users Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    "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.


  • #76
    Reamer Fanny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭Reamer Fanny


    Cheer up it might never happen


  • #77
    u_c_thesecond
    Registered Users Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭u_c_thesecond


    Viral Vector wrote: »
    "Totes Magoats"


    what does that even mean???


  • #78
    OneArt
    Registered Users Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    u_c_thesecond wrote: »
    what does that even mean???

    Dead maggots auf Deutsch?


  • #79
    Pulsating Star
    Registered Users Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Pulsating Star


    It's the phrase "sure you'll have that " which always annoys me. I associate it with resignation to behaviours / processes that should not be. Acceptance of gombeenism as it were.
    I sooo love getting it back after a perfectly reasonable rant:rolleyes:


  • #80
    TEMPLAR KNIGHT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 961 ✭✭✭TEMPLAR KNIGHT


    people who call Australia "OZ"
    irish people who say "mate"
    people who say "cheers"
    and the word "gaff"


  • #81
    Father Damo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    wivy wrote: »
    'This avo' instead of 'this afternoon'
    Dont get it and its extremely irritating!

    This one is big back in Ireland now? Only ever heard it in Oz.

    "gone viral" gets my goat.


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  • #82
    Dylzer
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭Dylzer


    "Ah yeah, but at least you know the bus is on the way"


  • #83
    DubCul
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭DubCul


    Person who replys "absolutely" to a statement ( ala Kenny Cunningham) as they try and think of a sensible reply'


    PS: Pre-owned, what was wrong with seconhand, must be i'm getting old:confused:


  • #84
    daddydick
    Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭daddydick


    X more sleeps till X....WHOOP WHOOP


  • #85
    midlandsmissus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,838 ✭✭✭midlandsmissus


    daddydick wrote: »
    X more sleeps till X....WHOOP WHOOP

    - 5 more sleeps till Santa

    -6 more sleeps till Sarah goes to Majorca

    Sarah's Dumb friend: 4 sleeps now! Ooh how exciting! Not long now!



    F@ck off!!


  • #86
    celtictiger32
    Registered Users Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭celtictiger32


    ]
    The phrase "Celtic Tiger".

    Its use should be outlawed.

    i take offence to that:D


    'getting on like a house on fire' how the **** does a house get on with a fire!

    and the word like does my noggin in when used 476 times in a sentence.

    "is this your vehicle" - no i found the ****in thing 2 years ago and i forgot to give it back.


  • #87
    Nerdkiller1991
    Registered Users Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭Nerdkiller1991


    People who use leet or text speak in real life. It's bad enough seeing it on internet forums and mindless YouTube comments, but anytime I hear the abbreviation for "oh my god", I can't help but die a little inside. The fact that I actually saw a can of hairspray branded with...that abbreviation, only makes matters worse.


  • #88
    Improbable
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭Improbable


    "You know yourself"


  • #89
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    ''Heading out 2nite.... Be rude not to.'' NO IT WOULDNT YOU ABSOLUTE SACK OF DUNG!!!!
    Also, anyone who finishes off saying something with the word 'Simples' tagged on should just bring their toaster to the bathtub with them.


  • #90
    Lady Chuckles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,279 ✭✭✭Lady Chuckles


    "I hate..."

    That's the worst phrase I know! What's with all the excessive hating?

    For instance: "I hate Valentine's day", "I hate cats", "I hate hamburgers", "I hate Westlife", "I hate Adam Sandler" etc.

    Do you really?? Do you care enough to hate? Hate is such a strong word and I don't understand how one can say it so easily - especially when it's about little things that aren't really important. A dislike I understand, but hate? No.

    It's no fun hanging out with people who hates everything ;)


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  • #91
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,129 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    "What's crack-a-lackin?"

    I dunno where that phrase came from, but it really is annoying.


  • #92
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Now we're suckin diesel.

    *cringe*


  • #93
    Kerrigooney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,987 ✭✭✭Kerrigooney


    Just read through this whole thread and agree with nearly every single post.
    "Happy out" in particular makes me want to drive nails into my eardrums. Most of my friends use it and I just can`t understand it.
    "Random". Everything seems to be fucking "random" these days. NO IT`S NOT.
    I`ve noticed my daughter using "I guess" to answer every bloody question lately as well. She`s watching too much American crap on tv.
    Also,why have nearly all women started "lifting" the last word in every sentence making everything sound like a question? It`s an Australian thing but surely every woman in Ireland hasn`t been to Australia,have they?


  • #94
    AngryBollix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭AngryBollix


    There's the blatant mispronunciaton of words. There's just no excuse for it.


  • #95
    giant_midget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭giant_midget


    Soz = Sorry :confused: just say sorry you d1ckhead

    Meh = In my book you are a moron for using this so called word...


  • #96
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    giant_midget wrote: »
    Soz = Sorry :confused: just say sorry you d1ckhead

    Meh = In my book you are a moron for using this so called word...
    meh...



    soz


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  • #97
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Did you go for pints last night so you did?
    Did you meet that girl you fancy so you did?
    Will you be meeting her tomorrow so you will?
    I think she is mad about you so she is

    You are from the Midlands and talk like this so you do :cool:


  • #98
    angry kitten
    Closed Accounts Posts: 311 ✭✭angry kitten


    'Its alright for couples without kids'

    This really winds me up. yeah we don't have kids but we still have bills to pay. We shouldn't be footing the bill because others with loose knicker elastic chose to have kids they couldn't afford. Childrens allowance should be means tested.


  • #99
    Bad Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    MickySticks wrote: »
    "Are you in yet" :(

    That happened to me once!

    Thankfully I wasn't 'in yet'! :D


  • #100
    Bad Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    Idiots who use 'massive' meaning 'good'.

    Idiots who say 'mahooosive'! :mad:


  • #101
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Misuse of the word "literally."
    OMG, I literally died.
    No you did not, because you are literally standing in front of me you moron.

    Also, any of these ****in phrases of the month that are supposed to be cute and quirky but are just fake and annoying. Think the current one is "amazeballs." And anyone who actually says OMG or LOL should be punched in the jaw


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