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Useless words that people say

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  • #102
    Rega
    Registered Users Posts: 764 ✭✭✭Rega


    Oh and banter.

    Banter my arse.


  • #103
    leaveiton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭leaveiton


    Rega wrote: »
    Oh and banter.

    Banter my arse.

    Agreed, but it's much, much worse when they say "bants."


  • #104
    wonton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭wonton


    holliers.





    I just wana punch someone when I hear them say that word.


  • #105
    QuiteInterestin
    Registered Users Posts: 623 ✭✭✭QuiteInterestin


    Rega wrote: »
    I seen it yesterday.

    No you didn't, dickhead, you saw it.

    Bit off topic, but that reminded me of being on a bus in Dublin a few years ago. A child was telling his mother about something they did in school the previous day. The mother interrupted the child, telling him it wasn't 'I did' it was 'I done' :rolleyes:.

    I know it has been mentioned, but the expression 'if you know what I mean' really annoys me (though I use it myself occasionally). I share a house with a girl who uses it at the end of every sentence. One of her friends is just as bad so when they're talking to each other, at least half of the conversation is taken up by that expression alone. They also have a tendency to repeat what the other has said so very little actually gets said in any of their conversations.


  • #106
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    Happy daze...


  • #107
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    LH Pathe wrote: »
    Happy daze...

    Oh that reminds me - happy out - wtf is that?!


  • #108
    leggo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    "Fab!!"

    **** off.


  • #109
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,789 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Nothingbetter2d wrote: »
    quare... carlow people use it alot....

    example: it was quare hard to do that job


    Yep, I'm from Carlow and I say "quare" a quare lot of the time.


  • #110
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    ooo ooo I've got one.


    joined up thinking........


    ARGHGHGHG ****ing muppets - the word you are looking for is integrated....and pretty much by definition if you use the phrase 'joined up thinking'....well there isn't going to be alot of integrated thinking going on


    seriously does my head in that one


  • #111
    Fromthetrees
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    Uber cool. Expose girl says we have this uber cool something something coming up next. :confused:
    Using the word spades by anyone on RTE. He was a man of character and was brave, which he had in spades. :confused:
    I don't like when anyone answers we'll see to a direct uncomplicated question, why,who or what will we see? :confused:


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  • #112
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    Fromthetrees wrote: »
    question, why,who or what will we see? :confused:

    I tell my kids "we'll see".
    Sometimes I just haven't made my mind up.
    So we will see what happens .
    Makes perfect sense.


  • #113
    Maudi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭Maudi


    Nothingbetter2d wrote: »
    quare... carlow people use it alot....

    example: it was quare hard to do that job
    yeah..i hear that a lot in wexford..except they seem to say 'quarn' hard..


  • #114
    blinkey 101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 629 ✭✭✭blinkey 101


    I nearly sh1t myself 💩

    I'd eat the nuts out of a nuns sh1te 💩

    I'd eat sh1t off a stick 💩

    Hate when my gran uses them sayings 😡


  • #115
    DuPLeX
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 250 ✭✭DuPLeX


    Noodles


  • #116
    alan4cult
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭alan4cult


    Going Forward, Touch Base as mentioned before make my teeth grind, bull***t phrases that have somehow managed to remain in business culture.

    Anything 2.0 (two point oh) added to the end of everything Web 2.0 is fine though.

    People saying "I'm not a racist but..." and proceeding to let off steam for the next 15 minutes.

    Also cloud computing, boils my blood.

    Smart economy also.


  • #117
    leggo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    "Lol."

    Once again, **** off.


  • #118
    passremarkable
    Registered Users Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭passremarkable


    banter cracks me..way overused!
    banter my hole..stop saying that..just say you were havin good craic or something else...


  • #119
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    alan4cult wrote: »
    Also cloud computing, boils my blood.
    Ohhh I fcuckin hate that too. Anytime I pop into PC world and glance sideways at hard drives I have a spotty teenage assistant sidling up beside me....

    Him:...."Have you considered The Cloud?

    Me: "No" (leave)

    What I want to say: "NO, why the fcuk would I want to pay more to rent a less secure storage medium, unavailable when I'm offline" (beat him to death with a physical hard drive)


  • #120
    Bobby42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭Bobby42


    passremarkable wrote: »
    banter cracks me..way overused!
    banter my hole..stop saying that..just say you were havin good craic or something else...

    What I find even more annoying is when people say "having the bants..."

    Is banter such a long word that it has to be shortened to bants?


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  • #121
    Jammy Donut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 606 ✭✭✭Jammy Donut


    To make a long story short.....





    Followed by a long story :rolleyes:


  • #122
    Bobby42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭Bobby42


    Lets be havin' ya.

    Always see this on facebook - Paris in two weeks, lets be having ya.


  • #123
    dmcronin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 267 ✭✭dmcronin


    I'm so hungry I'd eat a scabby babby out through the bars of a cot.


  • #124
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    I hate the word "solutions" added into every company name.


  • #125
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    dmcronin wrote: »
    I'm so hungry I'd eat a scabby babby out through the bars of a cot.

    im so hungry i'd ate the hind legs off a scabby horse


  • #126
    christmas2012
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭christmas2012


    i love u lol a useless word


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  • #127
    Thepredator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 149 ✭✭Thepredator


    Immense, savage and claaasss.


  • #128
    Thwip!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Thwip!


    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    Ohhh I fcuckin hate that too. Anytime I pop into PC world and glance sideways at hard drives I have a spotty teenage assistant sidling up beside me....

    Him:...."Have you considered The Cloud?

    Me: "No" (leave)

    What I want to say: "NO, why the fcuk would I want to pay more to rent a less secure storage medium, unavailable when I'm offline" (beat him to death with a physical hard drive)
    "No, but have you pondered the pebbles?"


  • #129
    jmc1243
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭jmc1243


    Can't stand people saying LOL and awks and totes, oh and mort, really can't stand that.


  • #130
    Carstuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 439 ✭✭Carstuck


    I hate when you ask someone a question and they say back 'I don't know' or 'maybe'. It drives me mad even by just thinking about it now...:mad:


  • #131
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Carstuck wrote: »
    I hate when you ask someone a question and they say back 'I don't know' or 'maybe'. It drives me mad even by just thinking about it now...:mad:

    what is wrong with saying "i don't know" if they genuinely dont know the answer? it better than giving a half baked answered that is blatantly wrong


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  • #132
    Carstuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 439 ✭✭Carstuck


    Nothingbetter2d wrote: »
    what is wrong with saying "i don't know" if they genuinely dont know the answer? it better than giving a half baked answered that is blatantly wrong

    People I ask usually do know or are fairly sure, like asking them are they going to town and they say 'I don't know' yet at the same time they're getting ready to go to town.


  • #133
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Carstuck wrote: »
    People I ask usually do know or are fairly sure, like asking them are they going to town and they say 'I don't know' yet at the same time they're getting ready to go to town.

    maybe they just dont want you knowing their business


  • #134
    Carstuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 439 ✭✭Carstuck


    Nothingbetter2d wrote: »
    maybe they just dont want you knowing their business

    Well they mustn't mind when they end up coming with me so... Anyway have you Nothingbetter2d? :D:D


  • #135
    Eramen
    Registered Users Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Eramen


    "I don't mean to offend you but.."


    It drives me up the wall (no matter what comes after it) !


  • #136
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Carstuck wrote: »
    Well they mustn't mind when they end up coming with me so... Anyway have you Nothingbetter2d? :D:D

    pfft i hear the line "have you nothingbetter2d?" many times a day now :rolleyes:

    most of the time no... but when i do then im not likely to be on boards then now would i?


  • #137
    Carstuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 439 ✭✭Carstuck


    Nothingbetter2d wrote: »
    pfft i hear the line "have you nothingbetter2d?" many times a day now :rolleyes:

    most of the time no... but when i do then im not likely to be on boards then now would i?

    :pac:


  • #138
    plys
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭plys


    68Murph68 wrote: »
    REVERT
    Also there is a whole segment of the financial community who don't know how to use revert properly in emails.

    I've spoken to friends who work in and around the IFSC and there are a whole host of people who use it incorrectly. Some people seem to use it in the exact same manner as reply, which leads to nonsense. We believe that people who don't understand the correct usage started using it to some more professional. Ironic that is ends up showing them up.


    ^^^

    This...

    "...revert back.." ...Why Back?? you idiot! :mad:

    And you can highlight the error all you want, they just won't use the verb correctly because it doesn't 'sound right'..

    Another similar term is myriad.
    People seem to always want to use the word 'of' after the word 'myriad'... It's just wrong. Stop it.


    Another one the missus is ALWAYS at, does my nut in...
    "..used of.."... ie trying to say "...used to.." but getting it completely wrong.
    It's fine when she speaks quickly, it is not very obvious. But when she speaks slowly, it is torture.


  • #139
    blinkey 101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 629 ✭✭✭blinkey 101


    If your granny had balls she'd be your grandad .


  • #140
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    "Please advise" annoys me.


  • #141
    rgmmg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭rgmmg


    "to be honest with you"

    You mean you've been lying all this time? :pac:


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  • #142
    Jester252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    No offence. Then why do you say it in the first place


  • #143
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    "Essentially"


  • #144
    Blondini
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭Blondini


    FML #No offence but peeps on this interwebz need to chillax.com ..like


  • #145
    lisaj
    Registered Users Posts: 285 ✭✭lisaj


    blinkey 101 wrote: »
    If your granny had balls she'd be your grandad .

    Haha, I use a similar one at home "If my Auntie had a mickey she'd be me uncle"... I use it as a reply when someone comes out with some ridiculous statement


  • #146
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    No sleeps to the weekend
    Three sleeps to my holidays


  • #147
    lisaj
    Registered Users Posts: 285 ✭✭lisaj


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    No sleeps to the weekend
    Three sleeps to my holidays

    Is this a statement to make us jealous? Or more likely that you don't like when people use "sleeps" to describe how long it is until some sort of enjoyable event.

    I know someone who has a constant app on their phone telling them how many sleeps it is until Christmas. Used all year 'round.


  • #148
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    OMG!! ROFLMFAO......lol! :confused:


  • #149
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    lisaj wrote: »
    Is this a statement to make us jealous? Or more likely that you don't like when people use "sleeps" to describe how long it is until some sort of enjoyable event.

    See the thread title ;)


  • #150
    Sided
    Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭Sided


    wilkie2006 wrote: »

    I'm not so keen on words like "cookie", "fries", "mall", or "store" (as in "shop") either. Why do we need Americanisms in Ireland? Our words are much better! ;)

    Grrrrrr!!!

    Just curious, but if you went to America.. Would you start saying 'cookie', 'fries', 'mall' and 'store'?

    If people go away, it becomes almost natural to say these things. I know a guy who knows exactly what I mean when I say, 'pop', 'chips', etc.

    It's not that I'm saying you need to change the way you speak, by all means. When I'm speaking to an Irish person or someone from here, I try to make the effort to use the words for the things in the Irish way.. but it sometimes just comes to habbit to say 'chips' when you want crisps or I'm going to the store instead of the 'shop'.


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  • #151
    christmas2012
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭christmas2012


    atari jaguar


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