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Words that you hate/dislike

  • 19-03-2014 7:44pm
    #1
    Chazz Michael Michaels
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭


    Mine is "regrettable". You often see public figures saying it.

    Something like "Dublin City Council find it regrettable that sulphuric acid made it into peoples drinking supply"

    When you think about it, what does that even mean? That the incident is worthy of regret, but that regret is not necessarily felt by us? It has to be there most worthless and dilute form of apology imaginable. No wonder public figures use it.


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Comments

  • #2
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    'Portion.' I hate how it sounds, it makes me shudder when I hear it.


  • #3
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,506 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Embiggens


  • #4
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Link.


  • #5
    The Master
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,320 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Master


    castletownman wrote: »
    Embiggens

    Why? it's a perfectly cromulent word


  • #6
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Seepage. Makes me heave when I hear it.


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  • #7
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Moist. Ugh!

    Succulent


  • #8
    ger vallely
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭ger vallely


    Moist.


  • #9
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    'frowned upon'. The mans actions were frowned upon.

    For the last time, I thought it was a toilet! :mad:


  • #10
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    Panties.


  • #11
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Chazz Michael Michaels wrote: »
    "Dublin City Council find it regrettable that sulphuric acid made it into peoples drinking supply"

    Now I'm scared.

    Link?


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  • #12
    hairyslug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,595 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    Banter and lolz


  • #13
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    Tummy.
    I don't know why but I really dislike that word.


  • #14
    Lisha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,695 ✭✭✭Lisha


    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    Panties.

    I vehemently agree I hate the word 'panty' or 'panties'.

    Yeuch


  • #15
    Roesy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Roesy


    Loo. Especially when said by a man.


  • #16
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Moist. Ugh!

    Succulent

    Are you my sister? They're the two words that freak her out :pac:


  • #17
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Antidisestablishmnentarianism


  • #18
    Electric Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    Banter. Even worse, the bants.


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    'sheeple' and 'sambo' are two that make me cringe and shudder when I hear them being used.


  • #20
    Electric Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    Deleted User wrote: »
    'sheeple' and 'sambo' are two that make me cringe and shudder when I hear them being used.

    Crimbo.


  • #21
    Push Pop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭Push Pop


    Flaps. Big floppy flappety flaps. I feel ill.


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  • #22
    Santa Cruz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    green_screen wrote: »
    Are you my sister? They're the two words that freak her out :pac:

    As in "her panties were moist and succulent"


  • #23
    Friend Computer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 369 ✭✭Friend Computer


    Punter(s).


  • #24
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    "The" - when people are referring to their girlfriend/boyfriend/wife/husband. Also, "himself", "herself" etc.


  • #25
    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    Recidivist. Frightfully tinny sort of word.


  • #26
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Selfie. I haaaaaate it with a vengence. :mad:


  • #27
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    amazeballs

    homework


  • #28
    131spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭131spanner


    When people use the word retard or retarded to describe something in a negative way. Not the word itself, the meaning implied, if you catch my drift.


  • #29
    Electric Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    131spanner wrote: »
    When people use the word retard or retarded to describe something in a negative way. Not the word itself, the meaning implied, if you catch my drift.

    In the same way, using mong. Says a lot more about the speaker than the subject.


  • #30
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Rape.


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  • #31
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,516 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Criminality, physicality and so on. Every time I watch the news some gob$hite is tacking _ity on to the end of a word in a vain attempt to sound smarter.


  • #32
    Samsgirl
    Registered Users Posts: 3,203 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    Closing and time - used together


  • #33
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    'No offence' - ugh and then the b*stards go and say something offensive. I remember it from primary school, school yard wagons used to say it all the time.

    'No offence but you're ugly'. 'No offence but you're hair is horrible'. 'No offence but no one likes you'.


  • #34
    Rothmans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    synergy


  • #35
    mel.b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭mel.b


    Peeps. I really cannot stand it when people use the word peeps. Not as in 'She peeps though the blinds', but 'hey peeps, look what I did' Urgh :(


  • #36
    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    Massive. A lot of the youth say it to describe something that's cool.


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  • #37
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    Daveysil15 wrote: »
    Massive. A lot of the youth say it to describe something that's cool.

    I was left dumbfounded when I heard this in the gaeltacht many moons ago.

    One of the Dublin girls said to me 'Your jumper is massive'. I wanted to deck her until I realised it was a compliment. :o


  • #38
    sinead88
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭sinead88


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Moist. Ugh!

    Succulent

    I just came here to post those exact two words. Just horrible sounding!


  • #39
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Strange but true: Stephen Fry doesn't like "moist" either, and once wrote a piece about his distaste for a lavatory-based personal hygiene product called "Moist Wipes".


  • #40
    le la rat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭le la rat


    Cripple


  • #41
    Bejubby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭Bejubby


    Selfie


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  • #42
    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    Strange but true: Stephen Fry doesn't like "moist" either, and once wrote a piece about his distaste for a lavatory-based personal hygiene product called "Moist Wipes".

    There's one I dont like. Lavatory. Is it pronounced Lav A Tree ? Or Lav At Or Ee ? Or Lav at Ory ?

    Either way it sounds too much like there's experimenting going on and if there's one thing we all know its that the bog is a place for business, not experimenting.


  • #43
    purplecow1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,877 ✭✭✭purplecow1977


    tissue - pronounced as tiss-you
    and
    schedule pronounced as shedule -

    I thought it was skedule and tisshoe :(


  • #44
    Andrew_Doran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭Andrew_Doran


    incentivise

    A nonsense word. Nothing wrong with encourage.


  • #45
    WesternZulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭WesternZulu


    Twat


  • #46
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    purplecow1977 wrote: »

    I thought it was skedule and tisshoe :(

    I pronounce them like that, fudge everyone else! ;):p


  • #47
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,519 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Discharge

    Totes

    Sick (when not used in the traditional sense, i.e. to feel unwell.)


  • #48
    Boldberry
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭Boldberry


    Toilet


  • #49
    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    purplecow1977 wrote: »
    tissue - pronounced as tiss-you
    and
    schedule pronounced as shedule -

    I thought it was skedule and tisshoe :(

    I say Skedge Yule and Tish You myself.


  • #50
    Seaba
    Registered Users Posts: 448 ✭✭Seaba


    Momentum - can a sports person/commentator nowadays go 2 sentences without mentioning the word?


  • #51
    RandomName2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,570 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    Traunch
    Haircut (in relation to economics)
    Knickers (in relation to men's trousers/breeches)
    Totes


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