Most hated phrases

'Grammar Nazi'
Political correctness/health and safety "gone mad"

I agree that it's rude and often pointless to nitpick people's grammar.

And sometimes it's good to be critical of the culture of political correctness and/or health and safety when it is stupidly applied.


But please for Christ's sake please think of some other ways to express it and stop repeating the same two f*cking expressions.

When someone says literally,

Example; Then she fell over! I literally pissed myself!"

And they really do not mean literally. Why say that? The word has been corrupted to so much that people think it means the exact opposite of what it really means.


Also

'It's very mild'

'Oh, it's very rich'

Shut up you boring idiots! :pac:

No need to apologise, this point needs as much emphasis as possible.

"Kicking the can down the road" for people trying to look smart on politics/economics forums

and as already been said

"first world problems"

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

Jesus that wrecks my head too. I cringe when I read it.

byte wrote: »

"What's crack-a-lackin?"

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

I have never heard that before in my life!!

giant_midget wrote: »

Soz = Sorry just say sorry you d1ckhead

A student that I teach said "soz" to me one day. Flippin SOZ. I didn't know whether to scream or cry.

Dr Expired wrote: »

"Roll her in flour and go for the wet patch"

What the hell?! Again, never heard that one.

My most HATED phrase is "Fail" or "Epic Fail". Drives me insane.

And also this new thing where teenage girls spell words really weirdly like "I luf yhuu hunni, yhuu r so gawrjus, i ken tell yhuu neting"... What is that about??

cocoshovel wrote: »

"tarring everyone with the same brush". I despise that saying.

Seems to be used every 10 mins on this site, cant you think of anything else to say that describes it?

"Blasting everyone with the same piss?"

I've never seen anything like that around here.

:pac:

DundalkDuffman wrote: »

And the classic (though haven't had the sack to say it yet!)

" I buried my father two weeks ago"

Oh, you are an undertaker or gravedigger now are you?

Just as a bit of a precautionary tale, I should tell you that my grandmother died a few years ago. The gravediggers were gone on holidays, so we had to dig the grave, lower in the coffin and then fill the grave back in. So you might want to be careful with that.

I don't think I can add much to the conversation here if I'm honest. Most annoying phrases have been covered at this stage. Not really a phrase, but something that always gets me worked up is txt spk. Luckily, I've surrounded myself with friends who despise it as much as I do, so I'm very very rarely subjected to having to decipher any text messages I receive before I can read them.

Des wrote: »

Culchies calling all crisps "taytos"

"A package of king taytos please horse"

retards.

Anything "out" - another culchie-ism, it doesn't even mean anything, and marks the person who uses the phrase as one to be avoided.

I'm not from Dublin but I never heard anyone use tayto like that, until I joined this site. I hate it too though. It's just stupid.

Was reading a report in work a year or two, and kept coming across the abbreviation 'ITCEC'. It was really puzzling me...so in the end I caved and asked one of the managers what it stood for....

he looked at me pityingly, and said 'In The Current Economic Crisis'....:mad::mad:

Now, the phrase 'In The Current Economic Crisis' makes my blood boil, so an abbreviation of it?! He's lucky I didn't thump him with the report!!

When somebody counts down to something in sleeps. Eg. Only 2 more sleeps till I go to New York!

"I seen" instead of "I saw."

When somebody says "____, much?" Eg. Uptight, much? I find this phrase really condescending and it makes me want to batter whoever utters it. On boards it's often accompanied by this smiley::rolleyes:, which I also detest.

When people say "come with" as opposed to "Why don't you join us/come with us?" eg. "We're going to the shop. Want to come with?" It's insufferable.

You don't hear it much but : "You can't teach your grannny to suck eggs." Whatever the hell that means. Intriguing but annoying.

When you're telling a (really interesting, or so you think) story, and then someone ruins your punchline by saying , "And then what happened?"

Also when a dead body is referred to as 'remains.' It used to freak me out when I was younger.