Things people say that annoy you.

r3nu4l

Just wondered what particular everyday phrases used by people do you dislike. I'm not talking about Management-speak like "pushing hte envelope" and "thinking outside the box". More like the phrases below.

Examples:

"In anyways..."
"I took it off of him"

Personally, I can't stand these ones but what about everyone else?

The Gnome

I particularly dislike the use of 'but' at the end of a sentence.

EG: "Yeah, I was up at 12 but."

arbeitsscheuer

When in london, and girls say "Am I bovvered?!"

It's almost like Graham Taylor's "Do I Not Like That!"... It's just nonsense.

There's probably loads more but that one springs to mind...

Archeron

People who say "right" all the time. Or "roish" which is worse. Or like people who like say like after every like word. Like.

Grrrr.

eiretamicha

Well I live in America, so for me, it would have to be:

"Anyways..."

"Whatever!"

and the one I hate the most,

"Like..." as in "The other day, I like, saw a pidgeon, and it like, totally crapped on this lady's head, and it was like, hilarious."

Argh. I can't stand it when people talk like that and use those expressions! Drives me nuts.

woosaysdan

when people try to copy phrases off the telly!!!! that wrecks my tits!!!

homeOwner

I hate it when people say at the end of a sentence

"....do you know that kind of way?"

as in

"I bet she thought it was the right thing to do, do you know that kind of way?"

Dermington

People who refer to food as "munch"..

People who refer to women as "tasty"

xzanti

I hate it when people, particularly other girls add "chick" or "babes" or "chicatee" etc.. onto a sentence when talking to me, its so patronising :rolleyes: My sister does it and I don't mind that cause she's my sister but girls who hardly know each other using it really bugs me...

Suaimhneach

I worked with this guy who had to ring a load of old accounts to get them to cough up. EVERY frikken time he'd call he'd say "Would Mr.Doe be there handy?" Why would he be ****ing handy? WOULD MISTER DOE BE THERE PLEASE? Ffs.

Glad I dont work there just so I dont have t o listen to him!

scojones

C'est Moi.

Pighead

Pighead hates it when the chicks say "Get your stinking hands off me Pighead, You're drunk"

Vegeta

Dermington wrote:

People who refer to food as "munch"..

People who refer to women as "tasty"

I too hate the use of "munch" grrrrr

r3nu4l

homeOwner wrote:

I hate it when people say at the end of a sentence

"....do you know that kind of way?"

as in

"I bet she thought it was the right thing to do, do you know that kind of way?"

Something similar:
People ending sentances with "Wha'?"

"I bet she thought it was the right thing to do, wha'?"

Pighead, shouldn't that be "Get your stinking trotters off me"?

hullaballoo

I hate it when people ask me stupid questions that shouldn't be asked like, "why do you smoke rollies and not proper cigarettes?" and "how much money are you on up there?"

zeusnero

big per peeve -at work, people saying "does that make sense" at the end of a sentence

Stompbox

When people say 'guesstimate'!!!

Ruu_Old

My list could go on forever here, but "whatever" and "who'd a thunk it" are some at the top of the list.

Duckjob

People in work spewing managementy-bull**** phrases like :

'going forward.....'
'timeline'
'think outside the box....'
'all reading off the same page'

especially when the boss is within earshot. Sycophantic f***ing maggots.

ThrownAway

homeOwner wrote:

I hate it when people say at the end of a sentence

"....do you know that kind of way?"

as in

"I bet she thought it was the right thing to do, do you know that kind of way?"

Oh ho ho that's so annoying. Last saturday I got a cab home and the cab driver was playing Celine Dion and he KEPT on saying ''do ya know that sort of thing'' I wanted to just get out and walk home :mad:

Another one

''So I says to Maura, Maura I says.....''

YOU ONLY HAVE TO SAY IT ONCE

LadyJ

"Get a job!"

Oriel

"um, sorta like, at the end of the day..."

Most footballers then. Oh, and don't forget that wordsmith Ian Wight...

Beetlebum

When you ask somebody how they are and they say 'Not three bad'. I equally can't stand it when they say 'Not the maywest'....

There's a girl in work who says 'actually' all the time and it makes me want to scream.....' I actually didn't go out the other night, I was actually really tired, actually'....

Not sure why it annoys me but when people say 'take it from me...' or 'trust me', makes me instantly not trust them.

I agree with girls who barely know you calling you 'babe'...Aaaarrgghhh!!!

Oriel

"basically" is another

Squall

Living and working in Boston for the last few months... I have a complete hatred for the saying

"touch base..."

"Ya sure that sounds great... well touch base on that later on"....

Ya buddy I have a base you can touch right here


Ohh and another one .... talk to that. As in if theres a problem or something someone says oh I can talk to that...... no you cant its not a sentient being or even an innanimate object at that.

Buzzwords.... they make me sick

ThrownAway

sinecurea wrote:

"basically" is another

Especially with an American accent

I hate that word

monkeyfudge

Defin-ite-ly is pretty annoying... isn't it Buffybot?

ha...

The use of the word 'tetchy' makes me very tetchy indeed!

Oh... and I dislike being referred to as sweetheart... it's usually by female managers in restaurants and the occasional confused male bus driver.

Duckjob

a girl in a customer site used to call me 'kitten' any time I talked to her on the phone, as in she'd say, "ok kitten", when finishing up the call.

Funnily enough, it never really annoyed me until the time I had to go on site and discovered she was a boot.

Dun laoire

Where i used to live it wasn't uncommon to hear this very phrase form the auld ones at the top of their voices.

"Come in for yizzer dinners"

Orlee

'So is your face' really annoys me

and POWNED - god that's irritating!!!

Surrender

"legend" The (over)use of this word gets on my tits

Dave!

Orlee wrote:

and POWNED - god that's irritating!!!

Do people actually say that in real life? (IRL)

Orlee

Surrender wrote:

"legend" The (over)use of this word gets on my tits

I concur - And Sweeeeet is just an unecessary word in the non confectionary context!

Orlee

DaveMcG wrote:

Do people actually say that in real life? (IRL)

My boyfriend and his brother constantly say it. Averything is powned. Like if I go to the fridge and there's no milk left - Oh yeah, then I'm powned!!! Arrrrrrrgh :mad:

tSubh Dearg

At the end of the day, I'd have to say that the phrase "At the end of the day" really annoys me. At the end of the day.

I used to count how many times it was used in Vox Pops on Newstalk, there was one guy I heard who broke all records by managing to use it about 10 times in 1 min.

bonkey

r3nu4l wrote:

Just wondered what particular everyday phrases used by people do you dislike. I'm not talking about Management-speak like "pushing hte envelope" and "thinking outside the box". More like the phrases below.

Examples:

"In anyways..."
"I took it off of him"

Personally, I can't stand these ones but what about everyone else?

I can ignore most such things...and there's none I can think of that I would find annoying regardless of who used it.

The one that gets me is people you're talking to who try to "join in" to your sentences, so they're saying the last words a fraction of a second after you.

I know what I'm gonna say, so they're not saying it for my benefit. Anyone else in earshot will hear me say it, so they're not parroting me for anyone else's benefit....

So I reason that they're trying to let me know that they too know what I'm gonna say, and then there's only one thing for it...I stop talking, mid-sentence.

They generally look very confused at that point

jc

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

People who talk endlessly about there weekend exploits (i.e. agressive alcoholism) and fnish it off with saying...

"But sure... has to be done..."

No it ****ing doesn't.

padi89

Lament and Meloncholic are too words that drive me up the wall.They are the two most over used words in music reviews ever, usually by some know it all student that never comes out of their room.......does me head in!

Hippo

homeOwner wrote:

I hate it when people say at the end of a sentence

"....do you know that kind of way?"

as in

"I bet she thought it was the right thing to do, do you know that kind of way?"

Jeez you're right, this is an absolute killer. If I had 10 cent for every time I've heard this in the office....

Duckjob

a guy where I work finishes off EVERY SINGLE phone conversation with a cheerful "lovely stuff".

To make it doubly annoying, his girlfriend, who also works there, also uses it and also has developed her own variant "cool stuff".

Makes me want to grab the pair of them and feed them headfirst into a
woodchipper a la "Fargo".

Donegal Lass

people saying "same difference"

i mean if its f*king the same there is no difference is there???? does my head in!:mad:

and people the put 'like' after every second word, whats that about??

EG: "oh my god, i was like walking down the road and like this guy like talked to me like!"

one word: THESAURAS!

Donegal Lass

Duckjob wrote:

Makes me want to grab the pair of them and feed them headfirst into a woodchipper a la "Fargo".

hehe love that film!:D

Orlee

Mint - A la Lisa from BB. She never stops saying it and it's just soooo fist clenchingly irritating.

Surrender

Orlee wrote:

Mint - A la Lisa from BB. She never stops saying it and it's just soooo fist clenchingly irritating.

Theres a woman for the fargo woodchipper

po0k

"Hi"

That really gets on my tits, especially when they expect a response.

"Thanks", that's another one, annoys the piss out of me.

"Would you like a balloon" - akin to nails being drawn across a chalk board.

Bottom feeding maggots.

Surrender

Using "Well" as a greeting peeves me

joe_chicken

"Happy days"

Always seems to be said by people when they want to patronise the fook out of you or they can't think of anything better to say...

"Is that done?... good... happy days"

HelterSkelter

People who qualify everything with "In all fairness"

magpie

1) Referring to groups of people that include, or consist entirely of women as 'lads'.

2) That stupid Cork "era" thing.

manonthemoon

"They do though, dont they though"

or

Dey do doe, dont dey doe

manonthemoon

"Obviously"

as per Becks

"Obviously...............
"Obviously...............
"Obviously...............
"Obviously...............


Grrrrrrrrrr:mad: