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Irritating words or phrases

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    #272
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    "keyboards with butterfly switches"


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    #273
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 13,020 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    5rtytry56 wrote: »
    "keyboards with butterfly switches"

    You what now?

    To thine own self be true



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    #274
    JoeA3
    Registered Users Posts: 7,409 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    No offence but... <I’m about to say something highly likely to offend/upset you but it’s ok, I said “no offence”>.

    Similarly...

    I’m not racist but...
    I’m not being funny but...


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    #275
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    "I know ye have some............c'mere....gis a few specs of dust.....ah c'mon......C'MONNN WILL YAAaaaaaa.........fukkk saaykks"


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    #276
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    JoeA3 wrote: »
    I’m not being funny but...

    No, that one's generally right enough, they're not about to be funny. Very often obnoxious, mind.


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    #277
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    I did the best I could do with your car / pc , honest.


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    #278
    vectorvictor
    Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭vectorvictor


    5rtytry56 wrote: »
    I did the best I could do with your car / pc , honest.

    Followed by "I'll leave it at €...)


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    #279
    storker
    Registered Users Posts: 5,644 ✭✭✭storker


    "Verticals"

    In a previous job I sat with colleagues through an hour-long presentation by our CEO in which the word "verticals" was used a ridiculous number of times. Particularly ridiculous given that nobody knew what he was talking about. I was thinking of Stonehenge, but I suspected that wasn't what he had in mind. The word was used so many times he obviously had a big stiffy for it, but if he'd just said "market segments" people might have known what he was on about, but hey, why communicate effectively when you can impress the audience with your command of jargon and buzzwords?

    Shobgite.


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    #280
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    "That was Tony's FIRST convention. So cut out the snark please and give the lad a break"


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    #281
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,381 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Treason is an annoying word. The vast majority seem to think it's simply the act a traitor to a country commits.


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    #282
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Treason is an annoying word. The vast majority seem to think it's simply the act a traitor to a country commits.

    Lots actually seem to to think it's anything done by a politician one doesn't like. Introducing water charges, being the president of the USA while black, etc.


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    #283
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    STOP talking down ......


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    #284
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users Posts: 18,261 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    alaimacerc wrote: »
    Office-speak is indeed horrendous. It's worst when it escapes the office, though. I cannot listen to the Gaa segments on RTE because a) Marty Morrissey, and b) bainisteoirí babbling on in managementconsultantese.

    'The Process'
    'Transition'

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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    #285
    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,645 ✭✭✭✭josip


    "a bite to eat"

    I don't know why it annoys me so much but it does.
    Can you even eat a 'bite' ?


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    #286
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    i dId nOtHiNg WrOnG


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    #287
    worded
    Registered Users Posts: 4,536 ✭✭✭worded


    Samsgirl wrote: »
    I'm not racist, but.......

    There are only two things I can’t abide. People who don’t respect other people’s cultures and the Dutch


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    #288
    worded
    Registered Users Posts: 4,536 ✭✭✭worded


    At the end of the day

    https://youtu.be/UwbPK2_pJ_s


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    #289
    honeybear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    Mind yourself


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    #290
    finla
    Registered Users Posts: 173 ✭✭finla


    So


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    #291
    messy tessy
    Registered Users Posts: 889 ✭✭✭messy tessy


    'How are we?!'

    Well I'm fine, but I can't speak for whoever else the fcuk you are asking about.


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    #292
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,782 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    To 'curate' something... when it's nothing to do with a museum or art gallery is the latest hipsterism.


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    #293
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    "In the first instance"


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    #294
    Chinasea
    Registered Users Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭Chinasea


    Basically, basically, basicallllllllly


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    #295
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    honeybear wrote: »
    Mind yourself

    Depending on the tone - either a threat or genuine concern ...


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    #296
    Roger_007
    Registered Users Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    Most Vulnerable?

    Who are the most vulnerable?


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    #297
    worded
    Registered Users Posts: 4,536 ✭✭✭worded


    Its your round, I so hate hearing this


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    #298
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    When something is described as happening "organically", it drives me demented
    Irish couples calling each other "Babe" just sounds so wrong.


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    #299
    topper75
    Registered Users Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Accidentally wrote: »
    RTE today with 'Ireland's Hidden Heartlands'. Midlands is just fine, let's not pretend there's a big love in.

    Ha ha. Notions about or little island, thinking we are Australia or Canada - the 'heartlands'. I mean, nobody would say that they are in the heartland of Lanzarote. You can go by bicycle from Athlone to either the Irish Sea or the Atlantic in 3 hours.


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    #300
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    WE ARE ALL .......


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    #301
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,782 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    topper75 wrote: »
    Ha ha. Notions about or little island, thinking we are Australia or Canada - the 'heartlands'. I mean, nobody would say that they are in the heartland of Lanzarote. You can go by bicycle from Athlone to either the Irish Sea or the Atlantic in 3 hours.

    When people use the term 'heartlands', I'm thinking wall to wall country n' western on the radio, endless fields of wheat/corn.


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