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Irritating words or phrases

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    #332
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    People saying soccerball to try and disparage the most widely played game in the world. It's called either football or soccer. Saying soccerball makes you look like you've a chip on your shoulder. I suppose the same can be said for saying bogball and egg chasing. Just call the games what they're called.

    People saying Arsebook or Twatter for Facebook or Twitter. Not really all that funny, witty or original...just annoying.


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    #333
    DickSwiveller Returns
    Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭DickSwiveller Returns


    Omackeral wrote: »
    People saying soccerball to try and disparage the most widely played game in the world. It's called either football or soccer. Saying soccerball makes you look like you've a chip on your shoulder. I suppose the same can be said for saying bogball and egg chasing. Just call the games what they're called.

    People saying Arsebook or Twatter for Facebook or Twitter. Not really all that funny, witty or original...just annoying.

    Cant agree with 'Twatter'. I think it's great and perfectly sums up the losers on that website.


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    #334
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    "I'm offended".

    So fcuking what ?????


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    #335
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    Some that really get my goat :

    "You have been banned"
    "You have received a warning"
    "You have received a warning at boards.ie"
    "You have received an infraction"
    "Carded"


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    #336
    lardzeppelin
    Registered Users Posts: 65 ✭✭lardzeppelin


    Pretty much everything mentioned here, with the added bonus of swearing... It's the last resort of the uncouth....
    Go online and look at the robust language of Shakespeare, it's a thing of wonder, plus, Google swearing alternatives and phrases... A couple of my daily favorites would be "great googly moogly" (popularized by Frank Zappa), "oh my giddy aunt", (from my uncle) and an honoury mention that for "Gordon Bennet" (from my mum)...


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    #337
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Omackeral wrote: »
    The Christmas. ''Did you do anything over the Christmas?''

    "Ah, sure it was quiet enough, you know yourself."


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    #338
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    Hapax Legomenon wrote: »
    Omackeral wrote: »
    The Christmas. ''Did you do anything over the Christmas?''

    "Ah, sure it was quiet enough, you know yourself."

    Last few years I've decided to make stuff up to rebel against the norm.

    This January when the first colleague said "did you have a good Christmas?" I wove a tale of absinthe parties, deep sea fishing and orgies. Was fun!!!!


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    #339
    vapor trails
    Registered Users Posts: 384 ✭✭vapor trails


    I really dislike the word Cosplay


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    #340
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    vapor trails wrote: »
    I really dislike the word Cosplay

    I might if I knew what it was ? Spill!


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    #341
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,783 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Omackeral wrote: »
    People saying soccerball to try and disparage the most widely played game in the world. It's called either football or soccer. Saying soccerball makes you look like you've a chip on your shoulder. I suppose the same can be said for saying bogball and egg chasing. Just call the games what they're called.

    Sorry but not everyone digs Sportsball of any description.
    I find all of them boring. but each to his own.


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    #342
    Thephantomsmask
    Registered Users Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭Thephantomsmask


    PlaneSpeeking wrote: »
    I might if I knew what it was ? Spill!

    People dressing up as comic book/Sci fi etc characters, usually for conventions.


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    #343
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    Thephantomsmask wrote: »
    People dressing up as comic book/Sci fi etc characters, usually for conventions.

    Ah!

    Then yes!!!


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    #344
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,783 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    "Trousering" sums of cash.


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    #345
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    Anyone clamped "romp" for when someone semi famous is getting the shift ?

    Bloody annoying!

    Oh and basiscally every word used on the Daily Mail online but worst offenders are - burgeoning baby bump, flaunts her...., channels her inner....., etc etc.

    Makes you want to punch someone.


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    #346
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    PlaneSpeeking wrote: »
    Anyone clamped "romp" for when someone semi famous is getting the shift ?

    Bloody annoying!

    Oh and basiscally every word used on the Daily Mail online but worst offenders are - burgeoning baby bump, flaunts her...., channels her inner....., etc etc.

    Makes you want to punch someone.
    Remember years ago when the the most popular phrase in the DM used to be 'Hang them' or 'Bring Back the Noose'!


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    #347
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Remember years ago when the the most popular phrase in the DM used to be 'Hang them' or 'Bring Back the Noose'!

    Halcyon days!

    Now it's all sideboob and pert derriere!


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    #348
    kweeveen86
    Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭kweeveen86


    People who use text as a past tense. eg. "I text him yesterday" - what's the present tense so? Tex?! So ridiculous. It makes any otherwise intelligent person sound like a total tit.


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    #349
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    kweeveen86 wrote: »
    People who use text as a past tense. eg. "I text him yesterday" - what's the present tense so? Tex?! So ridiculous. It makes any otherwise intelligent person sound like a total tit.

    Judge Judy is a hive for these:

    Axed - for asked
    Conversated - talked
    Tooken - taken possibly ?

    There are others sadly!


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    #350
    kweeveen86
    Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭kweeveen86


    "I'm dairy free"... then getting ice cream for dessert after making a big song and dance over their main course order.

    :rolleyes:


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    #351
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    kweeveen86 wrote: »
    "I'm dairy free"... then getting ice cream for dessert after making a big song and dance over their main course order.

    :rolleyes:

    Hahaha you'd love a colleague of mine - walks 15 minutes out of her way to get a vegan latte but on the last team day out ate lamb.

    I strained my throat making bleating noises. Small minded of me but meh!!

    Turns out - she's "vegan for health reasons only".

    No, don't understand that either!


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    #352
    kweeveen86
    Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭kweeveen86


    Courtesy of my Mum:

    Calling travellers 'itinerants'


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    #353
    trashcan
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    "Trousering" sums of cash.

    Yes, yes, yes, amen to that. Since when did trouser become a) a verb, and b) singular.

    Most business/corporate speak gets my goat ( has anyone mentioned "gets my goat" by the way ?:P). "Heads up" and "stakeholders" are just two fairly horrific examples that spring to mind.


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    #354
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    xxxxgoals, usually seen on twitter or articles riddles with tweets like #lifegoals, #relationshipgoals


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    #355
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,783 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Calling every new development a 'hub' or a 'quarter'.


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    #356
    PlaneSpeeking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,106 ✭✭✭PlaneSpeeking


    Ipso wrote: »
    xxxxgoals, usually seen on twitter or articles riddles with tweets like #lifegoals, #relationshipgoals

    #Squadgoals

    I've seen that as a tattoo.

    No, me neither!


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    #357
    lardzeppelin
    Registered Users Posts: 65 ✭✭lardzeppelin


    kweeveen86 wrote:
    Calling travellers 'itinerants'


    In my youth, they were also referred to as 'diddycoys', 'gypos' and 'carnies'...we haven't come a long way since, have we!....


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    #358
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,783 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    lardzeppelin wrote: »
    In my youth, they were also referred to as 'diddycoys', 'gypos' and 'carnies'...we haven't come a long way since, have we!....

    Carny/Carnies is very American and only really refers to those who went from town to town setting up and running carnivals and funfairs.


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    #359
    Turnipman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Turnipman


    Morning Ireland today. Cian McCormack on his trusty penny farthing interviewing an articulate young radiology student from Offaly called Chloe M***** who - for a reason that I simply cannot understand - ended a perfectly delivered sentence with "...and stuff like that!"

    It was meaningless, inane, infuriating and just made her sound like an inarticulate air head, which she clearly isn't.


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    #360
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Turnipman wrote: »
    Morning Ireland today. Cian McCormack on his trusty penny farthing interviewing an articulate young radiology student from Offaly called Chloe M***** who - for a reason that I simply cannot understand - ended a perfectly delivered sentence with "...and stuff like that!"

    It was meaningless, inane, infuriating and just made her sound like an inarticulate air head, which she clearly isn't.

    I don't think it was meaningless. It has a meaning which is defined in dictionaries and stuff.


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    #361
    Turnipman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Turnipman


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    I don't think it was meaningless. It has a meaning which is defined in dictionaries and stuff.

    Its meaning (if any) had absolutely nothing to do with the information that the interviewee was trying to communicate to her listeners!

    In that context it was completely redundant so, I would contend, had no meaning! (When one is being pedantic, context is all!) :D

    Anyway, my point was that it is an irritating phrase, which is what this thread is all about!


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