Irritating words or phrases

RiderOnTheStorm

Living in Kerry a while now, and a phrase that still rankles is "he was on holidays with 10 days" "Mary was in hospital with 2 weeks" .... ffs you cant use "with" instead of "for"!

B.A._Baracus

I dislike someone who refers to every as chief. The sort who constantly uses it.

Find it to be the mark of a asshole. Currently know someone who uses it too... Guess what he's like? Lol.

biko

When bizniz people say "leveraging".

mistersifter

Beanntraigheach wrote: »

"Gets on my tits"

Nothing wrong with this one! They could do with replacing business jargon with this kind of thing, e.g "our core values include making advertisements that don't get on people's tits" :pac:

Another thing I've been noticing a lot lately is how Irish people are adopting the English way of using of "ing". For example, "that car needs fixing" instead of "that car needs to be fixed". Sounds very Coronation Street.

Or else, "I was sat on the chair..." instead of "i was sitting on the chair".

fancy pigeon

"I'm offended by..." well why don't you put your head back up your hole in your "safe space" ya pc tit

Full time mad bastard is usually written by a complete waster with absolutely nothing to offer to society, except burden

whisky_galore

biko wrote: »

When bizniz people say "leveraging".

"Adding value"

"Moving forward"

Got an email today with "Can you give a steer on..." wtf?

padjocollins

have an awesome day . i'm super excited . dude . mate used to annoy me but i'll accept it if your british or australian deffo not irish .

Ipso

Like a boss
I see alot of this yoot nonsense popping up on the rte website. Do they have to hire people whose only skil is having a twatter account?

DickSwiveller Returns

People who say movie instead of film

TheShow

ooh my giddy aunt.

Omackeral

Ipso wrote: »

Like a boss
I see alot of this yoot nonsense popping up on the rte website. Do they have to hire people whose only skil is having a twatter account?

I haven't seen or heard that in about 5 years so it's fully explicable that RTE are getting on board with it now.

Jerichoholic

RTE are always about 5 years behind the times.

Jerichoholic

Social Media

Platforms

Content

Consuming media

5rtytry56

Suck it up.

Did you order the extended care package with your original purchase?

DEFTLEFTHAND

'We rocked up to the Aviva half scuttered'

Somebody said this to me once and I had to seriously bite my tongue.

'Rocked up'?

What the hell are you talking about you dope.

Stop trying to make 'Rocked up' a thing.

Feisar

Stanford wrote: »

Going forward

Reach out

Feisar

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

'We rocked up to the Aviva half scuttered'

Somebody said this to me once and I had to seriously bite my tongue.

'Rocked up'?

What the hell are you talking about you dope.

Stop trying to make 'Rocked up' a thing.

But but, what if you rock up with yer cock up?

Feisar

"We are where we are" or "it is what it is".

Used commonly in the construction industry when yer in the shíte.

5rtytry56

Back to the thread:

"Manufacturer authorized repair agent"

Feisar

Sadb wrote: »

Mom comes from the Irish word, it’s used mostly around Gaeltacht areas and has been for generations.

Cops/ police used by an Irish person in Ireland irrationally annoys me.

Guards annoys me, the plural is Gardaí, like yerself it's irrational.

Feisar

"What's for you won't pass you." Like it's some good luck totem. Well thank God I got that cancer, it must have been for me.

thunderdog

“He will be working onsite today”

On what site, a building site? We work in an air conditioned office

“Let’s take this offline”. We’re in an office meeting, not doing some sort of Skype web chat.

Jerichoholic

My new album "drops" next week.

Drops?

**** off

Accidentally

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

gormdubhgorm

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Babe or babes

Someone I know calls everyone that and it sounds ridiculous.

I think Alex Higgins invented it?

Gadgetman496

Leitrim

Beanntraigheach

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

'We rocked up to the Aviva half scuttered'

Somebody said this to me once and I had to seriously bite my tongue.

'Rocked up'?

What the hell are you talking about you dope.

Stop trying to make 'Rocked up' a thing.

Equally irritating is the use of "rock" referring to hairstyle or clothing.

padd b1975

Cars being referred to as 'examples'.

You drive a Ford Focus not a fooking Bugatti Royale!!

Ipso

Rock star when used in the context of a regular job.
Usually spewed by recruitment types, rock star accountant wanted for exciting role etc

CalamariFritti

wlye6onkg3pmcu wrote: »

When presented with a meal, being told to "enjoy".

There is a little shortfall in the English language. There is no equivalent to bon appetit or guten Appetit or similar. I guess the best they could come up with was enjoy (your meal).

And in that context you're not 'being told'. Its expressing ones hope that you will enjoy it. Same way you would say good night for example.

Whats wrong with it?