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Commonly used terms you can't stand

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  • #32
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,291 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Anything along the lines of if only you had to ''walk in my shoes''.


  • #33
    DivingDuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,394 ✭✭✭DivingDuck


    threetrees wrote: »
    "Reach out to" seems to be the current buzz word for "to contact". Drives me batty, reach out to him, is he sitting next to you or something?

    Most buzzspeak is amusing or at least tolerable to me, but I hate this one.

    It's that hippie "our business is about people, not profit margins, because we're progressive" nonsense that always seems to originate in the most cut-throat, customer-screwing, sexist/racist/whateverist companies.

    "I've reached out to John for his thoughts..."

    No. You're not a medium entreating him to give insights from beyond the veil, you just sent him a poorly-written email asking if you can have casual Fridays.

    It drives me mad!


  • #34
    naughtysmurf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,352 ✭✭✭naughtysmurf


    My Mrs works for an American company, deals with Americans on a daily basis, last Sunday she asked me to call someone during the week on a family matter, she asked me to "reach out"

    Well she can fcuk right off with that sh1te


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    milli milli wrote: »
    I can’t stand when people use the word ‘feels’ for feelings. It drives me mad. I feel like I’m in some crappy American song when I hear it.

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  • #36
    Damien360
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,192 ✭✭✭Damien360


    "He axed him" .........No, you asked him.


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  • #37
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    Simples.

    I'm not being funny.

    The word 'oft' makes me squirmy for some reason.


  • #38
    Jayesdiem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Jayesdiem


    On the appraisal forms of Mrs Jayesdiem's US based company is the actual question "does this employee GO TO BAT for the team". Makes me want to vomit.


  • #39
    De Bhál
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,386 ✭✭✭De Bhál


    HONKEY TONK wrote: »
    That will learn you!

    I’m sure we said “ that will teach you. Growing up

    That's the joke


  • #40
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Wellness. It sounds like a word that some hemp-wearing hippie living on a commune in rural Washington state dreamt up during one of their less lucid moments.


  • #41
    De Bhál
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,386 ✭✭✭De Bhál


    Meh

    Nom


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  • #42
    Jerichoholic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    People saying "Awesome" all the time. I hate them.

    People adding the word "Super" to everything. "I'm Super excited for something".

    It's annoying enough when americans use those words, but when Irish people do it's absolute cringe.


  • #43
    queueeye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 322 ✭✭queueeye


    Incorrect use of the word literally.
    As in " I walked home in the rain and I'm literally drowned".

    No you're fcukin not which literally is a shame. Literally!


  • #44
    tonycascarino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭tonycascarino


    I absolutely hate the phrase 'broke the internet'


  • #45
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    queueeye wrote: »
    Incorrect use of the word literally.
    As in " I walked home in the rain and I'm literally drowned".

    No you're fcukin not which literally is a shame. Literally!

    exactly
    I'm literally dead inside from it


  • #46
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    one that really annoys me is quality .
    on its own its pointless. you need more info like good quality or bad quality .
    it pointless on its own

    its like blood pressure. same thing high or low . no blood pressure and your dead so I'm sure you have some


  • #47
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    this one simply trick...

    or variants thereof


  • #48
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Happy 'out'. Happy out where?


  • #49
    1874
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,410 ✭✭✭1874


    Damien360 wrote: »
    "He axed him" .........No, you asked him.

    Maybe he did axe him, I often feel like axing people when they talk ****e.
    There was an awful one from a few years back, I should be thankful I can't remember it.


  • #50
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    "Narrative" ,"it totally changed the narritive" shut up you cnut


  • #51
    kimokanto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 851 ✭✭✭kimokanto


    "Lovely hurling" A smelly creep I used to work with used it every f*****g day. Between that & the lack of soap and water I often felt like taking a hurl to the cnut!


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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ''Be rude not to''....

    Sorry Karen, how?!!? How exactly would it be rude not to have a glass of poxy wine? Furthermore, who would it be rude to? Oh it's a random Tuesday and I'm on the way home from my desk job. Nobody cares. God damn it you are a basic bitch Karen and I bet you have a LIVE LAUGH LOVE stencil on your living room wall too.


  • #53
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    "Everything happens for a reason bbz"
    Only ugly people say that


  • #54
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    anna080 wrote: »
    "Everything happens for a reason bbz"

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  • #55
    Fiolina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 623 ✭✭✭Fiolina


    Smallies (small children)

    Hubby


  • #56
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    OH for other half


  • #57
    BuboBubo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 925 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    Fiolina wrote: »
    Smallies (small children)


    Smallies = Trinidadian slang for small women.


  • #58
    prinzeugen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,882 ✭✭✭prinzeugen


    Experience.

    I would love to meet the hipster corporate twat or twats that decided that to describe everything we do as a bloody "experience".

    Its only in the past 2-3 years that this crap caught on.

    You " experience" a shop or a bank now rather than visit, use or shop in one.

    You "experience" a hotel rather than stay in one.

    The terms we once used like shopping, banking, visiting, staying, browsing, traveling, service etc, etc have all been replaced by the word "experience".

    Its even in job titles as well. " Brand experience manager"... In charge of the customer service desk in a shop.


  • #59
    Keplar240B
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 891 ✭✭✭Keplar240B


    "freak accident" on the news when someone ****s up and dies


  • #60
    Notoldorwise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 246 ✭✭Notoldorwise


    De BhÃ&#161 wrote: »
    Meh

    De BhÃ&#161 wrote: »
    Nom


    Meh Nom, de doo de doo doo...


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  • #61
    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    Omackeral wrote: »
    basic bitch

    Using the word 'basic' in the above way.


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