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Irritating words or phrases

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    #242
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    In GAA commentators speech

    ".....and he/she has a brother/sister playing on the minor/senior team!!...."

    Mentioned a number of times


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    #243
    DesperateDan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,582 ✭✭✭DesperateDan


    Creative83 wrote: »
    Let's touch base with *insert anything* :mad:

    Someone says this in the office all the time and after reading these it always makes me giggle.
    Kate: "I will have to touch base with you sometime next week"
    Dave: "that would be fabulous


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    #244
    blackvalley
    Registered Users Posts: 671 ✭✭✭blackvalley


    dee75 wrote: »
    Legit

    " leg it " is all right though .:)


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    #245
    Jerichoholic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,585 ✭✭✭Jerichoholic


    Awesome Sauce


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    #246
    blackvalley
    Registered Users Posts: 671 ✭✭✭blackvalley


    acai berry wrote: »
    Starting a sentence with "Look!" Seems to be a habit mostly in the Southern half of the country.

    "Look!" and "Like!" seem to be bedfellows.


    And the even more irritating habit of starting every sentence with " So ":confused:


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    #247
    blackvalley
    Registered Users Posts: 671 ✭✭✭blackvalley


    This mainly applies to soccer, Gaelic football, and hurling but why do commentators feel the need to refer to a race for possession between two players as a “foot race “. Rugby commentators occasionally use the same expression but as we know rugby players seldom actually run , they simply " pump the legs "
    Do they feel the need to describe the contest in this manner just in case we assume they are engaged in a bicycle race, flying race, swimming race, cross country skiing race etc.:confused:


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    #248
    trashcan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,920 ✭✭✭trashcan


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    I LOVE the phrase ‘rock up’. You’d hate me. :pac:
    :D

    I agree with Homer. I have never, ever "rocked up" to anywhere or anything, and I never will.


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    #249
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    After many student conferences held in the likes of the rds, there are articles peppered with " there were lots of doughnuts / coffee / other junk food enjoyed"


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    #250
    badabing106
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    "No brainer"


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    #251
    _Dara_
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    trashcan wrote: »
    I agree with Homer. I have never, ever "rocked up" to anywhere or anything, and I never will.

    It’s tongue-in-cheek. I picture people swaggering up to the club.

    There’s lot of phrases in this thread that I like and find colourful. Language would be so dull without them.


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    #252
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    "interesting opinion"


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    #253
    Sal Butamol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Sal Butamol


    "I seen it/him/her/them"


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    #254
    trashcan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,920 ✭✭✭trashcan


    _Dara_ wrote: »
    It’s tongue-in-cheek. I picture people swaggering up to the club.

    There’s lot of phrases in this thread that I like and find colourful. Language would be so dull without them.

    But people are using it indiscriminately, substituting it for "arrive" in every instance. Until it becomes very annoying.


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    #255
    Samsgirl
    Registered Users Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    I'm not racist, but.......


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    #256
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


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

    Obviously, after that will follow a racist statement!


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    #257
    One More Toy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,765 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    Touch base


    I'd love to take a golf club to the head of anyone who uses that term


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    #258
    vectorvictor
    Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭vectorvictor


    I cannot stand the word "genuinely" . I instantly think that the person is masking that they aren't being genuine.

    I have alot more to add but I really need to square the circle before I head to bed to touch base with the girlfriend before thinking beyond her box


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    #259
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    My takeaway from this bespoke thread and its boutique offering is, like, you know, obviously, like, basically, like amazeballs.


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    #260
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 13,067 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    I've posted this one before in a similar thread..
    'My thoughts and prayers are with X.'

    So you actually sat down for two minutes and said a prayer for this person/after you've posted this cr*p, you'll take up mind space thinking about this person again??
    Hmm. I don't think so...

    To thine own self be true



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    #261
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Boffins
    Revellers

    Have never heard either word ever said aloud. Only ever on sh*tty tabloids.


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    #262
    [Deleted User]
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    Sal Butamol wrote: »
    "I seen it/him/her/them"

    Nothing written online makes my heart sink as much as the 'I/you/he/she/we/they seen" or 'I/you/he/she/we/they done". You're taking somebody's view seriously and then they do that. Likewise in discussions and interviews. It's just a sign of laziness that they don't care enough to be correct.

    For others:

    I etc saw, but I've [I have] seen.
    I etc did, but I've [I have] done.

    I saw v. I seen


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    #263
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    Deleted User wrote: »
    My takeaway from this bespoke thread and its boutique offering is, like, you know, obviously, like, basically, like amazeballs.

    Can't stand "amazeballs"! One of the contestants on My Kitchen Rules Australia, Season 7, my least favourite contestant, used it constantly. I don't know if this is where it originated. That Season 7 is going back two years. I know Nicole Scherzinger used it a lot as an X-Factor judge, which was also annoying.


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    #264
    benjamin d
    Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭benjamin d


    acai berry wrote: »
    Can't stand "amazeballs"! One of the contestants on My Kitchen Rules Australia, Season 7, my least favourite contestant, used it constantly. I don't know if this is where it originated. That Season 7 is going back two years. I know Nicole Scherzinger used it a lot as an X-Factor judge, which was also annoying.

    An ex of mine 15 years ago (christ I'm getting old) used to use the word amazeballs ironically because it was old and irritating even then. So it's probably been common in Ireland for at least 20 years.

    I know someone who often starts sentences with "not saying that..." for no apparent reason whatsoever. It's generally in the middle of whatever she's talking about but doesn't link the new sentence with the previous one in any way. I can never quite comprehend why she does it.

    She's also a fiend for saying "moreso than" when she means "more than", which is becoming very common, especially when people are trying to sound clever.


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    #265
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    benjamin d wrote: »
    An ex of mine 15 years ago (christ I'm getting old) used to use the word amazeballs ironically because it was old and irritating even then. So it's probably been common in Ireland for at least 20 years.

    I know someone who often starts sentences with "not saying that..." for no apparent reason whatsoever. It's generally in the middle of whatever she's talking about but doesn't link the new sentence with the previous one in any way. I can never quite comprehend why she does it.

    She's also a fiend for saying "moreso than" when she means "more than", which is becoming very common, especially when people are trying to sound clever.

    Had no idea "amazeballs" goes back that far. Certainly not Irish in origin - I'd be ashamed if it was.


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    #266
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Personally I find "bollix" conjures a far more upsetting mental image than "bollocks". Probably because of the combination of "bollocks" and "licks" in one word. :D


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    #267
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    Personally I find "bollix" conjures a far more upsetting mental image than "bollocks". Probably because of the combination of "bollocks" and "licks" in one word. :D

    LOL! Maybe a little more analysis than was needed there, hatrickpatrick. :D


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    #268
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users Posts: 18,334 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Happy Out

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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    #269
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    "It's not about X, it's about Y."

    trans.

    "The topic is X, but I'd much rather bang on about Y, as that suits me much better."


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    #270
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    JackieChang wrote: »
    More office speak:

    Leverage

    Action

    Lets leverage this and action that.

    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.


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    #271
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    into

    BIG into

    At work, re a strange couple, somebody remarked they almost didn't get married because She was not that much into him.

    Yesterday, I realised I had commented a particular family are BIG into dogs. LOL! Mea culpa!


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