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Things you hate people saying

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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,826 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,905 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    "and right back at you" when I wished a pal Happy Christmas recently. What a stupid phrase. I think it peaked a few years ago though. Didn't hear it much this past year or two.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,428 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    I watch the odd police homicide interrogation on Youtube. I’ve come across "I couldn’t have done that to her/him, I loved them too much, loved them to death" … more than once.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,971 ✭✭✭Trampas


    There was me thinking he was just showing off the crack of his arse instead doing a full Mooner



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 573 ✭✭✭Jim Herring


    ”loved them to death” sounds like a confession… 🤔



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,568 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    Catfish

    "SUBSCRIBE TO BOARDS YOU TIGHT CÙNT".....Plato 400 B.C



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,428 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,923 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    I just saw an ad for Alpro and at the end the tagine was "Alpro, feed your You"

    Such shíte



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 614 ✭✭✭FreshG




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 614 ✭✭✭FreshG


    Grma would be mine.

    Just say go raibh maith agat



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 bobby lingen


    the yanks with their 'unalived' instead of dead…why?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,512 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Unalived instead of killed. Dead would be unalive.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,286 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Something to do with those braindead antisocial media platforms that ban certain words but allow actual nazis to post whatever they like.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,158 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    'How was your Christmas'

    I mean probably the same as everyone elses.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,736 ✭✭✭Finty Lemon


    Quesshhunn

    It's a quesTion, ya dope



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,608 ✭✭✭thereiver


    I,m a beyonce stan, taylor swift stan etc, why has the word fan dissapeared it seems if you like a singer /actor you are now a stan. I know it came from an enimem video, i think fan was a perfectly god word.

    i suppose in a few years time we,ll be saying automobile instead of car . I know theres american english which use,s different words and spellings from british english .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭corks finest


    m8 - Irish 🇮🇪 west Brits fawning terminology,

    Even heard ‘ bruv’ 👊 in all fairness,

    And while I’m at it dopes who finish their sentences with’ man’



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,512 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    In all fairness.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    Anyone in Ireland who says dude should be shot. I mean **** America.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,760 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    I'm an Afghani stan.

    Not your ornery onager



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    It has crept into speech online where instead of saying "the car has 1,000 miles" people will say "car has 1,000 miles". We don't seem to care about using a definite article any more.

    "Was at a party" instead of "I was at a party"

    "I seen" instead of "I saw"

    "Been" instead of "being" and vice versa

    "Of" instead of "have" i.e. "I should of done that"

    "Choooon"

    "NCT Test" - the "T" is there already and it stands for "TEST"!!!

    No idea if any of it is intentional or not but I find it all so irksome. As I always say, if Latin were still taught in schools, we would hopefully have a much better grasp of the English language!

    Post edited by [Deleted User] on


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,826 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    "were taught", if we must be pedantic. 😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭L Grey


    "Call the guards - the guards are to be rang"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,351 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Any reference to "brown envelopes" when talking about money spent on anything by the government. You can go look up why the money is being spent and how it was procured. The assumption everything the government does involves bribes. Particularly annoying when you have spent 2 years working on something and know the work that goes into a project. I can tell you now that private companies do not do it better and people don' get fired when expenses balloon



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭Needmoretea


    "Leader of the free world" for a US president. They're leader of a country, not the world. Most of the world's countries enjoy freedom. What makes the US special in that regard?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭Needmoretea


    Oh I'd never heard of that 😯Where did that come from? It's horrific!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    Always loved the Sorkin script in the Newsroom for Jeff Daniel's character;

    "you're going to tell students that America's so starspangled awesome that we're the only ones in the world who have freedom? Canada has freedom, Japan has freedom, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium has freedom. Two hundred seven sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom……We're seventh in literacy, twenty-seventh in math, twenty-second in science, forty-ninth in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force, and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next twenty-six countries combined, twenty-five of whom are allies."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,351 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    The poster there should have written it as Beyonce "Stan". As in Eminem's song about a rabid fan named Stan. I doesn't just mean a fan but an obsessed fan



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,749 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    I think it was Shane Dowling on RTE Radio doing the AI club hurling commentary. He must have said "unreal" an "unreal" amount of times.

    It started to make me laugh after a while, learn a new word, plenty of choices in the English language.

    Certain parts of the hurling fraternity don't seem to realise there are other words they can use.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,749 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    All the airy-fairy language that has crept in from self-help books/pseudo-psychology books into everyday language -

    "Finding myself", "Opening up", "In a good place", "Wellness" any of that of that type of stuff. Why can't people be more direct and say what they mean instead of couching everything in all these type of buzzwords?

    Post edited by gormdubhgorm on

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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