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What's your least favorite word or phrase?

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    #122
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    Fanny Flutters
    Moist

    Two words that are absolutely disgusting (According to my mrs)


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    #123
    ShatterAlan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    Neames wrote: »
    Moist.


    Moist is a great word.


    "The soft grass was moist with morning dew under her bare feet"


    "The luxurious sponge in the Black Forest Gateaux was deliciously moist"


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    #124
    ktsul
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭ktsul


    Lovely hurling


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    #125
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    ShatterAlan wrote: »
    Moist is a great word.


    "The soft grass was moist with morning dew under her bare feet"


    "The luxurious sponge in the Black Forest Gateaux was deliciously moist"

    I agree

    Mine wasn't as eloquent as your good selfs description

    "Are ye moist yet so i can lob it in"


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    #126
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,459 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Stevieluvsye wrote: »
    I agree

    Mine wasn't as eloquent as your good selfs description

    "Are ye moist yet so i can lob it in"

    wins thread.


    (shudders)


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    #127
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,827 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    I see sheep wrote: »
    Bespoke

    Artisan.


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    #128
    [Deleted User]
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    I have been know to (hangs head in shame) utter the word 'doggo'.

    Some of mine are:
    Mumma
    Hubs (vom)
    Hubby
    Any name given to a developing foetus; bubs, little bean, peanut, etc.
    This carryon in every sentence: Imho, imo, gtfo, oh, etc. Fùck off with your imo.
    'Dropped' when referring to an album release
    Himself
    Herself
    'Goals'
    Simples (vom)
    Covidiot
    Flattening the curve: Huh.
    Dog mother/cat mother or whatever the hell some people refer to themselves as when they own a pet.


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    #129
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,827 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Related to the above.. fur baby.

    It's an animal, not your actual baby.


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    #130
    [Deleted User]
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Related to the above.. fur baby.

    It's an animal, not your actual baby.

    I love animals and completely understand how important they are for people, how much they can give. They are still animals though. They aren't children.


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    #131
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,176 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    AdrianBalboa wrote: »
    I find “Karen” to be problematic. It’s a word that insinuates all middle aged women who stand up for themselves or demand decent customer service are shrill self-absorbed brats.

    I’ve heard people snickering and calling me a “Karen” or mimic me asking to see a supervisor in Penney’s and it’s incredibly insulting! They don’t know what’s going on in my life!
    I can't stand the word 'problematic'


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    #132
    .anon.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭.anon.


    Not a particular word or phrase, but I don't like it when people feel compelled to replace a possessive pronoun with the definite article, lest anyone might think they're referring to someone whom they love.

    See also: himself/herself, the boss, 'er indoors.


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    #133
    growleaves
    Registered Users Posts: 7,719 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Going forward

    Oh, so we won't be travelling backwards in time then?


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    #134
    growleaves
    Registered Users Posts: 7,719 ✭✭✭growleaves


    'You might as well get used to it'

    No dipsh*t, you get used to my not getting used to it.


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    #135
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,092 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    AdrianBalboa wrote: »
    I find “Karen” to be problematic. It’s a word that insinuates all middle aged women who stand up for themselves or demand decent customer service are shrill self-absorbed brats.
    Middle aged women are most certainly not all Karens, but Karens where they exist are heavily skew towards being middle aged women. IIRC the male version is a "Ken" and again almost exclusively middle aged men. Both seem to suffer from the why aren't people listening to me any more!! syndrome. This is more in play with women I've found, particularly those who were used to getting attention when younger, but time hasn't been kind. And yeah shrill and self absorbed bellends tends to sum them both up pretty well. I just wish we had come up with a local Irish version rather than yet again importing an American meme.

    I don't have any least favourite words TBH. Or at least can't think of any.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #136
    [Deleted User]
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    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    "Reached out to".

    A horrible, unnecessary, and stupid Americanism.

    I grimace very time I read "we reached out to .........". What's wrong with just saying "we contacted"?

    46D62AD2-147C-4FC3-AF22-D29156B70404.jpeg


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    #137
    Sam Hain
    Registered Users Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭Sam Hain


    growleaves wrote: »
    'You might as well get used to it'

    No dipsh*t, you get used to my not getting used to it.

    By replacing one sh1te phrase with another. That'll show them.


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    #138
    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,362 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    "Homeless Activist" , normally a clown wandering about wearing a high viz jacket .


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    #139
    [Deleted User]
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    Moist is just about as ugly a word as a word can be, but it has serious competition in the word gusset.

    Gusset :(

    Further vileness can be found in the words mucous, phelgm, and squelch.

    I don't find the word cuppa revolting, but I do find myself rather likely to despise the people who use it. If someone says the words cuppa and tasty in the same sentence - e.g. "Doris, I had a very tasty sandwich with my cuppa" - that person will be forever dead to me.

    Pamper, unless you're referring to a brand of nappies, is a word that no normal adult would/should ever use. There's just no excuse for it at all.


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    #140
    JoeA3
    Registered Users Posts: 7,414 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    deadly pandemic.


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    #141
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Award winning.

    I've often seen it used about restaurants or one of their dishes with nothing to back it up. I'm often tempted to see this award.


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    #142
    [Deleted User]
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    JoeA3 wrote: »
    deadly pandemic.

    See also worldwide pandemic, and similarly, ATM machine. :(


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    #143
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users Posts: 16,091 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    I absolutely hate the phrase “ We are pregnant “ spoken by a man
    No , she is pregnant he is expecting a baby .


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    #144
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    I absolutely hate the phrase “ We are pregnant “ spoken by a man
    No , she is pregnant he is expecting a baby .

    Actually everytime i see a "Mum & Baby doing well" post on social media i get a little bit angry. No idea why


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    #145
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    Candie wrote: »
    Moist is just about as ugly a word as a word can be, but it has serious competition in the word gusset.

    Gusset :(

    Further vileness can be found in the words mucous, phelgm, and squelch.

    I don't find the word cuppa revolting, but I do find myself rather likely to despise the people who use it. If someone says the words cuppa and tasty in the same sentence - e.g. "Doris, I had a very tasty sandwich with my cuppa" - that person will be forever dead to me.

    Pamper, unless you're referring to a brand of nappies, is a word that no normal adult would/should ever use. There's just no excuse for it at all.

    I spent three weeks in hospital earlier in the summer and i sh!t you not for the last week in a new ward the oul lad in the bed next to me was coughing up such phlegm and mucous all through each night i was there. In fairness it was a specific ward


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    #146
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    White Goods

    Which goods exactly? Rice, milk, mozzarella, paper, a Kildare GAA jersey, lilies? All white. What's wrong with using the correct term?


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    #147
    [Deleted User]
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    Entitled


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    #148
    [Deleted User]
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    Stevieluvsye wrote: »
    I spent three weeks in hospital earlier in the summer and i sh!t you not for the last week in a new ward the oul lad in the bed next to me was coughing up such phlegm and mucous all through each night i was there. In fairness it was a specific ward

    Rich sputum green


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    #149
    [Deleted User]
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    /unsubscribe

    :(


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    #150
    [Deleted User]
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    Candie wrote: »
    /unsubscribe

    :(

    On that theme - “Cancelled”


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    #151
    Wibbs
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    Candie wrote: »
    Moist is just about as ugly a word as a word can be, but it has serious competition in the word gusset.

    Gusset :(

    Further vileness can be found in the words mucous, phelgm, and squelch.
    I love all of those words. :D Her moist squelchy gusset. Oh yeah baby. :D
    iamwhoiam wrote:
    I absolutely hate the phrase “ We are pregnant “ spoken by a man
    No , she is pregnant he is expecting a baby .
    Oh I hear that! Usually spoken by some organic muesli eating, authentic peruvian hat wearing numpty who will have one of those wraps(organic and hand made by poor Uzbek women in a field somewhere. Of course) so he can carry "baby", never the effin baby. Likely has one of those strap on placcy boobies so he can breast feed. With his co parent's thumb print on the top of his head. And almost always with a very punchable face.

    No sunshine, you're not having a baby, you're not pregnant. You're not going to go through 9 months of that and fire it out screaming blue bloody murder for an epidural. Oh "we're going to have a natural birth". Oh are you? I'd ask her mate. Your only contribution to the process lasted about five seconds of you crossing your eyes, after she spent three minutes rolling hers. Feck off. And that. :D

    I went off on a rant because only last week I had the misfortune of talking with one such limp spined twat. :D

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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