Words / phrases that annoy you

'Cheeky'

As in 'I snuck out for a cheeky little kebab'
'I stuck a cheeky twenty quid on the footy result'
'I stuck a cheeky little fiver in the bandit'

You're not being 'cheeky', a 'bit of a lad', 'a little bit weee a little bit waah'. You're being a plonker.
 
Agree with the OP with 'man flu' for the same reason. We all know a cold is a nightmare. Flu feels like deal, you know if you have one or the other.

And for me, 'dirty' used with food, like 'dirty burger', 'dirty takeaway'. Yes we all know it's unhealthy, but it's not actually unclean! Ugh.
 
Sliver said:
Can you invent a unified theory of quantum mechanics and mavity? If there is no such thing as can't, I'm sure you can.:p
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Sigh, if I had an apostrophe for every chap that complained about can't, I could write an entire novel consisting of nothing but apostrophes!

Hint for those who still wonder:
can not
can[no]t
can't

you are
you're

going
goin'
could not
couldn't

I have
I've

Indeed, for the sake of style and clarity we do not generalise this to a rule such that you replace each missing letter in a short form or contraction by an individual apostrophe to avoid monstrosities like can''t. Although, you can technically get away with a forum-favourite monster 'your' as you'r' -- still fugly, though.

Good evening to you all. :)
 
Movies, :confused: it's dumb American baby talk.

it's not a movie it's a film, the word Movie originated in the USA in the 1920's because magic lantern shows began to have 'moving pictures' and when sound arrived it became a 'talking picture show' which rapidly became 'talkies'

So what you see at the cinema is a apparently a talkiemovie :rolleyes:

Hey Elmer, lets go see a movie, I hear they just got talkies
 
"See you later"

Always seems to get my goat up, no you wont see me later you might see me later in the week but not later today. :mad:
 
Alternatively "I did it 110%!" Which essentially means you weren't trying the first time as you weren't doing 100% because that can be the only maximum. Everything else is a relative value based on that.
 
"Bae"
"I could care less"
"Captured learning"

And my worst is:

"Loads of people are losing their **** over this video"

In which the term "losing your ****" seems to be getting more common every day. Rage inducing.
 
helpimcrap said:
Alternatively "I did it 110%!" Which essentially means you weren't trying the first time as you weren't doing 100% because that can be the only maximum. Everything else is a relative value based on that.
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'Going the extra mile' as well.

Btw, what does bae mean? As a few of you have mentioned it. I only know it in capital letters (British Aerospace).
 
I have to say that "business talk" like C.O.B and other such things doesn't bother me in the slightest - maybe I've been in a corporate environment for so long I don't notice it any more. 80% of it at least makes perfect sense.

Not many phrases bother me really. "Banter" can get a bit tedious because instead of being used correctly it's just become a byword for "hurling abuse at each other and/or mocking everything someone says at every opportunity" rather than for it's intended purpose.
 
"at the end of the day"
"you'd think so and so.. but actually" (emphatically drawn out 'actually')
"d'you know what i mean?"
"sorry but..."
"can i ask you a question?"

Trite turns of phrase make me feel like I'm talking to a complete idiot.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
'Going the extra mile' as well.

Btw, what does bae mean? As a few of you have mentioned it. I only know it in capital letters (British Aerospace).
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It's apparently short for 'babe' and created by idiots who struggle with that one extra letter. Sometimes people mention that it's short for "Before Anyone Else" but I think that was debunked and it really is just shorthand.
 
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