Words and Phrases You Hate

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  • Dr Nosh
    Dr Nosh Posts: 43
    Celebrity culture

    Rocket science

    Its gone pear shaped

    Its gone belly up

    Thrown his toys out of the pram

    Square the circle

    Paradigm - when used to describe a 'shift'

    I'll get my people to call your people

    I could go on, and on, and on.......
    Republic of Lithuania
  • Rob Sallnow
    Rob Sallnow Posts: 6,279
    Dr Nosh wrote:

    Its gone pear shaped

    Rather that than 'it's all gone Pete Tong'!!
    I'd rather walk than use Shimano
  • davelakers
    davelakers Posts: 762
    Im just watching The Apprentice at the moment.

    I'll most probably come back with a few more after tonights show!!!! :P :P
  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    Well, like there are like loads of phrases that I like hate. But, like, the thing that really like gets me, is like the constant misuse of the word like.

    :evil:
  • Dr Nosh
    Dr Nosh Posts: 43
    One in use around here at the moment

    "Perception is Reality" !!!!

    Huh, is it really?
    Republic of Lithuania
  • Shadowduck
    Shadowduck Posts: 845
    Dr Nosh wrote:
    One in use around here at the moment

    "Perception is Reality" !!!!

    Huh, is it really?
    From a philosophical point of view you can make a pretty good case for it.

    I get the feeling that's not how it's being used, though. :lol:
    Even if the voices aren't real, they have some very good ideas.
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    people who say they are aggravated, when they really mean irritated.

    What do you mean I aggravated you? I made you worse? Do you mean irritated? Did you choose a big word to make you look clever? You failed.
    Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.

    H.G. Wells.
  • cbj
    cbj Posts: 44
    'Can I get . . . . ' as 'can I get a coffee' etc , nooooooo, so wrong in many ways . . .
  • Mar ge
    Mar ge Posts: 88
    Heard a new phrase this morning that could quickly join this club:

    topless meeting

    apparently a meeing where all laptops / gsms / are banned.....
  • people who talk like their Australian when there not? and that thing where the voice goes slightly up higher at the end of a sentence? (the way you inflect) as if your saying a question? when there really isn't a question there? (harder to show what I mean when typing it out) but I think you might get what I mean? if I just keep adding a question mark at the end of everything I'm saying? it kinda gets on your wick after awhile? but some people actually talk like this 'like' all the time?

    why do people do that? what the f**k is that all about?

    thats my 'ten pence worth' anyway.
    'since the flaming telly's been taken away, we don't even know if the Queen of Englands gone off with the dustman'.
    Lizzie Birdsworth, Episode 64, Prisoner Cell Block H.
  • Rob Sallnow
    Rob Sallnow Posts: 6,279
    I heard 'greening your travel' for the first time today...I don't wish to hear it ever again.
    I'd rather walk than use Shimano
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    People who do not know where the correct use of 'your or you're' should come. The same for 'they're, there or their.'

    PIN number.
    I was nauseous.
    Is that your bike?
    What did it cost?
    Espresso, not eXpresso.

    More later.
  • Ieuanllan
    Ieuanllan Posts: 152
    I can't stand 'Push the envelope', I just think it sounds ridiculous.
    The word 'quasi' as well.
    And then on to synergy, blue sky, outside the box...
  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    facilitate. Pah.

    human resources.

    management of change.

    And all the other drivel that excuses people from THINKING clearly.
    d.j.
    "Cancel my subscription to the resurrection."
  • richardast
    richardast Posts: 273
    Joined up thinking.
    I take your ideas on board.
    Big time.
  • Roger_This
    Roger_This Posts: 136
    a quantum leap. :roll:

    Not a big leap at all. :lol:

    woooo - somebody knows their quantum mechanics.

    ok mr smarty, which is bigger - a positive charming negatron or er, a smarty?
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    "Cheer up, it could be worse."

    This expression really 'bursts my tits' because, usually, it's said when there's nothing wrong or I'm only concentrating on something. I've tried ignoring it, but they just lean in closer - presumably so that you can punch them - and repeat, "I said, cheer up, it could be worse."

    Arrggggh!
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • #1 - "Brown bag meeting". WTF? I don't bring my lunch to work in a brown bag, so what's all this brown bag crap about?

    #2 - "Boundarylessness" and "boundarlylessly". I'm not joking. Management non-speak coined by an American and now gaining a foothold on this side of the pond.

    :evil:
  • Roger_This
    Roger_This Posts: 136
    'Learnings', as in 'let's go over the learnings from that project'.

    No, no NO! The word is LESSONS! Aaaaaargh. :evil:

    Oh, and 'skin on the table'. Yuk.
  • gert_lush
    gert_lush Posts: 634
    on buying some provisions during todays ride the man behind the counter told me that the price of my goods were " £4.99 exactly"....as apposed to what??? I wasn't aware they reintroduced the 1/2 penny!!!
    FCN 8 mainly
    FCN 4 sometimes
  • FAT_ROB
    FAT_ROB Posts: 116
    Your forgetting my favorite(s)

    "Health & Safety"

    "You can't ride there"

    and of course

    "Innit" in what? is my usual response
    Never knowingly past a pie shop!

    Spec Pitch

    Spec Tarmac

    Thorn Raven Tourer (with Roholf Hub gears)
  • All the best are in 'She Literally Exploded' by Christopher Howse and Richard Preston.

    e.g. "Enjoy!" - An order issued by waiters or baristas after they have delivered yours
  • Lysander
    Lysander Posts: 349
    'How much was it if you don't mind me asking' Just hate it!
  • craigwend
    craigwend Posts: 321
    Nunnery for convent

    Or


    Bribery for blackmail (or vice versa)
    There's always www.cyclechat.co.uk
  • "To be honest with you"...."To tell you the truth".......what, you mean you normally lie?

    Bas****s
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    "It has to be said..."

    ... that this thread is one of the longest for a while. It's usually followed by trivia or a petty, ill thought out criticism.

    No, it doesn't have to be said. STFU!
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • This thread's had me chortling...so many great phrases. I'm tempted to try and talk in nothing but managementbolloxclichespeak for the rest of the day. See if I can.

    One I hate - and bear with me, because it's a small thing, but irritating nonetheless - is jounalists saying that something is 'set to' . Like a deprived area is 'set to ' benefit from an injection of cash; so and so is set to become the most successful blah blah. Set to. I mean: tell you what, when it happens, tell me then. And if you do have to tell me the news before it happens, how about just saying it will happen, or it should happen, not set to happen.
  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,094
    Blllahh. Just remembered, the news on Radio 1 is the worst for this one...

    "its come out that..." wtf? I know teenagers are their target audience but Radio 1 news is so dumbed down its incredible. Its mainly because of the awful voices the newreader uses to be fair. Like she's talking to an idiot or a child.
  • i hate when sales people use the expression 'trust me' when doing their patter...i don't even know you, and you're asking me to trust you!
    dangerous jules.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Has anyone said "guesstimate" yet?