Words and Phrases You Hate
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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 Lithuania0 -
Dr Nosh wrote:
Its gone pear shaped
Rather that than 'it's all gone Pete Tong'!!I'd rather walk than use Shimano0 -
Im just watching The Apprentice at the moment.
I'll most probably come back with a few more after tonights show!!!! :P :P0 -
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.
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One in use around here at the moment
"Perception is Reality" !!!!
Huh, is it really?Republic of Lithuania0 -
Dr Nosh wrote:One in use around here at the moment
"Perception is Reality" !!!!
Huh, is it really?
I get the feeling that's not how it's being used, though.Even if the voices aren't real, they have some very good ideas.0 -
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.0 -
'Can I get . . . . ' as 'can I get a coffee' etc , nooooooo, so wrong in many ways . . .0
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Heard a new phrase this morning that could quickly join this club:
topless meeting
apparently a meeing where all laptops / gsms / are banned.....0 -
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.0 -
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 Shimano0
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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.0 -
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...0 -
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."0 -
Joined up thinking.
I take your ideas on board.
Big time.0 -
synchronicity wrote:a quantum leap. :roll:
Not a big leap at all.
woooo - somebody knows their quantum mechanics.
ok mr smarty, which is bigger - a positive charming negatron or er, a smarty?0 -
"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 - Churchill0 -
#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.
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'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.0 -
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 sometimes0 -
Your forgetting my favorite(s)
"Health & Safety"
"You can't ride there"
and of course
"Innit" in what? is my usual responseNever knowingly past a pie shop!
Spec Pitch
Spec Tarmac
Thorn Raven Tourer (with Roholf Hub gears)0 -
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 yours0 -
'How much was it if you don't mind me asking' Just hate it!0
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"To be honest with you"...."To tell you the truth".......what, you mean you normally lie?
Bas****s0 -
"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 - Churchill0 -
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.0 -
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.0 -
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.0
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Has anyone said "guesstimate" yet?0