'pull your finger out'
it's just so vulgar and awful sounding, an odious boss of mine said it to me once and i has a sudden, overwhelming urge to punch him in the face.
'chill out' or 'calm down' when i am quite reasonably and sedately making a point. it's the perfect thing to make me feel exactly the opposite of calm.
you?
"Son, I'm going to fill you full of spunk tonight"
My friend really hates that one.
My son does
7/10
:( I did a lol
'ou est l'autobus?'
'Le pont est pres d'ici'
'J'aime joue le babyfoot'
"Here we, here we
here we fucking go"
More of a chant than a phrase and probably specific to Glasgow/Scotland but it really fucks my shit up. I cant stand it.
I killed someone who did that.
The Police let me off with a warning to make sure he really means it next time.
It is awful,
but there's something about that chant that entices you into shouting along with it.
I use those expressions alot
Kosher being used to describe anything that isn't kosher meat
"quintessentially British"
"step up to the plate"
"going forward"
horrible thoughtless cliches, the lot of them
^^^ I fucking hate the phrase
"going forward". It's the most wanky bit of business terminology ever.
What was wrong with people saying "from now on" ?
i don't mind that one.
i suppose i don't really associate it with typically wanky 'think outside the box' business cunts.
i particularly hate
'give it a good try'
'on-trend/bang on-trend' [a particularly unpleasant and smug fashion-y phrase]
all the cliched yuppie/office phrases ['action that' is my most hated]
'mint'
'd'you know what i mean'
'like'
anything that addresses a group of people as 'team'. ['good work, team' kinda thing.]
'spoke out'. one of my most hated journalistic cliches. along with...
'slammed' - as in, 'heather mills SLAMMED paul mccartney'.
yes - 'action' is NOT A VERB
'access' is NOT A VERB
'finesse' is NOT A VERB
access IS A VERB
it'd be ok if she body slammed him tho, right?
When people answer a question with
"Yeah, no..."
Or the following exchange...
"Are you OK?"
Fine
"Sure?"
Yes
"You sound a bit tense"
OHGODIAMFINEPLEASEFUCKOFF!
Or variations on "I'm not a cunt but here's my cunt's opinion anyway"
What if you had a talking vagina?
It'd have a segment on Lipster TV
He'd be rich, that's what
^ now he's not racist, but....
...he just hates everyone?
'Reach out'
instead of call/email/go see.
Last time my boss said this, I pinched him. He tried to kick me in return but I was too quick. We have a beautiful relationship there.
<-- touches base with you
*throws clementine at your head*
*misses cos throws like a girl*
*catches it anyway*
*and quickly sends it to first base for a double play*
Like a monkey biting a tiger
and then scurrying up a tree
Exactly.
Luckily for me, he's twice my size and much slower.
'fit of the vapours/vapors'
which is used everyday in my office. No wonder I dream of going on a killing spree.
is
karma an expression? but i hate ot anyway. it brings a whole sense of mis direction towards people and make them do stupid things like make a tv program such as "my name is earl"!
do you have a pamphlet or newsletter that people can subscribe to?
"He's got great physicalitly"
"D'you know what I mean like?"
"In fairness though" <---- I use this all the time :(
I'm really bad
for saying "fair enough" or "to be fair".
I'm sorry to anyone who gets offended. I cant help it, to be fair.
"Give it up for... THE FRATELLIS!"
*LOL I wish they'd give it up.
"are you busy at the moment?"
the way in which this is asked tells a lot of the question which is coming.
I tentatively answer "yeeeeah-ish, why?" and then they say "oh well there is a massive avacado and cake eating contest in which we'd like you to represent us. but if you're busy then we allocate the role to the skinny runner bean with an eating disorder"
I'm actually only going to mention phrases that I use.
"to be fair"
"know what I mean"
"get what I'm saying"
"to be honest"
There are plenty of other ones that annoy me more but these are the ones I say.
I hate saying those
They just come out :(
Also
"Pull your finger out" was orignally a Naval saying. Once someone had stuffed the gunpowder into the canon they were told to "pull your finger out" before it was fired.
"DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?"
Repeat after every third sentence.
It makes hot girls unattractive.
'I/he/she/they turned round and said...'
'battle it out'
I thought of that phrase before I opened the thread.
It's awful and makes me want to puke a little when I hear it.
"Keep your eyes peeled"
It always makes me think of someone literally having their eyes peeled with a potato peeler.
THANKS A LOT
that's what I'll be thinking about every time I hear someone say that from now on
...
'Is it?' because I have a terrible habit of saying it.
'Oh snap' because it just sounds stuoid.
"Oh snap" if use correctly can get a Lol.
However, "Is it" is punishable by death.
is it?
aLOL
But still. Outside. Any last words?
i dont need last words
as YOU'RE the one cruisin' for a bruisin'
*anticipates someone doing ^ this type post in reference to that phrase*
Whut, like This ^ ?
Still, you have scared me into submission. But this is not over.
"take a chill pill"
particularly when it's said about 8 years after the phrase was last used.
"Providing value" really annoys me at work, as it just reiterates how money is the single deciding factor in most decisions.
"im not being funny, but..."
No you're not being funny, cos you are a cunt, and you are a cunt because you put "im not being funny" before everything say even though the chance of anything funny coming out of your mouth being funny is nearing Zero. Cock off.
yes
also "I'm sorry, but..."
Oh Indeed
They are never sorry, and if they were sorry they wouldnt do.say it. people are detestable.
one of my teachers talks in detestable phrases linked together
"im not being smutty but..."
"folks, can i remind you that..."
"i know this is really analy retentive of me, but..." - a lot
"you'll probably kill me for saying this, but..."
"i know i've said this before, but..."
and he calls the internet "tinternet"
it really gets on my tits.
CHILLAX
DON'T DO IT. Fucking horrible phrase used by people who aspire to be in Hollyoaks.
oh and "<blah blah blah> is killing the music industry!"
and "check out our myspace page, we (delete as applicable) added one new song/added some pictures of us gurning/updated our profile full of crap injokes about our mate steve"
and "I'm mad, me..."
* "for the win"
i don't get it. it doesn't even make sense.
when someone says like at the end of a sentence
e.g. thought it would be fun like.
especially if they arent northern
^5
"we/the business....
is in a very exciting place at the moment"
"and its all thanks to you guys"
.\/.
'Lol'
'Megalolz'
'Pwned'
'Owned'
god
don't get me started.
FTW
what is this all about? Nonsense.
Also
"Can you get that to me by close of play" GAH!!
These are humourous to use amongst grownups
like your grand parents. I shouted at my Granddad last week "This!" while pointing at him after he mentioned how crap buses are. Hmmm...
"Can we have a conflab?"
It's confab, you tit. Short for confabulation. Even better, just say "can we have a chat."
"like"
I say this FAR too much and it fucking annoys me. :(
phrases that get used a lot on here
that I don't particularly like are along the lines of
'this thread makes me want to die' or 'i want this band to die' or simply 'die' as a reply.
It just seems especially juvenile and petulant and I've never seen it used in an amusing context.
i agree
you (sophiacherryx)
have already said the one that most pisses me off. "chill out" or even just "chill" really REALLY gets on my nerves when im trying to get a point across in a calm manner
im sophiacherryx?
are you not sophiacherryx?
.
die
(i am sorry)
well done
"Emotional Rollercoaster"
JESUSCHRISTJUSTTHINKOFANEWANALOGYFORFUCKSSAKEITCANTBETHATHARD!
abadabadeeeer
when said in responce to anything
any workplace smalltalk is undesire-able...
although i just as guilty as others...
particularly...if i eat my lunch at my desk, at work, then i get a lot of 'i know you are at lunch, but...' followed by a tirade of work related questions. that is utter bum.
or
'another day, another dollar...'
or
'in a nutshell'
or
'at least it's friday, eh?'
or
'good morning'
in a nutshell
is an ace orange juice song though!
not a phrase but
'hanging'
'chillaxing'
GRRRRR million rage.
"national treasure"
fuck off
'bleeding edge'
it's supposed to mean 'so new and amazing it's more cutting edge than cutting edge'. But it annoys me because 'cutting' is active and 'bleeding' is passive, so it kind of means the opposite. Grr.
Good point.
Never thought about it that way before. Hm.
"different class"
any phrase
that contains the word 'banter'.
Pro-active
Its active, but pro.
anything with 'faux' put in front of it.
or when people slip other french words/phrases into conversation when speaking english.
at the end of the day
look on the bright side and there's another one...mother used them one after the other last night STOP TALKING IN CLICHES!!!!!!!!
The phrase
'I was on it last night'.
In fact, any phrase that people use to describe the fact they were just drunk annoys me no end.
"We have found traces of your DNA on the body"
Really fucks me off, that one.