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  • WishIdStayedinthePub
    WishIdStayedinthePub Posts: 648
    Jints said:
    Tom_Hovi said:
    SoleBayAddick said:
    Where shall I start?  Train Station instead of Railway Station. Big Ben's Bongs instead of Chimes. Absolutly instead of just plain Yes.  Schedule and not sckedule. Me and my friend (or whoever) instead of My friend (or whoever) and I.  I could go on,  but at this moment in time, and at the end of the day, that will have to do.                                                   
    "Train Station" is one of my hates too. Another Americanism.
    A fact that has always tickled me is that the Russian word for railway station - Voksal - is based on Vauxhall in South London.
    Technically a terminus, coined by one of the Tsar's foreign ministers after a visit to Vauxhall.  Helps that the Russian word for hall is also 'zal'.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    Stig said:
    thai malaysia addick said:
    See it, say it, sorted
    They even have posters of this up at The Valley now. Inane nonsense.
    The Erectile dysfunction one totally ruins the second half for me.
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    I've been 'travelling' for nine months across South East Asia and Australia. You've been on holiday you cunt.
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,013
    “Prostrate” instead of prostate

    ”Haitch” instead of aitch.
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,782
    thai malaysia addick said:
    This train terminates at Charing Cross. Surely, it finishes its journey there then turns round and heads somewhere else.

  • MartinCAFC
    MartinCAFC Posts: 3,219
    Football players being described like "a false nine", "he's a number ten"

    Never hear of players being described as a "number three" or "number five", that's because they're called left backs and centre backs

    There is no set definition for every shirt on the pitch, talk of "false nine" and "number ten" all a myth IMO
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    edited January 2020
    Baldybonce said:
    Stig said:
    thai malaysia addick said:
    See it, say it, sorted
    They even have posters of this up at The Valley now. Inane nonsense.
    The Erectile dysfunction one totally ruins the second half for me.
    Erectile Dysfunction - See it, Say it, Sorted!

    Nah, it's not doing anything for me either.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    "living their best life". Stop being so earnest for god's sake
  • stockportaddick
    stockportaddick Posts: 1,132
    On being asked a question or a view on something, so many people start with yeah, no.

    And note to self, don't say can I get a bacon buttie in the morning lol
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    Woke.
    Woke is (or was) the past participle of the verb to wake. It is now used as an adjective to mean 'aware of social injustice, especially racism."
    "Awake" already has that meaning as an adjective so there is no need to coin a new meaning for "woke".
    Similar to "my bad" which also grates like nails on a blackboard. 
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  • sirjohnhumphrey
    sirjohnhumphrey Posts: 1,859
    People calling me or referring to me as “fella”
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    suzisausage said:
    People that use lastminute.com within a sentence about how they've not organised something they should have organised earlier. 

    eg> 'i'm so lastminute.com' 

    You're just $hit and a $hitter human being for saying that line. 
    Any use of an advertising slogan in conversation can fuck off. Simples, should have gone to specsavers etc. 
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    sirjohnhumphrey said:
    People calling me or referring to me as “fella”
    And ‘bruv’
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    We’ll be ok once the injured players come back 
  • charente addick
    charente addick Posts: 3,808
    Describing footballers as ‘decent’. What does that mean? He doesn’t walk down the High Street with his todger hanging out? He always remembers his mum’s birthday?


  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,669
    Baldybonce said:
    sirjohnhumphrey said:
    People calling me or referring to me as “fella”
    And ‘bruv’
    Ok Blud 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    Stig said:
    AddicksAddict said:
    Stig said:
    SoleBayAddick said:
    Where shall I start?  Train Station instead of Railway Station. Big Ben's Bongs instead of Chimes. Absolutly instead of just plain Yes.  Schedule and not sckedule. Me and my friend (or whoever) instead of My friend (or whoever) and I.  I could go on,  but at this moment in time, and at the end of the day, that will have to do.                                                   
    My friend and I agree with most of this, especially 'sckedule' which drives us both crazy. Me and my friend are not necessarily wrong though, as long as we are the object and not the subject of the sentence.
    Me and my friend is wrong even as the object. Second person, third person then first person is the correct order in which to refer to people in such a situation. 
    Thanks AddicksAddict, my friend and I weren't aware of that. But apparently word ordering can be quite complex and can vary depending on situation. For example in a situation involving an apology or admission of guilt, it's etiquette for the first person to shoulder the blame by putting themself first. 
    I wasn't aware of that but it makes sense.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    Jints said:
    Tom_Hovi said:
    SoleBayAddick said:
    Where shall I start?  Train Station instead of Railway Station. Big Ben's Bongs instead of Chimes. Absolutly instead of just plain Yes.  Schedule and not sckedule. Me and my friend (or whoever) instead of My friend (or whoever) and I.  I could go on,  but at this moment in time, and at the end of the day, that will have to do.                                                   
    "Train Station" is one of my hates too. Another Americanism.
    A fact that has always tickled me is that the Russian word for railway station - Voksal - is based on Vauxhall in South London.
    And the French for a quick service restaurant, bistro, is probably from the Russian "bystro" which means rapidly.
  • RC_CAFC
    RC_CAFC Posts: 1,754
    People using the phrase “Announce ******” 50 times a day on every Charlton related tweet and message.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    AddicksAddict said:
    Stig said:
    AddicksAddict said:
    Stig said:
    SoleBayAddick said:
    Where shall I start?  Train Station instead of Railway Station. Big Ben's Bongs instead of Chimes. Absolutly instead of just plain Yes.  Schedule and not sckedule. Me and my friend (or whoever) instead of My friend (or whoever) and I.  I could go on,  but at this moment in time, and at the end of the day, that will have to do.                                                   
    My friend and I agree with most of this, especially 'sckedule' which drives us both crazy. Me and my friend are not necessarily wrong though, as long as we are the object and not the subject of the sentence.
    Me and my friend is wrong even as the object. Second person, third person then first person is the correct order in which to refer to people in such a situation. 
    Thanks AddicksAddict, my friend and I weren't aware of that. But apparently word ordering can be quite complex and can vary depending on situation. For example in a situation involving an apology or admission of guilt, it's etiquette for the first person to shoulder the blame by putting themself first. 
    I wasn't aware of that but it makes sense.
    I wasn't either until I checked it, but I remember hearing a Fry's English Delight programme about word order and being amazed the unwritten rules we have for word order. The amazing thing is that most of us wouldn't be able to give a good description of the rules or how they operate yet, for the most part, we instinctively subconsciously get it right all the time.
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  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    edited January 2020
    Steve McManaman using the phrase to be very honest about 12 times very match.  Honest is fine by itself you scouse twonk.

    BTW the phrases I really hate have already been cited by others - going forward and moving forward.

    As well as usually being tautologies in the context used, both are solecisms.  The words going and moving are adjectives used to enhance a noun, whereas forward is not usually a noun but either another adjective or an adverb.  But it might work in football, I suppose - the moving forward could be used to describe Lyall Taylor.
  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    My bad

    'Can I get' instead of 'Can I have'
    This.
  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    Not really a saying but when people say Eggsit instead of Exit dunno why but it irks me.
  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,705
    '24/7...'

    Go 69/1 you tosspoteer



  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,224
    Boutique
    Bespoke
    Craft
    Artisan

    The middle classes cream themselves over these 4.  'hey Tarquin, fancy going for an artisan craft Gregg's sausage roll?'
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,961
    LennyLowrent said:
    '24/7...'

    Go 69/1 you tosspoteer



    Worse still, 24/7/365

    Why do you even need the 365? Idiots.
  • JorgeCosta
    JorgeCosta Posts: 1,035
    Agile followed by some stupid buzzword. 
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,242
    Some pearlers here 

    My particular favourite/worst one 

    It is what it is 

    The phrase of the vacuous 
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    IdleHans said:
    LennyLowrent said:
    '24/7...'

    Go 69/1 you tosspoteer



    Worse still, 24/7/365

    Why do you even need the 365? Idiots.
    Because they have a day of in a leap year 😀
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    edited January 2020
    "The proof is in the pudding."




    You know who you are.

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