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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,598
    Big_Bad_World said:
    'you don't understand'

    'haven't been educated'

    Two phrases used by people that believe their opinion is superior to everyone (unless others completely agree with them). Go to phrases for absolute arseholes.

    Morning!!
    Who do you support again? ;)
  • Big_Bad_World
    Big_Bad_World Posts: 5,859
    DaveMehmet said:
    Big_Bad_World said:
    'you don't understand'

    'haven't been educated'

    Two phrases used by people that believe their opinion is superior to everyone (unless others completely agree with them). Go to phrases for absolute arseholes.

    Morning!!
    Who do you support again? ;)
    The same club that the real Dave Mehmet supports  ;)
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    This one’s a film cliche rather than real life, but maybe that’s the point. When’s the last time anybody said, in real life... ‘you just don’t get it, do you?’

    https://youtu.be/4KoKWf6pLs8
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    "Synergy" 

    "Juxtapose" 

    have we done the whole "I could care less" vs. "I couldn't care less thing?" The former being an American thing. 
  • Redhenry
    Redhenry Posts: 5,359
    excessive use of absolutely at work and can i get really annoys me in shops.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    bazjonster said:
    Not so much phrases, but the incorrect use of:

    there, their, they're;

    of, off;

    too, to;

    your, you're;

    where, were;

    really winds me up! Gets worse as I get older! I actually look for it!  :#
    Lose/loose is a common one on here
  • Missed It
    Missed It Posts: 2,733
    SuedeAdidas said:
    bazjonster said:
    Not so much phrases, but the incorrect use of:

    there, their, they're;

    of, off;

    too, to;

    your, you're;

    where, were;

    really winds me up! Gets worse as I get older! I actually look for it!  :#
    A bloke I work with uses “his” instead of “he’s” all of the time. Really winds me up 😄

    I know someone who does that, but the other way around!  "That's he's car"
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022
    SDAddick said:
    "Synergy" 

    "Juxtapose" 

    have we done the whole "I could care less" vs. "I couldn't care less thing?" The former being an American thing. the logical juxtaposition to what is actually meant.
     ;) 
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    TTFN

    cringe
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    SporadicAddick said:
    LawrieAbrahams said:
    Staycation. Not just the word itself but also that a lot of people don't know what it means, they think it means holidaying in this country. It doesnt, it means having a holiday at home. 
    If that was originally the definition, it seems accepted that its meaning has expanded to include not going abroad:-

    Macmillan
    a holiday in which you stay at home and visit places near to where you live, or a holiday in your own country

    Cambridge
    a holiday that someone spends in their own country or at home, rather than travelling somewhere else: 

    Collins
    A staycation is a holiday that you spend in your own home or your own country, relaxing and enjoying leisure activities there.

    Dictionary.com
    a vacation spent at home or near home, doing enjoyable activities or visiting local attractions.

    Google definition
    a holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.

    Lexico.com
    A holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.
    Chambers Dictionary
    A period of holiday spent at one's home.
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  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    LawrieAbrahams said:
    SporadicAddick said:
    LawrieAbrahams said:
    Staycation. Not just the word itself but also that a lot of people don't know what it means, they think it means holidaying in this country. It doesnt, it means having a holiday at home. 
    If that was originally the definition, it seems accepted that its meaning has expanded to include not going abroad:-

    Macmillan
    a holiday in which you stay at home and visit places near to where you live, or a holiday in your own country

    Cambridge
    a holiday that someone spends in their own country or at home, rather than travelling somewhere else: 

    Collins
    A staycation is a holiday that you spend in your own home or your own country, relaxing and enjoying leisure activities there.

    Dictionary.com
    a vacation spent at home or near home, doing enjoyable activities or visiting local attractions.

    Google definition
    a holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.

    Lexico.com
    A holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.
    Chambers Dictionary
    A period of holiday spent at one's home.
    Regardless of the dictionary definitions it is certainly the case that in the UK the term has been used by the media in prior years as meaning taking a holiday In the UK (not in your own home) rather than travelling abroad for a holiday. 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    For many years 
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,333
    Anna_Kissed said:
    'Level up' and 'Double down'
    e.g. "The UK's Press-up Champion will double down on levelling up"
    If I tried press-ups, I would probably double up.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,333
    Misuse of 'literally'. "I was so angry that my brain literally exploded".
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    'You have to understand' as part of a so called explanation or rather excuse for attempted extortion more often than not.

    I don't see how I have to understand when what you propose is gobbledygook, or fraudulent in that I do not receive what I have paid for.
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    thai malaysia addick said:
    Misuse of 'literally'. "I was so angry that my brain literally exploded".
    Americans on Reddit argue against this. They cite Shakespeare who didn’t use literally literally. They say that the English language is always evolving. 

    To them I say, go fuck yourselves. Literally is a really useful word in its literal sense. You’re not evolving jack shit. You’re dumbing it down. 
  • Dave Rudd
    Dave Rudd Posts: 2,865
    JiMMy 85 said:
    This one’s a film cliche rather than real life, but maybe that’s the point. When’s the last time anybody said, in real life... ‘you just don’t get it, do you?’

    https://youtu.be/4KoKWf6pLs8
    This is good.  My favourite occurs in movies and plays when the listener extols the raconteur (who has conveniently paused) to "Go on."  How often have you ever heard that in real life?

    I can live with 'absolutely' … but have you noticed how most of the Government ministers use 'absly' as they mimic Boris-speak?

  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,900
    To reach out ....wtf?

    Only people allowed to reach out are the 4 tops 


  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    People who start every sentence with so
  • limeygent
    limeygent Posts: 3,217
    "We're all in this together".
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  • Big_Bad_World
    Big_Bad_World Posts: 5,859
    'No reason why' when people are trying to force a mindset on others by making it seem that any stance other than theirs is reprehensible. It's an isolation tactic.

    'Are you saying' or 'So what you are saying is...'. Again, another couple that are used, generally, by arseholes that have far too high an opinion of themselves. So much so that others' words get jumbled in their heads and rejigged in to what they wanted the other person to say so as to frame their words to suit the arseholes narrative.
  • Redhenry
    Redhenry Posts: 5,359
    Big_Bad_World said:
    'No reason why' when people are trying to force a mindset on others by making it seem that any stance other than theirs is reprehensible. It's an isolation tactic.

    'Are you saying' or 'So what you are saying is...'. Again, another couple that are used, generally, by arseholes that have far too high an opinion of themselves. So much so that others' words get jumbled in their heads and rejigged in to what they wanted the other person to say so as to frame their words to suit the arseholes narrative.
    You sure you're Millwall :)
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,225
    Definitely seems to be used a lot nowadays.
  • fat man on a moped
    fat man on a moped Posts: 932
    happyvalley said:
    People who start every sentence with so
    Agree with this.

    Unfortunately I've occasionally used it myself recently and now trying to make a conscious effort not to 
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,854
    Heads Up
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,965
    I'm not gonna lie...
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,034
    edited February 2021
    JiMMy 85 said:
    thai malaysia addick said:
    Misuse of 'literally'. "I was so angry that my brain literally exploded".
    Americans on Reddit argue against this. They cite Shakespeare who didn’t use literally literally. They say that the English language is always evolving. 

    To them I say, go fuck yourselves. Literally is a really useful word in its literal sense. You’re not evolving jack shit. You’re dumbing it down. 
    People who misuse the word literally only do so because they haven’t been introduced to the word figuratively. 
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,207
    Boom
  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,106
    McBobbin said:
    Know someone who it appears can only "hop on" to a phone call. Boils my piss.
    I'll tell you what boils my piss.
    Hotel room kettles.
  • scidbox
    scidbox Posts: 535
    "What are you doing in my garden"

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